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Show SCIENTIFIC POLAR STUDY IS DESIRABLE Geographer Advocates a Circompolar Chain of Observation Ob-servation Stations. IMPORTANT TO KNOW WINDS AND CURRENTS A- ftr Peary and Amundsen Have Satisfied Here Pole At. tainment Mania. PARIS, March . Referring to the tragto end of Capt. Hobert F. 8cott In his recent voyage to the south pole, M Schrader, the eminent French geographer, geogra-pher, expresses the opinion that the death of the English explorer la the leet act .In the drama of the polar point obees-alon, obees-alon, which has caused the loss of so many lives. The discoveries of Peary, Amundsen and Scott have at last removed the Imperative Im-perative deelre of scientists to And the poles, M. Bchrader declares, and leaves the way clear for a considerable and Important task, the results of which will be far reaching. This consists In establishing estab-lishing a chain of clrcumpolar observations, observa-tions, a vast system of scientific "monas. terlea," international in character. The atmospheric and marine currents which circulate, winter and aummer alike, round the pole perpetually mix water and air. The cold water descend toward the eouth, carrying quantities of Ice, and are continually replaced by masses of warmer water which come from the Atlantic. At-lantic. Above these ice nelds. Hosting toward the south, hovera a layer of cold air ever falling onto the froxen mass m beneath, aa a. heavy syrup dropa and . S remalna at the bottom of a glass of W water. In tbelr turn the sea breexes f push and stir up this mass of cold air. lift It from Ita icy bed. and send It to cool America and Europe. Cold All Begets Btorm. These cold masses of air, aa soon as they come In contact with the tepid atmosphere at-mosphere of the Atlantic, condenae the moisture, precipitate rain, and brew tempests. tem-pests. Thus, by developing an accurate knowledge of the couises of the Ice fields, by following them In their southward south-ward course ana observing the phenomena phe-nomena of their alow fusion in the middle mid-dle of the Atlantic, it would be possible to foretell, to a great extent, the force or the winds, the alternation and character char-acter of the eeaeona, and the likelihood of drought or wet. Warning against atmospheric at-mospheric danger could be given, and there would be ample time to adopt such precautions aa clrcumatanceo dictated. Americans Help BulM Paris Theatre. Mr. W. K. Vanderbllt, Otto H, Ka'hn, J. P. Morgan, James H. Hyde and Jsmii Htlllman are some of the Americana who have joined Monsieur Gabriel Aatruc In building the Theatre Champa Elysee. the most beautiful nlavhoiie In Pari. uie most oeauiuui piaynouee in r-sxis. These are all shareholders in the enter-, enter-, prise, a are a good many other persons well known In England. France and Oar many. Th committee of patrons Includes In-cludes fhe queen of the Be .Isns, the prince of Monaco, the Orsn.i Duches Vladimir, the duchees or Oenoa, the crown prtnoe of Rumania, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, the duchess of Portland and the duchess of Rutland. The theatre, which will be opened April 2, will b devoted to the whole range of musical and dramatic art and classic and modern operas. Tbe building will contain two auditoriums, one aeatlng 2000 and the other too people. Old Paris Committee Active. That energetto organisation known as the "Old Parte Committee." whoee mission mis-sion It Is to preserve as much aa possible possi-ble of the ntlqultlee of the city and Its beauties, baa taken up the question of . obtrusive Illuminated and other adver- Sw tlslng devices which disfigure so many buildings In this city. They have con-gSA con-gSA eluded that .taps should now be taken to prohibit business houses In such centers cen-ters of Interest the Plao Vendome and the Champa Elyseea from placing perpendicular signs on their establishments. establish-ments. Th committee condemns luminous lumi-nous sign In every form. An effort Is alao to he made toward abolishing the display of goods outside store premises. Accusation Against Oreeks Denied The attention of Prinoe Nicolas of Greece, military governor of Salonlkl, having been drawn to a paaaags In a book or Pierre Lotl's, In which the author au-thor aays that offJcera of the French warship Brulx could testify to having seen Oreek and Servian soldiers gouge out the eye of Turkish prtsoners, ths ,'itu. c ,", iii" , in mi min ri, innjur Vlachopoulo, on board the Brulx with a copy of the book to show Captain Delate. Tne captain baa now written to Prince Nicola to say that he submitted the statement In Lotl's book to hts officers. All were unanlmoua In characterising It a gratuitous., and declared emphatically that nothing that they had aald or written writ-ten could possibly be taken as authorising authoris-ing Lotl to cite their testimony for facts of such a nature, which had never come within their experience. Captain Delage added that he had drawn th attention of the minister of matin to the way In which hla officers' name had been Invoked without their consent or knowledge, and asked blm to request Lotl to suppress the statement In queatlon. r" No Tazas In Statu. v From times to which the memory of man runneth not back, th pretty town I of aUeln on the Rhine ha had no taxes. L The common lands belonging to th township yielded revenues sufficient to Svl pay all public expense, and they war - - let to the people at prices so moderate I , that not a poor family wa to be found IA, in St el ti . Tne loc1 authorities overspent I laat year, and are now trying to lay a I tax of one-half of 1 per cent on the I property holder. They all refuse to pay. I 1 and there seems to be no way of making f them. I While cutting up a century old flr tree I on th Blmplon. forester found In the I heart of the trunk a bronxe statue of the Virgin Mary. It wa about a toot tall I and 'perfectly preserved. It Is supposed I that the statuette waa placed In a niche I carved In th tree and that the wood I gradually grew all around It. SwltMfiand AftTAllns. I Fifteen per cent of the population of I fswitxerland ere foreigner. There were I lff,2e enumernted in 1910, and a mew- I ur 1 pending In tbe federal diet to re- I quire tnem to become naturalised dtl- I sens. The Swiss government find a I good deal of Inconvenience In being fre- I quantly obliged to discuss with foreign consul snd legations questions In which I foreign subjects seek to evade Swiss I law by taking refuge In the fact that I they are of alien nationality. |