The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-09-16
BACK TO ICE ACE
Date Of Human Beings Appear
ance In America.
Probability ls That He Crossed From
Asia When the Continents
We're Connected.

Leaving aside for the present tha
tooth Of the Nebraska "ape-man," no
trace Of human beings other than homo
sapiens has ever been found In Amer
ica. A million years ago the 'prom-
lses Of men" lived in Africa, In Ma
laysia, In Asia itself, and even In Eu-
rope. We see dim remains Of a whole
troop Of extinct humans behind the
horizon Of the present, the short up
standing Java PithecanthrOpus, a man
In body but an ape In head; the Az
rican ape man, tall, erect and dark
skinned. but with no forehead; the
heayy-jawed Heidelberg man, a crea-
ture. whose children had mouths as big
as those of large adults of today; the
dog-faced Plltdowns, and squat. stoop-
shouldered Neanderthals, who bObbed
along on the outside Of their feet, peer
Ing with timid, furtive eyes from ba-
meath their shaggy brows.
None Of these men ever saw Amer
lea. Our continent was devoid Of hui
man habitation until the middle Of the
Ice age. Man came into America only
yesterday, in a geological sense. He
appeared here $1,000 or 10000 years
ago at most. And the surprising fact
still remains that he was the American
Indian, everywhere from Patagonia to
Alaska when he did come.
There are different kinds Of Indians.
Some have round heads, some have
long heads; there are Indians with
wide cheeks and there are Indians
with narrow faces. Yet the more the
evidence is studied, the stronger Is the
conviction borne In upon the minds Of
science that Indians are derived
from one common parent family.
Where did they come froml A
glance at the shores Of Asia opposite
US reveals Mongols. A bridge with
Asia In the past there certainly was;
civilizations on both sides are much
the same, but now the people are diff
ferent. Culturally the northeastern
Indians are more related to European
white men of the Ice age than to the
rest of America. The land bridge OF
Atalantis may have been above water
when the first tribes Of Indians
reached America.
The answer to this riddle lies In
Asia. Indians are Asiatic, but In
most of their former homes they have
been submerged by the yellow
men whom we call Mongols. His
torians will record that the 10000
years centering about the Twentieth
century A. d. saw the rise Of two rival
races of men, who totally eclipsed and
outdistanced all other races, the white
Aryan and the yellow Mongol.
We know how our race has grown.
The strides of the Mongols are even
greater. They are now spreading with
much rapidlty; they have either crowd
ed out or absorbed the native peoples
over most of eastern Asia. They ara
even in America as EskimOs. Mongol
blood Is thirsty; 1t drinks up the blood
Of other races with whom 1t Inter
marrIes, leaving only slant eyes. fat
faces and high heads.
The EskimOs are much later eomerS
to our shores than the Indians. They
arrived here only a few score CEN
turtles ago. They are still coming.
The whole ocean littoral from Green-
land to British Columbia knows them.
Men Of unmistakable Indian cast
have been found in out-or-the-way val
leys of Siberia, in Formosa, in the
Philippines, and even in Sumatra.
There was q time when eastern Asia
was inhabited by the prototype OF
American Indians.
Mongols came down from the high
lands of Tibet, and have all but eradi-
Gated their breed. They would have
followed them to America but for the
rapid sinking of Berlng strait, which
separated the two continents and made
the migration wait for the invention Of
means of navigation.-Chicago Trib-
une.