The Coconino sun., 1927-06-24

with OppOS1ClOn ana ScOfn TO the oX-
tent that some who gave truth have
even died in disgrace and in years
later, when the real value Of their
teachings was realized they were re-
membered. Humanity though ever
changing is always the same
That which has immediate financial
value is quickly considered, yet few
consider the great financial value of
the inspired thoughts of such men as
Columbus, Watt, Franklin, Harvey
and others that have laid a founda-
tion for greater knowledge to human
ity in later years. Nature furnished
their ideas, while a Higher Power
they could not understand made firm
their convictions that they might bat
tie all adversity Today universities
give studies and conduct research in
psychical laws to try to understand
from what source men like Lincoln
and Washington gained knowledge of
much unknown to others, yet many
live and pass away never to know of
such. It is so of many with educa-
ton, they never learn to apply it to
nature to gain an understanding
knowledge.
Geology teaches us that the Grand
Canyon was washed out by water.
Discussing this, if water washed a
thousand, or even million years past
it should also wash today But this
is not true according to the archeol-
ogists that tell us the many ruins un-
der our east rim of the mountain that
are built similar to the Elden ruin are
some eight or ten thousand years old.
If this be true, why is there one of
these very same ruins at the water s
edge in the bottom of the Grand Can
yon below the Kaibab bridge, covered
under the sand Of the river? Does it
mean that the river has not washed
in these last eight or ten thousand
years No! The canyon was formed
at the time of the last transition of
the earth and in no other manner.
Would you believe9that gigantic
glacier or a series of many came down
once upon a time from the north to
cover the entire country extending as
far as line through Ohio and Mis-
souri, on our continent at one time
and could not now. Such might ap-
ply to mythology but not to practical
science. Is it not more reasonable to
know that the Arctic as well as the
glaciers that for years have been
moving and breaking off great ice
bergs each spring that float over the
sea slowly melting and dropping to
the bottom Of the sea all the boulders
and detritus that were frozen into
their base In period of some six
thousand Of our present years would
this not build great overburden on
that which was the bottom Of the sea
with the fossils and carcasses of such
sea mammals and fish that thrived in
the greater depths of the sea among
it? The majority of these icebergs
also melt out to a certain line of lati
tude.
In the white sandstones Of the up
per formation of the Grand Canyon is
written by those same immutable
natural laws the very story that is
being enacted today at our beaches at
the seashore. The water then as to-
day had its weight, the tides and the
wind their compacting action, the sea-
water contained the cementing ele-
ments as lime, magnesia, potash,
soda and iron oxides. The pressure
of the water by the increase of depth !
made it that the fish and sea NAM
mails of each class had their best |
adapted levels as did they also choose
the localities of the sea best adapted |
to their various chosen existences.
Those that should exist in the very
greatest depths Of the sea must of
the fact of law be Of such bodily con-
struction that would enable them to