PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934 _- __. ____._ .. .. _ .:.e.:: : . . _ _ _ _ Michigan Press Publishes Book 'On Athenians Assessment Of 425 B. C. Is Subject Of Research Made In Greece4 A recent publication of the Mich- igan Press is "The Athenian Assess-I ment. of 425 B.C.," written by Prof. Benjamin D. Meritt of John Hop-I kins University, formerly a member of the University of Michigan faculty, and Prof. Allen B. West of the Uni- Three Workers Die In CCC Camp Fire Botany Books Prof. Morrison Refutes Claims Given Library Presented By Railvay Exper Adolph Hitler's Life *s Spared hi Accident BREMEN, Dec. 14.-A)-Chan- versity of Cincinnati. The book describes an incident in ancient Greek history through the results of successful research work completed by Professors Meritt and West. In 425 B.C. the Peloponnesian War made a payment of revenue by each of the colonies of the Athenian Empire imperative in order to meet expenses of their large navy. After the Council had passed a revenue measure it was common for workmen to carve neatly the law, which con- sisted of the Council's decree, a brief amendment and a long list of allies and their newly fixed tributes, on a large slab of marble. Today this inscription is still ex- tant, but sadly battered and broken. No longer a smooth, fresh slab, as the workmen left it, it is merely a group of 43 bits of stone, each with a few lines of Greek writing. Not a fragment covers either the breadth or the length of the entire inscrip- tion, and there is no guide to the posi- tion of any of them in the original slab or in relation to any of the other pieces, except that which may be in- ferred from their contents. According to Dr. Frank E. Robbins. assistant to the President and man- aging editor of the Michigan Press, the solution of this problem requires not only the consideration of the pre- served' portions, but also shrewd con- jecture of what was in the missing parts. More than two-thirds of the words were lacking and the gap had to be filled in by the research work- ers. The work of Professors Meritt and West is,the latest and probably the most successful essay on the solution of this historic crossword puzzle, in the opinion of Dr. Robbins. "Each letter on each bit of stone has been scrutinized carefully; new readings have been evolved and old ones criti- cized; discoveries have been made with regard to the way in which the stones fit together; and the authors display a masterly command of the voluminous bibliography of their sub-I ject. Altogethe the University may be proud that so scholarly a piece work has come forth under its name," stated Dr. Robbins. iiow AvaiiaIe By RALPH W. HURD 'motor vehicle accidents which oc- ecllor Adolf Hitler's life was imperiled tonight when his special train, en Charges made by experts represent- curred in Washtenaw county during route from Bremen to Berlin, roared 2,500 Volume Collectioniing railway interests, to the effect 1931, Professor Morrison said. From into an autobus near here. instantly Intat the standard width of 20 feet this study, which involved 115 acci- killing 13 persons. Given By Parke-Davis for two-lane pavements is needed dents, it was found that for the sameI A fourteenth died later in the hos- only because they are used by large amount of traffic, there was an addi- pital to which the seven other pas- Contains Rarities trucks and buses, were declared un- cional cost of about $450 per mile sengers of the bus, all seriously in- sound by Prof. Roger L. Morrison, of for accidents occurring on 18-foot jureci, were taken. Those killed and The collection of botanical books the highway engineering and trans- pavements, as compared with the 20- injured were described as theatrical that was given to the University Li- port division of the University, in an foot pavements. This additional $450 performers. ry several months agby Parke- interview yesterday. should easily cover the annual cost Though roughly shaken by the Such statements, he said, are made of two extra feet of pavement width, ciash, which occurred while his train Day s and Co. of Detroit is now avail- with the idea in mind that these and is evidence that the wider high- was returning at high speed from able for use, it was announced yester- trucks and buses should be called up- way, under the conditions studied, is Christmas ceremonies held at Bremen day by Dr. William W. Bishop, li- on to pay the additional expense of both socially and economically desir- for the new 18,000-ton North German brarian of the University and head wider pavements, which would place able, Professor Morrison said. Lloyd liner, Hitler alighted from the of the department of library science. them more at a disadvantage in com- Tt train and walked the mile back up the The collection contains about 2,500 petition with railways. They are The real significance of the survey, Lrack where the demolished bus and volumes, 1,300 of which are books based on vehicle widths and clear- he inede in the fanon- bodies lay. and the remainder pamphlets. In- ances, and a study of the actual posi- truck accidents was much greater After lifting his hand in the Nazi cluded, are a large number of rare tions occupied by vehicles upon pave- t ialute over the broken bodies, Hitler and expensive publications. Some of ments of various widths. than the increase in truck accidents.Ihimself helped to pick up the scat- the books are quite old, dating back to However, Professor Morrison main- While there was an , crease of 30 tered remains. the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- tained, since the largest vehicles per- 10more trui accid , there were only Aboard the train' were such Nazi turies,. and accordingly are very dif- mitted by law, in most states, are ror tihak Te suts are notables as Gen. Werner von Blom- ficult to obtain, while others were eight feet wide; it is obvious that, rower highways. The results are berg, minister of war; Dr. J. Halmar printed originally in single editions if they are driven carefully, all class- thus directly contrary to the idea that Schacht, economic dictator of the of only fifty copies or less. Thecol- es of vehicles can pass each other because a truck is wider, it becomes Reich, and William Brueckner, Hit- lection includes a number of books upon an 18-foot pavement, and the more dangerous on a narrow road ier's adjutant. containing fine colored plates and only reason for a 20-foot pavement than a passenger automobile. some with extremely rare plates on is added safety. Also it seems ob- i When one considers the present which would thus accrue to these locally printed flora. vious that the only true measure agitation for increased taxes to be lev- commercial vehicles, results such as A change in the nature of the bus- I of safety is to be found in accident ied on trucks and buses, based on the have been found by the Washtenaw iness of the donors, who are one of records, but this has apparently not assumption that it is their extra width county survey become of paramount the largest firms of manufacturing I been considered in the various dis- which makes necessary wider roads, importance, Professor Morrison con- druggists in the country, was the rea- cussions which have been published. and the tremendous added costs cluded. son for the books being given to the In 1932 a study was made of the ~ University, Dr. Bishop explained. In ------ the past many drugs have been ob- tained from herbs, so for many years Date Is AnnOuncedPsiT tanical field expeditions which col- For peee Contest 1 lected information on the plant life _______mbg~ammngsgjapgy M in all parts of the world. Today, how- Announcement has been made by "ever,"practicallyall;drugs"aremanu- odK iColpliimentariynrot iepPuecic factured synthetically. Accordingly, Floy .Rly ntutri peh the donors had no more use for their o the annual extemporaneous speak- extensive collection of botanical books. ing contest between representatives A numbe ofthese bosdpcate of the various classes of students tak- EARL V. MOORE, Musical Director A number of these books duplicated ing Speech 31, which will be held ANNA BURMEISTER, Soprano volumes already in the library. These Jan. 16 in Room 3211 Angell Hall. n duplicates, Dr. Bishop stated, have Each group, according to Mr. Riley, MAURINE PARZBOK, Contralto n been placed in the Herbarium and in will pick one member from among A H HACKETT, T h the Natural Science Library. the students constituting the class to ARTHURH K , nor represent it in the finals. The sub- STANLEY DEPREE, Base tsject will be, generally, "World Peace," PALMER CHRISTIAN Organist -1 Student ales but separate portions of the maul topic will be utilized as material for UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION e In the speeches. UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA n Local Stores These more limited topics will not S be given out until one hour before . Hill Auditorium n Show In rease the beginning of the speeches. This t constitutes the extemporaneous ele- ti ~~~~ment, as no one of the representatives a-'a jfE @U Students are buying more this year will know beforehand what part of T nuas.,D ee.,8 :15 y than they have since 1932, a survey the general subject will be his for e recently made by The Daily reveals. discussion. Judges for the contest Merchants on the campus reporting have not yet been announced. e on their sales to students, said that --__ e they were selling more and better I r goods this year. One campus merchant reported' f that he was selling a better class of oods to students this year and that s Army officers at Norris, Tenn., began an investigation of the fire which destroyed three barracks of a CCC camp near there, burning1 three boys to death and leaving four suffering from burns. CCC workers are shown inspecting damage done by the blaze. Aga-Oglu Brings Greeting s To President Ruthven From Persia By LLOYD S. REICH Bearing the personal greetings and best wishes from His Imperial Ma- jesty Riza Shah Pehlesi of Persia to President Alexander G. Ruthven and the University, Mehmet Aga-Oglu of' the division of fine arts returned Wednesday from a three-month trip to the Orient. Aga-Oglu was dispatched by Presi- dent Ruthven to be a representative at the International Congress of Ori- entalists held Oct. 3 to 10 in Teheran, capital of Persia. There he was intro- duced to the Shah of Persia, who per- sonally asked about the University of Michigan and expressed wishes for its success. Aga-Oglu presented His Maj- esty with a copy of the Ars Islamic, a semi-annual magazine on Islamic art printed by the University, with a dedication to the Shah written by President Ruthven. At the International Congress meeting, which was dedicated to the celebration of the millenium of the great Persian opt. Firciand the A state museums in Berlin. and Gostor Wiet, head of the Arabic Museum it Cairo, were appointed to aid him, wit the cooperation of some 20 scholars. Peter Ruthven, son of the President who is studying for his doctor's de gree in Islamic Art, accompanied Aga Oglu throughout his travels in the Orient, which began in Jaffa andJe- rusalem and continued through Bay ruth, Balbeck, the famous Roman temple city, and Damascus in Syria, Then they went to Bagdad and nex to the Congress meeting in Teheran. *According to Aga-Oglu, probably the most interesting incident of th lecture and research tour that h made after the conference was the opening of the treasury of a shrine near Nedjef to him. Incidentally, he was the first art historian to enter this shrine. He said, "It was a thrill ing discovery of a large collection o Persian carpets and textiles present- ed to the shrine by Persian Shahs o: the 16th and 17th centuries. I was permitted to take photographs o: the objects and secured the right of , their publication for the Univer. sity of Michigan." In Egypt Aga-Oglu visited the Uni- versity of Michigan camp now making archeological excavations in Karanis under the direction of Enoch Peter. son. He described the trip home as ex- tremely disagreeable, with 10 days o: continuous heavy sea and storm. Aga-Oglu plans to begin organ. iring work in the dictinnary of Is. lamic arts immediately. ! ~cr csss JC, r sc~u ,i e 1rS Tooth Care Is Islanica of the University was insti- tuted as the international organ of the e u field of Islamic art studies, and is Sub ect O f Tal now sent to schools and museums j of Islamic art throughout the world. During the same conference, a dic- ir. eom m er tionary of Islamic artists was estab- lished, also under the leadership of the University. The editorship of the History Of Dentistry Is dictionary, which will be the world, RevinRadi Takauthority on Islamic Arts, was placed Reviewed In Rad Tal in Aga-Oglu's hands. Prof. E. Kuhnel, On Student Health director of the Islamic department of ;{ if .s Li credit references were easier to obtain. A jewelry store manager said that students seemed more willing to spend more for goods and demanded better quality than they have in the recent past. The same merchant predicted the biggest Christmas since 1929, say- .ng that wholesale dealers in Detroit have cleared their shelves of mer- chandise. Most of the dealers interviewed dis- counted the fact that students will be in Ann Arbor for a longer period this year than last as a factor in Lheir increased sales, saying that the sales all year have been ahead of qAA /1 , ( "-.. - j The history of tooth care from 3,000 B.C. to the present day was reviewed yesterday by Dr. Ralph F. Sommer of the dental school in another of the University radio talks on student health. His subject was "Dentistry, Yesterday and Today." Noting first the fact that there are accounts of dental practice among the ancient people of India as early as 3,000 B.C., Dr. Sommer went on to explain the proficiency attained by the Arabians in the treatment of their prevalent teeth diseases and in the replacement of lost dental tissues. The Egyptians, Dr. Sommer con-t tinued, developed skill in beautifying their teeth by burnishing gold leaf over the surfaces, but they did not excel in remedial or restorative work. He declared that the Etruscans, how- ever, specialized in dental operations. "During the later Greek and Rom- an ascendancy, ancient dentistry was developed to its highest perfection," Dr. Sommer went on. Dental prac- tice, he added, declined when the Roman Empire declined. After describing methods and be-; liefs in regard to dental care during the Middle Ages in Europe and Asia, Dr. Sommer continued with an ex- planation of difficulties with eight- eenth and nineteenth century prac- tices. The growth of the modern dental profession was then traced. Citing the importance of oral health, Dr. Sommer declared that only extreme care and the assistance of modern dental service can permit an indi- vidual to keep his natural teeth throughout his life. SPECIAL VALUES THIS WEEK ONLY A YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE TWO GREAT SHOWS 07iv 'Us11kytlir' 26th ANNUAL MICHIGAN UNION OPERA and The SOPHOMORE CABARET This Afternoon and Tonight 3:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. f)-C I 7ATJhT(CI4T'iT ATI lW (-VfV WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT ." 0- aI f- V4 LOOK FOR THE RED WHEEL WHEN YOU BUY A-MAGIC CHEF That wise man in your home is probably wondering what to give you for Christmas. Why not tell him- discreetly of course-that you would be thrilled with a wonderful new Magic Chef gas range. 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