Evening star., 1923-03-17
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

Hines and General O'Ryan is identi-
cal with that of the American Legion,
as body-that the Veterans Bureau
Is for service to the wounded and
sick veterans, rather than for the
benefit of the place-seekers and the
grafterS.
No locality can claim to be up with
the times now If it cannot boast Of
some very ancient discovery, prefer
ably antedat ting King Tutankhamen.
Naturally Washington must keep in
! the swim. The excavations for the
foundations of the Walker Hotel
disclosed some great tree trunks.
Scoifers said that these trees had
been thrown there fifty years ago to
fill up swamp, but scientists Of the
geological Surve% nave discovered
upon the trees peculiar moss which
grew only in or about the great ice
age. That puts the trees in the pleis-
tocene period-some 100 900 years ago.
And so the dispute is on.
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The forestry service of the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the Geologi-
cal Society had a duel over the
matter at the last Thursday meeting
Of the latter society, but the debate
ended in the usual tie. such as marks
debates on topics approached from
opposite angles. The memories Of
the old settlers" may indeed point
10 the site of the Walker Hotel as
that of the original ''ole swimmin'
hole" made famous by James Whit
comb Riley, but memories count for
naught in the face Of mosses which
grew only before the ice trust held
all North America in its grip-a
hundred millenniums ago.
There has been great interest
shown in recent discoveries in tho
pyramids Of Mexico, and savants
seek to impress US by telling Of
evidences that man had lived there
900 years ago. AS if that were
real antiquity.
They evidently have not read Or.
lie Plongeon's book. queen Moo"
in which he tells Of the tomb, in
Tucatan, Of that great queen. to-
gether with her history painted upon
it's walls, and the ernbalmed heart Of
her brotherh husband.
queen Moo ruled Atlantis. the
mighty continent which once con
nected Africa and America, and
which sank in the Atlantic ocean,
with all its wonderful cities and
palaces. IT is there yet-perhaps.
Her majesty queen Moo declared
that her province. Yucatan, was the
| hold 'em awhile" and occupy the
attention OF the savants at least
until they trace the queens gene
alogy back to Eve. Some of Moo's
subjects We're Africans, and some
! were Chinese, but her kingdom was
before either Egypt or China. Busts
are found which prove the race
origin Of these subjects-some dis
! tinctly African and others equally
distinctly Mongolian. Who knows
| but that Queen Moo was the original
| star boarder of the Walker Hotel, and
| hunted alligators in the 'ole swimmin
/ hole
1t is always gratifying to be in
| dorsed, or even to have persons Of
! accepted authority express views sim
! liar to ones own. The day after
! Capital Keynotes had argued for a
reform Of medical practice, SO that
We would pay doctors to prevent
! sickness rather than cure it after it
! had appeared, DR.. George f. Vincent,
! president of the Rockefeller FOunda-
tion. speaking in st. Louis, said:
! we will soon be paying doctors
as we now pay lawyers-a retainer
/ fee by the year, to prevent sickness
| in the family. They will visit the
/ home at certain intervals and, by
| examinations, will prevent, instead OF
cure, diseases"
Copyright, 1923. ny p. V. Collins.)