The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
King ."Tut'' Is Modern Compared to Tertiary
 Forms of Life
EXPLAINS ENGLISH TRAITS
Archaeologists Say They Who Lived Then Were
 Semi-Human

LONDON, MarCn GU. - FlVe tnOu- sand centuries ago-pehaps ten thou sand-an Englishman tripped blithely down from a mountain crag to a brooklet that ran along about where the center of the English Channel now lies. It was morning-undoubt ed1y and a foggy morning-and he reached hairy paw down into the stream, clutched fish, slew it and devoured it. The habit of eating fish for breakfast has persisted in England ever since. So have the foggy mornings.
 All of which may be taken as an explanation of why the English eat fish for breakfast or may be regarded as a left-handed introduction to the statement that man dwelt in England as long as 50O,OO0 or 100000 years ago.
 England's antiquity never has been questioned, but it remained for Reid Moir, an expert on prehistoric man, to establish that Britain probably was the oldest home of mankind. Moir's verdict has been upheld by an inter- national commission of archaeologists so the matter apparently has been settled.
 Human Tools Found
 Moir has discovered human imple ments in the neighborhood of Ipswich that seemingly establish that old King ''Toot," whose peaceful sleep of centuries in the Valley of the Kings, at Luxor, recently was disturbed by the ruthless spade of the excavator, was mere infant by comparison. His findings have given rise to the in teresting speculation that England may have been the very cradle of the human race.
 The exact age of the race of men who dropped on English soil the crude Hints that Moir has found is proble nautical, for archaeologists are chary about going into detail in the matter of dates. A few thousand years or few hundred thousand mean very lit tie in the lives of archaeologists. The lowest figures advanced by any au- thority, however, is about 100000 years, while some are willing to haz- ard the prediction that these tools were the product of a race that lived million years ago.
 Typography Changed At the time when this ancient race inhabited fair Albion England was not an island, the experts believe The vast expanse that is now the English Channel and the North Sea was then a broad green, fertile plain. The wes- tern coast of Europe at that time, it is estimated, ran out a hundred miles beyond Ireland.
 No one can say that archaeologists are lacking in imagination, however, for these delivers into the prehistoric have reconstructed a picture of con- ditions then that is at least convin- cing in it's reality. They declare that great herds of long-tusked elephants cavorted over the plain and were preyed upon by ravenous sabre toothed tigers that dwelt in the for ests. Monkeys chattered in the tree tops, and hippopotami splashed and grunted in the streams.
 Old Bones Found
 Bones of these animals have been found in abundance in the area where Moir has conducted his Investigations. No human remains have yet been found, but the implements that have been unearthed are alleged to record the earliest traces of mankind known to science.
 Moir's discoveries were submitted to a learned commission which in- cluded four Belgians, two Frenchmen, 1 two Englishmen and two Americans. This commission, which is the gray est tribunal for such matter in the world has pointed out that the maker of the flint tools may not have been an ancestor of modern man at all. They suggest that he may have been something that was halfway on the road to humanity, but who never got there. They agree, however, that he at least was semi-human, was semi intelligent and that he was undoubt- 1 edly tremendously old