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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
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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
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Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Broadley of
Lexington were here Monday morn
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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. This is not a sport
ing adventure but a serious scienti
fic mission, whose work is not com
pleted by the single spectacular ex
ploit of the polar flight
Proper Food Essential
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