Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 17, 1928, Page 14, Image 14

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"Three White Kuhns" Vaudeville
Hit at Craterian Wednesday to Rialto Sunday
Rin Tin Tin Coming i "Tenderloin," First Talking Picture,
v M f 9 I
Gomes to Hunt's Craterian Thursday j
i Itinty Iiuh tuken i the ram
tiut-k und Ih now the lile atlrac
'loo at the Rialto theatre. In "A
Itace for Life." Virginia Kali.
j Carrol Xye, Hohby Gordon, Jamm
Moon and Pat Jiartiean are In the I
jcnst. j
I Kin-Tin-Tin Jh flrt Hern mnklns j
'hi way south by box car with bin j
'pal linny O'Hhea, who, after p
many difflf:uUlPH, kh n Job an
'Jockey. Rival horse owner try to
j cripple Danny's borne. Rlnty at-!
, tucks and Ih blfndnd. The boy j
!hlden him and i him8lf kidnaped.
' Rinty ettcapcH from lib shack and '
' frecH tho lad in time for the UIk I
raccjt; Hut here coinca the moat j
pxcltirjK of all tho exciting He
uencvA of the piece. Rin-Tln-Tin !
hu roUHfad hlH nudienceH to wild !
nnthuHiuHm many ft time, but never !
I hiw he hnd A more thrilllriK vehicle j
i than "A Race for Life."
"Girl From Chicago" J
At Rialto Monday:
"The Steam Shovel Man"
r "Herbert Hoover," wild a critic,
'Ib juut a man with a Hteam
Shovel. '
The remark wuh Intended na a
critfcbiin., Itut 1m it? A man with
A .steam Hhovel; a builder, a man
with constructive huHlricHH ImflKl
nation, who la ready to, build, to
economic life. It watt Hoover'a
conference on unemployment that
pointed the way to concerted no.
tlon on the pnrt of American in
dUNlry to get , tho wheels running
again.
The man with the Hteam ahovel.
He organized n carefully planned
get IhingS done. . 'attack on InduHlrlal waate throiiKh
, Wouldn't It be well at thin time 1 Htnntlnnlrzlntf production. In tin
to put a man with a Hteam hhovel t lumber Industry ulono the kjivIiik
In char of thu hUHlncKH at the amounted to ' soo million tin I In m a
l)nltcd HtnteH? day.
Honver'H record Ih the rocrnd of) The Hteam Hhovel wan at work,
the man with a Hteam Hhovel. After! Jio charted the ehannclH of for
tho war, with hURft farm huvpIuhoh I dun trade, and made hlH depart
plled up, with Europe throatenliiK ! menl ho uneful that It received
to "'break the market, what tlldjio.eoe Imiuirlrs u day on trade
Herbert Hoover dn? lie went HubJeclH, on which invaluable In
Abroad at bin own charges to per- ) formation is furnished to American
auada the European governments j buslneBS.
to live up to their contract and to J A steam Hhovel Job. -. - 1
open the cloned German market to j He revived tho war finance cor
.American food. In that country j pom tlon to finance the dlHtreHHml
and In the other liberated nutlmiH ' farmeta In the agricultural crlHht.
he obtained a market for more; He organized the MIhhIkhIppI valley
than IB million tons of footlHimrn, , flood relief. Ho put over the lu
ll nd naved the American farmerH land watorwaya progrum to reduce
from ruin. traiiHportation charges to and from
M Ah a Hido Issue he raised MO mil- i the inland farm empire. ,
lion dollars for child relief and i Yes, the Hoover Hteam Hhovel
tjooH. care of 10 million children; i has been busy the last ten yearn,
rhert organized tho drive that I Isn't the man with tho steam
brbught 33 millions more for the Shovel the man to put In charge
ohjldn'n of CI c mi any, Austria and of the big problems - confronting
t .
"The Girl from Chicago,' which
comes tho Rialto tomorrow, glveH
tho mysterious and exotic Myrna
hoy )ier first really irreat chance
to show her histrionic ability. She
scores tremendously ilh a southern
'1;fellillijJ::'
w)yyy.
$c4i fromTindrai'staj'ri4 Ooorta C?U(h with CocrtttttrfeJ
"Tenderloin," a talking picture, j pomnnlme1. Is among the firnt
starring Dolores CosteJlo with Con- j of talking films. ,
rnd Xauel. comes to Hunt's Craler- .Melville Crosman wrotn tho
Inn theatre next Thursday.
i story which was adapted by 15. T.
This amazing melodrama of New j A,(u.h'ei LewlH, Dan Wolheitn.
Poland,
' Kuropo found him the man with
the Hteam Hhovel.
, lie came homo and headed the
obscure department of commerce,
lifted It out of thcM'tick and made
it a - great force In the nation's
the Industry? Tho problems of the
farm, of manufacture, of. trade-in
general?
Who else than Hoover fttH the
situation' of general manager of the
United Htntcs at thin time?
(Kansas City KtnV.) '-.
? Where Alphabets Come From
. D. t.
WAHHINOTOX
Juno 10. to right direction now employed by
girl, who leaven her plantation
home to come to the great clly to
unravel tho tangled web which has
held her brother In the clutches of
nn underworld gang, nnd caused
his sentence to execution. Others
In the cast nre William Russell,
Carrol Nye, Krville Alderson nnd
Pnul Vainer. Ray Knright di
rected. "The Girl from Chicago"
is hailed an one of the most bril
liant melodumas of the year. Tre
mendously exciting, the production
has glamour and humor, nnd Is
built on the foundation of danger
braved for tho sake of lovp The
stars give a performance that will
add mnny-laureht to their cine
matic crownH. 8ee Conrnd Nagel
nnd Myrnn tho mysterious, in "The
Cllrl from Chicago."
York's night life, which augments
'.the thrill of its dramatic heights by
the Interpnlntlnti ' of spoken din-,
logue, nn well as symphonic ac
home of the Phoenicians) about
(tea It. t. Kven the runic alphabet
of tho Norsemen Is believed.. -to
have been developed from a Creek
nlphahct early In tho Christian era.
"The Aramcan alnhahet wuh dc
veloped from the rhoeniclan on
the edge of the Arabian desert.
and from this grew tho Hebrew
nnd Arabic alpha het. When the
.Mohammedan rellftimf began to
spread In the seventh century A. Ii.
It took with it the. Arabic alphabet.
ThlK accounts fur the use of the
Arabic characters today over a
large pari of southern Asia and
northe"" Africa. It was when they
became .Mi.slenm that the. Turk
began the uj9 uf the Arabic alpha
bet. While that system of chnrnc-.
tern bad been developed by the-
--The decision of Turkey to throw ! all the western world.
overboard the alphabet she has
used , tor many centuries, nnd to
replace it with the Alphabet of
Owe Alphabet, to Ancient
. 'Hihhlls" ,
"The greatest problem In eon-
western Europe and the Americas ;r llfrmlll where the lhoeniclans got
In not ho revolutionary a stop nn at
ilrvt appears, according to a bulle
tin from the Washington, D. C,
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic, society.
. "It Ih not uh If Turkey were up
rooting some cherished cultural
growth nnd netting up in Hh place
a foreign substitute," soys tho bul
letin. "No true alphabet can be
found In uho today by a' people who
has originated It. AVhcn It coiuch
to dlphabeU all the world hns bor
rowed. H Ih an amazing thing,
but the problem of resolving hu
man speech into Uh thirty-odd
equnda und representing them by
symbols seems to havo been nolved
only once within historic times at
jeaat nnt from thin happy bit of
nnalyslH and Invention all the true
alphuhets In uso today appear to
have descended.
- Kiujrllsh Alphabet From iJilIn
"The English nlphnbet eamo dl- ;
xcctly from the Jatln. It is, in j
act, the same alphabet that Rome
used Have for nuch minor changes
nn tin nddlllon ot u Hepnralo M' i
(the Lift tin T served for both T I
and 'J'), and the expansion of the
Latin 'UV Into 'UVW.'
" "The Romuns, in turn, borrowed (
their alphabet from tho OlreekH.
changing tho forms of the letters
somewhat nnd dropping hoiuc
characters. And the (Ireeks, ns
evidence nnd tradition show, took I
their letter syntem from the Phoe- 1
nleiann, even retaining the names
with Might vnrlationH.
i "In paRsing the alphabet thr;i
their hnndH, tho Orueka gave It one
Of ItH moHt Important uddltlonH.
Thv added definite vowel wmbols
to tne i-noenician uiuui-. w ,l" " syllable
ronsistea HOieiy ui uiiBuiimr.
Tho OreekH 'tinkered' further with
the alphabet no that the Athenian
wridon, Including vownla, came to
have i!4 letters. They nlno chang-
tho direction of writing. . The
Phoenicians wrote from right to
eftt the Oreeks adopted the left
it. There have been widely diver
gent theories an to this. , It has
been variously HUggested that the
2'i characters were adopted from
the hieroglyphics and the hieratic
writing of Kgyptj the cuneiform
characters of llabyton, and sym
bols of the Hlltltes, Cretans, and
ancient (Ireeks. No evidence ho
far found seems sufficient to de
termine this matter. Probably the
most generally accepted theory Ih
that the Phoenicians, familiar be
cause of their trading voyages with
tho various cumbersome .writing
systems around tho Mediterranean,
chose from them such symbols as
they needed, stripped off the com
plications, and slmpliricd writing
for the first time to u nearly true
alphabetic basis.'
"Tho Phoenicians' nre supposed
to have been urged to tills step by
the desire' to conserve time in
keeping their accounts nnd records
of trading ventures. It Is to the
huKillug, Impatient 'Rabbits' of
some IlOfto years ago. therefore,
thati Ihe world probably owes the
device (hat has made possible the
great advances In literature nnd
science, nod practically all of the
continuing activities of civilisation.
"We lake thn alphabet and all
these words that are built from It
with which to record tho shadings
of our Ideas so much ns a matter
of course that It Is difficult to
realixe that for thousands and
? perhaps tens of thousands of years
man nan no neiier meinou oi re
cording his thoughts than with n
jumble of picture writing, symbols
such ns our dollar sign or the
ideographs of the Chinese, nnd
characters such as those
of the Japanese.
MrM Wrltrm VmnI Picture
"Tho earliest written records
were made -In. pictures which rep
resented things nnd actions. Ab
stract Ideas could be suggested
only In the crudest round-about
In I
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Vonnldprahle lntoret lina boon (-rented lociilly by tho attractive
Uor" or Hlnu of the Mmlri A Ford lino. Thl. new mn.lol I. now
rfi.nlVv it Hie how rooms or the C. ii. Ciuton Aulg Company at Sljith
t,4Blver,iUe.vouue.
wny. After RcnlurlrH of uho those
liluturoK hecnino conventionalized
Into rtymholx, such n the Irieo
KinniK of tho ltayptlnmi, nnd the
.MnytiB of America, nnd nomo of
thiine im uneil In China toitny.
"Tho next Mop wnH n marked
departure from tho previous devel
opment and n tremendously Impor
tant one. It was to represent hy
symbols not tho things themsolves.
hut Instead tho sounds of tho spo
ken words. Kor tho first time man
wrote his luimuniie as ho spoko It.
Tne sounds of entire words were
symbolized nt first; then, nfter a
while, the syllables which formed
the wortls. This (tnve n wrttlnc
system of considerable fluenijy. In
It were written tho Chlneso classics
(with nn admixture of tho older
Ideournphs nnd symbols.)
'This syllable wrllliiK appeared
In o purer form In the cuneiform
of Mesopotamia from records In
which the modern world has learn
ed of the lntlnmto dally lives of
these people of Ionic ' ku. their
business transactions, their hlKhly
developed Inws, und their rtdlRlous
custom: In Egypt syllable. VMHiik
wus .oarly ileveloped, hutv ta, ihe
end tho JjRypllans mixed with the
Hyllnlilu characters all the lumber
of hieroglyphics nnd Ideonrams.
The i:nyptlnns even took the flnnl
step of udoptlnir symbols for letter
sounds; hut these too they Jum
bled in with the other varied ohr
ncters. - . ' . ,
lite Final Step Tho Alphals t
"The ulllmnte step in splittini;
up the syllables, adopting nn al
phabet of characters to represent
the component sounds of speech,
and bulldlnK nil written words
from these simple characters, was
taken by ihe I hoenlclnns, appar
ently, nbout loan II. c. Kecords
of about 1400 II. c. discovered In
the vnrlous countries of the east
ern Mediterranean disclose no
alphabetic writing; the cuneiform
was then in general use even In
correspondence between Egypt nnd
ltnhyinn. ltecorda of about 800 It..
0. show the l'hnenlclnn nlphnhet In'
use, nnd tipparently in use for
some lime. The blrlhdate of the
alphabet, therefore, is taken
roughly as about u no . r.
"The resolving of wilting into
the alphabetic form w.t some
what like science's analysis of mat
ter. First, students accepted mat
ter Itself; then round It to he com
posed of molecules. They pushed
their analysis further nnd resolved
the molecules Into atoms; und
tllese, finally. Into electrons, posi
tive unit negative. The vowel, and
consonant symbols,' last to be dis
covered, may be considered the
positive and negative electrons of
written language, seldom rxlsllng
npnrt from tine another.
Trade nnd llellgloti Spread
AlplmlMMH
"When alphabets came into ex
istence In the Nonr East, their use
spread rapidly, largely through
trade chnnnels. Ileforo mnny cen
turies they were adopted In nor
thern Africa, the entire Medlter
rnnenn region, Arnbln. Mesopo
tamia. Armenia, and IVrsln. fctome
HtudentSv have asserted thnt the
llrnhml nlphnhet of Indie originat
ed Independently; but others nre
uonvlnued that this nlphahct, too,
wan Introduced (torn Hyiu (.Hi
John Mlljan Ooorgo Htone and Tat
llnrtigan. Michael Curtlz directed.
"Tenderloin" is tho talk of New
Turk. '
Arabs lo fit their own language
with great exactness, it lias never
been well adapted to the Turkish
language. The I-atln alphabet now
to bo adopted by the Turks, re
curds their Innguuge-sounds more
sHtlsl'nctorlly, and In addition con
tains nbout one-third ns many
characters as the Arabic. Tb.
number of the Arable characters is
swelled by the- uso of different
forms 'of each letter at tho begin
ning uf words, within tliem, and asj
terminal Idlers. Educators be
lieve that heavy Illiteracy In Tin
key Is largely duo to the complex
ity of the Arabic alphabet, and
.hat school children can become
fiimlllui- with the new alphabet In
i small fraction of the time devot-
d lo mnslerlng the old."
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