THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935
THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN
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ACKNOWLEDGED BODY OF
BOOKS
JOSEPHUS, the great Jewish
historian, does not name the
books of the Old Testament, but he
limits the period of their produc
tion to the end of the Persian rule
and gives, the number as twenty
two, the number of letters in the
Hebrew alpha
bet. This was
counting the five
books of Moses
one, the twelve
minor prophets
one, and certain
other combina
tions. The Old Testa
ment books that
survived were in
the old classic
Hebrew. Those
that bore a later
stamp were re
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ceived with suspicion, if at all.
The other factor which tended to
fix a canon, Or acknowledged body
of books was the translation of the
Old Testament into Greek by at
group of scholars whose work be
gan under Ptolemy, King of Egypt,
about two centuries before Christ.
In this translation, called the Sep
tuagint, or work of seventy schol
ars, was included a body of sacred
literature already in Greek, the
books known to us as the Apocry
pha. These were a part of the
Bible of Jtsus and the apostles and
were, of course, held sacred, as
were also certain books from which
the New Testament quotes, but
which have not come down to us.
The Apocalypse of Enoch is an
example. Jude quotes it in the
HiRiiS
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.C,
THE DIETARY PROBLEM
1 believe the time will come when
DIET is reduced to an exact
science, as it surely is destined to
become. But not yet.
You will read all sorts of theories
by men with differing ideas all of
which expressions are based on
varying experience. It is in that
frame of mind that I am writing
you this letter. More than forty
years of experience and observation
are behind what I shall say here.
Hence I am more practical than
technical in these remarks.
Formerly the doctor cautioned his
patient against "dark meats" of any
kind. In this ancient custom I am
a reformer. If my weak brother
can dispose of a dry lump of as
bestos, like breast of fowl, it seems
to me he can digest a cedar
shingle!
1 advise wing of chicken instead
of breast, when I want my invalid
to have real nourishment. To me
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first chapter of his little epistle,
liic fourteenth verse.
thus, while certain books from
the ancient Hebrew had come to
be accepted before the time of
Jesfis as entitled to special rever
ence, the fringes and margins of
that collection were still open to
aispute and were, in fact, disputed
vigorously for two hundred years.
i'or instance, a very early bishop
of Sardis who made a journey to
Palestine for the express purpose
of learning, if he could, precisely
what books the Jews accepted as
canonical, omitted Esther, Ezra
and Lamentations from his list
And the question of whether the
two books, Ecclesiastes and the
Song of Songs, should be account
eel sacred was not settled until the
Council of Jamnia, about 90 A. D.
We may sum it all up by saying
that the ancient books which were
most used and gave most inspira
tion survived and, by being trans
lated, secured a place for them
selves in the canon. These include
an out-and-out love song which
lias no religious motive; a book
which does not mention the name
of God, and another, Eccksiastes,
which is very contradictory. But
the selection, made by the process
of survival and on the basis f
those books which were best be
loved, is probably much finer than
it would have been if a group of
men, however devoted, had set
themselves at any one time to as
sume the whole responsibility.
So much for the Old Testament.
How were the New Testament
books selected? Again, by the pro
cess of use. i afj't
(Next week: The New Testament)
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there is no more real food in the
breast of fowl than there is in so
much brown paper!
1 have heard much of war against
the use of pork and in favor of the
flesh of the ox. I prefer mutton
to either, for the invalid. If well
prepared 1 have been a substan
tial advocate of ham and bacon
when my patient needed strength.
There are very few cases where
I permit half-raw beef-steak. There
are indeed times when actual blood
must be introduced into the veins
to sustain life. But that is not a
strictly dietary procedure.
I have much of praise for crisped
bacon in certain cases of debility
1 believe in meats being thorough
ly cooked if the sick man be en
trusted with them.
I am a friend of that easily
prepared, readily-digested, highly
potent dish, boiled bacon with
spinach or other "greens" for "aver
age cases" in weakened, run-down
conditions that cry for strength.
Replacing Worn Money
A constant stream of used paper
:urrency and worn coins runs from
.he banks into the treasury and is
xchanged for newly made and
ninted money. The exchange
amounts to millions a day. A $1
Dill, for instance, rarely is in cir
culation more than six months be
iore it goes back to the treasury
to be replaced by a new one. The
old paper money is destroyed. The
coins are melted down and remint
ed. Founding of Oxford University
Traditionally, the founding of Ox
ford university was by Alfred the
Great, about 871, but the authentic
origin was the result of a quarrel
between Henry II and Thomas a
Becket, about 1164, when the king
forbade English clerks to study at
Paris, and they returning, boomed
the school at Oxford. The earliest
document giving the school of Ox
ford the title of university was in
1201.
ROSEVELT IN
GOOD HEALTH
President Proves Fitness
By Planning Western
Speaking Tour
(Special To The Press-Maconian)
WASHINGTON, July 24. About
the only person in Washington who
is not completely worn out by work
and worry in the jungle heat of a
Capital Summer is the President of
the United States. That fact is
noted here to dispel rumors thai
the President's health is failing.
Washington's "silly season" al
ways produces a crop of gossip and
rumor about whoever happens to
De occupying the White House. Sly
whispers are exchanged, passed on
and magnified in the passing, about
the incumbent President's morals or
his health. These get circulated
around the country, until a lot of
people who ought to know better
than to credit irresponsible gossip,
get to believe that there is some
thing seriously wrong.
This year's gossip touches the
President's health. . Nobody is
whispering about, his morals, but
you can hear in any bar or club,
at almost any social gathering or
even on street corners "inside" but
false information to the effect that
Mr. Roosevelt is physically in a bad
way. The gossip mongers will tell
you that the infantile paralysis,
which has deprived him of the use
of his legs for the past fourteen
years, is creeping upward, affecting
his nervous system and his diges
tion and causing his doctors alarm,
etc., etc., etc.
President Spikes Rumor
That is not true, but the rumor
has become so persistent that the
President himself took notice of it,
and at a recent press conference
called attention to his robust phy
sical condition and the calmness of
his nerves.
While he cannot take any form
of exercise that involves the use of
his legs, such as riding, golf or ten
nis, he gives great attention to
keeping fit, gets his exercise by
swimming in the White House pool
for half an hour every day, and is
probably now in better general
health than when he took office.
He plans to demonstrate the truth
about his health to the whole na
tion next month, when he will
cross the continent and make sev
eral speeches at strategic points.
The President has one advantage
over Congress, in that he sleeps in
the same building that he works in,
and does not have to expose him
self to 100-degree temperatures in
passing from one air-conditioned
room to another. Congressmen, al-
though their working quarters are
air-cooled, cannot escape exposure
to the torrid, humid climate.
The result is the greatest collec
tion of frayed nerves and hair-
trigger tempers ever gathered on
Capitol Hill. Congress as a whole
is physically unfit to debate calmly
and reason clearly over any legis
lative proposal.
Senator Royal S. Copeland of
New York, a physician and former
Health Commissioner, said frankly
and publicly the other day that
such a worn-out, dog-tired, heat
smitten and generally run-down ag
gregation as the Senate and House
at this time could not possibly give
balanced, well-considered or states
manlike judgments.
Look for Adjournment
Senator Copeland prescribed an
immediate and long vacation, and
the indications now arc that Con
gress will act on that prescription
and go home around the middle of
August, perhaps earlier, leaving the
President's new tax program for
cooler consideration, either at the
next regular session in January or
at a special session beginning in
November.
'The President has worn out, not
himself but Congress," remarked
one of the shrewdest Washington
observers the other day. That is
literally true, and the result is
rather languid and indifferent ap
proval of current Administration
measures by a body of men who
haven't enough energy left to be
either critical or constructive.
All that is keeping Congress from
adjourning this week is the pledge
of the Democratic party leaders to
Senator LaFollette that if he would
refrain from offering his own
"soak-the-rich" tax program at this
session, and keep his Progressive
followers on the reservation, they
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