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Britons See Ancestors As Pretty Shrewd Men
London—(U.P.)-The more British scientists learn about prehistoric man on this island the more they believe he was not the blue-painted barbarian of legend but probably one of the smartest apples of the ancient world.
He made better stone axes than anyone else and exported them to Europe in the Stone Age—probably before the English Channel was formed.
He seemed to have understood the principle of perspective foreshortening in architecture about 1,000 years before he was born, possibly, did a brisk, trade
He probably did a brisk trade with Greece 3.500 years ago.
He "mapped" southern England where he was concentrated, so that even today anyone with the key can follow the short cuts through the hills and fords over the rivers hefighestoo,towardthetime. know astronomy too.
The prehistoric Briton pops into the scientific news today because of a remarkable stroke of luck which befell Prof. Stuart Piggott of the University of Edinburgh and a colleague.
They were examining Stonehenge, the mighty stone ruin of Wiltshire, when the slanting rays of the setting sun struck one of the rough stone columns. In its light they saw something that had somehow been overlooked by the thousands who have minutely examined the mysterious monument over the centuries.
It was a carving of a bronze dagger of a type used at Nycaenae in Greece 3,500 years ago. This, in the opinion of other scientists, tends to confirm that the ancient Briton traded with Greece at least that long ago.
Dr. Gordon Childe of the University of London also pointed out that this helped date the monument, and, since its architect used perspective foreshortening, he evidently knew about it 1,000 years before it appeared in the classical age of Greece.
But Stonehenge—which may have been a pagan cathedral or shrine and is popularly believed to have been a sacrificial altar of the Druids—may be even older.
Samples of charcoal taken from wood burned in the holes at Stonehenge in the slick process used to slide the 14-foot stone columns in place were submitted to the University of Chicago for analysis.
The Institute of Nuclear Studies there estimated from its radiocarbon content that it had been burned 3,793 years ago—give or take a couple of centuries. This agrees significantly with a date of June 21, 1840 B.C.-3,793 years ago—given by some astronomers for a possible summer rite at Stone-benge.
Meanwhile Prof. E. A. Rudge is looking for more "pudding-stones." He says Bronze Age Britons used these distinctive stones to mark their footpaths and trade routes over southern England.
They believe that the monument was designed so on that day the first rays of sunshine would stream along its axis. If this is true, it implies a shrewd knowledge of astronomy.
Mother Withdraws, Daughter Campaigns
Esperance, N.Y. — (U.P.)— Voters narrowly missed the chance of having to choose between a mother and her daughter for the office of town clerk.
Mrs. Alice Markle, town clerk for the past eight years, declined the Democratic nomination for re-election because her daughter, Mrs. Esther Brown, was running for the office on the Republican ticket.
Mrs. Markle said she felt competition between mother and daughter is not justified in politics, "So, I stepped aside."
Sociology Program To Be on Air Sunday
Students Help Ulcer Study
Dr. Walter Sandelius, professor of political science, will be the guest commentator Sunday on the Sociology on the Air program over KLWN at 3 p.m. The broadcast is entitled "All the World's a Stage—A Study in Status and Role" and is part of the "Ways of Mankind" series. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is the sponsor.
Milwaukee, Wis.—(U.P.)-Marquette university medical students have been swallowing thermometers to aid in research on the cause of ulcers. the idea is that temperature of the stomach tells what is happening to the supply of blood to the stomach lining, which is important in the formation of ulcers.
The research is the work of Dr. Walter Zeit, head of the school's anatomy department, and two other members of his staff. Drs. H. B. Benjamin and Marvin Wagner.
Students actually swallow a silver capsule containing eight inter-connected thermocouples. These respond to temperature variations by producing small electric currents which pass through wires in a small plastic tube attached to a recording instrument on the "outside." The silver capsule or tube is about one-quarter inch in diameter and one and a half inches long.
The research has shown that temperature of the stomach lining goes down from mid-morning until lunch time and then rises gradually again. Hunger contractions pinch off the supply of blood to the lining, reducing the temperature.
Those stomach contractions are controlled by the right vagus nerve. Researchers believe that when this nerve fails to filter out sensations such as tension and anxiety, the stomach contracts so much that the blood supply to the lining is greatly stomach lining can then be digested by the acid and pepsin in the stomach.
That's what happens when an uleer forms.
Work is being done with drugs that block the extra activity of the vagus nerve, thus preventing contraction. This keeps up a good blood supply to the lining and helps make the temperature more constant.
The researchers also have found that a cigarette smoked by a "guinea pig" student will cause stomach temperatures to fall.
But researchers have found that cutting the vagus nerve does not wholly prevent ulcers. Some doctors believe there is a digestive enzyme and antienzyme system that gets out of adjustment in ulcer victims.
Birmingham, Ala. — (U.P.)—Arthur Greenwood's outlet for his artistic impulses is the watermelon.
Watermelon Art Proves Perishable
For 30 years, the genial restaurant man, a native of Greece, has made a hobby of carving landscapes, flowers, American flags, American Legion emblems and other adornments on the rinds of ripe watermelons.
Greenwood said he started this hobby when he began scratching the words "back again" on the melons to signal the return of the season. He said people noticed the engraving and he was encouraged to sketch scenes.
He places the engraved melons in his restaurant window. They must be replaced every few days, however, as the rind dries and the white etched lines turn brown.
By a 1644 order of the Massachusetts general court, workers at America's first successful ironworks at Saugus, Mass., were exempted from military training and "watching for Indians."
Greenwood said he has never taken art lessons, but that he works his scenes and patterns out mentally, then scrapes them out with a special engraving tool he fashioned from an oversized nail file.
100 Years of Progress Seen in Kansas Roads
Bv ELIZABETH WOHLGEMUTH
One hundred years ago Kansas was crossed by buffalo trails which made but a slight impression on the vast sea of prairie grass. The only organized roads were the Santa Fe and Oregon trails. Over these routes to the Northwest and Southwest travelled caravans looking for fame and fortune.
Travel over these trails was anything but pleasant. All essential goods and the children were packed in a Conestoga wagon. The wagon train then started on the long 800 mile trip to Santa Fe.
There were no maps or charts to follow, only the map in the mind of the leader of the caravan.
The first night out, the only thing that may have happened was the weird howling of the wolves and coyotes. The stars probably looked the same to those early travelers from a blanket spread on the ground as they would today in Boston or New York, only there were far more of them on the open prairie. The only noise, besides the wolves, was the rustling of the cattle and the shifting of the guards on watch.
Rains came and pelted the caravans as they moved slowly on. A wagon train was lucky if it covered
five miles in the rain. Their goods and bedding got wet. The wagons mired down in the mud.
Wagon trains encountered Indian raids. A constant worry to the pioneers was whether they would be able to hold off the grotesquely painted Indians or whether their scalp might become another addition to a collection.
One of the worst inconveniences to the travelers was the lack of water. Crossing the desert on the last lap of the journey to Santa Fe they encountered intense heat, blinding dust storms, and continuing hot winds. Water and food ran low. Water holes were usually dry. Many died and others begged for death rather than to suffer. Some made it to Santa Fe and some didn't.
In 1953 we step into our cars, drive over well-kept highways marked for the journey and at night we can stop at a comfortable hotel
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