1950-02-24 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950L

SCIENCE STUDIES HISTORY ON ANCIENT CLAY TABLETS

POCKET CARTOON -From America

by OSBERT LANCASTER

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Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb. 23.—Questions which have baffled the world's historians for ages are raised by the discovery of Europe's most ancient writings by a Bulgarian scientist. Prof. Vladimir Georgiev, scientist who deciphered the 3,600-year-old Minos (Cretan) picturegraph writings on clay tablets, has thrown new light on the origins of the alphabet and on the migration of the Greek tribes into the Aegean basin, archaeologist Ivan Velkov said.

One important question | raised by the discovery is whether the alphabet camo originally from the Cretans or the Phoenicians, Velkov said.

region,"

·

problem of the Greek the

Inlo the Aegean migration

Velkov naid. It now seems that no man lived there. in the Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age. The earliest population cintes back only to the Neolithic (New Stone) are, which may be from the fifth millennium D. C Indo-European int spoke tome

dialect, the archaeologist said,

RANCED AFAR

It is already well known that Cretan colonista settled Cyprus, Syria, Phoenicia, and Palcaline, in the second millen- hlum B. C. It seems likely that!

Lot their the Phoenicians

These tribes were not nation- alphabet from the Crotons, im-conscious at the time, he said. proved on it, and passed it on They began to leave their homes to the Greeks.

in the territory now known as Yugoslavia and Albania, and

as far came from

north as present-day Hungary and Czechoslovakia, to settle in Northern Greece in the 13th

The deciphering "under an entirely

alco puta now light

BBC FAR EAST COMPETITION

The BBC English Half-hour for the Far East is holding a Listener Competition during the fortnight from February 19 to March 4, in which anyone in the Far East may take transmission -part. Frank criticisms are invited on this which is broadcast cach day from 12.00 to 12.30 GMT on fréquonclos-in-the-14 13 and 25 metro bands and rebroadenst by Radio Ceylon and the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service.

writers

aboard his cabin Queen Elizabeth.

tha

Radio sets and books will from be awarded to the

The special editor of "Ques- of the best letters givington Time," the Brains Trust for frank criticism of the Eng the Far Enat, on February lish Half-Hour.

will deal not

usual

2:5

with

century B. C. and later in

Thessaly.

The further Hellenization of the Aegean region was carried VIL in the 12th to seventh

centuries B. C.

"The very Greek people of the classle ages were the result

uf

an extremely complex

tribes," Velkov explained. mixture of pre-Greek and Greek

GLAMOUR WIVES BAD BARGAIN

who choose fashion-

Mplate wives are fools,

Dr Lindsey W. Batten, a Landon surgeon, said re- cently.

Dr Batten, author of "Health' South- For The Young" told a port education conference:

Others besides myself must have noticed with distress how many of our best women remain single.

It often happens that strong, beautiful, intelligent girl- potential mothers of the cholcest citizens-fail to marry.

The reason is partly that such girl pretern some other job. But often it is because she finds no man worthy of her or be-

girl who lacks these qualitles. cause the fools of men prefer a

Mych earlier, Crete had been a centre of a flourishing civiliza tion. By the second millennium BC-It-had-a-well-developed. society. Slavery predominated poster, the transatlante alm and

and slaves were highly praised na merchandise.

LEVIED TRIBUTE Kings or "passilos" as the Cretans called them, headed the stalic. Their palace possessed well kept archives of clay

source of Information for scientists.

Competitors should abide by questions from listeners but will tablets, which now serve as a

the following rules:-

1. Listen to the Engilsh Tinlf-hour for the Far East the

As

often as possible during fortnight, February 19 to March 4, 1950.

750

pro-

2. Write not less than 500 words and not more than words gritlelsing Krammes you have heard,

3. Send your letter to English Half-hour, BBC, tion

discuss spontaneous questions posed, with the aid of a rovins microphone, by members of u audience of specially invited Asian students in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, Lon- don,

the one

The palace also had a military arsenal, probably ferred to in the notation on a "To Turanik was clay tablet: given ono war charlot, one malled sult, one horse."

THE EXPERTS

Mighty Knossos, capital of 'The experts on the Brains Trust are Kingsley Martin, edi-Crete, spread its power far into Athens, Tirint tor of the New Statesman and the continent.

the Nation, Collin Brooks, editor of and numerous other cities were Lon-Truth, Frank Owen, editor of under is heel and they had to

tribule in and Eric pay Dally the

Mall Robertson, ngular Brains deciphered tablet tells us that Truster. The Question Master "Tirint delivered will be Gilbert Harding.

4. Post by nir mall not later than March 11, 1950, to arrive

in London by April 1,

kinkl. A

100 rams.

men

CHOCOLATE BOX

Standards are taken by from the chocolate-box-10- the fashion plate.

somo

Is it beyond the power of our schools to present

conception worthier desirable partner?

of the

If we could stop thinking of the body as "the desh" might we not at least put up a rival to the fashion plate girl?

If we did I believe we thould do more for our country In two either generations than nutritionists or eugenicists ore likely to accomplish in ten.

STAR DRAWS FROWNS

Elizabeth Taylor, whe an 650 sheep, 30 oxen, 151 cows, 80nounced her third engage- ment this week to hotel heir! pigs, 6 mares." brand- In addition to there

daily The subjugated tribes were Courad Hilton, had before include casts there will be the

the

announcement drawn 5. Don't forget to

Bulletins and press re-also forced to deliver some of your name, address, occupation News

of and surveys Farther people ns slaves. "Athens: frowns even from the Holly-! views and approximate age.

her bo- Eastern affairs on Mondays and seven women, one boy, one wood crowd over

one tablet reads. Fridays. Other programmes will ri,"

haviour at the Mocambo British Thentre Velkov remarked, the legenti Outstanding programmed outstanding British

describe the

Books that King Minos, fabled King of sight club. during Listener Competition and

during 1940. And Crete, levied on Athens à yearly fortnight include on Informal bublished

which English by Radio Is, of course, tribute of seven young men and Quiz programme in

compete broadcast every Monday, Tues-seven girls is seen to have some team of three Asians

basis-United Press. against a team of three British day, Thursday and Friday.

PROGRAMMES

people and performed before an invited audience of Asiat, visitors in London. The Aslan team are Dow Mya Sein,

the

Burmese educationist, Neuro?

Van-Nhan. the Vietnamese fournalist 30

and London, Zainal-Abidin din Ahmad, the Malay lecturer at the School nt Oriental and African Studies in London.

As

CARRIED GOOD LUCK COIN

IN MOUTH 38 YEARS

Charlie Boggan, a section hand on the Louisville and mouth for Nashville Railroad, has carried a dime in his

She was there almost nightly and alone-ever since young Vic Damone opened his

wager. season.

Photographer Jay Scott, who knows his Sunset Strip, look a picture of her sitting alone in a dark

corner walling for her crush to appear.

Damone usually

home.

took her

The magazine, Hollywood Re- porter, although not noted as a 38 years. Boggan carries the dime as a good luck piccouardian of film stars morals, Another broadcast by adin his right jaw, day and night, when he is sleeping or said: "It's not good taste før an

18-year-old girl," in Politics" and given by Drcating, working or just loafing around.

tinguished Asian is on "Women

In-

Subandrio, the wife of the -donesian Charge d'Affaires in London. Dr Subandrio has herself held Government office

in Indonesin since the war.

The Caplain of the Queen

Elizabeth, Commodore Foru, CHE, RD, RNI, will describe in

EGG-EATING

IS CRAZE

thic

Egg-eating is the craze

now that Bas lost

her

another brondcast his Job and In Canada his experiences as Captain of

Dominion the world's largest ocean liner. Commodore Ford will broadcast | 43,000,000 dozen - a - year

market in Britain.

Royalty To Attend

RAF Display King George VI and Queen Elizabeth will be present, on July 14, at Britain's Royal Air

Force

Display of 1950 which will be held at Farnborough

The Die airfeld, Hampshire. play will be repeated on July 15. The main flying events will take place

during each afternoon. During the mor- ning there will be a number of flying and ground events.

Other RAF activities will be 'chown in a static display and there will be a number of wir- traft park where RAF mir- craft will be on view.

George Wilson, a Government poultry inspector, started it in Vancouver by eating 36 eggs in 37 minutes. The craze moved cast to Yorkton, Saskatchewan, where Derek everard ate 38 eggs in a 30-minute broadcast.

Then a Toronto clerk ate two dozen bolled eggs in two minutes and a Sudbury, 53 seconds, Ontario, nickel worker whipped 25 eggs in a bowl and swallowed them in 35 seconds.

But in Lethbridge, Alberta, timed by pollee, a 23-year-old bookseller, George Howell, ate 72 eggs in six minutes, 37 and four-fifth seconds. Then Howell sat down to a thick, juicy stealt

Exgs, formerly 55 Bd. a dozen, have slumped to 25.

K. O. CANNON

"BEDI DRI-I REMEMBER NOW!

YOUR MAN ON THE PHONE DID

Boggan said his grand- father, Sip Faggan, u suc- Negro farmer, cessful carried a dime around in his mouth 20 years before his death and passed the odd custom on to him.

Hot Foot For Birds

Pigeons and starlings, loust. plague to Philadelphia buildings, are getting the "hot foot" now. It was in 1917, Boggan said, that his grandfather gave him

introduced A device

by n the dime and told him to carry Philadelphia

0x11 scrds

conservation societies do not object, the firm raid.

it in his mouth for good luck. charge of static electricily into Boggan 15 years old now the less of the birds through a and seems 10 have had good series of charized rods placed tuck. During the depression building ledges. Any bird he was appointed porter in the advancing within a quarter inch Georgians post olce over other of the device gets shocked. applicants. Boggan has been

Bird for railway working for the more than 18 years now. and claims he never has been sick.i

O.d-timers say his grand- father Sip seemed to prosper as

olliers farmer while having a hard time of it.

The dime is blackened with age now, and the dala no longer Boggan will is legible, but produce it on request.

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were

He and for the Arst month or two it worried him so thai he could hardly sleep, but now the only time he thinks about it is when someone asks to look at the good luck charm.

Students Learn The Ropos

Rope climbing-not Indian style, but for fire safely-is now compulsory for most Harvard University freshmen. Ali students living above the ground floor of non-fireproot dormitories have to practise clambering down 12- foot ropes in the gymanslum similar to fire-ropes installed in cach dormitory room.

The Riddle of the Red Domino.

HOT DIVE THE CODS WORD - Praunch did NOT SAY MÌ'

"ÄKE THESE THIN RED CHAMPAGNE ?..

RED DOMINO!..

THEN SOMETHING IS WRONG AT THE SALOM, GET MY CANI 'I MUST FIND OUT- BEFORE

KITI WHISPER WAKES FROMÉ HER DRUGI..

NEWS IN PICTURES

WERE THEY MADI-When Betty Dodd and William Sowan were skating on thin ice in a London park, they fell right through it. A nearby newsreel camera wanted their picture but he had bad luck, too, and became the photographic subject with them.

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GET OUT THE SCISSORS-Parisian dressmaker Jacques Fath suggests that more calf will go display when the new styles are introduced this Spring. This confirms the fashion rumour that skirts definitely are going up again.. But don't start snipping just yet.

ORAL EXERCISE-Cleo, a crocodile in the Cincinnati Zoo, opens her mouth wide to receive a pint of duck's blood given with the aid of a funnel and hose, Six bottles and 20 stones were removed from Cleo's | stomach in an operation after Cleo has taken a tancy to swallowing such hard-to-digest delicacies,

'SO WHISPER'S ITDRUGGED, EMP BEWE DON'T FAST-FASTE AFIOMIE DE UVE WILL GET OUT

"ALIVE -

TINY STYLE A delicate eyelet ... apron tops a flounced red velvet skirt and makes a pretty costume for this very Junior miss.; Eya- let trims the collar and puffed: alteves of the white organdy, blouse,

HOLY YEAR HOUSING PROBLEMS-The Italian Government has turn the ancient Palazzo Salvati, built in Rome more than $400, years ag relieve the Holy City's housing shortage during the 1950 Holy Year. the rooms clean and in order while pilgrims spend their

visiting holy and historic