The Seaforth News, 1949-11-10, Page 6Not A Drop To Drink—Dr. George Klotzbaugh holds a "dry
raindrop" in the path of a radar beans at the Westinghouse
Laboratories. The make-believe drops, made from a plastic
mixture. have the identical electrical behavior of real rain.
Using 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.
Si oh, ignorance or some other
of the ser en deadly vices caused us,
h7 a ,,relit column, to set down the
number of tie games played so far
in the National Hockey League as
'net ,'a:utie 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-
le, li.3 .0 di, ide by two.
t1 e meten to express our humble
tip 1 k., for this contretemps—
tomer
ontretenmps—
i;t er what we mean) with
the pe that no great harm has
lr f done to QIYC TF'- the wortd'o
fa .• • 9,0:1 UNQUOTE.
* * *
Hof a's regret for the boner by
tit. na,oe weaken') our long -held
behrf that games were meant to be
plit±'tc; to a decision, and that when
no rffot'tt- are made to break a dead -
look --,t ell. it may be go„d box -
(Ace, but it certainly can't sport.
Alr,c'., we still contend that if the
well-paid gladiators understood that,
in ease of a deadlock, they would
have tt' play to a sudden -death fin-
ial, or ease that neither team would
get a point in the standing, the pub-
lic would nee quite a different brand
of hockey, especially during the
final ten minutes or to of a great
many games.
* * t:s
Those who have watched the de-
velopment and increasing popularity
of baeiketball, ever *ince its com-
ppaaratively recent invention by a
C:median, of recent years have been
viewing with alarm the growing
tendency of coaches to search the
Afghways end byways for players
allowing at least a trace of giraffe
has their ancestry.
* * *
According to the Hood Book "the
hoes is not always to the swift, nor
the battle to the strong"; but, as
on old -thine gambler once said,
you'll need a very healthy bankroll
its bet the other way. And in no
as9,iler sport, not even football, has
the "good big man" such an over-
whelming advantage over his Just
tae geed int gasper adversary.
ars
These profound remarks are
occasioned by the news that there
has at last appeared on the basket-
ball scene a player who must be
juin about a coach's dream.
* * ..
He is a gentleman of color, Ray
Harris by name, and he measures
8 mere seven feet seven inches in
height. (The dispatch didn't say if
that's in his stocking feet or bate;
foot, but possibly that doesn't mat-
ter." If you'll take the trouble—
and a yardstick—to measure seven
feet seven inches on the nearest
telephone post, you'll have a better
Mee of just what a picture Mr.
Harris must make when he looms
up on a basketball court,
, * *
Harris, who is presently perform-
ing with a Negro professional team,
can sink the apple for a couple of
points merely by reaching up as he
tuna beet the basket. not even hav-
ing to go to the bother of jumping.
But great as his scoring ability
must be, it is on the defense that
he is most impressive.
* * *
We have often wondered how it
would be in hockey if a goal tender
aver appeared so broad and hefty
that he completely filled the space
between the posts, malting it im-
possible to jam the puck past hm.
(And the way some of the goalies
pile on the padding and tack these
clays, 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 con-
fronted with whoa Ray Harris is
ott the defence. He simply stands
by the basket and taps away oppo-
nents' shote as they sone, 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 with winter com-
ing on, we can think of a lot of
other things better worth worrying
about, such as the price of Boal,
clothes, alcohol — for the ear re-
Pc:crltee In A Puddle—Qut in Hollywood, Hjordis and David
Niven ;rat their poodles, Baba and Sun, to a boat ride in the
}Hitt,. 1,;4, With such goings on, and a master and rnistres»
!dee that, a dog's life isn't what it used fa bt.
Shed New Light
On The Bible
The ancient Hebrew scrolls—found
by accident, in 'a cave In Trans-
jordan-,possibly date, in the apin-e
ion of experts, from the second
century before Christ. Professor
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 semi 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; it 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 130 slnall•nleasuire
due to the protection of the jars.
Now why is this find so very im-
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 Massoretic
text, and the Greek Septuagint,
translated from the Hebrew about
the third century 13.C. 'The newly
discovered documents are actually
1,000 years earlier than the Mas-
soretic text, and must be lilhiost
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-
scribed 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 is
of the utmost value; not a word
must be lost, After the main scrolls
had been removed, the cave was
visited and searched by Mr, Lanke-
ater 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, l find, are com-
posed of parchment, that is, animal
skin prepared for writing—in this
case, probably goat *kin. The ink
is a carbon ink, the most perma-
nent hind 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
cave, not protected by the jars, are
in a sorry condition,
Some of the pieces are no bigger
diator, naturally — shoes et caetera.
Basketball is just one of several
major sports in which coaches and
managers have conte to think that
limit own personal records and
reputations are of far more im-
portance than pleasing the custom -
ere, One of these days a movement
will start aimed at giving games
back to those who play them.
Knows His Stuff
Disillusioned comment of a
knowledgeable English trade union-
ist on the tobacco situations "If
they nationalize the smokes indus-
try, the only thing tint won't strike
will be the matches."
Sad But True
Melancholy sigh of s 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
divorcee, Moro. Whanglock?"
Mire. Whanglock — "Your Hon-
or, you know I sen the mother of
the child movie star, Dimpled
Dumpling, and this man never stalls
me anything but 'the goose that
laid 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 much so that they can-
not stand the most delicate manipu-
lation without fracture.
We know that in its natural con-
dition, parchment is soft and pli-
able because it contains moisture,
but when old and dry it becomes
brittle. If we can restore moisture
to brittle parchment it again be-
comes pliable. The obvious way to
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, There- is
great danger in using too much
water. However, in the laboratory
we have experience of old parch-
ment and a simple piece of appar-
atus for a job of this kind.
The parchment is placed on a
support, in a glass vessel. In the
base of. the vessel is a glycerine -
water mixture, which has the effect
of keeping the air in the closed
vessel at a predetermined humidity.
In time, the parchment absorbs the
moisture from the humid air, and
after two hours, the specimens have
again become pliable, without
change in appearance. It is now
possible to ease the leaves apart.
time exposing fresh layers of writ-
ing as the work proceeds.
However, there was a serious
complication. At one edge of some
of the wads, holding the leaves
together, was a black substance like
pitch, It was not pitch, but was
actually a localized decomposition
of the tissue to parchment glue—
decomposition beyond recovery.
This glue absorbed more than its
*hare 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 could be mounted between
glasses in preparation for study.
It was going to take time and
patience to read the many fragments
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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