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Evening star., 1934-04-23
Mayan 'sBible" Is Translated
By Carnegie Institution Here
''Bo0k of Chilan,i BaIanai'' Tells of
Creation, Flood and Second Com.
ing of God Quetsalcoah.

prophecies only through Spanish
translations," says Roys, they would
appear to be inspired by missionary
propaganda. But an examination Of
the Maya texts leads to the convic-
ton Of their genuine character. IN
spite of the fact that any mention Of
the name Quetzalcoatl has been care
fully deleted."
The Maya prophets, including the
great Balam himself, apparently had
better luck than most soothsayers be-
cause Of certain peculiar advantages.
The Maya religion held that events
required in great time cycles. What
had happened once would happen
again. Today had been in Yesterday
and would be in Tomorrow. Conse-
quently the prophet had only to con-
suit his calendar of the past to fore
tell future events.
But since 1t was foregone con-
clusion that certain events would hap
pen, the stage was set for them. They
happened because they were expected
to happen. Everything was RATIONAL
lied into fulflllment Of the prophecy
The marvellous outcome would have
been for the prophet to fail.
But Chilam Balam seems to have
been something of an opportunist in
predicting the second coming.
BaIam's Prophecy,
With Alterations
Here Is Balam's prophecy, after 1t
has passed through the hands Of the
coverted scribes.
q" The raised wooden standard
shall come. 1t shall be displayed to
the world that the world may be en-
lightened, lord. A quarter Of league,
q league away he comes. You see the
mut-bird surmounting the raised
wooden standard. : new day shall
dawn in the north, in the west It
zammna Kauil (the supreme Maya
god) shall rise. Our Lord comes, liza.
Our elder brother comes. Receive
your guests, the bearded men, the men
of the east, the bearers of the sign OF
God. lord. Good indeed is the word
of God that comes to us. The day
of our regeneration comes. You do not
fear the world, Lord, you VINO are
the only God who created us. 1t Is
suficient then that the world OF God
Is good, lord. He Is the guardian OF
our souls. He who receives him, who
has truly believed, he will go to heaven
with him.
"The first tree of the world is re-
stored. It is displayed to the world.
This Is the sign of Hunab-ku on high.
Worship it, Itza. You shall worship
today his sign on high. You shall
be converted to the word of Hunab-ku.
lord I came from heaven.
Believe In my word, itself. am
Chilam Balam, and have interpreted
the entire message Of the true god OF
the world. lord, the word Of God, the
Lord of heaven and earth. Very good
indeed Is his word in heaven, lord"
Evening star., 1934-04-23
virginia Home DESTROYED.

LURAY. Va, April % Especially -
Fire early yesterday destroyed the
home of Joseph Menefee, near Riley
vile, the family barely escaping with
their lives. Mrs. Menefee discovered
the fire when she awoke in a room
filled with smoke. Nothing was saved.
The loss is estimated at about $500.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
KENSINGTON COUPLE
HURT IN COLLISION
Alfred c. Warthen and Wife
Treated at Hospital as Driver
of Other Car Is Arrested.

Bt staff Correspondent of The Star.
ASPEN, Md, April 23-Alfred C.
Warthen, 72 years old, of Kensing-
ton, Md, and his wife, Mrs. Mona
Warthen 81, were injured last night
when an automobile in which they
were riding was in collision with an
other machine on the Seventh street
pike here.
Mrs. Warthen suffered lacerations
Of the tongue and a fractured left
wrist, while Warthen suffered shock
and bruises. They were treated at
Montgomery County General Hos
pital. in Sandy Spring.
John Whelan, colored. Of Adams
town, Md, driver of the second car,
was arrested by Policeman Aubrey
Beall on a charge Of reckless driving
and was released under 5000 bond.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
JUNE FAIR DISCUSSED
BY GRANGE AT FLORIS
Committee Appointed to Confer
With Other Civic Organizations
on Participation.

S~@ - 80 SASA <s~SASA4s
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HERNDON, Va, April 23.-The
Floris Grange at its meeting Satur-
day night discussed the matter of
holding a community fair" in June.
A committee was named, composed of
Prof. w. r. Crabill, Wilson McNair
and Mrs. Maurice Stroud, to confer
with other local civic organizations
with the view of having them partic-
ipate
Miss Edith Rogers, secretary,
stated that it was the chief purpose
of the grange to offer an opportunity
to the agricultural element to ex-
hibit live stock, farm products, vege-
tables and flowers, and to have it
countrywide.
r. v. Nickel addressed the meet
ing on "The Church in Rural Cam
munities." Others taking part in the
program were Donald Popovich, Mrs.
Donald Popovich, w. r. Crabill, Mrs.
Maurice Stroud, Miss Rebecca Mid
dleton and Miss Edith Rogers.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

A version of the "bible" Of the
Mayas-the sacred writ of the great
est Of the New Worlds aboriginal
civilizations-has just been translated
into English for the first time through
the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton.
This Is the Book Of Chilam
Balam." It constitutes-with its ac-
| counts Of the creation of the earth
in 20 days and its destruction by
flood, together with its phophecies o1
the coming of the white men and the
second coming of the god Quetzal-
coatl, with his white-robed priests
the most magnificent of all aboriginal
documents.
Chilam Balam, who is believed
! to have been an historical character
living some time early in the six
teenth century. was the greatest of
the Maya prophets and his predictions
greatly influenced his countrymen in
their friendly reception of the stran-
gers who were eventually to conquer
them.
His book was originally written in
Maya hieroglpyhs. There were many
copies of 1t scattered through the
native towns. Presumably they were
all destroyed, however, unless one
may still be preserved, unknown to
the world, in some Spanish library.
But before its destruction the book
was Transcribed. in various versions,
in the Maya language written in
Spanish script learned in the mission
schools. Thus copies were preserved
at the various population centers.
The present translation, made by
Ralph L. Roys Of the Carnegie staff,
is from one Of them.
Obviously it is far from the lost
original. Christian influence Is shown
made to conform to Christian tradi-
ton, but enough is left to introduce
the ethnologist to a new world.
X 4 X
Prophets Were Honored
In Their Own Land.
The Maya prophets often lived to
see their prophecies fulfilled, but no
other achieved such success during
his own lifetime as Chilam Balam.
Within a few years after he had pre-
dicted the imminent return Of Quet-
zalcoatl and his white-robed attend
ants came the Spanish conquerers,
with their priests. There is some rea-
son to believe, however, that vague
rumors had reached the ear OF the
prophet concerning the Spaniards,
who already were in Cuba. He linked
this information with the ancient be-
liefs Of his people.
In the present version OF the most
important of the Chilam Balam man
uscripts all reference to Quetzalcoati
is suppressed and the name OF Christ
substituted. But the quite different
intent of the prophet can be read be-
tween the lines.
ITO any one who knew OF these
Evening star., 1934-04-23
KANN'S HONORED

j. MacFarQuhar OF Store Named
Toy Managers Official.
J. MacFarquhar Of the S. Kann
Sons store was elected first vice presi-
dent of the American Toy Managers
Association at their annual meeting
in the Hotel McAlpin in New York,
according to word received here today.
More than 1000 toy buyers and toy
department managers visited the toy
fair being held in connection with the
convention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
Ring KneU Him Way Back When

IT is a good trick when a writer go out and set
Il down with accuracy some living being whom he
has observed with fidelity. He holds the mirror up
to nature. But that is not the furthest reach OF
literature. There are few who venture forth and
say with divine arrogance, I it this way. Let
nature catch up with my conception" And it is un-
deniable that life is a copycat and can be bulied
into following the master artist who bids it come to
heel
Nor do I think that this extraordinary feat Is
wholly reserved for the writer's of fiction. Pie in the
sky well may become tomorrows earthly mamma.
think specifically of Edward Bellamy, long labelled
in the American mind mere Utopan. And yet
some part of his dream has been made good and
more will follow.
But have no desire to get into the deeper waters
The scope of Lardners work probably was too limited
to make him a likely candidate for enduring fame.
Still posterty has cashed in longer shots. How
ever, for the moment will confine myself to the
fact that he has scored startling triumph this side
Of the days which are without end.
Before there was a Dizzy Dean, Ring knew him
from head to pitching cleat. And when the lank
right handler pulls the string and lets fast one go
I seem to hear applause from high Olympus. And
as the strikes chug by there is one who leans down
from the golden bar of heaven and exclaims by
every right in the universe, Alta workin' Dizzy"
Copyright 1884 by Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

A THOUGH the specific cause of the type of
rheumatism that attacks children is not known.
physicians have long been convinced that infected
tonsils have much to do with it.
The basis for this belief is such discovery the
fact that the death rate in children suffering from
rheumatism is nearly so per cent less where the
attack. Furthermore SO per cent-of the rheumatic
children had suffered from tonsilitis throat
previous to their first attacks Of the rheumatic
condition
Recurrent attacks, however, were not less fire.
quent in those children who had had their tonsls
moved.
COME of the most common signs of rheumatism
- in children extreme pallor, susceptibility to
fatigue, loss Of appetite bleed and vague pains
throughout the body This does not mean that every
child who has one Of these symptoms is rheu-
matte, but it does mean that these symptoms are
suspicious and should bring about a study of the
child to determine their cause.
The onset Of rheumatic disease is insidous. IL
begins with the minor symptoms that have been
mentioned, but comes eventually TO the serious in
fammation of the joints and Of the heart that
sometimes results fatally.
The worst result Of rheumatic Inflammation In a
child is complete involvement Of the heart, de-
scribed by doctors pancardts, because it affects
the whole heart.
d HEUMATISM in a child is usually accompanied
IN also by fever and by painful Joints Some Of
the cases have the type of twitching known as st.
Vitus' dance. or chorea.
The pains that used to be called growing pains
frequently represent nflamma ton Of the muscles,
so that better name for the condition is muscular
rheumatism.
Rheumatic fever rarely occurs in very young chill
dren, but is fairly frequent in the period between
and Is years Of age. The most common ages are
for boys and 10 for girls
As an example of the fatal character Of this con-
dtion, one specialist reports the records Of 564 chill
dren who we're watched over period Of ten years.
The first three years after the initial attack Is the
period Of greatest hazard for rheumatic children.
In this period 40 per cent of the children had
or more Of the symptoms, and by the end of ten
years 81 per cent had died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
ABANDONMENT OF
BUS ROUTE ASKED
Civic Club Advocates End of
South Side Line.

Abandonment of the Union and
Minnesota streets routes for buses
of the Indianapolis Street Railways
is advocated in petitions which will
be circulated by the South Meridian
Civic Club. it was decided last night
at a meeting at 1917 South Meri-
dian street.
Chief objection to the bus routes
was the noise created. Members
who will have charge of circulating
the petitions are James Hagerty,
Philip Seyfred, Guy R. Dearth,
Philip Kraft, John Winters and
Raymond MeSserSmith.
The club also went on record as
opposed to the use of funds derived
from the gasoline tax to deepen
Fal creek channel.
A resolution opposing consolida-
ton of railroad freight depotS here
will be sent to Indiana members of
congress. 1t states that such con-
solidation would eliminate terminals
of the Monon, Baltimore x Ohio,
Illinois Central and Nickel Plate
railroads in indianapolis, throw
many railroad empoyes out of work
and cause serious losses in tax rev.
enue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
ReserUed for the Truly Creative

7 ARDNER never saw Dizzy Dean and the ace
highlander Of the Cardinals in all probability
never read a line of the American author Ring
took phrase here and there from ball players with
whom he was associated, gave little closer study
to big Ed Walsh the spitba king of the White Sox,
and then mixed his notes with that prophetic thing
called inspiration. And then he set upon the printed
page man called Elmer.
have talked endlessly with baseball writer's who
ought to know about the works Of Ring. Naturally
they all admirers But there were certain res
ervations Its swell stuff the general verdict.
but of course it's little exaggerated Modern base
ball isn't ike that. There actually couldn't be such
a mug as Elmer"
These reports were accurate enough. When Lard
ner limned his famous character no such person
existed The dust was there and the moisture for
the making But there need for the breath OF
life. 1t has been given to man to make images in
the same manner in which he himself was fash
Toned. OF course, this is not within the power OF
every man. The miracle is reserved only for the truly
creative artist And that is a phrase which ought
to be used sparngly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

NTORBIDE or synthetic carbon boride, the new
~ abrasive which is exceeded in hardness only by
the diamond is expected to find immediate use for
the nozzleS of SandblaSting machinery.
Sand blasting pressure blasting consists o.
blowing stream of sand other abrasive material
under pressure against stone or metallic surfaces
It is used for cleaning of public buildings the prep
aration of metal surfaces OF AUTOMOBILES before
painting. the engraving of marble monuments and
other important processes.
one difficulty however, has been that the metal
nozes through which the abrasive is blown is itself
worn down by the blast. When very hard ahrasives
are used the metal nozzle is sometimes worn out IN
less than thirty minutes.
The Norris Company Worcester, Mass, who
nounced the discovery of norbide few days ago,
now announces that it is able TO mold norbide into
any desired shape and that nodded nozzles can be
made from it. These nozzeS, they say will last the
life of a Sand-baSt machine.
It is also announced that horrible will find many
uses where TO date only diamonds could be used
TINE development of horrible puts the abrasive
l. manufacturers ahead for the present in the race
between steel makers. cutting toolmakers and abra-
sive makers.
It resembles the race that goes on between arma-
ent makers and munitions makers The armament
makers undertake TO create an arrnor plate which
no existing shell pierce Then the munitions
makers proceed to develop projectile which will 60
through it, This requires the making of better
armor plate which in its turn calls for more pow
erful projectile And so it goes.
and harder steel alloys has created a demand for
still harder materials which Will act cutters, drills
and the like. A hard steel can not be used in du-
duStry unless there are tools which will shape and
fashion 1t for use.
But even the production of these tools is not
enough. For tools get dull with use. The problem
Of sharpening these tougher and harder tools de-
mands harder grinding wheels and sharpening
stones
In recent years, industry has made increasing
Of cutting tools made from cemented tungsten
carbideS To date, 1t has been difficult TO ind an
abrasive which win work these tools effectively.
Norbide IS said to cut them with ease.
IT is interesting to note that these very hard sub
l. stances silicon carbide, tungsten carbide and
boron carbide. are all compounds OF carbon.
The diamond, hardest Of all known substances,
is pure carbon And vet carbon can take on many
other forms. Graphite, used as lubricant is an
other form OF carbon.
Carbon enters into thousands of compounds
many Of which are gases. One series of carbon
compounds. the so-called carbohydrates include the
sugars and starcheS
Norbde takes the form of jet black crystals. It
Is manufactured III the electric furnace at the Mag
ara Falls plant Of the Norris Company. Boron in
the form OF boTic acid brought from Searles lake.
California and carbon IN the form Of COKE are used
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

venient for Chester Gillette, but
finally he promised her marriage
and a trip in the Adirondack
mountains.
BILLY" write ecstatically that
she might die with joy on seeing
him again. She said, too, that she
had made wedding dreSs-a blue
one. They met and began trip
which took them to South Bay on
Big Moose lake.
They went out in boat that
afternoon. He put in tennis rae
quet and some of his clothes in
suitcase. Next day they found
the boat overturned and the girls
body in the lake, and two days
later Gillette was arrested at an
other resort.
At his trial for murder it was
contended that he must have
struck her with the tennis rae
quet, thrown her into the water,
and struck her with an oar when
she came to the surface. He said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
SCIENCE REJ0ICES AS
TINY GOLD NUGGET is
RECLAIMED FROM SEA

By United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-Science
at last has tapped the S3,000.000,-
100000 (three Quadrillion)
treasure in pure gold. not to men
ton untold wealth in silver,
radium platinum and other pre-
cious metals known to exist in the
waters of the seven seas.
Announcement that a nugget,
part gold and part silver, no big
ger than the head of a pin, had
been extracted from seawater was
made before the local section Of
the American Chemical Society by
Willard H. Dow of the Ethyl-Dow
Chemical Company.
Mr.. Dow pointed out that the
cost of extracting the treasure
still was too prohibitive to be be
feasible commercially. He said it
cost about ten times the present
market price of gold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

Gust as Robert Edwards Is alleged
to have said to police that the
girl fell overheard and hurt her
head on the side of the boat.
A jury required five hours to
find him guilty.
It is said that Charles Evans
Hughes, then New York's Cover
nor, considered a communication Of
sentence because most of the evil
dence was circumStantial. But
Chester Gillette went to the cleo
trio chair, and later unofficial
word came from his spiritual adj
visers in Auburn prison that mo
legal mistake was made"
n y 4
NEARLY twenty years after
IN the closing of that case,
Theodore Dresser wrote his famed
American Tragedy" Actually,
though, it seems that the first
sordid pattern for his novel was
partly traced in the unsolved
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
XXTILKEs-BARRE, Pa, Oct. 6

MA I1GhEsS-bAhRE, Pa, oct. b.
w The gripping drama that
is swiftly being written here,
chapter by chapter, in the MUIR
der trial Of Robert Edwards, is
not the first real-life American
Tragedy"
Because of its many parallels
to the soul-searching story by
Theodore Dresser, it constantly is
being identified with the novel.
However, that novel vas based on
an actual case which occurred
nearly three decades ago, and
through which ran even more
threads Of sinister similarity to
the desperate dilemma Of dapper
young Edwards.
And prior to that, by more
than half a century, an almost
identical mystery inspired the pen
Of Edgar Allan Poel
Robert Edwards is accused of
the Staying of Freda McKechnie,
caSt-of sweetheart who was ex-
pecting his child. The prosecu-
ton has said that he had tired
of Freda and wanted to marry
college girl, Margaret Grain. But
Freda did not know of this, and
was happy because she had been
promised marriage.
She and Robert made a rendez-
vous at Harvey's lake and went
swimming in the rain. But Rob-
ert. it Is charged, went into the
water with a blackjack concealed
in his hand, and struck the girl
and held her under until she was
dead.
OVERWEIGHT years ago,
i such a scene was being en-
acted. From the front pages OF
newspapers throughout the ma
ton, attention was centered on
the murder trial of Chester Gill
lette. Like Robert Edwards, he
was young and handsome.
Gillette had been employed as
foreman in the collar factory of a
AC1ab1NC III NO1 M
Y. He had glanced more than
once at a pretty girl in his de-
partment, Grace Brown, whom
whom everybody called BILLY"
One day he found and returned to
her little opal ring she had
worn. So they talked and became
friends, then lovers.
After a time he discovered that
the name of Gillette was sesame
to the better homes of the town
of Cortland. He began to meet
quite a different class of girls.
He became ashamed of his in
fatuation for Billy" Brown, the
factory mand, especially since he
had won, or thought he had won,
the love of a cultured girl whose
parents were well-to-do.
e %
THEN Billy" came to him in
Il shame and said she was to be
a mother. That was very incon-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

age arrived at is higher than the
annual income of the poorest paid
workers.
Makers of mems shirts and work
clothing averaged $500 year in
1888. Makers of clay products
averaged $500; of pottery $3.50; of
cigarets, 1922.
Automobile workers averaged
$1,000, and makers of automobile
bodies and parts, ST, 020. Men max
ing engines, machine tools, tires
and inner tubes and tin ware,
where most of the work is
skilled, averaged around $1,000.
Bookings Institution estimated
in recent study that even in
1929 one family in every five had
less than $1,000 a year to live on;
that two in five had less than ST.
500, and that nearly three
fourths of all the families in the
country had less than $500 a
year.
~ .
TINE American Federation of
u Labor charges in its annual
report to the San Francisco con-
vention that minimum wages
fixed by NRA codes are mot high
enough to make possible an i'm
proved standard of living or to
create consumer demand for the
products of industry"
Higher paid workers have &C
tually suffered wage decreases as
a result of NRA codes, the fedora
ton charges, and cites the cleo
trical industry where in one plant
average weekly wages of $50 and
S35 were reduced to $50 and $40
by adoption of code.
While the President discussed
annual wage guarantees only for
lowest paid workers, officials of
the new NRA are equally inter-
ested in the plight of skilled
workers. George F. Brady,
assistant administrative officer,
estimates that skilled workers
should receive from three to five
times whatever minima are fixed
in each industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

ing claiming the right to be crooked in certain
lected matters is paraphrang the song in which the
husband wrote to his absent wife, Il have been, to
all intentS and purposes, true to you my dear. in
manner of speaking"
I have done some ghosting too.
For two years I was the ghost of Babe Ruth, and
another time. on special occasion, the ghost
of hell-fre preacher from Fl. Worth, who came to
New York to clean up Broadway He worse
faker than the Babe when you consider that he was
putting himself away, as the saying goes for
vicar of God earth and critic of the morals OF
other people.
But my own experience was nothing.