Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
By AGATHA BULLTTT GRABIsCH.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
BERLIN, May 81 (N.AN.A).-A man
who seems destined to change the
whole trend Of human thought Is stirring
and rousing the public mind In Ger
many to an unwonted degree. He is
Prof Herman Wirth of Marburg.
Though neither politician nor a
soldier, he is q born leader. With his
almost universal knowledge and the in
Spired sense Of q mission he attracts
mems minds even against their wills
into the swirl Of his influence.
Born in Utrecht, Holland, the son OF
a Dutch mother and German father,
Prof. Wirth unites the Nordic fearless
ness of mind and sturdy love Of truth
with the idealism Of Germany.
Studied Historical Symbols.
In these times of shattered ideals
and broken idols, when men in vain
are seeking for some supreme law by
which to adjust their lives anew, Prof.
Wirth comes and revives our lost re-
membrance Of O cosmic belief which In
the very beginning Of human existence
was the spiritual force that helped
raise man above the level Of the beast
and urged him on to ever further men
tai growth.
The savant, who for IL years has de-
voted himself to the study Of historical
symbols and signs, began his researches
by inuuiring into the symbols carved on
the ancient wooden gables of the peasant
houses in his native land on the North
Sea.
To his amaZement he discovered that
the written monuments he was studying
led him ever farther backward into a
fAI
Palaelithic. and to regions as remote as
the Polar Circle OF the North.
With the support of some six or seven
other correlative sciences, such as
geology, palaeontology, anthropology,
etknology and the modern science OF
sociological blood tests. Prof. Wirth
evolved his great and epoch-maklng
idea of the origin of the white races In
North America.
"Can YOU outline me the story OF
the origin Of the white races as you
conceive it, so that may put 1t before
! a North American public, professor
asked him.
"I hope very soon to place a written
| work before the American people offer
ing the history of their palaeolithlC
forefathers," he replied. Il have traced
back the primordial progenitors OF
Homo Europeus to an Arctic-Atlantic
people living in the Arctic Circle, PROB
ably in the late Tertiary.
People Driven TO South.
THE increasing glaciation of the
| Ouaternary, or diluviun, drove these
| peoples southward in different directions
| over North America TO Eurasia, some
verging to South America and Others
| to Northwest Europe. The earliest Eu-
ropean traces of these Arctic-Atlantic
peoples 1 view in the Auragnaciar
| civilization of the Upper Palaeolithic
! which appears contemporaneously ir
| Siberia and Western Europe, although
we can trace no overland connection
between these two Auragnactan cultures
THE second wave of Atlantic peoples
whom designate as the South-At'
| lantics, migrated in a great diagona
| across Europe, into Egypt and Arabia
coasting around Africa into the Rex
Sea and Persian Gulf, and from there
on penetrating into Indonesia and end
ing in Oceania, as the South Atlantic
ring of culture.
"A body OF the primitive aborigine!
of North America, who were driver
southwark by the great glaciation, re-
turned again to the North on the ic'
gradually melting away. These we ma!
regard as the progenitors of the rec
Indians and copper Eskimos.
"A second bodYNof kindred people
who remained In tie glaciated territor.
developed an indeovariation of thu
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