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Exit Prohibition.
After fourteen
HERE, THERE
€90
EVERYWHERE
Tale Of Two Cruisers
Small nations with large naval' ambitions may find a moral in this' story.
Twa cruisers of the Imperial Russian Navy have been rusting in Jan Esthonian port since 1918.
The new Peruvian Governmenti decided to increase their navy, and the Esthonians sold the cruisers to them.
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934.
ANTARCTIC CONQUEST
RESUMED
2 PARTIES TO EXPLORE
FROZEN SOUTH
BYRD WILL BROADCAST
or América
from
One of the most heroic stories of Little our time is the tale of the conquest) auxiliary base nearer the pole, and of the antarctic-a story still far thence across the continent to the from finished. At least two cour-Weddell Sea, where one of his ships- add will be waiting. If all goes well,. The Peruvians sent crews to ageous exploring parties will bring the cruisers home.
new chapters to it in the coming the explorer will broadcast a con--
tinuous first-hand story of the The ships were repainted, and season.
fight, his voice being transmitted after much trouble, the engines Not quite forty years have pass from the plane to the base at Little- were induced to function. The ed since the first human beings America, thence to Buenos Aires, the ships set, sall for South party led by Captain Christensen and there rebroadcast to the whole- America.
harbour.
world.
They took a month to reach En-of the Norwegina whaler Svend Anta retien. upon Foyn-set foot
Map To Be Made glish waters and another month to Yet, in the intervening time the
Commander Ellsworth, accom reach the shores of France. Three outlines of this huge and irregular months after their departure from continent have been pretty well de-panied by Bernt Balchen as pilot the Baltic they hobbled into Lisbon fined; several important mountain has planned a somewhat similar but without some of the rangen and peaks have been feat. There the commanders cabled the mapped. the pole has been twice spectacular elements of the Byrd Their plane will carry ap Peravian Government that the ves-visited afont and once flown over light sels would never survive the At-by plane. The furious winters of paratus capable of photographing over which they go. lantic crossing. They are still in Antarctica have been defled by ex-the terrain
can later be Lisbon awaiting instructions.
plorers eager to gather scientific These photographs
pieced together and used in prepar thising an accurate map of the region. The first party to resume
The crossing of the continent epic of discovery during the com-
Dace As AirmRN
information.
It is not generally known that ing season has already departed will in no sense be a race between
Mussolini is a qualified air pilot.
Tace
Ell-
In 1930 and 1921. soon after he from Cape Town on the last long rival exploring parties. A founded the Fascist Party in Milan, leg of the journey to the antarctic. would prove nothing, and would re-
It will pass a year there, under the sult in waste effort. The he took lessons in flying. He made leadership of Lincoln Ellsworth terested in discovery and explora worth expedition is primarily in- 18 fights in all, and was in the air whose explorations in the regions tion; that of Byrd in obtaining altogether for 7 hours 28 minutes of the north and south poles have scientific data: Arrivng in the
Signor Redaelli, his instructor already added a great deal to our
describes his pupil's first efforts in knowledge of the earth. The Eli-Jantarctic weeks ahead, Ellsworth a bank, “The Initiation of Mussolini worth expedition in the Paths of the Sky."
Mussolini's list flight ended in a years ago, flew over the pole withimiral Byrd is ready for his specta-
crash.
also includes and Balchen will probably have Bernt Balchen. the pilot who, four completed their fight before Ad- Hear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd, and cular dash, but this will not rob The engine stalled and the plane Cant. Sir Hubert Wilkins, one of radio listeners of the vicarious
thrill of flying over a new His face was injured the foremost crashed.
polar explorera of
tinent. The radio and the airplane Afterwards it was discovered that
Hr time.
have to a inege degree rendered the the
exploration of Antarcties possible.
they enemy had tampered with
machine.
Your Daily Smile.
To Study The Aurora
cob-
The second expedition heading Now they make it as an experience southward his year will soon leave which the whole world can North American waters, led by Ad-share. miral Byrd, to spend a full two
A woman explorer in Afrien years in exploration and scientiac
of combat against what has the intentional good in these mo- They Found It Firs been claimed to be the right ofįtives to practical evil, making of an American citizen to choose them paving-stones on the pro-claims to have discovered the research in the neighbourhood of This own
refreshment, the un-verbial road to perdition. equal struggle is now abandoned. there is no question that
direction, in A citizen of the great Republic was may again indulge in what Mr. America was, being led. Richard Swiveller called "a mo-jthat outrun |dest quencher" without incurring can
the
public
And disres-matter, is there
any brain
the
For lowest type of man. Wives of all the pole. Twelve scientists will] such civilised countries are treating this accompany Admiral Byrd, to aid in gathering Information that will which claim with contempt.
be of intense interest to the whole Laws
scientific world. These activities conscience Net There, My Child!
14 will range from photographing never be made operative. It is pointed out that there is no the colour
and intensity of the brand of crime. The first Their inevitable fate is to excite moda in soda water. Nor, for that| aurora and experimenting with effect of prohibition repeat, as popular derision.
in cosmic rays to searching for and reported by recent cables. will pect habitually shown to one law brandy, muff in muffin, tap in tapi-classifying bacterial plant and be to open the flood-gates dum- engenders disrespect for all law.oca. or jam in doughnut. ming back a deluge of whisky An American waiting to surge into the coun-into an illicit grog-shop to get a try. This will be but a tempor-furtive drink, the attraction of increased by the ary inundation, after which it which was may be expected that whisky, flavour of forbidden fruit, would like water, if let alone will find come out a conscious but un- A law its own level. By letting alone ashamed law-breaker.
citizen sneaking
ac-
*
·
•
ANCIENT AID MODERN
Little Miss Mufet
Sat on her tufet ›
Wearing a new-ftishioned frock. Old-fashioned spider Gasped as she spied her
shock.
•
HOPE
LITERARY CURIO
animal life.and studying geological formations.
EMPIRE'S WASTED OPPORTUNITIES
Scientific Exploration Neglected:
AID TO INDUSTRY
London. Professor G. T. Morgan, Director of the Chemical Research Labora tory, Teddington, thinks that great The equipment of the Byrd ex-opportunities are being wasted at time in the develop- pedition will include two ships to the present carry supplies, four planes Includ-ment of the Empire from an indus- ing one autogyro, engines and re-trial point of view.
"For all industrial applications pairs for two additional planės abandoned four years ago by. Ad-of chemical, science," he declares, is not meant leaving the sale of which has that effect will not
Then straightway expired from miral Byrd at Little America, com-"engineering and chemistry are far drink without any sort of regula-jonly fail to operate itself, but
plete radio equipment so powerful mutally indispensable and so tion or control. That would be will foster a spirit inimical to all
that by means of it almost con-as this country, is concerned, the going from one extreme to the lawful restraint. This was
tinuous contact can be maintained advantages of such co-operation other, and merely changing evilcentuated in America by the de-
"How dare you ask me for my with the United States by relay are now more generally recognised. for evil. Prohibition in Americanoralisation of the police and the is to be followed by a very strict elective judiciaries that the boot daughter's hand? Why, you haven't from Buenos Aires, and more than than they were. But there is room
apparatus to be used in gathering for much improvement."
Britishers were still too apt to licensing law, under which the legging interest was able to got a penny." abuses of alcohol will, as far as bribe with fabulous sums to wink "No, but if your daughter mar-$100,000 worth of special scientific
of scientific ex- data on south polar weather, tem-leave the work possible, be minimised. The old at the reign of lawlessness,ries me 7 should have,"
contemporaries in perature ranges, geology, biology, ploration to saloon system with which the which has gained for America
radiations, movements of earth and other landa, although the. British Empire was endowed with "mineral country was cursed before the after fourteen years of prohibi-
ice and apperance of meteors. unenviable reputation A gardening expert has written
and organic resources to an extent war, and the revulsion from tion the
Cosmic Ray Study which carried public feeling to that she now possesses. During a book on cabbages, Surely paper
unsurpassed by any other nation; All of the information' yielded by
Opportunities were boundless, the extreme represented by the the hectic years of the post-war would have been cheaper.
this elaborate scientific set-up' will the professor continued, but with- Volstead Act, is not to come back, boom, when the golden tribute of But, bad as that system was, her Allies was pouring into Proof in the Pudding.spi
be of great significance, but that out close collaboration between prohibition introduced some America from all sides, men like An, African missidency says can-locked' forward' to most eagerly is chemistry and engineering We There is could not render an adequate, ac thing very much worse. It led Henry Ford, were unwise enough nibals never eat any one over the meterological data.
Ther to a lawless trade in the vilest to claim this prosperity as the twenty years old Youth appar kind of spirits that was calculat-natural effect of prohibition: But ently, must be served there, too: ed morally and physically to shp a rude disillusionment was at the vitals of the nation. "Boot-hand. For prohibition, instead legging" developed into a gigan- of saving America from the wir tic traffic, in which millions and hoom reaction, assisted to cause millions of dollars were invested, a depression worse than that ex-
The Austrian Federal Railway and it was the strength of this perienced by the hardest hit and unlawful interest by which in hardeat drinking country in are experlipesting with later years publicly flouted Europe. America furnishes the method of firing locomotives prohibition In was paradoxical world with the lesson of a great which fuel oil. is sprayed directly that may receiver, new light from ly kept in existence, but not in experiment, which proves the over the burning cost intensifying force. The Volstead Act, which folly of attempting, physically to the beat and saving fuel, embedded prohibition in the Con-coerce a people by laws which
Facts You Did Not Know.
[HOW.
only one product suppifed by count of our stewardship. Antarctica that the whole world was danger of our drifting into the
unes; This fis weather. Many position of a Navy Nation' meteorologists consider the south hewers of wood and drawers of polar regions to be of extreme im water for more-educated peoples— portance in governing the weather
Reuter. conditions of the aarth
Ray Study Another major eclenide mystery
measurements to be made by the
EGYPT'S DERVISHES, TO DISAPPEAR,
Byrd expedition is the much dis- Upkeep By Government
Hew
cusand question of the cosmic rays, which pour in from outer space.
diacovered in thrive
stitution of the United States, have, not behind them the morale" „To all navigators of skipa was largely the outcome of support of a convinced? public instrument picks up and form of hysteria resulting from opinion. That the abuse of air visible the the psychological effect of the cohol by weak-willed persons is emitted by war. No doubt there was a con- responsible for deplorable conses their surround siderable body of considered quancos, no, sane person will Widden by darkness opinion in favour of it. And with degy. But if every gift of Pro|| many this would go so far as to vidence to man, which is capable! Färgi have make them cheerfully forgo the of being abused to the detriment dreit Britain the live. rational use of alcohol themselves of a section was to be rejected on things that are qui for the purpose of protecting this would be a dreary world to to naimall and others against the dangers of Its live in. The people, whom alcohol variety","ERVEBI irrational abuse. Altrulim of drives to the devil, after all;re for arsenic and its compounds, this kind is always, entitled to presents but a small proportion respect. There was another sec-of the community,; as; compari tion which made no sacrifice. with those who make Having!
alcohol them- UBS
op-
use by anyone else. est if m
baiting
the
Americas: 11 likely
vinkerking, and mtick
Not Justified
Alexandria:
The way they; · bokavé -- near," the earth's polas will tend to settle the The whirling Dervishes of Egypt. argument as to whether they con-will no longer perform their sist of high-speed, particles of famous dance, according, id' a' re- electricity, or waves like those of
Rolution of the Ministry of Wakfs. light and X-rays, If they are (Religious Control); dod electrical in nature, the south The Zikr the traditional chant" magnetic pole will attract or repel and dance of the Dervisher has then. If they are waves, this 4f Jong been one of the most exotic fect will not appear!
spectacles of the Edit and a great Both expeditions now, heading attraction for tourista, p Southward' will attempt to repeat But the Ministry has decided Admiral Byrd's fight over the põle, that, the Dervishes, who are able” and in addition will try to maké z bodied, nmn, no longer bring in Completo crossing of the Con enough revious to Justify, their Lined', a feat, never bblore
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