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PAGE FOUR HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1929. ICE OF 1ETIC IVIEiyACETQ WORLD Byrd's Expedition Yields Scientific Data of Vast Importance. By CALEB JOHNSON Commander Richard E. Byrd's flight over the South Pole has re vived interest in a part of the world of which less is known than of any other region on earth. Yet on the question of whether or not the ice-cap at the South Pole is thawing or not the fate of the whole world literally depends! If the ice-cap is getting thicker It means that moisture which other wise would fall on settled lands in the form of rain is being stored per manently as snow at the South Pole; it also means that the level of the sea is gradually falling. On the other hand, if the Antarctic ice is diminishing in thickness from year to year, the level of the ocean must be rising. If the mass of the moun tain ranges and polar plateau is principally ice, geologists have cal culate dthat the melting of the en tire mass would raise the ocean lev el fifty feet, completely submerging Holland and Belgium and parts of Germany and France, putting near ly all of Florida under water, flood ing New York, Boston, and every otter low-lying seacoast city, and changing the map of the whole world ! It will take many exploring expe ditions and the comparison of data over many years to get the true an swer to the question of the South Polar ice. Of almost equal importance to the people of the Southern Hemisphere is the study of the winds of Antarc tica, which blow in an almost con tinuous gale from West to East For all the nations south of the Equator the Antarctic is the breed ing place, of storms, and a study of weather signs near the pole may be of great aid in future weather fore casting for South America, Africa and Australia, as well as for naviga tors on the stormy southern seas. If there were no other knowledge to be gained, South Pole exploration would be justified, in spite of its ter rific hardships, far greater than those encountered in the search for the North Pole. The easiest way to understand the difficulty of South Polar explor- taion is to compare that end of the earth with the northern end. North of 60 degrees north latitude millions of people live; Petrograd, the capital of the Czars, lies almost on the 60 degree line while more than half of Russia, all of Finland, most of Sweden and Norway, almost all of Alaska, half of Canada, all of Greenland and Iceland, are farther north. And beyond these lands the North Pole is a point in the middle of an ice-covered ocean. South of 60 degrees south latitude is an open stretch of the stormiest ocean in the world, broken only by one group of uninhabited islands. the South Shetlands. Not a single human being lives south of the 60 degree line, or within several hun dred miles of it But beyond the Antarctic Sea lies the great contin ent of Antarctica, a body of land twice as large as the whole United States, 6,000,000 square miles, and in the center of this continent, on a plateau 10,000 feet above sea level, surrounded by mountain ranges from two to three miles high, is the South Pole. The coast of Antarctica is sur rounded by an ice barrier from 500 to 2,000 feet thick, covering an area as large as France. This is sea ice covered with the packed snowfalls of countless centuries. All of the land of the huge continent is also covered with ice except around the The Christmas Seal What do yon think of the Christmas Seal? "What do you think?" said L "It maketh the ChrlBtmas spirit real: TIs greater than gifts you buy. For It proveth better than Jewels can That your heart hath room for your fellow-man. "Who givetb a gift to his friend has done No more than a gracious deed. But the seal proclaiineth the man a one Who glveth to those In need. For God, who marketh the spar row's fall, Giveth not to His frieuBi, bnt to one and all. ! . "So I look t the Christmas Seal and say: This friend who remember.eth me Hath also thought of the sick today, Wherever they chance to be. And he giveth not only to cheer his own, But to all who hath need la his mer- cy shown." Copyright 12 by EUgar A. Guess Commander-Byrd's Route from Little America to the South Pole 9 m LSSiV-W uw v s i r , r, , r, . r, ; xi:jm. I II iliriTTfc -HSA HEPfNEB STUDENT PLEDGED. Oregon State College, Corvallis, Dec. 10. (Special) Terrel Benge of Heppner, freshman in agriculture at Oregon State college, has Just been pledged to Psi Chi fraternity. Psi Chi is one of the 35 fraternities at Oregon State, and ranks very high on the campus. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Broadley of Lexington were here Monday morn ing, Mrs. Broadley being called for the grand jury, but later excused. Found Stray Jersey cow. fresh VOUncr mulev. Ownpr nan hnvo same by paying for this notice. Sand nonow ttancn. 39-42. byro left for south pole 10:29 P.MN0V.Z8 BASE ON t tee ;NJJ RBACHED' SOUTH POLE 8',55 A.M. NOV. 2.9 i , r rv. d i n dii J cm.5J Lapt A. C McKinley The map shows the route of Commander Byrd in his trip to the South Pole from Little America, Antarctica, and back, a distance of 1,600 miles. The huge gray plane mounted the fair skies at Little America with Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen (flying the plane); Radioman June at the wireless and Captain Ashley C. McKinley, photographer, surveyor and general utility man "Good flying weather" made fine,, speedy start possible crater of the active volcano, Mount Erebus, and where rocky mountain cliffs retain through the long winter enough stored sun-heat to melt the snow as it falls. In the north polar regions animal and vegetable life flourish. Polar bears, foxes, wolves, ermine, rein deer, are among the familiar land animals of the North. The world's greatest supply of merchantable timber lies north of 60 degrees and many kinds of edible and other plants grow in the Arctic summer. Not a single land animal except a few rudimentary insects lives in all of Antarctica, and the only vege table life is moss and lichens. It never rains in Antarctica; even in midsummer the temperature is around or below freezing. The sun rays in December and January give explorers the impression of warmth which the thermometer belies. Mid summer in the Antarctic is Christ mas time, the seasons being revers ed everywhere south of the Equa tor; the sunlight comes from the North instead of from the South. Byrd's Sight was made in the warm est season of the whole year. Byrd was not the first explorer to reach the South Pole. Roald Amund sen, the Norwegian, reached the Pole on December 14, 1911, and Capt Robert F. Scott of the British Navy, who lost his life from cold and starvation on the way back, found the Norwegian flag flying when he, too, reached the South Pole on January 18, 1912. Twenty or so other expeditions have explor ed parts of Antarctica since 1840. None has covered as much ground as Eyrd did in his single flight, in which it is estimated he had under his eyes 164,000 square miles of ter ritory, nearly one thirtieth of the whole continent The photographic maps made on his flight through a perilous gale over the mountain peaks will tell more about the land than all the men who went before him ever learned. Nobody knows what treasure may be found in Antarctica. Coal, per haps, or oil; a reserve to be tapped a thousand years from now, when the world's present visible supplies are exhausted. There may be gold there, or diamonds. Nothing less valuable than those would tempt ad venturers to this bleak and almost inaccessible end of the earth. The staff of geologists, meteorol ogists, botanists and other scientists in the Byrd party are gathering data which may prove of priceless value in time. 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