Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1925, Page 13

FINDS SOLUTON | OF OLDESTPUZLE Dr. J. Walter Fewkes Discov- ers How Ancient Greeks and { fIndians Amused Selves. The oldest puzzle In the world has been solved by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, head of the Bureau of American Eth- ology of the Smithsonian Institution. Vot only is it the most an it test ©f human Ingenuity, but it reappears ¥hroughout history in a strange fash- lon, possibly with some mystical sig- pifilcance which Dr. Fewkes has not Bttempted to deduce. The puzzle occurs first in Greek Enythology, where it is preserved in the story of labyrinth from the intri- cate mazes of which none ever escaped. Dr. Fewkes finds the design first on a Cretan coin which dates baok probably 1,600 vears or more before the Trojan war. Used fn Churches. Tts next appearance is in the Hesign of some mediaeval churches ¥urope, where it had a mystical col- oring. It was called “The Road to Jerusalem,” and was followed about the church as a penance, the various lanes being iInterspersed with sta- Lions for pravers The “labyrinth” came to Dr. Fewkes attention when it was dis- covered in the designs of the Hopi In@ians of Arizona and their ancient | ancestors. In excavating some of the ©ld Indian rub Fewkes came upon the design on rocks and quesy tioned some of the present- In- dians, These remembered it only as & part of tribal tradition and asso- piated it with a game rather than as & method of punishment or as asso- Biated with a religious rite. On Indian Basketry. Dr. Fewkes next discovered it on gome Indian basketry and set to work Lo find out what it was ajl about. He believes that the Indians ob- tained the idea fro sme of the followers of earl panish explorers or from the Spa mission priests, discarding the theory that it may in- dicate some connection between the Arizona tribes and the people of an- | cient Crete, who might have co to the New World thousands of years before Columbus by way of the lost| continent of Atlantis. There is a| possibility of this theory, Dr. Fewkes | said, but the Spanish explanation fits, In better with the known facts Covered 50 Acres. Some of the Indian labyrinths cov- ered as much a: 0 acr In the game probably the person who was *it" was placed inside the la and then made to find his without stepping across a lines. With 20 or 30 engaged in #ame effort, a mixed-up mess indeed | would have resulted. It is possible that individuals may | have been placed in the labyrinth as| a fainor punishment and forced to find their way out, being placed on their own honor not to cut across the lines. It is likely that one would become very badly involved before finding an outlet Dr. Fewkes worked a long time in pare hours tc solve the “laby- Naturally it is difficult and te. The ingenuity of 4,000 years is tied up in it. But when one gets the idea, says Dr. Fewkes, it all ‘works out with beautiful simplicity. Dr. Fewkes now is p g a paper on the subject, to be i ed as a bu- reau bulletin. PLANS HOTEL IN PARIS. New York Builder May Erect 1,000-Room Hostelry. NEW YORK, March 28.—Joseph E. Gilbert, who borrowed railway fare from Cleveland to New York his city’s skyscrapers, announced today as he sailed on the Paris that he was considering building in Paris a 1,000~ room hotel. Tt would be the biggest hotel in Paris, he said I T Now is the time for somebody to ®tep up and invent a permanent shave. S, i I e 0 2 5 ey ) cp"f;’&, R N S & Design on Indian work which has been traced by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, head of the Bureau of Americ Kthnology, to the labarynths of Indians. There is n strange resemblance, it is stated, between the design and those assoclated with Greek history. ARGENTINE 1924 TRADE SHOWS GREAT INCREASE Favorable Balance Between Im- ports and Exports Revealed by Government. By the Associated Press. BU AIRES, March 28.—Ar- gentina's foreign trade for 1924 show- ed a large favorable balance and in- creased volume, aocording to Sta- tistics published by the government today The total v the ye: pesos, compared to 1,639, the provious year. Imports for 1924 totaled 828,708,000 gold pesos, as compared with 869 430,000 for 1923, while exports aggre gated 1,011,394,000 gold pesos, a pared with 771,361,000 for 1923, le: ing a favorable trade balance of 1 685,000 gold pesos. Bulgaria Shortens Names. Correspondence of the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, February Under instructions from the ministr; of the interior, the local authorities throughout Bulgaria are renaming many towns, rejecting the foreign nomenclatura that has existed in some instances for centuries. Che results, so fa reported, in- a that the villagers are selecting names conspicuous for euphony and brevity. The movement has the ap- proval of the Bulgarian Institute of Mapmaking. lue of the foreign trade was 1,840,104,000 gold 1,000 for MISSING MOTHER DEAD. Discovered When Baby, Thought Abandoned, Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 28 —Fate must have laughed ironically when Daniel McGuire was born prematurely six weeks ago. Unable to care for her baby because of her duties as secre- tary, Mrs. Margaret McGuire, 25, took Daniel to the home of Mrs. Helen A. Volk. Mrs. McGuire failed to visit her baby last week. Believing he had been deserted, Mrs. Volk took Danid® to Bellevue Hospital, where he died today. 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