Show 1 TUESDAY T Y EVENING MA MAY 1 Fireside Science I By Ransome Sutton I Copyright lix I CN N. N T. T Kv World lre Co WERE INDIANS AND CRO CRO- MAG BROTHERS That all alt the races of ot mankind belong be belong be- be long to one and the same species Is evide evidenced ed l In may ways ways mot most conclusively con con- perhaps by the tIle observable fact that even the most moat remote racial types may Intermarry and produce fertile fer ter- fertile fer- fer tile of offspring lip ring Belonging to the same species J therefore therefore there there- fore tho the races have sprung from the same ancestral stock and it follows that those early humans lived together In a a. common home land Thos Those early humans and their their- savage descendants all aU lived by hunting man hunting man did not turn fisherman until the discovery of fire lire rendered nth fish food edible From the primordial home land home land tribe after alter tribe strayed away after migrating herds and many tribes never round found their way back The dispersion dispersion dis db- dis- dis I Is ill thought to have ha begun during dur dur- ing the pliocene time it is Js still going on on for tor the descendants of 01 those ancient an an- anI I dent clent tribesmen are still spreading over I Canada Australia and all the tho wild 1 lands remaining in the world The land home-land lay somewhere along tho the shoreline of ot the sunken continent of equidistant from western western west west- em ern Europe and northeastern Siberia Assuming that the ancestors of ot the Cro and the ancestors of ot the Indians left let the old home land about the same time the thai former would be expected to reach western Europe at about the time the latter should ar arrive arriVe arrive ar- ar rive at the easternmost part of or Asia As a a. mater of or fact the none did find their way Into the wilds of or France simultaneously with the arrival arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar rival of ot the Indians in North Amerla Amen Ameri ca a The lea Ice ag age was e ending the tho world was a growing f ga warmer r and the glaciers f were receding Keeping step with the receding glaciers l the reindeer which primitive hunters thought the noblest of or game retreated northward further and further season after season with tho the centuries Food skin garments bones rl upon which I to scratch C pictures antlers for use as weapons and tools tools tools- f all were l found und in the reindeer Herds of ot reindeer finally found their way out t 15 15 1923 of Asia Into Alaska s f followed n by the reindeer hunters The Tho tio Mongols did not arrive In ft is day but tribe after tribe and the process was not Interrupted until the tho Russians occupied Alaska From Alaska the tribes unconsciouSly unconsciously unconsciously seeking lines of or least resist resist- an e. e hunted southward The lines lints of or least resistance led them down the coast thence Into the interior through half a n. dozen mountain passes The tribes which finally populated Mexico Central America and South America probably proceeded along th the coast Into southern California where they were obliged ed to detour dolour to the eastward through h the San Gorgonia pass pus whereupon they entered the tho good grounds round around the Salton sea soa There one tribe left the tho hieroglyphics hieroglyphics hiero hiero- and another the stone fish fish- traps described In the last two arti anti cles des There they also left arrowheads stone weapons and many human bones As to the Inscriptions It may be said that If discovered In a a. European cave an expert would find It difficult to distinguish distinguish dis dis- dis ISI them from m Cro magnon f h sn chi ings Moreover r v a have been struck by the basic resemblance between these flint mow heads and ana stone weapons and those found In European European Eu- Eu caves Still Stilt more sl significant is the fact that the skulls and skeletal tal ml remains of ot those ancient Indians would be bo mistaken for magnon Cro-magnon remains If It discovered in Europe The trails which the magnon Cro Indian brother followed blindly ply because they were the tho easiest way are tho the very routes engineers have selected se- se for highways and railways Under Un der th the Southern o he Pacific cr railroad i ithe and the parallel highways which lead from the west coast into Mexico and the Southern states tate lie the trails which early Indian tribes seeking the easiest way followed as far as the vanishing sea where they made their marks an and i passed on into happier hunting I grounds |