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DOUGLASVIt,L,K, MtiK
FftlDAY, MAY B, 1921 '
MAN P0LY6ENETIC
NOT MONOGENETIC
Savant Finds Proof of Theory in
Survey of Skulls of Apes
and Anthropoids.
ho }t\LL run | BIG PROFIT IN RABBITS
THEORY BASED ON ‘DAWN MAN 1
President Does Not Care for
Modern Syncopatcrs.
Large Increase in the Industry
in This Country.
Hitherto Evidence Haa Been Lacking
That Man Wae, Not Deecended
From One Liner-More Than
One Specimen Produced.
Lo* Angeles, Cal.—Dr. Charles Hill-
Tout, I'll. D., of the executive commit
tee of the American Institute of Re
search, member of the Archeological
Institute, fellow of the Itoyul Society
• of * 'amnia and of the Royal Anthro
pological Institute of Great Britain, is
preparing a report to be submitted to
the Royal Society of Caihulu contaln-
* ing what he asserts is evidence that
man is polygenetlc instead of uiondge-
netlc In origin, as evolutionists liave
lung tliought.
Dr. 11111-Tout says he discovered his
proof in a survey of the skulls of
apes and anthropoids. He contemyi
that Ids report will show thut nature,
when man was in the making, turned
knit more than one specimen, us science
always clulined, in the case of the
anthropoids. . Hitherto evidence lias
been lacking that man was not de
scended from one lint*.
Dr. Hill-Tout believes the discovery
eliminates completely two links lu the
chain of the pedigree of mail, who, de
veloping along opposite lines, has per-
tinted his ancestral characters and
attained a brain expansion which has
given him the sovereignty over all
ether forma of life.
Theory Baaed on “Dawn of Man.”
“Tills theoretical conception of
homoalmilus precuralon, the ancestor
t common to man and the apes, is shown
to he founded In fact by the discovery
of the moat interesting of all our fossil
human remains, eoanthropus, or the
“dawn man." Dr. HLU-Tout says:
“This ancient mau roamed over the
>outheru downs of England when the
British isles were a part of the main
land of Europe, at the close of the
Pliocene period. It. probably ante
dates by some thousands of years
pithecanthropus erectus. Unlike the
latter, eoanthropus is relatively higher
developed in Its cranial characteris
tic*.
“Its cranial capacity is greater than
that of ninny of the men of the back
ward races of today. Most of its
t cranial characters are remarkably
modern in type, having much the same
contour as that of the young enthre
polds. * That It is a primitive type w
learn, for while it possesses u well de-i
reloped head, It also tins the chinless
.law and tlie canine teeth of the an
Thropohi*.
“Indeed, It differs from the young
anthropoids only In its larger cranial
capacity. It is dear from the evi
dence, both* of the humanlike charac
ters of tiie ‘dawn ‘man’ and the young
anthropoids, that the low-browed pithe
coid was not a primitive man. In
other words, he followed anthropoid
development rather than the'human,
und so lost, his chance with the hu
man race.
Changas Thsory.
“The discovery of njun witli mod
ern cranial characters, living thou
sands of years earlier than tl»e Nean
derthal mau, and the discovery of the
‘dawn’ man, \forces us to give up the
niuuogeiietic origin of maa and ac
cept the polygenetlc origin.
“If-we now want to discover mufti's
oldest ancestor wa must go to eoan- j
tbropus und not to pithecanthropus, for
the former has all the characters!
which prouieu should possess, charac
ters which were common to the first
man and to the first anthropoid apes
as exemplified in the cranial charac
ters of tiie young of both species to
day.
“For, according to that great ldoge-
netlc principle, more commonly known
as Baer’s law, we see why the. skulls
of the young of the Neanderthal race
and tiie young of the anthropoids or
humanlike apt*. are so different from
thi^se of their parents. < Tin*' principle
expressed by this law signifies that
the ontogerty of the individual re-
c:i pi til fates the phllogeny of tiie race—
and this Is where tiie law throws
light upon the problems under consid
eration—that the young of any species
represent more truly and closety than
do tiie adult members of tiie species
the actual ancestral type from whltMi
they spring.”
A large collection of photographs
will he used by Hr. Hill-Tout in illus
trating ids theories. •
Prefers Good, Light Music Such as
“Erminie" and “Robin Hood"
With a Dash of Heavier Stuff.
Washington.—The “shimmy”, music
produced by the modem jazz bauds,
with 'tlielr walfiug saxophones, acro
batic drumlners and muted cornets,
may have tuken the country by storm,
blit it has no appeal to a man here in
Washington whose opinions on many
subjects are earnestly listened to by
103,000,000 people.
His opiuion on the question of music
is worthy of consideration, for lie used
to play in % a bund o^it In New Cale
donia, Ohio*.
He is the President of tiie United
States.
Not for him are the braying trom
bone, clashing cymbal and all the
other jazz equipment to which Amer
ica today is toddling around in in
numerable dance balls. Rather the
graceful strains of the “Blue Danube,"
or the "Mj»rry Widow Waltz."
Investigation disclosed that Presi
dent Harding has never been able to
regulate his musical sense with the
syncopation of modern jazz. He like»
good, light music. His fuvoflte operas
are "Erminie," “Robin Hood," “The
Bohemlnn Girl," and others qf the type
that were so popular a. decade ago.
He also likes his musical dish fiav-
ored now and then with a little of
tiie heavier stuff such us "Alda," or
"Madame Butterfly."
But Jazz? No.
UNCLE SAM AS A MILLER
Among the many activities of the
Department of Agriculture is that of
promulgating grading standards for
wheat Hiul other grains. Tiie problem
of evolving workable standards based
upon intrinsic values Involves the
study of factors influencing milling
and baking qualities. Tiie department
recently acquired an experimental mill
and baking facilities, which have been
Installed in the Inbdratuqif* in Wash
ington, and here experiments with
wheat and other grains are being con
ducted. Tiie experimental mill turns
out tiie flour which Is used in the de
partment's bakery, where Its actual
quality is determined by its conversion
Into bread under standardized condi
tions. The bread Is baked by electrici
ty. The picture shows the milling
separator which removes foreign mat
ter from the wheat.
Iowa Boy Clears $1,200 in One Year
by Raising Them “in His
Back Yard.,
Washington.—Raising rabbits foir
the market Is becoming a pleasurable
and profitable industry In certain
parts of the country. A resident of
Kansas City, Kan., has raised 300 to
400l^|)oumls of rabbit moat a year for
his own table at a cost of only eight'
to ten cents a pound. In Nebraska a
large religious Institution that lias
raised rabbits Instead of poultry re
ports tint meat more satisfactory than
chicken and the experiment profitable.
According to a former county commis
sioner of Washington, rabbits w'flfte
grown oir the county farm to, provide
a substitute for chicken for tiie
county hospitals; the initial stock,
numbering 11,0 rabbits, Increased to
1,200 in ten months, besides those used
In tiie hospitals.
A high school hoy in Iowa, who
breeds registered stock on a space 33
feet square In his hack yuril, raised
enough rabbits In 10JN to clear more
than $1,200. An Ohio farmer sends
■100 pounds of rabbit meat a week to
city restaurants, yet Is unable to meet
the demand. The foregoing are con
crete examples of what has actually
been done from records of the bureau
of\biological survey of the United
Status Department of Agriculture.
“It Is. now well knot’ll that rabbit
meat." says Ned Dearborn, assistant
biologist, in a bulletin to farumrs, “is
as fine as that of poultry, amPtlmt a
prolific ten-pound doe can easily raise
in a year 20 young, which' at live
months will produce not less than 50
pounds of* delicious meat. By means of
compound hutches, all thjff can be
done on an area 4 by fl feet. Half an
hour of time a day and some hay, road
side weeds and refuse from orchard,
garden and kitchen, supplemented by
a small quantity of grall^ (.‘over the
cost of production. Raising rabbit
meat for home consumption is a prop
osition for turning to account time,
space and materials which >aro ,ordi
narily wasted. In regions where rab
bit breeding la practiced extensively
rabbit meat Is in common use and has
a place wllh other kinds of meat In
daily market reports.
“The first object In rabbit raising Is
to supply home needs. Tiie best en
dorsement an article can have Is the
fact; Hint It Is used freely by its pro
ducer. If one Is inclined to disdain
domesticated rabbits on account of ex
perience with wild rabbits, jie should
know that the latter, as sold li^ the
butcher’s simp, are not to he com
pared with tender young hutch rabbits.
Tiie flesh of I he tame rabbit is a high
ly nutritious and desirable food, re
sembling somewhat the white meat of
chicken. Wherever It has been intro
duced In the markets, It lias become
popular, and tiie demand for It lias
steadily grown.
FIND C
‘WOUND’ SHOCK
Doctor Canon of Harvard and
Aids Announce Results of Ex
periments During War.
BUT ONE II AH till LEFI
CHINESE BALK AT INCOME TAX
Province of Kiangsu Fails to Obey
Demand of the Pekin Government
to Pay.
Shanghai. — Chinese commercial
interests of tiie province of Kiangsu
through tiie first weeks of tiie new
year were unitedly opposing payment
of an income tux levied by the Rekin
government ami payable beginning
HIGHEST AWARD FOR VALOR
III February It was believed in
Chinese elrcles in Shanghai thut any
serious effort on the part of the
government to collect the tax would
be delayed indefinitely.
No reply had been received In tiie
first parr of February from tliel’ekinl Hubert E. Cox uf • Belmont, Pa., a
govcrnlih'iit to 11 that was I ,.|,|et gmm i:r I'nUed Slates
served upon ivklii early lit Februaryi navy? was recently <!<-<-onite<l by I'resl-
l>y tin- itssm'iiiri*iI Chines? cliunibers ) UnnHni; with the lilithest nwtirrt
el' ramnien:? of Klunjrsii. The ifnvorn- vnlor. the ciint'i-esslpiml mciliil of
incut wns informed In till* nnUllcHtidn | ] loll , ir . Thl . ,.,.ivnmny took (dime In
Unit unless i; with eistlit j j,; nst „ f the White llnu.se nn
'conditions which were itiven tin* new j the seventeenth mudvcrsiiYy id ilie dny
tux would not he utilized in the | (m r „ x saV( .,| the hntrleshlp
province of Kiangsu.
Only Chicken Blood,
DIFFERENT FROM SHELL OIZE
Condition CTSually Develops . Some
Hours After Serious Wound or
Accident—Dead Tissues Be
come Toxic and Poieonoutu
Cambridge, Muss.—Discoveries made
by Dr. Walter B. Cannon of tWe Har
vard Medical school and other Ameri
can, British und French medlcul off-
cers toward the close? of' the World
\vur have brought forth new evidence
regarding the*cause and nature of tiie
strange phase known as “shock," a
condition that led t,o innumerable
deaths in war time and frequently lias
u similar result after accidents iu time
of peace.
“Shock, sir wound-shock, as It is
often culled, has long batiled tiie medi
cal proi'essiun," Doctor < utmou said
to a press representative, on being
asked to describe the results ol' his im
portant work.
Occurs After Any Aocident.
"This condition, which, by the way,
should not be confused with shell
shock, an entirely different phenome
non, usually develops some hours
after a t.erious wound or accident. It
frequently followed grave shell
woujhIs in tiie war, and often conies
on after a person has .been seriously
hurt In an accident In times of peace,
after, for oxatuple, he has hail a limb
crushed U a railroad accident.'
“There have been numerous theories
of the nature of shock. Some doctors
held that shock resulted from nervous
collapse, olliers that It came from a
clogging of blood vessels by fat from
wounds, some that it was due to pa
ralysis of tiie nerves controlling the
arteries, others that the adrenal gland
was somehow affected so as to do the
mischief, and so on.
Our work lu Fruuce gave us oppor
tunity to study shock lu the utmost de
tail. One by one we threw out the
theories advanced in former years.
Establish Real Cause.
TVe at length finally tested and es
tablished the fact that the condition
results from the tearing or crushing
of muscles or other tissues by missiles
inovkrg with terrific velocity. The dqm-
oiged or dead tissue soon becomes
toxic, or In other words acts like a
sort of poison. This toxin causes an
increased permeability of tile smallest
blood-vessels, tiie capillaries, and thus
there is lost through their walls quan
tities of the fluid portion of the blood
which should be in circulation. The
result Is somewhat similar to thut of
great loss of blood from the body."
American, Britlslr und French medi
cal and surgical officers co-operated
in the Investigations, some of which
were made at Bethime In 11)17, some in
London^ and others ut Dijon in RUM ii
a laboratory of tlie American expod:
tionary force under Doctor Camion',
direction.
“Toward the end of tiie war," con
eluded . Doctor Cannon, "we had
learned much about methods of treui
ing such cases, finding that it Svh.*
helpful to keep the patient untply
warui. to give him quantities of wa
ter, and, If necessary, to transfuse
blood Into the system from Homebody
else’*."
POOR, BUT EDUCATE GIRLS
Professional Men Lead in Sending
Daughters to College Says
Statistics.
Holyoke, Mass.—Professional men,
despite their proverbial niggardly
salaries, predominate in sending their
daughters to college.
Figures made public today from a
census conducted by Mount Holyoke
college show thut although slightly
move than 3 per cent of the entire
mule population of the country are
professional men, yjt 3*18.10 per cent,
of the students registered their
Frenchman Now Has Only One
Remaining in Constantinople.
Disaster Which Carried Down Turk
ish Empire Has Left Its Mark
and There Is Little Gayety.
Constantinople.—-There is only one
harem left In Constantinople and that
is owned by a Frenchman.
A French correspondent, who spent
several weeks here, thought that his
vlstt would not be complete until ha
hud viaited a harem. He Asked oue of
hta Turkish friends to arrange It. .
“But there is only one harem left,"
replied tiie Turk. "It Is maintained
with very strict discipline und accord
ing to the best traditions. But per
haps you would hale a chance to sett
ing it, for this lust harem belongs to
oue of your compatriots, the Baron
Durdeau Bey. The lust real Turk is a
Frenchman."
The women of Constantinople huve
been emancipated, it Is true, hut in
the streets they wear what appears
almost like a uniform. The cut of all
Lite street costumes i.s almost tiie
same, tin* only difference being in the
colors.
Many women who still liave some re
spect for the old costumes wear small
veils to hide their faces. In the
mosque-s and even in tin* street cars
amt railway trains special compart
ments with curtains are reserved for
them,' presenting a curious mixture of
modern and ancient custom.
Tn spite of the many foreigners ar
riving here since the war, Constanti
nople cannot he culled a guy city. The
disaster which curried down the Turk
ish empire has left Its mark, and not
even tiie appearance of thousands of
atrungers, many of them bent on a
“big time," can sweep thin away.
A few movie shows, two or three
theaters and tiie Russian restaurants
form Tiie city's night life.
An American pays about $7 to $8 a
, day for a room in n good hotel. A
haircut, with tonic, costs 75 cents, ami
a bottle of beer 65 cents. An automo
bile may be hired for $5 an hour, but
all these prices fall to take into con
sideration tips, which are abuormnlly
high.
Like New York, Chicago, Paris and
many of the other large cities of the
world Constantinople is now suffering
from a “crime wave." Ref Are file war,
say the Turks, they could leqve their
doors open at night without serious
risk. Now shootings and robberies oc
cur every night.
SAYS EARTH IS *
SPEEDINGTO END
Pastor Outlines Nine Ways by.
Which World May Meet
Destruction.
SEES NO NEED FOR MAW
WILL SURVEY LIGNITE AREAS
Doctor Zimmerman of Millikin Uni-
versity Appointed by United
States Government.
Washington.—Dr. Erich W. Zim
merman, professor of commerce of
the ,Ianies Millikin university^ Deca
tur. III., Iihs been detailed by the Uni
ted State/ bureau mines to make
an Investigation regarding the fuel
situation in the Dnkotiys, Minnesota
und near-by states with a view to de
termining the extent to which car*
houized lignite might find a market
In thut general region.
Doctor Zimmerman will make a
close,, study of the fuel supplies avail
able lu the Northwest, tiie character
istics of these fuel* and the prices
obtained.
Del ailing of Doctor Zimmerman to
this work marks a further advance
lu the Investigation regarding the pos
sibilities of Increased utilization of
the northwestern lignite, for which
the sum of $100,000 was appropri
ated by the Sixty-fifth congress.
MICKIE SAYS
r BUSINESS WvM4
BA'S Hfc*&OV4T BEUtME \N
Afc\IEP.T\S\NG“ BUT VtE ALYJANS
<i\TS OHErvSN VMVAEN H\S
conwetvto*. starts doin'
min*
pn.JV
Tiii* fanners
least
rested, the
y-slx per cent' of
Mure, but only 8
come frcHn the
Diamonds in a Sewer.
Diamonds, valued at $3,000'. ' whicj
Mrs. Henry J. Shaw liftri dropped .into
a ^draln by accident, were recovered
recently by a city drain man. The ef
forts of a plumber were unavailing,
but a municipal employee, tinned with
-jt map. found the gems tied up in a
•handkerchief at a tlirn in a 24-fncT
sewer iu front of the'house.
Carthage, M«
Iy when the good cltisc-
j found blood-stains on
! a downtown street they
Missouri from dot ruction. After an
explosion in a turret had set fin* to
powder in Hi *• adjoining handling
room, Cox flooded the after magazine
:, „s < Hrilii.it?; „ f m| ss „ iip1 „ f hls „ w „
Hi.* >/.|i*wnlk of, km,.,i | n t liu tie-
' tilted a j
Next to
Vs.sional men, the
•si interested in
ighters. Ten per
■cut. of ilie male population are in
Hides, yet 24 per cent have trades-
imu fathers.'
•ilucTiting their
ug recent-
ol' (’artblige!
A>t.
a murder or serious
much excitement, however, it was dis
covered that the blood *was rfiieken-
blood and got there because the chick
en’s bead had been wrung off after
purchase at a near-by poultry house
by a townsman who was evideritly-so
hungry for chicken lie couldp't wait,
cidenf. Oo.v. ns a warrant officer, was
'debarred from receiving the medal of
honor by tin* law providing for Its
award only to enlisted men. Not until
last February was special legislation
enacted permitting an exception to lie
made in Cox’s case.
Diamond Ring With Doughnuts,
Connellsvllle, I’n.—A bag of dough
I nuts valued at $3<in.10 was sold to an
* unidentified woman for 10 cents the
! nt her day In a ha aery here. Mrs.
; ('orwlck. clerk lu the Imkery says her
j diamond ring, valued at $.300, went
j into the doughnuts. She has asked
j the police to locate the woman who
| purchased the hag. Sin* believes the
j ring caught in one of rhe doughnuts
and was pulled from her finger. She
discovered her loss soon afterwnrd.
but was unable to trace the customer
in the street crowds.
Man's Life On Planet Likely to 9ft
100,000 Years, According to Soleno*
—No Immediate Cauee for
Alarm.
Detroit—The world is traveling oo
Its way to destruction at tiie rate ftf
000,000 inliftH a day, so the Rev.
,George f T. Gullen of tiie West Grand
Boulevard M. K. church believes. ThAt
was a sure tiling, lie declared, and
further he said there are at leitAt eight
other ways in which the old world may-
couie to Ms eiuf before the fatal ending
of.the "death Journey."
First, lie declared, the axis of thft
earth might decide to shift about A
few degrees, witli the result that thfl
^oceans would sweep over tiie dry iundH
and destroy all life before an ark
could lie built. If thut falls to occur
there •might bo a failure of Internal
fires and the crust of the earth would
absorb all tiie water und tin* air. Thft
death of our planet might, on the
fither hand, lie brought about by thft
heat of the mm dying out and leavlag
the earth a mass of ice. There wa*
Just a possibility - that we might all bftr ,
asphyxiated by tiie earth passing
through the tail of a comet, or thin
planet might collide with another world
wandering through space.
Another Way.
And the end mlq)iL he brought about
jjy tiie slowing down or tiie speeding
up of the rate of the earth’s rotation
on Its owu axis. The rotation at
present is just sufficient to counted
net the centripetal force of the sun*
and l£ it were slowed down the eaftk
would fly into the sun. starting at ttkd
rate of 1,100 miles an hour and Ml
consumed, if tiie rate of rotation
were accelerated tiie earth would fir
mit into spaea Into a temperature •t
100 degrees below zero and tiie ocean*
would he frozen to their utmoat
depths.
Other ways by wlileli Mr. Gulifta*
could see tiie world come to Its end
were the closing up of ail volcunoea
and other vents for gases, the Inevit
able result of which would lie a terrlflfl
explosion that would shatter tlm world
iir bring part of the atmosphere to
Mich a heat that tiie oxygen nud (
nitrogen would unite and cause a'
combustion of the atmosphere.
That such disasters were not Impod-
Mble was shown, lie said, by tiie speo
jroseope, by means of which man
could read the life history of that
planets. He added:
•The spectroscope shows that one
planet is in a state of white heat, that
(mother showing yellow is on the down
prude, that Mars is dying, that that
moon Is dead, while Jupiter is just get-* j
ting ready for sentient life. This world j
(s on Its way to death, for it Is travel
ing straight toward Herculeq 600,000
miles a day, and while the distance !• 4
Immense it Is not Infinite."
The Great Dangtr. 4
But the greatest danger that llr.
Qufien tiilnCs confronts the earth 1* ^
a collision with a dead star. Such a i
Star would he invisible until it canMi
within tiie range of the sun’s ray4
which would l»e when It was five timed
S3 far away as Neptune. It Could theft
b« seen In the telescope. In twenty-
five years more It would be visible t*
the naked eye. Tn five years more It
would pass Neptune and In 145 day*
from that time if It kept straight oa, ,
it would stlike the earth. That would
give us thirty-two years and 145 day*
of warning from tiie time the dead
world was first picked up by tiie tele-
:ope.
Science tells us tiie end Is condnf,
tiie preacher went on more reassuring
ly. but II does not believe the end If
near. it estimates that God took
ninety million years to make the world
hahituhlc by man and that man’s Ilf®
on It Is perhaps >00.000 years.
His comparatively optimistic com
ment ut the finish was:
“Why could God spend all that tlinfl
in making a world if It is to be de
stroyed so soon? God wastes neither
space, material nor time. He Is too
busy, lie Is" continually making new
worlds, hut He does not destroy them
almost as soon as they are made."
PREDICTS SLUMP IN SHIPPING
New Chief of Japanese Steamship Firm
Is Michigan University
Graduate.
Tokyo.—Jhiwii'h srwili'sf steamship
eonilumy. the Nippon Yilsen Ktllsliu,
j hits selected ns Its president Yottejlra'
! Jtn. wild is n lirnduale of the Unlver-
I shy of Mlehltnin.
; Mr. iin, who lisi< been serving as
! vice president "f the company, take!
i the pthro or Huron Rein pel Kondo,
| wfco died recentlv.