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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Want Roundup in Peru

Lima. Peru, would like to be the
hostess city for a showing of the PEN
dleton Roundup, according to a let
ter from Nelson Rounsevel. of the ad-
yertising department of the West
Coast Leader. of Lima. Mr.. Rounse-
vel, who is a member of B. P. o. E.,
Butte. No. gao, in letter 70 the PEN
dleton lodge, says that if the offer
were accepted. he would attend to de-
tails of arrangements. would guaran-
tee actual expenses and divide tn.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Me7cs Notesof Pendleton

profits. Henry Collins. president of
the Roundup. in replying TO the let
ter expressed the appreciation Of the
Roundup board but explained that it
would be impossible to accept. The
West Coast Leader is a well known
South American publication. of which
c. y. Griffis is the editor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Mrs. COdkatt Dies.

Mrs. Nora Crockatt, of COL Aura
street. resident Of Pendleton for the
past AZ vars, died last night at her
home. Mrs. Crockatt. who was born
in Iowa, is survived by son, J. b.
Hines. Of this city, and daughter,
Mrs. Fannie Warner, Of Seattle. Fu-
neral services will be held tomorrow
from the Folsom chapel, with Rev.
George L. Clark, pastor of the Presby-
terian church. officiating.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Paving Time Short

Local bankers report that there Is
a rush on the part of citizens to make
their reports to the income tax bur-
eau before the time limit expires,
March Is. The reports must be in the
Portland office by that time, accord
ing to the eArequirements of Uncle Sam.
The making out of reports has been
the favorite indoor pastime In PEN
|dleton during the past two weeks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Slides Are Bought.

Two slides. of hardwood and steel
have arrived and will
be installed as playground apparatus
at Hawthorne school. The slides
were bought by the Hawthorne Par
ent Teacher Association at cost of
$50. The association secured the
money through a drive which includ-
ed candy sale held recently.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Gets House As Present

Mrs. Guy o'Melveny has written to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Fitg Gerald telling them of a surprise
that was her lot when she Joined her
husband recently in Los Angeles. Be-
fore her arrival her husband purchas-
ed house and on her arrival, she and
the three boys were taken out to the
place BY Mr.. O'Melveny and then she
was surprised to have the key turned
over to her and to be informed that
the place was her very own home.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11

Frank Wahner to the First National
Bank Of Milton. $40. Lot and lot 2
70 Block 2, Columbia Heights Add to
Milton.
zoeth Houser. sheriff, 10 J. e, olin-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11

this morning that he saw one Of the
birds two years ago. but that their Wis
It's are not frequent. Mrs. E. J. Mat
hewson. also a bird enthusiast. de-
clared that she never has observed a
member of the Alaska robin family
since she came to Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Dealers To Meet

The first meeting of the Pendleton
Automobile Dealers Association this
year will be held on Friday evening
at 1880 in the Commercial Association
rooms. when Officers for the ensuing
year will be elected. J. +. Allen. pres
dent, hopes for good attendance as
the meeting promises to be an inter-
esting one.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Get Pair Of Bass

Two fish, one OF which weighed
about four pounds and the other about
three, were brought back from the Co.
lumbia river sloughs last night by Sol
Baum, Guy Matlock and Earl Coutts
who spent the day tfter the moody
black bass. Prospects for fishing on
the sloughs are much better now than
they were a short time ago, the fisher
men report.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Officer Loses Gun

To lose his As caliber Smith and
Weston revolver was the misfortune
Of r. E. Turner. traffic officer. Tur-
ner thinks the revolver dropped out
Of an open holster last night while he
was in attendance at the Singh Olson
wrestling bout.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Aaska ROBIN Seen.

One lone member of the varied
thrush" family, more often referred
to as an Alaska robin. was seen in
Pendleton this morning by Ed Aver
i'll. The bird is very often seen on the
coast. but it is comparatively seldom
that he penetrates into the Inland
Empire. The bird is slightly smaller
than the robin and has brown mark
ings where the robin is marked with
red. John Lambirth. bird lover, sait
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Egg Price Low.

The price of eggs is quoted in local
stores at rs cents dozen, an unusual
ly low price for this time of year.
Last year eggs did not reach a lower
price than 2b cents. They are very
plentiful. say grocers. Sugar is selling
at $7.25 sack in local stores. but this
price does not include 40 cent in
crease which has been in effect fol
the past two weeks, the result of four
10 cent increases.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
To Build BUNGALOW

Roy F. Alexander has secured a per-
nit at the office OF the city recorder
for the purpose of building bunga-
low on Mark street. The estimated
cost of the structure is given at $4,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Mr. Carter III

Charles H. Carter. of the law firm
of Carter & Smythe, is confined to his
home, sic Vincent street Mr.. Car
ker is suffering from crippled
Ishoulder. the result of a fall which
occurred recently.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11

ger, s664.s5, mete and bound tract In
Sec 20, Tp. 8, N. Rs35.
Loren FL Hoover TO W. E. Harp,
$500. part Of ,ot 7, block lS2. TIES.
Add to Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Legion to Meet Monday.

The regular monthly meeting OF the
local post of the American Legion.
postponed from last Monday. will be
held Monday evening at eight o'clock
at the Jolly Inn. Much business Of
interest to ex-service men will come
up for discussion at the meeting, Am
ong the topics billed for discussion
and consideration will be the national
service campaign, the fourth annual
state convention which will be held at
The Dailes July 27. 2S and SO, and
proposition of forming county coun-
Gil Of ex-service men. Whether to
bring some war films to Pendleton will
also be talked over. and the member
ship will decide whether it is neces-
sary to rvise the constitution and by
laws of the local post.
OTHER NEWS OF THIS
DEPARTMENT ON PACE 3
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Mexican peasants greatly favor old
tire trcads as a source ON footwear.

The automobile Industry was raird
In 1920 as a producer Of tax revenue.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-11
Is ouerated Upon

Miss Gertrude Mcconnell was ope-
rated upon today for tonsils. She is
convalescing nicely.
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

tion simpler and better than that Of the
Romans, what may we not expect?"
Just how did they write numbers? I
asked.
What might be called their Roman nota-
uon is built upon the basis Of the dot repre-
senting one and the bar representing five"
ne explained. "A bar adjoined to two dots
beside 1t would be seven. Three bars with
four dots would be nineteen and 50 on. Just
as our numbers acquire value according
to their position on the left or right of the
decimal point, 50 did these bars and dots
pied from bottom to top, thus making 1t
into the millions.
The Maya calendar starts with a hypo-
thetical date more than five thousand years
ago, date supposed to have originated with
some such event as the birth Of a Maya
messiah or their conjecture as to the date
of the creation of the world. In the calendar
any date that has transpired since that time
may be definitely identified"
A man who devotes his life to % unusual
a calling as deciphering hieroglyphics natur-
ally arouses curiosity as to how he came to
do so. So asked Mr.. Morley what led
him to this peculiar field Of activity. He
said that he was the son Of a mining en-
gineer and in his youth lived in Colorado.
He did not, however, come into contact with
the ruins Of the ancient civilization Of the
Southwest, but became interested in arche-
ology through reading, subsequently, got
into communication with Prof. Frederick
Ward Putnam, of Harvard University, and
afterward went to that institution and
specialized in archeology. Upon graduating
from Harvard he accepted q position with
the Archaeological Institute of America,
which is the parent Organization, maintain
ing school Of archaeology at Santa Fe, New
Mexico; one in Rome, one in Athens and one
in Jerusalem. For this Institution he first
went to Santa Fe and delved into the ancient
ruins Of that part Of America, journeyed 10
the land of the basket makers at that isolated
point in the West where four States meet.
the only such point in the United States, the
coming together of Arizona, Utah; Colorado
and New Mexico. It was In that reeion
where once resided in their cliff homes the
basket makers. that native people respon-
sible for taking the first long step in The
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05
By William Atherton Du Puv

uERE Is q man, one Syfvanus Griswod
IL Morley, who has toiled ten years in the
wilds Of a tropical jungle and has, as Q
result Of his labor, learned the meaning Of
a dozen signs Clipped on stone by the most
remarkable aboriginal people Of the New
World. the ancient -Mayas Of Central Amer
ica, and who shakes hands with himself every
day in thankfulness for the opportunity
which has been his, for he has been a scien-
tist engaged in. original research and has
added his bit to the sum total of knowledge
in existence in the world today.
DR.. Morley is ''gliffer.H 1 asked him
to let me call him gliffer, to join with me
In a conspiracy to coin a right handy word,
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this calendar, depending, as 1t does, upon
accurate astronomical observations.
We know also that they had two VS.
TENS Of numerical notation, which were not
dissimilar in principle, the one to Roman
numerals, but somewhat simpler, and the
other to Arabic numerals. We are able to
read their numbers and, therefore, their
dates. To that extent the work Is done.
We know these things. Those secrets that
are wrapped up in their other writings are
still secrets. Their writings are full of num-
bers and dates. We can read those. The
other characters we cannot read. But IL a
people. had a record Of elapsed days more
accurate than our own and a system of nota-
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10 enrich our language, q thing nearly as
eommendable as adding to human knowledge.
A. q matter Of fact, he is an archeologist,
engaged in the task of deciphering hero
glyphic writing. 1t is handler to call him
Q differ, however, so here goes.
BE has BEEN working these ten years upon
the problem Of the hidden information bound
up in the writing of the Maya people,
those natives Of Yucatan and the hinterland
to the south in Northern Guatemala, who
built % wonderfully as to rival the struc-
tures of ancient Egypt itself; who, within
the last 1000 years, maintained q civilization
and learning such as has sprung up but
few times since the world began-in Egypt,
Assyria, Babylonia, China and in Greece.
And now, after the passing of but a few
centuries, with the Maya people still re-
manning 5000 600 strong, with even their
language still generally surviving, the key
Of their learning Is lost, and If it Is to be
recovered for the world It will be recovered
hy some such student as Sylvanus Morley.
TIAVE you reason to believe" asked,
IL that there n any practical knowledge
wrapped up in these inscriptions Of the
Mayasr'
we can but Judge by what has already
been worked OUT" he replied. I'VE have
solved the riddle Of their calendar. We
know that they had a way of keeping track
Of the passing days that was more accurate
than that employed by the civilized nations
Of the present time. Their calendar in prin-
eipls l. more like that used in the so-called
Julian period than 1t is like our own. It
shows at q glance, for instance, Just how
many days have passed since its starting
point--that Is, the event from which # was
counted. II we read in our own calendar
the date December 5, 1921, it is not obvious
how many days have passed since the birth
Of Christ. In fact, It would be quite a task
TO figure out the total number of days since
that event. The Julian period is based upon
the principle Of date being written in a
figure which signifies the total number Of
days that have passed since its starting
point. . date placed at 4713 B. c., and the
principle Of the Maya calendar is similar.
We know that these people must have. had
q knowledge Of the stars, moon and sun that
vas Ike unto that of the ancient Egyptians.
Or otherwise they could not have developed
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

Here is recorded an earthquake
which shook Mexico in the year 2
flint (146o A. d.. The year is rep
resented BY the flint in the square
with seven dots. Below Is the hero
glyphic for movement (ollin) q sort Of
winged eye in . spotted feld
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05
STONES THAT STORY FORGOTTEN CIVILIZATION

monumens married the passage u tina.
In the place of our often used tsrms OF
decades and centuries the Maya divided time
up into 400-year periods, tventy-yef
periods and nve-year periods. These Eve
year periods were marked each one By 10
corresponding monument
Wherever there was q monument MARKING
this fve-year period there also the hotun
sign was sure to appear. more careful
study, moreover, showed that It occurred st
no other time Then It has the bar a. an
essential part Of Il and the bar indicates hve.
Obviously eve" therefore, was q part Of
the message that this hotun conveyed.
nR. MORLEY noted also that the portion
~ Of the sign to the left appeared In Dc.
tached form in many Of the hierogiyphh
writings. 1t was often at the end Of an In
scription or a manuscript. Much observa.
tIon led to the conclusion that IL was used
something like the double cross that We
rut at the end Of the manuscripts that We
prepsre. In short. 1t was the symbol et
fnality.
with these theories pretty wen substa..
tiated by observation, he went to work on
the main body Of the hotun sign. What did
this third and most important element meanf
Finally IT dawned upon the student that
this sign might be a new sisn for the year.
Giving il that Interpretation for experimental
nurposes, the hotun would then mean the
end Of Eve years."
DR.. Morley took this meaning and tried
Il e1perimentally. He bore II In mind
through the months as be sat among the
mesquite infested, junsie-ridden ruins Of
Nortbern Guatemala, perspiring freely a.
r.. traced into his notebook the inscriptions
tror, m,nx monuments. Wherever the hotun
.;,, occurred he found that the tnterprs-
,.,,on. s'tbe end Of Eve years." fitted. Ths
s.c;nhered calendar hieroglyphic on many
s,onumepts needed but this phrase to com.
nl.t. them. Wherever the sign appeared this
rhr.s. completed the meaning. A definite
so,tribution toward reading the Maya hiere-
,,ynbic writing had been made.
Put the detection Of the fact that the
,,;rcipal element Of this sign meant year"
-, nrob.bly even more valuable than was
~. interpretation Of the sign as q whole
Rrnnins back through all the Maya Htsrs-
49,, va, a recurrence OF this word, the
..,,ns Of which had not formerly been
~ The discovery Of its meaning made
=. .o.,;hle to construct the written Maya
..,.ndar reaching far back into tnnntT.
n Morley kept mullinf sver In his
-,.a .nother ambiguous symbol which ve1ld
:. s,nr..sed By nine at one time and sy
ten the next
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

against another and finally bringing the
whole country into subjugation in 1541. 1t
was these Spanish conquerors, in their re-
ligious zeal, that led to the undoing Of the
Mayas, to the execution of their great mobiles
and priests who constituted the learned
class, to the burning Of their hieroglyphic
manuscripts, to the extinction of their
learning and to the obliteration Of their
civilization. Probably the greatest tragedy
in the whole story of the Spanish conquest
Of the Mayas took place when Bishop Diego
de Landa burned the manuscripts Of
twenty seven Mayan books containing what
was undoubtedly the actual historical
record Of that remarkable people He burned
these manuscripts in 1885 in the first gem
GRAFTON alter ths conquest. holding that they
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

development Of man from savagery 10 ths
threshold Of civilization in our own United
States. .ssfs&tsstfs
1t was the basket makers who first began
the cultivation of corn within the con-
fines Of our own country. Il was the culti-
vation Of corn that first tied the south.
western people to permanent dwellings and
caused them to cease their homeless wander
ings. Corn may be written down as the
ediice upon which whatever degree Of
civilization existed In America, before the
coming Of Europeans, was built. The year
in which these basket makers began the
cultivation of corn may be said to have been
the date of the dawn of civilization SO far
as our own country Is concerned.
:" For the archeologist there was but one
more interesting field in North America than
the Southwest Of the United States and that
field was the Maya civilization of Central
America, where the archeologist finds prob
lens, almost as great as those Of Europe,
Asia and Africa much more nearly virgin.
So, when Sylvanus Morley had an opportun-
ity to journey to Central America, first
under the auspices Of the School of Amer
ican Archaeology, and later of the Carnegie
institution of Washington, he WIS much
rratifed. For fifteen years he has been devot-
ing himself to this field OF research, working
upon its remnants, recording his findings
in huge and imposing tones highly priced
in scientific Libraries.
sHTHIs race of native Americans" he
i told me, has been variously accounted
for by various students, who have attributed
its origin to Egypt, Carthage, Java, India
and even to the submerged continent Of At
Iantis supposed to have existed in the
mid Atlantic. The archaeological evidence,
however, Is largely to the effect that
the Mayas originated somewhere on the coast
of the Gulf of Mexico, possibly not far
south Of the Tampico oil fields, there still
being people in that part Of. Mexico who
speak the Mayan language, and that they
drifted down that coast and finally came
to flower in Central America in what is
now the Department of Peten, Guatemala,
somewhere about the beginning of the Chris
tian era.
The Mayan civilization had two periods
Of brilliancy. of greatness. The first period
and the finest flower Of empire developed
in the interior of Northern Central Amer
lea. Over in the jungle near the western
boundary of Honduras is to be found the
ancient city Of Copan, once the capital Of
the Southern Mayas and still rearing the
many monuments in mute testimony of the
greatness OF that people. It was during the
hrst six centuries of the Christian era that
this first Maya empire fourished. = Then
there came unexplained disaster,
1T was into this latter civilization that
the Spaniards came under Francisco
Montejo. playing OF one Maya group
A translation Of the picture writing rea,
ruler, Ahuitzotl, died in the year 10 rabl
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

were works Of the devil and should, there
fore, be destroyed. 'Whereat,' he naively
observes, the Indians were much moved
1T is only during the last half century
that Psychologists have begun the serious
attempt to decipher the writings of this
people. Although the language still survives,
although there are 5000, 900 Of people
speaking it, there is no one who has brought
down from the past the meaning of that
which was written in the hieroSlyphic rec
ords in the heyday of the Maya civilization.
OF all the books that the Maya civilization
developed but three are known to exist in
the world today. One was found in the
Royal Library Of Dresden by Ernst T.
Foerstemann, an archeologist who devoted
many years to itS study and was one of
the pioneers in Interpreting Maya chro-
nology. Another Maya manuscript was
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

Hieroglyphies telling of a comet
which passed over Mexico in the year
10 house "a. D. 14s9). Above in a
square is a house with ten dots, in
dicating the year, and below us a
comet represented by the Aztecs as
serpent
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

right, Is crowned figure on q throne from
whose mouth issues speech scroll, the Aztes
hieFoglyphie for ruler, meaning ahe who speaks.
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Adding these gives 1921 write. 4.
Maya

Then the light brois. In any e,lsnds,
one lunar month, or one complete reye-
luton of the moon, has twenty nine dsy, and
the next thirty days. They alternats. This
was 'the marking Of the lunar calendar.
That portion Of the calendar which de6ed
the students had been the lunar calendar.
Sure enough, the application of this theory
worked out and made It possible to read
the second half Of all these hieroflyphie cal.
endars, the lunar half. II revealed the zen
eral meaning Of the vhols supplementary
series, the name given to this particular
group of hieroglyphics.
1t is thus that the 'rslifer" works pa
tiently. painstakingly, increasingly. he adds
bis few crumbs to the sum total Of human
knowledge. He is highly privileged indi-
vidual, for there are few allowed to mako
any such additions. Some day he may find
the key that will unlock the Maya house Of
knowledge. Some old Spanish library may
yield at any time some invaluable manu-.
script which will tell US the whole story.
Who can tell? Any odd thing might happen
in this most odd field Of human endeavor.
The Washington herald., 1922-02-05
-Four dots thus m
dieated four periods OF
400 years each


Three bars and q dot IN
dicate sixteen. In this
position sixteen periods
of twenty years each
One dot in this position
indicated one year
This is he Maya zero
and In this position in
dicates zero months
The zero ir this position
indicates zero days
Adding these oiv.. :,
The Washington herald., 1922-02-17

buyers came from traders putting
out lines of short stocks. Prior to
this merger the company had been
owned and managed by the large
holders of Middle States Oil. but
was not a subsidiary of that COM
pany. Today trading in it was on
large scale, ranging from 12% to
13k, a new high record. The pre-
ferred was traded in at s to 8.
Kirby Petroleum was steadily held
at around its high record sales to-
day. being at Is to 24x. Simms
Petroleum was another strong. fea-
ture and sold at 10k to 10%. Cities
Service was steady at around ITO
and Standard Oil of Indiana was In
The Washington herald., 1922-02-17

fair demand. ranging from ssh
to S5%.
There was active trading in many
industrials but without special
change in trading position Of those
Issues. The sale Of Postum Cereal
common at IS in yesterdays review
was cancelled. the sales yesterday
being at SO and IS. This morning
the stock sold at IS and the pre-
ferred was traded in at 102. Some
of the motor stocks were fairly ae-
tive, Durant Of Indiana moving up
from 10 to ION.
The Washington herald., 1922-02-17
SPECIAL INTEREST
in OIL SECURITY

NEW YORK. Feb. 16.-Special
interest was attached in the trad
ing on the New York Curb Ex-
change today to the continued ur-
gent demand for Imperial Oil of
Delaware. one of the companies ab-
sorbed by the Middle States Oil
Company. The stock had been. on
arbitrage account ever since the
plans Of the merger were an
nounced and apparently much OF
the stock sold to those arbitrags