Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1925, Page 21

NEARBY MARYLAND ELECTS 3 MAYORS Owings, Hyattsville; Schafer, Riverdale, and Bovay, Mt. Rainier, Chosen. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILL May 5.—Council- man Irving Ow a Washington and Prince Georges County business man, was elected mayor of Hyas yesterday for a term of two succeeding Mayor J. Frank Rus He had no opposition In the first ward Councilman Lemuel L. Gray was re-elected for two years without opposition. second ward Councilman G Morley was elected for two v Norval H. Spicknall was ele one year to serve out the unexpired term of Willlam Moore, resigned. In the third ward E. B. Tea for two vears. In Riverdale Mavor John H was re-elected the fifth wa ed councilm: Kneessi In the hafer In s elect William D. mination man J Coun. and declined r rd ward Counc McDonnell was re-elected cllmen from the first, second fourth wards hold over. Fight in Mount Rainier. There was a lively contest in Mount 1 three-cornered figh ment ed Ne ed Weber. 3 Weber, Ma Negus . tion paper in time to have his ed on the official ballot and employe, ) us and former Mayor 208, 1z name pl; those w his name or In the first ward, defeated former Coun A. Pruitt by a marg . Rosenfleld receiving 110 to Pruitt's 108. In the fourth ward _former Councilman John A. Weiler defeated Councilman B. E. Sager to 53 The sidewalk loan of $20,000 was spproved, the vote being 391 to 162 First Election Held. Cottage City held its first election since incorporation, the comm serving the fi S. Oppliger an been named, under thi charter, by the citizen: to serve for one vear first regular election Leighton declin s election and his place Up['hgvx Teelected without Clabaugh was re-elected to and Dr. R. W Balcom 4, succeeding A. T. Robinson. H. B. ROBINSON IS NAMED TO INCOME TAX OFFICE Is Made Head Returns Audit Division; W. L. Heap Promoted. sioner of Internal Revenue appointed H. B. Robinson head of Consolidated Returns Audit Division, effective May 21, suc- ceeding L. T. Lohmann, resigned, and W. L. Heap to be ant head of the same division, succeeding P. F. Cain, who has been transferred to the office of Deputy Commissioner of the Income Tax Unit Bright Mr. Lohmann has resigned from the of Consolidated *service to engage in private business in Washington. al was elected | ®* |of Almost Complete Fossil of Manlike Ape Found in Limestone. Discovery Centralizes Hunt for Birthplace of Human Race. BY PROF. RAYMOND A. DART. Written Exclusive! for The Star and the North - American Newspaper Alliance. During November, 1924, there was brought to me by one of my students the fossilized skull of a monkey still partially embedded in limestone. This skull had been taken away from the lime cliff at Buxton, nine miles west of Taungs, in Bechuanaland, South Africa, as a souvenir by Mr. Izod, one of the directors of the Northern Lime Works, which is at present operating this huge lime deposit. The deposit, which has the reputa- |tion of being perhaps the largest in |the world, is one of extraordinary purity (97 to 98 per cent), but here |and there in the solid face of the lime | These represent old |which during the cours ages have been entirely sand said to have been carried into {the formation by underground river |action from a long distance a Inquiry elicited the fact that from the earliest period of working lime, about six or seven years ago. sim- discovered from , together with many |1imb bones and even fairly complete The request was made further bones should be vestigation. By ne of those queer tricks of fate dur- the following week some blocks tone containing traces of were blasted out and preserved by diligent_foreman named de Bruyn. These relics were brought to the ty of the Witwatersrand by . Youns, professor of geology. Entire Face Revealed. One of these pieces of stone 1 immediately recognized as the cast of vity of a creature which was closely Yelated to the largest living | of a group of creatures long since ex- of untold bone | | |occur patches of lime-infiltrated sand. | es in the lime | filled up with | | | SKULL OF MONKEY INDICATES MAN’S ORIGIN IN SOUTH AFRICA & JONANNESBURG STAR PROF. RAYMOND A. DART. Below: Skull of “Missing Link.” anthropoid apes, but more intellfgent than th his cast in stone of the creature's brain case was found to fit accurately by its front end into one of the larger rock fragments, so one recognized the facial skeleton of the creature must be present in this solid block of limestone. 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Bedding made of new materials cannot be built or bought for less. Write for a copy of “Restful Bed- rooms”’ to The Simmons Company, 666 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. SIMMONS attresses-S Beds prings BUILT FOR SLEEP tinct, but which were more human in features and in brain power than any anthropoid apes now living on the face of the earth. ‘Why is it that so simple and so ap- parently haphazard a discovery 18 of interest to sclentist and iaymen alike? Why is it that amongst nu- merous and seemingly more vital sci entific discoveries the imagination of all humanity, skeptical or believing, is gripped by the Taungs infant? It is because every thinking man and woman has welghed through many hours the perplexing problems of “Whence have I come? What am I doing? Whither am I going? and it is because, amidst a myriad of philo- sophical hypotheses, sclence provides concrete and tangible evidence in an swer to the first of this fundamental trinity of inquiry, that youth and man alike eagerly scan the writing in the rocks. More Like Man Than Ape. Just a_century ago Charles Darwin entered Edinburgh as a medical stu- dent and began those studies which were destined to have a greater repe cussion upon humanity th: of any man within historic by bringing mankind to the reco nition of their evolution by the oper. tion of natural laws. It is fitting thaf the centenary of his entry upon a medical career in one of the older universities of the Far North should be commemorated in a medical school of one of the youngest universities of the Far South by the discovery of an object presenting crucial evi- dence, 8o far as mankind is concerned, in support of his staggering assump tion. The data upon which the conclusion rests, that there existed in South Africa_at a remote epoch a creature more human than any known ape, living or fossil, and yet not human, are largely of a technical nature. The difference between man and the apes is quantitative, not qualitative. With Shylock, they might s an ape eyes? hath not organs, dimensions, senses, passions? fed with the same food hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cool ed by the same Summer and Win i So, too, Taungs—but with adc that his resemblanc closer with man t {Tis manlieiapslenniatan emphasis in are mainfestly n those of his ath n'H" ape cougins, seeing that his forehead was more vertical, his carriage more | erect, his hind-limbs better adaptvd for carrying the body weight, his fore limbs more capable of catching and throwing objects, and, in consequence of all these characteristics, his brain a better organ of intelligence, balance and dexterity. It is in these matters that Aus- tralopithecus Africanus has an in- terest for all. For the sclentist he holds added, special interest for a number of reasons. In the first place, | his remains, though few, are the most complete of any fossil ape discovered. The natural brain cast of a forsil anthropoid has never before been found. Cradle of Man in South. The remains of the fossil apes known consist of a tooth, a fragment of upper or lower jaw, or 1 piece of a limb bone. In the case of Aus- tralopithecus, we have preserted, fortunately enough, the whole upper tace, all the teeth, most of the lower c/%lure produces no finer FRUIT-FOOD/ Serve Prunes q?en s E)rthezr quahties ] single discovery has done, in central- |far tran: izing the search for representatives of | sublimi this particular phase in human evolu tion. We know, in other words, where to look for the graves of our fore fathers, Thus, future search can be initiated with the profoundest ‘expectation of | success, since the whole of South m\ rending In grandeur and y the historical records of the civilizations of the North. (Co) (1925 in United States. Can ada a Bri by North American Nowspaper Alianca.” All Hgh Jaw, the palate and part of the ekull base. Most important of all is the dis- covery of a man-like ape form so far South in the African continent; be- cause a!l living anthropoid apes are confined to tropical countries and the highest forms of fossil apes found' reserved.) North Dakota, with lél per cen its population under 5 years of has more s per 100 inhabitants than any other State in the Union, | while the District of Columbia, with oniy 7 per cent, has the fewes previously were in India. 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