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NOTES OF THE DAY CODEX SINAITICUS

SLUM CLEARANCE

By DR. A. MINGANA-

As Smaltic

The Very Idea!

BATHTUB BATHOS

THAT'S a bath between

W friends?

Nothing but a hollow por-

Nearly a quarter of a million houses, occupied by over a militon THE purchase of an old manu-j translation known

script of the Bibld may not be Syriac. persons, are to be replaced under

The monastery of Mount Sinai alum clearance schemes submitted considered a great event by the to the Ministry of Health for man in the street. The same may has always been respected by Mor approval. It sounds a lot, but, possibly be said of the pious man hammedan warriors; and having al while representing valuable pro whose only aim in reading his so been out of the reach of the celain division.

Who invented baths? gress, it still falls short of the Bible is to draw from It a healthy Mongol hordes, has proved during its long history to be a veritable full requirements of the situation. nourishment for his soul.

early Christian BAH! Next to the problem of unemploy Although sufficient for all prac. storehouse of ment, no social question in Great tical purposes, the English ver- literature in Greck, Syriac and

Only dirty people bathe Britain has aroused so much slon, as presented to us in chur Arable, and I will not be surprised public feeling during the last ches and schools, exhibits an in-If in the future oven the provon- Those who are not dirty, and twelve months as that of the herent insufficiency for the educat. ance of the Vaticanus le ultimate yet bathe, do it out of pure

flashness. housing of the working classes.ed man anxious to inquire into the dy traced to it.

therefore, from any Clamorous demande for action "how" and the "why" of the text Apart,

other consideration, to possess These thoughts are hava stimulated the Government which he is perusing.

and it must be admitted that the The answer to this "how" and one of the first books that the gendered by a recent law Ministry of Health has successful-"why" is supplied by the critical ingenuity of man has produced is enacted in Russla that every ly brought, prossurd to bear on student, who bases his arguments in itself an event of some im Russian must bathe at least once local authorities and building on three different sets of proofs: portance.

alations.

societies, and that the resulta in the manuscripts, the patristic The above two Greek MSS. of a month.

Those under ten and over 60 many respecta have been gratify quotations and the ancient tran- the whole of the Bible are often

called by the name of the place in are exempt, also those possessing Ink. The problem is twofold:

they were found: the their own bathrooms, which, It. pulling down blocks of dwellings The best and most authoritative which not fit to be inhabited, and, of these proofs is undoubtedly the Vaticanus because found in the is presumed, are used. Becondly, providing a sufficient Orst-that is to say, the argument Vatican, and the Sinaiticus be number of new houses for lotting derived from manuscripts, because! cause discovered in the monastery at a price which the poorer mom the older a manuscript is the of Mount Sinai by the celebrated bors of the population can afford nearer it brings us to the period Biblical acholar, C. Tischendorf.

Both MSS are contemporary and In which the Bible was written.

Tischendorf, who examined them carefully, is of the opinion that the same hand which wrote the Vaticanus can enally be detected in the Sinaiticus.

to pay.

IMMENSE SHORTAGE

WHICH IS THE MORE PRECIOUS?....

THE CRIME OF DIOCLETIAN.

Unfortunately ᏔᏅ have ΠΟ In its plans for slum clearance Biblical MSS. coming down to us the Government has neted with from the first three centuries of energy. The law provides full our era. It is true that we possess

This opinion seems to me pro- powers for ordering the demoli- some papyri fragments of this or tion of insanitary houses, with or that Book of the Old and Now without compensation to owners, Testaments, from the end of the bable from the fact that there according to circumstances. The third century, but no complate were not many scribes of that difficulty has been to induce the Book has come down to us from period who could make good use of parchment as their writing local authoritica to these any of those three centuries.

use

Some scholars lay the blame for material, and it is very likely that powers. The method adopted by The Government has been to call this deficiency at the door of Dlo-the same scribe had a hand in ed the Sacred Books of the Christ-There is also ground for béliev- lans to be destroyed; but I do not ing that these MSS. are the only believe that this act of vandalism two direct descendants that have could by itself account for the dis- come down to us of the 50 large Conatantine ordered in A.D. 380

Chongkong Telegraph. upon all the authorities in the cletian, who, it is reporteil, order-the execution of both MSS.

country to examine the insanitary dwellings in their areas, and to present a programme for demolish- ing them. Of 1717 local bodies thus

called

Bathrooms In Russia are sum- Boxv Perspiration. cient evidence in a case

Some similar action is needed in. Hongkong. Such as:

Ordinance 6714B, sub-section B.O., relating to bathing of bodies: "Be it heretofor wherens'd that inasmuch and so to speak, any person or persons, turning on showers be. -twoon or about the months of

December, January, February,. and March, and standing near shaving cabinets, well away from showers, and saying. 'Br-r-r-rl' and singing 'Annie Laurie' afterwards coming out of bathroom, or rooms, and saying that there is nothing like a cold shower to freshen one up, shall be fined a maxi- mum of $100 or a fortnight. God Save the King." Any man who does more than In this weather

upon, nearly all have appearance of all the Biblical copies of the Scriptures which bathe his eyes

MSS.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934.

replied satisfactorily and as an LEAGUE REFORM

nounced yesterday programmes I hold that few complete MSS. to be carefully written for the use should be in a monastery. And

bather? for pulling down 224.000 houses of the Bible were transcribed be of the churches of the new metro-anyhow, what advantage has the

fore the time of Diocletian, for polis, Past experience shows beyond have been submitted. The im

Ho comes from his cold shower, It is very difficult to decide which all reasonable doubt the neces- mense task of providing new the simple resson that we have no sity of radical reform of the dwellings remains. It is cal evidence that the use of parch- of the above two MSS. is more blue, numb, speechless. At the

are some ex-shower was cold this morning!". League of Nations if it is to be culated that there is a shortage of ment-the only material on which ancient, and consequently more office he says, "My word, tho

about a million dwellings, and a book could then be written-had valuable. There

And the man who wiped his eyes saved from annihilation. None that in the course of the next sufficiently spread in Asia Minor, traneous points, however, which.

does freshon you up!" the less, the British viewpoint, seven years at least a further Syria and Egypt to warrant us to might slightly outweigh the bal-on a wet sponge says, "Yes, but it. half-million will be needed. One believe in the existence of comance in favour of the Sinaiticus.

So far as the New Testament is Let there be signs put up in all. in which France and Italy con- expert goes so far as to say that plete Biblical MSS. before the bo- concerned and it is mostly in the bathrooms, "Any person bathing cur, that this question is sub-if all the working classes were ginning of the fourth century.

The material used before this domain of the New Testament that here does so at his own risk." sidiary to the more urgent pro-accommodated as well as they

S.0.S.: Not Shiver Our Skins blem of disarmament, should reasonably might be, five and a century was mainly papyrus, and theso MSS. have such find general acceptance. The half million new houses ought to no good book, in the sense in ponderating importance the Sina. but Save Our Soap..

iticus gives us a complete text, Men have been known to slip on- next which we understand the word British Government is pursuing be constructed during the

book, can be written on papyrus. while the Vaticanus lacks many a cake of soap and break their its unremitting efforts to get generation.

The most that a scribe could do important sections, such as I, and necks.

II. Timothy, Titus and Philemon. Be warned! the Powers into line on

with papyrus was to produce al roll and not a book.

an

acceptable disarmament plan, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE hoping to secure such a measure

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THE OVEN..... The Sinaiticus contains also

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Sally, blushing: Really, Sir. Unėle: You are jumping to con-

other way.

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LIMERICK

of agreement as will lead to a

Here again the Government. Is positive step forward. The pre-able to point to some measure of sumption is that, as contemplat-success; 218,000 houses have been

In my opinion, therefore, no some precious glosses that are giving the Ginger Cat for a Christ

mas present? ed in the British Draft Conven- built during the last year (169.000 book has come down to us from missing in the Vaticanus. One of tion, some method of achieving by private enterprise-a record the first three centuries of our these glosses is to the effect that the Minister's era, because not many books were a certain roading which it exhibits disarmament by stages will form which justifies the basis of the latest proposals prophecy that the removal of the written at that time. It was the is that which was transcribed by duslons. I was merely going to

Antoninus the Confessor and age of rolls and not of books, put forward. First of all, how subsidy, and therewith the com- It is only from the fourth cen- collated with Origen's Hexapla by suggest an interesting book or per- ever, the reactions to the British petition of subsidized

could spend his evenings in some overtures will have to be ascer would bring down the cost of tury that there begins the series the holy martyr Pamphilius, when haps an indoor game, so that he

building and induce private cater of the innumerable MSS. which in prison at Caesarea. tained. It will then be possible prise to embark on big schemes, lie on the shelves of the libraries The account which-Tischendorf to estimate the chances of suc- But the rate of increase, con-

and museums of East and West; has left us on his discovery of this cesa. On the secondary, but siderable as it is, does not satisfy and from the whole of this cen-precious remnant of Christian which Christendom antiquity reads like a page from a none the less necessary, issue of those who

Aware. of the tury, in

He narrates in vivid terms how Bealdes League reform, Signor Mussolini urgency of the need. Private emerged victorious from the Ro- story book, now makes it clear that his chief builders are satisfying the de man persecutions, we only possess

in 1844 he could only get a few Life is real, life is earnest, three MSS.: objective is to strengthen and mands of those who can afford to

The one which has now found leaves of it, which are now in thei render more efficient the ma- bay their houses, but they

a resting place in our national library of Leipzig, and how in 1859 he discovered the greater part of chinery of the League. This is reluctant to embark on the more reassuring. The need for a com- speculative task of erecting amail museum.

Another, which since 1481 has the MS. In the cell of the major- of St. houses to be let at a low rent. So been the most cherished treasure domo of the monastery plete overhauling of that

strong is the public feeling that

Catherine. of the Vatican, machinery has been attested the Government may yet be

He, is emphatic, that its leaves The third, which is preserved in again and again during recent forced to reconsider its attitude years, at no time more so than in regard to the establishment of the monastery of Mount Sinal: a had been cut up to be used for during the prolonged delibera a national housing corporation to Syriac palimpseat, containing in a book-binding purposce, and leaves more or lese complete form the no doubt in our mind that but for ก nation-wide pro-

(Continued on Page 6). tions over the Manchurian affair, undertake The cumbersome procedure then gramme for the mass production four Gospels in the old Syriac adopted not only made the of working-class dwellings. League. handling of the issues

farcical, somewhat

but it definitely ruled out any question of a prompt or satisfactory solu

One of the most remarkable tion of the impasse. Of even

fentures of the year which has greater import, was the im-just closed has been the obvious pression created that the League desire of the majority of Govern was more or less impotent in ments throughout the world to dealing with major problems hold fast to decent standards of affecting the rights of small working conditions. They have nations. This impression still resisted the temptation to use the persists,. despite all the good economie depression as an excuse work that the League has done for putting back, the clock. This in other directions. Thus, the observation is prompted by the experience of the International objective of any serious scheme Labour Organisation of the Lea- of reform must be to re-establish gue of Nations during 1993. The the League's prestige and so ILO. is in close and constant simplify procedure that definite touch with industrial develop- and prompt decisions can be ments throughout the world and E barometer reached. Even the Covenant of may be likened to the League will need to be re- which regleters the position of

work-people. vised if it is to have any value

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at all. Much of the "dead wood" which it contains must be NEW RATIFICATIONS cut out. But it is equally im- portant that the vital provisions

This year, eighty-nine fresh

be retained, and, what is more,ratifications of model labour con- Home machinery devised by ventions by various governments which they cannot be side have been registered at Geneva. stepped. Along these lines, a This is much above the average. most fruitful and beneficial Up to the present, the total for scheme of reform could be plann-the thirteen years since the ed. The chief essential, how establishment of the International ever, is that the members of the Pence Treaties stands at the Labour Organisation under the League approach the issue with satisfactory figure of 578. In no a determination to reinforce its other similar period of world powers and make it what it was history, it is safe to say, has any- originally intended to be-a bul thing like the same advance been

| mado. wark against future wars.

"Well, what are YOU staring ́at?"-

There was a young follow on ekis Who suddenly wanted to ania, He woke up in bed

With a pain in the head, And a nurse saying "Swallow

this, plis!

Whimsical Monster Talking of the Loch Ness monster, wo are inclined to think that the theory propounded by our Scottish correspondent, Donal' MacWhusky, who, like many High- landers, is second-sighted, double- jointed, and usually intoxicated, is probably the correct one.

MacWhusky thinks that the monster la really the crocodile in "Peter Pan.” Apparently the crea ture has come all over whimsical. It is jealous because Peter has the leading part, and wants to be known as The Monster That Wouldn't Come Up.

So for all efforts to persuade It to give a përformance in London have falled. It is merely waiting for Sir James Barris to say to it in a wheedly-twoodly sort of volco: {"Good_morning, Monster, I am suro the children in London love you just as much as they · love · Peter..

"After all, you are not a hor-wid old crocodile like the ones at the Zoo, but a falry, and no fairy would disappoint the children, ba- 'cause It would be most unfairy- liko. Did you know that overy time a monster sheezes It breaks Into a thousand bubbles, and that every timo" a bubble bursts a little monstrosity is born 7"

Wo do so hope ho'll say the mag words, don't you, kiddies?