Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03

that the head of the Hohenzolierns is
'T sugg~t nothing. my dear Fred
erick," returned the distinguished btoio-
gist. calmly. 81 merely state an his
toric fact. You and ]. sir, together with
the rest of us here, We're descended from
the ape. I proved that many years ago.
But your famous relative Bill Hohnn-
Zollern of Potsdam is reversing the
process, and instead of evolving into
the more perfect man. is reverting TO
type His progress at first was slow.
Reversals are always so. Only now ana
then did he betray the growth within
the Simian domination. and the world
merely laughted at his antical behavior.
finding him merely amusing, just as
children are amused by some absurdity
in the. monkey cage at the zoo. BUT
as time went on close observers began
to see traces of the furtiye cruelty OF
the baboon in Bits behavior, more
highly developed type of the monkey
AUTHORIZATIONS mischief personified,
and Iulling suspicion by always grim
ming Time continued to pass and the
watchers of this notable case of re-
version found him showing his teeth less
smilingly. and developing yellow fang
or two that made them uneasy, and the
sharp, and seemed ever reaching out as
if to grasp or scar something, and finally
there came Der Tag. and with snari
that terrified the world, his jaws drool.
he sprang into the arena, and under
meath the fair outward seeming of the
habilimentS of civilization and culture
lay tthe raw fact, clearly visible to the
penetrating eye OF. science. that the
world had monumental gorilla on its
hands, with a highly organized body OF
lesser gorillas standing behind it ready
to murder, to burn, to pillage and to
rape at its command"
TX
'Gosh," calculated Adam. ct never
cared for old Doc Darwin's patter be-
fore, but it looks to me as il he had
the goods this time"
bill is not to blame" Darwin con-
tfnued. He is merely fulfilling his
destiny. Me is danger signal put
upon the path of civilization to warn
mankind of the dangers of reversion.
Too many fthe peoples of the world
have been barking back to the animal.
and Bill has been set up as a warn
ing. We must therefore not punish
him, but speed him on to the supreme
>fulfillment of his return to his type
wherefore, my friends. let him and all
his hairy tribe be transferred to their
natural environment, where jungle law.
jungle thought and jungle ways, pre-
vail. Let the crown prince chatter in
the trees as he peits the passer-by
restless soul of Won Kissing wander in
sweet melancholy through the tangled
thiokets Of despair. such as he turned
Belgium into. Let Won Hindenburg
WOO rape AID the soiling of what
there passes for the home among those
who look with respect upon the power
of british force. and among these let
Wilhelm, lord of the Jungle, rule SUI
preme."
Darwin arose and left the gathering
at this point, thereby losing the thrill
of satisfaction he would have derived
from the nearly unanimous approval
of his plan. Frederick the Great and
Bismarck were strenuously opposed to
the acceptance of Darwin's theory.
but they were silenced when they
overheard Martin Luther and Goethe
telling Shakespeare that they thought
the eminent scientist had rendered tho
fathe-land a great service by his be-
lated revelation of an hitherto unsus-
pected fact.
sionately. st think it ISIS time dot
mungkey pizzniss voss put q sdop 10
alretty yet"
Copyright, 1918, by Mcclure syndicsts.l