THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1937
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© Science Service.—WNU Service.
Famed Ancient Colors
Bettered by Modem
Dye Manufacturers
Tyrian Purple and Blue
of Egypt Are Debunked
New York.—Our modern age
Is sometimes criticized for do
ing things in a big way. We
turn out paints by the vat; dyes
by the carload. It is supposed
to be a sad change from the
good old days when Egyptians
mixed colors that would last
4,000 years, and when Tyrians
patiently ex*.acted drops of
royal purple from shellfish.
But chemists who concoct our up-
to-date colors can well defend them
selves. They long ago investigated
the Tyrian purple legend and
showed that this famous dye is no
regrettable lost art.
True, the dye makers of Tyre
achieved a sort of miracle by milk
ing thousands of snail-like shellfish
to get the lone whitish drop from
each head. In the air the white stuff
turned green, then blue, then pur
ple. Finally, set by alkali, it be
came the crimson that Tyrian pur
ple actually appeared.
Our Chemists Do Better.
But, the chemists explain, the
only reason debutantes and shop
girls aren’t wearing royal purple to
day is because better crimson dyes
are known. Laboratories could
make it by the ton, but you wouldn’t
buy it.
It is the same with the famous
Egyptian blue used in decorating
walls in Egypt, and later in Rome.
Recently, research scientists for a
printing ink corporation tested this
blue, because of its reputation for
permanency. Gently handling spec
imens of Roman wall painting, they
analyzed the blue color by a spec-
tro-photometer. They found the
Egyptian blue a good deal like mod
em ultramarine. It was fast to
light, heat, salt water, and mild
acids. But—it did not come up to
modern standards.
Men Not Born Equal,
Study of Primitive
Races Evidences
New York.—All men are not
born equal. Scientific evidence,
long lacking or insufficient,
now points to genuine mental
differences between races apart
from the more superficial su
periority that results from ad
vantageous geographic loca
tion, proximity to other peo
ples, and a background of cul
ture or civilization.
It has been natural to suppose
that men differ from each other
( mentally as they do in the more ob
vious matters of skin color, shape of
nose, or curliness of hair. But pro
curing scientific proof of such dif
ferences was a stupendous task.
The test with which an American
child is given an I. Q. rating is ob
viously not suited to an adult Afri
can Bushman. Written tests are au
tomatically barred for the illiterate.
So-called performance tests are
almost equally useless. The uncivi
lized man cannot understand the di
rections necessary, the pictures are
meaningless to him.
A new attack is provided by com
paring two primitive peoples not
with civilized man but with each
©ther. Dr. & D. Porteus, psycholo
gist widely known for his psycholog
ical ma?e tests, has gone to the des
ert wastes of central Australia and
to the home of the Kalahari Bush
men in South Africa.
Despite better food and water sup
ply and easier living conditions, the
Bushmen excelled the environmen
tally unfavored Australian abori
gines in only two respects. Dr. Por
teus reports in a new book, “Primi
tive Intelligence and Environment,”
(Macmillan). They offer more de
termined resistance to white invad
ers and they are more skillful ar
tistically.
Cinnamon Trees Grew in
Texas Many Years Ago
Scephenville, Texas. — Cinna
mon trees once grew in what is
now Texas, millions of years
ago, when there were dinosaurs
tc browse on their leaves.
A group of fossils which include
leaves of plants like cinnamon, sas
safras, sarsaparilla, and maple,
found near here, are described by
Prof. O. M. Ball of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas in
the Journal of Geology.
Utah Fossil Tract
Last Pasture of the
Huge Sauropods
These Reptiles Famous
for Having Two Brains
Washington.—The bones of a
sauropod, gigantic dinosaur
that made the world picture of
150,000,000 years ago a night
mare, have been found in a
western Utah fossil tract that
may have been the last pasture
where the last of the fabulous-
appearing reptiles awaited their
final end, the Smithsonian In
stitution announced.
Another chapter has thus been
written in the curious history of the
forty-ton monsters and their small
er racial brothers that peopled the
world hundreds of millions of years
ago and then utterly disappeared.
The bones, found by Dr. Charles
W. Gilmore, the Institution’s paleon
tologist, are only 80,000,000 years
old as against the 150,000,000 year
age of most of the dinosaur re
mains, giving rise to the belief that
the western Utah tract where they
were found may have been the spot
where the monsters met extinction.
Insufficient materials to recon
struct the sauropod, known from
other specimens to have ranged be
tween 75 and 100 feet in length and
40 to 50 tons in weight, were found.
But enough evidence was uncovered
by Doctor Gilmore to add signifi
cantly to previous knowledge re
garding these creatures.
Last Round-Up of Reptiles.
True mammals were already be
ginning to appear in North America
at the time that the last of these
massive creatures were making a
last stand against probable climatic
changes that cut off their food sup
ply.
The last round-up, with drouth
and chill over the semi-tropical for
est which at that time covered
North America as the herders, may
have taken place in Utah in the
neighborhood of the fossil finds.
Scientists have been unable to pro
ceed further than such speculation
in accounting for the disappearance
in a very short time of the giant rep
tiles of the Cretaceous era.
The sauropods are famous not on
ly as the largest land creatures, but
because they had a small brain in
the head and a second “brain” in
the hindquarters for controlling the
movements of the hind legs and tail,
in much the same fashion as a
hook-and-ladder fire truck.
Finding the sauropod bones in the
80,000,000 year old beds was called
“more remarkable than finding a
living mastodon or saber-toothed ti
ger” by the Smithsonian institution.
More Broken Necks Are
Due to the Automobile
Chicago. — More people are
getting their necks broken these
days than in the horse and bug
gy era, and the automobile is
responsible, Dr. H. F. Plaut of
Cincinnati told members of the
Congress of Radiology here.
The particular part of the neck
which gets broken is the atlas, the
first vertebra at the base of the
skull which forms the pivot on
which the skull rotates.
“Previously fractures of the atlas
were reported among longshoremen
and in gymnasium accidents,” Dr.
Plaut recalled. "Now automobile
accidents throw’ riders against the
tops of cars and pitch them to the
pavement with many cases of frac
tured atlases.”
Most of these patients recover and
are fully active. Dr. Plaut said.
Fractures of the skull above the at
las are more dangerous.
The atlas is not easily injured by
direct violence because it is well
protected by other bones and is
deeply imbedded in surrounding
soft tissues. But in a head-on fall
the force is directed against the
weakest part of the atlas by the
pressure of the skull at this point
Picnic Site of Oldest
Inhabitants Is Found
Minneapolis.—Two thousand
knife-marked bones, remnants
of ancient feasting in the north
ern lake region of Minnesota,
have been discovered at a camp
ground of America’s earliest
people.
Prof. A. E. Jenks of the Univer
sity of Minnesota announced the
find to the journal Science. That
the scene reveals very old inhabi
tants is indicated by finding bones
of a kind of bison, long extinct on
this continent, among the bones of
bear, elk, caribou and other big
game animals in the kitchen refuse.
The feasters also left knives and
other tools of bone and stone.
The kitchen dump, abandoned
thousands of years ago, is buried
three to nine feet under a bog of
grasses and marsh weeds, in Itaska
State park. Professor Jenks has
been excavating the site in co-opera
tion with the state conservation
commission and the federal govern
ment.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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1—George Fort Milton, prominent Chattanooga publisher, who has been named as special assistant to Sec
retary at State Cordell Hull. 2—Frank McNinch, President Roosevelt’s new “trouble shooter,” is sworn in as
chairman of the federal communications commission. 3—Announcing that he and his bride will soon visit the
United States, the duke of Windsor accompanies his wife to a Parisian modiste.
Ambassador Goes Fishing
STARFISH PRINCESS
William C. Bullitt, United States ambassador to France, enjoys some
fishing in a stream near Chantilly, France, as he and his daughter spend
a holiday at the casUe of Bois St. Perm in.
She’ll star in aquatic events at
Long Beach, Calif. No pun intended,
bat Miss Aileen Zulawnick has been
selected as the “Starfish Princess”
to preside in fail and winter events
at the famous sonthern California
beach resort. She is shown in her
starfish costume.
ROSE IN HER HAIR
A rose by any other name—even
“chapeau”—is still a beautiful thing
to look at. Particularly is this true
when its wearer is as chic as Miss
Lucy Saunders, society girl of Bel
mont Park, N. Y., who is pictured
here, modeling something different
in hats. It is made of robin’s-egg-
blue crepe, draped to resemble a
rose perched on top of her head.
New U. S. Cruiser Commissioned
A general view of the 10,000-ton cruiser Philadelphia, the fifth and
largest vessel to bear that name, at the Philadelphia navy yards, where
she was launched recently. The $14,750,000 vessel is commanded by Capt.
Jnles James, formerly attached to the United States Naval academy.
The construction of this cruiser was part of the administration’s pro
gram to strengthen the nation’s naval forces. The program included tlie
construction of a number of other fighting ships.
President Pays Call on a Cardinal
Warner
Baxter
President Roosevelt is pictured as be chatted with George Cardinal Mundelein in the prelate’s Chicago
home, where the President was a luncheon guest on the occasion of his recent visit to Chicago. The President
and Cardinal Mnndelein have been close friends for a number of years.
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W HILE all the important
motion-picture producers
were trying to interest Ronald
Colman in big, serious dramas,
he slipped over to the Hal
Roach studio and agreed to star
in a goofy comedy called “Fan
cy Free.” No one else even sus
pected that Ronnie wanted to
join the parade of serious play
ers who have scored in light of
ferings.
His best friend. Bill Powell, is
suspected of selling him the idea.
BiU has such fun making comedies,
and so do Myma Loy and Carole
Lombard, and the newest recruit,
Constance Bennett. I would not be at
all surprised if Constance were to
play the lead opposite Colman.
Now that Bill Powell is wandering
around Europe, Myrna Loy is going
to stray over to the
Twentieth Century-
Fox studio to make
a picture with War
ner Baxter, her sec
ond - best leading
man. The story is
“Career in C Ma
jor,” and is all
about a woman with
a not-so-good voice
who is absolutely
determined to get
into grand opera.
Her husband views
the whole project with distaste,
until he finds that his barber-shop
chord barytone is just what the op
era scouts have been looking for.
Just as soon as a radio performer
makes an outstanding hit, the mo
tion pietnre scouts grab him, so
now it is Professor Quiz who is go
ing to step before the camera. He
and James Wallington, the ever-
popular announcer, are going to be
in Columbia Pictures’ “Freshman
Follies.”
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The tremendous popularity of
“The Prisoner of Zenda” has revived
interest in swashbuckling mythical
kingdom romances, so Sam Gold-
wyn has decided it is high time to
film “Graustark” again. It has
been made twice before, but net in
the gorgeous way that Sam will
make it. He plnns to have Merle
Oberon play the beautiful princess
and Gary Cooper the American
newspaper man who rescues and
marries her.
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Since he subbed for Don Ameche
on the Charlie-McCarthy-Nelson Ed
dy program, Herbert Marshall is
the most-sought-after actor in Holly
wood for radio programs. If any
sponsor could persuade him and
Claudette Colbert to appear regular
ly together, the program’s popular
ity rating would be sure to start
near the top. Bnt just wait until
you hear Brian Aherne’s voice in
the Warner Brother’s pietnre, “The
Great Garrick.” He is going to give
Mr. Marshall some competition.
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Phil Spitalny is being ribbed by
his friends, 'and all because he ran
into difficulties while filming a Para
mount short film featuring his Hour
of Charm All-Girl orchestra. They
all worked hard, finished the film on
schedule and went home satisfied
that they had done their best. But
the studio called up next day to
protest that a man’s voice could be
heard in the midst of the all-fem
inine chorus. Spitalny went to hear
the sound-track played, pretty in
dignant that their work had been
spoiled. Only to find that it was
his own voice on the film.
Motion-picture fans who have been
lamenting because so many of their
Hollywood favorites
have abandoned the
screen for a fling on
the stage can just
stop worrying. So
far the plays have
not been good
enough to hold the
players for long.
Sylvia Sidney, Hen
ry Fonda, and Elis-
sa Landi will prob
ably be back at Hol
lywood at work in
pictures before very
long. But Frederic March, undis
mayed by their so-so success, is
headed for New York with his wife
i to do a stage play.
ODDS AND ENDS—(Foil Dmjmy has
finally vetoed the plan to put Mickey
and Minnie Mouse on a weekly radio pro
gram. Can’t spare the time to see that it
is done right, and won’t let his little dar
ling Minnie and Mickey be directed by
anyone else . . . Alice Faye did not like
the dressing room Universal studio pro
vided for her, so she got a moving van to
bring her own dressing room bungalow
over from the 20th Century-Fox lot .. .
Olivia de Haviland has eliminated alt the
other candidates for the lead in “Robin
Hood* opposite Errol Flynn. Each figures
that the other trings luck to a picture
. . . Paul Muni and his wife ere on e six
months’ world cruise to the deep regret
of all the companies who wanted him te
make another picture right away.
C Western Newspaper Union
Sylvia Sidney
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worthy of superlatives in descrip
tion. The thickening may be corn-
staren, eggs, flour or tapioca, de
pending upon preference. Tapioca
is suggested in this recipe.
Grape Pie.
314 cups prepared grapes
214 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
14 teaspoon salt
114 cups sugar
Wash and stem the grapes. Press tha
pulp from the skins with the angers.
Simmer pulp slowly until soft, then tress
through sieve to remove the seeds. Com
bine 314 cups of pulp and skins together
with salt, sugar and tapioca and let
stand for 13 minutes. Place rolled pas
try in pie psn. Fill pen with grape mix-
tnre. Moisten edge of pastry and fold in
ward, even with the edge of the pan.
Moisten edge again and place top pastry
on pis. Press edges together with a fork
and trim off surplus crust. Bake in hot
oven (423 degrees) for fifteen minutes.
Decrease heat to 350 degrees, moderate
heat, and bake about twenty-five minutes
longer.
CARRY YOUR
ALKALIZER
WITH YOU
IF OVER-EAT1NQ
CAUSES ACID
INDIGESTION—
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False Flattery
People generally despise where
they flatter and cringe to those
whom they desire to supersede.—.
Marcus Aurelius.
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HELP BALANCE YOUR 0A
ALKALINE RESERVE
WHBN YOU HAV1 A COLD!
Room for Courtesy
Life is not so short but that
there is always room for courtesy.
—Emerson.
Do something about
Periodic Paini
Take Cardiff for functional pains
of menstruation. Thousands rf wom
en testify It has helped them. If
Cardul doesn’t relieve your monthly
discomfort, consult a physician.
Don’t just go on suffering and put
off treatment to prevent the trouble.
Besides easing certain pains, Car
diff aids in building up the whole
system by helping women to get
more strength from theli
Cardul la a purely Vegeta ole medicine
which you can buy at the drug store and
taka at home. Pronounced ‘ T Card-u-l
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