The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-21

Faith Great Comforter.
Does the Cave Man Livs7
"one Self Approving Hour. /"
Skulls Are Different.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
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by ARTHUR BRIsBANR-l
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7 beg you to recommend me
TO the Virgin Of Pompeii." Told
that he was dying. Pope Bcne-
dict. speaking to Cardinal Sill.
thus expressed his hope and faith.
oxygen and camphor were be-
ing administered. Scientists were
working over him. His faith
was not in the modern miracles
Of science, but in the old belief.
Il beg you to recommend me
TO the Virgin Of Pompeii."
What comfort hundreds Of
millions have found in simple.
ancient faith.
Ars cave men. dating back
nifty thousand years. alive in
Africa? Quite probably, says .
scientist Homo rhodssismsis, lsft
Q skull in South Africa and It's
probable that his brothers may
still lives according to Prof.
Boule. Of Paris.
You may say that such crea-
tures. being stupid. would fight
the men with gums and be killed.
Possibly, but men that 20 down
there to get rhinoceroses, lions,
Eorillas. know little Of ancient
man. II they killed cave man.
they would think him an inferior
native. and leave his carcass on
the ground.
The other cave men would soon
learn not to attack white crea-
lures carrying exploding sticks.
and. more cunning than lions
and rhinoceroses. with better
sight and hearing than white
men, they would easily keep out
Of the way. +
Perhaps Akeley. q real scien-
tist, who goes hunting occasion
ally. could bring back q cave man
couple. Nothing on the planet
could be more interesting.
Again what 10 happinessf In
the railroad station, where you
get chewing gum by putting .
cent in q slot, Q short, common
~I..~ ..-x~.-.ni-- ,,-tv,xn,,>sx;,,c, d.
Hividual Of forty examined him
self carefully In the little look
ing glass. He looked at him
self full.faced and frowned--but
approvingly. trying 10 look Hike
Napoleon.
He looked ut his left profile
I and smiled. At his right profile
and smiled again. He fixed his
red necktie. wiggled his fat, short
body, and waddled OF contented
~ Esppinesss III one kind cnr4sts,
in being satisfied With vhsI yes
have. not knowing too much abcus
! your own deficiencies. yn
President Harding told the col
!, ored men and women IN the South
that II was mistake for them to
talk about "social equality" Said
he: "This Is q question Of rec.
ognixing q fundamental, eternal
and unacceptable difference"
That earnest young Socialists
plutocrat, Charles e. Russell. re.
Dukes President Harding and
wants 20 know what PROOF
there Is Of q difference between
negro and white races. .
"Show me-" says he. In any
natural history museum the DO.
lite attendant will "show him."
He will lead Mr.. Russell to q
row of skulls and say. "This is
n negro Of one type; this Is a
negro Of another; this is q white
man."
A five-year-oh child can be
taught the difference. And to
change the skull except by inter
breeding, which Is not desired.
would take many thousands OF
years.
To lift up the bone of q fore
head, making it half an inch
nearer to the perpendicular,
would take ten thousand years
at least. There is the "show
me" answer, most puzzling to
those that would LIKE equality,
but that don't want to deceive
themselves.
A great naturalist said: "The
difference between a low type OF
African savage and q highly de-
yeIoped white man Is greater
than the difference between that
savage and a blade Of grass"
That unfortunately Is true. and
Intelligent Charles E. Russell
Let us not deceive ourselves,
or others, even in the noble
cause of brotherly love. Those
that are deceived, no matter how
kindly, lose their way.
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Have you observed that the
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