﻿EEPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  17 
  

  

  men 
  wlio 
  have 
  been 
  rendering 
  this 
  Inslilutiou 
  service 
  in 
  comparing 
  tliem 
  to 
  tlie 
  

   ex. 
  Tiie 
  ox 
  has 
  a 
  very 
  ancient 
  and 
  a 
  very 
  liouorable 
  lineage. 
  If 
  the 
  historians 
  

   are 
  correct, 
  tlie 
  ox, 
  as 
  a 
  bearer 
  of 
  burdens, 
  goes 
  bade 
  mucli 
  further 
  tlinn 
  the 
  

   horse. 
  The 
  ox 
  is 
  perhaps 
  the 
  most 
  ancient 
  burden 
  bearer 
  for 
  manliijid. 
  And 
  

   the 
  devoted 
  men 
  that 
  have 
  been 
  running 
  this 
  institution, 
  wliat 
  have 
  tliey 
  been 
  

   doing? 
  They, 
  too, 
  have 
  been 
  bearing 
  tlie 
  burdens 
  of 
  mankind, 
  the 
  burdens 
  of 
  

   the 
  future 
  generations 
  of 
  men. 
  

   "Thou 
  Shalt 
  not 
  muzzle 
  the 
  ox 
  when 
  he 
  treadeth 
  out 
  the 
  corn." 
  

  

  AWARD 
  OF 
  LANGLEY 
  MEDAL 
  TO 
  COL. 
  CHARLES 
  A. 
  LINDBERGH 
  

  

  The 
  Langley 
  medal 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  has 
  been 
  awarded 
  

   only 
  four 
  times 
  since 
  its 
  establishment. 
  The 
  first 
  three 
  awards 
  were 
  

   to 
  Wilbur 
  and 
  Orville 
  Wright, 
  to 
  Glenn 
  H. 
  Curtiss, 
  and 
  to 
  Gustave 
  

   Eiffel, 
  and 
  on 
  June 
  11, 
  1927, 
  the 
  fourth 
  award 
  was 
  made, 
  this 
  time 
  to 
  

   Col. 
  Charles 
  A. 
  Lindbergh 
  for 
  his 
  magnificent 
  nonstop 
  flight 
  from 
  

   New 
  York 
  to 
  Paris. 
  It 
  thus 
  continues 
  to 
  be 
  characteristically 
  a 
  

   medal 
  for 
  pioneers 
  in 
  aeronautics. 
  The 
  award 
  was 
  voted 
  to 
  Colonel 
  

   Lindbergh 
  by 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  upon 
  the 
  recommendation 
  of 
  a 
  

   committee 
  of 
  leading 
  aeronautical 
  authorities, 
  and 
  the 
  official 
  notifi- 
  

   cation 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  him 
  in 
  person 
  by 
  the 
  acting 
  secretary 
  at 
  the 
  

   National 
  Press 
  Club 
  recejition 
  in 
  the 
  Washington 
  Auditorium. 
  He 
  

   said: 
  

  

  The 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  knows 
  how 
  to 
  appreciate 
  the 
  pioneering 
  work 
  

   of 
  brave 
  men. 
  You 
  will 
  recall, 
  as 
  a 
  single 
  example, 
  our 
  honored 
  one-armed 
  

   hero. 
  Major 
  Pov>'ell, 
  who 
  dared 
  for 
  science 
  the 
  first 
  passage 
  of 
  the 
  uncharted 
  

   raging 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  Grand 
  Canyon 
  of 
  the 
  Colorado, 
  strapped 
  in 
  his 
  boat. 
  

   We 
  are 
  not 
  less 
  stirred 
  to 
  admiration 
  by 
  your 
  own 
  dnring 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  nonstop 
  

   flight 
  from 
  New 
  York 
  to 
  Paris 
  over 
  the 
  boisterous 
  Atlantic 
  through 
  icy 
  clouds 
  

   that 
  threatened 
  death. 
  

  

  Nor 
  is 
  the 
  Institution 
  failing 
  to 
  appreciate, 
  sir, 
  the 
  precious 
  results 
  in 
  the 
  

   encouragement 
  of 
  aviation, 
  in 
  the 
  strengthening 
  of 
  ties 
  of 
  international 
  friend- 
  

   ship, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  science, 
  which 
  have 
  already 
  begun 
  to 
  flow 
  from 
  your 
  

   achievement. 
  

  

  The 
  Smithsonian 
  has 
  in 
  its 
  gift 
  a 
  medal 
  which 
  commemorates 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  Samuel 
  Pierpont 
  Langley, 
  the 
  third 
  secretary 
  of 
  this 
  Institution. 
  He 
  had 
  

   the 
  audacity 
  to 
  believe 
  in 
  the 
  practicability 
  of 
  the 
  art 
  of 
  flying 
  when 
  all 
  men 
  

   were 
  ridiculing 
  it 
  ; 
  and 
  he 
  adventured 
  his 
  own 
  high 
  reputation 
  as 
  a 
  man 
  of 
  

   science 
  to 
  laj^ 
  the 
  groundwork 
  of 
  exact 
  experiments, 
  and 
  to 
  make 
  pioneering 
  

   flights 
  of 
  large 
  models, 
  which 
  demonstrated 
  the 
  soundness 
  of 
  his 
  faith. 
  The 
  

   Langley 
  medal 
  has 
  hitherto 
  been 
  presented 
  to 
  Wilbur 
  and 
  Orville 
  Wright, 
  to 
  

   Glenn 
  H. 
  Curtiss, 
  and 
  to 
  Gustave 
  Eiffel. 
  Thus 
  it 
  is 
  from 
  all 
  points 
  of 
  view 
  the 
  

   medal 
  of 
  pioneers. 
  It 
  is 
  highly 
  fltting 
  that 
  it 
  should 
  now 
  be 
  awarded 
  to 
  you, 
  

   sir, 
  the 
  pioneer 
  of 
  audacious, 
  solitary 
  flight 
  to 
  distant 
  shores. 
  

  

  Therefore, 
  actijig 
  on 
  the 
  unanimous 
  recommendation 
  of 
  an 
  eminent 
  com- 
  

   mittee 
  of 
  award, 
  the 
  regents 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  have 
  voted 
  to 
  you 
  

   the 
  Langley 
  medal, 
  and 
  have 
  rec-orded 
  their 
  action 
  in 
  this 
  paper 
  signed 
  by 
  the 
  

   chancellor, 
  Mr. 
  Chief 
  Justice 
  Taft, 
  which 
  I 
  now 
  present 
  to 
  you. 
  

  

  The 
  actual 
  medal, 
  in 
  gold, 
  is 
  being 
  struck 
  in 
  Paris. 
  I 
  hope 
  that 
  when 
  it 
  is 
  

   received 
  you 
  may 
  do 
  the 
  Institution 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  appear 
  on 
  some 
  suitable 
  

   occasion 
  and 
  receive 
  it 
  in 
  person. 
  

  

  