Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1934 — Page 7

JUNE 12, 1934.

It Seems to Me HEYWOODBEWN CHICAGO, June 12—“ Here lam again, doctor,” I said to Ernie Byfield, the old fur trapper of the College Inn, “and I’m all rested up and ready to be taken to the hall of science at the Century of Progress.’ “There has been no progress,” said Mr. Byfield bitterly, “not in a hundred years or a thousand. You apparently are here for pleasure and wholly indifferent to the educational features of the fair.” “Possibly” I remonstrated, “you did not hear me correctly. I suggested as our goal the hall of science and I wpuld be glad to stop on the way at the building where the public is allowed to observe the manner in which Ford cars are made.” “You should have come last year when we had Sally Rand,” answered Ernie, still in an ugly mood. “I speak for education,” I interjected. “So do I,” responded Mr. Byfield briskly. “Miss Sally Rand was the apothesis and the epitome of the American success

story. We shall not look upon her like again. Personally her figure did not appeal to me. As a dancer she was something less than Pavlow r a, but she served to co-ordinate the fair and give it a meaning. I feel that this is culture’s last stand. Marx and the machine age are upon us. America has become class conscious and forgotten sex.” I demurred. tt tt tt He Misses Sally “ j jAVE you heard a good JIX dirty story in the last

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year?” demanded Mr. Byfield fiercely. “Have you been shocked or outraged by anything in a book or play within a decade?” I was forced to blush and hang my head and admit that I had not. ‘‘lt is,” said Mr. Byfield, “the beginning of the end. I have been studying the history of Sparta, Oliver Cromwell and the pilgrims and it is my wellconsidered opinion that all these places and people fell because they tried to subordinate sex to less important issues. I still insist that we miss Sally Rand. I know that in a financial way she has received her just rewards from vaudeville and picture houses, but the colleges and universities have overlooked her. Not one has selected Miss Rand as the recipient of an honorary degree.” “Such as what?” “Well, I'll grant that Litt’s D„ L. L. D. or, Ph. D. all might be inappropriate. I would suggest that Sally Rand be made the first holder of the title, W. F. D.” “Meaning what?” “Doctor of wish-fulfillment. May I explain? The chair hears no objection and will proceed. Edmund Burke more than a century ago made a famous speech in which he said that nobody could do something or other to an entire nation. Sigmund Freud had not yet been born to outline the amount of territory which the subconscious can cover. I hold that Sally Rand served to make America sex-con-scious. It is my theory that of the millions who saw her, many who never had the opportunity of being introduced to the young lady, went away with the firm impression that they had known her. “I hold that in a machine age this was a far more useful piece of propaganda than any illustration of the manner in which automobiles are made or assembled. Boys from the wheat farms of the middle west went back home with ideas which they can not get now from Mr. Ford’s exhibition or the show put on by General Motors.” tt tt tt A Horse Is Barred “YOU have said,” I threw in a sort of rhetorical 1 interruption, “that Miss Rand typified the American success story. Will you please elucidate?” “Sally Rand was an inconspicuous figure in the show world of Chicago and Hollywood for several years before the Century of Progress gave her an opportunity. She was quick to seize it. The annual ball of the outlaw - artist was to be held at one of the lesser hotels and Miss Rand gallantly consented to appear on a white horse as Lady Godiva. “At the last minute the assistant manager of the hotel was adamant. ‘That white horse can not come into my hotel,’ he said raising an outraged and forbidding hand at the very entrance to the lobby.‘Everybody else seems to be getting in,’ objected Miss Rand severely. ‘This horse is the first gentleman to be barred at your portals this evening.’ But the assistant hotel manager was not to be moved. “ ‘We never have had a horse in this hotel,’ he kept repeating, ‘and we never will.’ Miss Rand's horse had been shot from under her but like Meade at Gettysburg, Miltiades at Marathon and Joffre at the Marne, she carried on. ‘Bring me,’ she cried, ‘a table and four bus boys.’ The table was easy and the bus boys even more so. A dozen carried her into the hall in triumph. Chicago had made its answer to the puritan inhibitions of the world.” . (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

FOR some time it has been known that workers in foundries where brass is made and where zinc is smelted develop symptoms of disease which are known to them by common trade names, such as brass ague, spelter shakes and brass chilis. Usually, a few hours after a worker has been exposed to the fumes in the plant, he begins to feel ill. This seldom occurs in the foundry, but more often when the man has reached home. The attacks are more frequent in the winter, perhaps because chilliness of the body may be associated, but also no doubt because the plants are not so well ventilated in winter as in the summer. Sometimes the attack comes on just after the person has undressed and has gone to bed between cold sheets. Then a chill comes on and the patient’s throat gets dry, he coughs, and has a feeling of oppression. U tt tt USUALLY, if he will take a warm bath immediately on reaching home, he may avoid the chill. Presently his whole body begins to shake and after the chill passes he sweats and is more or less prostrated. He seldom has high fever, but the temperature may go up to 101. By the next morning the patient will probably feel well enough to go back to work, and he may not have another attack until the same combination of circumstances develops. Altogether, however, a study of workers with brass shows that their health is below the average among workers of their class. The dust produced by grinding and polishing brass or bronze does not appear to cause severe symptoms. It is the fumes primarily that are responsible. a a tt WORKERS with brass, however, do develop frequent cuts and scratches which become infected and which they then claim are due to brass poisoning. There seems to be no doubt as to whether a cut made by brass heals more slowly than one made by steel, but the majority of workers have this opinion. Incidentally, symptoms which are much the same as those associated with the inhaling of brass fumes or zinc also develop with other metals. One worker was able to produce the same amount of chills by inhaling magnesium oxide, and it is also well established that the inhaling of mercury vapor may be followed by similar symptoms.

From the Record

HALF-AND-HALF Representative E. E. Cox (Bern., Ga.)—Miss Smith marries Mr. Jones, and they have a child. Is it a Jones or is it a Smith? Representative Kent Keller (Dem., 111.)—It is both. Representative Cox—That is exactly what happens under this bill. If the mother marries a Ger-the-child-is-both-an American antiya German.

PARADE OF PRINCESSES PASSES

And the Prince of Wales, Nearing 40, Remains Bachelor

BY MILTON BRONNER Times NEA Service Writer. LONDON, June 12—On June 23, Edward Albert, prince of Wales, will celebrate his fortieth birthday, and on that day he’ll find England just about resigned to the belief that he will never marry. Even the rumors of his marriage, which have popped up in the papers with great regularity ever since the prince came of age, have been singularly absent during the last year. Practically every eligible princess in Europe has been rumored as engaged to Wales from time to time, but one by one they themselves have married while the prince went his solitary way. Few eligible princesses of Wales’ age are left. The Princess Astrid of Sweden, often mentioned in former days as a possible mate for Britain’s heir, married the youthful Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, and became his queen when he recently succeeded to the throne on the death of his father,-Albert. They already have three children, one born only a week ago. ts tt tt tt tt tt THE Princess Giovanna, daughter of the king of Italy, was at one time suggested as a bride for Wales, but she, too, married, and now reigns as queen, wife of King Boris of Bulgaria, and mother of a daughter of her own. The Princess Ileana, daughter of famous Queen Marie of Rumania, married the Archduke Anton von Hapsburg, and has already borne him an heir. And the Princess Marie Jose of Belgium married handsome Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, and is expected to present him shortly with a potential heir to Italy’s throne. Few really eligible princesses remain. The Crown Princess Juliana of Holland is scarcely a possibility, for she must rule Holland herself one day, and her husband will be only the prince consort. tt tt tt a tt tt PERHAPS the most actively eligible is the charming Princess Ingrid of Sweden, 24, and partly English by ancestry. She spends much time in England, visiting relatives there, and has often been linked with Wales by fond rumor-mongers. Three Danish princesses, sisters, are all young and pretty and have the democratic manners so notable in the prince of Wales himself. They are Feodora, Caroline, and Louise. Maria, youngest daughter of the king of Italy is still unmarried, and so are the two strikingly handsome daughters of exiled King Alphonso of Spain, Beatrice and Maria Christina. Nearer Wales’ age is the Hapsburg Princess Eudoxia, sister of King Boris of Bulgaria. tt tt tt tt tt tt THE decline of royal houses in Europe and the marriage of numbers of eligible princesses has cut down the list greatly. And there is not even a well-grounded rumor to indicate that Wales has serious intentions toward any of them. So England resigns itself to the possibility of a bachelor king, and lavishes on the little Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Wales’ younger brother, the Duke of York, all the love it would like to have kept for a more direct heir. Even rumors of a marriage for Britain’s prince have died down. He might marry tomorrow, but there is no reason to expect it. At 40, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David seems a surer bet than ever before to be a bachelor king when his time comes to ascend the throne of his fathers.

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

TT WASHINGTON, June 12. — The ten-year plan of Soviet Russia V\ and Hitler’s plan for the rejuvenation of Germany have come in for close study by the new planning commission of the Roosevelt administration. . . . The commission functions under the interior departmen, but is being steered chiefly by Professor Rex Tugwell. . . . Several experts, one of them a professor from Brown university, have been hired to set up a plarf. ... A definite plan for the new deal was urged upon Roosevelt recently by John Maynard Keynes and Sir Stafford Cripps. . . . Keynes especially urged that Roosevelt spend more government money during the summer when there is a seasonal slump. He said that government spending without too much increase in taxation was the way to get business started. . . . The day after he showed this to Roosevelt the latter sent word to Capitol Hill for certain changes in the deficiency appropriation bill whereby the RFC’s unexpended money may be used by the President. This gives him tremenduous

power for inflationary spending. Some time ago General John J. Pershing had his teeth pulled at Walter Reed hospital. . . . Since that time an army sergeant who works at the dental clinic has been selling Pershing’s teeth as souvenirs. The report is that he sold 500. PRESSURE from munitions companies is increasing to make the senate investigation of the industry an inocuous performance. So far none of the committee has weakened. ... In fact they are looking around for personnel which can be absolutely trusted. They contemplate that many attempts will be made to arrange “leaks” to the committee.' . . . The senate munitions probe committee already has begun secrete investigation of American arms sales to the Chaco war game cocks, Bolivia and Paraguay, and plans to hold its first public hearings early in the fall on these findings. ... An “expose” of the United States military academy is planned by a West Point graduate on the day of graduation. ... He is Robert Wohlforth and he has written a book, “Tin Soldiers,” describing life at West Point. it tt tt THE justice department thinks it has the identities of the Lindbergh baby kidnapers. . . . Their apprehension is only a matter of time—provided they aren’t killed, or commit suicide. . . . According tb one report an inner department of justice quarters at least one of the guilty already has been done away with by fearful accomplices. The labor department is all aflutter. Secretary Perkins has anew hat. . . . Her usual somber tri-corner has made way for a trim black affair with brim and white trimmings. . . . Invitations to dinner, or social affairs, at the White House always are delivered by messenger in specially-ad-dressed envelopes. . . . White House chauffeurs are used to deliver the much-prized invitations. Air mail snags continue to plague the administration. . . . The latest is the discovery of a provision in the recently enacted air mail measure barring any company from carrying mail on more than three routes after Oct. 1. . . . The restriction was inserted in the act unbeknown to postoffice officials while the measure was in conference. ... Asa result of it the government will be unable to accept three record low bids by the American Airlines, as this company is already operating three routes. tt tt tt KANSAS’ attractive Congresswoman, Mrs. Kathryn McCarthy, is famous for her Parker House rolls, and has had a number of requests from women’s magazines for the recipe . . . Another of her culinary specialties is swiss steak which she prepares in a special way . . . Rex Tugwell dislikes beer. He has nothing against the beverage, but the smell of it always reminds him of an unhappy period during his youth . . . The No. 1 Brain Truster was an unsuccessful aspirant for a place on his high-school football team. The practice field was behind a brewery. u tt tt TWO former bootleggers and one ex-con man have jobs with the AAA. All three were recommended by congressmen. .

Ludo Pickett, brother of Deets Picket, one time executive secretary of the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals, also has a job in the same outfit. . . . Representative Johnson of West Virginia, good friend of Chester Davis, AAA administrator, tops all records in placing his constituents with the AAA. . . . One of them, a 230pound football player just out of college, takes great delight in plaguing the elderly civil service employes, chiefly women. His chief amusement is cracking offcolor jokes just in back of them and then slapping them on the back with a huge hand if they don’t show sufficient appreciation of his humor. . . . One man, who once was bodily thrown out of Pat Harrison’s office for insulting the senator from Mississippi, succeeded in getting himself promoted recently from a $1,440 job to sl,620. ... He had got notice that he was about to be fired, and he promptly informed his superior: “Fire me and you have to fire Pat Harrison”. . . . Probably there are few people Pat would prefer to have ousted from government service. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Postal Official Named By United Press WASHINGTON, June 12.—Smith W. Purdum, Hyattsville, Md., was appointed fourth assistant postmas-ter-general today, succeeding Williman Evans, who resigned to reengage in private business.

SIDE GLANCES

“She wanted a fancy church wedding, but he didn’t. They had a big quarrel over it and decided to call the whole thing off^jf

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Ileana, daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania, with her infant son tho Archduke Stephen, heir of Archduke Anton von Hapsburg. / mm\ ( 9 A Queen Giovanna of Bulgaria, once Italy’s princess, now wife of King Boris, with her daughter the Princess Marie Luise.

MERCATOR CLUB MAPSPROGRAM Expansion Plans Laid at International Session Here. Program for expansion of the Mercator Club International was drawn up at the opening session of the thirteenth annual convention in the Lincoln yesterday. The plan provides for division of states into districts, responsible to district governors, and formation of new clubs in second and third-class cities and smaller communities. More than 100 delegates from the various clubs registered yesterday. Ernest C. Ropkey, city council president, gave the welcoming address. Godfrey D. Yaeger, Indianapolis president, delivered his annual report. Officers were to be elected at the business session this morning. Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht, Indianapolis, was to be the principal speaker at the luncheon in the Columbia Club today.

SAFETY OF OFFICIAL DEMANDED BY JAPAN Vice-Counsel Feared Slain, Kidnaped in China. By United Press NANKING, June 12.—Japan demanded today that China guarantee the safety of Hidekai Kuramoto, missing Japanese vice-consul, as Japanese warships sped toward Nanking to protect nationals. An extremely delicate situation has developed in Sino-Japanese relations as a result. The order came after three days of unsuccessful search for Kuramoto, who was last seen at the railroad station, where he bade farewell to Japanese minister Ariyosji. Japanese officials said that Ihey were sending the warships to the capital to reassure Japanese nationals, who are reported “nervous.” They believe Kuramoto kidnaped or slain. ,

By George Clark

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Studio portrait by Foulsham & Banfield, Ltd., Old Bond St., London. Copyright in U. S. A. and Canada by Acme Newspictures. Inc. Edward Albert, Prince of Wales,

TODAY and TOMORROW tt tt tt tt tt tt By Walter Lippmann

EVER since the end of the honeymoon period, sometimes in the late summer of last year, there has existed a powerful body of opinion which has held that under the guise of emergency relief and social reform the administration was deliberately establishing a Socialistplanned economy. This has been the view which Mr. Mark Sullivan has expounded so sincerely and so persistently. It was the view which Dr. Wirt put forward so spectacularly. It is the view 7 which the Republican party in its recent meeting at Chicago has adopted officially.

It has been based, in part, on remarks made at various times by some of Mr. Roosevelt’s lieutenants. But these would have made no great impression had it not been possible to make a case by pointing to the new measures as evidence that the administration was opposed to private enterprise for private profit. Thus it was possible to take all the tremendous powers of regimentation in the agricultural act, the tremendous powers of the NRA, the original securities act and the first stock exchange bill, and argue that the net effect was to dry up private enterprise and to centralize initiative in Washington. The extreme interpretation of these measures was that they were designed to prevent recovery and thus force the country in the direction of state socialism. a tt THE other view, which is the one I have subscribed to in these columns, was that there was no conspiracy, but that there was confusion which produced destructive contradictions. On the one hand, the administration was seeking to stimulate recovery by bringing prices into equilibrium with costs, thus inducing profits —through the revaluation of the dollar, through expenditures which created new purchasing power—and, on the other hand, it was throwing prices out of balance by the price-fixing provisions of the codes, by raising labor costs before the volume of business had increased, and was blocking new purchasing power by locking up the private capital market through the excessive zeal of the securities act. - It never has seemed to me that these policies were designed to prevent recovery, though they were in fact retarding it. I have believed that the obstructive aspects of NRA were the result of an honest, widely held, but thoroughly mistaken theory that it was possible to achieve recovery by restricting output and at the same time redistributing the income of industry. As for the original securities act, I have believed that its punitive features reflected the hysteria of the depression, and also that it received most of its support in the administration from the view, which is characteristic of all depressions, that the country was overbuilt and did not really need an active private capital market. This interpretation is much less neat and logical than Mr. Sullivan’s doctrine of planned revolution, but I believe it to be much nearer to the truth. tt tt tt IN any event, we now have before us a series of acts and decisions which go a long way toward correcting those very measures which Mr. Sullivan has regarded as steps in a deliberate revolution and others among us as mistakes which were retarding recovery and causing confusion. We have the securities act and the stock exchange bill amended sufficiently to make it perfectly clear whatever defects they may still have, that they are measures to protect the investor and not instruments for destroying private finance. We have four momentous decisions in NRA. The first is the abandonment of the licensing, clause, which takes out of the act the ultimate power of compulsion. The second is the decision to get rid of the codes in the service industries, thus removing from the field of regimentation those enterprises which are local in character and most highly competitive. The third is the decision to give

up the price-fixing features of the codes and to strengthen the regulation of price-fixing in those industries which are naturally quasimonopolistic. The fourth is the decision to interpret Section 7A, the collective bargaining clause, as the basis of anew form of labor representation, based not on the international craft unions, but on plants and industries. We have definite recognition by the President that abnormal expenditure is being carried on only until private expenditure can supplant it; that, in other w 7 ords, it is compensatory and not permanent. His explicit statement that he is relying upon “private investment and private initiative to relieve the government,” is substantiated by the administration housing bill, which is a most ingenious scheme for encouraging private investment when it would do the most good in re-employing labor and making business profitable. tt a tt

LOOKING at these decisions as a whole, there can be little doubt as to where the administration means to go. it does not mean to go in the direction which Mr. Sullivan and the Republican party have feared that it was going. Yet I believe it is only fair to say that the administration has benefited greatly, by being forced to think out its policy, from the kind of criticism raised by Mr. Sullivan and others. They have greatly overstated the case, but they have made a case. On many great matters the administration was headed, though I believe more through confusion of mind than anything else, in directions that led nowhere or to considerable dangers, and it has been a public benefit to have an opposition which could make itself so effective. It would be a mistake to believe that all the confusion has been cleared away. We may be reasonably certain that it has not been. But that the basic conceptions of the new deal as to how to obtain recovery are more intelligible and more mature than they were six months ago is certain. Experience has been the great teacher. But the program has been considerably improved by being hammered out on the anvil of debate. Asa result, the foundations on which to erect the measures, to enhance the security of the individual, to which the Presiednt committed himself in his message of June 8, have been made much more adequate. The prospects of recovery are very much better, and it is upon recovery that the more far-reach-ing measures of protection and stabilization depend. Copyright, 1934

MASS MURDER SUSPECT GUARDED DURING QUIZ Old World Feud Blamed in Slaying of Five in California. By United Press SUSANVILLE, Cal., June 12. Scores of deputy sheriffs guarded the Lassen county jail against threatened violence today while authorities questioned Pete Alosi, 45, sawmill worker, in the mass slaying of five persons. Authorities believe the slayings an aftermath of a family vendetta originating in far-off Sicily and carried into California by immigrants. The victims w'ere Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fazio, each 45; their son, John, 26; their daughter, Sadie, 22, and Mrs. Anna Amistani, 42, a family friend. All had been stabbed and -hacked with a twelve-inch knife.

Fdir Enough msmiKHIB WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12.—Any one who has read one or more of a hundred versions of the truth about Russia in the last fifteen years has a pretty definite idea of the sort of people the Russians are. The Russians wear bears, boots and smocks, tear fish with their hands, chuck debris over their shoulders to be ground into the floor which never is scrubbed or swept and come away from the plain plank board which is the characteristic Russian table wiping their hands on their trousers.

A queer, plain, simple people, the Russians, who bother themselves not at all with the pretty, hut artificial amenities and fixings of life as the aristocrats and bourgeoise know it. It said so in a thousand books and Sunday supplement articles of the expose type. It said terrible things about the Riissians in these books and articles. Your correspondent had read many of these honest, straight - from - the - shoulder revelations and therefore was prepared to rough it when the invitation came to break bread, probably black bread, at the Russian embassy.

This would be an experience and, although the invitation said “informal” there was a question of costume, at that. “Informal” in the burgeoisie meaning of the word would mean business dress but the Soviet embassy is the American outpost of the Russian proletariat and American business dress might be offensively fastidious in such an atmosphere. > tt tt tt Another Disillusionment THERE were some masquerade costumers in town who might have some Russian tackle for hire, including moujik whiskers, but perhaps it would be all right to wear an old suit and just let the socks fall down and not take too much pains with the adjustment of the necktie. Your correspondent always is being disillusioned. On the Mississippi river he met a characteristic steamboat captain who spoke politely to his deck hands and didn’t utter swear words even when his school of iron barges grounded on a bar. Primo Carnera had turned out intelligent, gent>?manly and even witty. And now, at the door of the embassy of the U. S. S. R„ instead of any muddy peasant or hairy lumberjack, a butler in the conventional butlers rig stood by, taking the hats and directing the people upstairs. Maybe this was the wrong embassy. But that couldn’t be so because there, hanging in dignity from the golden ballustrade was the hammer-and-sickle device on a silken banner. 'And red was the color of the furniture, the carpets and the hangings. Red was everywhere, proud, confident and decorous. tt tt u A Leftover Embassy YJUT, of course, this embassy was an inheritance f. ro ™ th ® Russia of the czars. The Soviets adn t built it. If the Soviets had been starting fresh, possibly their embassy would have been a cabin out on the edge of town. But when they took over their country, their embassy properties in foreign capitals were included in the change of management and it were a foolish affection to abanon this beautiful building in which Congressman Hamilton Fish, himself, would have been at ease. Other butlers in considerable numbers helped to present the conventional embassy atmosphere and the occasion, as it proceeded to the coffee, finally seived to destroy % the illusion of a quaint, even brutal, simplicity which had been created by the shuddering perusal of a hundred versions of the horrible truth about Russia. “The smartest ambassador in Washington today,” a voice muttered in your correspondent’s ear. The smartest ambassador in Washington today’ is a small, sallow man with bright, black eyes who has undertaken to bring about a meeting of the minds between red Russia and a country which is ready to go a little more than half way to find a meeting ground. Someone obviously has been misrepresenting Russia and Russians in the truth about the Soviet republic. Your correspondent is not frightened. In fact, as your correspondent left the Soviet embassy, agreeably surprised and wondering how all those unpleasant reports ever got started around the world, he was thinking back to the gray caviar and all, and humming, “Oh, to be in Russia, now that Stalin’s there.” (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE story of man’s rise from savagery to civilization—h)s early gropings to make tools from stone, his eventual conquest of the metals, his development of literature and art, and finally his creation of ethics and religion—is told in an eightreel talking movie just finished by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Its title is “The Human Adventure.” Based upon the fourteen expeditions which the institute has sent to the “fertile crescent”—Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylonia and Persia—the movie is also a summary of the work of this great organization and its world-famous director, D". James Henry Breasted. The movie was three years in the making. Charles Breasted, executive secretary of the institute and son of Dr. Breasted, directed the picture and supplied the voice of the narrator. He made two airplane expeditions in the field and take the necessary seems for the movie. Dr. Breasted is convinced that the “fertile crescent” in which the institute’s expeditions have been working, was the birthplace of civilization. >t a a HERE for example, is a scene of chickens pecking away in what was once the great hall of Xerxes. Here is a paving slab marked with the seal of Sargon the Second. But when the soft slab was set out in the sun to dry. a mongrel dog wandered across it. And so we find the imprint of the mongrel beside the royal seal. The stables where Solomon, who added the breeding of fine horses to his other activities, kept his blooded horses is shown in the movie. So is the remnant of a Stone Age house built 6,000 years ago. Here is a 1,100-ton granite obelisk which was abandoned because of a flaw'. Slaves had cut it out of rock layers by the wearisome use of stone hand-axes only to see their work go to waste. An ironic commentary upon the fate of man’s works at the hands of time is to be found in the fact that many of the glories of the past have been preserved by their own wreckage. Thus, for example, the ashes and crumbling walls of the Persian palace at Fersopolis which Alexander the Great ruthlessly burned, saved the magnificently sculptured double staircase of tm palace. tt tt tt THE movie tells in some detail the work of eight of the institute's fourteen expeditions. After some introductory scenes which present the scientific view of man% evolution, the movie shows the work of the prehistory survey which has been studying the relics of the Stone Age hunters, remote ancestors of the pryamid builders, who were forced into the Nile region by the climatic changes which turned nearly a third of Africa into the great Sahara desert. Next is shown the work at the site of ancient Memphis, where an expedition has been working in the old Egyptian cemetery known as the Sakkara. Here Memphis buried its dead in 3,000 B. C. In the tomb of Mereruka, one of the Memphis lords, the expedition found the oldest-known examples of sculpture and painting in historic times. Subsequent scenes shows the institute’s permanent headquarters at Luxur, 360 miles to the south, where ancient Thebes stood. The next expedition whose work is pictured is that at Megiddo, more popularly known as Armageddon. Megiddo guarded the pass through which invading armies made their way from Africa to Asia since the beginning of mankind. From Megiddo, the story is carried on to the other aoun tries of the fertile crescent. I

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