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One More Reason
Another reason for the calling of a con
stitutional convention to rewrite the present
document, which has become sadly warped
by judicial decree, is furnished by the ex
perience of the farmers in endeavoring to le
galize an income tax.
There may be a difference of opinion as
to the advisability of such a tax. There
can be no argument as to the right of the
people to a chance to adopt such a measure if
they wish.
The courts have held that the present
Constitution prevents raising funds in this
manner. The farmers, believing that they
are carrying the heavy burden, for years
have tried to obtain such a tax.
They followed the orderly processes. It
has been a long fight, lasting for years. They
first passed a law, only to have it declared
unconstitutional. They then took what they
believed to be the necessary steps to change
the Constitution through an appeal for an
amendment. This takes two sessions of the
legislature. At each session there was strong
opposition from determined forces. Men
with large incomes do not like the idea.
Having won against the powerful inter
ests, the farmers and workers expected to
have a chance to appeal to the people on the
merits of the proposal itself. They believed
they could convince the voters of the advis
ability of their program.
Now it is discovered that, at the last
minute, in the office of some clerk, a change
of a word is made in the law. The change
was not made by the lawmakers. The mis
take w ? as not that of an elected official. It
may have been made purposely or maudlinly
in the last hours of the session.
Because of this mistake, the people will
not vote on the proposed change. The work
of eight years of sincere effort on the part
of the farmers who followed the legal path
is nullified. Instead of law, there is anarchy.
When such a denial of public right is
possible through the interference of either a
venal or an incompetent clerk, the one rem
edy seems to lie in the direction of anew
Constitution that will safeguard the greatest
of all rights, which is to control the govern
ment under which they live.
At the present time the government
seems to rest in the hands of political hench
men of interests which work in the dark and
nullify honest efforts of those who cling to
the illusion that the government is in the
hands of the people.
Anew Constitution, liberal enough in its
provisions to protect the people from an
archy, despotism and ignorance, seems nec
essary.
“It Is Up to Hoover”
‘•This folly Is Imminent. It Li up to Hoover to
avert It.”
Thus cables William Philip Simms. Scripps-How
ard correspondent, on the approaching death of the
London naval conference —‘‘an unspeakable calamity,
because it would mean expenditure of billions of dol
lars In a naval race which might end in war.”
The reduction conference may be saved by “a for
mal offer from America to participate In a consulta
tion pact In the event of the threat of war.” says
Simms. His statement Is based not only upon his
Investigations in London, but u;x>n personal conver
sations with French leaders in Paris.
Significance of Simms’ dispatch is not that it is
new, but that it is authoritative. It substantiates
in unanswerable form what a majority of the Amer
ican press and what 1,200 national leaders of public
opinion and tens of thornands of citizens in petitions
to the President have been saying.
Virtually every correspondent and observer at
London has written that collapse of the conference
began with America’s refusal to Join in a consulta
tion pact.
We do not know what led the President to make
that costly decision. But we do know that it is a
complete reversal of American foreign policy, as
written into treaties and ratified by the senate. The
President has reversed the policy of the four-power
Pacific treaty and the Kellogg pact.
That is a very serious responsibility.
We believe that President Hoover has only two
t hoieps in this crisis:
Either he must follow American policy by im
mediately offering a consultation treaty at London;
Or he must at once explain and justify his un
precedented reversal of American peace policy.
On the verge of “a naval race which might er.d
a vsr,” the American people and the world want to
•-now—and have a right to know—what is behind this
new and dangerous Hoover policy.
The Little Things
A small error can do a great deal of damage,
ometimes.
On the outskirts of Chicago a contractor was put
;ng in a big sewer. Huge sections of.pipe had beer,
iragged from a field, where they were stored, across
a railroad track to the place where they were to be
laid. A wire cable, fastened to a motor-driven drum
beyond the tracks, was used to do the job.
At last the cable broke, leaving a section of the
pipe on the railroad tracks. Then it developed there
was no red lantern available to mark the blocked
track until anew cable could be fastened. Before
a lantern could be found, a train had crashed into
the pipe. It was derailed, and another train plowed
mto it. The result—one death and twenty persons
injured.
A little mistake, of course. But it had big con
sequences.
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“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”
Prohibition and Homicides
The eminent statistician, Frederick L. Hoffman,
discusses facts and theories relative to homicide rates
in an article in The Spectator. The homicide rate in
the United States remains an international scandal.
It has risen from 5.1 to 100,000 of the population in
1900 to 10.5 in 1929. The rate for Canada in 1928
was 1.3 and for England and Wales in the same
year 0.5.
Dr. Hoffman believes that prohibition may have
had something to do with this increase of the
homicide rate in the United States:
“It is with some reluctance that I touch upon the
problem of prohibition. By common consent, the
enforcement of prohibition has brought into existence
an organization of crime and criminals such as no
other country on the face of the globe has ever known
in history. Gangsters and gunmen are being killed day
after day.”
Dr. Hoffman’s own figures show, however, that pro
hibition has played no decisive part in creating our
present homicide problem. Most convincing of all is
the fact that, while the homicide rate doubled in the
pre-prohibition days from 1900 to 1919. it has increased
but slightly in the decade of prohibition. The homi
cide rate in 1900 was 5.1. By 1919 it had risen to 9.1.
It had advanced only to 10.5 in 1929.
Further, Chicago, the chief arena of gang wars
over booze and enforcement, had a homicide rate of
only 12.7 in 1929, while in the dry belt we find
Memphis with a homicide rate of 66.9 in 1929 and
Birmingham with a homicide rate of 51.3 in the
same year.
Nor does homicide appear to be correlated with
the degree of avowed wetness. The ten leading cities
in the United States with respect to high homicide
rate are all found south of Mason and Dixon’s line
in the dry area, which repudiated A1 Smith in
1928. These cities, with their homicide rates to
100,000, are as follow's:
Deaths Rates
1923 1929 1928 1929
Memphis 115 127 60.5 66.8
Birmingham 122 114 54.9 51.3
Atlanta 115 ’ 130 45.1 51.0
Jacksonville 74 66 52. G 46.9
Lexington 15 19 30.8 39.0
Mobile [phone]
New Orleans 11l 124 25.9 28.9
Covington 8 17 13.6 28.8
Houston 72 76 26.2 27.6
Charleston 18 20 23.7 26.4
On the other hand, we find that the homicide rate
in wet New York is only 7.1. Dr. Hoffman suggests
that the high rate in these southern cities is to be
explained chiefly on the basis of the high percentage
of Negroes here.
If this be true, then the race situation is far more
powerful in its effect upon crimes of violence than
the alcohol issue. But our northern cities with a
large Negro population do not seem to have dispro
portionately high homicide rates.
Another fact about these southern cities is of spe
cial interest. They are the hotbeds of religious
orthodoxy, and the Negroes are even more prone to
religious fervor than the whites.
Without going any further, this Is adequate proof
that piety is no adequate safeguard against homicidal
tendencies.
The plain fact is that our homicide scandal can
* not be attributed to any single cause. Its roots lie
deep in the American tradition of lawlessness, in our
frontier habits, in our remarkable degree of racial
and cultural admixture, and in our progressively more
complicated social and economic conditions.
It is a national problem in the truest sense of that
term, however much special trends and local condi
tions may color the general situation.
The woman who threw an alarm clock at her
husband and knocked out one of his teeth because
he trumped her ace probably wanted to teach him
a lesson on his bridge work.
An “electric eye" mechanism which fires a gun
as a prisoner climbs up a wall to escape has been
demonstrated with success. But most prisoners will
regard this like any other current event.
REASON
YOU will observe that Mrs. Doheny testified for Mr.
Doheny.
Nothing in this world brings a fellow’ into such
close contact with his women folks as to be dragged
into court and put on trial for his life or liberty.
That's when a dear fellow sings “Home Sweet
Home” as he never sang it before.
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Commander Byrd says it would cause a sensation
if he should say what he is going to do next.
Inasmuch as he has flown over both poles and the
Atlantic, we can't imagine what his next thrilling
exploit is *o be, unless he intends to run for President.
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The Filipinos will not have to beat up American
sailors over at Manila many more times to reconcile
the average citizen of the United States to the propo
sition of cutting the Little Brown Brother loose and
letting him paddle his own canoe.
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WHEN you read in the papers about these dino
saur tracks in New Jersey that are said to have
been made eighty-five million years ago, it causes
you to regard Adam and Eve as a pair of moderns
who passed away only week before last.
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Texas went to law to grab 28.500 acres of land
from Oklahoma, proving once more that the more
you have the more you want.
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The greatest thing that could possibly happen for
the cause of religion in the United States would be
to have atheistic performances given all over the
country by this crowd of 12,000 Russian nuts who
held a'monster meeting in New York last Sunday and
denounced the Lord.
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READING of that meeting reminds us that in the
forthcoming census such cattle will be counted in
all of our cities, and used as a basis for congressional
reapportionment, the cities on such account taking
away the representatives of regions that are inhabi
tated olny by American citizens. It is a rotten injus
tice.
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Chairman Legge of the farm board announces that
surplus crops will not be dumped abroad at a less
price than exists in this country, yet all these years
we have given industry a tariff that enabled it to
make enough in the United States to permit it to
dump its surplus abroad at any price it could.
FREDERICK
LANDIS
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
M. E. Tracy
SAYS:
Outside of a Few Humani
tarian Gestures, the Five-
Power Naval Parley at
London Has Accomplished
Nothing.
THE Europa steams into New
York, beating the Bremen’s
time by eighteen minutes, which is
of no great consequence since Ger
many holds the record in either
case.
In England they are building two
monster ships in the hope of taking
the record away from Germany.
As Floyd Gibbons asks, “Where
do we come in?”
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Dr. Eckener comes to New York
and succeeds in interesting three
or four big American concerns in
a trans-Atlantic Zeppelin service,
which is to his credit, but which
places us in the position of con
tributing little more than the cash.
Cash is necessary, and those who
can furnish it are not to be re
garded lightly. At the same time,
initiative counts, and we should not
be too complacent in allowing
other people to take it.
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Nava! Parley Is Fizzle
WHETHER a six months’ ad
journment would do any
good, it represents about the only
way in which the naval conference
can save its face.
Outside of a few humanitarian
gestures, the naval conference lias
accomplished nothing.
France and Italy, unable to agree
between themselves, have dropped
the idea of a five-power pact.
Japan, England and the United
States, though they might rig up
a three-power-pact, appear unwilling
to accept any commitments which
would change the status quo ma
terially.
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Things being as they are, the boys
might just as well shut up shop
and come home, and the United
States might just as well adopt a
program which would guarantee her
a navy equal to that of Great
Britain.
Those who hoped for a better re
sult will be disappointed, but they
should console themselves with the
thought that no one is worse off
than before.
Putting that aside, the naval con
ference has shown what we really
are up against.
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Suspicion in Saddle
EUROPE evidently has settled
down to a state of suspicion,
distrust and apprehension which
approaches that preceding the late
war.
France and Italy are watching
each other like two cats, Poland
fidgets every time a strange noise
occurs near the Russian border, and
the Balkan situation remains vol
canic.
The problem of squaring interna
tional ideals with the provincial
jingoism that prevails on every
hand has proved too much for
statesmanship.
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Business takes over the burden as
politics steps aside, extending trade
arrangements, developing more in
timate relations and creating a set
up which eventually will compel a
greater degree of co-operation.
Capitalism, says the Communist,
makes for war, which undoubtedly
is true under certain conditions, but
it also makes for peace.
Except for the trade opportuni
ties which she offers, Russia would
be without a friend in the world
today. Except for the trade oppor
tunities which the people of all
countries need, not only to live but
to earn a living, there would be half
a dozen conflicts going on right now.
Insofar as it demands tariffs, spe
cial privileges and other favors by
virtue of local legislation, business
serves to create antagonism, but
insofar as it opens new markets,
expands trade routes, and develops
closer relations, it trains people to
a better understanding.
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Tit for Tat
THE true effect of the tariff bill,
just passed by the senate, pro
vided it gets by conference, will not
be known until we can find out
what other nations do in retalia
tion.
This bill, admittedly the product
of log rolling, is a shining example
of the special privilege theory.
From top to bottom, it reeks with
the idea of employing governmental
power to prevent foreign competi
tion.
A perfectly wonderful game, if
foreigners couldn't also play it.
But if we have things to sell, so
have they, and if we can keep them
out of our markets by building a
tariff wall, why can’t they keep us
out of theirs by the same method?
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Among other things, this bill was
supposed to relieve the farmer by
increasing the duty on agricultural
products, but the American farmer
has far more at stake in what he
can sell abroad, and the price he
can get for it, than in the competi
tion of foreign-grown crops.
When it comes to grain, meat and
any other farm products, this is an
exporting country.
We can not help the farmer very
much by keeping competition out
with a tariff, because there is very
little to keep out.
Other countries, however, can
hurt him a lot by the simple process
of retaliating.
Daily Thought
No man can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will
hold to the one, and despise the
other. —St. Matthew 6:24.
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The measure of a master is his
success in bringing all men round
to his opinion twenty years later.—
Emerson.
When was the comer stone of the
United States capital building laid
and by whom?
It was laid Sept. 18, 1793, by
President Washington.
Another Race for the Pole Gets Under Way
Iron in Diet Aids to Check Anemia
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE human body apparently
uses very small amounts of
many metallic substances in the con
trol of various factors within it. For
years it has been known that iron
is of value in anemia.
As the newer knowledge has
established definitely the place of
iron in the diet, it has become
realized that there are two factors
concerned: First, the iron; second,
the mineral elements with which
the iron may be associated.
In their most recent studies of
anemia following hemorrhage, Drs.
G. H. Whipple and F. 6. Robscheit-
Robbto" out there is an opti
mum amount of iron which can be
taken by mouth to control anemia.
This amount is about forty milli
grams a day. There are thirty
grams in an ounce. Thus, there are
30,000 milligrams in an ounce.
Forty milligrams represents the
IT SEEMS TO ME
“AS one of the foremost foment
iTL ers of American sports,”
writes Elmer Davis, the novelist,
“why don’t you give a hand to Syd
ney Franklin, the well-known espa
da. torero, matador, or whatever?
“Not only because you and he are
both Brooklyn boys but because he
seems to have a forthright thoro
ughness that is lacking in some of
our native pastimes, such as the so
called prize ring. Every one of
Franklin’s fights ends in a knock
out.
“Sometimes It is Franklin who is
knocked out, sometimes the bull;
but at any rate, they never put on
a sparring match to no decision
and Franklin never carries the bull
along for a return bout,
“Maybe the attitude of the cus
tomers has something to do with
this. As I understand the ethics of
bull fighting, or rather of the some
what safer pastime of watching bull
fighting, the man is always sup
posed to win. If he doesn’t they
give him the Bronx cheer.
“No matter how good a fight he
may put up, if by some mischance
he takes a sharp jab from the left
horn in the kidney, he is just a
lousy bum in the eyes of the cus
tomers. and the sooner the hook
drags him off the better.
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Winner in Advance
“/AUR fight crowds do their best
V-J to be with the winner, but,
unfortunately, we have no formal
ized tradition requiring that one
man is to be regarded at all times
as the probable winner.
“If it was understood before
every fight that one of the fighters
—a particular elected one—was sup
posed to win by a knockout and
would be regarded as a recreant
caitiff if he lost for any reason
whatsoever, maybe we would see
more action at fights.
“Os course, the problem would re
main of generating in the other
fighter an attitude of mind like the
bull’s. As I understand it, the only
break the bull gets is that if he
wins he can eat dinner tonight and
breakfast tomorrow before some
body else gets a chance to head ofl
his championship aspirations.
“This raises the suggestive
thought that some of our fighters
might do better if they had no
more than that to look forward to.
But it is an old story that fighters
are overpaid; and if we bring that
up somebody will remember that
certain editors assert that writers
are also overpaid.
In Albany, N. Y„ there is commo
tion in the legislature because a
superintendent of one of the state
office buildings got rid of a lot of
pigeons, as he was instructed to do,
but unfortunately by the use of
poison.
Even some of the drys are com
plaining. The foolish superintend
ent ... These were pigeons with
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
amount of iron to be taken a day,
which is about 1-800 of an ounce.
The entire amount of iron in the
circulation is about 220 milligrams.
If ten milligrams are wasted
daily by means of used-up red blood
cells, the amount supplied in forty
milligrams is well beyond the com
plete wastage.
It must be remembered that the
figure of forty milligrams is in the
case of a dog weighing ten kilo
grams, and that an adult human
being weighs about seventy kilo
grams.
Thus for an adult human being,
the amount would be 280 milli
grams, which is about 1-100 of an
ounce.
Iron seems to be the most potent
metal substance in rebuilding blood
after hemorrhage and apparently
the excess amount of iron given over
the amount lost has an effect on
organs which build red blood cells.
In addition to iron, manganese
and copper seem to affect the blood
production. Zinc, aluminum, anti
mony, potassium, calcium phosphate
lIEYWOOD
BROUN
which he had to deal and it shocked
the prohibitionists that he should
poison them with arsenic.
Os course if they had been people
cut down by wood alcohol in a fed
eral formula that would have been
quite a different matter. Then the
result would have been hailed as a
triumph for morality and law and
order.
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Buy a Brain
SOME years ago in the not partic
ularly remote past the price of
cotton fell to such a point that the
financial status of every planter was
threatened.
We had then a national campaign
built upon the slogan “Buy a Bale,”
and everybody was asked to try and
stem the economic tide by individual
effort. Also relief was asked upon
occasion for the apple growers and
each good citizen pledged himself
to take a bushel.
It seems to me that we ought to
have something of the same spirit
in regard to labor. At the moment
wages are down and unemployment
is up. It should be just as reason
able to buy a brain as to buy a bale.
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/ Lenfcen Devotion
Wednesday, March 26
“BELIEF IN THE GOODNESS
OF OTHERS”
Memory Verse; “Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew
22:39).
Read: Matthew 22:34—40.
MEDITATION
This means, in part: Thou shalt
trust thy neighbor—believe in him.
The person who is to get along
with others must believe In their
goodness, especially in their good
intentions. laith begets ground for
faith. It is the truest interpreter.
The only safe creed is: I believe
that my neighbor is as good as I
am. That ought not to be difficult,
except for the Pharisee. If we only
can believe that those who differ
from us are as well intentioned as
we are, we can always get along
with them.
PRAYER
O Lord, we thank Thee for those
who believe in us and trust us, and
who by their generous faith and
confidence are ever lifting us to
higher levels of performance. May
this our gratitude teach us to show
a like spirit as we move among the
companions of this day. Amen.
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and sodium iodide seem to have but
little effect.
Os particular value in building
blood after anemia produced by
bleeding were liver sausage, blood
sausage and to some extent large
amounts of gelatin.
Egg yolk and egg white seem to be
of relatively less value. Obviously
there are factors beside iron which
are important in blood regenera
tion.
When spinach and cabbage were
added to the diet they had a stimu
lating effect, but not nearly so great
as that of spinach and cabbage with
extra iron, so that it has seemed
to the investigators that probably
the iron is not the only substances
in the spinach that might be of
value.
Onions and orange juice were
found to be of little value for the
purpose.
It has not seemed to the investi
gators that the vitamins are in any
way concerned with the building of
fresh red blood coloring matter in
blood cells after anemia.
(deals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of America’s most inter
esting writers and are pre
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paner.—The Editor.
Human fiber must not be allowed to
disintegrate.
One of the tragedies of unemploy
ment which followed the business
and financial let-down, was the dis
tress among the so-called white
collar workers.
Being out of a job is no bed of
roses for anybody, but to a good
many clerks and typists it was a
new experience. They were afflicted
with panic as well as distress.
Many of the estimates of unem
ployment include only those people
who are actually on the bread line
or seeking shelter from municipal
lodging houses.
It is broader than that. When
the casual worker is out of a job
it may be that he suffers by himself.
The white-collar man or woman is
apt to drag others down with him.
If he or she lives with his family
an added burden is put upon a
budget already strained. He may
have to get help from his friends
and bring them down close to the
danger line. There are agonies
which have nothing to do with
actual physical hunger.
Something must be done about it.
America can not be and must not
be a country in which the individual
is allowed to starve to death with
out any outside interference what
soever.
(Copyright. 1930. bv The Times!
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ
Commander Byrd Has IFon c
Place Among the Immortals
by His Polar Exploration.
Thi I* the first of eighteen article*
by David Dietx which will trace th*
story of polar exploration from the be
ginning to the exploits of Commander
Byrd.
ALL America seconds the words
with which Adolph Ochs, pub
lisher of The New York Times,
greeted—by radio—Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd upon his return
from Antarctica.
“You have won a place among
the immorals,” Ochs told the fa
mous explorer, “You have added an
empire to the territory of the
United States and the American
flag now is flying at the North and
South polei/
Commander Byrd is the only ex
plorer to have flown an airplane
over both the North and South
poles. He is the only living explorer
to have reached both poles.
The only other man to have
reached them both was Captain
Roald Amundsen, the great Nor
wegian explorer, who disappeared in
the Arctic while hunting by airplane
for the survivors of the Italia ex
pedition.
Amundsen flew over the North
pole in his dirigible, the Norge, after
his attempt to reach the pole by air
plane had failed.
Amundsen had been the first to
reach the South Pole, making the
journey over the ice-covered moun
tain ranges which protect the pole,
with dogs and sleds.
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The Explorer
THE explorer always will be a
hero because the horizon al
ways has beckoned to mankind and
stay-at-homes have admired—and
envied —those who heeded the call.
“In “Sea Fever," John Masefield,
English poet, has described the urge
that moves mankind. He wrote:
“I must go down to the seas again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a
star to steer her by.
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s
song and the white sail’s shaking.
And a gray mist on the sea’s face
and a gray dawn breaking."
The call of distant places is a
deep-seated urge with mankind.
Perhaps it goes back to the very
start of the race, for man was a
wanderer and a nomad before he
settled down to till the soil and
build homes.
The explorer has gone forth fre
quently for no reason but the urge
to explore, the urge to adventure.
But as frequently, he has been a
benefactor of mankind.
He has opened up the new routes
over which trade later made its way.
He has endured hardships to dis
cover land which later pioneers
made into homes.
Time may yet prove the Polar ex
plorers to have been the trail-blaz
ers of trade routes and new indus
tries.
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Trails
RUDYARD KIPLING, in one of
his finest poems, discusses this
phase of exploration—how the ex
plorer. driven on by some urge he
does not even understand, paves the
way for empire. Kipling called his
poem, “The Voortrekker.”
Kipling tells how the explorer goes
forth. He writes:
“The gull shall whistle in his wake,
the blind wave break in fire.
He shall fulfill God’s utmost will,
unknowing his desire.
And he shall see old planets change
and alien stars arise.
And give the gale his seaworn sail
in shadow of new skies.
And then, after describing ills
hardships. Kipling tells how he win ■
return and find that other urn
have followed the trail he blazed,
bringing civilization with them:
“He shall come back in his own
trrek and by his scarce-cooicd
camp
There shall he meet the roaring
street, the derrick and the stamp;
There he shall blaze a nation’s ways
with hatchet and with brand,
Till on his last-won wilderness rm
empire's outposts stand.”
One need not be a daring prophet
to predict that the future will see
a repetition of the story. Today we
marvel at the courage of the ex
plorer who sails over the North or
South poles.
Tomorrow, perhaps, it will be a
commonplace for business men to
take a Zeppelin from Chicago to
Copenhagen by way of the North
pole or to spend a month’s vacation
at the South pole.