Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1934 — Page 15

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It Seems to Me . By Heywood Broun A FEW weeks ago I ventured the opinion that Father Coughlin was one of the most influential men in America through his vast radio following. Now I want to bring in a dissenting opinion. There were grounds for my earlier opinion, but the reverend gentleman has pretty much kicked them away. To some extent this is not his fault. When I spoke of his power I should have qualified the estimate by noting the short span which is the usual lot of those who ride their surfboards along

the ether waves. After a time they tumble. It is not given to every man to be an Amos or an Andy. Asa matter of fact. Father Coughlin should study the methods of that perennial team. He ought to rhange his act more frequently. I would not care to sav that he has delivered the same speech for the last six weeks. Perhaps it only sounds that way. But surely there is some limit to the amount which anvbody can say about silver and gold. The monetary system of the United States is an important problem, but it is not the final conflict. One formerly attentive listener wishes that the

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most articulate of the prelates would scatter his shots a little more generously. As Deems Taylor remarked about a famous mammal, ’‘No. indeed; I'm not afraid of the big bad wolf—just sick to death of him.” * mm Father Coughlin Falls Into Error AND yet there are perils in suggesting to Father Coughlin that he depart from his favorite topic. Only the other day he appeared in Washington to a hearing on the birth control bill and took the rather tall attitude that he would settle all this nonsense once for all by ‘ taking the issue to the country.” I begin to feel that too much emphasis has been put on the power of this particular priest. I have no doubt at all that his audience is wide and his mail extensive. But I refuse to believe the tale which was going around quite recently that a single broadcast brought in five million letters. After all, there must be a portion of Father Coughlin's audience which fails to write and another portion which can t. In any event, not all the power in the world can avail to destroy a good cause. Margaret Sanger is just as valiant a fighter as the Michigan crusader, and she has truth and justice on her side. The weakness of the case against birth control was illustrated in Washington by the readiness of its opponents to make false and unsupported charges about Mrs. Sanger's motives. I would deny to no man or woman the right to oppose Mrs. Sanger on religious, medical or sociological grounds, but I am impatient with those who hint at any commercial impulse. Anvbody who has ever met Mrs. Sanger or who knows the first thing about her career can not fail to realize her utter sincerity and devotion to her cause. b m m A of Logic J SEE a great lack of logic in the arguments of X many who are in opposition.. Often the selfsame speaker will assert that contraception is all wrong and that it is seldom effective. Surely those who feel that birth control is morally wrong should not be much concerned with any alleged margin of error. People seem to forget that contraception has been so hampered by legislation and conservative tradition that it has not yet had its fair share of attention from medical research. Any one of the great foundations would be doing a peculiarly useful public service if it would assign the best man on the staff to work upon this subject. There is force, as I see it. in only one argument against birth control. I refer to the religious objection. Whenever anybody says simply, "It is against the will of God.” I see no point whatever in challenging his conviction. Anybody who has that conviction should, of course, abstain from the practice of birth control. But I do not think he should attempt to force other people who have no such conviction to follow his way of life. To the best of my knowledge and belief, neither Margaret Sanger nor anybody else has advocated compulsory contraception. m a a Margaret Sanger and March of History IT seems to me that the case presented by MarI. garet Sanger has grown stronger with the years. She was among the first to point out the relationship between war and population pressure. Few todav will deny that Japan's imperialism is partly inspired by its high birth rate. The relationship between poverty and overpopulation grows increasingly evident. Mrs. Sanger preached that long before technocracy and all its cousinly philosophies were known. Strangely enough, a certain opposition has come from some radical groups which say—" Change the economic system first. Destroy capitalism and there will be no need of birth control." These men and women seem to overlook the fact that contraceptive information has been freely and widely disseminated m Soviet Russia. It is not honest for opponents purposely to confuse the issue, as they have often done. They know that contraception and abortion are not the same thing, and yet they continue to link them in their arguments. They know perfectly well that birth control advocates are not suggesting no children at all. And they know, if they have any atom of understanding, that Margaret Sanger is as gallant and as unselfish a crusader as America has ever seen. (Copyright. 1934. by The Timesi

Your Health BY PR. MORRIS FISHBEIX

IN the spring a young mans fancy often turns to thoughts of love. - ’ Well, that's the way you may look at it. but your doctor has analyzed the young mans fancy down to a matter of climate and temperature. The fact is that spring is the time of yeat when the temperature averages about 60 degrees and the variability from this temperature is rather high. That temperature, and ihat variability, your doctor will tell you. actuates the young man's fancy into thoughts of love! There is more to this matter of climate and temperature than just its effect on a young man’s heart —or a young woman's, for that matter. There's their general health to consider, too. The best conditions for greatest physical efficiency include a temperature of aoout 63 degrees, with only moderate variability from this. Mental activity seems to go on best at a temperature of 38 degrees. The greatest developments of civilization have come about in places with temperatures that come within these limitations. a a a TEMPERATURE and climate have been found to limit the distribution of many diseases to certain areas of the world. One authority, who has studied the relationship of climate to a disorder like diabetes, has found that this disease is more severe in places where the climate is more stimulating. He also thought that diabetes should be more severe during the more invigorating seasons of spring and fall. The summer months seem to be most favorable to the diabetic. The months most favorable are January, February, May and October, Similar relationships were found between climate and such diseases as pernicious anemia, exophthalmic goiter, and other such conditions which fare badly under stimulation. % 9 9 9 IN carta in areas of the United States, the rate of climatic stimulation is high, and here may be found more frequent cases of diseases associated with such stimulation, particularly disturbances of the glands of internal secretion.

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Thi* I* lh<* fifteenth of The Indianapolis Time*' popular aerie* of artirle* on the member* of It* editorial ataff. To - dir'i artirle ronrern* Taieott Powell, editor of The Time*. BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Times New* Editor r T , ALCOTT POWELL is one of the most discussed men in Indianapolis. Virtually a newcomer—he became editor of The Indianapolis Times on Feb. 1 of last year—he is regarded by some as an ogre, by others as a hero, and by still others as a "stranger.” Talcott Powell is not an ogre, he is not a hero, nor is he a stranger, for he is beginning to know Indianapolis and Indiana better than thousands who have lived in the state all their lives. He is a young, energetic, sincere and purposeful newspaper man. He will be 34 in April, but already he has a newspaper background of thirteen years behind him. he is the author of the book, "Tattered Banners,” and he runs The Times as if he were born to the job. Dark, with high cheek bones and and aquiline nose, he looks like an Indian, but his mother was of Dutch-Irish descent and his father English lineage. Tall, 5 feet 11 'i inches and carrying 173 pounds on his well-propor-tioned figure, he gives the impression of push and bustle. Some would immediately place him in the category of the typical American "go-getters.” Talcott Powell doesn't think that he is a "go-getter,” but there is not another word in the dictionary which could list him more accurately. For he believes in getting things done—done swiftly and done well. He is of the nervous type, impetuous and impatient, but with great powers of control. He restrains admirably his precipitous moods, and exercises similar restraint with a violent temper. He refuses to waste time, because he always has "something else to do.” B B B HE has vast concentrative powers and a retentive memory .which retains only that which he wants to remember. Unnecessary and trivial details drive him nearly to distraction, and he detests telephones. Relaxed and at his ease, he is an easy and brilliant conversationalist, but placed in the public speaker’s limelight in an atmosphere of even slight formality, he loses his relaxation, tightens up. and is ill at ease. He is a spendthrift with his own money, but prudent ana watchful over other peoples' funds and over the taxpayers' money. Hp is a democratic “boss,” but, at the same time, a hard taskmaster. Not a prolific writer, his favorite writing pose is flat on his back, dictating. B B B TALCOTT POWELL is an excellent executive, thanks to his army training. His has been a varied and colorful career, actor, ship's messboy. farmer, lumberjack. reporter, author, newspaper executive and editor. He is the son of the Rev. Lyman P. Powell. Episcopal clergyman and author, whose biographical work on Mary Baker Eddy is recognized as one of the finest biographical works by an American. During the war the

Anna Sten, Great New Russian Star, Is Coming Here in Nana It’s a Great Film ——BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

THE Diamond Lil of 1868— that's Anna Sten in “Nana.” That was my impression after seeing this Russian actress make her movie debut in ‘'Nana” at a private preview at Loew's Palace the other night. “Nana" will be shown within a few weeks at the Palace. Nana was the 1868 edition of Diamond Lil. but she didn't carry on j?er business over a saloon but lived in state after she graduated from being just a common person on a park bench. Nana was as unmoral as Lil, but she didn't possess Lil's striking vocabulary except when she lost her temper. The movie industry is looking for another Garbo and so Samuel Goldwyn brought this Russian actress to America two years ago. He had to start from the ground up. so to speak, because this exotic beauty could not speak English. So the money was spent lavishly on her for two years to teach her English. Her instructors and those who had faith in her acting ability should congratulate themselves because Anna Sten will become a real star in her own right in this country—if she is given the proper vehicles. In “Nana” she puts over her comedy scenes with as much ease and with as much sure showmanship as she handles scemes requiring the powers of a Bernhardt or a Duse. Her English speaking voice has retained just enough of her continental background to make her extremely individual. Those who are developing Anna Sten saw to it that her first vehicle would be tremendous in its emotional scope as well as background. All of this cost money and the rumor is that more than two millions have been spent on Miss Sten and “Nana.” As Nana, the Russian star has a role which is glamorous and full of emotion. Nana becomes a manufactured star in 1868 in Paris because a great director was impresssed with her actions in a Paris case when she pushed her drunken escort, a soldier, into a fountain. - Then starts a career which makes Nana the toast of Paris and the victim of some glorious and some foolish experiences in love.

The Indianapolis Times

‘WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER’

Talcott Powell —He Wants The Times to Be the Nation s Best

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934

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Talcott Powell (left), young, energetic editor of The Indianapolis Times, talks over the world’s news with his old friend, Leland Stowe, Paris correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune, who has stopped in to visit him. *

elder Mr. Pow'ell lived in Indianapolis for several months. He spoke in every Indiana county. Talcott Pow'ell w r as educated in public and private schools and attended Wesleyan university. He started newspaper work as a reporter on the Paper Trade Journal of New York and connected with that position is an interesting tale of Mr. Powell’s peculiar type of memory. He later joined the New York Sun and officials there soon discovered he detested grewsome scenes. To break him of the phobia he was assigned to cover the morgue for six weeks. He admits that the experience w'iped out the phobia, but reveals that he has not completely overcome his aversion to distasteful episodes. Two years following the morgue experience, a man leaped from the top of the fifty-five-story Municipal building. Talcott Powell rushed to the scene. Police had covered the man’s body with newspapers. Every bone in the man’s body had been broken and every trace of identification had been removed from the clothes. Reluctant to look at the dead man’s face, Mr. Powell avoided doing so. He went with police to the station and when another search of the man’s effects failed to reveal any trace of identification, Powell consented to look. He took one look. “Call the steward of the Union League Club,” he said, turning to the police officers. tt B B THE man turned out to be a member of the club. Talcott Powell to this day can not recall ever seeing the man before the suicide. But—the Paper Trade Journal’s offices were situated across the street from the Union League Club. “I must have seen him seated by

.The Theatrical World.

Drama and tragedy follow the arrows of Cupid when aimed at Nana. This gives Miss Sten tremendous emotional opportunities and she handles them like a genius. Her period costumes are marvels. Her speaking voice is rich and colorful. Her love scenes are great, and when she is angry she is a tiger. I sincerely believe that anew and a great movie star has been discovered. Not another Garbo probably, but a gifted actress who is interesting every second she is before the camera. The money spent on Miss Sten has been well spent. a a a In City Theaters Tonight at 8:15 o'clock, at Caleb Mills hall at Shortridge high school, the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra appears under the auspices of the Civic Music Association. Local theaters today offer: Ted NORTH SIDE CHURCHES PLAN UNION REVIVALS Baptists and Methodists Will Unite for Series. North side colored Baptist and Methodist churches will hold a series of union revivals beginning Monday and continuing through Sunday. Feb. 11. Ministers who will take part in services are the Rev. Robert E. Skelton, the Rev. J. B. Carter, the Rev. E. R. Michael and the Rev. B. H. Hogan. Meetings will be held at the Campbell chapel. A. M. E. Z. church. Northwestern avenue and Twentyfifth street; Barnes avenue M. E. church; Twenty-fifth Street Baptist church, and Northside Baptist church. Thirtieth and Ethel streets. Combined choirs of the four churches will participate in the services. Miner Reports Bag Theft While he took his “forty winks” sleep in a downtown hotel lobby yesterday. Jack Wilson. Blue Eyemond, Kv., reported that a bag containing a revolver valued at $21.50 and minutes of the United Mine Workers of America sessions were stolen.

the club window,” is the only explanation Mr. Powell can offer. All he remembers is seeing faces. How that one face impressed itself on his memory is a mystery. Asked what training one should have to prepare for newspaper work, Mr. Powell will advise “our grandfathers’ idea of a good, allround cultural education.” In his college days, Mr. Powell looked on history, economics, and all kinds of English courses as the only training ground. He thought mathematics and Latin a waste of time. But those two subjects have played the largest part in his writing career. When he wrote his book he used Roman history for his opening chapter, something he couldn't have done without his Latin training. He can’t remember ever passing a mathematics examination, with the exception of his college entrance test, and recalls that he had to cheat to pass that one, the only time he ever cheated on an examination in his life. Mathematics he could not master “Poor boy,” they said. “He’ll never get anywhere. That twist in him which makes it impossible for him to know figures will ruin his life.” r But Talcott Powell solved all that. B tt tt npo pass his college entrance A tests, he devised what probably was the most unique ever invented. He virted a pawn shop and purchased nine large “dol-lar-watches” for 15 cents each. On the face of each he pasted a theorem. Seated in the class, he went to work on his examination. Every time he was “stuck,” he pulled out a watch “to see the time.” Practice had made perfect and

Lewis on the stage and Laurel and Hardy in “Sons of the Desert” on the screen at the Palace; Frank DeVoe and company on the stage and “Beloved” on the screen at the Lyric; “Brief Moment” at the Playhouse; "She Done Him Wrong” at the Apoiio; "Four Frightened People” at the Circle; “Easy to Love” at the Indiana, and burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial.

SIDE GLANCES

nr*V kT £ '•?}'<;' i> ;• . i : e nmvumowci He. u u> “I _ought.to make you pay for that call to Europe. I told you I/wanted Paris, Texas.”

he pulled the right watch every time. He got an 80. Well into newspaper work, after serving a stretch on the New York Herald-Tribune, first as reporter, then as assistant city editor, and later as general manager and treasurer of the Orange County Independent Corporation, which published the Middletown TimesHerald and a group of weeklies, he joined the World-Telegram, the Scripps-Howard newspaper in New York, in 1927. He knew that there were scores of men in New York as good as he in covering murders, and gang wars and decided that the field was wide open for a reporter who knew mathematics and could analyze figures. He told himself that any man who could handle figures could go after Tammany’s budgets and put the facts before the public. “No politician can fool John Public with phony budgets,” he says. tt tt B SO Talcott Powell started to learn mathematics right then. He couldn't get figures to align themselves correctly in his mind, so he mastered the slide rule. Now he has a large one In his desk and carries a five-inch rule in his pocket. Details were his stumbling block, so he wiped out the details with his slide rule. He went after Tammany hall. His work led to the Seabury investigation, the discrediting of “Jimmy” Walker, and the ultimate rout of the Tiger. He became assistant executive editor of the World-Telegram on Feb. 27, 1931. He was placed in charge of the study of the veteran relief program for all Scripps-Howard papers, including The Times. His series of articles, published in The Times, were one of the series cit-

BARBARA, HER PRINCE ARE REUNITED IN TOKIO Interrupted Honeymoon Resumed; Embrace Affectionately. By United Prees TOKIO, Jan. 26.—The former Barbara Hutton, woolworth heiress, and her husband, "Prince” Alexis Mdivani, resumed their interrupted honeymoon today following an affectionate reunion aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru. Mdivani was the first civilian aboard the liner which brought the heiress here from San Francisco. He arrived two days before on another boat. They hugged each other, embracing affectionately after the long separation, the first since their marriage last year.

By George Clark

ed by the Pulitzer prize committee in awarding the World-Tele-gram the annual SSOO gold medal for 1933 for the most distinguished meritorius service to the public. „'a n a THE editor of The Times is distinctly not an “ogre” for veterans. His army service, „his training, and his liberal ideas are all opposite that. Talcott Powell believes soundly in pensions for veterans veterans injured while in service of their country. He believes soundly in adequate hospitalization and his whole creed is based around one word —“Justice.” He’s that kind of a “boss.” “The veteran injured while serving his country deserves the best,” he says. “But he can’t get the best when other men, in the best of health, holding good jobs, are struck by taxi cabs, and then raid the government treasury for undeserved pensions. Those who deserve must get—those who do not must not get.” Talcott Powell, too, is not a pacifist. But, again, he is not a jingoist. “I believe,” he says, “that two nations should do everything under the heavens to avoid war, but once they’re in one, I believe every able-bodied man should bear arms for his country.” a a a EDITOR POWELL has many friends, few intimates. He's never bored, not even when he’s alone. He doesn’t favor “courtesy visiting” while he's on the job. He Tikes instrumental music, both symphonies and jazz, and when younger played the violin, quite adeptly. He hates crooners and isn’t attracted by operas. He can play the mouth organ, but his secret ambition is to play the piano-accordion and often tries to do just that. He used to be a choir boy and he likes to sing. He likes bridge, but doesn’t play much of it, mostly because he hasn’t time. At one time he chewed his fingernails nervously every time he caught cold or coughed. He imagined cancer, tuberculosis and pneumonia were creeping up on him all at once. Now, he doesn’t care. He’s fond of flying and he’s interested also in the economic side of the aviation industry. He doesn’t like games, although he played basketball and football and was on the track team in prep school and college. The only sports that interest him now are ocean cruising, sailing and horseback riding. He practically never reads novels and concentrates on history and economics. He likes the drama and his favorite actor is John Barrymore. Blue is his favorite color, and the only things he has ever collected are pipes and walking sticks. * But he never carries a stick and he smokes cigarets almost exclusively. a a a Talcott powell is upset by only one thing—if he can be justly accused of an injustice. Justice is the corner stone of his idea on life and he sticks firmly to it. He has two children, David, 10, and Edes Laurence, 2. Mr. Powell, ambitious, places his personal ambitions secondary to the property intrusted to his hands. He admits he will never be satisfied until The Times is on a par with the greatest metropolitan newspapers of America. After his newspaper days, he hopes to write books on history. “But that won’t be in the next twenty years,” he adds. “My ideas of a newspaper?” He asks. “It's a mirror, a plain looking glass. “Hold it up. It should be a mirror of contemporary life so that every one can see. People come in, they say, ‘Why do you print so much crime news?’ We are committing no crime. Crime is happening. It is part of our contemporary life. Our newspaper must be a looking glass. “We mustn't allow editorial opinions to creep into the news columns. -We must not mix the 'editorial page with the news pages.” That’s Talcott Powell. He’s hustle and bustle and push. He laughs, smiles, jokes. But his idea of life is “Justice.” You’ve go to work for your keep . . . Take it or leave it . . . That’s our boss ... We take it and like it. Next. Who said Red Hair?

Second Section

Enter<>d as Second-Class Matter at Poatoffice, Indianapolis

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler IHAVE stood about as long as I care to, the miscalling of the device which is made with a big, wide, rubber band, a piece of string and a sort of pocket, cut from the tongue of an old shoe and which is used to shoot little rocks. Every time there is occasion to mention this weapon, as in the case of the raid on the prison at Welfare island where a number of such were found, I it called a slug-shot or a slung-shot. Well, it isn’t a slug-shot and it isn’t a slung-shot, either, and anybody that ever owned and used cne can

tell you that it is a sling-shot. There are still some artists in the business, too, who peisist in drawing quilted pads on the shoulders and elbows of football players and a few so out-of-date that they even draw' rubber nose guards on their athletes. This is something else w'hieh I think ought, to be attended to in the course of the general cleanup w'hieh is now going on in this country. I am quite a hand to get around where football is rife in the fall-time and I haven t seen upholstered pads worn by a football player in, it must be, ten years. The last time I did see

some they were worn not for protection but with intent to deceive a lot of nice, innocent boys whom A. A. Stagg brought on from Chicago to play the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin field. These wads consisted of large patches of brown leather sewm to the elbow's of the Penn players’ jerseys, and, whenever the ball *>vas snapped, the Penn boys would run off in all directions with their elbow's held together in front of them. Tlie brow-n leather patches were the same color as the football and Mr. Stagg’s Chicago boys put in a most distressful p. M. chasing these phantom footballs and tackling everybody on sight amid derisive cries of "Wrong guy! Wrong guy!" They were tackling even the center and the guards, and the thing finally became so pathetic that people who at the beginning had thought this was a pretty * b-iCk of the Penns, came around to the idea that there was something just a trace dirty about it. u tt tt Rules Are Deceptive Things A S to whether the rules-people ever decided to -TV forbid such deception thereafter I don’t rightly 1 emember and, being no lawyer, I never can tell what a rule means by what it says; so it wouldn’t do me any good to look it up in the revised football statutes. Anyw'ay, such w'ads are not worn any more and the only type of nose guards which I have seen on the field in the last twenty years is a kind of iron mask which rests against the forehead, chin and cheek-bones, and which is supposed to protect fiom fuither injury a nose w'hieh already has been broken. That doesn't do much good, though, because if the man with the broken nose is a pretty good man and the other team wishes to get him out of there, the boys contrive to hit him a bust from the side w'hieh dislocates the mask and rakes it across his face and lames his nose all over again. The only safe way to protect a broken nose is to put it in a siing and keep it out of football games. I know these are little things which might not matter much fifty years from now', but small irritations mount up and up, and it is almost enough to a 4 P a , l ! ty , nuts to see P ads and nose guards on the football players in the pictures year after year and see the sling-shot still referred to as a slug-shot or slung-shot. w . f T her ®.f^ e V™ kj nds of sling-shot. One is made Uh , a , htt l e , fork off a something like those peach-tree forks with which people who are thinking of digging a well go walking around the field looking top the PIaCC where the most water lies closest to the The fork, or crotch type of sling-shot is cumbersome and rather difficult to conceal in school whereas the simpler model can be tucked away in ht ! Tn Sn 2. al L C t ompass in thp pants pocket and can hardly be detected by a teacher unless a party carelessly lets the rubber or the string dangle out. In that case, of course, it is Just too bad, and one has to stay in till 4 o’clock every night for a week and listen to a lecture on how wrong it is to shoot birds. tt B B Rut the Birds Were Safe Enough BUT that just shows how little a teacher is likely to know about the facts of life. If she really knew the subject of sling (not slug or slung) shots she would know that a w'hole gang could spend a whole day in a gravel pit, taking free shots at a stuffed ow'l at thirty yards and never hit anything but a lot of store wundows. Even if there weren’t any store windows w'ithin miles, they would hit a lot of store windows. That is all they ever have been known to hit. Store windows and the glass globes of lamp posts. I never knew' any one to hit any of our furred or feathered friends with a sling-shot of either type Close sometimes, maybe, but close “ain’t is” as we used to say. Maybe those weren’t sling-shots at all which the raid uncovered at Welfare island but a type of blackjack made with a few ounces of shot sewed up in a cloth or leather pouch. But if so, why not call them right? Those aren’t slug-shots or slung-shots. This device is called a sock or jack. But slug-shot and slung-shot and wads and ncseguards on football players! You would think conditions were tough enough without some people going out of their way to make life more miserable for other people. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Today's Science

j\ THREE-CORNERED battle is raging In the -f*- world of science over the cradle of the human race. Some say it was in Europe, others in Asia, still others in Africa. Eminent anthropologists can be found to support each point of view. The one thing they all agree upon is that the new world is truly new as far as mankind is concerned. But even here, opinions are changing slowly. Some authorities think man made his first appearance about 15,000 years ago, but others would multiply that fligure by ten. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the United States National museum, one of the world’s foremost anthropologists, believes that western and southwestern Europe was the birthplace of mankind. He bases his opinion upon the fact that many of the earliest skeletal remains have been found in Europe. Excavations and searching of caves have revealed that a race of man, differing more widely from present-day man than the various races of man differ from each other today, inhabited most of Europe from *40,000 years ago to about 20,000 years ago. This race is known as the Neanderthal race. About 20.000 years ago, this race was replaced by the Cro-Magnon race. ana THE remains of the Neanderthal and Cro-Mag-non cultures, weapons, utensils and art objects, as well as many skeletal remains, are found all over Europe. Very early skeletal remains are extremely few. Europe boasts of two. There is the skull and jawbone found at Piltdown, Sussex, England. Anthropologists consider this a sort of pre-man or “dawnman.” It is estimated he lived 100.000 years ago. The oldest near-human skull is from Asia, however. It was found in Java. The case for Africa is much strengthened by the finding in 1921 of a skull in Rhodesia. “Rhode* man,” as he has been named by the anthropologist*, had a more primitive skull than Neanderthal man. It is also pointed out that the two types of ape which mostly nearly resemble man, the gorilla and the chimpanzee, are both found in Africa. i f #

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BY DAVID DIETZ