South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-04
By DR.. W. H. BallOu.


Member Of Academy of Natural Sciences,
National Institute of Social Science,
Honorary Commissioned United States
Department of Agriculture, etc.
THE unparalleled ferocity which the
Prussians have shown in the pres
ent war has shocked the civilized
nations Scientific examination OF the
skulls OF the PrussiaDs proves. however.
hat their methods or waging warfare are
natural to them. and that. indeed. they
could not. being as they are, wage war in
my other way.
AS a man tbinketh in his heart. so is
he" says the Bible. and science adds that
according 10 the shape OF a mans skull
so he thinks. A long-headed type does
not think on different lines than the round
head, but he possesses virtues which the
round head and the square head lack. just
as the round head and the square head
possess powers which the long head does
not
The head OF the Prussian. It has been
found. goes back directly through the
cruel Tartars-whOse successive inva-
sions swept over Germany from Asia. to
the tremendously ancient savage known
as the Heidelberg man.
Just as Other races have specialized their
brains In the line OF progress and art.
invention. altruism and intellectual prog
ress, the Heidelberg man. his descendants.
the Mongols and Tartars and Prussians.
have specialized their brains in the direc-
ton Of making remorseless. relentless
force supreme The Heidelberg man lived
over 35O 900 to 2OO.00 years ago He is
the hrst Prussian known To science. and
parts OF hiE skeleton were unearthed in
1907 seventy-nine feet below the surface
of re sand pits near the village OF Mauer
six miles from Heidelberg He and his
fellow saVages we're immigrants from Asia
and we're probably dominant for 1OO.OO
years.
Homo Heidelbergensis. as science calls
him was the strongest most brutal cruel
est man force in the world
That the Prussian is the direct descend
ant OF the Heidelberg man is asserted by
many great anthropologists since the
discovery of the bones in 1907 Among
those who hold 20 this view and who have
proved 1t by cranial measurements facial
characteristics, and so on. are DR.. Rudolph
Martin Of the Chair OF Anthropology OF
The University OF Zurich. Switzerland. and
OF Human Paleontology OF France. and
head or the Paris Museum OF Natural His
tory
And cuTiously enough science has sJso
found that Won Hindenburg. the military
idol OF Germany. Is a remarkable throw
back 20 the old Heidelberg savage himself
II IL as though ont or this barbarous black
sge OF mankind there should suddenly step
one OF the brlIte-like humans who then
Id ertffpnad vv{fh q rnOdorp hrof1
should again assume leadership OF his
lordes
Recently Professor Henry Fairfield Os-
BORN. president OF the American Museum
u Natural History New York was asked
shis question
What are your views on the savage
ancestry OF the Prussians and their leader
Won HindeHburg. in the direction OF Homo
Heideibergeusis. and does this descent
account for the ferocity the infamies and (.
brutalites Of him and bis compatriotS
inherited from long line OF savages who
have specialized in brain power solely as
4 function OF might"
DR.. Osborn said
The round head element In Germany.
y which Hindenburg is az example is
probably Of Eastern Central Asiatie
origin This type is found among the
Wendish' tribes, who came to Germany by
say OF the Csrpsthisns.
The callous cruelty OF this military
Prussian type is largely due 20 remote
Asiatic ancestry and barbsric blood
The modern Germans have a very large
ldmiXture OF this blood, estimated ss high
as 90 per cent OF the total population. Only
about 10 per cent OF modern Germany in
,ludes the blue-eyed. falr.haired long
headed element vhich constituted the lead.
srs the knights and the chivslrous and
romantic class OF the Middle Ages
The reason Is that this knightly class
Eas divided against itself during the Thirty
FEARS War and was nearly exterminated
mis- Is the reason why the gentleman, in
he bes4 American sense. the man Of chiv-
alrous conduct toward women and chivsl-
-ous and msgnanimous conduct toward
defeated enemy. so rarely exists In Ger.
many The type was killed or during the
Thirty Years War. leaving the Asiatio.
barbaric class 20 dominate and set the
standards
This Asiatie barbarism is what the
courageous and sporting spirit OF our sol
ilsrs IS pitted against foe as trescher-
ous and cruel and ihhUmAn AZ we're the
Huns whom the Emperor William has held
~ ss models for hls soldiers n their c&z1-
paign against ChiRA