Show MY i a ayr yr c 1 Y r i r jJ J fir r I i tv Iw t W th As a boy he stowed away on a ai I i jammer d for San Francisco to satisfy his desire for adventure I w Exploring in South America he hew w was a s marooned by floods a and n d threatened by hostile Indians It was in Honolulu that the future Senator was born in November 1876 1875 for his father had chosen to carry carryon on on the work of the grandparent There and at Yale he was educated while his hia father fulfilled the family tradition by pushing on still farther into the Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert Gil Gil- bert Islands where he taught the natives natives natives na na- na- na tives and translated into their strange tongue the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek I IN TN N HIS early youth Hiram Bingham showed the tendency to move on but buthe buthe buthe he tried to come East As a boy of 12 the story tells he stowed away on ona ona ona a San Francisco-bound Francisco sailing vessel determined to sell newspapers and otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise carve out his career But the quick eye and ready arm of the skipper foiled this ambition before the vessel sailed and a disappointed adventurer returned to the ministerial home A few years later the lad did come East as a duly accredited passenger bound for college After four years at Yale he returned to Hawaii to become superintendent of Palama Chapel Mission then chemist of the American Sugar Company at Molokai He returned to the States a year later to study at the University of California and at Harvard and finally to teach at both Harvard and Princeton It was while he was at Harvard kin in in November of 1900 that Bingham married His bride was Miss Alfreda Mitchell l daughter of Alfred Mitchell of New London Conn a member of the he noted and wealthy Tiffany family Years later after he had penetrated unknown parts of the globe after he had flown over the wildest sections of the war zone i y yand and most of the United States and after he had become a member of the United States Senate 1 some one one asked Bingham what was his hobby It It used to be collecting collecting collecting collect collect- ing books he replied y but when I began to coll col- col r l ct sons I found that far more interesting Today he has seven sons There is W Woodbridge Woodbridge Wood Wood- bridge the oldest a grad graduate grad k ua e of Yale a former in instructor instructor instructor in- in at Yale-in-China Yale now a traveler in the Orient There is Hiram r Jr like his father and and brother a Yale graduate 4 like them a seeker after distant places He i is b now secretary to Ambassador MacMurray at Peking There are Alfred and Charles students at Yale a and d maintainers of the th the Bingham m tradition for J Just us t I J varied and vigorous ac ac- beque be que Charles for in instance instance instance in- in stance has won honors in inthe m the wi widely ely differing fields dramatIcs of am amateur amateur- and collegiate boxi boxing ng There e are Brewster and Mitchell pupils at Groton and finally there is Jack the youngest also in school 0 ONE NE imagines es that such books of adventure adventure adventure ad ad- venture as the average avenge boy seeks must have been dull and turgid reading to those seven sons who had the opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to hear at first hand their fathers father's tales of his experiences For at frequent intervals Hiram Bingham left his pleasant Prospect street home in New Haven to wander far afield in charge of explorations His first trip was to Bogota in Colombia South America in 1906 In company with Dr Hamilton Rice he followed the overland trail of the illustrious Bolivar from Caracas Venezuela to Bogota Here he found all the hardships his adventurous blood craved The party encountered floods it was marooned it faced hostile Government officials who suspected its purposes it met Indians who threatened warfare as it traversed the mile 1000 route oute through a forgotten hinterland r 7 In Peru he climbed the Andes and ga gated ed upon the ruins of l Pichu ancient Inca city J In the World War Var he was an aviator aviator avi ator and experienced the thrill of being dashed dash d into a swamp If f You Want giant to See a Man lean Who Has Done Something something- And now in the field of politics as United States Senator from Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- he finds plenty of romance romance ro ro- mance and adventure but of a kind w wholly olly different from that to which he is accustomed I LOOK AT that Thalman man BINGHAM B I H 1 S By Charles G. G Reinhart THERE pHERE HERE are in the Senate of the United States men who have lived thrilling stories of adventure and romance and achieved high deeds in distant places As they sit today in solemn dignity within those august walls few remember I that in years not so long past they fought wild tribesmen they broke new S trails on far frontiers they served the guns in the greatest of all wars There is for instance Means of Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado who fought in the Spanish Amer ican War in m the Philippine campaigns in the Meuse-Argonne Meuse offensive and and- who a has received the Distinguished Service Cro Cross s for gallantry in bat battle le There is Oddie of Nevada who was one of the discoverers of the gold and silver camp of Tonopah There is Cameron of Arizona Arizona Arizona Ari Ari- zona vho ho located and built the Bright S. S Angel Trail into the Grand Canyon there are Warren of Wyoming who holds the Congressional Medal and Reed of Pennsylvania vania to whom has t been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal And then there is Senator Hiram Bingham Bingham Bing- Bing ham ham of Connecticut explorer soldier aviator statesman whose statesman whose life has been one long adventure If l TURN URN some day to the Congressional 1 Record of February 20 1925 and z read l how w he brightened those dull pages with a modest yet thrilling description of cne- cne cne of his own minor experiences during the Great WarI WarI War I UI was flying across France in 1918 with a mechanic reads the Record My Mr 1 engine failed and I was forced to core come tn dr in territory that was covered by in vineyards and gardens very b bad bada d a co cot county to light in no pasture lands only a grassy sy swamp to light in unless x we land landed d among the gardens or the 4 vin vineyards We landed in the swamp S immediately immE were capsized and were r pinned und underneath the plane M My try mechanic was in the front seat Only a r. v w week eek ek before a captain in the air servi service e had gone with his mechanic on ona ona ona a cro country cross CH flight had had the same fate and the sergeant was way killed while the curtain captain was seriously injured It might have hwe happened so to us but fortunately fortunately for for- the serge sergeant nt escaped injury My e eyes ejes s 's were filled with glass and had hadit hadit hadit it net been for the presence of an American telephone battalion in the V vicinity whose members brought over 4 their di dor CtOl immediately I might have received serious injury I Senator Bingham told this chapter from the book blok of his life not because he felt iet it was intrinsically interesting l but ut bce because it illustrated a fact he was atte attempting to impress on his colleagues It concerned a measure then under consideration consideration con con- J for the retirement of World War officers rs which provided the Senh Senator Senator Sen Sen- h ator pointed out a larger retirement f I pay for officers rs than for enlisted men fundamentally unjust because both faced the samp same hazards Ne ei the story reminds one of an tM dt saying aying attributed to Prof Thayer 1 f lr J r ard It ran If you vant ant antto antto to see seel a in an who iho has done s something N is really worth doingS doing doing- S look at hat Har at man Bingham Oddly i ugh the tribute was not paid to Senator It was paid pai to his father h iv Rev Hiram Bingham of the Gilbert Gilber i ands in distant Polynesia But it r I I es to the son as it has ap applied applied ap- ap F plied t ti j h h many generations to members members mem mem- 7 bers hers o or vt t distinguished family Ever Evershed shed 1 De e un lun Thomas Bingham came to America i nd settled near Saybrook Conn io in the early seventeenth seventeenth seven seven- century a member of that family famil hs h lu s been doing something worth while ThC They have been up and going going- westward as s a general rule They went from S Saybrook brook to Norwich first Then they founded the town of Bennington Si Finally they i reached cached the spot where the East and West are rie one when the Senators Senator's Senators Senator's Senators Senator's Sena Sena- tors tor's grandfather went forth as a missionary mis mis- to the then little-known little islands 1 of oFte the H Hawaiian group trl j r.-I r. t I k President Coolidge's e s Right r Bower in the Air ay y f 5 5 5 5 Investigation Is an Ex Soldier Explorer x o t AE 4 l Y of his intimate knowledge B BECAUSE of South America Bingham was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed a delegate to the first Pan- Pan American Scientific Congress at Santi Santiago San San- Santiago ti tiago go de Chile in 1908 He remained in the southern continent to explore the old Spanish trade route out from Buenos BuenosAires BuenosAires BuenosAires Aires to L Lima ma Then he he returned to lecture at Johns Hopkins University on diplomatic history and to become as assistant assistant assistant as- as professor of Latin-American Latin history at Yale in in 1910 It was only a year later however that he set forth again on his explorations this time as head of the Yale Peruvian expedition which made the first ascent of one of the highest peaks in the Andes Mount towering feet above sea level The expedition expedition expedition made maM the first report on the ruins ruins of the city of Pichu it ib located the last Inca capital and it made important alterations in the then existing maps of Central Peru P ru by exp exploring exploring ex ex- p oring and nd surveying the Pampaconas Pampaconas Pampaconas Pampa Pampa- conas River What they found both at and below Statesman Aviator-Statesman Who t H Has as Looked Danger t y in in the Eye and Found Red Red Blooded Blooded Adventure a in the e Far Corners x fd Y x i 7 of the Earth E rth ix m f. f y r. r g J r j h r ir w j 1 t IF iV t e. e r rs LS s the desire for adventure was an inheritance from his missionary father to the Senator so he has thed to his seven sons a a yearning to see far places and meet life in the rough lough where a man must take care of himself if he is to survive the summit and the methods they pursued have been described by Senator Bingham The ruins of the city of Pichu he said are situated on a plateau at an altitude of 2000 feet We disc discovered vered it ft by following some Peruvian Peruvian Peruvian Peru Peru- vian Indians up a narrow goat path When we got to the top of the hill we found that the Indians had planted corn among the the ruins rums of the ancient temple which was built of white granite and is alluded to in Sir Clarence Markham's Markhams Markhams Markham's Markhams Markham's Mark- Mark hams ham's book The Hill of the the Three Three- Windowed Temple I believe that we were the first white men to gaze on the city of Pichu since Pizarro went there OO years ago The white granite stones used in the foundation of the temple temple- measured 8 by 12 by 6 feet feet- feet and and were well chiseled and beautifully joined without mortar in Egyptian style Then in 1914 came the World War Of the exploration it was said that no scientific expedition in irti the recent preceding preceding pre pre- ceding years had gathered so much that was vas of interest to the scientific scientific c world orld a y 1 r Hir m Bingham ceased his travels and entered ered with his customary vigor the campaign for preparedness He went into the Yale batteries and emerged from the training with a captains captain's captains captain's captains captain's cap cap- tain's commission He went to Fl Florida rida and entered a flying school In April 1917 just as the United States was joining joining joining join join- ing the Allies he was graduated with a pilots pilot's license The Nation had immediate immedi immedi- ate need of him Under General he was stationed at Washington to organize organize organize or- or or or- schools of military aeronautics At Princeton at Cornell at the Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Massa- Institute of Technology at Georgia University at Ohio Ohio State State at Illinois at the University of California and the University of Texas the schools were speedily established to train and send some young fliers into the service Then Bingham went to France From March until August of 1918 he was with the A. A E. E F. F at Tours from August until the war ended he was commanding officer officer officer of the aviation instruction center at the in France Franco largest But four years was a long time for Bingham to refrain from exploration even with so interesting an affair as a world war intervening so not long after being discharged from the service he set forth again THIS HIS time he visited Samoa the Fiji Islands and other little-known little places After his return he entered public life It was not Bingham's first venture i into to politics He went to the Republican National Conventions Contentions of 1916 1920 and 1924 He was wa elected Lieutenant Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- of the State his forbears had helped found in 1922 and Governor in 1924 After being Governor just one day he went to Washington as Senator to succeed succeed succeed suc suc- the late Frank Brandegee To this tall shouldered broad-shouldered silver- silver haired explorer a seat in thE Senate meant more than a mere membership in an organization that has been justly or unjustly called the most exclusive social club in America It meant opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- for more action He began to make m-ke him himself el he heard d on the floor dis- dis is r y Tall straight and dignified Senator Bingham is eye filling eye filling and there is about him competence competence competence com com- and ability to meet any situation about him himI I perhaps the hoary tradition that a new Senator should be content to listen for his first year or or so When recent developments in aviation reached the point where they challenged the attention of the Nation Washington began to look toward Bingham with greater interest and to prophesy that he would act as the Administration spokesman on legislation relating to the theair theair theair air service during the next session session of ot Congress Senator Bingham had planned to make a number of addresses concerning the theair theair theair air air forces of the United States but his appointment to the committee caused him to cancel them largely because he felt that opinion should be reserved until all the evidence had been heard Although Although Although Al Al- though he declines to discuss aviation or its future at this time he outlined ed a month or two before his appointment a series of suggestions which he felt represented represented represented rep rep- resented the most pressing needs for aviation development and which when published were commonly accepted as his proposed legislative program to be be presented to Congress in December They include Preparation of adequate airway maps mapson on a large scale to facilitate air navigation navigation navigation tion over the most feasible routes Extension of aid toward support of adequate airports Encouragement of the establishment and maintenance of emergency landing fields Broadcasting of meteorological r re reports reports re- re ports every hour by Government radio Guarantees by the Government to the traveling and shipping public that our |