| Show NEW CONQUESTS TO BE MADE When the Klondike and Alaska were opened It was said that the thelast thelah thelast last lah frontier of ot civilization had hal been crossed When Roosevelt ex explored ex- ex explored the Amazon and discovered the River of Doubt it was pro pro- proclaimed proclaimed claimed again that this was the thelast thelast thelast last frontier When Madame Noel crossed the Himalaya mountains and penetrated the holy city of Lhasa it was proclaimed again this was the last Both poles had In the meantime been reached the Sahara had been crossed by automobile clothes of ofa ofa ofa a sort had been put on the the South SouthSea SouthSea SouthSea Sea Islanders Siberians were buy buy- buyIng Ing log flivvers Slam had an American college professor for financial ad ad- adviser adviser adviser and radio sets in southern L uL ly with Schenectady On the whole I It t appeared that man had whipped the insects and his satanic majesty and could call the world his own All this last frontier blurb how however ever er appears to have haye been rumor and guesswork The last frontier like lII e the rainbows rainbow's end seems to tobe tobe tobe be Just beyond It stretches even beyond the infinite limits of im ma- Every frontier that man reached on foot or horseback or by canoe must now be crossed by airplane ne Commander Byrd outlining his work for tor the next eight years plans to fly fi over the south pole circle South America fly Into the heart of the Amazon Jungle have haye a look at the Interior interior of Arabia and then hop over Mt Everest This last expedition is perhaps the tho most daring flight that man can conceive today though it is not beyond possibility Every at at- attempt attempt tempt to scale Mt ML Everest feet above sea level has met with failure Airplanes have ha reached greater greate altitudes Lieutenant Mac- Mac Macready Macready Macready ready having reached feet In Inthis Inthis Inthis this country and Callizo of France having haying reached feet These altitude records prove that flying over the highest mountain in tho the world Is possible and and should Com Corn Commander mander Byrd Byrd- undertake the expedition exve expedition I he ho will no doubt d meet mee with success But man In his colossal conceit need not think that flying over Mt ML Everest will mark the crossing of an ultimate frontier leaving noth noth- nothing nothIng nothing ing more for explorers to do A flight over this five fi and a half ha mile hump on the earths earth's surface is but a preliminary trial flight for a hop to the moon Frontiers stretch out into inter inter- interstellar interstellar interstellar stellar space for millions and mil mit- millions lions of miles and future genera genera- generations generations generations of explorers have more to worry about than thau Columbus Lad had in inthe inthe Inthe the days das when the world was flat |
