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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
May Day Fete Gayest Save Yule
Among Notwithstanding Peoples

The first day of May is second only
to Christmas in the song and story OF
Engl1Sh-Speaking nations. In medieval
times, and up to the reign of the Puri-
tans in England, not even Christmas
occasioned such merrymaking The JOY
| OF Springs return in Northern climates
makes 1t easily understood that May
day should be celebrated as the mad
dest, merriest day. of the year.
Cromwell prohibited May day cele-
brations, as he prohibited nearly every
thing connected with the Joy of life,
and, though they were revived at the
restoration, the spell was broken. There
was never again such widespread, naive
indulgence in the May day rites.
The celebration of the day goes back
to the old Roman Floralia, festivals In
honor of Flora, the goddess of flowers,
and to the Druidic Feasts of Bel. Both
Of these festivals came in turn from
the phallic festivals Of India and
Egypt rites of nature-worship to cele-
brate the renewed fertility of the soil.
1t Is interesting to note how the
old pagan customs, tracing back to
their common source in the remote
past, were echoed in May day rites in
England, Scotland and Ireland for CEN
turies after pagans were anathema.
Ireland and the Scottish Highlands,
true to their Celtic strain, were chiefly
influenced by the religion of the Druids
The grewsome feature of human sacri-
flee by fire had its echo In customs
which still linger in remote Celtic re-
gions of the British Isles. The Druid
god Bel was the Baal or Moloch of the
Bible, to whom children were burned
alive.
Out of the unconscious memory of
this grew the May day custom Of
lighting great bonf1res through which
men leaped with little children in
their arms. Or sometimes lots were
cast among the young men, and the
fated one had to run three times
through the fire-a very distinct echo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

! OF the time when the allotted victim
| actually burned alive in Bells honor.
In England the May day celebrations
were free from this strain, Flora was
the deity whose worship fingered there,
In music and dancing and all sorts Of
sports, and in the gathering of wild
flowers, particularly hawthorn, to deck
the lintels of the houses.
In the Middle Ages everybody took
part In the May day festivities. Even
the mayor and aldermen of London SAL
lled TO the woods on May day eve to
gather bougAS and blossoms. The GUS
TOM seems to have been to 90 out at
night and return at sunrise on NAV
day with flowers to adorn the doorways,
t or troops OF boys and girls would go to
the woods at dawn with piping and
song" as the old chronicles have It. and
get armfuls Of hawthorn or "May."
''lyke create heapeS of fragrant snowe' :"
When the lintels had been flower
trimmed. and baskets filled with flowers
had been left on favored doorsteps. the
merrymakers were ready for the DAVIS
active pleasures, the Maypole festivities.
:. Bringing IN the Maypole and setting
u up was as famous a ceremony as
bringing in the YIle log at Christmas.
Inc villages and parishes vie with
each other as to which should have
the talleSt pole. So ardent was the en-
tnuSlasm over the pole and its attendant
pastlmes that STUDIES, the Puritan, in
his Anatomy of Abuses" called the
MaPole "a styncking idol which people
bring from the woods, following It with
great devotion" "'--
The pole was generally a birch tree,
sometimes painted in gay colors. II
was twined with garlands of flowers
ana herbs, and decorated besides With
gay nandkerchiefs and pennantS, and
WIN tne long RIBBON streamers that the
dancers took hold of for their weavinS
evolutions.
Sometimes the pole was drawn BY 40
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ments. Such results will undoubtedly
come.
Here at the institute we are con-
| tinually receiving requests for trained
| workers. One man and several assist
ants are kept busy answering this de-
mand from industrial companies. and
research institutions for physicists,
chemists, biologists, biologists, mathe-
maticians and engineers. The demand
Is so great that we feel strong COM
pulsion to go out and find students,
instead of merely waiting for those
who chance to come our way. We are
looking for the most brilliant boys and
girls in America as future recruits for
science-searching for them, literally.
Seek Promising Scholars.
IT have read in the newspapers that
In some educational institutions 1t Is
the practice of athletic authorities to
send scouts to visit other schools in
the search for promising athletes. We
have never gone in for that sort of
thing here. but we do seek for proniS-
ing scholars"
1t has been said in criticism that a
chronological school should devote it
self to teaching and leave research to
specialized laboratories.
Il came into education from the
Bureau Of Standards, precisely because
more research workers were wanted"
answered Dr. Stratton to this SUCCESS
ton. I'VE know that such workers
can be trained and seasoned only
through the practice of research. Many
OF the engineering students are by
nature inclined toward research. They
have the strict integrity of thought, the
impelling curiosity, the tireless applica-
ton and Intimidation that seem to
go with the research type of mind.
To turn them aside would be to sacri-
flee our most brilliant material-for one
good research mind is worth many
ordinary plodding routine students.
Last year we could have placed a
great many more research workers than
were graduated from our laboratories"
But laboratory education will not
necessarily produce discoverer, or even
an inventor?" I asked.
Edison Had the Instinct.
"Of course not" answered the sci
enlist emphatically. Edison had the
instinct for reSearch-and that Is
something which no amount of train
ing can supply or substitute for, If it
is missing. Some of our Colonial
artisans, with their limited tools, made
beautiful furniture and other woodwork,
which our modern craftsmen, with
their great array of tools and machines,
initiate. So it is in scientific research.
Galvani discovered the principle of the
electric battery in his wife's kitchen;
the CURES discovered radium with the
aid of the crudest and most meager
laboratory equipment--always it Is the
human element that counts most.
Education gives a man more tools to
work with, but unless he has the in
stinct for research all the training and
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TX dunn of 20 needed inventions
i and published the list-as a
challenge, I suppose, to the
techniclans to get busy. His ideas
ranged from new type OF automobile.
as suggestion No. l, to new type OF
tooth powder as suggestion No. 20-a
marvellous revelation of the intuitions
of the economic mind!
The British Institute of PatenteeS Is
sues annually Whats Wanted" di-
rectory which catalogues hundreds Of
proposed ideas-practical pointers for
the pioneering dreamers of the labora-
tories. Here, too, the suggestions are Of
unimaginative obviousness-new fuels,
new engines, synthetic foods, synthetic
weather. The Machine Age, which is so
deplored by the philosophers, Is admit
tedly not perfect even in the rating of
its own priests and acolytes.
But what Is the great need?
The twentieth century has just
stepped out of its hectic twenties into
the maturer calm of the thirties. What
may we expect Of its balanced middle
age? Where is the opportunity for a
revolutionary discovery? Who can point
out the crucial weak spot in our pre-
sumed mastery of the forces of nature?
Which, of all the unsolved mysteries, is
the key problem that when found will
unlock the door to the golden future?
DIR. Straton Answers.
eff knew I'd busy myself in labo-
ratory and give all my thought and
time toward finding it." answered DR..
Samuel W. Straton, president of the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology,
smiling indulgently at the ambitious
question.
I went to him with this inquiry be-
cause Massachusetts Tech" Is a watch
tower of American science, itself a
many laboratoried center of experiment
and discovery as well as place OF
learning. Here, where the laws OF
nature are explored and applied as well
as xpounded-here, of all places, there
must surely be some clear vision OF
the scientific prospect.
THE next crucial discovery may be
some seemingly trifiing detail, hardly
dreamed Of now" continued DR.. Straton.
ut may be that an accidental Stun
bling upon the truth will revolutionize
our century as Becquerel's chance dis
covery of radio-activity overturned the
nineteenth-century theories Of the ma
ture of matter and gave us the micro
cosmos within the atom.
1.-THE chances are. though" added the
scientist carefully, that no one expert
menter will win this distinction. Doubt
less many will have part in opening the
door for our next great step forward in
knowledge. Our SureSt progress lies In
encouraging the greatest possible num-
Der of trained workers to go into SCI
entific research.
For it is by the patient, painstaking.
seemingly reDetitious and plodding proc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
DIR. SAMUEL W. STRATTON-A SEARCHER FOR RESEARCHERS
j for The Slnda by j.

1.-THE greatest need right now is not
any particular discovery, invention, ma
chine or process, but brains-more men
trained in the methods and habits of
exact science and inculcated with its
spirit of persistent truth-seeking. We
need more Pasteurs and Darwins, more
Faradays and Clerk Maxwells, more
Eddingtons and George Ellery Hales
the instinct for getting at the bottom
of things-who are inquisitively minded,
have a passion for investigating, bent
for eXperiment-and give them oppor-
tunity and encouragement to develop
Then you won't have to worry about
the wanted discoveries and improve
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power We have more wealth and more
leisure. Alongside of this, though, is
the increasing difficulty of operating the
enormous enterprises science has given
us and which are often world wide in
scope. Much that we have done to
advance civilization has brought about
a multiplication of our difficulties. The
old days when the child was one of the
principal sources of the wealth of the
family have largely gone by in our
present era in America. Large families
were requisite two or three or four gen.
erations ago in order to do the manifold
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ing for a period of 20 to rs years for
youth demands reasonable stability Of
conditions in the home and in society.
With the great advances that have been
made through discovery, invention and
research, We are developing all of the
time a more intricate and complicated
civilization. With this there Is a grad
ual lengthening of the preparatory
period of life.
Through the capture of the power Of
the machine we have taken much of the
world off the backs of human beings
and draft animals. Through this use of
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ess OF search and research that we
have come to our present stage in civ
ilization. Electric wires and wireless,
airplaneS and motor ships and swift
railroad trains, radium and X-rays, i'm
munization against germ diseases and
all the other science gifts of our age
are the fruits Of collaboration. The big
thing immediately at hand is to en-
courage ana facilitate this sort Of CO.
operation.
And so when you ask what is
sciences greatest need, it is not the
gaps in our knowledge that 1 think
of-though they are many-but the
gaps in our ranks Of research workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

work of the farm and the household.
The possibilities of a family upon a
piece of land depended largely upon the
number of human and animal workers
that could be provided.
The day of the bound-out child has
gone by, but he was an important
source of labor during much Of our
country's development. In general, in
stead of the apprentice system and the
bound-out method of dealing with sur
plus children in the home, we have now
a most widespread, costly and inpor-
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N ATURALLY enough the progress
m of the London Conference has
VI served to obscure for the mass
l. ' Of the American people certain
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BY DIR. RAY LYMAN WILBUR
of the Interior of the United States

TINE family and the better organi-
cation of our modern civilization
are becoming increasingly neceS-
4 sary because Of the longer time
now required for the human
being to attain social maturity. The
artificial standard of 81 years for males
and Is years for females, determined
on the basis of biology and past expert
ence, has become embedded in the law.
To provide food, protection and train
The Washington times., 1930-06-17
CONGRESS- END
! DELAYED BY
RIVER BILL

Administration leaders were
hooking forward today to an ad.
aournment Of Congress next week
wen though the $4,000, 900
rivers and harbors bill had struck
snag in a Senate dispute over
The Illinois, waterway.
Every item in the bill was
agreed to by the Senate. except
bne providing $75OO.OOO for de.
yeloping the Illinois waterway.
Over this question. Senators from
The upper lake States battled the
Illinois delegation on the amount
Of water to be diverted into the
Gl1annel.
& In the background, friends OF
the world war veteran awaited
m opportunity to pass q new
compensation bill. This bill
Threatened to develope controversy
but its advocates claimed suffic.
lent votes to enact it.
Watch for Veto
With both bills passed, and
Senate amendments agreed by
The House. Congress will be ready
30 adjourn. Friends of both bills,
however. have agreed to hold
Congress in session until PreSi-
dent Hoover has acted ON them,
since he might pocket-veto both
measures il Congress were not in
session. This program would
Keep Congress here for 10 days
after passage of the pension bill,
ilnless the President signed it
sooner.
The rivers and harbors bill
met easy sailing in the Senate
s11ntil the Illinois waterway
project was reached. Among the
Senate amendments adopted were,
"a provision authorizing $4,000. 600
expenditure each year for Federal
operation of the Erie and OSWeEo
Canals. q $15,OOO,00O program
for developing the upper Mis-
souri, River from Kansas City to
Sioux City, Iowa, and o $780,.
900 project for developing the
mississippi from illinois to Min
.neapoliS.
n Create Barge Line
The New York State project
was approved only after consider
able debate. 1t was pointed out
the canal system had cost that
State 100000 and that the
homage had been reduced from
3 100000 to 100000 tons in re-
cent years. Tt was argued the
Government would lose money.
In the end, it was approved only
as a barge line, so its operation
will" not interfere with the st.
Lawrence waterway project.
The dispute over the Illinois
waterway may take several days
30 settle. The upper lake States
demand inclusion of q provision
1imiting the water diversion event
lally to only 1.5OO cubic feet per
second. The bill. as reported,
would allow all the water neceS.
seary to develop q commercially
useful waterway" in the Illinois
River. This controversy must be
3roned out. |
The Washington times., 1930-06-17
BLANTON' 'HALTS
HOLIDAY PAY

Representative Thomas L. Blan-
ton CD, Texas, who functioned
as q Treasury watchdog during
his previous terms in Congress,
resumed that role late yesterday
and blocked a Senate bill allow.
ing the per diem employees of the
Navy Yard a full days pay for
the time they lost Inauguration
Day. March 4, 1929.
These employees, like others in
the Government service. we're
given a day off for the Tnaugura-
tion OF President Hoover. but the
per diem employees were "docked." !"
The Washington times., 1930-06-17
SGDed
BY Chinese Troops

The Rev. Clifford King. Ameri-
can missionary kidnapped by Chi
nese bandits weeks ago, has been
rescued, the State Department
was advised yesterday by Frank P.
Lockhart, consul at Hankow.
The rescue was effected by
sending 100 troops to the little
village Of Losharl, near Hankow.
where the minister was being
held. He was unharmed.
Kings home is at Techny, Ill.
The Washington times., 1930-06-17
Tempest Cast Near
End of ReheGrsGLs

Final rehearsals are being held
today and tomorrow for Shake
speare's comedy. The Tempest, I"
at $3.50 o'clock, Thursday and Fri.
day, at the Sylvan Theater in the
Monument Grounds.
The Tchernikoff { Gardiner Dane
ers will appear in several dance
numbers, while other players have
been recruited from schools and
community centers throughout
the city.
The Washington times., 1930-06-17
Old COnUict Ship
To Leave on SUNDAY

In continuation of its world
tour. the old British convict ship,
Success. will leave Washington
Sunday night after q stay Of
several weeks during which 1t
has attracted thousands of Cap
ital visitors.
The old ship, which was built
In India and which is said to be
the Oldest vessel afloat, will go
to Atlantic City.
The Washington times., 1930-06-17
WEATHER DETAILS
FOREoAsT TILL Q r.M. wEDNEsDAY

FOREoAsT TILL Pm. "WEDNESDAY
Northern New ERgl a nd Probably
showers tonight and Wednesday; slightly
c0oief. except On the east Maine coast,
Fresh east winds.
Southern New Engl an, ,I--Prabably
showers tonight ami Wednesday; slightly
cooler ~ northern sMassac hnsetts To.
night and in MassacnuSettH Wednesday.
Fresh south aud solit beast wlnds, pos
Aibiy strong AT times on the east COast.
Maryland - prObab bly, showers tonight
and Wednesday,: slightly cooler. Fresh
south winds.
District Of Columbia --prohah ahly showers
tonight and Wednesday; slightly cooler
Gentle south wiRds.,S
Virsinia--ShoMer tonight and prob
ably Wednesday mornlRg; not much
change In temperature Moderate south
aud southwest winds.
TIDE TABI.Es
To-day, high tides s:Ia =. M and
1915 y. ma; low tides G:as a. ia. aRd
I;ll y, M.
Tomorrow. high tides l a. IN. aad
1898 n M. low tides 7:aS a. ~. and
t;5l ). ~.
THE SUN AND MOON
The sna rose t"day. 4;3s . m. sud
sets, T:2t y. M.
The sun rises tomorrow. sac a. IN.
aud seIs. 7:s5 y. M.
The moon rises today, - and sets
tomorrow. l1:22 q. m.
ThA Hoon rises tomorrow, p:0S y. m.
and seta Thursday. l2:22 ~.
~ TENPERATURE
YehteF,.nv TotInV
The Washington times., 1930-06-17
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Nogales international., 1930-01-07

w. T.. Roath was visitor here
yesterday from Elgin.
Nogales international., 1930-01-07
NEW 1890 CHEVROLET CARS
NOW ON DISPLAY IN NOCALES

The Chevrolet Motor Company
announces a new Car for 1880
known as "The Greatest Chevrolet
in Chevrolet History.
Announcement of the new car
comes right at the close of Chevro-
let's greatest year, for the sensa-
tional success of the siX-cylinder
Chevrolet, introduced just a year
ago, resuleted in an output of l.
$50 900 cars the past year, breaking
by a wide margin all former Chev-
rolet annual production records.
In making public Chevrolet's
plans for 1880, w. S. Knudsen,
president and general manager,
declared that with the improve
ments incorporated in the new car,
Chevrolet was anticipating a vol
ume of business that will equal, II
not surpass, the phenomenal re-
cord of 1929. And, in order to ac-
commodate an early demand, pro-
duction is being speeded with all
the haste consistent with the pre-
cision methods for which Chevrolet
manufacturing operations are ia
nous.
New car shipments have been 60
ing out to dealers for the past two
weeks, with deliveries to owners
scheduled to start last Saturday.
The cars went on display Saturday
morning in thousands of Chevrolet
showrooms from coast to coast,
while at the same time the an
noucement of the new car was be-
ing broadcast through the adver-
tising columns of more than $500
newspapers.
Scores of distinct improvements
have been made in the 1880 Chew
rolet line, the factory announces.
Greater beauty, added Sa1ety lac
tors, improved riding comfort and
better all-round performance with
added power, and faster accelera-
ton are announced as features of
the new line.
Larger tires, small wheels, Delco-
Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers
at all four wheels, Fisher slanting
non-glare Wv windshield and vast
ly improved four wheel braking sys-
TEN are some of the highlights.
Brakes are of the internal ex-
panding "articulated shoe type"
both front and rear, those on the
front wheels having two shoes
while those on the rear have four.
These brakes, also, are fully en-
closed giving perfect protection a.
Nogales international., 1930-01-07
THOSE ON PATROL
DUTY THIS WEEK

Starting on Monday evening this
week the supernumeries of the Rid
ge-Igo Post of the American Le-
gion who are relieving zack Nc
Kinney on his Morley avenue night
patrol are: A. j. Mitchell, G. o.,
Bill Broad, Pete Fego, Gus Mich
aels, Bill Collier, Carlos Castaneda,
j. w. Young, Pete Melas, Tim Ko-
kane, George Horrall, Harry Con-
ner, Joe Sexton, Joe Jovino,- and F..
S. MCDOWELL.
A letter received by Mrs. McKin-
ney from her husband recently in
-dicates that he may be expected
home at any time now much re-
covered in health.
Nogales international., 1930-01-07

A. L. Shuly, general superintend-
ent of electrical construction for the
Fox theater interests, left for Tue
son yesterday after having been
here for several days checking and
placing the final touches on the
movie tone equipment of the No
gales Fox theater. G.. V. Hunt of
the electrical department is still in
town to watch the operation of the
installation.
Nogales international., 1930-01-07

gainSt water and dirt.
The brakes represent an inno-
vation not only in the Chevrolet
line but in the entire passenger car
field. The length of service that
these Innings give in the new de-
sign Chevrolet brakes is second to
none. The brakes may be adjusted
without the removal of any plates
from the brake drum and operate
with equal efficiency on all four
wheels.
The attractive new closed bodies,
in a variety of colors. carry the IA
nous Fisher stamp of craftsman
ship. Eight models, three Of which
are new to Chevrolet, comprise the
line. Of the eight, five are closed
cars and three are open. The clos
ed cars are the sedan, coach, coupe,
sport coupe and club sedan. The oD-
en- models are the roadster, sport
roadster and phaeton. The models
new to the line this year are the
sport coupe, sport roadster and club
sedan.
The six cylinder valve-in-head
engine introduced q year ago, af-
ter four years of research and de-
velopment, has been further i'm
proved and refined.
The same sturday 48 pound
crankshaft which proved SO salts
factory during 1929 has been re-
tanned in the new car and a fur
ther contribution to smoother en-
gine operation, improved distribu-
ton and increased economy has
been made by the new intake and
exhaust manifolds of the heated T
design.
The clutch on the new car has
been improved by the adoption of
an integral disc, made in one piece
of high carbon steel. This will give
the 1880 cars smoother and easier
clutch action. with quieter opera
ton and longer service.
Easier riding and greater quiet
ness are accomplished through a
new type of self f-adjusting spring
shackle in which bushings in the
spring eyes and brackets are elm
mated, thus doing away with wear.
Hardened and ground tubular pins,
with tapered ends, are pressed into
the springs and brackets while oil
forced into them forms large re-
servoir, making frequent lubrica-
ton unnecessary.
Another improvement bringing
about easier riding, is found in the