The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-09-12
BACK TO ICE ACE
Date of Human Beings Appear
ance in America.
Probability /. That he Crossed From
Asia When the Continents
Were Connected

Leaving aside for the present the
:ooth of the Nebraska "ape-mAA, no
trace OF human beings oIAer than homo
Sap;enS has ever been found III Amer
lea. y million years ago the prom
ises OF l.en" lived in Africa, ii Ma
laysia, III Asia Itself. ALI even IL La
rope We see dim remains Of 4 Whoie
troop OF extinct humans behind tAs
horizon of the present. the short ~
standing Java pithecanthropu>, man
in body but an ape IN head; TIE AZ
rican ape man. tai. erect ana dark
skinned, but with no forehead; TIE
hea1y-jawed Heidelberg mdn. Il cfe;'-
ture whose children mad mouths as big
as those Of large adults OF today; the
Gog-faced piltdowns. and squat. Stoop-
shouldered NeanderthalS. WHO bobbed
along on the outside Of their feet, peer
ing with timid, furtiNe eyes from be
Meath sileir shaggy bro"s.
None of these men ever saw Amer
lea. Our continent was devoid Of hu-
man habitation until the middle of the
Ice age. Man came into. America only
Yesterday, in 4 geological sense. lie
appeared here $1,000 or 60000 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 mlnds oI
science that Indians are derived
from one common parent family.
Where did they come from: 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 DIT
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
wears centering about the Iweatle'h
century a. D. saw the rise Of two riVai
races of men. who totally eclipsed anu
outdistanced all other races, the White
Aryan and the yellow Mongol.
We know how our race has grown
The strides of the MonSolS are even
greater. They are now spreading with
much rapidity they have either crowd
ed out or absorbed the native peoples
over most of eastern Asia. They are
even in America as EskimOs. Monsol
blood is thirsty; it drinks up the blood
of other races WllH "ii0ii II ih1'Ni
marries. leaving only slant eyes. nat
faces and high heads.
The Eskimos are much later comerS
to our shores than the Indians. They
arrived here only a few score cen
turies ago. They are still coming.
The whole ocean littoral from Green
land to British Columbia knows them.
Men of rnmistakable Indian cast
have been found in out-oT-the-Way val
leys of Siberia. III FormoSa. in the
PHILIPPINES, and even in Sumasrsi.
There WAS 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 e"adi-
Gated their breed. They would have
followed them to America but for the
rapid sinking OF Bering strait. which
separated the two continents and made
the migration wait for the. invention OF
means of Observation-Disclosures Trib-
une.