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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1913)
PIS JpURFNTrgjg'5'.'g?gferEATUtts The bend bulletin. PART TWO III-Ml). OKKCJON. II)IS)Y. M-.HRt KV IV, lH I FOUR PAGES 11 i3 fi "I. Sffi JLM I:;; i ii n l..lx2as3l Dr. Cook Says Famous Polar Controversy la "Aroused of being the most rotnaaal liar In history,! noma tlmea fool I hut mnr.t He havo boon told nliout mo than about nnyiinn over born. I hnvo bcon guilty of many mistake. Mot mini really trim tu llioiiidi'lve-n admit tlint. My claim to thn North Piiln may alwny I mi questioned. Yet, when I r gard tlin Ho (rent ami amnll attached to mo, I otu filled nl moat with Indifference, "A ti iHtjiulnr Illustration nf tlin sort of yarn that worn told, )nt mo rtifi'r to tint fuoliali fnkn of tha gum drop. Homo i ntNrtntl the story tluit I nxpeeled to reach tlio Polo Ity bribing tlin INklinn with Kum 1ru; pcihnpa tlio Idea wa that I wn to Inin thrm on from point to point with regularly lasuod milium f the.) confection. "Wherever I went on my lecturn tour after my return to tha Hulled Htiitiw, rnnrli to my Irritation, I saw 'Cook' gum drop nuuplciwualy displayed In confectionery atoro window. Hundred of ,kiuiiiIb of kuiii drop went unit to my hotel with tlm eotnplliiieiilii nf thn nianufuHurcr. On nil side I hrnrd tint gum drop ntnr.v, and In nlnmat every pnper rend tho ro Iterated tnle of leading tint liaklmo to tho I'olo by dangling n kuiii drop on n airing before them. 1 rioter denied Ihli, nil I never denied any of tlm fake printed nbonl me. Tho fart In thnt I nuter heard thn kuiii drop yarn until I catno to Now York. Wn took no k"' drop with in on our Polar trip, and, to my knowledge, no Kaklmo nt n gum lrii whilo with me." Dr. Predrriek A. ''mik. Id tho annul of Amir exploration thorn Ii nothliiK to oompnrn with tlm ato of Dr. Cook, Ho Imi broil no- tilalmed nnd honored t ha hna been denounced nnd condemned, lift lwa been hailed n tho flrtt man to penw train tlm froirn North to the nxln of tha earth, na tha first to rth the "Illg Nnll" of thn KaklBm. Then, 1)r. Cook hna hen deiiotineed a "tho mint coloiaal liar In hUt.iry," n he aaya, hlmaeir. Tha career of Dr. t'ook alnro hla claim to Aretle honora flrat thrilled tho world la too well known to need dlaeiualon hern. It U enough to any that bo waa tho center of the iuot enntlonnl conflict ever knitwii nnd that he, hlmaelf, now feela thnt tin mint defend hi achievement. It la not In thn province of thla nrlUIn tu ea)Uae the eauao of Dr. Cook, but It cannot bo nmia to ghn something of what the eiplorer haa to any. Ho U now innkllii' it livliire Inur nf tlm United State, ulvlnt; from the Mage hla veralon of hla caao. Vor Current IVaturea Dr. Cook hna prepared an artlrlo whleh deala with what ho ealla the "I'nlnr L'ontrn' veray," atnrtlnK with the tlmn he and hla two Kaklmo emnpanlona atarted bark from tho top of tho earth: "On tha return Journey our diffi culties worn oven Kreater than on thn upward march. The Ira begun to break and aeparatej thrro waa open water with ronllnuoui foK. With tended aklea, It waa Impoaalble to drtermlno tho drift of tho irn under our feet. Wo were carried uneon aelnualy far to tho wrat and aouth of our eourae, nnd, when aklea finally eleared nnd wo yot nu obaervatlon, 'wn found ouraelvea away down In Crown I'rlncn Ouatnv Kea. After a Iouk nnd totlinua Journey, with atarv atlon atarlnp; ua in thn faro, wo finally reached Jonea Hmind. nnd here, on Capo Hpnrbo, wo atnyed thrnnnh out another lonfr winter uluht. Wo ate tho meat of tho muak-ox nml uaed their fat for fuel and their akina for clothing. Wo aeiit the winter in an old cave. Hnrly In March wn atarted for thn lonj; return march to our Oroenlnnd ramp. After many do toura, to avobl open water, and mnny narrow cc)a from atnrvntlon, wo finally Kt back to our flreenland cnnip mid hero wo aaw for thn flmt tlmo In fourteen mnntha other huiunu facet oxrept our own. Hern with their people 1 loft my two Kaklmo rnmpanlona, aplcudld, fnlthful, helpful manly follow they hud beenl They hnd Komi with mo to the I'olo nnd buck, hnd ruffe rod all of tho tnrturo 1 hnd Niiffored, hnd eudurnd nil tho hnrdahlpa iiiicoiiipliilniii(jly, nut for money, not ttr honor for thoy ran not npprocintn either but almply bo rniiBd thoy wlahed to bo tiaeful to omi whom thoy choomi to rail u friend. Thoy deaervo Juat na much credit ni I du for tint rentilt of tho iixpodltloii, niid I want you to remember thnni, to reiuomber tholr uniiuvu Ah-wo-lnh nnd ivtiik-l-ahook, "Now wo worn bnok to our (Ireeu lnml cnmpj wo woro half atnrved, nl moat tinnblo to wnlk. Wn unturnlly looked nrnuud for anuuithliiK to out, vapcclnlly from our own aohoul, Hut, and to my, during our nbaenco anmo mio clao enmo iiIouk nnd took that enmp, took ovorythliiK wo hnd in thn north world. TIiIm bringi un to tho flrat chapter of what in known ns the Polar Controvoray, "Tvyo month nfter I hnd reuched thn Polo, two bl nhlpa atarted north for tho Polo. Thoy went north with tlio uaunl promt bombnat. At about tho (mine tlmo my compnuloii, Itu dolph Vruuko, who hnd boon loft 1" Orconlnud tu ((tuird my auptllca, wuh alak. Ho wn In dotpcruto alinpo) hit He Isn't "Colossal Liar'and Attacks Rear-Admiral Peary Opened Again by Explorer Whose Claims of Discovery Have Been Denounced as Fraudulent by His Enemies needed help. Ho atarted aouth, aim Ink to kcI amiie naaUtunrn from tho Diinlah whnloahlpa In North Htnr Hay, With html nnd aled he fought nu ' niuit Hiihuman Irattlo ami rrachol North Htar, but loo late. Tho laat ahlp bad kii, there would not bo an other for another year. Hit appealed tt thfw nver kindly wild eoplo. They Hiirfed him na beat thoy could ami aided him to et bark north, almlriK to Krt blm bark to my camp at AuMiwtok. They did got him baek an far a Ktah, only SS mllea aouth of my enmp, hut hern I'mnko kh un able to ku another atep. Ho waa alak j ho had not had a morael of rltlllod food In two moiitha. Ho lay down on thn roeka and expected to die. "Wlille he wna lying on thoo rwk, two big aliipa en me Into that hnrlwr flying tho American flag. I'mnkti waa glad; ho wna happy, lie pulled hlmaelf tojiether nnd went out ami boarded thn ahlp "KoomivoU." He went up to tho galley nnd naked fur n cup of coffee. That eoffeo wa refuanl, but that waan't tho worat, ho waa forcibly put off thnt ahlp la thn preaenro of n doten other men. Hero waa n alrk, n liunury, dying man ro fuaed a cup of eoffeo from an Ameri can ahlp, fitted out nt public nxpenao! "l-'rankn went bark to hla rocki and prayed that ho might die, to bo n Moved of Ida miaery. Thoao two ahli atayed there two days. Then Mr. Peary changed heart. In tho meantime ho had learned from tho Kaklmoa thnt nfter all Pranke waa not n beggar. He had no money, but he did have In hla poaaeaalon fur a nnd Ivory worth ten thouaand dollaia. Ho had undor hla direction my camp north of there, which camp waa out "1 water's fin e,f yfe$ "r- mso oV of hla roach, but wna worth twenty flvo thouaand ilollnra. Hern wna thlrty-fivo thouaand dollar to gain nnd Mr. Peary changed heart. Ho railed Prnnko aboard tho ahlp, offered him n cup of ooffeo nnd n aunrn meal and gave him two big goblet of whlakey. Ho then enlled l'rankn to hla private cabin nnd thorn tho following ronveraatlon took placot Mr, Pcury anld to I-'rauko, 'You nrn n very alck man. If you atay hero you will die. If you go homo you may llvo.' I'rnukn know that. 'You may go homo on ono of theto ahlpi, but beforo you do to you mint turn over everything that belong to your aelf, nnd everything that belong to Dr. Cook, You will not bo allowed to tnkn nny record home.' There wa no alternative, tha man did It. Hut what law of what land would grant Itf "Hero la, flrat, n daatnrdly under handed trick to ateal thlrty-fivo thou aand dollar, but that lan't tho worat. It wna n dellbcrato attempt at mur- der, I'or In taking my eamp, all of! my food auppllea, ho wa attempting' to atarvo mn nut, to prevent my re j turn to civilization. Hero Mr, Peary did n thing for which ho would bo' hanged, and rightly no, In a mining' ramp, but ho next did worse. Twen-! ty five mite aouth of Ktah, In ni region of bleak rok and glacier,! In n reglou of death-dealing itorm, Mr. Peary dcacrted two Innocent,' helploa children. Two little boy, hi own fleah nnd blood, hli own! children, were left thrro to atnrvo nnd fremut In that rheerlea world, Thoao poor little one ore thrro to day, crying for bread and milk and !. TI.. MMh.., t.t l Mil' thn world would not do that. Mr Peary dlt It. Can that man bo honcat In nnythingf That I tbo lclnd of man who tried to atlr heaven and1 earth mid tho other place, moitly tho other plare, to overthrow my claim. "Ono of thoao ahlp went aouth, carrying Pmnke with It, Tho other nent north, atayed for n year, came back, on tho following year to thla anmo plnco ut Ktah, nnd there, from iny Kaklmo, Mr. Peary learned for thn flrat tlmo thnt I had reached tho Pole a year nhcad of him. Ho gath ered all tho information ho could nnd then put nn full apeed and niabed to tho wlrelea itation at Labrador. Hero ho acnt through n brief meaago ray Ing that ho nlao had reached tho Polo. I bad gotten to Cdpcnhagcn about n week prevlou to thla, nnd had promptly given .to tho world my com plcto report. That report wa public property, a all of my material nl way ha been. That report wn at that wlrelea atatlon in Labrador. Mr. Peary took it from the operator, went '-bind tho rock nnd atayed for n week, dlgeated that report nnd then enmo forth nnd lasued hi report, Kvcry Arrtlc explorer at oiieo ald tho Pcnry report wa n acicntlflc du More Power to You, Columbia River o" B&IkVRmIij2? plicate of mlnoj thnt, beemiao of the parallel mnterinl which ft contained that It nlther proved my position at tho Pole, or It proved that he had borrowed from tho prevloimly pub lished report. You nr thou naked to toko thl man' report n tho truth, nud to take mine n n lie. Why I Why wa It necoaanry to put thl Icprou apot upon tho fabric ut clean human endeavor! Yout cannot under 'Picture of Dr. Cooli, itand that unlca you understand thl man, and I want you to uuderitand hi in. "Wo next go down to Washington, tho home- of tho "Steam Roller." Hero wo have tho so-called National Geographical Society, an organization which I no more national than tbo Natlonnl Cash Register, but they f mine forward, poing a expert to paM uMin both eaten, Mr. Prary nnd win, to Mttln for all time and all IteopbM the qHnatlon of dlatrilmtion of Polar honor. Iiut whence their nntborityf Who nrn it tnemboraf Per two dollar per, nny man, woman or child In thla audience become a geographer In that coclety, for the anmo monny the man who aweep tho ntrect becomes with equal facility a Jit He Is To-day geographer in that society Now, a an organization of political shrimp, that ia all right, but as a scientific body it 1 a colossal humbug, nnd those of my reader who aro mem ber of that aoccity aro a party to that humbug. Two-third of tho news paper editor of this country are two- (Continued oil page three) Thorpe Loses Amateur Rank World's Beat Athlete Confesses to Professionalism of Long Standing and Loses His Medal. Jnmc Thorpe Jim Thorpe to those, who follow athlctls event hu ad mitted that ha is a professional. That means 'hat La has accepted monoy for his services in athletic compe tition. That means that ho Is for ever barred from taking part in track meet, football games or baseball games In which amateur figure, and, most especially, that he may not again show his wonderful prowess in tho Olympic game, that great inter national congress of athlete. Thorpe i, undoubtedly, the greatest nil around athlete in tho world. Ho is a Sac and Fox Indian, a student at the Carllalo school for Indian. Within n littlo more than half a year Thorpe, at Stockholm and in competition against the world, established a new record ami ahowed hi supremacy. Ho was recently charged with having played professional baseball with tho mat on -Salem team In North Caro lina. When the charge was brought home to him Thoro confessed that he had been a professional aineo 1010, that, technically, at least, ho had taken Olympic honors under false pretenses. His confession was con taincd in a letter to the reglatra tion committee of the Amateur Ath letlc Union, which organization has general supervision over the eliglbil ity of all athlete who are not In sports for n livelihood. This board was in session in New York City at tho time, convening to decide TLorpo's rase. In extenuation of hi conduet, Thorpe said that he did not know that ho had done anrthing wrong, as on tho anmo team with him in 1010 were aevrral college men who wero spending their vneation playing baseball for pay. These, said Thorpe, were regarded ns amateurs, and be could see no reason why be also should not retain his standing. Also, tho Indian stated that ho did not play for tho money offered him, but be causo ho loved tho game. Ills record is remarkable. Ills win ning of tho pentathlon and decathlon events at the Olympic games in Swe den and later his wonderful perform nnce in winning tho all-around eham pionshlp of tbo Amateur Athletic I nion at Celtic Park, New Yor.k, last Stptembcr, stamped him us the most marvelous athlete of modern times. In addition, his prowess as a football player during the reason of 1012 brought to him the honor of being given a place on the All-Ameriean football eleven, ' a "paper" team picked by leading sporting experts from among tho best in the great col lege game. Thorpe will bo required to retnrn all of tho medals and insignia of honor that ho has won in competition with amateurs sineo the time he played baseball for hire. Foreign sporting men, however, are reported as believing that Thorpe should be allowed to retain his medals, oven if he won them under pretenses of being an amateur. This, too, means that tho points won by Thorpo for Araorlca may not be counted for this country Tbelr loss, however, docs not tako victory from Uncle Sam. The cor rected score gives the United States 70 points, with Finland second with 20. In tho pentathlon in Stockholm Thorpo finished first in tho running broad Jump, first in tho 200-metera run, first in the 1500-meters run, first nnd third In tho Javelin event In tho decathlon, which consisted of the 100-metcrs dash, running broad Jump, shotput, running high jump. -100-metcrs run, 110-meters hurdles, discus throwing, polo vaulting, javelin throwing and 1500-meters run, Thorpo had a percentage of 8413.053, against 7724.-103 by Wicslander of Sweden, his nearest oppoucnt. Thore first was heard of several years ago as a football player with tho Carlisle team. Later ho special ized in weight-throwing, jumping and running. Ho also became notod as a lacrosso and baseball player and in the latter branch of sport soveral of tbo major league teams tried to procure his services. Only last year Pittsburg aud Washington endeavored to securo him, but the Indian ro fused to sign a contract, declaring that ho wished to remain an amateur. Aftw tho Olymple games in Swe den last yoar King Oustavo sent for Thorpo to congratulato hint ou his prowess. At first the Indian timidly dcclinod to meet the monarch, but later, when several of the American committeemen insisted that ho do so, Thorpo went to tho palace. Thero thn king took the Indian by the hand and smilingly saldt "You aro the grcatost athlote in tho world."