European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Such a say Wood or dried would have lot Locc i  the of to the fat beginning seated cooing domes it did Tat tokens that Ectore Sittu to the later May lung served n invoices Tarter it beep to another of Cut give middleman Inq Erin Ine Fth Tenent tokens representing or one sheep Loten and be Token land tag for the by Bovce Rensberger  have Long Bdl and that the invention of writing occurred about Yean ago when the ancient sumerians of Mesopotamia developed a system using pie Turku pc inscribed on Clay there is evidence that the roots of writ ing can be traced twice As far into the past to a system of record keeping using variously shaped Clay each Anding for an object or the oldest known examples of writing Are called photo in and come from the of a sumerian town n As but also called Warka in the the site is in now it is being suggested that at least some of the so called Pelcl grapes hat Are not obviously pictorial were patterned after abstractly shaped tokens or were taken directly from he impressions the tokens Tell when pressed into soft the tokens do set and other Cornu marked Uhli scribed lines or hotel and most writer an Ines in diam tier have been found for decades in Arclo logical tic Avayou of scores of a Deitt flu am in the Middle East they were my ally thong by to be toys or game but a few a  had suggested Fiat the tokens were nud in a method of  that died oat with Ibe invention of it appears that True writing was not in vented All at once evolved directly from the shapes of the this new View has been put Forth by Denise a specialist in ancient uses of who is assistant director of the University of Texas Center for Middle Eastern studies in Austin Ste has documented the link Between us tokens and True writing at or by finding numerous correspondences Between the she discussed her work in a Telephone evidence gathered from extensive research has led the to conclude that the origin of writing was much ear Lier than previously she my study Indi Cates that the Warka tablets Only represent an evolutionary step in a sophisticated system of recording Whiehead been used in the Middle Easl since 8500 tace earliest known use of Ibe tokens is la villages that were settled about Yean ago in the first of a Trail ton from a nomadic Hunting and gathering Way of life to a Mont settled agricultural use one such Village site in known As Tepe appears to have been a Cluster of Humble Wattle and Daub Bouses set into circular pits in the it was Proba Bly occupied Only part of the the inhabitants continuing to Mam and null game at other that Clay tokens May have been in use then suggests that the need for or at least a system of making permanent arose As an integral part of settled such systems May also have been used in pro Agricula Tural but if they the tokens were probably Yean ago when hollow Clay spheres known As other Makue Eastern mined yearn ago that these were mils of the per anal Seal of the seller was pressed on  of the seek the say during could be obviated by making a duplicate Recor by pressing each Token on each shape creating its characteristic Schmandt Besserat said that intact Bulla had been opened and that the tokens found i them corresponded perfectly to the impressions on the these May be viewed As the Caudal link be tween an archaic system of recording in three Dimen Sions and writ once the system Al impressions Wai generally w Appa Itney by about Sam Jan a Ibe themselves were  Fud Talg de writing instead if As moveable As must Nave been the Case at Ibe in Yutes wer Eusedio the Faro tym As the uses of writing new Tor which there were never were Many of these were overtly pc Toga for a line drawing of a human head to mean Man or a rising Sun to mean within a few Pidor Opelc writing evolved into the More Sty toed or in which a set of wedge shaped impressions in Clay produced a version of the advantage of writing by impressing rather than inscribing was Hal the latter gouged like a curls of Day that obscured the details of the unless it was written very in the third Cun Horra writing spread rapidly throughout the Middle making pos sible More Complex and codified systems of utter Alan and Rieling nearly automatic for he by Israel Shenker new York times having spent a lifetime doing what comes unnaturally spelling English the accepted Way Edward rain Thaler at the age of devoting the rest of his Days to a second who not give the next Jen Raeshun a Brack and let them Lurn to Reed la Cazy Wae furst he asked in suiting letters to his if Johnny cant he the fault May lie less with Johnny than with English which treats sound As a suggestion rather hum As an his so Lution la not to harass but to har Ness machines that will print English the Way it Eez yer sed than Dun not at replied who b an expert on he pioneered in the development of photo lettering for almost 40 years he headed photo lettering new Yorks largest photo lettering a place he Calls world alphabet Headquarters since it stocks about designs of the English fifteen years for amusement and not for Hondl Haler began toying with simplified versions of the spelling he characterizes As graphic 1 knew something about phonetics As a anger and through attempting to cure my he and 1 certainly knew about he decided that previous attempts had failed because those Reform proposals required people who bad Learned so to re learn with additional the Rondthaler solid Ion was to complicate life slightly for machines and simplify it for a keyboard operator punch ing tape for the photo typesetter today prevalent printing system would feed the tape into a photo printout unit programmed with a simplified version of each traditionally spelled Rondthaler compiled a vocabulary of simplified and joined forces with Edward head of the com Puter Center at Ocean county in Tana they constituted them selves the typographic Council for spelling it began producing printouts in sound a revised orthography no designed to outdated the worlds Stock of English Dili Jeal Yutuc to Mcdents boo need to refer to Oemer bunks Wil to Reed Hond Thaler Black on it Wil be no harder for an Advant Sto Dent in Lurn u Reed 1977 English in Imp than it to for Chil Dren beginning Skoal in 11 to lain to Reed and Riet our crazy English Ai  there Are ii million adults in America who cant fill out an employment Applina he said in an there Are High school dropout each and about so per cent of them have very Seri Ous trouble with Reading and writing an he elaborated in the result was Joo Enid Crim in the hard Cor and Pov erty Hoez Eevi i thai get mix to poetic speling Wil Maek reeding and kind optimism inspired re formers for Theodore Roosevelt plumped for Georji Ber Nard Siaw endowed and col Robert the Cut two Tribune publish even decreed has in simplified spelling and America Lar although some newspapers and even a few Book Public Teri the National problem requires organized Ziond whaler said if can gnus can mandate production o atmospheric Why can u not purify the orthographic environment by legislating a  As Rand Unuer found getting this simplified message across was not i dont care what simplification we get eventual he in suggesting a method Here that uses our 30 that the Only one our will accept i know that and its the Only one that has a Chance with the i want to use my entire to the printing Industry not to oppose it too in Sura  oppose my father was a moravian and be used to say you should leave the world better than you found this is my gift to August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13