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Show Old lskmmd jBSirl- llliWIi mum eMJ 'r' to ? xim jV m, h MWfC ?h A -WtQ Si I By JOHN D.CK.NSON SHERMAN. M LfW . LL the world seems to ar?." J '--7 mtM f-7zfT2 be turning topsy-turvy. hrc yJ OTl fUTvH B CM Just as if the great war . Ws- N Wl -4 Mm rIAm had not made changes JQI Ikl . y&mt! enough to satisfy the -yfv )y fr- J most prononunced feeling JUv-''V -V ' of what we call "un- f-V'. V""'" A rest," all sorts of people gg 7' -A--' JSJ limelight with all sorts of - ip iconoclasms. Hardly a day passes . without some iconoclast getting on the J f, first page. & ,i4 j U S - x r O For example, there's thftt German f & f MaIV V$ astronomer and scientist Prof. Albert ( ' j , Einstein, with his theory of "relativl- i V S r tv" This "relativity" theory is so 4 m, f 1 . Underfill that only twelve men in all i.. V' , the world are able to understand it, t , v s i it is stated. No wonder, it knocks a 1 , rf - t J i' established theories into a cocked hat. I A j g v , f f The Professor holds, it is generally ..Lft S fe - JI understood, that our ideas of time and nnee are all wrong and that Newton oA V GZZATZD CAUYX By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. LL- the world seems to fTTYTS be turning topsy-turvy. . Just as if the great war f 5a 1 had not made enanges VJgj enough to satisfy the SjSpBKSS most prononunced feeling 3gM i'est-" a11 sorts of People I J are breaking into the limelight with all sorts of iconoclasms. Hardly a day passes without some iconoclast getting on the first page. For example, there's thftt German astronomer and scientist Prof. Albert Einstein, with his theory of "relativity." "relativi-ty." This "relativity" theory is so wonderful that only twelve men in all the world are able to understand it, it is stated. No wonder, it knocks all established theories into a cocked hat. The professor holds, it is generally understood, that our ideas of time and space are all wrong and that Newton should turn over in his' grave and guess again at the law of gravitation. Then there's Marconi, the Italian who is so busy in the world of wireless wire-less telegraphy. He come forward with the statement that. Mars or Venus or some other planet is . running in signals on his wireless and is trying to say "Hello; Earth! Let's have a little talk!" And now jumps into the spotlight L. B. Larsen of Portland, Ore., author and theologian, who says well, anyway, any-way, his discoveries are calculated to shake our faith in the Bible, which nowadays is about the only thing a man can really tie to. bui uil u j-. facts by way of preliminary, as a sort of shock-absorber. In the State of California, on the Pacific, is the Cabrillo national monument. monu-ment. It was created October 14, 1913, by proclamation of President Wilson, under the act for the preservation of American antiquities approved June 8, 1006. All regular, you see; here's something, moreover, on which the president and congress agree. Cabrillo national monument was dedicated ded-icated by the United States to the people because it is believed to be on the identical spot first sighted by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo September 28, 15-12, on his voyage of discovery of the Pacific Pa-cific coast. Vasco Nunez de Balboa, first of Europeans to see the Pacific, gazed on it from a high peak of the Isthmus of Panama in 1513. Cabrillo was the first of Europeans to see California Cali-fornia from that same Pacific. To be sure, Hernando de Alcaron explored the mouth of the Colorado in 1540 or thereabouts and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was exploring Arizona and x-,-,t r.-i nhnnt the snme'time he may even havi got as far as Kansas but Cabrillo national monument is a sort of Pacific ocean Columbus' AVat-ling AVat-ling island. This American Southwest had Its own civilization long before the Spaniard Span-iard "discovered" It so long before that the prehistoric people who lived In its cllfE-dwellings and pueblos bad vanished before his arrival. Nobody knows who they were, where they came from or what became of them. Excavations In Mesa Verde national park in Colorado, In Bandelier national nation-al monument in New Mexico and In other regions abounding in prehistoric ruins, have so far failed to solve ths mystery. That they had progressed quite a way on the way to civilization is evident. They made clay utensils, wove cloth, constructed stone buildings, build-ings, had ceremonial structures, practiced prac-ticed Irrigation, used cold-air refrigerators refrige-rators and lived under a community organization. And now this L. B. Larsen of Port land, Ore., author and theologian, throws all this interesting past into the discard as modern aud unimportant. unimpor-tant. Of the Cabrillo national monument monu-ment he says "pooh, pooh,'" T,nd of the cliff-dwellings "tut, tut." This American Southwest, says L. B. Larsen of Portland, Ore., author and theologian and he doesn't care who knows it is the Biblical land of ; the Children of Israel, and the history of the Old Testament took place right there. ' Ami what's more, Mr. Larsen of 1 Portland, Ore., has written a book to 1 furnish proof that what he says is the truth. The title ot tne dook is xne Key to the Bible and Heaven." Mr. Larsen says, by way of starter, that Adam and Eve were the original Argonauts and the progenitors of the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West. The Garden of Eden was in the present State of Missouri. Noah,- says Mr. Larsen, landed on a Cal'fornla mountain, after the flood. Strangely enough he makes no mention men-tion 'of the mighty Paul Bunyun. Of course, it is possible that he never heard of him, being an author and theologian, and not a lumberjack. Now, this boss logger of all boss loggers, log-gers, Paul Bunyun, is the very fellow who got out the timbers for Noah's ark. Maybe he caused the flood. A writer in the Saturday Evening Post used Paul to bolster up a piece of fiction only the other day, and spoke of him thus: "The contract, as everyone knows, called for the delivery of gopher wood. But old Bunyun was something of a shipbuilder himself and he knew gopher timbers would never do. So i,o oonrr-hprl the whole world over and finally decided that Oregon fir was best "suited for Noah's purpose. "At that time, as you will remember, the Cascade mountains and the Sierra Nevadas formed the unbroken western shore of an inland sea that extended eastward to the Rockies. Bunj-un discovered dis-covered that the level c.: this inland sea was much higher than the level of the Pacific ocean, so he set the Big Swede to work digging a ditch through the Cascades. The Big Swede, as loggers log-gers know, is Bunyun's foreman and has charge of all the log drives. "When the ditch was finished today to-day folks call it the Columbia river Bunyun was ready with his logs. It took the best of his white-water boys to handle that drive, for the rush of water from the Inland sea carried the logs out to the ocean In a great hnrrij nnd created such a tide that fhey had hardly time to gather the logs into n raft before they found themselves In Noah's home port. "Some cf the scientifically inclined - loggers like to argue that this sudden draining of the inland sea caused a slight shifting of the earth's center of gravity and that this shifting caused the flood about which Noah had received advance information." Los Angeles, says Mr. Larsen, is the site of ancient Jerusalem. Sodom and Gomorrah were in Utah. Mount Whitney, he says, is undoubtedly undoubt-edly Mt. Sinai, and Moses is buried at its base. Mount Whitney is in Tulare county and marks the eastern boundary of the proposed Roosevelt national park, to be created out of a greatlv enlarged Sequoia national park. .. i will ip n So Roosevelt nauouai double memorial. Arizona is where the Israelites so-lourned so-lourned while awaiting the return of Moses. They had their headquarters either in the Grand canyon or at Casa Grande Grand canyon is now a national na-tional 'park and Casa Grande (Great Building) is a national monument. Mr Larsen shows that Israel's twelve tribes occupied practically all the Pacific coast from the Mexican border to the Canadian line. The' tribe of Simeon lived around San Diego, it seems, spilling down into Mexico and the Gulf of Lower California Califor-nia Judah occupied the domain from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Levi made headquarters at Bakersfield, and Benjamin flourished near San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Ephraim's territory extend -d up well toward Eureka, and Ruben and Gad spread out over the regions of Nevada and the eastern border of California, Cali-fornia, while Asber, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh and Napttali and Dan lived in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, respectively. re-spectively. There seems to have been two Dans, for we find one occupying the const just west of Bakersfield, about wher- Paso Robles Is now located. lo-cated. The writer also clears up a moot question, in that be has fixed definitely the ground covered In that time-honored phrase, from Dan to Beersbeba. He says it represents the distance on a crow's line from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to the Colorado river. Notwithstanding the fact that L. B. Larsen, author and theologian, lives In Portland. Ore., and should therefore be more Interested in Crater Lake and Mount Rlanier National parks than in Sequoia and Grand Canyon National parks, Californians will doubtless hasten to deny that his book Is "Just some more Southern California literature," litera-ture," concocted with the id"a of Increasing In-creasing the tourist traffic. To this denial de-nial other parts of the country will presumably pre-sumably say. "Ha, ha." for -the Ingenuity In-genuity and persistence of the Golden state booster Is a household word in America. |