To the Editor of the independent of foreign capital, industrialized, powerful state, with classies society, employment for all, better conditions of living improving daily and bright future ahead—knows full well the meaning of patriotism!
Norti-Cunwa Dary News"
Sm—In reply io my inquiry Gherzi, Director of Siccawei Observatory, writes me that the Vernal Equinox this year will take place on Monday, Mar. 21, at 2hr, 49min. 33sec. pin, Shanghai time, true Shanghai Meridian, at which time, to the second, the Iranian New Year will commence—the Great Luminary of the Solar System will pass on to the Northern Hemisphere in its celestial orbit, and once more the organic beings im this Northern Hemisphere will receive the revitalizing rays of the great life sustainer, the Sun, without which no life could be conceivable on this globe of ours.
We, the Iranian race, from time immemorial have considered the Occasion of the Vernal Equinox our greatest national holiday. In the checkered history of our national life we have had all kinds of ups and downs—we have conquered the surrounding nations and races; we have opened the Suez Canal, so that our fleet could sail from the Iranian Gulf to the Midland Sea (the Mediterranean); we have been conquered by alien races; we have lost Our independence for generations &nd have regained it; our language, alphabet, date of recognizance and even our religion have been changed more than duce; but we have retained as our New Year the heavenly phencmenon of the Vernal Equinox. We iranians of the present age have cause to be grateful to our forefathers for having so dearly preserved this scientific New Year for us.
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