Show AEROPLANES AND THE TIlE NO NORTH RTH POLE Place a globe set at th the same angle that the rth is in water and set it whirling rapidly and it v will be seen that around either pole polo are perpetual i waves and eddies and what with a great globe t- t whirling in the ocean would make perpetual swirling swirling swirling swirl swirl- ing and confused seas Hence we think Count f Z Zeppelin will reconsider his determination to tr try t to reach the north pole or if he does try it he will willbe b be bevery very apt to share the fate of the unfortunate I Andre for our earth is swung in a a. great ocean miles deep only that ocean is the atmosphere 1 Vater Water has no compression or expansion no elasticity elasticity elastic elastic- ity the air has all these What then must be the situation at the pole in regard to the winds that i are i e re awakened there And what would the valiant J count do were his aeroplane to be caught in that i J tremendous swirl Andre reasoned that his ball balloon bal hal l N l loon on would be liable t tc tp be caught by a wind great I r and carried far over into Asia or Canada but he I f not count upon the whirlwind vortexes there A which would overwhelm his machine as a whirlpool whirl whirl- VIl pool Pol of water does a boat So Andre was never nevert t i f heard leard of after he faced those northern terrors We commend to Count Zeppelin that before re he lIe starts Jr on that voyage he make some experiments Let Lethin BJ him hin get a tank of water place a globe in the II water set at the angle our earth is set at and then whirl it at a speed of 1000 miles an hour from fromi i west to east and watch the result at the poles If l he does he will hardly undertake the voyage o age though water has none of the eccentricities of the w a r. r ye think Peery may reach the pole the most sl suggestion we have seen is by that cx- cx 1 who believes that if he ever lo locates ates the right floe he can float over the pole on it By the it ay itis is a good theme to write upon on a hot day it iu in a cold job to undertake to find the north p P le |