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2 Th Statesman, Scdem, Orxjoo, friday, September 28, .1352 New Translation Lengthy Research EDITOR'S NOTE: Religions event of 1952 include the pnb . licatlon on Sept. 30 of the revised standard version Bible. Te sup ply Information on the whole subject of Biblical translations and texts, Mr. Edward J. Goodspeed has written the followinr article. Translator himself of a New Testament version which appeared in 1923 and was incorporated later in The Complete Bible; an American Translation," and author of some 45 other books. Dr. Goodspeed is a leading authority on the subject and for 38 years was a member of the University of Chicago faculty. By DR. EDWARD J. GOODSPEED Bible Authority And Translator Written for AP Newsfeatnres In the whole history of religion there has never been such active interest in a better English Bible as there Is today. - Many of us are deeply attached to the old and often quaint lan cuase of the Bible. We rather resent anyone proposing to alter it. However, people do alter it through revisions and translations, with intent of improving it by putting it into modern, more under standable language. Can the. English Bible be Im proved? Should not the reader of the English Bible be given the that 400 years of manscript dis covery and research have given us? In Britain and America, Jews, Catholics and Protestants are loudly saying "yes." ' To begin with, We must not for get that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek. It was first put into English in 1382 by John Wyclif. an Oxford scholar who translated the Latin version made by St. Jerome about 400 A.D. The first complete Bible printed in English was published by Miles Coverdale in 1535. From Originals Coverdale's - Bible included tran slations from the original Greek and Hebrew by William Tyndale, who was put to death in 1536 for his work. At that time, putting the Bible into English still was str ci4sfcjwf coM-ti1n(Hsiiei ' Vtw " Pw4h VVMUIUCI 0Ot4U6S.tUUO UJ . - WVUI church and state. The first "licensed English Bible was published in 1537 by John Rogers who, like Coverdale, based his Bible on Tyndale's translations. By being "licensed," . Rogers' Bible could be printed. sold and read in England, but not read in church. Two years later, Coverdale brought out the Great Bible, a fine large-type, large- sized book, "authorized for use In church. The death in 1550 of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's prime minister who sponsored the auinonzea version, soon pui a stop to progress of the English Bible, but Puritans who had taken ref uge in Switzerland brought out a revised edition in Geneva in 1560, the so-called Breeches Bible be cause' it. says in Gen. 3:7 that "AiIiwi An9 ITua moT7A fitf trod leaves together and made them selves breeches. . Thiswas a smaller book, to be read at home, and was printed not In the old blackletter but in mod ern Roman type. It had an im mense circulation, and was the Bible of Oliver Cromwell's Iron sides, and of the Pilgrims. Kew-Fangled Verses It was divided into the new fangled verses which proved such boon that when the Great Bible was revised in 1568, the verses were adopted in it too. So many bishops worked on this revision v that it was called the Bishop's v' Bible and it took the place of the Great Bible for church use. Now the Catholics began to translate the Bible. In 1582 Greg ory Martin, at the Catholic .Eng lish College in Rheims, France, brought out his translation of the - New Testament from the Latin Vulgate. . Martin did the Old Testament as well, but it was not printed until 1609-10. when the college had moved to Douai, and the work is still generally called the Doual Bible, though it has been much revised since. Then in 1611. m resnnn tn an appeal from a Puritan leader, King James authorized a group of scholars to revise the Bishops' Bible, and they produced in 1611 the famous King James Bible, still so dear to many hearts, mine in cluded. . Spelling Corrected And when in 1755 Samuel John son got out his English dictionary with only one way to spell each word. Professor Blaney of Oxford took the King James Bible and revised all its spelling to agree with Johnson thousands of words. It is his Bible with hardly ' variation that passes every where for the true King James, to this day. - In general,' the modern transla tors have taken full advantage of the fruit of years of research, in - Bible manuscripts. Very few trans lators have yielded to popular, pref ere nee for a familiar text, no mat ter now inaccurate. When in 1929 the coypright on the American standard version ex pired, the publishers turned it over to 'the International Council of Religious Education, which rep resented most ox the Protestant bodies in the United SU-tes. In 1946 the revised standard ver sion of the New Testament . ap peared. It did not go as far as a revision as some of us had hoped. but it was an improvement over the American standard and was very well received. - REVISED STANDARD Meantime the American stand ard version Old Testament com mittee kept diligently at work and has now finished the revised stand ard version of the Old Testament which has been combined with the New Testament to form the. re vised standard version of the Bible. American Catholics took up the task of revising their English Bible soon after the Protestants began their work, proceeding with less delay. But these later Ameri can enterprises, Catholic and Protestants, are simply revisions not new translations between which there is a great difference. And now our Jewish friends are being- heard from. The Jewish Publication Society of America has announced it will proceed with a new translation of the Old Test ament and the apocrypha into modern English. In Britain a few. years ago, the Catholic authorities called on a man of letters, Ronald Knox, to translate the Bible from the Latin vulgate into English, which he has done in a scholarly, rather than a popular style. Now the combined Protestant groups of England, Scotland and Ireland have formed a committee to retranslate the whole Bible, in cluding the apcrypha, into modern Jngush. Shovels, Masks Usedinaeaning Cyclotron Waste STT LOUIS (INS) Instead of mops, they use shovels t nd wear masks during house cleaning time in the Washington University Cy clotron in St, Louis. The ritual of disposing of waste atomic material is carried out every two months ia the back yard of University Chancellor Ar thur H. Compton in suburban St. Louis. A. A. Schulke, engineer in charge of the cyclotron, says they use Compton's yard because he is an atomic scientist and no one else would want that kind of stuff around. Schulke says the Job is not too dangerous, just one of those com mon things that have to be done. like burning waste paper or selling attic relics. Shovels are used to dig holes in the ground where the radio activated material is buried. The respiratory masks prevent inhala tion of active dust which could prove fatal. Radioactive liquids present no problem, Schulke says. They are diluted in a carrier, ie explains. which serves as an absorber.. But the solids like metal and powders are something else. Some of them retain their atomic activity for thousand years. When the Cyclo tron laboratory finishes with them, they are buried in Dr. Compton's yarn. 'Miracle' TB Drug Fails to Bring About at State Tuberculosis HosDital Cures By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR. Staff Writer, The Statesman They called it a miracle drug. too soon. It failed to produce the miracle cures of tuberculosis but Isonicotinic add (INH) may prove a boon to asthma patients and meningitis victims. That is the report on INH com ing out of Oregon's Tuberculosis Hospital, from the TB- ward of Oregon State Hospital and other institutions across the country. Since last winter when INH splashed into the news as the pro ducer of healing miracles for tu berculosis patients, some 40 vic tims of the stubborn disease have been treated with it at the tuber culosis hospital. Another 20 have received treatment at the TB ward. . "It is an important new discov ery in the right against TB, re ports Dr. G. C. Bellinger, super intendent at the TB hospital, "but it has not produced any genuine cures." He described the drug as a powerful ally of other treatment for the disease. Claimed Recoveries Tuberculosis patients through out the world were thrilled when two drug companies announced that isonicotinic acid, produced under trade names, was produc ing amazing recoveries for scores of test patients. - Worried doctors hastened to warn that the claims were based on insufficient . evi dence, that more tests were need ed, more time needed, that the drug might not produce the mir acles. Unfortunately, they . were right. t Now, after many more patients and after several more months of study, doctors at hospitals treat ing TB are "beginning to learn the possibilities and the limitations of yesterday's miracle drug. Definite improvement was re ported in roost patients at the TB hospital when they were placed on INH schedules. Doctors there under the direction ' of Dr. Bel linger, cautiously inaugurated use of the drug on a group of five patients last spring. On one severe case INH had no apparent effect. Patient Worsened On another the patient felt bet ter, gained weight (usually a good omen) and had an Increased ap petite for the first month of treat ment Then the patient worsened. A third case was a long stand ing persistent disease which had had streptomycin (still considered TB's worst enemy). Here too there was some early gain, lessening of cough, but all were later lost again. Another case Jost weight despite appetite increase and' a general improvement, in the x-ray. .. A fifth, case, far advanced. showed some initial rallying, but subsequently lost the gain and expired. The original group, though too few in number to give a legiti mate test of INH, have set a pattern surprisingly accurate for cases that followed. Four more groups of five patients each were added to the INH treatment by May and another 13 were placed on INH schedules as it was deemed appropriate since that time. Appetites Increase , Husky appetites and Increased weight in INH treated cases was almost universal, at least in the early stages. In some, happily, the results remained, and In a few the disease was being controlled, ap parently because of the help of INH. . ' Doctors at the TB hospital de tected some interesting sidelights with the new treatment Asthma patients improved rapidly when placed on INH, but as often as on other progress the asthma later returned, sometimes as bad i ever. In nearly all cases patients had a feeling of well being, felt that they were getting well though x-rays and other tests might not confirm it- One patient, buoyed by. the Im proved appetite, a weight gain of 40 pounds and general feeling of recovery,- has declined all advice for chest surgery which his doc tors feel he urgently needs. The disease remains uncontrolled and doctors are certain he must sub mit to surgery if a "Cure is to be effected. The hope of the new drugs prompted others throughout the country to dangerously delay necessary surgery, doctors report. Deadly tubercular meningitis, once almost certainly fatal to its victims, may find its strongest enemy in INH, Dr. Bellinger re ports. Though cures have been ef fected in recent years through the use of streptomyacin, INH may take over completely in the battle against meningitis. Apparently INH passes more easily from the blood stream into the spinal fluid where the deadly germ lurks. Study continues in the use of INH. Dosages are changed in an effort to find the best amount and the best method of administering the drug. . Meanwhile doctors con tinue to battle tuberculosis with all their weapons. Still vital is the remedial surgery, the time hon ored rest and good diet prescrip tion and the other chemotheraphy including streptomyacin, TBI and A5. - fes fey ' V - . ' . f X ill ' A ; T : :. $ Jl - ' j V, :": ". . '-. ':. '.:'' - ! i ' f , - :'.':i-";- i MISS AMIR ICA Georgia'a Neva Jane Lanrley, It, el Maeon, wears 3Has America) 195S crown after annual beauty pageant fat AtUatio City, N. J. Bicycle Fashions Set Clothes Style NEW YORK (INS) The Bicy cle Information Bureau in New xorx trunks women should spend some time this year thanking their lucky stars for the two-wheeler. According to the bicycle people, the gals should be grateful be cause if It wasn't for bikes, we wouldn't have, strapless bathing suits, slacks or two-piece play, suits. This is the Diamond Jubilee of the American Bicycle Industry, the 75th birthday of the Ameri can bike. And until the bike made its appearance, women were lim ited to two yards of petticoats, corsets, and bathing suits with at least 12 yards of material in tnera. But then women decided to ride bicycles, and they couldn't do it in ordinary costumes, so suddenly fashion came up with knicker bockers, a simple shirt, and plain hats for the cycling lady. That says the bicycle industry, started the trend that led to the Bikini bathing suit. ITALIAN FILM REPORT " ROME tf) Italians saw 496 rums last year, according to of ficial government figures. Of thisj numDer iu were Italian Elms an increase of three over the 104 of 1950. In the year 1938 only 45 lianan rums were- projected in Italian theaters. There were' 389 foreign films exhibited in Italy last year as compared to 337 for 1350 and 230 for 1838.. TEXTILE BUSINESS BAD . HONG KONG W w Chinese'"! tile, makers, say they; .have asked permission to move 11 textile plants here tov the Chinese "Nationalist stronghold of ' Formosa. - They say pusiness is bad here. .. v , i OFF$TAGI . Jan! RnotM 1.M mM llT'm f!-!f et M MfT Colltre. Wla, theater creep, prepare for relet 14 -Hiawatha" at taj International Delphiad, Verona, IU1 - - m.mu. rM.iiw wnt Open' Friday Evening Yd 9 P. 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