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Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1921, Page 4

t A euchre party and dance will be held in the Kawaroa Park bungalow to-mor-row night. There will be cards from 7.4 a to 10.30 with a dance to follow The proceeds are to go to the Park Tenn* and Croquet Club. If it were not that Mr. James Wickersham, the American lawyer who ie aoina to try to prove to the United State. Supreme Court that the Japanese arc white, ie an authority on ethnologv, one would be tempted to diamine hie t'heory as absurd. As it is, Mr. Wickerahan will have the weight of the greatent ethnologists against him if lie sceke U prove the Japanese claim tn Caucasian origin through the “hairy Ainu*.” Th. Ainns are supposed to be n distinct r.ies, • and though they ure rapidly dying out there are still several thousands of them in Japan. They were in Japan before the Japanese, and are believed to be the descendants of a great primitive neolithic race which ranged ite inhabrtaata all, the way from Britain to Mnnehllria and Japan. The Japanese people however. show very little sign, of Ainu in-ter-mixture. The higher type of .Tapnneee ore believed to have .lueended fri® Korean colonists, while the lower type, which is unmistakably Mongol, m believed to be of Malayan origin. Th Korsnns are believed to be mosflv of the Chinese strain, and ere also Mongol-, while the Japanese of to-day, whatever -.lrolr line of succession, arc’ classci hv modern ethnology as Mongols, pos.-c.sing as they do nil the physical ■;ha.-ac;<:ia‘xs oi that division.