The Holland Evening Sentinel from Holland, Michigan • Page 15

PAGE SIX THE HOLLAND, MICrttGAN, EVtHING SENTINEL THURSDAY, AS'KIL 9, May Day Nowadays Has Broken Away From Traditions Dear to Old Folks By HARMAX W. NICHOLS WASHINGTON (UP) The moderns are destroying something that was dear to die heart 01 the old folks. When I stub-toed through the timber as a kid come close to May Day, my objective was to gather violets apple blossoms or honeysuckle. When I fetched the loot home and freshened it in a Mason jar, the next order of business was to haul out the paste pot, some old shopping bags, or even old newspapers 'and make me a May basket. Into the basket went the flowery offsprings of nature and these were placed, along with a childish mash note before the stoop of a number of well-chosen "lady" loves.

Kids, I reckon, don't have much fun any more. True, they still dance about the Maypole, hnnt; baskets and crown the queen of May. This your some 2,000 festivals are scheduled for schools and playgrounds around the country. But, something is missing. The kids rxre encouraged to buy, not make their own, baskets.

I'll have to admit that some of the ro.idy- mado baskets are things of rare beauty. Also instead of running into the woods to snitch a petal, the young fry is encouraged to put the- arm on the old man for a dollar to buy same from the street vendor or the nearest florist. Let's go into a little history of May Day, not moaning the kinci When Moiling a Sentinel Want Ad Use Charga Kama Address Phona City Write your ad here Dotes to publish copy Mall to The Holland, Mich. Telephone 3,191 Every Four Years Plenty For Campaigning in Sun OKLAHOMA CITY (UP) State Rep. Robert O.

Cunningham, whose term is set at two years by the state constitution, is opposed to four-year terms for county officials. "If they don't want to go out and campaign in the hot sun every two years, they should get another job," he told fellow legislators in a debate Wednesday. Other representatives disagreed. Thoy approved four-year terms for county officials by a vOte of 65 to 9. Former Secretary of Defense Robert A.

Lovett pores through records before testifying before Senate Armed services Subcommittee Investigating alleged ammunition shortages in Korea. the Communists observe. May Day is thought to have a i with the early Romans. They put on an elaborate hoedown to meet the coming of spring. It was called "l-'lonha," "and was dcdx ated to "Flora," the Roman goddess of flowoi.s.

But the later took on the custom. In thf medieval days, May Day customs were interesting, and beaut'fill. Master and soi vant alike stirred out of their bods at lh( crack of dawn to "go-a-Maymg." Thoy were aimed with the branches of trees and flowers, and some strong ones also lugged along a Maypole. The pole then was decorated by the children and everyone kicked up a heel around it. Rvery little girl dreamed about being chosen queen of the May, and commonly she was picked by the lord mayor.

May Day was brought to our country by the early Pilgrims, is said. Killer Waits in Line SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UP) --Arthur Wcllesley Villmore, 45, a used car salesman, waited patiently in line for 10 minutes to see the desk sergeant at the sheriff's office here. When his turn came, he told the sergeant he wanted to report a crime. He said he had just shot to death his Mrs.

Rita Villmore Kirkpalrick, 35. Cave Man Tactics No Lause for Complaint PARIS (UP)--Even sophisticated police were amazed when hey went to the rescue of a 23- year-old girl xvho was kidnaped rom a cafe, seized by the hair, Deaten up and ravished. The girl, Algeria born Aicha Kherio, said she had no complaint when police found her at the home of the kidnaper. All Amalou. "All grabbed me by the hair, but the gesture seemed quite na- JOII1WY UAZXAJRD by QUICKLY FLIP CLIMBS THE TELEPHONE POLS JOHNNX fUf AN7 RJOP AKKIVE AT THE TELEPHONE POLE NEAR LONPON TOWEK.

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