Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1923, Page 20

BAY STATE URGED TOBACK COOLIDGE Eliot Wadsworth Assures Women’s Club President Will Win Nomination. By the Associated Press, BOSTON, December 17.—Expressing confidence that the republicans will be returned to power next November | and that President Coolidge will be elected to succeed himself, Eliot Wadsworth, assistant Secretary of the Treasury, told the Massachusetts Woman's Republican Club at a luncheon today that Massachusetts must contribute Its full share to- ward election of its former governor. The Treasury official went at some length into the nation's finances, relating that the public debt had been reduced, declaring that operating ex- penses of the government had been cut each year during the republican administration and asserting that the people of the United States are about to benefit from the program of economy and efficiency through the Mellon tax-reduction policy. The re- sults, said themselves of work re-election Makes a Prediction. “In November, 1924, he pred “the voters not only will put ice for four years a Chlef Execu- cabinet with his dminister the but will “ongress and one-third I have the greate republican , speak for stitute' a “‘record on which to ask will be e vin Coolidge of Ma Wadsworth of the state ation Election from Mass t eteran advocated by deplored that stat representation in the Senate for six vears has been one for and one against almost every issue presented. Notes Effort to Reduce Taxes. dministration’s efforts to cu; s _and reduce the cost o t were recounted by the to the surplus of 000 with which the ed each of the last In their or- nce, n senator gue for Tr. two v “And now," Mellon ha to_redu taxes, come he anno added, “Secretary nced that it is safe ts income by a cut in the Could anything be more wel- at the present time than the news that taxes can be reduced with- out danger to our financial structure? The problem of how and when is in the hands of Congress.” ASHES OF SOCIALIST STOLEN AT FUNERAL Armed Men Enter Among Mourn- ers and Make Away With Urn in Tokio. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 17.—Ashes of the body of Sakaye a socialist leader, were stolen a room where' the urn was lving in state Just before tha funeral yesterday. Osugi and his wife and child were slain by Capt. Amakasu of tHe gen- darmerle shortly after the earth- Quake. The officer was sentenced to ten yvears' imprisonment. The thieves succeeded in obtalning the ashes despite the presence of police in force and of numerous sym- pathizers. Soclalists charge that the outrage was committed by their olitical opponents, who were seek- ng to prevent honor being done the dead comrade. The ashes were in the headquarters of an organization of sympathizers and the procession was about to start for the cemetery. Mourners were admitted in groups. Three men entered, and one of them, with a pistol in his hand, rushed for- ward, seized the urn and began shoot- ing. The urn was passed from one to another of the trio until they got into a motor car with it and sped away. The funeral proceeded, with & photograph of Osugi replacing his ashes. REPUTATION During the past 40 years this Company has built a world-wide reputation for service and a product of the highest quality. Nothing less than the thorough tests of time could give merchants the confidence that they bhave in National Cash Registers. Reputation i product’s greatest asset and there is no short cut to securing it, a good The National Cash Register Co. M. H. Rittenhouse Sales Agent 809 G St. N.W. Phone Main 1377 Ta.Cure a Cold _InOne Day into | By the Assoclated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 17. The earliest dates In new world history are August 6, 613 B, C., and December 10, 580 B. C., by the present system of marking time, the Pea- body Museum of Harvard Unlversity announced in making publle the final solution of the chronology of Mayan dates. This solution, made possible by the studies of Dr. H. J. Spinden of the museum, is hailed as a distinet vic- tory for the American School of Re- search in the records of the ancient inhabitants of Central America, since it follows the llnes of approach laid down by several scientists of the United States in contradistinction to the basic theorles of the. German, French and Spanish savants. “These positive and perfectly de- fined points in chronology probably fell within the working years of one of the world's first scientists, the unknown ‘eithematical and astro- nomical geulus who invented the Central American calendar and es- tablished the Mayan era,” the mu- sum'’s announcement says. “Actu- ally the numerous dates on the mon- uments of the great Mayan civiliza- tion in tan and adjacent terri- tory are counted from a beginning ¢__which corresponds to October 3373 B. C., but this beginning da: putting seven cycles | each for the past of | re the historical first| of the numerical count Historieal First Day. “This historical first da gust 6, 613 B. C. werical record of e begun, and in the 1 lowed various astronomical events! were put down in connection with the days on which they happened, a | procedure which soon gave & plctire ot time adequate for the perfection ! of a calendarical machine. On the second date (December 10, 0 B. C.), the perfected calendar of | e Mayas was formally inaugurated, | according to an inscription at the | ruined Mayan city of Copan, in wes ern Honduras. This perfected calen- ar functioned without the loss of a | single day for 2,000 years, only to break down and pass out of use | when Mayan books were destroyed by | the Spanish inquisition in Yucatan, in | . D. 1561." | Discovery of the key to the ancien! calendar of the Central American In- dians reveals that surprising intel lectual power existed in the western world before the coming of Columbus, the report declares, and adds: “The Inauguration of the perfecte calendar on December 10, ! the world day . C., means the invention before | this date of a symbol for zero—or completion, according to the Maya mind—as well as figures for entire numbers. It means place-value nota- tion in the writing of numbers. Now place-value notation was unknown to the Greeks and the Romans and its introduction into western Europe was accomplished by the Arabs. This was the Arabic decimal system upon which modern mathematics depend. The Mayan em was arranged on a modified base of twenty and, there- fore, does not exactly parailel the ! Arabio system. The inauguration of the Mayan calendar at this early time means that the hieroglyphics of the twenty days of the month, the eighteen months of the year, etc, had | already taken form." | Checked up Calendars. 1 Dr. Spinden, who is given credit for the solution of a mystery that puzzled sclentists for many years, worked out a day-for-day correla- | tion of the Mayan and Gregorian | calendars and corroborated his find- | ings by using dates on monuments in ancient cities, such as Copan, Tikal | and Palenque, in connection with ab- solute astronomical facts and observ- | able astronomical events, Tables have | been formed whereby Mayan dates can be transferred easily into Chris- | tian dates, and vice versa. 1 The most dramatic proof is the dis very of monumen The tonic and laxative effect of Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets will for- tify the system against In- fluenza and other serious ills resulting from a Cold. 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These monu- menst are between four and five miles apart and a person standing before the eastern one, or at some spot in the city on the' line connecting the two monuments, would see the sun set di- rectly behind the western monument two times in the course of the year, namely, April 9 and September 2 i¥ the avérage Gregorlan year. The first of these positions was the beginning of the farmer's year, giving him time to burn the brush and plant his first crop before the rainy season began, and the second one marked the second planting, so the erop would get a good start with the last rains. Mayas Had No Leap Year. “Now both of these dates are re- corded at Copan on various monu- ments and they appear prominently at other cities. They are connected with calculations leading directly to the days of the * equinoxes and solstices. The asironomical congress at Copan celebrated a common ac- ceptance of certain features of the calendar and a shift in the base line which involved a concept of rel tivity too complicated for easy ex- planation. “The Mayan year was of 365 days and while the Mayas did not interpolate leap-vear days they knew just how many to allow for the accumulating difference for any glven number of The formal NewYear had ily stood at the winter sol- vs after the re- rded date, December 10, 580 B. C. when the calendar was_inaugurate By 480 A. D. this New Year day h advanced in the vear until it coi cided with April 9, and we find this fact clearly stated. “Other dates strongly emphasized in Mayan records are March 21 and eptember 23, the points of _the quinoxes, and December 22 and June the points of the solstices Three A THREE DAYS' COUGH IS YOUR ~ DANGER SIGNAL, |l Chronle coughs and persistent colds lead to serious lung trouble. 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C. in an effore to ~Feconstruct the conditions of the natural year at the epoch of the Mayan un.z Accordin to our calendar, they reached April 8 instead of April 9, but careful figuring shows that the Mayas were correct, while our pres- ent calendar ls a day out in about 3300 years. Then to make the co- incldence unmistakable, the Mayas added 273,920 days to this true April 9 and reached December 33, 2619 B. C., which is exactly the day of the winter solstice. —_— A Pardonable Error. From the London Passing Show. The Chalrman—We, however, who are gathered here owe it to our tradi- tions, owe it to our convictions, owe it to our dignity, owe It to our fam- flies— The Hard of Hearing—Excuse me, but s this & mesting of creditors? 3‘&&%‘5&%’%’ ; home. The Postman will friends. endure. while you pay for it. &@%%%W%WWWWWW%%@K@%%@Z& Special Announcement by - The Hub Furniture Company! 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