Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-09-26
Roy Lee fingers
Beauty at Your Back Door

have just gotten back from boat trip five
miles up the Potomac from Seneca to Seldon's
Island. / took this trip for two reasons: % I
wanted to see how many squirrels were this
immense island squirrel hunting season opens
October 5th), and (2) / wanted to see how many
fields the farmer had plowed the Indian
burial grounds where / have removed number
of Indian skeletons.
Finding that squirrels were almost nonexist-
ent due to the scarcity of hickory nuts, spent
about three hours hunting on the surface for the
Indians lost relics, mute evidence that he once
occupied the island.
And so got to thinking about early man
hence this little piece
Fifty million years ago (?) God created the
heaven and the earth. The latter part of this
statement is unquestionably correct the first part
debatable. History records early man as having
been on the earth for fifty thousand years-was
it Just barren waste for over forty-nine million
years?
l realize that 1 should not be prolix but it
is my opinion that one, not even the most
learned historian can be dogmatic apropos mans
evolution as evolution is related to concise, mi
mute, historically factual detail And, being
rather poor historian who detests works of ref
erence as being dry and embarrassing am afraid
that the premises will be disappointly generalzed
Nature is first of all the universe all the
world itself since the beginning of time; it is
the natural sequence of all things; it is, in it.
self world of mind and matter and, of course,
the agency, contrived or otherwise, by which all
creation came into being Our primal cradle, def
nitely was either Asia or Africa-possibly France.
In California at the turn of the century some
workingmen were digging in pitch or asphalt
mine. Evidences were noted from time to time of
what appeared to be fossils of animals and other
forms of paleolthc life which existed before the
birth of history Archaeologists and anthropolo-
gsts designated many of the remains to be those
of the mammoths existing in the Aurignacean
and Solutrean periods, huge sabre-toothed tigers
and gigantic sloths-they found the fossils of wolf
dogs which had been driven, much like the buff
falo of pioneer days, over high escarpments from
which there could be no return. Land animals
were found seventy feet long weighing from forty
to sixty lonesome standing as high eighteen
feet
All people are known as homo sapiens, and
of all the two billion or more people living on
the EARTH it is claimed that these were conceived
by an insignificant seven million which lived some
$4,000 to $4,000 years ago. Not being scientist
II is difficult for me to understand or appreciate
these astronomical figures; I would think that
it would require high degree of credibility on
the part OF the average person 10 accept as correc
these apparently nebulous and conjectural figures
There Is, however am told some proof which
has been adduced from anthropologcal studies
that would serve to make plausibility more pos
sible. Here are some of the proofs"
Primitive man is thought to have had hairy
body and to have the facial and speech character
istics Of the first anthropoids. The lack of hair
is generally supposed to denote race of people
far, far in advance of primitive man. The race
of people recognized as the Casealoids must be
considered most primitive since their bodies had
the most hair; If this is true the Mongoloids are
much further advanced-they have the least hair
Paradoxically, history records the American In
dian when first viewed by the white man, as
practically hairless.
Forty thousand years ago there existed in east
central France a race known as the Aurignacians