Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 4 | Ancient and Modern in Polar Trip Plans

Ancient Ancien and Modern In Polar Trip Plans S When Admiral Byrd goes back to the antarctic next winter he will take along several up to date tractors to see if Sf they might not do better a at pulling sledges over the frozen wastes than the traditional dog teams But the ship that he will sail In will be bethe bethe bethe the famous Bear built a few years af after after after af- af ter the Civil Civil- war and one of the worlds world's greatest veterans of polar voyaging This odd mixing of the ultra mod em and the very old suggests that while some of our mechanical contrivances con con- are a lot handier than anything anything anything any any- thing our grandfathers had there are fields in which we haven't Improved much on their work The tractor may maybe maybe maybe be a fine tine thing for a polar explorer but for traveling about in n the stormy Ice-filled Ice polar seas Admiral Byrd can Byrd can find nothing better than an ancient wooden vessel that was built before he himself was born The modern steel ship of course is isa isa isa a triumph of ingenuity Her engines In themselves are marvels compact powerful reliable built to pump away as ste steadily dlly as the human heart they enable the ship to keep her schedule regardless of wind and weather But the old shipbuilders of a past generation who worked in wood instead instead in instead in- in stead of or steel and placed their chief reliance on sails Instead of engines they too were masters of their craft