| Show I 2 Prevailing P r i va i I i n 9 Opinions 0 pin ion I Comment of the American Press Who Are the Ethiopians Haile Haiie Selassie has informed the world tha that thai his empire is officially named not Abyssinia but pla pia Yet t the e King of Kings and Lion of Judah would regard as majeste lese any suggestion that he he lie is by that same token a negro Anthropologists would agree with his racial estimate of himself so far as race has any meaning Like Queen Victoria he ho claims descent from King David but with more ethnic reason who Came came out of Egypt and North Africa Semites and Jews who swept In from Arabia with the Semites predominating and negroes negroes negroes ne ne- ne- ne groes who were the booty of a slave trade centuries old mingled their blood to form a nation which has come comedown down intact from an an- If the negroid touch is manifest in the army and In the crowds that throng Addis Ababa the emperor can retort on good scientific authority that it is only slightly less obvious in m most of the Mediterranean and Levantine Levantine Levantine Levan Levan- tine nations Did not Sergi the Italian anthropologist decide that Europeans are are probably bleached Africans Predominantly Semitic Semitic Se Se- mitic are arc those Ethiopians for tor all their dark complexions Such is the sorry state of anthropology that names Dames have no exact mean- mean Ing and Semite the Semite the terms are arc applied now to human stocks now to languages A simIlar similar sim aim ilar lIar carelessness on the part of of- those r responsible for the Ary Aryan t myth par partly y accounts account for Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's present obsession If th there re are areno no Aryans there are arc areat at least Ethiopians a a real people people peo peo- plo with a written history older than any northern European na na- na- na tion In the days of ot their paganIsm paganism pagan- pagan Ism lam they were worth cultivating by Greece and Rome Chaldea and Egypt At a time when all Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope north of the Alps was one vast wilderness in which barbarians bar bar- hunted and fought when there was no reason to believe that Oxford and Cambridge would ever be centers of at culture they were building churches and encouraging encouraging encouraging en en- the arts No wonder that Emperor Theodore half gen gen- gen bus lous and half halt madman thought he was conferring high honor upon Queen Victoria by asking her hand in marriage marriage-a a diplomatic attempt to acquire Egypt Arabia and Palestine Palestino Whatever the biological argument argument ment meat against hybridization may maye be e Ui 1111 ih U is strong that n it is a propelling force in society The mixture of Celt Norman orman Dane and half a dozen other stocks produced the En En- We Americans are even more complex But why is it that these aggressive hybrids seem scent ultimately to decline Is In It the fate of all cultures as those who believe in cycles Insist The Moors who once overran Europe Europ the greatest mathematicians of the tho past the bearers of a culture that fed Europe are but feeble reminders of what they were With tho the Ethiopians the decline is less Jess precipitous but equally apparent A Spongier would at attribute attribute attribute at- at tribute all aU this to the operation of some law Jaw and a scientist selen- selen to ignorance of tho the methods that make it possible through the systematic collection and interpretation interpretation interpretation inter inter- of facts for a people to discover whither it is drifting I But whatever may be the cause The Ethiopians prove again gain that culture has nothing t to do with color of the eyes and hair or with the shape of o the head New Y York Times Death Sentences One million persons are under sentence of ot death by accident durIng during during dur dur- ing the next ten years years and and there thero is no reprieve Twenty five fi c persons are accidentally ace acci I dentally injured every minute 1500 every hour One person Is accidentally killed every five minutes 12 every hour More than persons are re killed and injured each year ear as the result of fires drown are ara killed in in railway railway railway rail rail- way accidents Ono One death in every 11 results from accident notes the Washington National Review But reckless automobile drivers kill almost tw twice ce as many as fires ires and railways combined each year They slay four and cause Hi accidents every hour They kill 00 every everyday everyday everyday day and hurt two every minute Weed out the subnormal the incompetent the reckless the Indifferent Indifferent in indifferent In- In different among drivers driver urges urges the National Safety council Crackdown Crack Crackdown Crackdown down on the frequent offenders and repeaters and only about a fourth as many sirens will be howling through the streets to the hospital Give the drunk driver a complete complete complete com com- layoff from the tho wheel Then maybe maybo he will sober Bober jip Lo Los Lo DIele Angele Times r t i Life Begins Any Time limo When we get right down to brass tacks says a University of oC Iowa professor we have to admit admit admit ad ad- mit that the real reason that most of us do not learn more is not that we we cannot but that we do donot donot donot not desire to If the students in American high schools and universities had the same willing enthusiasm and can candid lid curiosity that our adults show says ays a teacher in one of the New York adult education schools they would learn a lot more Vote for tor one As a matter of fact fac the two statements are not as contradictory as they may seem The Iowa teacher is re referring referring referring re- re ferring to adults as a whole the tho New York teacher is of ofa ofa ofa a special class clas of adults those adults those exceptional persons who show en enough ugh Interest in improving their education t tc to enroll in adult classes for that purpose At any rate Tate both statements were made mado m in m support of the same conclusion that conclusion that human beings do not grow too old to learn new things And both are based on the thought that it is desire rather than ability which is the Uie controlling controlling con con- trolling factor in learning All this takes point from th the tho fact tact that this is a timo time when the future happiness of ofa a great many middle-aged middle men and women de depends depends depends de- de on their ther learning new things things new new trades new ways was of oC living n new w ways of occupying their leisure time tithe and tho the like Jilee Many such me men and women have faced the prospect with despair and discouragement pressed by largely Imaginary difficulties difficulties difficulties dif dif- and unnerved by loss Ios of confidence in themselves For these people there is distinct encouragement encouragement encouragement en en- in the more or less les authoritative support the above statements give to the old saw Never too old to learn Cedar Rapids Gazette C California Modesty The east is poking fun at California Call Cali fornia modesty In the way we market our olives Medium large arge larger larger- mammoth giant jumbo colossal What would they have us do Lie about them Once when twitted about California exaggeration a native sprang up and shouted We cultivate we Irrigate but Deify Deity Los exaggerates exaggerates Los Angeles f t |
