The Dolores star., 1924-11-21

a living So probably you will picture to yourself
Miles Standish and John Alden and fair Priscilla
and all the rest of the stately company walking
down the gangplank of the Mayhower and 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 defl-
ance to the sea and the elements when the Rockies
still at the bottom of the
Well, that's fine for a historical picture. But
nowadays science will not let us alone for single
minute. Champion busybodes, these scientists
regular buttinskys! When they are not nventins
a kind of poison gas TO abolish war by max
ing 1t too deadly for any they are fixing up
balanced ration do away with Thanksgiving
dinners. And now they've gone and monkeyed
with Plymouth Roct-with Plymouth Rock itself
It's sad tale, fellow Americans. And here 1t
is in all its saddening details An especially sad
detail is that it seems to have its beginning in a
natve-bOrn American. DR.. George Frederick kunz.
To be sure, he born in New York city-and
New York and Massachusetts differ bit and
in many things-which may account for his dolngs.
Anyway he's gem expert" and a member Of
many scientific societies all over the world and
the wearer of all sorts of decorations. Most
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 me
Advancement of Science. There he produced
granite silver which he said piece of Plym-
outh Rock. And the Britishers-as eager as ever
10 get even, after more than 300 years-fell upon
that poor lone silver of Plymouth Rock hailed 1t
into clinic and proceeded to operate Dr. A. p.
Coleman DIR. w. II. Collins, Prof. r. L. Walker,
DIR. II. NJ Ami and other Canadian biologists per-
formed the operation.
Before the operation Plymouth Rock good
old New England granite. After the operation
which, of course was entirely successful-Plym-
outh Rock "biotite granite with altered plag-
ioclase feldspar!" The ALTERED" part of it is
easy to understand but just what they did to poor
old Plymouth Rock even desk dictionary of 1,OSO
pages can't explain. And all the comfort one can
get out of a 2,620-pager is that they didn't say
poor old z. X. is anorthoclase.
But there's more to cOme-and worse. Those
Canadian conoclasts proceeded to hold what ap-
peared the Pilgrim society and the National
Society of Mayfower Descendants and the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts to have many
semblances post mortem. Whatever 1t may
be called, its findings these, in effect:
Plymouth Rock is a gay deceiver.
Plymouth Rock deceived the Pilgrims.
Plymouth Rock has been masquerading these
three hundred years little bit of New Eng
land"
Plymouth Rock is detached boulder, cast
the New England shore by the ice.
Plymouth Rock is a British Immigrant Brit
ish as the Pilgrims themselves.
Plymouth Rock is part of a mother rock, To-
Gated north of the St. Lawrence, probably in Lab:
rador.
Plymouth Rock is an unwitting Instrument in
this international deceit, the "pow behind the
thrown being gigantic glacier that did the job
about 100000 years ago without attracting gener-
al attention
Did the old Bay state rise in pro-
test? Well not exactly strong that-there
are good many Portuguese around Cape Cod
theye d4rs and the French Canadians are as thick