October 15, 1927 The Light Eyes Have It - By Charles J. McGuirk [CONT'D FROM PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN] comfort to the Nordic idea, and this is deserved, but needs to be qualified by the fact that the Nordic peoples by no means con­stitute a pure race. And this warning of Dr. Free's points up a very broad difference between the Nordic idea and the Nordic peoples. The Nordic idea is a composite portrait (painted, generally, by a man who believes he is one of the originals) of a totally imaginary pure-bred Man of the North, a Nietzschean superman, a " 100 per cent American." This 100-per- center believes that his is the inalienable right to decide what opinion shall be held by the rest of the nation on re­ ligion, lawmaking, scientific teach­ings, and the relative importance of the other (lesser) races in the growth of civilization. Of course, most of this idea is bilge. There are virtually no purebreds left in the world. There are no supermen. The " 100 per cent American " of today is a figment of the imagination of an over­worked four-minute man who had a complex on hyphenates during the war. The real " 100 per cent Amer­ican " was robbed, murdered, mas­sacred, and driven from his home. He was the American Indian. Our Nordics so despised him that any white man who married an Indian woman was known as a " squaw- man." This holds true to this day in most sections of the country except Oklahoma. But the Nordic peoples are a great blend of races. They have been, from the dawn of history, a flame blowing down from the ice­fields over the world to set man to fighting, conquering, killing, lov­ing, getting, begetting, and forget­ting. They were the adventurers and the explorers of the material, the artistic, the philosophic, and the scientific world. The Nordic flowered in the field of exploration. Leif Ericson, pure Norseman, who discovered the New England coast before Colum­bus' most remote ancestor was conceived; Columbus, who was gray-eyed; Amundsen and Stefansson, modern Norsemen; Shackle- ton, Perry, and Scott were of that breed. Charles Augustus Lind­bergh, of Nordic descent on both sides of his house, flew blind from New York to Paris with five sand­wiches and a letter of introduction to Ambassador Herrick not so long ago. FROM the beginning, the Nordic was a superintelligent, indepen­dent, contumacious, fierce, conquer­ing, and merciless fighting man. From his loins sprang champions. Let's take a look at him. We'll have to step back about fifty mil­lenniums, for that is where 50 per cent of America's population and two-thirds of her eminent men were started. The Nordic is a comparatively recent racial group, having evolved, ethnologists believe, from the Cen­tral European short, frail, brunet, and dark-eyed man who followed the retreating ice sheet at the close of the Fourth Glacial Period, about 50,000 years ago, in the Neo­lithic Age. The cradle of the Nordic is be­lieved to be Scandinavia (prob­ably southern Norway), where, according to Penka, prominent an­thropologist, he followed the rein­ deer, or in re­sponse to pressure (probably the Cro-Magnon invasion) from the rear. At the start of his journey he was brown-eyed, moderately intelli­gent, with a knowl­edge of the manu­facture and use of tools of stone. If he followed the reindeer, even under pressure, he refused to bow before the encroaching Cro-Magnon wave with a courage and an initiative in braving the perils of the unknown which he has pre­served to this day. The end of his journey found him in an unfriendly rigorous climate in the cloudiest part of Europe, with only 1,250 hours of sunlight a year. The unfit died, but the survivors, having little sunlight, needed little protective pigment in hair, skin, or eyes. THUS the Nordic became a white- bodied, blond, blue-eyed man, tall and heavy. His women were majestic, fair, strong, and broad- hipped, lighter in complexion and bluer of eye than he. With the lightening of his com­plexion came a rapid growth of the brain, possibly the greatest spurt in evolution ever occurring in the race of man. How long he stayed there is not known, but he crossed the Baltic into Germany, and swept downward over Russia, Central Europe, and the British Isles in prehistoric times. Abraham found him in Canaan when God led him into the Prom­ised Land. Abraham knew him as an Amorite and his tribe mingled with him. The Amorite sired a line of blue- and gray-eyed Jews which persists to this day. Of this line, it is believed, was Esau, who was " red," and David, who was " ruddy." The Nordic learned the use of bronze, knew how to weld metal, was a great shipbuilder and a great sailor. His wagons, though crude, were sturdy and capable of sur­viving the great treks overland. One of his treks, probably the most famous one, was the Dorian invasion, the descent into Greece. And the result of that invasion was the coming to Greece of her glory. Mingling with the race he had conquered, he transmitted the energy he had gained and stored in his own rigorous, unfavorable climate to his sons and daughters. He gave them also his fierceness, his fearlessness, his intense curi­osity as to the world beyond the horizon, both material and spiritual. [CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE] A Trick Worth Knowing Even his stenographer noticed it and commented about it. 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