The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-11
...EDITORIALS ...
MRS. SCHUYLER
S A Y S
Upsetting the Historians

mostly guesswork and the rest
prejudice. Unfortunately for Nor
die theories of historical super
I iority, the colleges each year are
/ turning out bright young archeo-
. logists who have to have some
\ thing TO do. They find some like
I ly place and start digging and
pretty soon they uncover some
thing startling to those who be-
lieve that history and the white
man is synonymous.
Bernard Refshauge, a graduate
of the University of Nebraska, has
just discovered evidence of a pre-
Columbian civilization in the vicin-
ity of Lynch, Nebraska. There, an
ancient city three miles long and
half mile wide which flourished
four thousand years ago, is being
uncovered. Here before, even
Greece or Rome and contemporary
with greater Egypt, the Indians
were civilized.
Now, if they could only turn the
Indians into white all would be
well. But in pioneer days it was
decreed that all Indians were
savages and not white. At that
time the "highminded" Nordics
who needed the Red Skins pas
lures had to have some justifica-
ton of the brutal seizure of two
continents and. a thousand books
were written to prove the Indian
incapable of civilization. The
Aztec, Maya, and Inca cultures
which the Spaniards found high
ly developed on their arrival here
were 'learnedly" attributed partly
to the Lost Tribes of Isreal and
partly to the Devil. Now, some
new theory will have to be thought
up for the new, old city of Nebras-
ka predates the Lost Tribes and
no one believes in the Devil any
more.
Just What Is A Negro!
In the June 9th issue of the
liberal Catholic weekly, "Ameri-
ca" DR.. John Gillard tries honest
ly to discover what a Negro is. If
one drop of Negro blood in Amer
lea makes an otherwise white per.
son a Negro here, the same mir
acle but in the reverse is witness
ed in Africa. There, one drop of
white blood, apparently, makes an
otherwise black or brown person,
white. For instance, Ethiopia.
The ruling class of Ethiopia had
mixed ancestry so Ethiopia au-
tomatically became white. But to
be consistent the same principle
of mixed ancestry would leave
very few Negroes in America.
About ten million Aframericans
would at once become white,
/ just as has already happened in
Cuba, Brazil and Central America
where no one is a Negro who is
not both black and poor.
But even in Africa, alas, there
are no pure races, says DR.. Gill
lard. Before Negroes were ever
brought here they were intermixed
and of many distinct stocks. And
not even the lawmakers of the CO.
minded" republic can decide
what a Negro is. A person legally
a Negro in most Southern States
isn't one at all in Mich, Nebraska,
or Oregon. And a Negro in Okla
homa is anyone whose descendants
ever lived in Africa, which might
come as a great shock to many
I Dutch and English South Africans.
You Don't Have To Go To The
Dentist
In the Literary Digest Of June
27th you will find that bad teeth
are the result of a bad diet and not
to what the Dental manufacturer
over the radio tell us. Drs. Drain
and Boyd of the Children's Hosp
tai in Iowa City have worked out
diet that will halt decay and pre-
vent new cavities developing.
For children under seven the
tooth-protectiug diet is, one quart
of milk, one egg, one ounce of
butter, one teaspoon Of COD liver
oil, one orange or tomato and one
other non-starchy vegetable daily.
Meat can be added from three
years on. Please note the absence
of bread, cereal, potatoes, rice,
and pastry.
Adults must have each day one
quart of milk, one or two eggs,
one helping of meat, fish, chicken
or liver; two vegetables one of
them non-starchy, one orange OF
tomato or apple, one other fruit,
one teaspoon cod liver oil, six
teaspoons butter. And positively
no tea coffee soft drinks rich