Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 71

| ,[Record ILLUSTRATED FEATURES MAGAZINE SECTION Fhe Swnday Staf FICTION AND HUMOR WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1926. Part 5—8 Pages Y COL. JAMES CHURCHWARD. ent reports from France that land in the Atlantic Ocear » be rising o and may be th of Atlant 1z to mind the terrible h swa only Mu seems 1 sur inent appearing Atlantis but in the Pa dow ist e of land. I ind Lang troyed b: earth’s been due tc belts und I'he ar th re in rold of an floor now hey we gizantic upheavals rust, which may ormation of long ound tory of | especia wiherland of man, is indeed From {t we the mystel of t ith Sea islands v one of th destrue of Mu runge arn hov in the solved, and sreatest civili mid-P: ind W Hrgoa e . there of is confirmation counts in other ancient ma Ramay i his it a n atan. It speaks West,” using Mu that we find i nd it describes continent tten references to Mu c ‘odex Cortesianus the s: n be found me date the there are ex ruins w the and v are decor nt of Mu, a 1h 1l of mother some land the Cook ine group, there ns of old stone which take us back to the of Mu. At Uxmal, in Yuc ral America, a ruined today rems Cer lost con | cataclysms | the of | have e South | S ; Continent of Mu, Called “Motherland of Man,” Believed to Have Been Doomed by Successive Upheavals, Beginning Per- haps About 10000 B.C.—One of World’s Greatest Civilizations Indicated by Sacred Tablets and Manuscripts in Burma, In- scriptions in Latin America and World-Wide Similarity of Certain Ancient Symbols—Sixty Million Inhabitants in Area || Five to Six Thousa Still other 1 Mava book | nd Miles Long. Excavating & colossal monolithic statue inscriptions commemorative of the ““Lands of the West, whence we came. fous Mexican pyramid southwest of Mexico City was, according to its inscriptions, raised as 4 monument to commen e the de struction of these same “Lands of the hears Carried American Oysters And Little Necks to France! December 2 PARIS RUNIER has been buried from the church in the Paris resi: dence quarter where so many Americans live, and where he had just opened his new res- gaurant for them. He was the second f the name and the ori; Al r's” still flourishes wh it been for 50 years, near the church of the Madeleine by the Grand Boule: va It the th a name worth rememberir sake of Americans cooking of good American food for The English he place fyom the beginnir an War of ench k up ter the Franco-Prus use they eating. Then idding for the the United them, Serip »anish-Americans are have fo s b vhat th Ar ind he Brazil wa th more er have not made the door squeaks e they size up they present prises tour- the door, from s leading to the | an open sea-food ind shell fish and all Prunier had ideas and so who had bheen cook in a 1t family of that imperial three years in small they opened their > and concentrated on had a steak or chop noble Russian pa at the English, who cannot t red meats, found the rest of All ons took Kkinds in of to their ul liking, different to have different w finally, to the cooked and uncooke Prunier and his wife mq more concentrated Middieton, who was a cor for London newspapers du the Paris siege, and n 1y had his ®oot blown off by a shell in the Com mune as he peered round the boule 4 corner that historic eatin; the Maison Doree, nched at Prunier’s from the start irs ago an American lady of delphia had me re for a mid fter-theater supj ovster ed American fashion ¢ with champs ] ind then th 1k have long bee 1 Paris who have them It was the younger Prunier who did Phe most to develop the growing of American ovsters in Irench waters 1d of importing them, and the' ng of them cooked in Paris. Cook in ovster is still unheard of in provinces, and yet oysters are 1 in profusion all over France. ve is an immense coast line, with v beds, under the direct super of the French government. They of many kinds, some dear and ®wome cheap, and nearly all smaller than the American oyster. Perhaps that is why the French, who are so thrifty in using everything eatable, have mever applied their cooking ¥alent to oysters. Mussels are eaten everywhere, Stewed in their shells with their broth. But oysters are swallowed by French men raw. with a sauce of chopped onions, ofl and vinegar or with lemon juice or with their own juice from the half-shell ixcept for Americans in themselves v food. They w o the it is e the them, and 1 s hich 1d washed Iinehes ind Americans patronized e suppers. not sentiment or Paris do not interest much in American nt to sample French cooking, and Prunier gave them that also—and oysters, too. None of the other Paris restaurants seem to have succeeded in this, although American fpatrons crowd them. In the Cafe de la Falx, last week, 1 had oysters baked curiosity, could un- | fter, as | told me that | cream and has kept to nism. ational |on the half-shell, with | cheese sauce. Prunier's | more 100 per cent Americ The younger Prunier took a interest In oyster growing in quite apart from his establishment in Paris having become one of the big st sea-food centers in the world. He president of the General cate of Oyster Culture and vice sident of the Technical and Scien tific Office of Sea Fisheries and vice president of the Association of Oyster Industries. His government decorated him for his services to France and her food. He did something else—he suc- ceeded in domesticating in French | waters the little neck clam of Ame I have called his family establish. nent a ‘"Delmonico” for the Americ olony at Paris. It is like the Ital Swiss who came long, long ago New York and for two generations taught the uses of good Kuropean cooking. I ought to say that a Paris hotel has now its own restaurant in the Avenue de 1'Opera, named “‘Del- monico.” Prunier's had 50 vea to become known, and we wonder if the future will keep up its very genuine American traditions in a kind of cook- ing which we have made our own. The “Average” Aviator. LL normal adults under 45, who have not lived a purely sedentary | life and strained their eyves by close | work and are not unusually nervous, should succeed in hecoming average rs, according to Wing Comdr. S. Rippon of Great Britain. The super-aviators are individuals possessed with what is popalar known as the “‘flyving temperament, cientific American. They have zood “hand: their reflexe: re rapid and acurate, and they have a sort of instinctive foresight T n be detected by the defective medic mination erratic lander who suff vision: the individual who faints at altitude, those who get dizzy and lose control in a spin. those whost vision is dim at night and those who are unable to stand fatigue. The British Air Ministry examination every six inly if in perfect physical condition do pilots receive the “B" certificate in | which the public and insurance com- | panies have confidence. Nothing will sromote safety in flying as much as a 1 system of the sort. Pilots may at tests in which they insists on months, and ble rod at the end, or where they quired to stand on one leg with | their eyves shut. But skilfully made | and interpreted these tests are almost infalliable in determining the sort of men to whom ships and passengers may be safely intrusted. Fuel From Dust. I¥ vou pump cornstarch with air into an inclosed tube and ignite the mixture with an electric spark it will explode. Recent government experi- ments have shown in dust great explo- | sive energy going to waste. It is this that is utilized in a new fuel an- nounced recently, according to Popu- lar_Science Monthly. Fuel made from dust or scouring not only will make use of waste ma- terial, but will reduce a big potential fire hazard in manufacturing plants, explains W. A. Noel, an engineer of the bureau of chemistry of the De- partment of Agriculture. It would solve’ the problem of cheap fuel for factories, he adds, for it may be used in_steam or gas engines. Wood. metal, leathers, chemicals, cork, rubber, sugar, grain, cocoa and cinnamon are but a few of hundreds of products from which the inflamma- ble dust may be obtained. Probably the most powerful of all dusts is that of aluminum. while grain dusts are available in the greatest guantities. b ind_comprise | from | ow Emsb;cjr Iglam,gl/- West.” Also consider the| presence today Islands of the “white” natives men tioned by Frederick O'Brien | Fourth, there is the universality of | certain old symbols and cu discovered in Egypt, in Central America and other seats ancient civitizations. These symbols and customs are so nearly identical 'to make it certain they came from a common source, Mu | It is not possible here to give more | than the bare outline of the scientific upon which the story of Mu] but I shall be glad to furnish such details as may be called for by students interested ni the matter. ey we on must Burm: | basis rests, ITH this background, then, can follow the tale of the de- struction of Mu and, by analogy, of | Atlantis, if we imagine ourselves back twelve thousand, or perhaps fifteen thousand, vears. We find that the continent of Mu was then a vast stretch of rolling| country extending from mnorth of | Hawaii to Easter Island on the south. It was from five to six thousand mile in length, and some three or four| | thousand miles broad. We do not| know whether it was one undivided area of land, or whether it was split up by straits into two or three parts. From the many inscriptions which speak of “the Lands of theWest," however, it seems that Mu was in reality composed of three areas of | land separated from one another by { narrow channels. In this pleasant land lived s lions of human beings at a high stage of development. In many ways their civilization compared favorably with ours. They were for the greater part @ white-skinned people, exceedingly handsome. if we are to believe the cords, with dark eves and black hair. | These \white-skinned ones dominated | | a lesser number of vellow, black and | brown inhabitants. Many generations before they had adopted & system of monarchical gov- ernment. There was but one religion. It was the worship of the deity through symbo and its creed in- cluded a belief in an immortal soul, which eventually returned to ‘the Great Source” from which it had ome. Their high priest was called Ra Mu,” and became the representa- tive of the deity. | Great carved stone temples, } out roofs, served as places of w | They were sometimes called ‘“trans. parent temples, as the absence of a roof allowed the vs of the sun to| stream Into the interfor and fall on the heads of the faithful who were | praying to Ra, as the sun itself was | known. It wus considered to be the symbol of the collective attributes of the deity. These temples were magnificent ex- amples of contsruction, for the inhab- itants of the land had mastered many of the principles of architecture. Great palaces of stone, huge statues and monoliths were erected through- out_the country. The people of Mu were remarkable navigators. Even in this far-off time, | before the “historical . human beings were sailing all over the world from the motherland of Mu, planting colonies in the lands which we know today as Central America, Egypt, Mes- opotamia_and Burma. In fact, the whole world of mankind at this time owed allegiance to the great Pacific continent. Mu was the center of the earth’s civilization, learning, trade and commerce. How long Mu had been in existence we do not know for a certainty: but the time can be estimated at forty thousand years at le: While this civilization had been developing its culture on the surface of the land, nature had been working busily un- derground, hidden and unnoticed. The way for the great catastrophe was be- ing prepared. Gas pockets played the leading role. * ok ok ok HESE pockets underneath the earth’s crust filled only with hot gases, undermined the surface of the land. There were different systems of pockets. First came a series of iso- lated chambers, lving from 1 to 7 miles beneath the surface. They were connected with one another, but iso- lated from the next series, a mile or so below, which was in turn followed by ill another series, vast in extent, which stretched along at a depth of 10 to 20 miles or more below the 'cities of Mu. While Mu was flourishing, gas belts we xty mil- INDICATING PLACES WHERE WRITTEN RECORDS HAVE BEEN ROUND o LOCATION OF PREHISTORIC MONOLITHIC STATUARY WHERE ARCHITECTURAL AND MONUMENTAL $TONE CARVINGS BEAR GEOMETRICAL FIGURES RELATING TO MU =0 - o Chart of Pacific Oceaw before, the Continent of M was subwmerded. @) Great central gasbely; (2) the Pacific cross-belt system/. Diagram illustrating the geologi- cal condition of Mu befere the continent was submerged., Its foundations were undet- mined by avast series of gas-chambers. o cdntinent of M. o 2 SRR sterious Frehistoric Si3tues on EasterIsland, sup were being developed underneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean. They stretched In long, irregular lines for thousands of miles, and some of them | passed beneath Mu. Their gases pene- trated to the lower level of chambers which then became overcompressed. As a result, fissures opened in the roc the gases escaped to the next series of chambers above, and were forced from there through the rock again into the upper level. Still the enormous pressure Kept in- creasing. The gases had only one means of expanding—to tear through the earth’s topmost crust and rush out into the open afr. So one day, in a year which we can guess to have been about 10,000 B.C., Mu was shaken by fearful rumblings. The southern part of the country was torn by volcanic upheavals, and along the sandy shores great tidal waves rolled in and destroyed many a city. The volcanoes belched out their fire and smoke on a flat country, so the lava did not run for any distance. Instead, it piled up around the craters and cooled in the form of immense cones, some of which may still be seen today. This first escape of the compressed gases from underground Was not enough to wreck the entire land. The voleanic workings gradually ceased, the population resumed their former pursuits and in a few generations this ominous warning had been rele- #ated to history. this time it was a deel Gases from the chambers underneath rushed out into the atmosphere through voleanic spouts with deafening voars and huge tongues of flame. The chambers, now empty, had nothing to istain their roofs, which collapsed nd fell. Th irred throughout the extent of Mu. The whole surface of the continent collapsed and_ drop- ped into the empty chambers below. e calamity. The waters of the ocean rushed into the vast hole thus formed and in a short time nothing was left of this home of civilization except a few ridges of land still rising above the water level. These were the places that had had the good fortune not to rest on subterranean gas pockets, so the emptying of the chambers had not undermined their foundations. On these islands in the midst of Mechanical Eye. 'HE cigar industry is using a ma- chine which is almost uncanny in its “power of sight.” It automatically sorts cigars according to the color of the wrapper, and can distinguish be- tween 30 different shades of cigar wrappers, says Scientific American. This mechanical “‘eye” is_shaped like a small X-ray tube, with two terminals connected to a battery. One terminal is enlarged within the tube and heavily coated with potassium. The entire tube is covered by a light- proof case, and in the darkness no current flows between the two termi- nals. Light, however, activates the potasgium-covered terminal, causing an emission of electrons which per- mits current to flow. The eve is simply an electric switch, opened and shut by light and darkness. ‘Below the eve Is another chamber bulbs, shielded from the tube above. When the automatic finger of the ma- chine places the cigar in position with- in this lighted chamber a shutter opens a slit in the covered tube- chamber above it, and only the light which is reflected from the wrapper of the cigar is permitted to act upon the tube. Obviously, the darker the color of the cigar the less light will be re- flected upon the tube, and vice versa. The actual color of the cigar, then, de- termines the amount of current per- mitted to flow between the two ter- minals of the tube. And, since every color " reflects a_different amount of light, it is easily seen that the only limit to the color-sorting abilities of this machine lies in the minuteness with which these varying amounts of current, sent through the tube, can be detected and caused to operate -the Then the sec(\q@ eruption came, and ' containing four small electric light{ |]l"(h{lnl;»l] sorting apparatus. & a_turbulent sea the remnants of Mu's population huddled, waiting for the terrific quakes to abate. They had seen their temples and palaces, their ships and their roads go crashing down, to he swallowed by the ocean. Almost all_their fellow humans had been enguifed by this catastrophe. The few now left, all that remained of the Motherland of Man, the ruler of the world, were now destitute. They had nothing—no tools, no clothing, no shelter, barely a foothold of land, and no food. Around them hissed and steamed the boiling waters that had rushed into the fiery pit when the con- tinent sank. Only small islands were left. Some of them we know today as the South Sea Islands and some of their inhabi- tants can claim, as remote ancestors, the people of Mu. The destruction of Mu affected a wide area. Such an immense amount of water rushed in to fill up the hole left by the disappearing continent that the shoreline of the ‘countries border- ing on the Pacific was lowered to a considerable extent. Much new land appeared along the coasts when the waters of the ocean swept away to fill the gap left by Mu. This can easily be understood when it is re- membered that the destroyed conti- nent had occupled nearly one-half of the area now covered by the Pacific. The Land of Mu was not the only part of the earth’s surfage that col- lapsed during the period of upheavals. The land bridge over the Bering Sea Disclose Story of Ancient Lands West of America between Alaska and Asfa | similar fate. A narrow str | from what s now ‘\v)\f' northwest corne | South Americ | land route to Europe in the North At lantic Ocean, extending from America to Norway via Greenland went down, as did likewise n small area of land off the east coast of Central Amert. Then there celebrated disap | pearance of Atlantis, the mid-Atlantic | continent, which, at the time of its de. struction, had apparently succeeded the submerged Mu as the center of the world's civilization. Like Mu, it | sank beneath the waves when vol- | canoes erupted and the land collapsed into the treacherous gas chambers be- neath. uffered a running lifornia_down to Colombia The over Str;ng—e_&mays. "THE earth is being bombarded from | 1l directions and at all times, | says Science Service, by rays more powerful, more penetrating and of | shorter v sth than even the X rays and rays from radium { until now the t penetrating radia { tions known 1o science discov of what Acader Robert A the Nutional ces meetir Dr vs Milliken m ont of space, i horne evidentl reaches of th these newly discovered ra {vome to earth with a penet | Irast a hundred times greater th: | most penetrating X-rays which ¢ | produced in our hospitals. Wh X nn through half | inch of metallic lead. it takes six feet ad to complete bsorh these mic rays which Dr. Millken salc nd more penetrating h had before even beer cosmic The wave length of the shortest ¢ the “‘penetrating them, is_but | ordinary’ light. And lig | 1ength_of about one fi of an inch, which, so far as every dav rements go, seems nearly limit of minuteness. Whence e these powerful r Over five 3 | which took Dr. Milli | sistants to the | caused them to 7 | mosphere with welzht instruments Ilifted by smal | balloons, and carry on experiments | 60 feet deep in a snow-fed lake under the brow of Mount Whitney, proved conclusively these penetrating rays do not origir They ? | tion of chemi in the vast Milliken has cha “the upper at velous feather- at as in kno are taking place And the most prob le sort of nuclear change e e of an electron by the positive ucleus of an atom. Thus the pene rating rays are siznals of these cos mic transmutations sent to earth. To produce here on earth the pene. trating r: Dr. Milllken estimates that 10.000.000 volts or more would be necessary. and he holds out little hope of such accomplishment. Conse quently, for the present at leas application of the penetratin medicine and physics cannot be antlei pated. o as g zes involved ty on earth, through space. the is unately the amount of the pene trating rz reachi very small. Very electroscopes were n to detect the ray high penetration treated Xerays. wi e 1 Pre-Columbian Toys. 'OYS of the Ame; b re exhib placed on exhibi ethnology of the United Sta | tional i the papooses from | reveal that the redmen w toymakers and that their found delight in the same imitation of their clders taken into con v the manufacturers of ou Christmas amusement devices. While little Indian girls, th shows, could not hug the | walking and sleeping dolls of chanical age, they did have plenty oi dolls, with minfature tepees instead of doll houses, and little cradles to on thelr backs like the ones their mother carried them in when they were bables. Among these dolls is one of the tiny Eskimo which is a re: stuffed wild duck for baby to play with. Animal dolls were evidently popular among the Indians. An in genious beaver with a tail of leather marked {n imitation of the big flat tail of the real beaver was made Ly an Appapaho papa for his papoose. Cute little woolly buffaloes made out of dif ferent colored beads are shown Min iature elk and targets cut in the shape of buffaloes for little Indian boys to shoot at are also shown. There are horse dolls and one doll is 2 tiny horse belleved to have heen made from the skin of an unborn colt on account of the lack of seams in the delicate hairy coat covering the littl: wooden image. These presents wert sometimes exchanged when the fam illes went visiting. The exhibit i cluded material from Appapahos, S shones, Hopi, Utes, Apaches, Che ennes and other Indians. Earth’s Fate. HE ultimate fate of the svar sy« tem of which the earth is a pa: is that it will become two stars, one of them the sun and the other & ne: star made up of all the planets wiih Juplter as & gatii?nry point. This is the prediction of Prof. W. I MacMillan of the University of Chi cago upon the basis of mew math matical studies. Yet there is no need for immediat preparations for the judgment day, for Prof. MacMillan estimates that it will probably be some 500,000,000,000 years before Jupiter becomes a star and swallows the earth in the process of doing so. The reason for this end of the solar system and its conversion into & bi- nary or twin star is that the planets are actually growing, extremely slow- ly, of course. They are sweeping up the cosmic dust or nebulosity through out space somewhat as a snowball increases in size, and when the planets have gathered up enough matter they will be gobbled up by the largest of them due to the action of the laws of gravitation. The result is a star. A considerabls percentage of the stars in the heavens are binary, an! Prof. MacMillan considers it probable that many of them at ome time were inm sygtoms. can Indian tribes never ed have bee n the di on Museum. very