Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-24
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

cry of Iceland by Norsemen. Irish sea
rovers had not only visited but erect.
| ed hahitationS on that island. About
the year 725 Irish ecclesiastics are
known to have sought seclusion on
the Farce Islands. In the tenth CEN
fury voyages between ireland and
| Iceland were SO frequent as to be
ordinary occurrences. Finally in the
eleventh century a country west of
Iceland and south of Vineland, known
to the Norsemen las we'll as to the
Irish as White Mans Land or
Great Ireland was discovered and
probably settled by the Irish" Great
Ireland-"White Mans Land''--was
Virginia and North Carolina.
Since the Morse founding of Norum.
bega near Boston is recorded as in
| 1908 AID, the Irish had then been
in Iceland 800 years. That is as far
before Morse Norumbega as the land
| ing of our Pilgrim Fathers on Plym.
| outh Rock preceded the Byrd fight
to the North Pole.
| History says Great Ireland was
known even to the Morse as well as to
| the Irish. nearly a century before
Left Erikson had found Labrador
| the land of laborers-and the presence
of the Irish sea roverS in Iceland prior
ITO that of the Morse is undisputed.
Being then, half seas over" who chal-
lenges Patrick's claim to having ar
rived in Washington long before the
coming of the race whose illustrious
descendants invented the Volstead
law? Besides, in spite of the Morse
claim to Norumbega, near Boston.
which race today is predominant In
Boston-the Morse or the Irish?
| Sure it is that Comdr. Byrd. the
greatest discoverer of today, halls
from Richmond, the capital Of what
was once white Mans Land or
Great Ireland" and it is hard to
keep a good Irishman down.
X X **
| But "why should the spirit Of
mortal be roud?''-whether Morse,
Irish or English? The question as to
who discovered America first is as
unsettled as is that Of "who won the
WARP
At this moment. DR.. Hrdlicka, the
greatest authority in America on such
questions, is in Alaska for the pur-
pose of tracing evidences as to the
coming Of the Orientals across Bering
Strait and developing into all our
Indian tribes. Archeologists are not
agreed as to just how far back that
event must be dated, but generally
they say it was some 1000 years ago.
(Where were Greatly Ireland and No
rembega then0 Where was Labrador
when the Maya Empire, two centu-
ries AID, was grander than Rome
upon her seven hills, with higher
civilization and more advanced sci
ence than had Europe at the time
| Columbus discovered the islands Of
our West Indies?
| The Aztecs or Toltecs or Mayans
knew more about astronomy than did
Calico or Copernicus, for they were
able to observe the procession OF the
equinoXes and SO exactly divide the
year that it took 5000 years for their
error to constitute one day. while the
precise Copernican time was so IN
exact that it was a day off every 1,2OO
or 500 years.
Their workmanship in weaving. in
jeWelry, In featherwork decoration,
their skill in architecture. have not
been surpassed to this day. Behold
| their pyramids. larger than any in
Egypt! How did they convey mono
liths % feet in dimension across
mountains to build the marvellous
temples of Militia, where no stone of
that nature existed on the side Of
the range where the ruins Of Militia
stand to this day?
It is indisputable that Orientals had
developed civilization in Yucatan
seven centuries before Christ had
come to Bethlehem. And what strik-
ing similitlrle between the Magyar
civilization and that of Egypt!
Copyright. 1925. by Paul V. Colns)