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...indomitable modernizer is Turkey's swart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Having forbidden public reading of the Koran in Arabic, decreed substitution of the Latin alphabet for the old Arabic and given Turkey a new calendar, Dictator Kemal lately turned to history as taught in the schools. He caused an official textbook to be prepared for cheap and universal circulation. The first volume tells how Turkey passed through the Old Stone Age 5,000 years before Wrestern Europe. The famed Amazons were Turkish women. The early Chinese dynasties, the Indo-European Hindus, the Etruscans, Trojans and Cretans were really...
...several in Japan founded by teachers who studied under Moldrem, several in Germany. The orchestras in Eureka and Hollywood set the pattern. Karl Moldrem teaches each child individually. First and often the most difficult step for the children is to learn the first seven letters of the alphabet in order to identify the notes of the scale. The mothers have to learn that there is no money in the orchestra for them or their offspring...
...According to researches by a Dr. Horne, the word "and" occurs 46,227 times in the Bible, the words "girl" and "reverend" only once each. The middle verse of the Bible occurs at Psalms, 118:8. In Ezra, 7:21 are all the letters of the alphabet except...
...contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions of Mainichi and Nichi-Nichi in Japanese, Motoyama published a daily Mainichi in English, made...
...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...