Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 17, 1920, Page 7

THE m.h NOAH, NOT ADAM, | WASHIIN ATE THE APPLE Delver in Ancient Lore Finds Evi- dence Older Than' the " Bible. NO MENTION OF ANY EVE Records in University of Pennsylvania Provide Apparent History of Hu- man Race Back to 14,000 Years Before Christ. Philadelphia, Pa.—What the discov- erer claims to be evidence older than the Bible by two or thrée thousand years, that woman had neothing to do with the downfs!l of the human race, was produced by the museum of the University of Pennsylvania In the form of a new set of translations by Dr. Stephen Herbert Langdon. Doctor Langdon is now professor of Assyriology at Oxford university, Eng- land. He was for three years curator of the Babylonian section at the uni- versity museum, and while there stud- * fed and translated thousands of an- " peaceful pursuit of trade. clent clay tablets from the ruins of Nippur, in‘ancient Babylonia. “Noah Ate the Apple.” The new book is the féurth in a -serles depicting the religious life of the Sumerians, a mysterious race, the origin of which is unknown, which was finally swallowed up by the later Sem- ities, According to one of the flood sto- ries In the collection Noah ate the forbidden fruit after he had been -saved from the deluge. This salvation was accomplished, ac- -cording to the Sumerian version, by a woman deity. There is no mention of any Eve in the story. Clay tablets from which this an@ other stories are taken are said to be at least one thon- -sand years older than Babylonian tab- lets, 14,000 Years Before Christ. After the Sumerians had been ex- tinguished in their political power, ac- cording to Doctor Langdon, the Baby- lonfans retained the language for ec- clesiastical purposes for many centu- ries, just as Latin is now used in the Roman Catholic church. The Sumerian records at the univer- slty provide an apparent history of mankind back to 14,000 years before Christ, but this 1s not considered ab- solutely authentic, because many of the reigns of kings are collateral. The Sumerians believed that the patri- archs, corresponding to those of the 01d Testament, ruled before the flood for 360,000 years. According to their story it was 35,000 years after the del- uge when Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylonia, WOMAN SOLVES MILLENIUM Jap Urges Capital and Labor Lie Down Together Throughout X World. ToKyo.—A Co-operative .organization of capital and labor which would not ignore human instincts and feelings should be established throughout the world, in the opinion of Mrs, Ko-ko Tanaka, woman adviser to the Japan- ese delegation in the international la- bor conference at Washington. Contributing her views on the labor question to Japanese woman’s mag- azine, Mrs. Tanaka says that if such a system were introduced the laborer would be emancipated from the posi- tion of a wage earner and would em- ploy his energy with hope and zeal. She continues: “This no mere paper argument. Such a system actually is practiced in a ticket manufactory at Tokyo. It is a small factory with less than fifty hanlls. The owner leaves the manage- ment entirely to his employees. The profits are divided equally between owner and employees. The experiment has stood the test of several years and 1t could be applied to any fac- tory on a much larger scale.” BRITISH ARSENAL NOW MINT Woolwich Plant Makes Five-Cent Pieces; Also Churns and Lo- comotives. London, England.—Even the great Woolwich arsenal has turned from the manufacture of war material to the Ten thou- sand butter churps have been manu- factured in the great building, which during the war sent out vast quanti- ties of munitions for use against the Germans. The nickel purchased to manufac- ture bullets is being used in the ar- senal to make five-cent pieces for Brit- ish Hondurag currency. There is a world shortage of locomotives and rall- way cars. To meet this it has-been decided to manufacture these articles in the arsenal, and work already Is under way there on orders for 2,500 cars, 100 locomotivés and for repair work on 700 cars. Better Late Than Never. Taunton, Eng.—E. A. Bellamy, who was a prisoner of war in Germany and lately returned to his home here, partook of a plum pudding recently that had been sent to him by his wife in September, 1918. The pudding was part of the con- tents of a large parcel mailed by Mrs. Bellamy to her husband in the prison camp at Huhleben, Germany. It be- came lost In the mails and was re- turned to the sender the day before Bellamy came home. kK ASHINGTON.—Hawali ferritory wunis o be a state. lution adopted by the Hawaiian legislature sets forth thls desire. territory Hawaii Territory Is Desirous to Enter the Union| A concurrent reso- The also wants varlous legislation at the hands of congress. A Hawaiian commission will pre- sent to congress a series of concurrent resolutions adopted by the Hawaiinn legislature setting forth the desires of the territory. Gov, Charles J. McCurthy heads the commission. which includes Attor- ney General Harry Irwin, Senutor Rob- ert W. Shingle. Senator John H. Wise, secretary of the commission; Repre- sentative Williain T. Rawlins and Rep- resentative Henry J. Lyman. The members of the commission, it 18 announced, will Initiate no discussion of the Japanese question. ! Authority to incur public debt in an amount of 3 per cent in excess of the amount fixed by present laws, 7 per cent, is to be sought from congress. present debt is $10,894,000. The additional money is said to be seriously needed for road bullding and schools. The Another proposal is that the governor, land nonnnisz.lulwr and lund board be given the right to pass upon qualifications of applicants for homesteads, to assure that “the remaining small body of agricultural land should he settled by a class of farmers who will remain the active owners (hmpof and inter- ested and actively concerned in its development.” Other concurrent resolutions to be put before congress ask: A law requiring residence of not less than one year in Hawaii for eligibil- ity to appointment to federal office in the territory. Extension to Hawall of the farm loan act and the reclumation act of June 17, 1902, Appropriation of $1,000,(00 for roads, pipe lines and water works in home- .stead fracts, Permission for Hawall to retaln 5¢ per cent of all customs and internal revenues collected in the {erritory. Long-thre leases on arid lapds upon which water i:ay be brought. ! EXPLORING THE AIR New Device May Be Capable of Reaching ‘the Moon. Exploration of the Higher Levels of the Air Is Belleved to Be Entirely Feasible. Washington.—A method of sending apparatus to the hitherto unreached higher layers of the air, to the regions heyond the earth’s atmoxphere, and even as far as the moon itself. is de- seribed by Prof. Robert H. Goddard of Clark college in a recent publication for the Smithsonian institution at Washington. The new apparatus is a multiple-charge high efliciency rocket of an_entirely new design. “The great scientific value of Pro- fessor Goddard's experiments” says the announcement, “lies in the pos- sibility of sending recording apparatus to moderate and extreme altitudes within the earth’s atmosphere. The nature of the higher levels of the air has for a long time been a subject of much speculation as to their chemical composition, temperature, electrical pature, density, ozone contents. efc. “The highest level that has ever heen reached up to the preseut time with recording instruments isx about 19 miles, accomplished with a free bal- loon. As the earth’s atmosphere ex- tends some 200 miles out, there is a great unknown region, knowledge of which would greatly benefit the science of meteorology. *“The balloon with its recording ap- paratus requires several hours to as- cend to Its highest altitude, drifts horl. zontally for a considerable period of time and may come down at a great distance from its starting point. Its recovery by the sender depends on the chance of its descent being noticed and on the willingness of the finder to return it. Thus it may be days or weeks before the record taken is made available. “On the other hand, the new rocket apparatus would go straight up and’ come straight down, the whole opera- tion probably consuming less than half an hour. Thus daily observations at any desired altitude for use in weather prediction could be easily taken, .“The time of ascent of the rocket will be very short, only six and one- half minutes being required to carry the apparatis up 230 miles, somewhere near the outer limit of the earth’s at- mosphere. The too rapid descent of the recording instruments could easily ! be checked by the use of a small para- chute. “Professor Goddard is at present, under a grant from the Smithsonian institution, perfecting the reloading mechanism whereby successive charges are inserted in the explosion chamber during its upward flight, and it is hoped shortly to be able to demon- strate the practicability and value-of this new type of rocket.” MERE BEGINNER. Lawyer—You say the prisoner is an expert thief? Detective (witness)—Yes! “Yet you admit that my client had not picked the pocket when you caught him.” “He was just about to—"» “Ah ! Then he is not an expert, for he was Just ‘getting his hand in,” Ml.'l‘hh-' How Not to Take Vacation. Mere abstinence from work does not constitute a real vacation. A vacation has the idex of benefit in it. Some- th it develops into a loafing match that is more harmful than good. That's the way it goes with Peter Jones. Pete will vacate at home. That is, he will vacate his bed when he gets tired lying in it. He will also vaeate all jobs and responsibility untfl necessity drives him back to a job. The front porch will be his lounging place until the sun drives him else- where. The rest of the day will find him on the shady side of anything that isn’'t too hard to reach. He'll go back to his jobh, lazy-limbed, stomach-stalled, and brain-fugged. less fit for work than when he ook to vacating. There's and nousense in it.—Pennsyl- sense vania Grit. Lincoln’s Blessing. Lincoln attended a woman's falr given in 18G4 for the benefit of the soldiers. In his speech he praised the soldiers and then added: “If all that has been sald by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America it would not do them justice for their conduct dur- ing the war. God bless the women of America.” - Subscribe for the Pioneer. PROFESSIONAL VETERINARIANS 3 J. WARNINGER VETERINARY SURGEON ..Office and Hospital 8 doors west.. of Troppman's. Phone No. 809 3rd Street and Irvine ave. Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R. Burgess DENISON & BURGESS Veterinarians Phonés: Office 3-R; Res. 99 Bemidji, Minn. BUSINESS E. M. SATHRE Buys Small Houses for cash and sells them on small monthly payments | H. C. 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