Evening star., 1923-10-27
IN TODAY,S SPOTLIGHT
By PAUL Y. COLLINS

piled. and became the prosecutors Of
America. prior to the coming OF Co
| lumhus. Not 80 very long ago. as
ethpology counts time--estimated
10000 years, more or less--came these
forefathers3of the Indians-the Toll
builders and all. Through the cen
turtles, ths3f descendants wandered
| southwark and spread eastward. They
were not dlMerent from the Indians
| as we Of the present generation know
they were sX.o00 years behind Euro
pean civilization in some matters. but
in chronology and some Of the arts
| they were In advance, and their GUS
toms in some respects We're ALMOST
brews or their predecessors.
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| There have been many tales Of
| whites" amongst American Indtans--a
recent one told of white EskimoA''-
but when Investigated the stories have
all been found to refer to merely a few
sports" or were pure myths.
| That Is the way these unromantic
fact-fnders of the bureau of ethnol-
ogy shattef the wonderful tales OF
travellers who are not scientific. They
nave no COnpunCtloHs WndteVcF III
smashing the melodramatic story of
the late DR.. LIE Plongeon, pioneer ex-
plorer of the Maya ruins, about, his
discovery of the Garden OF Eden In
Yucatan, where Queen Moo reigned,
before the sinking Of the continent
that her majesty was driven from her
throne by her, brother. who had mur-
dered their younger brother-her
husband. She fled eastward across
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which sank, later, In an Atlantic
earthquake. Queen Moo reached
Egypt, where her royalty was recog-
nized. and she became the first Queen
Of Egypt. Thence some Of her sub
jects travelled eastward and estab-
scribed by Moses. But that was not
the original Garden Of Eden, for, In
Yucatan, DR., Le Plongeon discovered
the tomb OF Queen Moo's husband.
richly adorned with heiroglyphics by
lost Kingdom. telling of the murder
of her husband. her fight and the
subsequent sinking Of Atlantis. He
found the embalmed heart Of the mur-
dered king and sent 1t to Harvard
He Interpreted the hierogiyphics and
! traced them across the Pacific to the
site of the second Garden of Eden,
as described in Genesis. Yet what he
afterward did with his Rosetta stone
, nobody knows.
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There have been found in Yucatan
gigantic busts which are indisputably
the faces Of African negroes. Per-
haps they came by way of Atlantis,
| rather than by China and the Bering
| strait. But why harp on things that
''ain't so"? The bureau of ethnoiosy
tells us that there never was a Queen
Moo. never was an Atlantis How
prosaic must be the life Of an eth
| nologist! No romance in his soul,
Just dry-as-dust facts,
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What is a sport? Not foot ball,
/, but chronological. Darwin said: "Our
ignorance Of the laws Of variation is
profound" One of the most eminent
ethnologists in the world is connected
with the National Museum. and not
long ago he was engaged to deliver
] course of lectures in the American
University. in which he took occa-
sion to discuss Darwinian evolution.
He criticized the attitude of certain
great orator for refusing to see the
! evidences Of the science Of evolution.
Then 1t transpired that the orator
was q trustee of the university. The
! ethnologist was given leave TO
print" his lectures, but did not de-
liver them further in that university
which proves that Darwin was
right as above quoted. There is no
scientist OF standing who now refuses
| to accept evolution, though much has
been learned since Darwin. and much
| Is yet to be studied. - :.
Abbe Mendel in 1863 developed d
law Of heredity which would have de-
lighted Darwin.s heart. Mendel shows
that X a black hen and q white
rooster are bred, their offspring are
always gray, and II the gray offspring
are bred together. they will produce
always--two gray. one black and one
white chick. So the mInElinK of the
Cortez conquerors with the native
Aztecs would produce halfbreeds,
whose descendants would produce
descendants who would in part be
halfbreeds. part full -blooded Indians
and part whites. Maybe that is all
there Is to the story of white tribe
! of Indians in Panama
Copyright. 1923. by Paul v. Coliins)