Show Who Discovered America By Frederic J. J Haskin Dr Sofus Larsen librarian of the tho University of or Copenhagen and a great student of history has made a remarkable discovery in his among ancient Portuguese and Danish Danish Danish Dan Dan- ish archives archives He has hu discovered that John a a. Danish sea captain landed upon the shores of America In 1476 G sixteen years be before rare Colum Colum- bus J. J Christian Bay Day head of the medical reference section of the Crerar library Chicago who has haa Just translated the results of Dr Larsen's Larsen's Larson's Larsons Lar Lar- sens sen's research work Into English states state that the maps documents and Journals which Dr Larsen Iarsen has unearthed unearthed unearthed un un- are conclusive evidence th that t John lohn voyage Is the first recorded recorded re re- corded discovery of or the western con con con- n- n It Is generally believed that various various various vari vari- ous Scandinavian navigators had ce Leon n North America or some of the Islands near it long long Ier before rc the h age of or Columbus but this has never I boon been proved Dr Larson claims to to have proof positive of voy voy- age If this Is so o and anyone who hears the story from rom the scholarly ir Bay finds It hard to doubt it It makes a pretty state slate of affairs over hone here To be perfectly logical we ought to change the District of af Columbia Columbia Co Co- I CO-I lumbia to the District of we ought to have a a. Ohio andas and ancI andas as for some of af the national an anthems th s However people are never I an perfectly logical so this momentous momentous' momentous j d discovery eo so exciting to the savants will probably not make the slightest I stir among us We Ve have worked up upa a lot of quite Justified sentimental fondness for Columbus and It would be hard for anyone anyone t to get our sym sympathy athy a- a thy or even our neutral h hearing lg for Cor any Columbus controversy We feel leel about Columbus as the manin man manIn manin in the Shakespeare Bacon controversy controversy contro contra versy felt about the playwright playwright playwright play play- wright when he Well sald if Shakespeare Shake Shake- Shakespeare speare didn't write his plays they were wore written by another man named Shakespeare Nevertheless S it Is fascinating to muse upon old aid voyage suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly coming to light after more than years And i it is especially especial especial- ly fascinating to sit In Mr Bays Bay's small study among ancient tomes tames and exquisite bits of illuminated parchment and hear his voiced mild-voiced worded quaintly-worded story of the Danh Danish Danish Dan Dan- ish h pilot It would seem that it all began sr r with Henry the Navigator a j J prince and a strang strange monk monk- like figure in history This Henry was a man of wisdom and great organizing organizing or or- ability He surrounded himself with a group of adventurers explorers and fanatics and spent his life trying to find the ends of the world One of ot his greatest ambitions ambitions ambi ambi- was to reach India by sailing around the Cape of or Good Hope Ater Al A- Alter ter nineteen attempts he h bcd b- b ed cd this Then as he had a y that he might roach reach another art fart of ot India by a northwestern P pas ge e he wrote to his brother in ChristIan ChristJan Christian Christ Christ- ian Jan the king of or Denmark and asked asked ask asked ed him for tor his help In an expedition lon from Denmar He seat two Portuguese uese noble noble- mo meu 11 em and Co cal eal the El Elder l-I l der deC by n name me to rep ent him O Othis on this voyage and C Ch tah uh ah selected a promising young youngea a C CP Scalf or to to pilo C fr I s o 0 I nl fJ I their wa way It was a jour journey JQ oney o ney that they undertook b butt bufe they seem to have been peril loving men men in those days It would have been bee i difficult ul enough to cr cross dross Ul tie the South says Bays Mr Bay but to pilot a small caravel across the Arctic OC ocean n i required both courage and and g meat cat t skill Evidently John had both these traits He lie steered his little craft across tile ocean to Iceland passed the coast of or Greenland Green Green- Greenland land which he MW but did die not lanH upon and then through b ice filled w waters tere ugh and unknown n he cameto camo came to the coast of ot and the themo mo mouth th of the St. St Lawrence Larence river John journal shows him to be Devery very taciturn about his hla ery rr He lIe mentions that they have nave oo e to Lo a land laud where there there are ninny 1 trees tree tree and where tire the natives hunt hUDt game gamo by bT moans means of or white fal Cal cons con After ascertaining these plo pie facts be he turned around anA came carne back to D Denmark and 04 no so nomore more la Is heard of him The two Portuguese nobl noblemen en however were won more impressed kith what they bt lied had r discovered covered dI They hurried harried bac bacr back r- r to report port to Henry the Navigator only to find that he had died in their absence One Doe help being for poor Henry He tie would hao been boen so 80 thrilled at the new now via via- b tall tal for exploration which this discovery ery err opened up to him Also Aba If it he ho had lived the wh whole le early history o of ot America Amerl might have havo been de dW deferent r f ferent e c r on t aa as he Y wo would l not have havo ave let th the ne new continent f f I f res rest t. t in n peace f t I For some this Is what tho two Portuguese did did The They reported report report- ed the results of f their voyage voyage to Al Alfonso Alfonso At- At fonso Henrys Henry's successor but they seem to have made little of the newland new newland newland land and to have havo kept the discovery of it secret either for political reasons reasons rea rea- sons or because they hoped t to use their knowledge for private gain and the time Ume were not then propitious for them to exploit the new land Whatever the reason they dropped dropp dropp- ed out of sight with their secret Ham em never to appear r again and not until Columbus had hadj r j landed after his third voyage Then however old bestirred I himself He Ho wrote a letter to AlI Alfonso Alfonso Al Al- fonso which is one ono of the most important important important im im- I documents in Dr Larsen arsen's L 1 array of proofs In it he asked for certain ln gr grants rights and privileges r in the new land and says saS that he heI I 1 wants his two sons to go over and rediscover rediscover rediscover re re- discover the continent which he had discovered twenty years before This letter lotter says Mr Bay Day was probably the first attempt to form a universal American trust Alfonso granted his bis requests whereupon he promptly died I His two sons went over aver tu IU 1500 and reached the coast of L. Labrador rador the part of the country comment the Portuguese se archives whore previously people came from the northland led by the Captain Jonn Joan One of the sons died there and the other after returning to Portugal set out again and was never heard from It is thU fing out of the family of accounts for the fact that discovery of Amer America ca dropped from sight in the i ment of or other and more mora widely heralded heralded heralded her her- voyages It is not relieved of ot course that tha Columbus Knew anything anything anything any any- thing of or the earlier trip to the western western western west west- ern continent so he may still be regarded re reo regarded as a discoverer of America although according to La Mr Ir flay Bay and other students he i. i is not the er era Little is known off John fohn except that he was a arave rave brave seafaring ing tag man His name or an W ancient Norwegian one meaning meaning meaning mean mean- ing man that lives in the outer a is appropriate in another sC se as well He exists now only anly c o n the ou o ou te r border barder of mans man's conte con- con s. s He has the shadowy mythical stence which the distant e Undiscovered lands he helped to find formerly hn hae had In fact In-fact n act for or hundreds dt af f years he wad w wa f hP non existent except li Jn n the old oli archives which Dr tf-arsen tf has Just brought to light I I gain i i S. he be stands for one of the he most ro c qualities of the human race hat urge which drives men on ugh gh any hardship or danger farther Into the unknown It ItIs ItIs Is Mr Bays Bay's hoary that mans man's discontent discontent dis- dis content with life around him his desire to find a happy Island or ar a virgin land wb ere can begin all over again eyed erad by his own mistakes mis- mis tak takes s and his his are the real driving forces forces' 4 which urge men over the earths earth's s 8 sy If It this is so so It may be that tha America America is not realy discovered dis covered ye We Ve have ha e made theland the theland theland land ours but but- bu not nat until we have made It the the happy country which so J my In tn mens men's hearts will tin tiffs IJ e America have been j J pj Ta eap I f fi I I SE SENATOR AT n LAFOLLETTE BOLTS BOATS S THE TIIE REPUBLICAN i p PLATFORM Senator Robert Rabert M. M La Follette hasI has I bolted the the- platform of the Republican I can has nothing to ever eTer on Harding or Cox personally although the Democratic platform I comes in for a drubbing with tho the thoI I Republican platform The state- state 2 I wont mont is jg a signed editorial in La Fol- Fol magazine under the caption The Old Part Parties lea Have HaTe Failed I The statement Indicates La Follette Follette Fol- Fol lette may yet lead a third party I movement tuo Popular government cannot long endure in tn this country without an ani i aggressively y progressive party deI de- de I 3 Glares clares Senator La Follette allette I j Tho Republican and Democratic t conventions oa Jus juns ron lu d dr dc rn- rn n- n I strate strafe that both bath the parties are com com- j 1 c controlled through political i basses bosee b by the great special In m ereaU eresta i and that Tho 1210 election of at either of Oi j I their candidates a dictatorship dictator dictator- ship hip of plutocracy and political and andI 1 1 I industrial servitude for tor the great graft mass mau of people I Neither Ne of these tb parties tot for years yean t e has willingly admitted a new or Idea into the policies of or orthe the national gat government They have shamefully deceived sad ud ruthlessly lyl betrayed the voters who ha have given them power Having HaTing no other ther pair pur- I pose Ose than to protect the monopoly v powers t eL t the tho t h 0 gr great fin cats t to New cats ts which are l r. r r the state famous elery honey boncy scene- scene on an Page Seven I 1 have joL 1 in permitting the mercIless merciless merciless merci mercI- less OX of or the people and andare are are rapi ly the the freest freest and most mast be beneficent government In the world in into into 0 a tyrannical despotism I Ihy Acts Acting Ac t. t g In vicious accord accord dictated hy by y their financial masters through the gr greatest test teet lobby labby ever assembled in I II I Washl Washington the Democratic and I J lican parties Joined in n the on- on en 1 I i act sent of the infamous Cum Each r. r mitts miriS l railroad bill the bill the crime of I n which 19 which has paralyzed transI transportation transportation trans trans- I stagnated industry del deI demoralized de de- l I moralized credit and an an thrown hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of af thousands of workers out of employment It is the deliberate and announced ed e-d intention of both the Democratic parties to mortgage and Republican I Ithe ithe the earnings of labor and and Industry of I this an and many future generations to pay this debt with interest added which will wUl far exceed the principal rather than to compel won war-won wealth to bear Its due proportion of at this fearful burden Had we adopted adopt adopt- ed od the policy of conscripting wealth in the late war as we did men there would have been no enormous bond bondI issues no currency inflation and no I unconscionable profiteering |