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VOCATIONS. ARE GROWING GREAT
ER YEAR BY- YEAR—RELIGIOUS
ORDERS AND SECULAR CLERGY
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
4-Jatholic seminaries and preparator
sehools for religious orders in many
parts of the country will be taxed to
thfeir capacity when they open for the
school year 1922-23, according to all
indications.
The growth of the numbers of voca
tions during the past few years prom
ises to reach its climax this year with
the largest registration ever record
ed. The spread of the Catholic Stu
dents' Mission Crusade, which has en
rolled close to 2ft),000 students under
its banner, is said to be one of the
most important factors in the increase
in Vocations, one crusade leader alone
recounting more than a dozen in
stances of vocations being developed
as a result of interest in the crusade
Wftrk.
Aside from the natural increase-due
to,'the general growth in population,
important factors in this harvest of
vocal ions, according to the Rev. Fran
cis P. Havey, S. S.. of the Sulpician
seminary, Brooliland, are the develop-
PROTESTANT ... FIGURES ON
AMOUNT RAISED FOR CHURCH
SUPPORT—NEARLY $500,000,000
IN Y£AA.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Statistics contained in the Year
Book, just Issued by the Federal Coun
cil of Churches of Christ, credit the
various denominations with having
raised a total of $488,424,084 for all
purposes during their last respective
fiscal years.
Archbishop Ireland
Educational Fund
SPECIAL APPEALS IN CHURCHES
OF ARCHDIOCESE TO BE MADE
BEGINNING SEPTEMBER t7—Ef
FORT TO SECURE PAYMENT OF
CAMPAIGN PLEDGES OF 1920.
Sunday, September 17, will be
"Archbishop Ireland' Educational
Fund Sunday" in all the parishes 01'
the city of St. Paul and the parishes
of South St. Paul. North St. Paul,
White Bear, Forest Lake and Taylor
Falls, Rush City and North Branch,
New Canada, St. Walburga and St.
Michael, Minn.
jn all thesfi churches special ap
peals will be made by visiting priests
foi* payment on pledges made to the
Educational'Fund during the campaign
of 1920. It is hoped that subscribers
who are delinquent in their payments,
will take this occasion to make re­
BEARING THE CALL
BOTH REPORT GAIN IN STU
DENTS.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
(North), is credited with having raised
a total of $85,934,000 during 1921,
wjiich is given as the largest amount
raised by any single denomination
daring that year. The Catholic Church
mm ounnwBiM
A REMARKABLE RECORD—CATH
OLIC PUPILS WIN IN PITTS
BURGH CONTEST.
Remarkable evidence of superior
scholarship on the part of graduates
of local Catholic high schools once
more is shown in the results of the
open competitive examinations for
holarshl'psj at the Carnegie Institute
Technology In Pittsburgh.
Seven out of teii scholarships
awarded to girls in the Margaret
liorrisoti College division, and two
awarded girls'in the' College of Fine
.Xlrts, were won by graduates of St.
haul's Cathedral, Sacred Heart arid
8ft. Mary's of the Mount High School#,
ijhis shows the fine average of nilte
eat of fourteen scholarships won by
Cfatholic high school girls.
scholarships become effective
tThe
September *of the college yeair
22-23. Each scholarship entitles
the holder to an annual credit of $100
on the general tuition fee, and is con
tented-for four years.
ramiTY /tBfflit
Joseph
Tqmult^, secretary to
ittfi. I&ited $6r Germany
President
to visit his daughter, Marion, who is
ill there! The young lady contracted
pneumonia after an automobile acci
dent hear Dberammergatx. Mrs. Mc
Cahill of Lake City, Minn., was killed
iii the same accident.
mittances on their pledges. Those
who for one reason or another failed
to subscribe to the Cause of Chris
tian Education in the diocese are now
invited to do so.
In all the above named churches a
letter of the Most Reverend Archbish
op was read at the different Masses
last Sunday. His Grace" urges all de
linquent subscribers to endeavor to
satisfy their obligations to the Edu
cational Fund during the coming week,
explaining that the completion of the
works undertaken depends entirely
upon the fulfillment of these pledges
On Sunday, September 24, in the
churches of the city of Minneapolis.
Hopkins, Robbinsdale, St. Bonifacius,
Richfield and St. Paul Park a like ap
peal will be niade bv visiting priests.
During the several weeks following,
the appeal will be carried into the
other parishes of the diocese.
tAothe. paro,chJia
1 system, .the link­
ing up of paroclyal schools with Carb
olic li'igh schools and colleges and the
creation in the last twenty years of
large Cathedral colleges, exclusively
for boys destined for the priesthood.
Indications that the number of vo
cations, in proportion to the Catholic
population of the United States, has
increased rapidly during the past ten
years is furnished by comparative
figures from the' Catholic directories
of 1912 and 1922, which are as fol
lows:
1912
Catholic pop»
ulatlon 15,015,569
Seminaries 83
Ecclesiastical stu
dents 6,006
Children in pa
rochial schools 1,333,786
1922
18,104,804
113
8,698
1,852,498
From these figures it is computed
that in 1912 there was one seminarian
to every 2,500 Catholics, while in 1922
there was one seminarian to every
2,081 Catholics, a decided increase in
the number of vocations as compared
with population.
This year an even more decided in
crease is expected. There is still a
great need for vocations, however, and
many seminaries, especially of reli
gious communities, are appealing for
candidates.
A LESSON FOR US
is placed in second position with $75,
.168,294, and the 'Presbyterian Church
(North), the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, the Protestant Episcopal Church,
the Methodist Episcopal Church
(South), the Northern Baptist Con
vention, and the Congregationalists,
follow in the order named. Accepting
the figures given in the Year Book,
the members of the Protestant Epis
copal Church were the most generous
contributors on a per capita basis!
With a membership of 1,104,029 they
raised $34,871),221, or a per capita con
tribution of $31.59. If the total mem
bership in the United States is put at
46 242,130, the official figures furnish
ed by the various denominations, the
average per capita contribution of alt
members of all denominations is ap
proximately $10 a year.
KARyLAND, MY MARYLAhO
BIGOTS WOULD REMOVJp CAT HO
LIC PR.NC'PA^^
Religious bigotry is said to be the
d&otive behind a petition asking for
the removal of James G. Carroll,
World War veteran and a Catholic, as
principal of La Vale public school of
Alleghany county, Md. No specific
complaints are made in the petition
but it is admitted by some of those
interested in having Mr. Carroll re
moved that they dd not want him in
the position because of his religion.
Herman D. Billmer, a Protestant and
a member of the board,-has voiced
vigorous opposition to the program to
remove Mr. CarrolL'
THEIR FACES PAIN
KU KLUX INSIST ON PARADING
MASKED.
Defying an alleged order of Edward
Young Clarke, acting imperial wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan, fifty members
of that organization, fully masked, par
ticipated in the Labor Day parade held
in Atlanta. Ga. They were members
of the order's drum and bugle corps
and as they passed by, hupdreds of
spectators, evidently members of the
organization, encouraged them with
shouts:
"Go to it, boys. Clarke can't dic
tate to us."
According to comments along the
line of march, all is not well within
the portals of the Invisible Empire
DR. JOHN FLOOD DIES
NOTED EDUCATOR, PHILADEL
PHLA PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
HEAD, IS ,DEAD.
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Funeral services for' the lat#'Rev
John E. FJ^oo^, superintendent of the
parochial schools of the Philadelphia
archdiocese and nationally known as
an educator, were held last Saturday
from St. Patrick's church. His Emi
nence, Cardinal Dougherty, presided
at the Requiem Mass, which was cel
ebrated by the Rev. Francis J. Flood,
a brother of the deceased.
Father Flood's death, occurring aft
er an illness of ten days which was
not regarded as serious, came as a
shock to the entire archdiocese. He
was forty-four years old and he had
been superintendent of the parochial
schools for sis years, succeeding Bish
op McDevitt when the latter was ap
pointed to the see of Harrisburg.
Father Flood was born in Philadel
phia and attended the parochial
schools and local institutions. He was
a post-graduate student of the Cath
olic university and. following his or
dination twenty-one years ago, was
assigned as curate of the Ascension
church, where he remained eight
yfears. Then he was appointed to St.
Patrick's, where he was stationed for
thirteen years, giving most of his
time to parochial school work.
IS. URL'S FHUl
.The funeral of Mrs. Mary McCahill
vfill: be lield from the Church -of^St.
Mary at take City,, ^turday
morning, September 16, at 10:30
o o k
It will 'fee remembered' that "Mrs.
McCahill died on August 15, ftom in
juries Veceived in an autQ accident
which occurred near' Weilhelm, Bava
ria, thr£e days before?.
oeaio last cm
CLERICAL STUDENT, SIXTY
YEARS OLD, TO BE OROAIN£D.
The ordination of a candidate for
the priesthood who has passed the age
of sixty will be one of the first duties
of the Right Rev. Michael J. Keyes,
Bishop of Savannah, following his
consecration in the Cathedral at Sa
vannah on October 18. The candidate
is the Rev. Edward Dwyer who began
his studies for the priesthood in 1876,
the year in which Bishop-Elect Keyes
was born, but who left the seminary
and entered business life. He be
came a successful business man, mar
ried and has one son, who is expected
to witness the ordination. Following
the death of his wife, Mr. Dwyer
again heard the call to the priest
hood and resumed his studies at St.
Vincent's abbey at Beatty, Pa., being
adopted for the. Savannah diocese by
Bishop Keily, who resigned several
months ago.
i PRIItf WERT OB
DEATH OF EAST INDIAN KNIGHT
OF ST. GREGORY.
N. C. W. C. Neirs^rffce.)
The Catholic community of India
has sustained a great loss in the^ per
son of the native prince Silvester Xor«
bert Shivanath Rikft, brother of the
Rajah df Tajpur, who was a devotiff
member of the Church, and a knight
of the Grand Cross of the Order of
St. Gregory the Great.
The prince first became interested
in Catholicism while a student at Ox
ford, and entered the Church after his
return to India. He was a daily com
municant, and spent several hours
each day in meditation in the local
church, or in his private chapel. His
saintly life was an inspiration to all
who knew him. He had a very great
devotion toward the Blessed Virgin,
to whom he attributed the grace of
his conversion.
KMll DAYS OF 'if
PAPA| ZOUAVES ARE REVIYgD IN
brusse^S. ^.
Tfi# Association tf^thfr feflfVtj'r
Zouaves has jusi Deen revived in Brus
sels. The honorary vice president of
the organization is Count Paul d'Artet
Privy Chamberlain of Cape and Sword
of His Holiness. The post of honor
ary president has been reserved for
M. Henri Carton de Wiart. The ac
tive president is M. De Bie, Honorary
Councillor of the Court of Appeals of
Ghent.
The veterans of the Papal Zouaves
of 1867 and 1870 are only 40 in nun
ber, as there have been many deaths
in their ranks in the last few years
All sons of zouaves recipients of pon
tifical decorations and friends of
rthe
Holy See may, by sending in their
names, become honorary membeca of
the organization.
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ST. PAUL, MINN.,' SEPTEMBER 16, 1922
WTVP !K
RECEIVES STATE COLLEGE
scholars
wi
i Cne
w_
yob k.
A distinguished and much coveted
honor has been conferred, .on Joseph
J. Russo, of the class of 19^2 of the
Christian Brothers' Academy, Albany,
N. Y. The regents of the University
of the State of New York have award
ed him a state scholarship which en
titles him to a college course in any
college of New York State. The
award is made annually by the State
Board of Regents to those who rank
highest in securing college entrance
diplomas.
This well-merited honor ii the cli
max to hfs many 'years'of trammVTn
the Christian Brothers^ Academy,
where his primary, grammar, and
academic courses were made. He has
been an honor man in his class evefy
year*. At the recent commencement
in June he received gold medals .tor
Christian doctrine, languages and
sfcienb&,\Y'^' "s*
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NEW MMtYKKDLKRS
MISSIO^RS QR,qA.|$4|D:
OP PUNN---MINNE
A POLISy•
ISH
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IN NUMBER.
The Right $ev. John J." Dunn ktix
iliary-Bistiop of New Ifork, ordained to
the priesthood at Marvknoll, Ossining,
X. Y., for foreign mission service on
Sunday, September 10: Rev. Henry
Emil Dirckx of Jefferson City, Mo.
Rev. Walter Joseph Coleman of Slin
neapolis, Minn. to deaconship: Revs
William A. Fletcher of Fall River,
Mass. Joseph P. McGinn and Thom
as A. O'Mella of Philadelphia John j.
Cohsidine of Fall River, Mass. Fran
cis Winslow of Somerville, Mass.
John J. Thomann of New York City
Patrick H. Cleary of Ithaca, N. Y. Jo
seph Connors of Pittsfield, Mass. iq
subdeaconship: Rev. John C. Murrett
of Buffalo, X. Y., and Rev. John E. Rup
pert of Sioux Falls, S. D. to minor
orders: Messrs. Victor Piaskowski,
George Bauer, Hugh C. Craig, Hubert
Pospichal, William Booth, .and Robert
E. Sheridan. •.
The ceremony was conducted for.
the first time in the "new Semfoary
biiilding, where the future conference
hall serves as a chapel.
EtOSE MOSLEM MOSQIIf
MOHAMMEDAN® FAILED TO SUP
FORT BUILDING DETROIT,
The Mbslenr mosque in HfgMaTrcf
Park, a
suDurb
of Detroit, that for
more than a year has stood as the only
outward symbol of Islam in the west
ern world, is to
be
razed and the
property sold.
Injection of reforms into the ancient
religion of the Prophet, which it is
said caused dissension in the ranks of
Mohammedans here, and lack of in
terest by Muhahhad Karoup, wealthy
Moslem real estate man, whose devo
tion to the cause led him to sponsor
the movement, are the reasons for
abandonment of the project to propa
gate the Islamic faith in this country
Also taxation of the property has add
ed to the burden.
SISTERS AMINE
Twenty-five Sisters of the Benedic
tine order h'aVe arrived fti New York,
en route for Clyde, Mo., from Ger
many. Press reports state that many
were former members of the aristoc
racy, and that they expect to wdi"fc on
the farm in their new home.
WE HdHOIIS FANIir
On the Xlth Sunday after Pente
cost, known in Rome as "Deaf-Mute
Sunday," on account of the gospel of
the day which tells of the miracle of
Our Lord in healing the deaf-mute, a
special collection was ordered in all,:
churches and parishes of Rome in fa
vor of the Gualandi institute, an es-fc
tablishment founded by two priests,
the Gualandi brothers ol Bologna, as
a home for deaf-mutes.
On this Sunday the Holy Father ad
mitted all the children of the Gualftn
di institution to his private Maiii
SCHOOL INOlLMEIf
TheT t#t*l j§nrol?|ien€ ip ^e Cjatho
lie schools 'in rtuladfilplxfa, which
opened for the fail term this week
is approximately 120,000, according to
the Rev. Joseph M. O'Hara, assistant
superintendent of the parochial
schools of the archdiocese.
This enrollment represents an in
crease of about 4,000 as CQihfr&red^ith
last year as far as the grade schools
are concerned, and there is also an
increase in attendance at IJHe Cathq
iic high schools.
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THE FIFTH W
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MAItYKNOLL MISSIONERS LEAVE
FOR pHINA—PARTY OF WORK
ERS NUMBERS TEN-
Three priests, one Auxiliary Brother
(a professional nurse) and_six Sisters
—several of whom have nurses' cer
tificates—left Maryknoll on Tuesday,
September 12, for the new American
field in China, this marks the fifth
yearly departure of Maryknoll mis
sioners, two of whom have already
gone to their reward. This year there
was a double ceremony—private as
usual*—the Sisters leaving in the after
noon, the priests and Brother at night
Both groups will meet at the steamer
ih San Francisco from which port they
will sail October 3 for Hongkong. The
outgoing missioners are: Rev. Fred
erick Emmett Fitzgerald, A. F. ML
(Holyoke, Mass.) Rev. Anthony PauJ
hus, A. F. M. (Fall River, Mass.) Rev
Joseph Toomey, A. F. M. (New Bed
ford, Mass.J Rev. Brother John Dor
sey, A. F. M. (Hartford, Conn.) Sr.
M. Francis Davis (Brooklyn, N. Y,)
Sr. M. Magdalen Doelger (New York
City) Sr. M. Dolores Cruise (E. Wey
mouth, Mass.) Sr. M. Thomas Bres
nahan (Holyoke, Mass.) Sr. M. Cecil
ia C'ruickshank (Toronto, Can.) Sr.
M. Gertrude Moore, R. N. (New York
City)."
DR. SHUMAN SAIIS
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Dr. John W£ Shuman of Sioux City,
Iowa, hftfc joiif$r the meftffell staff of
the American University of Beirut,
Syria, and left for his post on Sep
tember 11, with Mrs. Shuman and
their three children. He. has special
ized in internal medicine and will fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Dr. Graham.
Dr. Shuman is an eminent special
ist, and the Good Shepherd and oth
er Sisters of Sioux City and elsewhere
ha^e been the recipients of his kind
ness. More than one nun owes her
life to his expert care. Their prayers
will follow him.
TO SIIIO FIRST MASS„
REV. WALTER J. COLEMAN TO OF
FICIATE IN HOME PARISH.
On Suftday morning, September 17,
at 11 o'clock, Rev. Walter Joseph Cole
man will sing his first Solemn Mass in
the Church of the Incarnation, Minne
apolis. Father Coleman was ordain,
ed at Maryknoll, N. Y., on September
10, by Right Rev. Bishop Dunn, Aux
iliary Bishop of New York City.
Father Coleman lived as a boy in
the parish of the Incarnation. He
graduated from the College of St.
Thomas, St. Paul, and studied for sev
eral years in the St. Paul seminary
Later he went to Ossining, N. Y., and
entered the Seminary of the Ameri
can Foreign Mission society.
Breakfast will be served to the
clergy and other guests in the school
auditorium of Incarnation parish at 1
o'clock on Sunday, under auspices of
the Mothers' club.
flPEH IMJIE FORUK
SAN FRANCISCO FOftOM TO THTAIN
CATHOLIC LEADERS.
A select ^taff that will include dome
of the mbst distinguished educators
on the Pacific coast has been chosen
to inaugurate the work of the San
Francisco Institute Forum. Plans
.were sanctioned at the recent conven
tions of the Young Men's Institute
with the aim of training young men
for Catholic leadership in social and
economical lleldB. The institute
courses will be for ten months, and
classes Will be restricted to those
with a high school education' or its
equivalent, and limited to twenty-four
members. Courses will include in
struction as follows: 1—Literature and
Expression 2—Sociology and Eco
nomics £—Ethics 4—Religion and
Apologetics.
CHEERLESS BEGIHIM
NEW QERMArN PRIESTS .AHE IN
GREAT NEED.
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Cardmai Sehulte of Cologne recent
ly ordained nineteen priests in the
parish Church of the Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin, and there is
class of sixty-four deacons and sub
deacons to follow. The plight of these
young priests, however, will be piti
ful. Their parents labored to sup
port them during the period of their
theological studies and clothing and
books have absorbed the last of their
means. For years they will probably
be compelled to go without adequate
household furniture and many neces
sities. The problem of sustaining
their priests has become an increas
ingly difftetitt one for Gfctiftaii Catfid
lica.
Study
of
Mendel
COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF
TWO SYSTEMS REGARDING NA
TURE OF HEREDITY—EVOLU­
TION SHOWN TO BE UNTENA
B|LE FRQM VIEWPOINT OF OR
IGIN OF SPECIES AND OF
NATURAL SELECTION—CHAR
ACTERISTICS OF SPECIES EVER
REMAIN £AME.
(Wntteff for ffie Catholic BulletiiMiy
Dr. William L. J. Griffin.)
The Theory of Evolution is not a
new theory. It has occupied the
minds of scientific men for genera
tions from the time of Darwin it
seems to have taken on new life.
The celebrated zoologist Owen,
states that "there is a manifest, prog
ress in the succession of beings on
the face of the earth. This progress
consists in an increasing similarity to
the living fauna, and among the ver
tebrates, especially in their increas
ing resemblance to man. But this
connection is not the consequence of
direct lineage between the fauna
of different ages. The fishes of the
palaeozoic age are in no respect the
ancestors of the reptiles of the sec
ondary age, nor does man descend
from the mammals which preceded
him in the tertiary age. The link by
which they are connected is of a
higher and immaterial nature: and
their connection is to be sought in
the plan of the Creator Himself."
Lamarck, the distinguished French
biologist, traced back all animal forms
to one primitive form, the product of
a primary act of generation. Hilaire
held that all living animals sprang
from antediluvian ancestors and that
they were fundamentally identical in
structure under infinite external dif
ferences.,
Creation of Man.
^t was MAN whom God created out
at the dust of the. earth in His own
image and likeness: and breathing
into that dust some of His Divine Es
sence, He gave to man, the last cre
ated being an immortal soul.
It was man wh,om God created, that
penetrated the forests, tamed the wild
beasts and captured the wind, to make
it serve his husbandry.
It was man. who harnessed the light
ning and dug into the bowels of the
earth, and unlocked the stored-tip
treasures of the ages to fill the earth
with the product of human ingenuity.
It was man who rebelled against the
law of God and filled the world with
much misery and yet the same man
welded into 6ne brotherhood the bar
barian tribes that sprang from the
forests of Germany and the marshes
of the Danube beyond the influence of
this civilized man, violence and bar
barity, the untamed powers o£ na
ture, ruled unchecked. It was the
civilized man who tamed these wild
elements, taught the barbarian the
principles of discipline and legislation.
How then, when all facts are taken
into consideration, can man say that
in remote times his father was an
ape?
The ImmortaJ Soul.
When God created man, the last
work in creating the earth, He made
man to His own image by giving him
an immortal soul but in "what physi
cal form man was created we know
not. We know not' whether he was
tall or short, broad or slim, smooth
or hairy skin but we do know that
his Maker did all things well, so well
that no improvement could be made.
He was perfect in Himself and gave
to man such body as that time re
quired.
Man as created by God was perfect,
and to this man were given certain
laws—which in time he cast aside and
for punishment was banished, and by
the sweat of his brow was doomed
to eat his bread. Man was then forced
to wage his own battle for existence
he had to contend with the wind, el
ements and wild beasts and thus seek
ing existence spread to other sec
tions of the earth some sought the
mountains, others the forests, and
thus most of them lost all human as
pect excepting the outward form of
human beings, and many became
worse than the brutes of the for
ests, against whom they had to bat
tle for life. His home became the
cave's, the mountain cliffs and bow
els of the earth, and man practically
became a beast and lived as such.
What God had created He created
good, so the God-man could not be
lost, for. he retained his immortal
soul, the Very image of God and
some of these men increased and mul
tiplied in the fear and love of their
Creator.
From this branch, of those who re
tained what God had given them, came
the civilization that was to seek the
four parts of the globe.
Two Classes of Mon..
We now have two classes of human
beings in the world—those who retain
ed what God had given them and
those who lost, tt and became little
better than beasts. Man was man—
he could be nothing else God had
created him MAN, and man he must
remain and no matter under what
conditions he lived, he was still MAN.
It was from the race of men who
had retained its Manhood that men
of stout hearts were born men who
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and
Darwin
left old countries and dared the wil
derness, the savage, the strange jpli
mate, the new forces and dangers. It
was from this tribe of men that arts
and sciences were produced—that civ
ilization arose, law and governments
were formed, and they welded into
one brotherhood the barbarian tribes.
They taught the arts of peace and ag
riculture, and from this tribe sprang
the maiqspring of that system through
which F'rovidence would judge human
ity and bring about its destinres,
Whether religious or seculat-.
Man Ever the Same.
Centuries upon centuries now have
passed—yes, minions of years, if you
so wish, have flown and man is still
MAN, the- last created being of the
Almighty. Of our so called pre-his
toric times we know but little of the
history of by-gone ages we can only
faintly guess.
Frequently we read of some Inter
esting anthropological discovery of
pre-historic man. These reports come
from various parts of the world and
the remains (bones) are given a place
during the Miocene period, about 1,
800,000 years, or a much later date,
that of the Pleocen^ period of about
400,000 years' duration, so that we
have the Piltdown man, the Java. Gi
braltar, the Rhodesian, the Neander
thal, the Heidelberg and many others.
The earliest remains of man yet
found are of what is claimed as the
"Pithecanthropus erectus," discovered
in Java, in 1891. It fc put in the
Pleocene period, which is said to
have had a duration of 900,000 years.
The Neanderthal man is, indeed, a
modern one compared to the Java
man, as he is said to have lived only
between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago.
A complete skeleton of early man
has not as yet been discovered. Only
a few fragments of bones, perhaps a
tooth, a part of the cranfum or face:
in some case that of a lower jaw, leg
or arm bone, and from these frag
ments has been built the so-called
pre-historic man and every one yet
found is said to have some character
istics of the ape.
What does that prove? Many peo
ple today possess the same character
istics as by-gone man. We have with
us today the "inonkey-jaw man,"
where the lower teeth protrude over
the upper ones and as to construct
ing man as he was hundreds of thou
sands of years ago from a small frag
ment of bone, no two men woulh pro
duce the same result. It will be re
constructed not as it was in life but
as we wish it to be. This was proven
when the Java man's bones were dis
covered, and the same happened when
the so-called Neanderthal man was
f^und.
A Singular Example,
For several years we had in our
possession a tooth that for size was
considered a monstrosity, as far as
human teeth are concerned. We ex
hibited it to several anatomists and
other scientific men, including our es
teemed friend, the late Dr. Edward
Nolan, who was secretary of the Acad
emy of Natural Science for over fifty
years. These men acknowledged that
it had all the characteristics of a hu
man tooth, and they reached the con
clusion that it could only have he
longed to one of powerful physique or,
in other words, a giant. That tooth
was extracted from a very frail wom
an who never weighed over one hun
dred pounds. It was, of course, a
tooth among thousands, but perfect
anatomically. Now we believe that
had that tooth been found in some
cave a new pre historic' would
have been built from it.
Accidental Change*.
Consider man, bone for bone, mus
cle for muscle, there has been very
little change, if any, in the thousands
or hundreds of thousands of years that
have passed. True, some of the char
acteristics have changed due to cli
matic conditions, but physically as
man (outward form), he has not
changed. The Negro in the jungle of
Africa and the Esquimo /are to all
outward appearances different, each
in his anatomical class due to his dif
ferent. mode of living and the climate
and perhaps mentally there may be a
difference, but each is man.
W'hen we were teaching anatomy,
which we did for some years, we dis
sected or assisted at dissections of
some four hundred human bodies. In
those days we were always on the
lookout for what was considered a
perfect head (anatomically). The
nearest to it was from an African we
had it for some years and presented
it to one of our foremost anatomists
—what became of it we know nof.
Many who were interested in the sub
ject had gone over it bone for bone
and pronounced it what they consid
ered an almost perfect specimen. No
doubt a few generations back the ne
groes' ancestors were members of the
so-called wild tribes of Africa. Hie
mental equipment if properly used
must have been far in advance of
many Caucasians, who pride them
selves on the long line of ancestors
from which they came.
There is another class of scientists
who try to trace the creatiqn of nian
back before the creation of the ape.
They claim that our progenitor came
up from the sea, and trace this stea
by step until they reach the fro^,
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