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Forecasts Banner Wheat Crop


CHICAGO. June II. - Despite
drought last fall and floods this
spring the American farmer can ex-
pect the largest wheat yield since
1892. Nat c. Murray. nationally
known crop expert. said today.
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Draws Loud Appla use
JealousieS Are Developing

There are so many candidates
and potential candidates for Gov
ernor at Decatur, where the Indi-
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between them and the Roman. They
were much less flexible and much
more poorly adapted to literary pur-
poses. They presumably had come
into Europe from the North while the
Latin had come from the South. Yet
the similarities proved that they hardly
could have had entirely independent
origins.
The puzzle Is Just beginning to be
solved, it Is explained by DR.. John
P. Harrington, noted Government ex-
pert on languages. with whom DR..
Lamsa has been in consultation.
An important link came with the
discovery last year Of Venetian In
scriptionS in Austria. The Venetians,
explains Dr. Harrington, were an Al
banian tribe living at approx
mately the site Of the present Venice
in the days Of the earliest Greek colo
nization. They were On isolated, alien
people living in the midst Of q domi-
nant Greek -Italic culture. Tenaciously
they clung to their ancient language
and religion. In the Albanian home
land the language and form of writing
underwent profound changes with the
centuries. There was no competition.
But to the Venitia the preservation Of
the old forms became almost q re-
lisious duty. If they once gave way
and began to talk Greek or Italic,
their identity as a separate people
would be at an end.
Eventually, they were driven out Of
their marshy. habitat and for more
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people left alive who speak almost In
the tongue Of the Galilee fishermen.

people left alive who speak almost In
the tongue Of the Galilee fishermen.
IT WAS In pursuit Of his Aramaic
studies that he went among them
to find instead the probable origin
Of the alphabet. After the Resurrec-
ton the disciples scattered. Most
went west, where they preached the
gospel to peoples who spoke other
tongues and to whom the homely
idioms Of the Sermon on the Mount
were strange and alien. st. Thomas
went east-to preach in his own
tongue. Then arose the HISTORIAN
communities. They were hard pressed
on all sides. In no other way than by
extreme orthodoxy would they hope
to retain their identity.
This extreme orthodoxy preserved
the clue to the riddle Of the alphabet
Still the pattern Of the alphabet's
wanderings has wide gaps between the
Assyria Of 1000 BIC. and twentieth
century America. The way leads
through Judea, Tyre, Greece, Rome
and England. Rome received the
alphabet from Greece, together with
the rest of its basic culture. But 1t
made many alterations IN the style Of
the letters and in their syllable values.
The Roman legions carried their
alphabet with them into Gaul and
Britain. Where their conquest was
complete they suppressed the native
culture, such as it was. It was through
Rome that the Gauls, Celts and Brit
ons had their first contacts with manu-
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Life Is Gay in Centers

| houses. They point with pride. though.
to the fact that many splendid ro-
mances have started in the commu-
nifty centers and have gone to happy
conclusions.
1t Is not generally known that the
various community centers-and they
are spread far over the city-offer so
many fine opportunities for neighbors
get together. While the youth Of the
city has taken advantage Of all the
offers made by the master minds Of
the Department of Schools, Board Of
Education, the oldsters have held
back. 1t might be that man wants
to practice billiards-snd has not the
wherewithal to frequent q billiard
parlor. All he has to do Is to make
known his want and pretty soon q bill
lard table will be functioning in the
community center nearest his home.
Another man feels that he would
like to cultivate his voice. That's
easy. Singing teachers will step forth
to help make the world forget Ca
ruso-if instruction Is all 1t takes.
Even cornet player is welcome at
the community centers. So Is a bridge
player. And bridge, incidentally,
happens to be one Of the most popu-
lar forms Of recreation these nights at
the centers. Public demand called for
instruction In bridge. So those who
want to know the fine points Of the
game need go only to the community
centers and learn.
II you breeze around 10 one Of the
10 big community centers In the city
you'll see more activity in one night
than they have in most towns
throughout the week.
While browsing about, II any one
has q suggestion to make, like starting
up q new form of entertainment-such
as indoor hockey-an that person has
TO do is to see the head man.
Instead of hiring a hall. II you feel
like delivering lecture, you need only
notify the community center aut..er.-
ties and they'll provide school house
for the small fee Of janitor service.
The community center. you zee. Is
out to aid the community-to center
its activities around the school houses.
The Christmas tree that throws out
its glad Yuletide spirit opposite the
White House each year Is q commu-
nifty center activity. So Is the Fourth
o. July celebration.
II you are in community you mus
be of the community, the community
center heads believe. So they are ex.
tending an invitation to Washing.
tonians to get on the band wagon ana
be good neighbors. The 1nvtatASa
reads, Come up and see me soma
time, at the community center near.
est your home"
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humanity Of its building. Any person
who recalls the Court sitting In the
simple, very human little chamber In
the grand old Capitol may wonder II
the Court Is, after all, o cold and
distant affair. One who remembers
Mr.. Justice Holmes win remember
q very human person. wonder II
he could have been happy in this
new, cold and super-human building.
No, the Supreme Court 10 neither cold
nor distant. Its building should not
have those qualities either. The north
and south wings of the Capitol have
somewhat Of that cold and distant
quality. The central portions-the old
parts, east and west, are warm and
human. It Is too bad that the su-
preme Court had to leave its modest
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The architect.

LAUDE DEBUSSY once re.
4 marked, in effect. that the
music Of a certain Scandin-
~ avian composer made him
think of strawberry Ice cream-rr1oun.
tains and mountains of 1t. The new
Supreme Court Building makes me
think Of ice cubes-millions and mil
lions Of them. To me the building Is
cold, very, very cold.
Several local writer's have said that
the building Is "Grecian." OF course,
1t isn't the least bit "Grecian"-it u
Roman. Roman, with little Of the
East colonnade Of the Louvre thrown
In. The Louvre colonnade, of course,
isn't cold-it Is very human, of q sort.
The new Supreme Court Building Is
not bit human. It Is cold. Beautis
fully done. it is-iust as the Ice
machines turn out beautifully n.es
ice cubes-but 1t Is cold and super
human.
Some one says that the Supreme
Court is cold and distant affair that
doesn't touch humanity very closely
and, therein, this some one finds
Justification for the cold super
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have tournaments among followers OF
these great indoor sports.
In fact, you can hardly mention
a human activity that does not get O
workout at the community center.
So there Is hardly any excuse for
q man or a woman being lonely In
Washington. Every night, except
Sunday, the school buildings Of this
city are turned automatically into
great clubs where residents Of the
various neighborhoods might meet and
make merry. They can make merry
in every conceivable fashion-within
the law. Naturally, there Is no night
club atmosphere, with set-ups and
highballs and fancy costumes and
the good-natured raillery that goes
with night out, but there are Or
chestras and there Is dancing.
IF A FELLOW feels Ike doing q tap
dance all he has to do Is 60, to
the community center. II he wants
to play banjo, the community cen
ter will introduce him to several other
banjo players, or ukulele strummer
or o trap drummer-and together
they can get up an orchestra. There
are as many different kinds of Or
chestras In the community centers OF
Washington as there are fish In the
Chesapeake Bay. There Is even now
the nucleus Of symphony orchestra
OF course there are brass bands. A
community center without a brass
band Is like a barber shop without q
razor.
Certainly there is love interest. You
see, boys and girls get together at
the community centers-and young
men and young women. It Is sort
of youth movement, with none Of the
political implications attached to sim
liar movements In Germany and Rus
sia and Italy. There, in those coun-
tries, the youth movements-es we
understand them-are fashioned for
one purpose-to bow to the will Of
some great dictator. Here the only
dictators the youth bows to are the
dictates Of their consciences and their
hearts-and love, Of course, will always
find q way.
This, naturally, makes it impera-
tive for teachers and parents to take
an active interest In the community
centers. omen club houses run under
the supervision Of the Board Of Edu-
cation.
Boys viii be boys, you know. SO
when they are thrown In contact with
girls who have the same interests
heart futters are liable to develop
Knowing all this, the parents anc
teachers exercise q rigid influence ovei
the activities In the various club
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Early Races Modified Pictures" Which
Later Became Sounds, Then Words, But
Essence of Original Maintains Vitality
Even Today.

than 1000 years they and their
language together were lost to history.
They were driven northeastward and
eventually merged in the primitive
tribes of the Central European wilder
ness. But before this happened they
had left behind them, craven on
stone, the last traces OF their style
Of writing. which were thus preserved
for present-day archeologists. These
few tablets are a link between Syriac
and Runic, between ancient Egypt and
ancient Norway. The letters vary
widely from those Of ancient Albanian,
but they are nearly identical with the
Runic inscriptions which were being
used In Scandinavia. Germany and
the British Isles at the time Of the
Roman conquest.
The Venetians taught the Nordic
and Alpine aboriginals with whom
they came in contact the art Of writ
ing and these, in turn, carried it to
the farthest reaches Of Northern Eu-
rope, to Greenland and possibly to
America. It profoundly affected the
modern European alphabets, which
are basically Roman with strong
Scandinavian impressions. In present.
day America there is left but q single
trace Of this ancient Venetian alpha
bet-the "ye" which Is used in place
Of "the" to denote antiquity over 80
many curio shops, road houses, etc.
NOW. DR.. IAmsa. points out. while
the Venetian alphabet came from
the same source originally as the
Greek and Roman it came by q differ
ent route, more directly and with
fewer notifications. The tribe had
only hostile relations with the peoples
with whom they might have come in
contact over the Mediterranean route
Their friendly relations, both in Italy
and Albania, were with migrants out
Of Asia Minor through the Balkans.
They received their alphabet in very
nearly the form In which 1t had origi-
mated among the Assyrians, but modi-
fed It somewhat in keeping with their
own ways Of life.
The other route Of the alphabet
westward was by way Of the Mediter-
ranean, where 1t was carried by
Phoenician traders. The Phoenicians
long have been credited with actu-
ally inventing the alphabet. Ac-
tually they did nothing Of the kind,
DR.. Lamsa says, although doubtless
they modified 1t to suit their own uses.
They were the srtizans and traders of
the ancient world. Solomon called
upon them to build his temple. They
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The Laynan.

r HAVE Just visited the Partnenon
of Americas Acropolis-the new
Supreme Court building. Even In
i the gray light Of raw Autumn
day, the buildings yards and yards
Of white marble blaze like a plain
Of February snow. Many Of the sur
rounding buildings are larger-the
Capitol, the Library Of Congress, the
Senate and House Once buildings
but they seem like dim and hay
background elements.
The taxi let me out in front and
started across the marble plaza.
It's not a long walk. but that smooth,
chaste expanse of stone makes 1t
look like an acre. Heads up! Every
ones head goes up that approaches
that building. It's partly curiosity, I
guess, but those eight rows Of marble
pillars-16 pillars-and the massive
sculptured figures, scowling from the
balustrades and frieze, produce q rev.
erence that lifts the chin.
The central corridor and more
white marble. Empty inches In the
walls, waiting to receive more white
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chamber In the old Capitol-wsrm
and human as 1t is-and freeze itself
away In this beautifully done compo-
sition Of ice cubes.
And there is story "going the
rounds" to the effect that one Of the
honorable justices likes the building
because when you come out-of-doors
you can see the Folger Library" "
Friendly, human sort Of thing, that
library.
Inside the new Supreme Court
Building is magnificent. It Is the ira
ditional "Palais de Justice" with great
emphasis upon the palace portion Of
the title. Even In the corridors one
instinctively whispers. Fear Of Its
magnihcence overcomes one. Too bad
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script literature. Naturally there was
q powerful influence for using the
alphabet Of the conquerors in their
own productions.
The native Gothic and Celtic alpha
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bets were unable to hold their own,
except In the North.
Then there were Gothic and Celtic
alphabets. Whence did they come?
There was obviously a crude similarity
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Editors criticism Of Court Building
epitotzed Dods that building u
to oDe submitted to The Star at the time the buildings ded
cation architects criticism, and decided to delay
building had 0bdtd
match against opinion The wre OF the latter
knew nothing the In Which to be used He asked
simply to urie the effect OF the building him. He DID, The
striking parallel OF the too opinions makes particularly interest,"
ing story.
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were the first great shipbuilders. They
only were able to operate the ships
they built. They undertook long voy-
ages and became one of the greatest
commercial races the world has known.
Naturally they needed a system Of
symbols In which to preserve their
commercial accounts and the secrets
Of their building craft. This was pro-
vided by the alphabet they found
among their Assyrian neighbors.
They brought this alphabet with
them on their trading trips to Greek
ports. They and the Greeks, in turn.
brought 1t to Italy. The Italian con-
quests carried 1t to Central Europe.
where it met once more its long-lost
relative-the Runic. It was adopted
at once by the southern tribes. The
northern tribes admitted it more
slowly and even today. as In German
script and the English "ye" something
of the old survives.
Each race which received the alpha.
bet modified 1t. Different implements
were used for writing. With some Of
SAAcAA SCA IoAA 1CCNCAo "clC OAAACuIG W
make. They we're either altered or
dropped. Certain sounds were hard to
pronounce. Hence the alphabetic
symbols for them had no meaning and
were dropped. Such was the case, for
example, with the Greek theta" As
an illustration Of the mechanical diff.
fculties, Dr.. LamSa says that he hims
self has considerable difficulty making
some of the characters with a pen.
They were designed to be made with
reed. Reeds still are used by the
Tayari.
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Tn RECENT years many Egyptologists
have maintained that the alphabet
came originally from Egypt. The old
est known examples of it are Egyptian
hieroglyphs which are very close to
the Greek and Semitic letters. The
recent findings. DR.. Lamsa maintains,
entirely disprove this. The actual oh.
jects themselves were in use among
the Assyrians, not among the Egypt
ians. Moreover. he maintains. the
movement in the ancient world was
from Asia Minor to Egypt. rather than
the reverse. An Egyptian invasion
never crossed the Euphrates, but As
syrian and other Semitic peoples nlads
frequent thrusts into Africa-so much
so that there Is q large element of
Semitic blood in the Egyptians Of to-
day. The alphabet. he believes, WAS
taken into Africa by the soldiers. From
there 1t spread southwark to Ethiopia.
where 1t still Is preserved in one Of Its
purest forms.
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
SCHOOL OF MUSIC BUILDING
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
BIOOMINGTON, INDIANA

BLOOMlNG1ON, INDIANA
Sealed proposals for construction OF the
School of Music Building for Indiana Uni
versity will be received at the office OF
John w. Cravens Secretary of the Trus-
tees of Indiana University, at Maxwell
Hall Bloomington, Indiana, until O'Clock
A. M Central Standard time, on Decem,
bel. 3rd, 1885: and between said hour and
clubroom of the Claypool Hotel in Indian
apolis, Indiana, and then will be publicly
opened and read in the said clubroom of
the Claypool Hotel at Indianapolis. In
The work to be constructed as per
plans and specifications prepared by
Robert Frost Daggett. Architect. consist
Indiana University at Bloomington, In
diana.
Separate bids will be received on the
following items
l. General construction.
2. Heating and ventilating system.
3. Plumbing.
4 Electric wiring systems
5. Elevator and elevator enclosures.
Combination bids on two or more of
the mechanical items may be made if de-
sired
Proposals shall be properly and COM
nished. by the Contractors in accordance
required by the sta tutes of Indiana and
must be accompanied by QUESTIONABLE
Form 96-A, State Board of Accounts, for
any bid of SIS, COO or more.
Each proposal shall be accompanied by
acceptable certified check made payable
Indiana University. or acceptable bidder S
bond for an amount. Of not less than So
of total bid price
Contractor awarded work will be re-
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
POWER PLANT EXTENSIONS

INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Sealed proposals for construction OF
Extension of Power Plant for Indiana
University will be received at the office
of John w. Cravens. Secretary OF the
Trustees of Indiana University, at Max
we'll Hall, Bloomington, Indiana, until 8
o'clock A. M. Central Standard time, on
December g. 1885, and between said hour
and $50 o'clock A M of the same day
in indianapolis, Indiana, and then will
be publicly opened and read in said club
room of the Claypool Hotel at lndlanap-
The work to be constructed as, per
plans and specifications r., prepared ;nlaa by
Separate bids will be received on the
i. Foundations and Miscellaneous Con-
struction.
3. Mechanical Stoker.
4. Turbine-Generator Unit.
s. Miscellaneous AuXiiaries. Piping, Etc.
6. Generator Panel and Electrical Con-
nections
Combination bids on two or more Of
such items may be made ii desired.
Proposals shall be properly and COM
pIetely executed on proposal forms in
accordance With Form 96 with non on
statutes of Indiana and must be accom-
panied by QUESTIONABLE Form 96-A, State
Board of Accounts, for any bid of $4,000
or more.
acceptable certified check made payable
to the order of U. H. Smith. Bursar of
Indiana University. or acceptable bid
So OF total bid price.
Contractor awarded work will be re-
CURED to furnish acceptable surety bond
in amount of 1907 of contract price.
The contractor in doing the work shall
comply with the terms and conditions
Act Of Congress Of 1885, the regulations
issued pursuant thereto by the President
Of the United States and rules and reg
ulations of P. w A. 49, dated July D.
1885, and amendments prescribed by the
Federal Emergency Administration of Pub
lie Works.
less than the prescribed scale of wages
as determined pursuant to the provisions
OF Chapter 319 Of the ACTS Of General
Assembly " OF indiana ddar Of 1872 and ap
A certified check in amount of $40 pay
able to Charles r. zimmerman, Engineer,
shall be delivered when each contractor
receives a set Of plans and specifications.
Upon return of plans and Specifications
to Office of the Engineer within fifteen
days after bidding date, in unmutiated
notationS. the check will be returned.
otherwise, the deposit will be declared
The Board of Trustees of Indiana Uni
versity reserves the right to reject any
and all bids. Instructions to bidders.
the office Of John w Cravens. Secretary
of the Board of Trustees of Indiana
University at Bloomington. Indiana; State
Board of Accounts. Indianapolis or may
be obtained from Charles A. zimmerman,
Engineer. 772 Century Building. Indianap-
oils. Indiana.
NO BIDDER MAY WITHDRAW HIS
BID FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY DAYS
AFTER THEt DATE SET FOR THE OPEN
ING THEREOF.
THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA
UNIVERSITY.
BY JOHN w. CRAVENS Secretary.
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indianapolis. Ind, Nov 1S. 1885.
NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS

of Trustees of the School CITY OF Frank
fort at the office OF said Board IN the
City of Frankfort. Indiana, up 10 and IN
day OF December 1885. for the sale of
bonds of SAID School City OF Frankfort III
the principal sum OF Seventy Five ThouS-
and Dollars tS75 900 00l. bearing date of
December 18th, 1885.
Said bonds VII bear interest at the rate
of four and one half percentum 49, per
annum from the date thereof until paid.
payable on the LIST day of July, 1887 and
thereafter semi-annuaily on the LIST days
of January and July in each year.
Both the prime pal and interest of said
bonds will be payable at the office of the
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees OF the
School City of Frankfort, in the City OF
Frankfort Indiana Said bonds Will be
in the denomination of 100000 each, and
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