UNIVERSITY NOTES HOME- WITH THE BACON Writing business letters is a business in itself, but University of Utah English students are learing that the study also turns out to be an exciting contest. In a business English class taught by Mr. Hector Lee, frequent fre-quent assignments are undertaken to write advertising letters for Salt Lake City merchants. Class assignments are made in the form of contests, so that the letter accepted by the business man brings its author first prize, which is usually cash or trade to the amount of $10 or $15. Runner-up Runner-up letters, which become the prop-jerty prop-jerty of the advertiser for later use, win second or third prizes, 1 usually smaller amounts of cash and merchandise. , "In addition to giving students good practical experience and helping them earn a little money, the contests often make valuable contacts for the students,'' Mr. Lee stated. He explained that young men and women sometimes find permanent employment in firms for whom they have written writ-ten good advertising. UTAH EXPERT High up In the top of the University Un-iversity of Utah's buildings, close to the famous Archaeology Museum, Mus-eum, a quiet, scholarly young man pores over Indian picture writings He is Charles E. Dibble, Instructor In-structor in Anthropology, and the writing he studies is the ancient Aztec language, written on deer skin, stone, and cactus paper somewhere in the Valley of Mex- I ico City hundreds of years be- fore the coming of the white man. j Mr. Dibbe has spent the past summers studying at the school of anthropology of the Mexican government, and is now interpreting interpre-ting documents in preparation for writing a history of Mexico between be-tween the years of 1,000 and 1 1200 A. D., as this history is recorded re-corded in ancient Indian picture writing. Chief difficulties to be encountered encount-ered in the study, the anthropologist anthropol-ogist said, are those of language. First, the student must learn Spanish; then he must master Aztec, the language still spoken by Indians in and around Mexico City. Once these tongues have been learned, the anthropoligist has only to polish up his French and German, to enable him to read the only grammer books and dictionaries dic-tionaries of the Aztec language. The originals of the documents with which Mr. Dibble works are treasured in the Mexican National Nation-al Museum, but the Utah anthropologist anth-ropologist has obtained pemis-sion pemis-sion to photograph and copy hundreds of items to work in during dur-ing school months. The rarity of reference books to aid in the interpreting the symbols sym-bols is a great handicap to the study. Mr. Dibble has resolved the diffulity by photographing two rare dictionaries and three grammar gram-mar books, page by page. "Since the cost of ptinting these pictures in a readable size would be prohibitive, I have rigged rigg-ed up a system to enable me to read them from the negatives,'1 he said.