Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1932, Page 10

"A—10 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932, e — TRACES DEFINITION *= jcosts, even in times of inflated tory tribunals so long as earnest- ly contended.” But the brief seeks to offset the most of reproduction inflationary aspects labor struction than resulted from actual experience of the utility, because many delays incident to the method followed on original construction would have een avoided. MAYAN AND ASIATIC claims be borne out fully by future investigation, Dr. Walde dragon of China and the feathered snake of the American tropics will be the key that opens the door of kinship. It was the feathered snake in the history of the Mayas, just as the ro- believes the | setta stone led to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the consensus has been that ft was merely a conglomeration of astro- nomical signs without word meaning wings, or dragon, is considered a union between heaven and earth, but the difference is that Quetzalcoatl is a god of virtue, while the dragon is one of wrath. | _Applying the key syllables found in i 7} |and ‘material prices, by insistance on 5 the “single impulse” theory of repro- duction. According to this theory, the entire property of the utilities being valued at reproduction ust be considered to have b e t from | the ground up at one fell swoop with- out the higher costs naturally inciden- tal to piecemeal construction and tal ing full advantage of the savings made possible through purchases of large quantities of materials in a short time and the smaller carrying charges nec- essery as interest during construction. It would be possible to take advantage of reduced costs possible through the invention of labor-saving devices and new methods of work. The brief says on this point: “The assumption that present condi- tions will exist permits the reprodu tion of the property under one single impulse and obviates the necessity of |any consideration of the piecemeal or | desultory methods of construction which may have been employed in original | construction. The mere fact that the | plant may have been bu |a time in a rather haph: or just grew, ‘like Topsy, justify the use of sim r methods of construction in the tion of cost of reproduction “Normally the application of the ingle impulse theory on reproduction uld result in a shorter period of con- Dr. Walde studied the Borgian Codex among others in the library, and when he was asked to become assistant li- brarian here, he kept it in mind The Austrian’s task here was {o help bring order out of the chaos of old volumes in the National Library. In his work he was lucky enough to find four dictionaries of Indian languages They had been carefully compiled by Catholic missionaries trying to convert the bronzed men of the jungle in the days of the Conquistadores. At first Dr. Walde met with rio suc- cess when he applied the words in the dictionaries to a photostatic copy of the codex, but noting the frequency of the feathered snake, and its similarity to the dragon, he tried Sanscrit, Chinese and Japanese. Results came quickly. Transition of Word. The feathered snake is the great creator god of the Mayans, and origi- | nally was Kukulcan. “Kuku” is their word for the guetzal bird, and “can mean: ke. The Mixtecs and Toltecs, who perpetuated and veneered the an religion, literally translated ulcan into Quetzalcoatl, or Ketzal- 1, and he became the primary god most Indians. The first part of the |ancient priestly historian _wrote word signifies heaven, through its bird | story of that connection. I hope I m root, and earth thrnuuh its snake root. | have the good fortune to assist in read- Likewise, in Chin: h Tpent with | ing that hists famous Borgian Codex, which now is in the Vatican Library, that set Dr Walde on the right tracks, and it was unexpected task of cataloguir m'l<(\ volumes in the national library here that enabled him to pursue his theory. the missionaries’ dictionaries, Dr. Walde started deciphering the Borgian Codex | and was astonished to find recurring syllables in it, too. For many months he pored over the photostat, and finally evolved more than 100 syllables, 84 of which he believes he can translate. Thus he broke the snake-bird gv)d' name into the syllables Ke-tza-1-co-: and went on until he could {mns‘atx the first phrases of the codex, thus: “When Ketzalcoatl, god and rewarder | of mankind, came first to earth he laughl— Dr. Walde thinks the word “sacrifice” comes next, since an eagle absorbing blood is the next character in the codex. | Believes He Has Key. “I am certain,” he said, “that the signs of the Mixtecs will give me the | bases for decipherment of the Mayan hieroglyphics with which I think they have close relationship, both most prob- | ably having the same origin | “Then would come the proof of the link between Mayan and tongues Somewhere, some dn) “On reproduction there is a more efficient utilization of superviscry offi- cers and forces. Excessive costs of con- struction, due to interference from op- eration of a part of the plant already constructed, as in the case of replace- ments, alterations, extensions and addi- tions, would be obviated. Material and | labor costs would be those reasonably prevailing on a large undertaking, such as might be performed under contract, rather than the normally higher prices paid for maintenance or repair work done by company forces. Advantage could be taken of the economies result- ing from quantity purchases. Costly trials and experiments usually incident to the evolution of a smoothly func- v plant would not LANGUAGES LINKED Scientist Deciphers Part of Borgian Codex After Lingual Study BY CHARLES E. HARNER. (Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press.) BOGOTA, Colombia, April 11.—A Sen- sational theory and partial proof that may link the language of the ancient Mayan Indians of Central America with the tongues of Asia has just been de- veloped here by Dr. Herman Walde- Waldegg of the Colombian \hlmnl brary_after long and arduous Walde believes he not only succeeded in deciphering the hiero- glyphics of the Mixtecs, cousins of the Mayans, but has obtained a measure of proof that they used actual syllables in their writing instead of pure picture writing as heretof; The scientist says the Mixtec writ- ings bear definite relations to Chinese, Should hi Roberts Requests Court to Fix Rules for Guide to Commission. Employed in Library. Here is the coincidence Dr. Walde is an Austrian whose father was the powerful Baron Waldegg. | holder of numerous Austrian estates | before the revolution of 1918. Young Walde, who is now 30, went to Rom and because he spoke 12 modern lan- guages and knew something of Asiatic tongues, got a position as assistant in the Vatican Library. There he studied the Borgian Codex This document is of deer skin, 30 feet long and 2 feet wide. Tradition sa it was found in Mexico in the eight- eenth century and ordered burned as an idolatrous object. but was rescued and muggled to the Vat where it was found among the possessions of Car- dinal Stefano Borgia 1804. It sub- Sequently became a part of the Vatican Library Many famous archeologists worked on its secret »symbols in the hope that it would prove to be the rosetta stone of the New World, that i it would furnish a key to the hidden ALIFORNIA value” of the property of a pub- lic utility, as found by the Public Utili- ties Commission, is not its market value nor its value for taxation, con- demnation, capitalization, consolidation or exchange. It is an & of figures that has but a single use—to allow a court to decide whether a set of rates prescribed by a 1 for a public utility is or is tory. This is the he “argument | in the brief by Assistant Corporation with a petition to tk Court for rules to commission in making valuations in the future | The history of the origin of this con- | cept of “value,” as traced by Mr. Rob- erts, goes back to 1898, when in the famous case of Smythe vs. Ames Jus- tice Harlan, writing the opinion for the d Stafes Supre s at many points the original of the plant as constructed, aside from the mere cifference in price levels, would not necessarily correspond with the cost of reproduction under a rea- sonable and economical program of con- struction on the single impulse theory.” “ASERVICE INSTITUTION” MISSOURI PACIFIC STAGES Auxiliary to Missouri Pacific Railroad be proved between them. An improvement in the metal and “And somewhere, I feel certain, som allied industries of Scotland was pre- dicted by R. M. Kirkwood, president of the Ironmongers' Federated Associa- I tion, during an address at a dinner in Edinburgh recentl: OLD GOLD'S “NOT A COUGH IN A CARLDAD ™ CONTEST 37 5 OOin CASH PRIZES for the best Dt hay ) b ln the reasonable: rged by a corp a highway under & must be the fair e of the property being used by it for the conve . of the public.’ AL further back, it the Supreme Court tes for public utilf legislative matter, in which the courts would take no part, and that ii the actions of the legislature did not suit the utilities the place to get relief was at the polls and not in the courts, Thus in 1876 in the case of Munn vs. Illinois the court said “We know that this is a power (to fix Tates) which may be abused, but that is no argument against its exist- ence. For protection against abuses by legisiatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts.” In another case decided the same year the court said: “Where property has been clothed with a public interest the legislature may fix a limit to that which shall in law be reasonable for its use. This limit binds the court as well as the If it has been improperly fixed, gislature, not the co uu calculations . of rates to be ve Matter. is found ct principle, however, to the brief, the court after- took the position that where the legiclature fixed rates which would estroy” a utility the courts would step in and declare the statute invalid. If an_act of the State, would be in conflict with the fourt amendment. If an zct of Cong the Public Utilities Commission it would be in conflict with the amendment This principle first was stated in the case of Stone vs. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. in 1885. From then until 1898 the court laid down no standard b¥ which it could be deterined whether the utility was troyed.” Many subsequent have refined the stancard, a! s outlines are ex- accordin, ward shru fifth hough preme Court has steadfastly refused to prescribe specific rules for the determination of fair value, and (has) said: ‘The ascertainment of that wvalue is not controlled by artificial rules. It i5 not a matter of formulas, but there must be reasonable judgment, having its basis in a proper considera- tion of the relevant facts Key to the Doctrine. That sentence ylelds the key to the doctrine of the brief. The instructions &n)ed for relate to the specific facts to found, and to those facts and -inter- pretations of facts which may be or must be ignored. Once the commis- sion has the proper facts before it, ac- cording to the brief, the commission need not analyze the exact mental process at which it arrives at the final valuation figure, nor will the court in reviewing the valuation review these mental processes. Of recent years, at least up to the time of the collapse of the stock and ‘What makes the OLp GoLp reprocuction cost as the true measure ¢ of .their value for rate making pur- poses, and the Supreme Court has held that reproduct cost is one of the elements to be considered in arriving at sueh a value. Wkether the utilities will continue to in: current_cost the face of their enormous decline is But fo ction cost b answers to this question: Ames the investment is entitled to cons Nevert in the p intruded court rejected the i the basis of valu: Bell Telephone Co. Commission), which vigorous dissent of The decision has bee cent cases. 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