Show PEARY PARY AS S f A tEO TO 10 D I T CLAS MADE MAD BY Y OR EiRe COOK I Topeka Ka Oct I IL IL L Dyche bea beach of this tho of I natural history ot of tho University of 1 Kansas who matte made several trips to the tho north as a member both or of the Peary md and the Conic exploring parties and andI who is personally acquainted with Uw the I explorers Loda today made a statement to toI I the Topeka State Journal TournaI touching on the present controversy after altor rear rearIng read readIng Ing K E PeaTs statement today Commander Pears statement pUblished said Professor at noon hc hec e t hay ay to my mind Is IR It 11 Is bused based on thc testimony o of Ignorant Es EH Eskimos kimos who were cro incapable ot of under r Tr J jJ V r H standing a country to which the ther had never noor been before well wail enough h to omit om I line IIno such a map as that thal to today I day clu and credited b by Mr lr Peary Pear to their I ox explanation Only white 1 men with could make I their heir way ay to such a and lie he I able to In dot It a year after ater the made I I While I believe reached hed the tho pole b by relays Of o men menI provisions antI and supplies backed up by br four voll equipped tl supporting parties I with Eskimos and trained dogs clogs I have not the shadow of doubt that Dr Cook r reached the pole first and ex cx I as lie he details It In his own story supported 11 by the an and oh ob taken talen b by him and printed or told ill iii wIth his story stor j J OJ I I The most astounding part of Corn Com Commander mander story It seems to me mc consists of a statement that Dr Cool Cook to the north part of the land humid her bOl on Oil the Gr Great at Arctic ocean time the for h lie he had striven for fOI a month during durin the hardship of In Intense tense cold the rigors of Arctic Ith ample and all In cond I I then thon simply turned hack back apparently for no reason I I Hew Flow unlikely it Is that a man with wilh over W 20 years Arctic experience l red fired b by an ambItion of a lifetime would Sho up at a time and place when one oue of tIme tho st tho world hag ha to bestow baslo pon a bra brave e and amid dar 1 on Page FIve Ic FAILED TODIS TO DIS DISPROVE I PROVE THE CLAIMS MADE BY DR COOK Continued from froni Page One Ing explorer was as standIng within his reach beckoning hIm to come on DR COOK WILL SEND FOR THE ESI ESKIMOS IMOS Buffalo N Y f Oct 13 can only say ray that the tho actual living human wIt wItnesses nesses of m my journe to time polo pOle wll vIll themselves he be alle ahlo to disprove the distorted declarations put Into theIr mouths In the statement Issued by Commander Pear Peary said Dr Frederick FrederickA I A Cook who arrived herG hier today to tie Associated Pross rf r J n nirm rG could riot be better belter m ny than limn that given gIen b by the men themselves before nn an unbIased bod body of InquIrers Commander Peary ed dently regards their elden evidence o as of the most profound Importance and so do doJ doI J I It seems to me that he ml might have havo brought them along ith hIm if ho was so confident that hat they would cor corroborate his stor story He chose not to do so soI I will there therefore foro send for them as soon as possible and place them at tle Clo dIsposal of any scientific or other body that may mar desire to examine them with the aid of nn any competent Interpreters whom tile the examining body may ap appoInt appoint poInt Asked he would malte a direct reply to statement as ashad had boon been Intimated In ill an interview last night Dr C Cook ok said is nm tiling to add to what I ha been I dont Intend to enter entera a controversy wIth an anon any anyon on Dr Cool was given ghen a public recep tion on the change floor of the chain cham or commerce at noon |