HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-03-08, Page 2Not A Drop To Drink—Dr. George Klotzbaugh holds a "dry
raindrop" in the path of a radar beam at the Westinghouse
Laboratories. The make-believe drops, made from a plastic
mixture, have the identical electrical behavior of real rain.
tTsii g the drops and sensitive measuring instruments, scien-
tists can determine the effect of rain, sleet and snow on ultra -
shortwave radar, the kind used by military planes.
Sloth, ignorance or some other
of the seven deadly vices caused us,
a recent column, to set down the
number of tie games played so far
in the National Hockey League as
Just double the quantity of these
no -decision affairs that had actually
taken place. In other words, we
added up the number appearing in
the league standings, and then neg-
lected to divide by two.
• * *
We hasten to express our humble
apologies for this contretemps—
(if we know what we mean) — with
the hope that no great harm hers
been done to QUOTE the world s
fastest sport UNQUOTE.
* * *
But our regret for the boner by
no means weakens our long -held
belief that games were meant to be
played to a decision, and that when
no efforts are made to break a dead-
look—well, it may be good box-
office, but it certainly isn't sport.
Also, we still contend that if the
well-paid gladiators understood that,
in case of a deadlock, they would
have to play to a sudden -death fin-
ish or else that neither team would
flet a point in the standing, the pub-
lic would see quite a different brand
of hockey, especially during the
final ten minutes or so of a great
many games.
* * *
Those who have watched the de-
velopment and increasing popularity
of basketball, ever since its +eom
paratively recent invention by a
Canadian, of recent years have been
viewing with alarm the growing
tendency of coaches to search the
highways and byways for players
allowing at least a trace of giraffe
in their ancestry.
* * *
According to the Good Book "the
nee ie not always to the swift, nor
Vat battle to the strong"; but, as
sue old-time gambler once said,
you'll need a very healthy bankroll
lir bet the other way, And in no
ether sport, not even football, has
the "good big man" such an over-
whelming advantage over his just
es good but smaller adversary.
NEC
These profound .remarks are
occasioned by the news that there
Nesetlast appeared on the basket-
ball scene a player who must be
jttet about a coach's dream.
• * *
He is a gentleman of color, Ray
Harris by name, and he measures
e mere seven feet seven inches in
height. (The dispatch didn't say if
that's in his stocking feet or base -
toot, but possibly that doesn't mat-
ter." If you'll take the trouble —
asid a yardstick— to measure seven
feet seven inches on the nearest
telephone post, you'll have a better
idea of just what a picture Mr:
i Carrie must make when he looms
up on a basketball court.
° * * *
Harris, who is presently perform -
Ing with a Negro professional team,
'tan sink the apple for a couple of
points merely by reaching up as he
Stns bast the basket, not even hav-
ifig to go to the bother of jumping.
But great as his scoring ability
mug be, it is on the defense that
lee is most impressive.
• * *
We have often wondered how it
would be in hockey if a goal tender
Mr appeared so broad and hefty
that he completely filled the apace
between the posts, making it im-
possible to jam the puck peat hm.
(And the way some of the goalies
pile on the padding and tack these
days, that is by no means the pipe
dream it might have been a few
years ago.)
* * *
Well, that is practically the situa-
tion rival basketball teams are eon -
fronted with when Ray Harria is
on the defence. He simply stands
by the basket and taps away oppo-
nents' shots as they come, making
"lay-ups" impossible. Now they're
saying that if Harris gets into the
basketball "tig time" he may force
a revision in the rules.
* * *
However, what wit-' winter com-
ing on, ws can thin c of a lot of
othc things better worth worrying
about, such as the price of coal,
clothes, alcohol — for the ear re -
Pooches In A Puddle—Out in Hollywood, Idjordis and David
Niven treat their poodles, Baba. and Suza, to a boat ride in *be
Niven pool. With such goings on, and a master and ]mistress
like that, a dog's life isn't what it Meed to be,
Shed New Light
On The Bible
The ancient irlebr.vv icrollta--fouatd
by accident, in a cave ilii Trans-
iordan—possibly date, in the opin-
ion of experts, from the iaecond
century before Christ. Profeepor
Plenderleith, keeper of the research
laboratory of the British Museum,
describes the work he is doing on
some of the fragments in "London
Calling."
This would neem to be the most
outstanding discovery of Biblical
manuscripts ever made. The whole
of the Book of Isaiah -- a scroll
seven yards long; a considerable
fragment of another Isaiah; a com-
mentary on Habbakuk; a selection
of the Psalms; several sections of
the Apocrypha, as well as some
other documents of the greatest
historical interest — all of these
were found stored in sealed jars in
a cave in the hills near Jericho.
Archaeologists have now exam-
ined the jars and the scrolls, and
agree that the manuscripts are gen-
uine, possibly dating back to the
second century before Christ. It
is an incredible piece of good for-
tune that, after 2,000 years, the
finest of the scrolls are in such good
condition that all have been un-
rolled without mishap. This, I
understand, is in no small measure
due to the protection of the jars.
Now why is this find so very int -
portant? As we know, the Bible
has been handed down to' us from
texts copied and recopied many
times. Two of the principal sources
are the Hebrew text of- the ninth
century A.D., called the Maesoretic
text, and the Greek Septuagint,
translated from the Hebrew about
the third century B.C. The•newly
discovered documents are actually
1;000 years earlier than the Mas-
soretic text, and must be ahiiost
contemporary . with the Hebrew
writings from which the Greek
Septuagint was derived.
Scholars are translating and
comparing texts, and already we are
told that there ie very little change
to record; the Bible has been tran-
seribed for us down through the
ages with astonishing accuracy --a
tribute to the strictness and fidelity
of generations of devoted scribes.
Now, in a find of this kind, it will
be understood that every sorap to
of the utmost value; not a word
must be lost. After the main enrolls
had been removed, the cave was
visited and aearohed by Mr. Lanke-
ster Harding, the curator of an-
tiques of Transjordan. He gleaned
every fragment left in the cave,
from the floor and from the jars,
and it is these gleanings that he
brought to me at the British Mu-
seum for examination and treat-
ment.
The manuscripts, I ,find, lire con-.
posed of parchment, that ia, 'animal
skin prepared for writing—in this
case, probably goat skin. The ink
is a carbon ink, the most •perma-
nent kind of ink, traditionally
made from a mixture of soot and
gum. The Hebrew writing is black
and as legible today as it would
have been 2,000 years ago; but the
fragments from the floor of the
nave, not protected by the jars, are
in a sorry condition.
Some of the pieces are no .bigger
diator, naturally — shoes et eaetera.
Basketball is just one of several
major sports in which coaches and
managers have come to think that
heir own personal records and
reputations are of far more im-
portance than pleasing the custom-
ers. One of these days a movement
will start aimed at giving games
}seek to those who play them,
Knows His Stuff
Disillusioned comment of a
knowledgeable English trade union-
ist on the tobacco situation: "If
they nationalize the smokes Indus-
try, the only thing that won't strike
will be The matches," •
Sad But True.
Melancholy sigh of a 'British
Tory industrialist with a Biblical,
education: "A profit is not without
honor, save in this country!"
Mental Cruelty — Divorce judge
—"Now, just why do you wish a
divorce, Mre. Whanglock?"
MIs. Whanglook — "Your Hon-
est, you know I am the mother of
Ale child movie Star, Dimpled
Dumpling, end this man never ealls
nee anything but 'the goose that
bdid the golden egg'!"
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than a thumb nail, and in wads of
10 or 12 layers, sticking together.
It is my job to separate these lay-
ers. This may sound easy, but
after so long in the arid climate of
Palestine, the pieces are dry and
brittle, so lnuoh, so that tl2'ey can-
not stand the most delicate manipu-
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We know that in its natural con-
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brittle. If we can restore moisture
to brittle parchment it again be-
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do this might seem to be to soak
the parchment with water, but this
would convert it into glue; parch-
ment, when wetted, however lightly,
gelatinises on the surface. Thesep
great danger in using too much
water. However, in the laboratory
we have experience of old parelh-
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elf the wads, holding the leaves
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pitch. It was not pitcih, but was
actually a localized decomposition
of the tissue to parchment glue—
decomposition beyond recovery.
This glue absorbed more than its
share of moisture in the humidifier
and became like black treacle, and
threatened to spread over the small
fragments: and obliterate the writ-
ing. It had to be hardened again,
and quickly.
What was I to do? I put a trial
piece into a refrigerator, and found
that this worked. Soon, the black
substance solidified and lost its
stickiness; and it was now possible,
with the aid of a scalpel, to slip it
away from the text, and so sepa-
rate the leaves entirely, so that
they eouid be mounted between
glasses in preparation for study.
It• was going to take time and
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in my possession, but when the
work is completed, there will be
the satisfaction of knowing that all
of the remaining script has been
saved.
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