Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1940, Page 6

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O, TUESDAY, Science Congress Is range Evolution of Fauna ound in Eons-Old Lava Beds Told of Animals’ Developing Weirdly in South America By THOMAS R. HENRY. A weird and fearsome fauna in & world that came to an end in & doomsday of fire more than 320,000, 000 years ago was described to the hl:lchth Am% sc“l'-nu Congress ere today '~ Willlam Berry- man Scott of Princeton University, one of the world’s foremost stu- dents of extinct mammal life. South America was an islolated continent. A shallow but impassable sea covered the present Panama and Central America. Consequent- ly, Prof. Scott explained, the warm- blooded land creatures came into no contacts with their fellows else- where in the world and developed in their own strange roads of evo- lution. Meanwhile for long inter- vals there was free passage back and forth hetween North America, Europe and Asia, so that in the source- of milleniums the mammal life was forced into a common mould. In the miocene geological period, about 25,000,000 years ago, South America would have seemed to & traveler from the outside world like part of another planet. The story would have beeen lost entirely had it not been for a peculiar succession of events. Early in the miocene period the southern end of the continent was submerged under the Atlantic. It remained sea bottom for several millions years, during which severall strata’ of marine life deposits were laid down in its ooze. Invaded by Feroclious Marsupials. ‘Then it was raised above the sea. The bizarre menagerie or its im- mediate ancestors thronged into the new land from the north. There was none of the flesh eaters—cats, dogs and bears—of the north. Their place was taken ferocious, preda- clous marsuplals, vaguely similar to the kangaroos and similar crea- tures found in“Australia. The place of the hoofed mammals which roamed over the north in countless herds was taken by several families of creatures which had started to develop along the same lines but and diverged in" curious lines. Such were the marvelous entelonychias, herbage-eating animals with claws instead of hoofs. There were other species which imitated the three- toed horses of the north. There were also the bizarre astra- potheres, somewhat like the hippo- potamuses which were developing in the rest of the planet. The dominant creatures of all were ani- mals of the now primitive sloth family. Some achieved large size. Over the plains crawled great ar- mored armadillos. Rats were ab- sent, but tl}eir place was taken by creatures of the upine family, of which there wmone in North America at the time. Remains of 8 few monkeys have been found, all distinctly of the divergent South American type. Buried Under Hot Lava The skeletons of these creatures, Prof. Scott said, are preserved ex- cellently victims of a horrible catastrophe. Apparently, it is shown by the positions of the skeletons, great hosts af: Were Jburied alive in the hot lava which rained upon them. Finds Cause of “Mal de Pinto.” By inoculating himself with an organism superficially indistin- guishable from the germ of syphilis, 8 Mexican doctor has demonstrated the cause of a highly infectuous human disease widespread in Mex- ico and parts of Northern South America. ‘The disease is “mal de pinto.” As high as 10 per cent of all the inhabitants of some Mexican vil- lages have been found suffering from it. It is characterized by the appearance of red, white, black and blue patche on the skin all over the body. The malady was long supposed to be due to a fungus. Two years 8go for the first time Dr. Jose Alonzo of Havana obtained the syphilislike organism from a lesion on the body of a pinto patient. The experiments by which Dr. Leon y Blanco of Mexico City has now demonstrated the true nature of the disease were described to the medical section of the congress to- day by Dr. Salvador Herrejon of the Mexican Department of Pub- lic Health, The organism found by the Cuban physician was so close to the syphilis germ that it was impossible to tinguish the two. The fact that it was found in a pinto lesion proved nothing because the man might incidentally be a syphilitic. So far as Dr, Leon y Blanco knew he and some ,volunteers who as- sisted him were deliberately inoc- uhs:hw themselves with sypl 3 and those of his colleagues, how- ever, that they were willing to take the , chance. test wmtllmd. This is also ob- tained in leproay and several other Disease Is Curable. The pinto is curable, Dr, Herrejon reported, with essentially the same remedies used in the treatment of inadequite diets, especially diets low in proteins. Sporadic cases are found in persons with some other disease which interferes with the proper utilization of the food eaten. By tests of the blood serum, he said, it now is possible to detect the malady before there are any outward signs. The original maize, ancestor of the second most valuable agricul- tural crop on earth and the basis of one of the earth's greatest ancient civilizations, may still be growing in the lowlands of South America, declared Dr. P. C. Mangelsdorf of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Studies of the heredity of corn, he said, show that it must have come from some wild South Ameri- can species of corn, which was first cultivated by the highly ad- vanced Indians of Bolivia and Peru, probably thousands of years before the Spanish conquest. There it was crossed with another corn variety and spread in all direc- tions over the New World. The United States has 30,000,000 acres of elbow room left out of the supposedly limitless land resources at the time of the Civil War, John C. Page, commissioner of reclama- tion, told the congress. . The avallable water supply of the West, Mr. Page said, puts an arbi- trary limit of about 43,000,000 acres out of the 700,000,000 arid and semi- arid null 7hlch u:hrb: for general farming ugh irriga- Hon. Of this, 20,000,000 acres al- ready are included in irrigation jects and 2,000,000 more are be- g developed. . Already, Mr. Page said, a great inland empire has been created by reclamation, with a population of 1,000000 on 53000 farms and irt 258 new cities and towns. One- fifth of the cost has been repaid to the Federal Treasury. Continental Planning Suggested. Continental to prevent development of centers of poverty discontent was urged by Roberto C. Simonson of the Braszil- fan Institute of Geography and Statistics. Once such an area starts in any country, he sald, there are psy- chological barriers against a self- cure by migration to richer regions —the attachment to home, the ex- treme conservatism of rural popu- lations and the sapping of vitality, which lowers initiative. Also, he said, the population soon becomes 50 poor that it cannot move any- way. The remedy, he said, must be constant national surveys to detect centers of underpopulation and overpopulation and State-fostered internal migration movements. In addition, Dr. Simonson stressed, there should be international and intercontinental arrangements for large migrations. Van Zeeland Tells lowans Small Nations Look fo U. §. “BYthe Associated Press. e DES MOINES, Iowa, May 14— Paul Van Zeeland, former Belgian er, last t told a forum au-~ 06 here -Europe’s small ns- tions hope “the might of the United States sooner or later will be felt in favor of right.” ‘The crowd, estimated at 1400 by forum officials, applauded the state- ment. 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