The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-20

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q living. So probably you will picture to yourseiI
Miles Standish and John Alden and fair Priscilla
and all the rest of the stately company walking
down the gangplank of the Mayhower ana STEP
ping off on to the good old solid rock OF New Eng
land-good old solid New England bedrock that
had been right there and had been bidding dell
ance to the sea and the elements when the Rockies
were still at the bottom Of the ocean.
Well, that's fine for a historical picture. But
nowadays science will not let us alone for a single
minute. Champion busybodies, these scientists
regular buttinskys When they are not inventlns
a new kind of poison gas to abolish war by max
ing 1t too deadly for any use they are liking up a
balanced ration to do away with Thanksgiving
dinners. And now they've gone and monkeyed
with Plymouth Rock-with Plymouth ROCK ltselI!
It's a sad tale, fellow Americans. And here It
is In all it's saddening details. An especially SAD
detail is that 1t seems to have its beginning IN q
natve-born American, DR.. George Frederick hunz.
To be sure, he was born In New York clty-and
New York and Massachusetts differ a bit on and
In many things-which may account for his doings.
Anyway, he's q .gem expert" and a member OF
many scientific societies all over the world and
the wearer of all sorts of decorations. Most re-
markable Of all, he's president Of the American
Scenic and Historic Preservation society.
Well, DR.. Kunz attended the recent meeting at
Toronto. Ont, Of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science. There he produced a
granite silver which he said was a piece OF Plym-
outh Rock. And the Britishers-as eager as ever
to get even, after more than 300 years-fell upon
that poor lone silver Of Plymouth Rock, hailed 1t
into a clinic and proceeded to operate. DR.. A. P.
Coleman, DR.. w. H. Collins, Prof. T.. L.. Walker,
DR.. H. M. Ami and other Canadian biologists per-
formed the operation.
Before the operation Plymouth Rock was good
old New England granite. After the operation
which, of course was entirely successful-Plym-
outh Rock was "biotite granite with altered plag-
ioclase feldspar" The altered part OF 1T Is
easy to understand, but just what they did to poor
old Plymouth Rock even a desk dictionary of 1850
pages can't explain. And all the comfort one can
get out of q 2,62Opager is that they didn't say
poor old P. r. is anorthOclase.
But there's more to come-and worse. Those
Canadian 1conoclasts proceeded to hold what APP
peared to the Pilgrim society and the National
Society of Mayfower Descendants and the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts to have many re-
sembIances to a post norton. Whatever 1t may
be called, its findings are these, in effect:
Plymouth Rock is a gay deceiver.
Plymouth Rock deceived the Pilgrims.
Plymouth Rock has been masquerading these
three hundred years as a little bit of New Eng
land"
Plymouth Rock is a detached boulder, cast on
the New England shore by the Ice.
Plymouth Rock is a British Immigrant, as Brit
ish as the Pilgrims themselves.
Plymouth Rock is a part Of a mother rock, To-
Gated north of the st. Lawrence, probably in Lab
Plymouth Rock is an unwilling instrument In
fhis international deceit, the power behind the
thrown being a gigantic glacier that did the job
about SOC, 600 years ago without attracting gener-
al attention.
Did the old Bay state rise as one man In pro-
test? Well, not exactly as strong as that-there
IRE q good many Portuguese around Cape Cod
shese days and the French Canadians are AZ thick