Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-24
EUTSCHE VERKEHRSBLAET-
TER, Berlin.-The advent of
the Goethe year, of 1882, which
brings on March % the Tooth


TER, Berlin-The advent of
the Goethe year, of 1882, which
~ brings on March % the Tooth
anniversary of the greatest
German poets death. has given new
impetus to research into his life and
family history. Until a few years ago
Goethe's ancestry could be traced back
only as far as his great-grandfather
the blacksmith Hans Christian Goethe
who lived in Artern, in the Province
SaXony. Then the great-great-grand-
father was discovered in the identity
of Hans Goethe of Sangerhausen. in the
HarZ Mountains, but he could be
| traced back only as far as 1911. Fried
rich Schmidt, author Of history of
Sangerhausen, has now succeeded in
establishing that Hans Goethe, the
great-great-grandfat was born in
Berka, near SonderhauSen, also in the
Harz region, and that he was registered
as a citizen of Sangerhausen in 1857.
Hans Christian, the great-grandfath-
er, is also first recorded in Artern in
the same year. He went thither to ply
his trade, and his father remained in
SangerhauSen, where he married the
widow of Hans Petersdorf, a distiller.
She died in 1861, and he married
widow of a retired lieutenant, who had
also conducted a distillery Hans
Goethe carried it on, but appears not to
have made a great success, for there
are frequent references to sums Dor
roWed by him. and to his failure to pay
interest. In 1855, after the death of
his third wife (the first, who was Hans
Christian Goethe's mother, died in Ber-
ka in 1882, he went to Artern to live
with his son, and died there in 1888.
Turing his residence of oil
years in Sangerhausen, Hans Goethe
lived in two houses. The first belonged
to his second and the second to his
third wife. The first house is now oc-
cupied by a butcher. The second.
which is known to have been occupied
as long ago as 1923, was torn down
about 1910. The three houses at Nos.
2. 4 and 6 "Vordem Wasserthor" (Be-
fore-the- Water Gate. now stand on its
site. So SangerhauSen is added to the
already long list of cities proud of some
link with the greatest poet of Germany.
Palestine Bulletin, JeruSalem-It is
hardly TO be expected of an oil and
gasoline company to enrich the vocab-
ularly Of the Hebrew tongue, yet this
seems to be by-product of their work.
We have just received an unusually
beautiful specimen of the printers
art, pamphlet replete with photo
graphs and diagrams, in two colors,
and written entirely in Hebrew. We
understand the same company has
published a similar booklet in Arabic.
After describing the products of
the company and reasons for, as we'll
as proper methods of employment, the
pamphlet ends with glossary of He
brew words and their English equiva-
Tents. Jewish chauffeurs at present
generally say "lubricatsia" for "lubri-
cation" but hereafter they will more
likely say 'sicha," meaning an "oiling."
Chassis" is word virtually adopted
into the language, but 1t will likely be
displaced by the more classical
''sheled," meaning skeleton"
Worm drive" is literally translated
into "nehiga -chelzonit" Other phrases
like upper and lower spring shackle
bolts" and brake camshaft bearings"
are equivalently set over into the an
cient Jewish language which had orig
inally no counterparts for them.
Prison without
Inmate Hoists Flag.
Vaterland, Lucerne-From the staff
Of the Prison of Locarno waves a white
flag. The institution has not at pres
ent single inmate. 1t is almost 10