Show SCIENTISTS CANNOT DOWN DR COOK Some or of the who have hao sought Bought t to discredit Dr Cooks Cook state statement mont ment of oC fill are reflecting moro more severely upon themselves upon the tho explorer The They his report of oC meteorological conditIons at aL aLthe atthe the polo pole of his ability to malto o of nn any degree of accuracy whore the refraction of light It is so 80 great STent of the truth of oC hit his having used UMed certain Instruments In the tho extreme cold Thero Is no that Dr Cook 83 degrees north U lip has hasIn hn In the tho past been within miles of oC tho vole pole and thorn is IR no reason for expecting nn any r different J on 0 6 right t at t the pole than withIn miles of oC It The most skeptical may concede that the daring traveler was within of the tho pole In which case Dr Cook would not bo be forced to invent any story In order to describe tile the exact conditions at the pole His data on astronomical may dis flaws but so fat far Dr Cool has pre none or of his memoranda a for or reo re review view Intact in fact ht notes are arc said to hc be beon on board boar nI is shIp bound for Now New York For a distance of oC several hundred miles from the pole there are aro ice and Ice packs to b ed seating all aIL p s of f Are Arc tie tic C and any ny man who iho has VentUred into into that region and has made astronomIcal and others observations 1 a lions can tell teU n a story which applY fir to t the e pore pole so that even assuming that Dr cook did not got closer than miles of the pole and that from the data there gathered he has hag to declare he was waB tl at atthe the North Pole who is the scIentist prepared from rom any known facts to dispute his assertions The scientists can look wIse but they are not half as well informed on n Arctic conditions as 38 those who h have te had actual experience In the rigid frigid north mirth alid nd they are taking upon tIpOn thorn elves an unequal contest when ther attempt to pick In the state stale meats of a 3 man of t the r ability and knowledge of Dr Cool Cook |