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New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
ary remains Of Nippur now In the

ary remains Of Nippur now In the
University Museum, the priestly
schools Of temple music in that fa-
nous city were extremely conser-
vative about abandoning the ancient
liturgical compilations. These daily
song services, all Of sorrowful sem
timent and invariably emphasizing
humility and human suffering, are
constructed by simply compiling
into one breviary a number of an
cient songs, selected in such manner
that all are addressed to one deity.
In this manner arose intricate choral
compilations of length suitable to
daily prayer, each addressed to a
great god.
"Hence we have in the temple
libraries throughout Sumer and
Babylonia liturgies to each Of the
great gods. Even in the less
elaborate compilations there is In
many cases revealed a tendency to
recast and arrange the collection Of
songs upon deeper principles. A
tendency to include in all services
a song to the wrathful word Of the
gods and a song to the sorrowful
earth mother is seen even in the
Nippurian breviaries of the pre-
canonical type. / need not dilate
here upon the great influence which
these principles exercised upon the
beliefs and formal worship Of AS
syria and Babylonia, upon the late
Jewish Church and upon Christian
ity. The personified word Of God
and the worship Of the great Mater
Dolorosa, or the virgin goddess, are
ancient Sumerian creations whose
influence has been effective in all
lands"
A tablet the translation Of which
will be Of interest to all students of
the Bible Is that containing an
ancient 'lamentation on the pillage
and destruction Of Ur, the same Ur
Of the Chaldees named in the Old
Testament as the ancestral home of
the patriarch Abraham. This is one
Of the best preserved of all the
tablets translated by DR.. Langdon.
1t contains the better part of six
columns Of the poem, yet the frag-
ment in the museum is but half of
the original tablet. Lines seven to
twenty-six are as follows:
The foundation 1t has annihilated and
reduced to the misery Of silence.
Unto Anu will cry my "How long?"
Unto Enlil myself will pray.
my city has been destroyed" will I
tell them.
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and each, TN some instances, colored
with the primary colors. 1t was
the Babylonian stage tower, accord
ing to psychologists, that gave rise
to the story Of the Tower of Babel,
which they say is myth. Half of
all the tablets explorers unearthed
went to the museum at Constanti-
nople under the permit from the
Turkish government. AS it was
impossible to translate all the tab
let's at the time, it followed natu
rally that the museum in Philadel-
phia got sections of tablets for which
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
DR. STEPHEN e. LANGDON, professor of AsssioIogg at
OXFORD University whose dnsLGtoms from ancient tab
lets hove cotradicted of the aceU oapa Biblical stories
Liturgical Hymn to Innini
(ITdneoeed from sac6se
H LADY of tie good decrees tbat rssest sple,dsv x.1
Faithful 4vorn1n bearing sheen Of terrible sDLendo+
(7'rdnslatsd from - saclera ta1,


H LADY OF tho good deorees that rsssst spendy
" Faithl bearing terrible snendor boea ~
Urasho.
Heavenly virgin, queen of the greot songs,
Who pttest faithful uho hast for yehp
Whose hand ottaineth the decrees
M of the tho,,
1he DEGREES thou beore the DEGREES hy hand
ne darectest
Like a champion thou s~bduest the foreign lomds
eFe th songod IN tho place of the
not. ' ~
a 1oharltcrnd their semdest
On, leader of heaven and divin;h, thox ort
For them thou ddst create tho and (of Suner)
1hot gvest ORDERS unto tho gods queen oud thu
1hot interest command by tho holy order of Anu
The great decisions o (bu thee) kno,oeth to teoch9
~ taot sh1trest the mountats
Beloved Of EmlI thou hos founded tho Lond 10000
Thou art she that hast effected mandate of N;nn
My lady, at thy cry quake
At the fear OF thy splendor let mamkand
Wuh shouting
FsmgW they haze received their terrible from thes
I'M lamentations and mrounings for thee
Unto tho temple the chief singers street for thee
FROM before the face of battle they hasten unto thes
Ny lady, of thy fury they speak.
1he spirit like an onrushing storm rushed then.
1he spirit uath loud anmahilated tho peop,e
by tho sormsgod they accarsed
ny the storm 1otnds they brought %
Thy foot hastems restless in the street
Upon the lyre Of ceeping they ute Lamentations.
On, my lady, the Anummagi, the oveat eods
Like fying sudin- craunaea hasten
Why before thy feet they
Unto the presence of thy feet they
Thine angry heart auho shall pactfys
Thine ev0ly disposed heart become oana
Oh, lady, Dhose soul nognnm1no,.s: oh lpdu ,ubo. l.
Whose Oroth Is uupacfed ~
Lady that stor1neth Tho npoxntuas
The mountains thy place gnKshep@yu r.
The great "e@. 5s't
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/lS t1btet contains part of the onetotion ON the noo
OF Logosh by the Elonndtes about B. c. $500

expeditions to Nippur. Explorers
worked for more than twelve years
In all the ruins and discovered
that they had succeeded merely in
scratching the surface. When most
Of the work was done it was learned
definitely that In ancient times mill
tary conquerors set up inscriptions
containing records Of their triumphs.
These, with offerings Of loot in the
form Of gold ornaments and precious
stones, were stored In the shrine
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08

at'Nippur, but only few have been
found because there was doubt as
to which Of many buildings con-
stituted the storehouse, and the
ruins are extensive and buried
under many feet Of sand and silt.
1t Is now believed that building
opposite the stage tower that was a
part Of every ancient Sumerian and
Babylonian temple was the recepta-
Gle for these records.
The stage tower rose In seven
stages, one for each Of the planets,
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dent Of the New York Diet Kitchen
Association for more than twenty
years. Mrs. William Curtis Demo-
rest is the first vice president; Mrs.
Henry P. Dawson, second vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Joseph. w. Tilton, treas
urer; Mrs. Elias M. johnson, assist
ant treasurer, and Mrs. George
heese-Satterlee, secretary. e
Women on the board of managers
are Mrs. August Lewis, Mrs. Myrick
Plummer, Mrs. Edward Tuck, Mrs.
henry Willard, Mrs. James N. Wells.
Mrs. Joseph W. Tilton, Mrs. Edward !.
NJ. Cook, Mrs. John Degener, Mrs.
Frank Badgley, Mrs. William Cur-.s
It's Demorest, Mrs. Edward Ingra-
ham, Mrs. Rowland G. Freeman.
MISS Friede Pagenstecher, Mrs.
Henry P. Dawson, Mrs. Arthur S.
Dwight, Mrs. Richard M. Hodge,
Miss Louise Barrows, Mrs. George
Orvls, Mrs. Edwin H. Mairs, Miss
Dorothea E. Schmitz, Miss Mary Ix,
Pruyn, Mrs. William D. Gaillards
MRS. Dudley Tenney, Miss Julia ESfs;
smith, Mrs. James Ditmars VoorS
nees' Mrs. Elias M. johnson, Mis1
ALICE Taggart, Mrs. William F. Tin4T
low, Mrs. George Reese SatterIeosz
MRS. Edward Foote Dwight, Mrs.
maitland F. Griggs, Mrs. H. Hobal
weekes, Mrs. A. Franklin Adan1s
MRS. Walter D. Hines, Mrs. Dsui h
4. Davis and MIRA Franela
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'oo0 Aer away. In spite Of
ner vigorous yelling, this child wa.
ene one bright spot among all those
Others who were SO poorly cared for.
one OF the welfare classes through
which the Diet Kitchen Association
works is that Of the s'little mothers -
once In a while there is a "little
1atner" in the group. These are the
children whe take care Of brothers
and sisters for whom the real ,nothe,
does not have time.
One little negro presented himself
at a station early in the morning
recently. He brought a baby sister
and little larger baby brother with
hlm. Explaining that he had been
told that babies were never sick ;f
taken to the diet kitchen, he asked
1or some Of the good milk Of tho
s.atlon. Needless to say, he and hi,
little sister and brother got it,,
During the children's year the
Diet Kitchen Association cooperated
with the Federal Children's Burean
-Four thousand five hundred babies
were examined. Milk was given to
sick babies. Out Of that work grew
the treatment Of other children and
prenatal care for the mothers. The
association cooperates with the De-
partment Of Health, tho Maternity
center Association, hospitals, dis
pensaraes. day nurseries, outing So
o'etlss and social service agsncieA
Mrs. Hanry Willard has haen ,,re.,
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One tiny child with wraithlike
feet and hands and a face as old
as.the ages was placed on the table
for the physicians verdict after the
nurse had. weighed it. Agony was
in the dark eyes and sobs that were
like sighs shook the little form.
"The baby is simply starving to
DEATH" said the doctor. "There is
nothing the matter with it except
that it doesn't have enough of the
proper food"
The mother, an old-young Italian
woman, knew just enough of Eng
lish to be glib and sad with any one
who would listen to her. She had
had the child at the clinic before.
While the nurse was trying to find
out whether she followed the in
structions given her at her previous
visit she was telling that her hus
band was a junk gatherer. The
food for the horse and the rent.
not to speak Of the needs of ten
under working age, took all
the money, she said. Finally the
nurse got her to admit that ahe had
forgotten the things they had told
her about feeding and taking care
Of the weak child. This child was
four years old and weighed only
nineteen pounds.
The next patient was a round.
tair skinned, fair haired little girl, |
and abe was placed On the table
for all sha was worth
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en- Baby Is Starving 1t Doesn't Diet Kitchens c. -

babies, 1900 children between two
and six years old, 5000 mothers
800 women for prenatal care, and
900 social service cases.
Seven hundred and thirty thou
sand quarts Of milk was dispensed.
On the association staff are q
supervising nurse and twelve sta
ton and visiting nurses There are
twenty-six doctors who conduct
twenty conferences each week for
babies and seven conferences for
children Of preschool age.
Thursday morning at tho Demo
rest kitchen In the Bronx was a rep
resentative conference. 1t would
not be hard to find the clinic, even
were the name Of the association
not over the door. Walls on bad
mornings and laughter on good
mornings, with an accompanying
undertone Of mothers telling their
troubles, mark the place for what
it is.
"1f we start in with laughter and
cooing, we usually have good day."
said the physician in charge, "but if
the first baby begins to cry, they all
tune up and respond with all the
strength Of their little lungs"
But it is noticeable that the babies
Who wall the loudest are not usually
he babies who need the most at
ention. The little ones who sob quiet
y or lie perfectly still are those
n ths GREATEST need c4 attention.
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"Ur has been destroyed" VIII tell
them.
"1ts people have been scattered" will
I tell them.
May Anu prevent his word.
May Enlil order kindness.
And may my heart be at psace from
sorrow.
My city which has been DESTROYED NAV
they
Ur which has besn destroyed may
OF its slain people may they decree
new dispensation.
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Sensational Details of the Fall of Man :,
Revealed by Tablets 5000 Years Old
Adam and Eve Were Myths if
These Records Are to
! Be Believed .

came down and conquered the coun-
try. The Sumerian story rs that man
was created from clay by woman
deity. Later, when the wrath Of the
great Enki, the water god, was
aroused, she protected Ziugiddu,
identified by Langdon as the equiva-
lent Of the Biblical Noah, by provid-
ing him with q boat. He landed in
Paradise and then ate Of the forbid
den fruit, said to have been that of
the cassia tree. For this he was
condemned to labor.
Ancient Prayers
In the volume just published there
are translations of fifteen prayer
tablets from ancient Nippur and fire.
quent additions from tablets now in
other museums, tho meaning Of
which was obscure heretofore. One
Of the smallest fragments In the col
lection reveals the fact that Kes and
Opis, cities In tho south Of gumer.
were once famous throughout the
country as sacred shrines, recog-
nized even at Nippur, tho great CEN
ter Of all the religious activity of
the people. DR.. Langdon shows also
that at the latter city there existed
a priest school where young semina-
rians were trained in the mystic
rites of the religion.
The University Museum sent four
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/ Will offer my meditations unto them
twill say to them): 'Tn nv citv thew
have despised tho splendor.
IN ur the city Of homes thew hava
despised the splendor."
Anu who words in this manner chanoe
not.
EMIL The going forth Of whose
word
1t is tho fourth song.
aer city has been destroyed, her ordi-
nances have been changed.
This is its antiphon.
The publication contains es+.o
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her mother, an intelligent young
American woman, protested at her
being so naughty" all to no avail.
She yelled all the time tho doctor
was examining her. The strength
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08

OF her voice showed that she was n
strong little person.
"she is diet kitchen baby" said
the nurse In charge. "Her mother
came here and learned all about how
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
The Land of Sumner

Sumer was the name given to the
land in the south Of Babylonia be-
fore the invasion Of the Semites.
The latter are said to have settled
first in Akkad, the northern section
of the country, later extending their
sway over the Sumerians. Prior to
BIC. $500, before ancient Greece
was thought of and while China, SO
far as history shows, was still land
of untutored savages, the Sumerians
had built up in Mesopotamia one of
the most majestic civilizations of all
history. No one knows whence the
race sprung or how many thousand
years were spent in attaining the
height Of culture and prosperity in
dicated by the tablets found at Nip
pur and elsewhere. But to-day,
when the plain is half swamp, half
desert, It. Is still marked and criss-
crossed with the remains of an elab-
orate canal system that once carried
water for irrigation purposes to
every corner of the land and pro-
vided means Of transportation for
the inhabitants.
The story Of Paradise, written in
cuneiform script into clay tablets
and then preserved for posterity by
baking, eliminates the Eve Of the
later Scriptures. According to Su-
merian belief, ten patriarchs ruled
for 100000 years before the Flood
and It was $4,000 years after that
calamity before Cyrus Of Persia
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70 care for the child. She brought
ner hero to-day becaase she thou1ht
she had a cold"
Inc doctor pronounced ths ut4Ie
'ermagant sound and we'll, and har
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tablets Of many columns and sew
eral hours were required to read the
inscriptions, which was accompanied
by elaborate ceremonies. One tablet
just made public by DR.. Langdon 80
contains lamentation on the pill
lage of Lagash by the Elamites,
another mysterious race not vet
definitely identified by archaolo-
gists. Lagash was one Of the most Z
famous cities of Sumer. A village
sits to-day upon the mound Of sand
that covers its ruins. There are also
psalms to EMIL and other great gods
Of the Sumerian pantheon.
Blew Kisses to Deity %
"Seals OF Sumerians showing
them in the act Of saying their pri-
vate prayers abound from the earli-,,
est PERIOD" says Dr.. Langdcn. ,g
"Most Of these seals represent the a.
worshiper saluting a deity with Il
kiss thrown with the hand. The at-.r
tltude was described as 'su-illa' or
Lifting Of the Hand Semitic =.
prayers of the lifting of the hand
abound in the religion of Babylonia
and Assyria."
The following extract Is from q.
psalm to EMIL containing a long in
tercession by the mother goddess:
unto EMIL will say, MAY the mother
live" 9H
Unto my father, my benefactor, will
say, May the father live"
Words which set Alright all things Will
say. s
In my city may the mother hail her son.
may the son hail his mother yit
In Nlppur may the mother hsil her SON. 4
may the son hail mis- mother. :.
10 eve and her lamb may he be pro-
pitious.
may the word of Enlil be propitious to
the she-goat and her kid.
for EMIL, his city, brick-walled "a
Nlppur, unto its place 1 will restore. 81
ohe offers devotion, she offers DEVOTION
my mother offers devotion.
This text is unique ard note 8
worthy for one salient fact" Dr.
Langdon observes. "It illustrates the
scenes so common on Babylonianss
seals, where the mother goddess
stands IN intercession before the god,
with one or both hands raised in sup
pllcation and the left foot advanced
as though about to set it on the
paved approach to the throne of the
deitY."
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Tho Associadon's Work

From The ono diet kitchen the
work has grown and become special
ICED, until now the association sup
parts eight milk and health stations
IN wiaely separated parts Of the city.
IN ~ last year thifs ~ers regis
aered y a. ei1ht stations 5000
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A lynn to the King

Gone Of the most interesting ex-
amples Of didactic composition is
hymn to the deified King Dungi
of Ur. By accident, both the Phila-
delphia and the Constantinople col
lectlons possess copies of this re-
markable poem and the entire text
has been reconstructed. l have
already signifed the unique impor-
fance of this extraordinary HYMN to
the goldman Dungi, in which he Is
described as the divinely born king
who was sent by the gods to restore
the. lost paradise. The poem men
tions the flood which, according to
the Epic of Paradise, terminated by
divine punishment the utopian age.
The same NEUROLOGICAL belief under
lies the hymn to Dungi. Paradise
had been lost, and this goldman was
sent to restore the golden age.
eff we may Judge from the liter
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
n 7HAT II In all probability
" tho worlds first version
Of tho story Of Paradise,
tho Flood and tho Fall Of

Of tho story Of Paradise,
tho Flood and tho Fall of
Man, buried for more than 5000
years, has been resurrected from
tho ruins Of ancient Nippur, In
Babylonia, and translated into mod
ern English by Dr.. Stephen Herbert
Langdon. professor Of Assyriology
at Oxford University, England, and
former curator Of the Babylonian
section, University Museum, Phila-
. delphia. DR.. Langdon has just
printed the fourth and last book Of
his series Of Sumerian liturgies from
the tablets obtained more than
twenty years ago by museum explor-
ers q Nippur.
This WORK completes the transla-
ton Of al the religious tablets In
the collection It Is by all odds the
most sensational scientific publica-
tion On religions in recent years, as
serting, ~ Il does, that many Of the
most fundamental beliefs and prin-
ciples Of Christianity are merely
survivals in one form or another of
ideas written into the prayerbooks
Of Sumer perhaps as long ago as
5000 years before Christ was born.
But its interest Is not confined to
students Of the Scriptures It is of
immense Importance also from the
historical and archaeological points
Of view, revealing new facts about
ancient cities that really existed but
were considered NEUROLOGICAL until
recently.
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.HROUGH her children is the
surest route to any mothers
- heart Having found her


surest route to any mothers
- heart Having found her
heart and won her co6pera-
tion and sympathy, a family is won.
For nearly fifty years the New
York Diet Kitchen Association has
been doing welfare work through
the mothers In different neighbor-
hoods In New York. The association
was incorporated to provide nour-
ishing food for the destitute sick in
their homes"
The first kitchen was opened at
40 East Twenty-third Street at
the request Of physicians Of the
Denilt Dispensary, to supplement
the work Of the dispensary. Cruel,
rice, beef tea, broth. milk and other
"spoon victuals," the diet Of conva-t !
lescants, were supplied under the
direction Of one Of the association
matrons. This "directress Of the
kitchen" gsvs her personal SUPER
vision and . general oversight to the
work.
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the other parts have been found in
the Constantinople collection.

the other parts have been found In
the Constantinople collection.
Having been privileged to ex-
anime the collection in Philadelphia
as we'll as that in Constantinople," )"
says DR.. Langdon, ~ write with a
sense of responsibility in giving to
the public brief statement concern
ing what the temple library of an
clent Nippur really contained
Omitting the branches pertaining
to history, law, grammar and mathe-
MATES, the following resume is
limited to those tablets which, be-
cause Of their bearing upon the
history Of religion, especially upon
the origins Of Hebrew religion, have
attracted the attention Of the public
on two continents to the collection
Of the University Museum.
Undoubtedly the group of texts
which have the most human interest
and greatest literary value is the
epical group, designated in Sumo
rian by the rubric zagsal. This
literary term was employed by the
Sumerian scribes to designate a
composition as didactic and theo-
logical. Religious texts Of such
kind are generally composed in an
easy and graceful style and, al
though somewhat influenced by
fiturgical mannerism, may be readily
distinguished from the hymns and
psalms sung in the temples to musi-
cal accompaniment. The zagsal
compositions are NEUROLOGICAL and
theological treatisas concerning the
deeds and characters of the great
gods.
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conception
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-09
In THE DAYS NEWS.

Viscount Cave, who is to deliver the
annual address at the coming meeting
of the Canadian Bar Association, has
displayed great abiliay in variety OF
directions since he achieved distinct
ion as a student at Oxford, and apart
from Legal prominence has played an
important part in public affairs in
Great Britain. His public career began
with his election to the House of Com
mons in 1900. He succeeded Sir F. E.
Smith as Solicitor-Genera in the Goa
lition Government when the latter be-
came Acknowledgement nd then be-
came home secretry in Mr.. Lloyd
Georges ministry. He is a Londoner
by birth, and was educated at Mer-
chant Taylor's school. Later he went
up to Oxford, where he had a brilliant
classical career. Upon leaving the uni
versity he studied law, and has had a
highly successful career at the chan
Gerry bar.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-09
TODAY's CALENDAR OF SPORTS.

Racing = Meeting Of Saratoga As
ISOLATION at Saratoga, N. Y.
Trotting Opening of Grand Cir
cult meeting, at North Randall, o.
Opening of Great Western Circuit
melting, at La Harpe, Ill.
Bowling - Annual tournament of
International Lawn Bowling Associa-
ton opens at Buffalo.
Chess British championship tourn-
ment opens at Edinburgh.
Checkers = American champion
tournament opens at Cedar Point, o.
Cycling - Olympic contests at Gar
den City track, Antwerp.
Motor Boat - British International
Trophy Race, at Cowes.
Tennis - Georgia State tournament
opens at Atlanta.
Washington State tournament opens
at Seattle.
Western Maryland tournament
opens at Mountain Lake Park, Md.
Long Island women's championship
opens at Woodmere, L. I.
Nova Scotia championship tourna-
ment opens at Truro.