The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-22
THE UNSCIENTIFIC SCIENTIST
Introducing Scotty, in the First of His
 Weekly Letters Back Home

Have you the time to read thou sands-or even hundreds of times up- on the subject of Ethnology and it's first cousin, Archaeology? Neither have l! Neither have some ninety nine per cent of our fellow citizens. Would you read them if you had the time? Neither would |? Neither would the same percentage of our brother-men. don't believe I would wade clear through one of the afore- mentioned tonnes on bet, and probab- 1 ly l wouldn't understand or remember any appreciable part of it if I did-to win the bet
 But if you could walk into beauti- ful big building on the crest of slightly hill overlooking San Diego, the Bay, Coronado, Point Loma, the Coro- nado Islands, and nickle's worth of lMexico-which is considerable ground at present market values-I say if you could walk into such building and see before you history of your kind portrayed by pictures, models, relecs, all of them absolutely authentic, graphically Illustrating the evolution of yourself from the paleozic age-if that was the startdown to the per fected product embodied in your own handsome self-wouldn't you jump at the chance? I would.
 How do we best remember things in general? By our mental images of them, of course. How do you remem- Der Napoleon Bonaparte, for ex- ample? Through the pictures you have seen of his-probably as the saddest, most serious little fat man you ever knew of-that, however, be- ing but one of his characteristics. How do we remember the earmarks of the Mesozoic or the Caenozoic period ? We'll, frankly, don't.
 But here in the massive Ethnolo- gy Building will be collected the most remarkable exhibit that has ever been even attempted. It is most ambi- tious undertaking and will represent the sum total of human knowledge of the history of you and me and the rest of us. The ablest talent in the world has been working upon this for years. No expense has been spared And where it has been impossible to purchase certain collections which were logically necessary to complete and round out the exhibit, they were borrowed. Incidentally the institu- tion which loaned them did not take any chances-they exacted huge bonds for the safe return of their invaluable collections. The result is the most complete and unique exhibit of the sort ever brought together under one roof-and considerable part of it has never been under a roof before. To get it all together the Smithon- ian Institution of Washington has sent it's explorers unto the ends of the earth-and other places-where they dug up some of the prehistoric red men and then dug out before the des- cendants of said prehistoric red men could dig in and shoot them full of poisoned arrows and other souveniors The School of American Archaeology has contributed extensively and has fallen in with the idea of making the whole exhibit graphs and comprehen- sible to an unscientifc lowbrow like me, and another one like you.
 And so we may go to school again, without the inconvenience of set hours or textbooks or the stern eye of a long suffering teacher; and in a few days, or even hours. of such intense in- terest that they pass all too quickly we may learn more about our human history-and remember it-than we learned in all our school years com bined. And then when the youngster says: Dad, tell me about the Cru stacenas," or "Why was troglodyte 2 you'll be able to lay down the evening paper and say with becoming impress siveness; Well, son, being blind on one side, the troglodyte progressed in a circle, thereby beating Senator we'll, you know the dub mean-to it by couple of million years, and"- but 1 haven't seen the complete exhi- bit yet myself.
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