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Has the ape beco111c  tl1e  ''fc)rgottcr1  n1an '' <)f evo1l1ti.<ln! 
T h e   M)'Sterious  'tFl,ring  Saucer'' 
Pla11sihle tl1cories to no11sensc 
D a n c i n g   a n d   t h e   Bible 
The Biblical vie\\lpoi11t on 111odcrn dancing 
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CONTENTS 
Tolerance---·Missing in Action!  3  Dancing and the Bible 
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The Ape Ha5 Had Hhl  Day  5  Hi5tory of Mudern Dancjne  20 
Man's Ancestors MUnknown", "Extinct"  6  TIJ.e  BlhliC'a\ Viewpoint  21 
So Many Ways  o:t  Saying ''Ape"  7  Appealing Factor Le.eking  23 
The MY$terlous  "Flying Saucer"  9  Come  to New York-Let'$ Eat!  24 
Plau5lble Theories to Nonsense  10  ''Your Word  Is Truth" 
The Ant-eating 'Echidna  1'  Praying the Lord's Prayer  25 
Synthetic  Yams  13  Jehovah's Witnesses Preach in 
Dancing Through Antiquity  116  AU  the Earth-Nl&"erta  27 
Stngapol'f'  19  Watc-hing the World  29
"Now it is  high  time  to  awake."  Rolilana /9:11 
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Vo~ume XXXlV  Brooklyn. N"  Y., January  1959  Numb•~ 1 
TOLERANCE· Missing in Action! 
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In Puerto Rico  assaults,  guarantee  freedom  of  worship.'' 
Would  it  shock  you  to  know  that  the  Just how great is such a proposal of liber 
archbishop of San Jose ordered all  parish  ty! What  if  Christ  had  agreed  to  it?  A 
priests  to  preach  sermons  on  June  1  missionary quota:  He could have sent outt 
against  the  Costa  Rican  newspaper  La  say.  just  of  the  70  evangellstst  kept 
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N aci6n merely because it carried full-page  the others home in order to maintain peace 
paid·a  dvertiscmen ts sponsored by the Bap  with the scribes and Pharisees. . ...-Luke 10. 
tist  mission,  setting  forth  that  church's  Stop publicizing persecution:  Paul could 
concepts  of  the  Scriptures?  The  Roman  have  eliminated  2  Corinthians  11: 24-27 
Catholic  editor  replied  to  the  archbishop  about  his  beatingst  and  mention  of  the 
that he believed Costa Rica's constitutional  stoning  of  Stephen  could  have  been  left 
guarantee  of freedom  of  worship  and  ex  out of the Bible. 
pression  was  justification  for  publishing 
Limit preaching to the churches:  Christ 
the  advertisement.  Apparently  the  arch  could  not  have  converted  the  apostles 
bishop,  who  together witJ:t  his  staff  with  Petert  Andrew,  James  and  John  at  the 
drew  their  subscriptions,  failed  to  agree.  seashore.  given the se11non  on the mount, 
That such conditions exist in  much of  the 
preached  by  the  sea  to  a  great  crowd. 
world today will  no doubt amaze many. 
nor could  the apostles  have  taught  In  the 
market places· and publicly and from ho11Se 
In_ Colombia  ia 
house.-Matthew 4: 18-22; chapters 5 to 
it proposed solution to Co1ombiats bitter 
7; Mark 4:1; Acts 17:17; 20:20. 
religious  strife,  which  strife  has  already 
Avoid  attacking  dogmas  and  priests: 
caused  the  murder  of  25  non-Catholics, 
By agree-ing to such a propOsal Jesus could 
was  published in T·ime.  Its report 
rec~ntly  not have called religious leaders hypocrites, 
of  the · solution,  proposed  by  Colombian 
blind  guides,  whited · sepulchres,  l:>eautiful 
Catholic  Jose  Maria  Chaves,  who  teaches 
outwardly but filthy  insidet  and could  not 
at Queens College,  New York, said: 
~'Prot have  pointed  to  the  danger  of 
follo~g 
estants should agree to a missionary quota, 
such Ieaders.-Matthew 23. 
stop  publicizing  persecution  unless  new 
But Colombia is Catholic, Catholics pro 
attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, 
test. So was Palestine Jewish in JeausJ day, 
. 
avoid  attacking  Catholic  dogmas  and 
but  he  did  not  shut  his  mouth)  tell  his 
priests.  The  Roman  Catholic  Church  and 
disciples  to  be  quiet,  thank  the  Jews  for 
the pro.Catholic government should agree 
the privilege  of breathing  Jewish  air, nor 
to  denoWlce  and  punish  anti-Protestant  did  his  followers  refrain  from  writing 
JANUARY  1953  3 
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about their persecutions. It ls only after  pennisston  to  open  a  ne\v  church  or  to 
non-Catholics woUld agree to such reshic  reopen  an old one.  For example, there is 
tions  that it is  suSgested  they  he  given  a  new church building in Badajoz, There 
'religious freedom• and. that the ''Church''  is no legal reason why pE'nnission  should 
denoWlce  the  murder  of  non-Catholics  not  be  given  to  hold  services  in it,  The 
(which it has not done).  granting of  SU('h  pE'rrni~ioTI  is  a  n1atter 
If Catholics were subjected to such con  of  administrative discretion for  the  local 
ditions  Jn  non-Catholic  lands  the  cry  of  officer,  and he won't  grant it.  There  are 
many similar cases.'' 
''intolerance'' would shake the world,  )'et 
this  1s  the  proposer!  ''tolerance''  for  or  Yet  the  London  Catliolic  HP;11.1d,  A11-
against which Time said ''Colombia's Cath  gUSt  8, carried the headline,  ''Persecution 
olic  hierarchy  would  probably  cast  the  In  Spain?  'Absurd.'''  Perhaps  it  is  the 
decisive vote''.  It is also  the solution the  Catliolic  llerakl  that  is  absurd,  for  just 
apostles  rejPt:·tecl  whe11  they said simply:  s!!Ven  days  later  Spain's  1111f.'lfl!Jker1  arid 
''We ought to obey God rather than mPn."  contro\•ersial  Cardinal  Segura  declared: 
-Acts !l:29.  ''It ca11.<ws  one  ri>al  pain  111  set>  tlie  toler 
ance  shoivn  toward  non-G'a.tholic:  sec:ts 
In Spain-And the Pope's  View  among  tis."  He  lielieves  that  ''Spanish 
Catholics  are  not  bound  by  Article  6  of 
A  sintllar situation exists in Spain. The 
August 27 Christian Cr.nt·ury discussed in  the  S11anist1  liill  of  rigl1fs''.  What  does 
that  article  grant'!  '!'hat  ''no one  will  be 
tolerance there. ''In February of this year 
molPstt'fl f(ir l1is religious beliefs nor in the 
Rev. Carlos Molinos, past.or of tl1e Spanish 
private exercise of his cult''. That is merely 
Reformed  (i.e.,  Episcopal)  Church  in  Se· 
a pnimi:-.e 1l1at you can think and assemble, 
ville,  suffered  considerable  bodily  injury 
while  most  people  today believe  ''Ilberty'' 
from  an  attack  by  goons  belonging  to 
Catholic Action who had been  stimulated  in1:ludes  U1e  right to  use  the mouth  too. 
Yet Segura rejects even this limited 
by  local  Catholic  authorities.  At  the  llber~ 
ty.  He says the 1851 concordat ''categori 
same time his ch1Jrch was looted and van 
cally rejects tolerance of cults In  Spain'', 
dalized.'' 
and W1tll  he gets word from the pope he 
Another  instance:  ''An  agent  of  the 
\vill consider Catholics not even i1ndPr the 
Brltlsh  Bible  Society  in  Madrid,  tired of 
obligation  to  grant  the  right  of  private 
waiting for the sJow importation of single 
\VOrship to others. 
copies  of  the  New  Testament,  had  some 
\.,.'hat is the Vatican's position? It m<J.in 
printed and bound in the city. Government 
tains a  distinct and incriminating sile11ce. 
authorities disco\.·ered what v.·as going on, 
The  Christian  Century  thinks  Segura  is 
entered the bindery,  and  confiscated  and 
thro\l.'ing  a  legal technicality at  U1e  pope 
destroyed about 2,000 copies. That was on 
to  get  an  official  Vatican  statement  on 
May 29, 1952.  ..• Publication of anything 
tolerance  toward  non-C..atJ1olics.  It  com 
by Protestants is unlawful.''  mented: ''If he can make the pope commit 
Another  probtem:  ''One  ditnculty  that  himself,  he's a  better man than we think 
is encountered  is  that of  getting  official  he is.'' 
Why  ill  it  y()IJ,  do  ftOt  b6lieuti  1ne1  He  tlmt  i&  /rcmi 
GOO  listrnis to tM 11aytt1gs of God. Th.al  ill wh.11 .1101t 
do  not  listen,  ~llWIR you  are  n.ot  frvnl  GW. 
---John  8:46, 47,  N8111  World  Trans. 
AWAKE'!
Before  the  Pan-African  Congress  on 
The  Pre-History  held  at  Nairobi  in  South 
Africa in January, 1947, one of the later 
''links'' was hailed by Profes.sors Le Gros 
Clark  and Graham Weddell,  both  of  Ox 
Has  Had  ford, with typical evolutionistic confidence, 
as  the answer  to  the question,  'Did man 
His  Day  come  from  a  monkey?'  Said  Professor 
Clark:  ''The answer is 'No,  there was an 
ancestor that was both man and monkey, 
a  middle creature with the characteristics 
HAS  the  ape  become  the  ''forgotten 
of both'." Referring to some of the bones 
man''  of  evolution?  Once  the  proud 
composing  the  South  African  family  of 
simian was led from the zoo to a  pedestal 
claimed links, Professor Clark said: ''Here 
and exalted by Darwinians as the ancestor 
we have man in the making.'' RefeITing to 
of man. Charles Darwin even \Vent  so far 
the long-sought ''middleman'' between man 
once  as  to  compare  monkey  and  man, 
and  something  else,  Professor  Weddell 
with  the  man  coming  out  second  best. 
said:  ''This seems to be that creature.••• 
The  point  at  hand  was  the  tendency  of 
The three divisions of these South Afri 
an  American  Ateles  monkey  to  forever 
can ''links'' are Au.,tralopithecus, Ple8ian 
shun brandy after once having bec>n  made 
thropus  and  Paranthropus.  Their. parts 
drunk  on  it,  thus  proving  itself,  Darwin 
consist  of  teeth,  fragments  of  skull  and 
quipped,  ''wiser  than  many  men."•  But 
jawbone and pieces of wrist, arm and thigh, 
rather  than  worrying  over  whether  this 
etc.  However,  a  substantial  part  of  the 
makes monkey the descendant of man in 
bones  are  so  obviously  human  that  as 
stead of vice versa, we are bound by fair 
Dr. Robert Broom, another proponent for 
ness to note that evolutionists now general 
these links and a fanatic evolutionist, con 
ly  pass  by  the  ape  while  tracing  man's 
fessed  of one of his  finds:  ''This  jaw has 
lineage. 
sO many characteristics that if it had been 
Lecomte du Noi.iy  says  plainly:  ''It can 
found  in any other country, every anato-
be  stated that no actually  living  form  is 
the direct ancestor of  another.  Man  does 
•  Quotations  from  British  papers  Evening  Newt1 
not  descend from  the  monkeys.  Amongst  and  Daily ,Mail,  Jan.  22  and  23,  1947.  In  pamphlet, 
""MON!  About  Those  MLsalng  Links,"  by  D.  Dewe.r. 
the  fossils,  many  so-called  'intermediary' 
forms are perhaps nothing but unsuccess 
sCJENTIF1C SOC!lf.TY 
ful  attempts at adaptation, freaks,  either 
conte.mpi:>rary, anterior, or posterior to the 
true  intermediary  forms.''t  A  brief  look 
at the leading  nominees for  link  between 
man  and  the  animal  pfimates  is  enough 
to  tell  us  why  Du  Noily  speaks  thus  so 
disparagingly  of them. 
•  The  Lhlscent  of Man  and  Select;o.,  in  RelatioH.  to 
Se:c,  C.  Darwin,  pp. 396, 397,  In  edition combined with 
The Origin of Spec1ee, Cert & Klopfer, Modern Library, 
New  York. 
t  Ruman  .oe.tiny,  p,  94. 
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.mist would have declared it to\ be human.''  The dUllculty was ·pointed up years  ago 
course 
But of  Its locality changes all that,  by the renowned Professor Virchow while 
changes it from human to something else.  addressing the Twentieth Congress of the 
To what else neither Dr. Broom nor any  Anthropological  Association:  ''In 
c~ru1an 
one  else  can  be  sme.  so  a  long  name  is  vain have [DarwiJUsm's]  adherents sought 
supplied and a  new  •"llnku  is born! Would  for connecting link£  which should connect 
''every  anatomist''  scrap  all  he  lmew  of  man  with  the  monkey.  Not  a  single  one 
ariatomy,  blind  his  eyes  and  his  has  been  fowtd.  This  so·called  proanthro· 
qua.~h 
Intellect  to  go  along  with  Dr.  Broom?  pus  which  is  supposed  to  represent  this 
Perhaps,  if  all  were  such  'levotees  connecting link has not appeared. No true 
piotL~ 
of  evolution  as  he.  But  Dr. .  P.  Kenneth  scientist  claims  to  have  seen  him.n•  The 
Oakley  of  the  Departn1ei1t  of  equally  famed  Professor Dranco of Berlin 
Goologi~.al 
the  British  Museum  declares:  •*'rhese  so  University's Palaeontologieal Institute de 
called  .  ..  ..  are  more  c1ared:  "Palaeonto]ogy tells us nothing on 
AustralopithPrine~ 
recent  than  the  oldest  fossil  remains  of  the  subject-it  lrn.ows  no  ancestors  of 
man.,.,. 
true man ..  This  eriough  to quench  any 
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flame in his afterthought that, ''it is never· 
The rcsuJt of these criticnl reverses was 
theleRs  possible  t.l1at  they  represent a  late 
to pltingf! t hP anr~e;try of mudeJn n1ar1  into 
surviving remnant of the stock from which 
a  gloom  ns  deep  as  that  brought  upon 
In  sc>rr1e  otl1er  part  of  Africa  man 
by  Ute  f  of  the  ape  to 
~"·,1lut.i(lnist..;  ai1u1~ 
"evolved.* ' •. , 
supply a  line of descendants to Homo 
cl~ar 
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sapiens.t  Al17eady  iJ1  l1is  day  Haeckel 
·Man's Ancestors "'Unknown'' ... 
'Extinct·~  struggled  with  difficulty  to  answer  the 
Why  do  tnodelTl  evolutionists  so  carc 
for proof of man's ape 
t~l1t1ller1ges  descent~ 
'ully'  prefac&  their  remarks  "'Ith  stRtP.  He artf uJly built up the now-familiar argu-
ments  tl1at shy away from  the ape? They 
I. that tl1e exact type of ape from which 
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are  most  sensitive  on  this  point  and  are 
man  came  is  no  longer  in  business. .  But 
almost  sure  to  ho\\'l  •prejudice'  or  ~igno with  supreme  confidence  he  said:  ''It  is 
rance'  if  accused  of  advoeating  that  ma11  .certain that man has descended from some 
sprang  from  the  ape . .V  .le  nrc  helped  to 
extinct  mammal;  and  we  should  just  as 
1.Ulderstand possible reasons for this ti1r1idi 
certainly  class  this  in  the  order  of  apes 
ty  when  the  longt  unsuccessful  struggJe 
if  we  had  it  before- t1s.  Tt  is  eri11a11y  cer· 
with  would·be  is  Scraps 
~~links"  rP.<~ll~d. 
that this primitive  ape  descended  in 
tai11 
of  such  former  favorites  as  '•Java  man''t 
turn  from  an  unknovm  lemur,  and  this 
mant,,  n1ann  and 
~'Piltdown  ~·Peking 
man'' have been successfully 
4~Neanderthal  • Quoted  in  God  or Oorilla_,  by  A.  W.  McCann,  1922. 
pp. .  17.  18. 
exposed as elther fraudulent combinations 
t  /bid.,  p.  54. 
of hwnan  and  animal  remains  or so  like  t  It  l&  weU  h(!h!  to  mant~on  that  evolutionary 
nu 
school  wh1 C  'h  II  nl..lUt B  K..llre15try  WI tll  tl.1e  lemuroJ d 
modem  man  that,  as  Sir  Arthur  Keith  I 
tanlen.  the  modem  representat!ve  of  wh~~h  1s  A 
ful"ry  ratllk.e  little  animal  wlth  monstroW5  eyea  and 
said of ''Galley Hill  man°, supposedly the 
ears.  1n  n g  ank   IA  bones  and  a.  hODDln~ ·  a.&I t.  S&ys 
E. A.  I loot.Qn:  -Farticularly  because  T o.rsl us  stt s  erect. 
earliest known inhabitant of1 England: i'Hc  ~ 
feeds  itaeJl wlth  its h•IU's.  has a  shon snout.  rroncally 
is so modern in build that \ve  might meet  dlrcctcd  eyes  and  a  brain  ln  aom~ r-e1~t.s  well  d@ 
v.etooea.  lngenioua  anatomists  have  made  the  hero 
I~ 
him  on  the  streets  of  u1ndor1  today  and  of  a  sort  of  .amen tUlc  Just-So  story  o:f  prlms.t  e  ~ol u-
uon.  .  A  ~llghl  dliltcult y  may  !ndeed  obtrude 
r  • 
pa.~s  liim  by  unnoted."t  i tseJ f  when  one  eon sidPrs  rPrt.a ~ n  ~flPf!'I R.I ~ zattons  of 
·- thi~.  ou1  r a tU ke  an.Qe.5 trtx..  \\T ~  .ougltt   wtt h  such ~ a 
.  ped 1g r-Pe  1.n  h R VP.  thf!  cat t  and  pede.l  extremltl e•  or  a 
...  ni1'1Jtra.ted  Londo~  N tJ-W6,.  .J ... ne  7.  u1"9 47 I  kanproo.  and eyes like teacu})er  m.lllltonc1  or tow~rs. ~ ~ 
t  A ftOiott.t  T~,68 0 I  M Gtl~   b)"  SiJ '  Art h  KP.I th .  -Apea,.  .H6fl.  aad  Morou. .  1937..  PVr  5~. 
6  AWAKEl
·an 
·from·  extinct marsupial,,. A  ''primitive  is  the  immediate  predecessor  of  modern 
apet•,  "unknown  lemur''  and .an  ''extinct  man, yet no moden1 man can be considered 
marsupial•'.  At  least  we  have  Haeckel"s  even  as  a  modified  direct  desceadant  of 
word for it that this is all  the Neanderthals. . ' The oak is the immedi· 
''certain~•! 
ate predecessor of  the  aco111.,  yet there is 
Having  a  strong  desire.  to  trace  man1s 
ancestry by way of ''Piltdown man,•, H. G.  no  aconi  which  can  be  considered  even 
as  a  modified  direct  descendant  of  the 
Wells  appealed  to  Sir Ray  .ankester  for 
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oak.•'• 
authority to base such a  conclusion on the 
Piltdown  fragments  and  publish  it in  his 
So Many  Wags  of Saying "Ape'' 
Outline  of  History.  But Lankester chilled 
What do evolutionists really mean when 
that idea with this succinct reply:  '•I think 
we  are  stumped  and  baffled!  The  most  they say man did not descend frofn an ape? 
prudent  way  is  to  kt'ep  the  jaw  and  the  Of  course  he  did  not.  But  if  they  agree 
cranium  apart  in  all  a r g u m en t  about  to  this  what  do  they  mean  by  saying: 
them.'tt  "There  was  an  ancestor  that  was  both 
man and monkey,  a  middle creature with 
The  •'Neanderthal  ment•  have  been 
the characteristics of both.'' And by simply 
tossed  mercilessly  about.  In  1911  Sir 
making  the simian  ancestor  a  '•primitive 
Arthur  Keith  testified  it was certain  that 
ape",  an  unknown q11antity,  do they make 
0 the Neanderthal type represents the stock 
it  any  Jess  an  ape?  It  is  certain  that 
from  which  all  modern  races  have  aris 
our  acquaintance  with  the  specific  crea· 
en•'. t But just four years later he complete-. 
ture,  whatever  he  was,  could  have  but 
ly reversed himself, declaring the Neander. . 
little  effect  upon  his 
thal  races  had  completely  died  out.e  In a  anatomy!~ 
It  is  certain  that  Hooton  clearly  and 
pamphlet explaining exhibits in the Ameri 
honestly  makes  no  paleontological  bones 
can Museum·of Natural History, Professor 
about  the  µiatter  when  he  says:  •'The 
Osborn  referred  to  the  Neanderthal  race 
ancestors of man and of the gorillat chim· 
as  the  immediate  predecessor  of  modem 
pan7.ee,  and  orang-utan  probably  started 
of 
man;•  but  in  his  book,  Men  the  Old 
'from  scratch'  as  generalized  apes.''t' 
8t0'1U3  Age  (pp. 233. 234), he asserts:  '•We 
ritaJics  added]  And  again:  urn  the 
cannot  assert  that  there  has  never  been  SUC• 
ceeding Oligocene periodt the ancestors of 
an infusion of Neanderthaloid blood in the 
the  Old  World  monkeys  and the  common 
groups belonging to species Homo sapiens 
ape  ancestors  of  the  present  anthropoid 
(modern man)  but what seems to be quite 
apes  and  man  were  already  :flourishing 
certain is that any such infusion can have 
in the Old World!1t 
been only  for there is no recent 
a~idental, 
Mr.  Hooton  points  thus  unmistakably 
type  which  can  be  considered  even  as  a 
to  the ape. . 
modit1ed  direct  descendant  of  the  Nean 
In the  December,  1951,  issue  of Beien.. 
derthals.''  ( ! )  Commenting  on  Osborn's 
tif ie  American,  the article,  ''The  Scars Of 
conflicting positions, A. W.  McCann offers 
Human  Evolution,''  by  Wilton  M..  Krog 
this justifiable sarcasm:  "'Was  there ever 
man, catches  the eye.  Opening  his article 
such contradictiont-'the Neanderthal race 
in  the  customary evolutionary  way,  with 
•  The  Evoliatlio,.,  of  Mon,  by  Ernst  Haeckel.  1906 ..  a  slam  at the Bible,  Mr.  Krogman  busies 
pp.  204,  205. 
himself with ta criticism of the human body 
t  Quoted  in God  or Gorilla, p.  42_ 
t Ancie11t  Typea  of Maw.~ Keith. 1911.  
•  Tne Antiqu,tu Of Meu1,  Keith,  1915.  •  God or Gorilltl_,  McCann.  :PP ..  62.  63. 
•  Amer.  Mus.  of  Natl.  Hlat .•  Gulde  Leaflet  No.   .52~  t  Apea..  Me1'  aft.tl  Motona..  Hooton.  1937~  pp.  24t 25 .. 
p.  8~  t  Up  from  the  Ape~ Hooton.  Rev.  ed.t  1947t  p,.  5.'34 
JANUARY  8,  1953  7
structure  in the midst of which he says:  ·or a  bird or an  ape.  This  is  Hnot  a  real 
1 
have  inherited  otir  'baSic  patents'  animal''  anyutay-lt Is all In  fun! 
~'We 
•.·  • from a  long  Jine of vertebrate  (back  Said  Sir  Arthur  Keith:  ''Between  the 
boned)  ancestors:  from fish  to amphibian  known  fo1111  of  mankind  and  the 
low~ 
to  reptile  to  mammal  and  finally  from  highest  kind  of  anthropoid  lies  a  wide 
monkey  to  ape  txJ  anthropoid  to  H()'110  intermediat.e zone  wl1ich  we bridge at the 
sapiemc. ,, 
present  time  by  hypothetical  missing 
~·From monkey to ape  to anthropoid  to  links.'' ..  [Italics  added]  T11e  hopelessness 
Homo  1'1apient1  (modern  manJ.''-Muy we  of  such  positions  is  shown  up  by  Austin 
quote  you on that, Mr.  Krogman?  an  evolutionist:  species  is 
Clark~  ~'Each 
Describing  the  reactions  of  patients  always separate from every other species.,, 
under lns\llin shock  therapy, the Januaryt  He details t11e 111any vast gaps in supposed· 
1952,  Science  Digest  notes  a  stage  of  Jy  .. evolutionary  lines"  and  concludes: 
~  ~--if 
foot 
f11YJ81J  rejtex  and  refl,e.x  of  \vhich  it  we are willing  to accept the facts  at their 
says:  tern1s  of  evolution  they  are  face  value,  \\'hich  \\1ould  seem  to  be  the 
'~ht 
thought to represent deftnit.P  only  thing  to  dot  \\?e  must  believe  that 
~111ro\vbacks~ 
to the simiant or ape. level of development.  there never were such  or Jn 
interrr1PdJat~s, 
In short,  the patient  now  living  in  that  other words that these mujor ,groups from 
I~ 
very  ancient  age  "before  Homo  sapiens  the  first  bore  the  re1at1on  to 
sam~  PH£~h 
first appeared."•  other  that  they  do  at  the  present 
dny.'~ 
44To the simion_. or ape, level of develop·  And  hln  the  11ght  of  all  t.hP 
finally~  ~vi
ment,'  please  no t.e !  dence  availab]e  at  the  present  time  there 
t 
It is qufte clcnr that evolutionists prefer  is no Justlftratlon in  as.~11ming t lnit  ~t1cl1 ti 
to plead lgnorRnt.-e  and talk in riddles and  thing  as  a  'missing  linlt"  ever existed_.  or 
have  no  prying  questioru;.  The  ape  \Vas  Indeed cotlld ever h<ivP  ..... t 
PxJ~t~l 
too  confining,  looked  too  ridiculous  on  In  the  uncharitable  truth  seems 
short~ 
man's  family  tree  for  even  a  child  to  say  that  the  ape  made  fine 
to 
evl~nee 
stomach. So they sought to ditch him. But  for  evolution  as  as  the  public  could 
Jon~ 
the siminn  ••silent partner'• does  not dJtch  not differentiate between sclenre and 
fair~T 
easily~  Either  man  springs  from  lower  tales.  But  when  this  condition  changed. 
animals  or 
evolution  is  a  lie.  And  talk  or  the  ape  had  to  be  stowed  away  and  l1is 
'~middle creatures'',.  not one  of 'h"'hich  has  alleged relationship "'ith man soft-pcdn1cd 
ever  been  established,  dOes  not  S\Veeten  by  m).rsterious  unknown  .. 
~'middlPmenu 
this  bitter  pill,  William  Howells  talks  of  Now true science can snatch the ape bnck 
imagining  'la  kind  of  changeling;  not  a  from  oblivion  to  draft  him  in  the 
\\'"Hr 
real  ani1nal  but  a  creature  who  became  ag-ainst  evolution. 
successively all the animals man has ever·  The ape has had his day.  evolution 
Th~ 
been J•;  and after naming the general stages 
ists brought the nighttime over legitimate 
from marine life upward, concludes:  '"Man~  scientific  research  that  followed.  Now 
. 
therefore, is a  modified fish.''t 
comes  the  inescapable  morning-after  and 
He may as well  be a  fish  or a  reptile 
the  time  for  setting  things  straightt  for 
putting  the  ape  back  in  the  trcest  man 
.,.  rft 
the  R rtt (!l e.  •' lt"lsh  to  M&n-l n  an  Hour ~ · ·  by 
back on his feet and evolution in its grave. 
John  A,  Dla·ke.  Ttl.ough  the  \Vriter  bi  a  FeUow  tn  tbe 
A..rne.rl aa.n  .AMocia t!on  ror  the  Ad vu nt.."elll~n t  ol  Sclen~ ~ 
tar 
th1s  article  Ja  tram  dflurvt ng  !iel@n t l ftc  At 
~t.atu~-
ot 
IMat 1t   doe&  notatng t.or  the  •. ... tid vancemen t  of aci ence·  •  Nl!u;  m.tcouenea .Relalsttg  to the Antk}u1t!J  M®. 
t. 
Kellh.  1930 p.  22. 
t  M<m~nd Bo  l"rflr  1944,  pp.  17, 18.  by  \\'m.  Howe1 18 ~  1 
J 
ra•rdl  auoetat@,  Am~n~an Museum  or  Na1t.  Hist.  t  ~ Now  Evolutkili-Zoo9cnoat.8,  A.H.  Clark.  198U~ 
and.  ilut.  p.rof.  of  -.nthrapo1oEJF.  Uo5v.  ot  Wiscoru.in.  PPr  130, 131.166-169.  2'2A 
8  AWAKE!
THE MYSTERIOUS 
CAPTAIN LAWRENCE W. VINTHER of Mid·  servers  wolild  have  simultaneously  the 
Continent  Airlines  on  January  20,  identi<;al illuSion or hallucination? It would 
1951, was ordered by the control tower at  hardly seem possible. 
the  Sioux  City  airport  to  investigate  a  Dr.  Craig Hunter of Berkeley Springs, 
''very..  bright  light''  above  the  field.  Ac·  West  Virginia,  director  for  a 
t~hnical 
cording to Life magazine for April 7, 1952,  Washington  medical  instrument 
~upply 
Captain Vinther ''took off in his DC·3 \vith  firm,  stated:  ''I  realized  my  eyes  were 
his  copilot,  James F.  Bachmeier, and fol·  not  playing  tricks  on  me  as  I, watched 
lowed the light. All at once> the light dived  [the  saucer]."  He  went  on  to  describe 
at  the  DC·3  almost  head  on;  it  passed  the object  as being ''about 50 to 150 feet 
silently and at great  about 200 feet  in  diameter and  was about 25  to  30 feet 
spe~d 
above its  Both pilots wrenched their  thick  at  the  center.  It  was  trailing  a 
nos~. 
heads back tQ  see \Vhere it had gone, only  streamer about 200 feet long and 10 inches 
to  discover  that  the  thing  had  somehow  in  width.  ... I  do a  little  private flying, 
reversed  direction  in  a  split  second  and  and I  have  never  seen  anything like  the 
was  now  flying  parallel  to  the  airliner,  thing  I  saw  last  night.  It  was 
definit~ly 
about 200 feet away, heading in  the same  not an airplane''. What did he see? balloon? 
direction.  It was  a  clear moonlight  night  meteor? a  bird? Again,  hardly possible. 
and both men got a good look at the object.  On- a  bright  sunny  day  one  of  United 
It was as big  or bigger than a  B-29,  had  States' top astronomers was driving from 
a  cigar.shaped fuselage  and  a  glider·type  Clovis  to  Clines  Corners,  New  Mexico. 
wing, set well fonvard, \\'ithout sweepback  ''His  \Vife  and  his  teen-aged  daughters 
and  without  engine  nacelles  or  jet  pods.  were also in the car. ... The whole western 
There  was  no  exhaust  glow.  The  white  half of the sky was a  'confused cloud sea'. 
light appeared to be recessed in the bottom  All at once, as the car headed toward these 
of  the  plane.  After  a  few  seconds  the  clouds, 'all four of u.s almost simultaneously 
object lost altitude, passed under the DC·3  became  aware of a  curious  bright object 
and  disappeared.  A  civilian  employee  of  almost motionless' among the clouds.'' The 
Air  Intelligence  was  a  passenger  on  the  astronomer with his family watched it for 
flight,  saw  the  object  and  confirms  the  ''about two  and  a  half minutes'',  then  it 
description by the pilots''.  disappeared  behind  a  cloud  bank.  ''This· 
Now what was it that these three men  remarkably sudden ascent thoroughly con· 
saw? All three men are responsible persons  vinced  me,''  said  the  astronomer,  ''that 
and  trained  observers.  Could  this  have  we  were dealing with an absolutely novel 
been  an  optical  illusion?  Hallucination?  airborne device.'' 
Mirage?  Reflection?  Is  it  reasonable  to  A  photographer driving  through Albu· 
conclude  that  three  different  trained  ob-- querque,  New  Mexico,  just  before  sunup 
JANUARY 8, ,1953  9
on  February  18,  1952,  saw  two  bright  ftrebaUs off as meteors. Said he:  j'I have 
lights  in  the  sky.  "They  Wet"e  boverlng  never  seen  a  natural  meteor  with  the 
11bove Tijeras Canyon. .•. It was probably  eharact.eristics  of  the  yellow-green  fire 
the most astonishing thing I've ever seen.  balls.  Meteors  blow  up  with  a  loud  ex 
Those  things were  sotmdless. · 'lbey  were  plosion. These disintegrate with complete 
not jets or vapor trails. rve seen hundreds  absence  of  ROund.  Sightings here  and  in 
of jets and  vapor  trails.''-Li/e, April 7,  Scandinavia lead me to believe that fire. 
1952.  balls and the so-called saucers may be gUid 
ed missiles-some possibly ours, some pos 
Plau•ible Theorln to NonseRJ1e  sibly Russian. In any case, they are Earth· 
What are the people seeing in the skies?  bom.  It is possible that the yellow-green 
Flying diskllke objects have been sighted  fireball  is  not  the  missile  itself  but  tl1e 
in  almost  every  section  of  the  earth:  remaining  part of  a  missile  in  the  final 
Australia,  Malaya,  South  Africa,  Hong  pl1ase  of self-destructio11.  It does  not ex 
Koni, Korea, Japan, Europe and England.  pl<X;!e-it simply evaporates  in  a  flash  of 
eomniander Robert B. McLaughlin, U.S.N.,  llgl1t. "-People Today, September 10, 1952. 
wrote: ''Close questioning of the observers,  Now  the  question  th11t  presents  itself 
prior to  the  oftlctal  repo1t  that.  went  to  is:  What are the people seeing? Are thPy 
'Project Saucer' at Wright·Patterson Field  visitors  from  another  planet?  A  secret 
in  Dayton,  Ohio,  produc:ed.  an  almost  weapon  owned  by  RU'>.<;la  or  the  tTnited 
unanimous judgment thnt the object was  States?  Did  sensitive  radar  instruments 
discus-shaped and that it wa.'i a flat white  pick  up  droplets  of  watPr  or  reOP1:1t'(J 
color. IIlgh-powercd blnoculars shOYied no  lights? Is it possible  thnt the one to two 
exhaust trail, no stream or light or other  thot1sand  sightings  by  more  than  five 
evidence of a  propulsion system.  And  no  hundred  people,  among  whom  arc  top 
sound. What was It? I  am convinced that  notch  scientists,  a.'lf.n1nomPrs,  11I1ysic:i.-;ts, 
it was a  Flying Saucer and, further,  that  pilots,  military personnel and men  prom 
these disks  are space ships from  another  inent In  p11blic  life,  misinte1·pret 01·dinary 
planet,  operated  by  animate,  intelligent  objects, such as airplanes, balloons,  birds, 
beings.''-Trw,, March  1950.  stars  or  meteors  for  flying  disks?  TI1e 
Dr. Walther Riedel, once chief designer  feelings of Air Technical Intelligence Com 
and research director at the German rock·  mand were stated bluntly by an intelligence 
et center in Peenemiinde, now engaged on  colonel:  ''These reports came from sincere 
secret  work  for  the  United  States,  told  people.  They are not crazy;  they are not 
Life reporter;  ''I am completely convinced  crackpots. They are seeing something; we 
that  they  have  an  out-of-world  bas,is."  have tn find out what.'' 
Dr.  Maurice  A.  Biot,  one  of  the  leading  Gordon Dean, chairman of the Atomic 
aerodynamicists in the U. S.  and a  prom  Energy  Commission,  definitely  erased 
inent mathematical physicist,  so.id:  ''The  them as being products of  United States 
least improbable explanation is that these  research. Said Dean:  ''There's nothing in 
things  are  artificial  and  controlled.  .  .  .  our  shop  that  could  account  for  these 
My opinion for some time has been  that  things, and there's nothing going on that 
they  have  an  extraterrestrial  origin.''  I know of that could explain them.'' 
Di-.  Lincoln LaPaz,  head of  the Institute  In  an  effort  to  clear  the  air  of flying 
of  Meteorics  at  the  University  of  New  saucers  and  t.ake  the  'heat  off  the  Air 
Mexico,  spiked  the  attempts  to  pass  the  Force Intelligence Section, Major General 
10  AWAKE/
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