Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1927, Page 17

BYRD WILL BEGIN TRIPNEXT AUGUST Commander Says Bennett,“ Novilie and Balchen Will | Accompany Him. | By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., September Comdr. Richard E. Byrd will leave New York next August on his South Pole expedition. He will have his own ship, probably a Shipping Board vessel, and Floyd Bennett, North Pole flight companion, will be second in command of the party. The commander divulged this to an Assoclated Press reporter yesterday as he sat in the office of his brother, Gov. Harry F. Byrd, in the Capitol Building here. “There have been many surprising | reports about this trip, none of which 1 gave out.” Le said. A recent rumor said that I was going to sail from Nerfolk this month on a w tng ship. 1 did consider lpaving on haling vessel, but found that in- advisable, and as for leaving this month that's out of the question, of course.” Noville and iy schedule Balchen Included. as T have thus far continued, “is some- is: We will leave New | York in August and stop at Hampton Roads and probably at the Panama 1 have decided that it would t if we have our own ship, and | would like to have a 4,000-ton | Shipping Board ship. I haven't got-| ten this permission yet, but they have | been so uniformly kind that T have | every reason to believe that they still wish to aid_us. “George C. Noville will be third in eommana and Bernt Balchen fourth. “We will leave the canal and go di- rectly to New Zealand, where we will probably stop at Wellington. From there we will go down to the ice bar- rier.” The famous fiyer said that the Cull- ean government Rag offered him the mervices of it8 navy and expressed his gratitude. “I have thanked them through official channels and said that T would make use of the generous of- fer should occasion arise,” the com- mander stated. “It might be possible for one of their ships to help us refuel or render some other assistance. It is 2 fine offer whether we take advantage ©of it or not.” 3 While the expedition is primarily a scientific one, the commander said that the thrill of adventure which took him around the world when he was in his early teens is still with him. Enjoys Adventure. “Are you a scientist or an adven- turer?” he was asked. ““Well, all of my trips are made for scientific purposes, but if I didn’t en- joy the trips, it is likely I wouldn’t go. However, on this trip we expect to get invaluable meteorological information. The South Polar region is probably the | stormiest place on the face of the sarth. It is much colder than the North | Pole. In the first place there are mountains as high as 15,000 feet and the pole is at an elevation of around 10,000 feet, while the North Pole is at sea level. The Arctic is mostly water and is frozen the year round because of this. If ground existed at the North Pole, it would be uncovered during the Summer period, when there are 24 hours of sun. Then the Arctic may be less severe because it is water and could be affected by warm ocean cur- rents which penetrate far North. I also think that the Antartic glacial /age i§ ‘more recent than the Arctic.” “It is hard to realize the preparation necessary for such a' venture,” he €aid. “Remember. the distance from New York to the South Pole and back is greater than the circumference of the earth at its greatest diameter.” The trip will take well over a year, he stated, and a staff of sclentists in several flelds will go on the expedition. . To epable them to vote under the laws of New York, 25,108 persons passed the Regents' literacy test in 1926. This number represented 80.4 | the United States Weather Bureau. v clock, as at the upper right, and such a calendar as that below "THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 98-DAY MONTH. 13-MONTH YEAR, | IN VIEW FOR FUTURE FARMER 151617181920 21 151617181920 21 151617 181920 21 nuNBsWN 222324252621 28 sonunRBN 391012 891011121314 151617 1819 20 21 151617 1819 20 21 151617151920 21 EEE R EE] nBUBsWIN 22320252 128 891011121314 151617 1819 20 21 ProPCaED nuuswan| SSOTRED, so0nRLN s 90N 89101121314 151617181920 21 151617 181920 21 151617 18192021 EEEREE nuNWRUN 2234252670 91011211 B9 8910112131 s e o T T R A revised calendar, with 13 months of 28 days each to the year, benefit both agriculture and indu ard year after year, declares Dr. the fam would se continually. Farmers of the future may cut their wheat in “Solstice” instead of July and their children and children’s chil- dren gather Easter eggs on exactly the same day year after year and forever. Whether that comes to pass de- pends on whether the International Fixed Calendar League ultimately s world-wide recognition for a pro- posed 28-day month and a 13-month year. Dr. Charles M. F. Marvin, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, is an advocate of calendar reform. “We are trying to measure the passage of ti he asserts, “with an irrational system of months made up sometimes of exactly four weeks, sometimes four weeks plus three days, v | two days or one d “All these incommensurate tions make it wholly impracticable to assemble and publish’ data in con- venient units. Since it is humanly impossible to control either the length of the day or the year, the only rational thing to do is adopt a 28-d: month. That would give us $4.00 Round Trip Atlantic City SUNDAY September 18 SPECIAL THROUGH TRAIN Via Delaware River Bridze Eastern Standard Time Leaves Washington, 12:01 A.M. Returning, leaves S. Carolina Ave. 5:30 P.M. 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Then the calenda | present calendar, the time will come rela- | ay | 22825262728 2225242526 27 28) 29 “VEAR DAy’ would the reckoning of time stand- Marvin (upper left), chief of oul be combined with | 13 months to the year plus one day in common and two days in leap vears. “A calendar of this kind would give us . weeks, fortnights, months and ns, all in as nearly exact multiple and aliquot relation to each other and to the year as nature her- self permits. As the science of sta- | tistics advances greater and grealer exactitude will be in order, and, al- though it now may seem trivial to quibble over the crudeness of our when it must be rejected as a device for measuring the passage of time.” Need for calendar reform first was urged in 1900 by In The Hub’s Annual Mattress 50c Weekly All Mattresses Sold by British rallway statistician, who now is at Geneva seeking universal adop- tion of the equal month system. The project has been studied by the League of Nations. 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