The Washington times., 1937-10-01
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BOake Carter
You Think It's New
But Review History
It's Only Repeating

gage and wheat cost $4,000 a
buShel.
Plutarch writes about hall
tosis. Tiberius loaned the
banks of Rome 100000 two
thousand years ago to ward off
bankruptcy. Cleopatra, the
queen, and ASpaSia, Pericles'
girl friend, painted their finger
nails red, used lipStick, powder
and rouge 1900 years ago.
EGYPTIAN girls plucked their
~ eyebrows, Hebrew girls
bobbed their hair. You may
think shatter-proof glass is
modern. Go back 1900 years
and you'll find about the year
"a A. D. Roman Emperor tt
berius was so astounded at the
discovery Of a process OF a glass
blower for the making OF glass
which was pliable as copper
that he had the man beheaded
lest gold become cheap as dirt.
The unbreakable glass secret
went with the victim.
Two thousand six hundred
years before Christ the Egyp-
tians made artificial eyes out Of
ivory, pearl or feldspar. Many
a Babylonian king had his paste
gems buried with him. The
Greek girls of 1900 B. C. had
phoney pearls made out of lime,
magnesia and silica.
Near Delhi stands today the
Kutob column-17 tons Of iron
upon which not a single speck
of rust has collected for II CEN
turtles, and the British Iron and
Steel Institute a few years ago
admitted no metal forged to-
day could equal this ancient
column.
The Indians Of India made
their own ice with clay, vapori.
zation and radiation. Nero in
vented the champagne cooler and
even wore a monocle. Egyptians
framed their pictures with glass
over them.
Julius Caesar was kidnapped
at the age of Is and held for
$4,000 ransom. Emperor Nero
used a 120-foot elevator. The
Greeks had movies on circular
columns. The girls knew more
Of the art of makeup 1000 years
ago than you girls know today.
Nudism flourished around the
time st. Paul was writing his
epistle to the Romans.
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60 you think it's new? That's
~ the title of an astounding
little book by Wilfred j. Funk,
Of Funk & WagnallS. In 1914
pages he shows you that there
is nothing new under the sun.
If you read it specifically, it's
fun. If you want facts, it's as
founding.
I read it, first with delight,
then with amazement and fl.
nally - although Wilfred Funk
doesn't say so I believe this was
in the back Of his mind-with
a shock Of realization that actu.
ally we stand in civilization to-
day just about where we stood
two or three thousand years ago.
This little book painted for
me a picture of the immensely
of age as few things have been
able to do.
YOU realize suddenly that the
l. sum total of art, literature
and learning built up by an era,
or an age. can be destroyed by
a turn of the wheel of fate-and
civilization goes back and starts
afresh.
After each age of science
comes decay and decline and an
epoch Of religious purge and re-
vival. By a simple collection Of
facts stacked up against our
age Of today, DR.. Funk shock
lngIy SHOWS Cne 1uCll1Cy OF
thinking we can obtain mass
perfection through science or
materialism.
DR.. Funk, by his array Of
facts, clearly shows why. Simply
because each individual in his
lifetime must answer to himself
on his deathbed. Because the
true perfection comes not from
the material but in the indi-
vidual human being through
ability to develop a sense Of
material values and a spiritual
appreciation of the reason for
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