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THE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAND, MAT 20, .1921
ADAM WAS NOT
SCIENCE;
Geology, Taleontolgy, Anatomy
BY REV. GEORGE H. BENNETT.
Pastor Patton Methodist Church.
Iclonce Flndi Adim Not Primers! Msa.
Theological Conflict With Revolution
fc,naea.
J I I In bis monumental work, "lien
' of the Old Stone Age," throws
nteresttng light upon the problems
ind early history of the human fam
:y. He shows- that western Europe
ias been Inhabited by various species
f mankind for 100,000 years, and Is
he oldest center of human habita
ion, as proven by continuous, un
jroken records. These conclusions
ire based upon four great factors In
:he study of prehistoric times, name
y: Geology, paleontology, anatomy
and archaeology.
No evidence of the direct relat'on
ship of man with the ape haa ever
been found among the fossil anthro
poid apes, nor among the living
species. There is evidence, however,
of the descent of man and the an-
inropoias irora a common ancesxraa
siock. ro evidence or fieiocene man
or of his ancestors has yet been dis
covered in Europe. The first appear
ance of man was In the Pleistocene,
which followed It. From the earliest
Paleolithic era of human art to the
Neolithic era, western Europe did not
produce any new species of man by
evolution. The origins and evolu
tions of tbe earlier and later
branches of the familv tree had their
eat In southeastern Asia. The suc
cessive species of mankind migrated
to the peninsula of Europe along the
great animal trails and routes of mi
gration. Primitive relatives of the
four living species of anthropoid
apes the gibbon, chimpanzee, oralis;,
and gorilla have been discovered
there; and as man and the anthro
poids may have been branches of the
same family tree, we may reasonably
look to that part of Asia for the an
cestors of the human race.
S2S.000 Tears Covered.
The entire glacial epoch is esti
mated to have extended over a period
of 525.000 years, known as the Pleis
tocene age. There were four periods
of glaciatlon In the glacial epoch,
with intervening warm eras, called
tnterglacial ages. Men of the Paleo
lithic area of culture. Including the
lower and upper Paleolithic, and each
revealing four distinct types of art,
are now known to have lived from
early In the third interglaclal age
onward in time to the end of the
postglacial era a period of time cov
ering, by conservative estimates
based on the four great sciences
mentioned above, a hundred thousand
years.
Looking backward to the beginning
of postglacial time, estimated at 16,
000 to 25,000 years, several races of
men belonging to Homo Sapiens the
modern species entered western Eu
rope. They included the Furfoox
Grenelle race, migrating into central
Europe from Asia; the Brunn race,
from Asia by way of the Danube; the
Cro Magnon. coming via tbe Medi
terranean coasts, and the Grimaldl, a
Iregroid race entering from Africa.
Remote in time many thousand
years before those races of Homo
Sapiens appeared, the Neanderthal
group of races occupied western Eu
rope. The Neanderthal, Heidelberg
uu Aruiij unncuea oi max group De
longed to a species of man distinct
from Homo Sapiens. Camps and rock
sheltered stations numbering 50, be
longing to the era of Mousterian art
In the fourth glacial period, and 57
of the more ancient Acheulean art.
belonging to the middle of the third
tnterglacial era have been identified.
Neanderthal Group Characterised.
The skeletal remains found at Ne
anderthal. Spy, Krapina, Le Moustler,
La Chapelle and other stations have
so many distinctive features in com
mon they surely belong to a closely
related group. It is worthy of note,
(1) certain features were found
which are also found among existing
races of men, lut not among anthro
poid apes hence they were human;
(2) features, all of which have never
been found combined in any modern
race nence the group represents a
distinct species of man; and (3) fea
tures outside the limits of variation
found in recent man, and interme
diate between them and the varia
tion limits of the anthropoid apes
suggesting that man and the anthro
poids were branches of a common an
cestral tree.
It is Interesting to note that the
physical structure and proportions of
the Neanderthal man differed from
the modern species of man. The head
was very large tn proportion to the
height. The lower leg was much
shorter In proportion to the length
of the thigh. The forearm was quite
short In proportion to the length of
the upper arm. The Neanderthal man
was Inferior to recent man in' the
structure of the hand. The neck also
differed, as the concave curvature of
the back extended upward into a con
cave curvature of the neck, as seen
among anthropoids. The Neanderthal
species therefore had stooping shoul
ders and neck. Moreover, he could
not stand erect like Homo Sapiens; as
the formation of the knee Joints was
such that the knees bent forward and
were not erect. The teeth also dif
fered from those of modern man. In
some types of Neanderthal man the
roots of the teeth did not taper to a
point, but were columnar. In the
Krapina type the molars had no nor
mal roots, as they had been more or
less absorbed. The Heidelberg type
bad very large pulp cavities in his
teeth. The La Chapelle type had
distinctly human teeth, but of unu
sually massive size, corresponding
with the jaws and skull. The chin
was receding and rounded, totally un
like the chin of modern man. Tbe
receding, rounded cbin of the Nean
derthal group ranks midway between
Homo Sapiens and the anthropoid
apes yet Is clearly human. Those
men of a far-distant geological era
were contemporary with the mam
moth, woolly rhinoceros and saber
toothed tiger, and like them have
been extinct many millenniums and
were swept away possibly by similar
causes. The chinless species of man
dominated western Europe during a
period of immense duration far
longer than has been the sway of
Homo Sapiens, who entered that re
gion at the beginning of the upper
Paleolithic era some 25,000 years
. ago. Thus have the early branches
of the family tree withered away, to
be supplanted by more fruitful
branches.
Ad ant Not a Neanderthal Man.
Adam was not a member of the Ne
anderthal group. He did not belong
to the chinless species of man, but
was a member of Homo Sapiens, like
ourselves. The chinless Neanderthal
group of races occupied the world,
not centuries, but geological ages,
before the days of Adam. Biblical
chronology assigns him to the year
42000 B. C.
Moreover Adam was not the
founder of Homo Sapiens, the re
cent species of mankind. The records
of civilization in Egypt and Baby
Ionia also carry us back thousands
ef years before, the Adamic era.
These aao facts taught at the present
PRIMEVAL MAN, SAYS
THEOLOGICAL CONFLICT ENDED
and Archaeology Prove That Biblical
rounder of the Human Species, Declares
time In our schools and colleges.
They can no longer be Ignored, but
must be recognized by the theologian.
The story of Adam in Genesis must
therefore be given an interpretation,
if possible, which harmonizes with
these facts. This is our purpose in
the present discussion. Geology,
paleontology, anatomy and archaeol
ogy prove that Adam was not the
first representative of the Naender
thaj group of races; and history and
archaeology prove that he was not
the founder of the modern, or Homo
Sapiens group. Adam was not the
founder of the human species. His
has a greater distinction. He was
the first man to whom the penaliza
tion of Gin, and the reward of virtue
were made known by the Creator.
Adam was the first man to receive
the promise of a divine Redeemer.
(Challenge of The Church Bennett.)
Holy Lands Testimony Given.
Ancient records unearthed In the
ruins of old Babylon, recently de
ciphered and Issued In "Sacred Books
and Early Literature of the East,1
throw much light, upon the antiquity
of mankind. A record consisting of
12 columns of kings and their reigns,
dating from the Creation Is given.
Six columns are obliterated, and only
fragments of the others remain. In
the first column, 16 lines of which
are missing, occur the names of 13
kings whose aggregate reign was
8787 years, twe being 900. and two
1200 years, respectively. It is ana
logous to the list of patriarchs in
Genesis, seven of whom attained ages
from 895 to 969 years. If the Mosaic
record in Genesis be held authentic.
this list of patriarchal rulers from
the dawning of civilization may also
be held authentic It is, moreover,
related that archives were kept in
Babylon, covering a period of 150,000
years; and from the flood to the time
when the Medes took Babylon, 86
kings reigned during a period of
33.091 years. During the Median era
123 kings reigned 1575 years, to the
days of King Pul (775 B. C). These
old records assign the fldod to a date
some 35,000 yearsB. C. This Is in
teresting, as it places the flood back
In the post-glacial era, a time of
flooded streams and melting contl'
nental glaciers. It suggests a rea
sonable explanation of the flood
which overwhelmed Mesopotamia In
the long ago, an event handed down
to all nations In the crude epics of
barbaric poets. These documents are
extremely Impressive, as they sug
gest the vast antiquity of the human
family, which was entertained by the
oldest historians, to be in accord
with the findings of modern scien
tists. who assign the earliest traces
of mankind to the third interglaclal
perioa.
The ruins of Nippur, said to be the
oldest city of the earth, lying near
tne junction of the Tigris and Euph
rates, have yielded to our view the
library of King Sargon L Inscrip
tions prove his reign to have been
as early as 3800 B. C. This date
was substantiated by King Nabonidus
of Babylon, who uncovered a cunei
form cylinder, left by Sargon I while
laying the foundations of the first
temple. The school book tells us
Babylonia was already civilized at
4713 B. C, under the Accadlans; and
Menes, the king of Egypt, erected a
great temple to the god Ptah In the
year 4455 B. C.
Adam Lived la Iron Age.
Adam belonged to the recent creo-
logical age, and to the Iron age of
human culture. He was not pre
historic Genesis assigns him to the
year 4000 B. C Adam was a member,
as are his descendants of the present
time, of Homo Sapiens the latest
species of man. No relics of Homo
Sapiens have ever been found in the
geological strata of the third inter
glaclal era. with the relics of Nean
derthal man. No Iron weapons or
implements have been found with the
rude stone relics of that primitive
race of men, of that remote era.
"The range of the Paleolithic cave
dwellers was as wide as the habit
able globe. Traces of their presence
occur in caverns from Yorkshire to
Gibraltar, from France to Syria, and
across the Pacific to America."
(Story of Primitive Man Clodd.)
Professor Flinders Petrie declares
Egypt was inhabited in' the "stone
age, about 5000 B. C, by a white race
having fair hair and blue eyes. They
built houses of brick, and were even
more artistic than the Egyptians of
later times. Their dead were coated
with bitumen and buried in brick
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE
BY ETHEL R. SAWYER.
Director of Training- Class, Library Asso
ciation o Portland.
THERE'S a. new book out by
Charles S. Brooks called "Hints
to Pilgrims." It has not yet
been our good luck to see it. but It
is a safe gamble -that there will be
"something different" from the time
honored "hints." For those who like
books with a distinct personality
there has not been anything more
delightful for a long . time than
"Chimney-Pot Papers,'-' "There's Pip
pins and Cheese to Come" and "Jour
neys to Bagdad." Mr. Brooks sailed
on May 1 for England, where be will
bicycle his summer away over the
English roads. "Oh. to be In England
now that April's there!" Still. I won
der if England's petrol smells any
sweeter than the standard variety.
And that's about all a cyclist can get
on our roads smell and dust. A trip
up the highway resembles the pre
paredness tragic-comedy staged by
the great powers the text of which
seems to be "We don't care where
we're going, but we're going to get
there first,"
Chekhov In his "Letters" writes
thus to one of his friends on the
spirit of youth:
"Moscow, March 20. 1890. Your
heir apparent- sits up late, not be
cause he has a talent for Journalism
cr a love for his work, but simply
because his father is an editor of a
newspaper. The difference Is vast.
He ought to have been a doctor or a
lawyer. Only those young people can
be accepted as healthy who refuse to
be reconciled with the old order and
foolishly or wisely struggle against
It such Is the will of nature, and it
is the foundation of progress, while
your eon began by absorbing the old
order, and that's a bad sign. He ut
ters a listless and Indolent protest;
he soon drops his ' voice and soon
agrees, and altogether one has the
Impression that he has no interest
whatever In the contest; that is. he
looks on at the cock fight like a spec
tator and has no bird of his own.
And one ought to have one's own
bird, else life is without Interest."
After you have made your final
Jump to safety for the day and have
retired to slippered ease and a state
of devout thankfulness for one mort
24 hours retrieved from the maw of
our modern juggernaut. Just to relax
vourself you may like to read F.
Hedges Butler's "Fifty Years ''of
Travel." Mr. Butler is a motor en
thusiast and he owned one of the
very early cars dating about 1897.
Try to project yourself back into
those peaceful days. He says: "To
get It etarted was a work of art. For
Character of Genesis Was Not the
.Minister.
vaults sunk tn the ground. Such
mummy, having red hair, was found
in one of these tombs -a Neolithic
jrrave. with pots and flint lmple
ments. That race bore the traditional
name, among the Egyptians, of Ter
hennu. They lived prior to the age
of iron in that region.
"Short implements of the true
river drift' type have been unearthed
'in place' In Quaternary stratified
gravels near Thebes, Egypt, and In
other places. In the valley of tn
Nile; and in the diamond fields of
South Africa, Paleolithic forms o
sto le Implements have been exhumed
from diluvial strata 40 to 60 feet
below the surface of the soiL" (Races
and Peoples Brlnton.) ' The Paleoi
lithic culture of Thebes long pre
ceded the age of Iron. Professor
Clodd says further: "Tools and
weapons of the drift and caverns
have been found in the alluvials o
the east, the brick-earth of Madras,
the river gravels of sacred and
classic lands, by the sea of Galilee
and along the valley of the Tiber
In fact, in well-nigh every explored
part of the world from China to
Peru." It appears to be established
beyond question that men ol tne
stone age occupied Egypt, Palestine
and the valleys of the east in the
geological ages, long antedating the
modern era, Adam and the Iron. age.
- Genesis Mentions Pre-Adamite.
Genesis plainly teaches that the
pre-Adamltes were in tne world in
the days of Noah. Chapter 6:1-2, 4-5,
reads: "And it came to pass when
men began to multiply in ,the face
of the ground, and daughters were
born unto them, that the sons of God
saw the daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them wives
of all that they chose. The Nephllim
were In the earth In those days, and
also after that, when the sons of God
came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bear children to them; the
same were the mighty men that were
of old. the men of renown.
Who were the sons of God and the
daughters of men? The sons of God
were not angels, for Jesus declared
"the angels neither marry nor are
given in marriage. The sons of God
were descendants of Adam and were
members of the "inspired" race;
while the daughters of men belonged
to some other race, aborigines; Moses
calls them Nephllim. The Nephllim
were first mentioned here by Moses.
because be would show the Israelites
that intermarriage of tbe "inspired"
race with the aborigines was the
cause of Jhe corruption and violence
rampant in the antediluvian world,
which led to their destruction by the
flood. Moses therefore forbade the
intermarriage of the Israelites with
other peoples, as it would corrupt
the "inspired" race and lead to their
destruction.
Theological Warfare Ends.
Genesis takes up the story of
human life with Adam, not with
member of the Neanderthal, chinless
species of mankind. He was a mem
ber of the latest species of the human
family Homo Sapiens. But he was
not the first and original member of
Homo Sapiens, for this species of
man occupied the earth In post-gla
cial times, thousands of years prior
to the age of Iron. Was Adam born
of human parents or was he a spe
cial creation of God? Vou may de
cide that question to suit yourself.-
Your salvation does not depend
upon It.
But the overwhelming fact remains
that Adam was not the product of
evolution. Whether the first man of
the family tree was produced by
evolution remains to be determined
but Adam was not the first man,
hence he was not a product of evolu.
tion. The church need no longer
oppose evolution, as it is removed
from this problem. .
Moses gave the Hebrew slaves tbe
allegory of Creation, that he might
awaken in them the pride of an
cestry, and arouse in them a national
spirit, and teach them to worship
the Creator. The literal interpreta
tion of the Creation story Is no longer
tenable. In view of many recent dis
coveries and the church must not
cling to Indefensible positions. The
allegorical interpretation is both
scientific and orthodox, for belief in
Adam as the founder of the race of
man Is not an article of religion, nor
is It necessary for salvation. The
removal of evolution from the prob
lem of human genesis, equals in im
portance to the church the solution
of the earth's motion by Galileo.
quite a considerable period we were
only allowed by law to drive at a
speed of 14 miles an hour without In
curring the risk of a heavy fine or
Imprisonment. We never started
without taking provisions In the car
to the extent of at least a box of
biscuits and one or two bottles of
dry sherry. It was also necessary to
have a bag for a night's lodging, as
one never knew at what time one
would arrive at the destination.
Breakdowns were frequent. .
In those times there were ho radi
atorsonly water jackets. Brakes
were made of camelhair. which
burned through, and the cars would
then run away down the hills."
The prize offered by the Macmlllan
company for the best-rhymed review
of H. G. Wells' "Outline of History"
was won by John Strong Newberry.
Mr. Newberry's other claim to fame
Is the translation of two plays by the
French poet, Paul ClaudeL The prize
review consists of seven stanzas, of
which the first one follows:
Deep in the blank abyss of time.
When earth was only cooling; lava.
Life raised from intertidal alime.
Frail beings, glutinous as tua'va.
Which, forming- skeletons and gizzards
By complication of their cells.
Brought on the age of giant lizards.
Whose sags historian is Wells.
"Anywhere but In England It would
be Impossible for two solitary men,
howsoever much- reduced by influ
enza, to spend five or six days in
the same hotel and not exchange a
single word. That Is one of the
charms of England. . . . Our mu
tual aloofness was a positive bond
between us."
". . . . Just as In an American
town, one goes sooner or later goes
against one's finer judgment, but
somehow goes Into the dime mu
seum. . . . (Oh. Eden Musee, what
sufferings and reproaches hast thou
brought upon thy countrymen!)
"Good luck Is the unconscious wis
dom of those who In previous incar
nations have been consciously wise."
Appetizers! These samples come
from Max Beerbohm's "Seven Men,"
one of the genuine contributions to
tbe literature of our day.
Theodore Maynard has accepted the
chair of English literature at the
Dominican college of San Rafael. Mr
Maynard Is an Englishman wbo,
though guiltless of Celtic blood, waves
the banner of Irish freedom. He Is
a poet who can deliver a political ar
gument with the precision and logic
of a trained advocate. He is a con
noisseur of toasts (witness his "A
Tankard of Ale"), yet he has elected
to become a resident of our "western
Sahara." Several times has he pro
longed his original lecture-tour visit,
and now he has sent for his wife and
two children, with whom he has set
Maynard's first novel, "The Divine
Adventure," and a second volume of
verse. "The Last Knight." have re
cently been published.
A Nursery Tracedy.
I have not forgotten yet
Skin that chokes like mignonetba.
I. who drank myself to death
With the apples of jour breath.
iHUdeg-arde Flanser In the Bookman.
Little Willie in blue sashes
TraJik up papa's apple mashes;
Darling little Hlldegard
Didn't know his breath was hard
So before her mama spied her
Hilda was a sulclder.
Keith Bresion. Chicago Daily Newa
But our version of the affair is:
Much we fear It was not skin -Hilda
choked on; neither death
Dealing batteries of breath.
If the truth we must Impart
(Heaven be tender with her sin!)
Hlldeg-arde got drunk on art.
Hist! Blue lights and an atmos
phere of great secrecy! A most amaz
ing literary discovery Is about to be
brought to light. Many, many years
ago. When Martin Van Buren. one
time presirent of these United States,
was nea.rin.g- his end, ha set himself
to the preparation of his autobiogra
phy. Had it been published in his
lifetime it is said that the politics
of his day would have been dynamit
ed. Probably his day was much more
susceptLble to dynamite than we are,
for the number of high 'literary ex-
plosives (so advertised) that have
been released into our era ought to
have blown out all our old stumps
and prepared a whole new soil for
20th century tillage. After the smoke
settles, though, we Beemed to be
cheered by the same old landmarks
battered a bit,- maybe, but still rooted
fast. Well, be that as may be, any
way, Martin Van Buren s autobiog
raphy" has come to light after nearly
100 years, as a report of the American
Historical association for the year
1918, published by the government
printing office at Washington in 1920.
You can't buy it at the bookstores.
but maybe if you are tired of govern
ment seeds you might ask your con
gressman to get you a copy or, bet
ter yet, buy one from tne govern
ment. They say it is very good
worthy to stand alongside the Frank
lin and the Washington diaries and
Grant memoirs, as genuine historical
material, telling about our infant na
tional years.
w m
When Elsie Ferguson's new film,
"Footlights," comes to town, we all
want to go. Christopher Morley of
the New York Evening Post's "Bowl
ing Green" column and Don Marquis.
the "Sun Dial" of the New York Sun,
are playing as extras in this picture.
suppose being newspaper men
they'd have to appear as "extras." ,
"Many times the reading of a book
has made the future of a man."
Emerson.
WORLD'S HOTTEST PLACE
Resident Nominates South Wazi-
ristan, Afghanistan.
SOUTH WAZARISTAN, Afghanis
tan. When, unkind reader, the edges
of your temper get a bit frayed.-you
may possibly consign your triend to
a very warm place.
I admit I have not been there.
But I am writing to you from the
nearest approach to It that this world
can contrive.
If you open a map and find the
Indus, then put-your finger 20 miles
west of its middle, you will be on
the spot to-wit. South Waziristan
(In eastern Afghanistan, on the bor
der of the northwest province of In
dia.) The heat of India is child's play to
this. It is an enveloping heat, for it
not only comes scorching down from
the skies, but, as it were, rises from
the ground as well, until even bad
conductors of heat seem almost red
iot. -
Thus when your thoughts turn gen
tly to summer holidays by sea,
moorland or river, we of the desert
are calculating how many more weeks
we are to spend In the fiery furnace
that is, until October.
The gateway of the country Is a
tittle wayside railway station called
Darya Khan. From there a pony car
les.' bumps and thumps you across
16 miles of sand, until suddenly a
fringe of trees on the horizon marks
the site of Dera Ismail Khan city.
unaffectlonately known as Dreary
Dismal."
In non-flood months the Indus Is
rossed by a bridge" of boats, but
when the Himalayan snows melt, the
streim and the currents are 60 strong
that a motor launch takes from 5 to
hours to cross the river. And some
times even longer, though you may
be almost across it under the hour.
Almost, but not quite. That last
hundred yards may literally take you
ours, and this is not a travelers
tale, but sober fact.
In due course you will proceed into
the heart of the country. Your last
Ight of Dreary Dismal will also be
your last sight of green.
After that not a tree nor a blade
of grass will gladden the strained
eye or the heated head.
You look for relief from a breeze.
When I arrived I was told that a
torm was coming up, and in the in
nocence of my heart I rejoiced. The
storm turned out to be of sand the
last drop of rain had fallen six
months previously and darkened the
sky as if night had suddenly taken
us unawares. Within an hour a thick
crust of yellowness covered every
thing impartially bed, food, clothes
and my body as welL
Sandflies and mosquitoes complete
the tale of heat.
Most people know about mosqui
toes, but sandflies are less known, ex
cept on the frontier of India. They
are Just like little floating smuts, and
it seams Impossible that they can be
living organisms, but impossible only
until you've experenced their irritat
ing, fever-giving bites! Thereafter
your dearest wish is to convert them
from the living to the dead.
Lest perhaps this picture appear to
be too black, it is only fair to men
tion that there is a better side.
The blistering, scorching summer
is followed by a perfect winter.
Cool nights and days and bracing
air compensate largely for wiiat has
gone before In this very hot place.
Correspondence of London Mail.
Taming the Tiger.
(Psychoanalysts haa bees recommended foi
naughty babies.)
Parents, however meek and mild.
Must sometimes be censorious
To spare the rod and spoil the child
Is far from meritorious.
When Infants make the welkin ring
At periods somniferous.
And make a habit of the thing.
They quickly grow pestiferous.
A not too homy human hand.
Applied with mathematical
Precision, makes a baby bland
When fractious and fanatical.
Later the child will proffer thanks
Sincere, not hypocritical.
Provided the parental spanks
Were psycho-analytical!
. I. Roberts in Bystander, London,
Waste Fish Are Used.
NANAIMO. B. C. The plant of the
New Fish Meal & Oil Refinery,' cost
ing approximately $40,000, with an
additional 315,000 for machinery, has
commenced operations with a capa
city output of 20 tons daily. Five
tons of fish produce one ton of meal
and 50 gallons of coarse oil suitable
for machinery. Only the coarsest fish,
dogfish, sharks and other non-edible
varieties, are used. v
The Next War, by' Will Irwin. E. P. Dut
ion oe lo., new xorK cuy.
Will Irwin was quite active as a
war correspondent In the late world
conflict, and from his never-ceasing
activity In that direction was award
ed the title of unofficial "ace."
Apparently, Mr. Irwin saw an of
war that he desired, and now he
comes to argue in this clever little
book of his .that there is a stxte or
condition of "let us reason together,"
in a dispute, before actual warfare is
begun as a mode of effectual settle
ment.
Mr.-Irwin Insists that the United
States ought to take the leading part
as the strongest and wealthiest na
tion in averting the next war.
We shall not strike at the- root of
wars until we organize 50 or 60 sov
ereign nations and self-governing
colonies of the world somewhat as we
organize individuals n a tribe or
state or nation. In plain, human
terms, they must get together, pass
laws to define and forbid national
murder and rational burglary and
agree to punish, with their collective
force, any violator Of that law,1
writes our author.
This book is not a plea for or
against the existing league of na
tions. Call . your organization
league of nations, an association of
nations, a Hague tribunal 'with teeth
in It call it what you will, organize
It how you will. This is the specific
for the disease of war. But while
we wait for this inevitable organiza
tion to form and to become effective.
we may use a few pain killers and
poultices. .
Among . these most important is
disarmament a pressing, vital ques
tion of the moment. Behind the pres
ent agitation lies a compelling eco
nomic motive. Europe cannot re
cover If she goes on with the old
race for armaments. An agreement
to limit armies and navies to the
point where they cannot be used
aggressively can probably be en
forced. The uncharted moral opinion
of democracies is perhaps powerful
enough to secure a rough working
agreement until we get something
better. It cannot be done . without
the leadership of the United States.
Such partial disarmament will
serve not only as temporary allevia
tion; it will be also in the nature of
remedy. Whatever movements set
the nations thinking positively about
peace, whatever forces them into co
operation instead of competition,
makes toward their final, complete
understanding. Finally, it will pre
vent the psychological drift toward
war which comes with perfected
armaments.
I am not preaching for or against
tariffs. But they can be so drawn
as to take unfair advantage, to work
injustice against some given nation.
The tariff is no longer purely a
domestic question. We must draw
our schedules no longer with an eye
solely on immediate national pros
perity; we must consider them also
in the light of good and just inter
national relations.
Some kind of International agree
ment concerning the distribution of
raw materials seems necessary to
permanent peace. No longer should
any nation or conibinatlon of nations
be allowed to monopolize any im
ported raw material.
Some Internationalization of ex
port capital seems necessary to per
manent peace. This may come
through an association of nations; it
may come before that association Is
effective through action of the great
flotation houses, Most banking mea
want peace; war Is too disturbing,
armaments are too costly. But in
strategic control of the -world's finan
cial interests before the war were too
many ruthless adventurers allied
with the military an i financial ad
venturers. Banking also was caught
in a wheel. There are the signs that
sober sense is coming into this
business. '
"Last, but not. least, we Americans
have it in our power to abolish that
secret diplomacy' which, everyone
agrees, makes toward wars.
"Yet, we, the citizens of the world,
shall not find that the organization
of law between nations is enough in
Itself to keep peace; Just as within
the nations of the world law alone
is not enough to prevent crime and
establish order. We need the law;
we need also personal ethics inter
national morality. By the forces of
light which- we have churches,
schools, all associations of men for
spiritual and Intellectual ends we
need to strengthen the belief that a
state, ' including your own, can do
wrong, that between nations there it
such a thing as live and let live,
that humanity Is greater than mere
race."
The Kingdom Bound the Corner, by Con
ingsby Dawson. Cosmopolitan Book Cor
poration, New York City.
A new book by Conlngsby Dawson
Is an Important event in current liter
ature. In the late world war he be
came an artillery lieutenant in
the Canadian army and was severely
wounded in France. His war books
had an immense Bale.
In the "Kingdom Round the Corner
Mr. Dawson has written his first real
novel since the war and all the people
he has created In the novel are after-the-war
types. They are mostly all
English army men who have first been
demobilized from the army, or as the
English have it, "demobbed."
There Is a lasting personal pleasure
In the reading Of this stealing story
of character and love-making. The
novel is one of the best of the year.
Its people are fashioned with won
drous skill and in their conversation,
they tell the story.
The two heroes are Lord Taberley,
otherwise called VTabs," who had
joined the army In 1914 as a private
and was demobilized as a lieutenant
and Braithwalte, valet to Lord Taber
ley, in 1914, who also had joined the
army as a private soldier and was de
mobilized as a brigadier-generaL In
the battles in France, Braithwalte
had the reputation of never having
lost a yard of trench to the Germans
and was called' admiringly "Steely
Jack."
Now, In 1914. when the new army
went off to fight the Germans, Taber
ley and Miss Terry Beddow were in
love and understood when the war
was over that they were to be mar
ried. Braithwalte and Ann, a domestic
servant In Taberley's house, also were
lovers and expected to. be married
when peace came. In the fighting
Braithwalte forgot to write to Ann
and she supposed he had been killed.
In March, 1919, Tabs finds himself
at liberty from military duty and die
covers that Terry, his sister-sweetheart,
had borrowed and was using a
war-office- auto from a General.
Braithwalte. Tabs has reason to sus
pect that Terry and Braithwalte are
In love and Terry is astonished to find
that the man who has stolen his
sweetheart is none other than his
former valet.
The changed social status, class
against class, and the attempted as
sumption of aristocratic caste, are all
sketched with marked ability.
Here is one of Terry's speeches:
- We saw you men 'march away; you
seemed lost to us for ever. Everything
seemed at an end. So we did what you
did chose one man -who would embody all
our dreams and become especially ours.
There wasn't any always.
And then the horror stopped and we found
ourselves with a man on our bands.
We women have been spendthrifts too:
we've given away mora than was wise
"B-rcXascFH rfAeouEEN.
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Copyright, Underhlll, N. Y.
Sara Teasdale, a New York poet,
is honored.
little bits of ourselves, not always to the
one man sometimes In the wrong direc
tion. But which is tbe right direction?
Peace has turned the world upside
down. We're walking on our heads:
A lot of us are unfaithful for the moment;
it's a symptom of our Illness.
We're all convalescing.
Braithwalte proposes to Ignore
caste and insist on personal merit and
worth. He addresses Sir Tobias Bed
dow, Terry's father:
Tou cheered us and Jeered us Into go
tng because you were frightened. Tou
handed us white feathers If we hesitated.
You promised that If we should share our
lives with you you'd go 60-50 with us on
your financial security. Tnere wasn't time
to have deeds of agreement drawn up; we
took you at your word. And what a lie
It was! Why, I passed a blinded officer
today In Regent street peddling shoe laces
If you see a man in uniform today, youi
unspoken thought Is, "Fod God's sake take
It off!' I tell you Its all wrong. It's that
kind of ingratitude that leads to revolu
tion. You talk about the brutality of
war; It's not a patch on the brutality of
peace. You treated men's lives as yours
while the danger lasted, but you Insist
that your possessions are your own, now
that It's been averted you reassert
your privilege to despise us. Tou stuff
your fingers 'in your ears and talk about
caste. , Tou're llvinar In Intallv
altered world of' whose very existence you
are content to be unaware.
Lady Diana Dawn had been a fel
low-nurse with Terry in France. Lord
Dawn was killed in battle. Lady
Dawn was considered to be the most
beautiful woman in England.
Terry confesses to Tabs that she
loves Braltbwaite and the latter vows
he loves Terry. Tabs, left out in tbe
cold, pays dubious attention to Mrs.
Maisie Lockwood, who had lost her
three husbands In the war. Tabs was
just about to propose to Mra Lockwood
when one of the latter's husbands,
Reggie Pollock, who had been a pris
oner In Germany kindly appears and
he and Mrs. Lockwood are reconciled.
Braithwalte tries to evade his re
sponsibility and promise to marry
Ann, and Terry sometimes thinks she
loves Braithwalte and sometimes
Tabs.'
In the three-cornered puzzle a new
solution is unexpectedly found. The
working out of it Is a surprise and
who'd-have-thought-of-it event.
The Owl Taxi, by Hurlburt Footner. George
H. Doran company. New York city.
One Gregory Parr, an enthusiastic
New Yorker, is the hero of this novel.
Just as he is about to go to Europe
he changes his mind and becomes the
owner of an ancient taxi. On opening
the door of tbe taxlcab he is sur
prised to find a dead man there. Tbe
taxlcab driver who had made the
deal with Gregory had In the mean
time disappeared with the purchase
money.
Other exciting adventures mostly
around New York happen In chrono
logical order. Scenes change to the
fanciful republic of Managuay, and
the heroine, a red-haired girl. Is quite
interesting.
A smart, amusing novel. '
Sara Teasdale, Poet, la Awarded Prize.
Sara Teasdale. the distinguished'
American poet, has just been awarded
the Brookes More prize for 1920. The
Judges were Robert Frost, Professor
John L. Lowes of Harvard and Fro
feasor Katherine Lee Bates of Welles
ley, Mass. The poems receiving the
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