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Thu gentle bile-producer migh t help*
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HISTORY OF MAYA
TO BE BROADCAST
Office of Education Program
Will Be Heard Over
Columbia Tonight.
(This is the fourth of a series
of weekly articles concerning the
series of 2d unusual broadcasts of
Latin American history sponsored
by the Federal Office of Education.)
By BRENT DOW ALLINSON.
"The rust—the dark unfathom'd retro
spect !—
The teeming gulf—the sleeper* »nd the
shadows! -
i The past—the inflnite greatness of the
past’’
1 What Is the present after all but a
growth out of the past"
(As a nroteetile form'd, impell'd passing
a certain line still keeps on,
! So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by
the past t . . .
! Of man. the voyage of his mind's return
! To reason's early paradise:
Back, hack to wisdom's birih. fo Innocent
institutions.
Again with fair creation . . .
O. you temples fairer than lilies pour'd
over by Ihe rising sun! —
i O. you fables spurning the known, mount
ing to Heaven!
The deep-divine bibles amt legends.
The daring plots of the poets, the elder
religions:
You lofty and darkling towers, pinnacled.
red as roses, burnish'd with gold'
Towns of fables immortal lashion d from
mortal dreams! —
Yon too I welcome and fully Ihe same as
the rest'
You foo with joy I sing . .
THAT colorful, almost unknown,
now unfolding American past.,
prehistoric and historic, echoed
over the ether waves last Mon
day evening—and echoes again with
musical accompaniment and a chorus
| of 16 singers tonight at 10:30 o'clock,
i relayed by more than 80 local stations
| via the Columbia network, in the
| fourth "Brave New World” broadcast
I sponsored by the Federal Office ol
i Education.
The unwritten past of those labori
| ous and learned heliolithic men who
j reared their mysterious temples and
I cities of stone and stucco and laid
out their straight white stone roads
aboriginal Appian Ways, over the
: torrid plains and through the tangled
; wilderness of tropical Yucatan and
Guatemala, and maintained a civi
lization in their scattered cities a;
great as that, of ancient Assyria and
Babylonia, whose watch-towers theii
religious pyramids resembled!
Maintained for IN^llenium.
For more than a millenium the\
maintained and developed it—with
certain still unexplained intervals ol
oblivion—from 333 A D, the date o!
the earliest date-stone yet discovered
in the lost city of Washactun tcarvec
in cAlendrical hieroglyphic whicl
modern archeologists have learned ft
! decipheri, until their internecine riv
alry and inter-tribal conflicts, lik<
those of ancient Greek and Etruscar
! city-states, paved the way to ruin—am
I
U. S. Experts Tell
How to Buy Tender
Holiday Turkey
By the Associated Press.
Here are a few tips from Gov
ernment home economics ex
perts on how to buy that Thanks
giving turkey:
If you want a tender, juicy,
good-flavored bird, buy a young
one. If the breastbone is flexible,
the turkey is young.
Turkeys of good quality have
few pinfeathers. If the dressed
bird shows UJue through the skin,
its meat is liable to be stringy and
tough. The better turkey has a
coating of fat underneath the
skin.
to easy subjugation of the conquering
freebooters and empire builders of
16th century Spain, who soon reduced
the weakened remnants to peonage
and slavery.
History speaks with pride of the
achievements of the 'magnificent
Mayans," the greatest of American
aborigines, and of their 18-month
calendar of 20 days each twith five
unlucky ‘‘leap-’ days added regularly
by the priests to keep pace with
the sun.
At the Century of Progress Exposi
tion in Chicago, in 1933-3*. nothing
that modernist architects could create
surpassed in interest or imptessiveness
the reconstruction of the great. Mayan
"nunnery of Ushmal,” with its intri
cate frescoes of orange and green
stucco and its high and stately ter
races.
Built With Massive Stone.
The Mayans built their carved and
painted temples and cities of massive
stone and their long white stone and
cement roads, *0 feet wide, loading
over marshes and through jungles and
valleys for scores of miles without
knowledge of the wheel or of the true
architectural arch, and they did it
alone, without help from others (save
perhaps the Toltecs of Mexico), and
without contact with the white man.
or even the state-building Incas of
Peru.
If the latter with their strong po
litical organization, their amazing pot
tery, their ornamental gold and their
natural sun-worship, were the Mace
donians. or even the imperial Romans,
of pre-European, indigenous America,
the Mayans with their maize, their
mathematics their architecture, their
triumphant priestcraft were certainly
the culture-bearing Egyptians. They
built up their enduring civilization
from a primitive, nomadic condition
until they possessed the highest agri
cultural, architectural and astronom
ical attainments of any Stone Age peo
ple in the world.
Held Greatest Race.
Dr. Sylvan us G. Morley, a recognized
authority, describing the Mayan victo
ries over nature and the tropics, ex
claimed: “With consideration for the
limitations of the facilities, the Mayans
were the greatest race that ever lived
on this earth.”
How did they do it? ... No man
really knows. Admittedly, the occult
power of religion, and of religious
rather than commercial leadership, is
a large part of the explanation . . .
The sacred well, the culmination of the
awe-inspiring religious ritual of last
week's broadcast, has actually been
discovered, in the famous city of Chl
chcn-Ilza, in Northeastern Yucatan;
its dark waters have been plumbed.
The name of that famous city of
ruined, temples means “The Mouths
of the Wells of the Itzas." It was
built about 500 A D., and dedicated
to a famous Mayan diety—the great
feathered serpent, “Quetzalcoatl"—
whose mystic symbols have become
the theme of the ornamentation of one
of the noblest, of modern American
skyscrapers, the great Fisher Build
; ing in Detroit.
The man who explored the bottom
of the sacred pool, recently, in a
diver's suit—a certain E. H. Thomp
son, owner of a near-by sisal plan
tation-found proof that Mayan ritu
als were actually conducted there, in
the form of jade and jewelry, broken I
pottery, weapons and, most remark- I
j a^!e of all. bones of young men and
maidens who had met death in that
| sacred water, as living sacrifices pre
sumably to the dread god of rain.
I.ittle Human Sacrifice.
Contrary to the practices of the i
I blood-thirsty Aztecs of Mrxico and the
Arawaks of the Caribbean, there was
apparently very little human sacrifice
j among the Mayans prior to the Toltec
invasion. "The Mayan idea was that
i the privileged victims of the priests
j might, if they survived the ritualistic
] drowning, draw themselves up out of
j the well to report whether the god
I would save his people from drought
and famine."
The hero of last week's dramatic i
broadcast was a real Mayan, who ’
| lived and died the life and death of a
. humanitarian martyr a few years !
i ago in Yucatan. Strangely enough,
| the story of Felipe Carillo, the last
I descendant of a great race to deserve
I the notice of history, cannot he found
m any American reference book, not
even the latest of them, the Encyclo
pedia of the Social Sciences, nor in
j the Brittanica. He rose through the
I labor movement and the Socialist 1
party during and after the World War.
to become the beloved leader and
elected Governor of Yucatan, and he
was murdered for his pains.
Idea* Were Preserved.
Fortunately he wrote at least one
article for an American magazine
(the Survey Graphic. May 1, 1934), In
which his spirit and ideas are pre
served. He said:
"Yucatan is Maya. Our people have
a fabulous history, a rich tradition, a
tenacious memory and infinite patience.
The conquered Indian has conquered
his conqueror in Yucatan. The
Spaniard here has absorbed much of
our habits of life and is more like a
Maya than a Spaniard.
"When the conqueror despoiled the
Indian of his land he automatically
took his freedom from him. That ex
plains our slogan, 'Land and liberty!’
Our revolution (and this holds true of
Mexico and other parts of Latin
America also) has one main objective
—to give the Maya Indian his status
as a free man, to save him from the
evil consequences of physical slavery
and from cultural and spiritual stag
nation which slavery gradually im
posed upon him. All else is a side
issue. The recovery of ownership
of land, as of old, by the Indian
communities, is the fundamental con
tribution of the revolution to date."
The hero of tonight's broadcast was
also a reformer and a protestant
against the iniquities of the Spanish
conquest—Bartolome de las Casas,
who died in Madrid, 1566, of whom
we shall write next week.
CENTRAL HIGH TO PLANT
CONSTITUTION TREE
Representative Sol Bloom of New
York will be the principal speaker at
9 a m. tomorrow at a tree-planting
ceremony on the Central High School
grounds commemorating the 150th an->
niversarv of the Constitution.
An address accepting the tree, which
will be presented by the graduating
class of February, 1938, will be de
livered by L. G. Hoover, principal of
Central High.
Zoe McCombs will read President
Roosevelt's Constitution Sesquicenten
nial proclamation. The Rev. G. G.
Johnson, pastor of the National Me
morial Baptist Church, wall pronounce
the invocation. Music will be fur
nished by the school band.
Toy Automobiles Stolen.
LINCOLN, Ncbr. (4>i.—Santa Claus
probably will be peeved at this one.
Some one broke into a metal works
plant here and took about 500 toy
automobiles, C E Stevenson, manager,
told poliee. He valued them at *25.
H. M. SHOOK DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Brick Masonry Contractor, 70,
Was Native of Frederick, Md.
Active in Churck Work.
Henry M. Shook, 70. well-known
brick masonry contractor, died yes
terday of a heart attack In his home.
3921 Military road N.W.
A native of Frederick, Md., Mr.
Shook came to Washington when he
was 24. He had assisted In erecting
and remodeling many Important build
ings.
Long active In Grace Reformed
Church, Fifteenth and O streets N.W.,
Mr. Shook formerly was superintend
ent of the Sunday School there for
many years, holding that office when
President Theodore Roosevelt attended
the church.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs
Sallie E. Shook; two daughters. Mrs
Henry R. Wasser, this city, and Mrs
Robert Barry, New York, and a son
Roy E. Shook, who was his partner
in the contracting business.
Funeral services will be held at 2
p.m. tomorrow In Lee’s funeral home
Fourth street and Massachusetts
avenue N.E. The Rev. Dr. Henri
H. Ranck will officiate. Burial wll
be In Glenwood Cemetery.
Early Civilization Treasures.
Treasures of ancient Pacific civil
izations will be on display at the 1939
l Golden Gate International Exposi
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