Show RAMBLING THOUGHTS j OF A by prank frank shivey J the history of the human race is is I 1 a continual struggle from darkness j toward light it is lie to no 4 purpose burrse urr se to discuss the use of knowl 1 figs man wants ij ol 01 know and nd w when hen he be ceases to do so he is no longer a man nansen the great tic explorer why what for what is the practical use of it all these are tho commonest questions that have abeen asked me about polar 1 actions and ahalt the byrd an antarctic are tic 1 T expedition in particular it has be been en an am interesting if somewhat cism dismal al realization to find that people in I 1 ge general ne al are more inre concerned wi h wh why we went to the Anat Anata arctic than the they arc are wilh what we brought back 1 I S suppose that f from rom a ri oney made j people which hesitates from habit tp ti I 1 invest in anything that holds no prom ise ise of immediate dividends such a reaction is not to 13 be wondered attl att I 1 but it is none the less depressing 1 to chaa oft recurring question what for fop I 1 once answered in a i inocent of irti irritation tation with a counter i question Iu estion what boad is any kind of lea ining what use is ia knowledge anyhow all and I 1 believe it is generally j true that to the sort of person aorl for whom a that idea of cf the love of knowledge 1 for its own sake is sorn something ethin of a mystery there is not much use to attempt to answer tha question but there are many who will realize I 1 and understand that whether to be I 1 gained from further antarctic exploration I 1 and research is of any dimmed I 1 j aate practical use or not is in no i sense ense fundamental for in a lai large ge I 1 sense all knowledge no matter how I 1 ls if one toes bach i tj the he beginnings of most pra practical cical cal inventions he will find that they had their origin in pure science I 1 i the great strides hat have been wade in reent recent years in research in I 1 j ave t ne ph physical mical sciences have bave derlon demon 1 1 straten more surely than ever has I 1 I 1 lefore beffre been Eus suspected petted that science is a homogeneous whole no part of it is is then without value ali in comp complying leing the entire picture and if there be a homogeneity to the I 1 whole body of science how much anore ioe true it is that any single phase i 1 1 of it such meteorology must pos 1 sess a certain ain unity and now I 1 come to the end a 0 this rattier rather defuse chapter and the end of the apok ok with the realization tien hat dr finlay has su suggested gaited the simplest and therefore perhaps the most st adequate answer to the question why when he tells of the ambitions ambi tons Jons of the E english schoolmaster i deigh manfry mah Mai fry my M y this en englishman lishman had once D c attempted vy cli climb wit mt everest and hail had failed and was back in england i Yn nitting aking nit king prepa radons for a see sec md attempt on which he lost his life and when asked why he be left his fai friends ends and the comfort cf all that he aj wa home just to try to reach the summit of this the highest rr onn ism in the world replied because it is there and because became the ant ar arac fc is there I 1 want to go back I 1 want I 1 to find out where the ocean mean and mountains end I 1 want to know more the te jjck pages of antarctic Ant artic geological i history about its past climates withe life that has thrived in this now lifeless continent more about twe the ancestors ial that fascinating and restless little bundle bunde of curiosity the adelie penguin and his great cousin the th e emperor and I 1 had racher e g back to the antarctic Ant artic and find a fossil marsupial than three gold mines of an antarctic journey by lawrence mckinley gould second in command byrd expedition rook book punished pubis hed i in 1931 brewer warren putnam publishers publish eri since the dawn oz history the Stand patters the conservatives the pessimists have bave asked why and have tried to block progress pe gress but in the end the human roe rae ro ra e has ha always gone one forward to something better columbus had tut but few fall awers and was ridiculed and jeered at because he was wa progressive and a so called droemer be because ause he thought chught the world was round but he proved hy by his discovery of a part of 0 aie he americas americ that he was right many explorers rs and pioneers since have proved his theory correct and have given too humanity the greatest con continued on oa last flages RAMBLING THOUGHTS OF A continued from pase me li 11 anent on earth the pioneers and progressives progress ives of the past ylie years ars have steadily ad danced arid and discovered new nem and rich countries on the western Wes terri hemisphere and today the tars stars and stripes float over ai a greab grea united st states artes why because it was there and the pioneers found and developed it the pioneer spirit of cf the west 0 of utah of southeastern utah has har done its part in pioneering moab lasal bluff city monticello blanding and all parts of this district as a rule have helped in this pioneering work today we need new capital capit fl icv blood to help build up our wonder wonderful lul district and jie proper advertis advertising in our modern way will do this to a great extent the american guide book is going to help us in the way of advertising our scenic wonders to the world so lol us ep cooperate operate and the Rim rocker will try to do his part I 1 some unusual trees are thus described in a recent magazine the fastest g rowing growing tree is the eucalyptus the ligh lightest lest is the ambach of egypt the oldest is the cypress in mexico at least years old the tallest are the australian gum trees some feet in height the most massive are the giant sequoias of california the district court in koeslin get germany granted a farmer a I 1 divorce aco because his wife refused to bear children |