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Ill m ux i n B i v r i. . , t ? i V V t I If f I li i t; I'll 1 iilJiA I f - s.-. t v4'4 srL. ""He' fe, ' r,C&-ksjiSKp iiSs&jc "s&nfW-.::w& . " wrMWMw.. JZtte HK nlrplnne nntl airship mark the end of the silent places. &o hay the nlrmen anil the explorers, tho hlcKiimc hunters and the sci entists. This stutement, which Is also a prophecy, Is probably true. The next generation will find few of nature's wilderness solitudes left except In the nutlonal parks of the United Stntes. In the men' ,,me, pending the adequate deve.optnent of air trav el, the exnlorers and the scientists arc too Impatient to wait for the machine thnt annihilates time and distance and topography. They must be at the work of prying Into the few remaining mysteries of the earth. Anyway, the spring of 1021 sees at least a score of expeditions on the way or In preparation. The only International project is one to discover he origin of the Polynesian race of tho South a'acllic. A I'nn-Amerlcan exploration of tropical Amerl o will lie limited to nations of the western hem isphere. An American expedition to British Gulnnn la .commercially Important In that It may uncover a new diamond (if Id. Twi third Asiatic expedition of the American allium of Natural History to China to discover evidence that the "missing link" actually once ex Istwl Is possibly the most scientlilcally Important. The project of the Royal Geographical society i, ascend Mount Everest (29,(XT2 ft.), the highest anoiuitnln In the world, Is possibly the most fas lnnting. Among the other exploring projects are the fol Bowing: One to the Antarctic; six to the Arctic; four to Africa; four to Central nnd South Amer ica ; one to Siberia. The project to attempt to discover the origin f the Polynesian race originated at n recent con ference of scientists in Honolulu, under the di rection of the Pan-Pacific union, nt which It wan Agreed to undertake a survey of the Islands of the South Pacific. The countries Interested In the expedition and which will hnve representatives with It are the United States, England, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and the .Philippines. Vale, Harvard and other educational Institutions are supporting the project. There aiever has been any doubt that the Hawaiian, Snmnan, Tnhltlon. Tongan and Maori are closely akin. Their legends, speech, customs and. build nil testify to the relationship, but hitherto their origin has been Io3t In the mistK of the ages. They aire believed by many nclentlsts to be of Caucaslnn origin. Meanwhile the Polynesian is dying fnst; iis rafe Is passing out at high speed, and the In vestigations are being pushed with as llttlo dcluy ik possible. Louts It. Sullivan of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, has been conducting Investigations along this line. Hodily, facial and cranial characteristics of tho Polynesian, accord ing to Mr. Sullivan's tables, show thnt ho Is vloven parts Mongoloid, five parts European, five parts Ilongolold-European nnd two parts Mongolold-Me-Innnlati. His conclusion Is that the Hawaiian iud his Polynesian brothers originally came from Asia. Systematical exploration and research In tho Interest of nut urn 1 science will be stnrted In the near future In Central and South America, should plans now being perfected by representatives of American scientific organizations meet with the anticipated success, Dr. A. S. Hitchcock of the Smithsonian Institution announces. Under the su pervision of a committee of scientists headed by Doctor Hitchcock, the institute for research In tropical Americn hn been formed and preliminary arrangements for beginning Its work completed in n scries of meetings called by the national re Hcarch council. In addition to exploration along botanical, anthropo'rglcnl, zoological, ecological Hues, the Institute pinna to establish a system of research station and laboratories In tho tropics, nt which scientific 'experimentation will be car ried on. Because of the necessity of limiting tho scope of the orgnnlr.ntlon's activities, at least until tho time when It shnll bo entirely equipped to branch out, Doctor Hitchcock explains, countries outside tho two American continents will not be permitted to participate. While tho co-operation of all trop ical American countrlco will be sought, It Is pro posed nt present to admit representatives of South and Central American scientific bodies only to associate or correspondent momberslilp. I M J t.i 1.....I..I-CI mill tlin KP1- - j- ajiaw KV L 1 '.-Li ) cntlsts. This statement, which Is jqJ' Jp&Z : ' "fWr fBJBflS. ) nlso n prophecy, is probably true. ,tr. xrT'-' .d "- J1 TSVT'7 The next Reiierntlon will llntl few AJ SflBBELf 2 . - niiiiiii: n --'-' - n i a JLs RED MVmlKMj Dr. Henry II. Itnsby of Columbia university Is lending n large body of American scientists In an attempt to explore the sources of the Amazon. Its Immediate program Is to traverse more than 1,000 square miles of the virgin land In tho upper reaches of tho river basin. Members of the expe dition Include Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Lelaud Stanford university, and Dr. Carl H. Elgeumnnn of the University of Indiana, who will "tudy fish nnd reptiles; Doctor Ruthven of the University of Michigan, who will study frogs; and Dr. Edward Kromcrs of the University of Wiscon sin and Prof. A. II. Gill of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, who will Investigate seeds and volatile oils. Two young Americans salted from New York the other day for South America to search for a vast store of wealth supposed to He In the "chimney" of the diamond deposits of British Gulnnn. At Georgetown, the capital of the British possession, they will be Joined by a third adventuresome American who has outfitted In Paris. The expedition Is under the patronage of Har vard university and the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, for which it will carry on geograph ical explorations. William .7. LaVarre, Jr., a Har vard graduate of 1010, bends the party, and his fellow explorers nrc James MacDonnld of Lima, O., and Dudley Lewis of Springfield, Mass. They expect to spend more than n year In the Jungle. Besides nn nttempt to follow tho scattered de posits of precious stones several hundred miles through tangled, reptile-Infested wilderness to thclt source, long known to exist somewhere In the hill country, but never discovered, tho expedition will tnkc observations of the aboriginal Inhabitants nnd geological features of the country, ns well ax cap ture specimens of native wild animals for the Smithsonian Institution nnd National Zoological garden nt Washington. Establishing headquarters In the prairie country 170 ndles up the Mnzarunl rjver, which flows Into the Essequlbo, the diamond hunters will begin work on the alluvial lands bordering strenms on the eastern wntershed of tho Sierra Pacaralma mountains, which separate British Guiana from Venezuela. The area In which the expedition will operate has been known since the middle of the last cen tury ns a rich diamond field, although Its Inac cessibility nnd the prevalence of tropical diseases have served to discourage prospecting by white men. Thousands of enrats of the gems, said to be ns fine ns any In the world, however, nre tnken out annually by negro miners, employing primitive methods. "Somewhere near ovcry spot where diamonds .nre found in considerable numbers there must bo a 'chimney'," explained Mr. LaVnrre. The qunl Ity of stones taken fiom tho vicinity where his pnrty will work points to a "chimney" ns rich or richer than those of the South African diamond fields. The vnngunrd of the "missing link" expedition left New York the other day. The mission of the scientists will keep them in the vast untrodden areas of Asia for five years. When they return to America they hopo to hnve evidence that the "missing link" between man and beast actually existed. Also they expect to bring back thousands of anlmnl and botnnlcal specimens to fill the pro posed Hall of Asiatic Life In New York. Roy Chapman Andrews, lender of two former scientific pnrtlcs Into China, heads the expedition. Joined In Asia by scores of native guests, hunts men, cooks nnd .helpers, the scientists expect to Introduce American automobiles, movlng-plc'iire cnmciaa and other modern machines on the Gobi desert, central Asian plateaus, Tibetan steppes and other little-known Innds. Tho first base of the pnrty will bo established In Mongolia, where the scientists expect to remain 24 months before penetrating western China. t After tho vanguard hns opent n year In Mongolia, a second group of scientists will leave New York to Join them. Northeastern and central Asia will be thoroughly gone over In a study of the origin nnd migration of man, to prove or disprove the popular scientific belief that Asia was the center of dispersal of the human race, as well us for OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF many of the mammals the descendants of which nro scattered over the earth. Next year the museum will send out geologists and a motion picture photogrnplmr, and In 10113 nrcheologlsts nnd anthropologists will follow. The Royal Geographical society Is pushing ahead Its plans for the conquest of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, the summit of which no wldte man has ever reached. The main nttempt will be made next year. Sir Francis Younghusbnnd, the president of the society, hns announced thnt Col. Howard Bury, who has trav eled much In Asia, lias been chosen to lead thin year's expedition, with Harold Rnehurn In charge of the actual reconnaissance of the mountain. Air. Rnehurn has Just icturnod from n reconnaissance of Knngchanjungn. a mountain In the Himalayas with an altitude of 28.M0 feet. The society Is nlso hoping to secure the services next year of Briga dier General Bruce, the originator of the Idea of ascending the mountain. Tho nscent of Mount Everest Is Impracticable for many years at least, In the opinion of Henry V. Montaguler of Torre Haute, Ind., who has mode many ascents In the Himalayas, the Rockies nnd the Eui'ipean Alps, and has attained the highest altitudes. He snys: "I have no hesitation In predicting thnt Everest will certainly not be conquered by the first party that makes the attempt. In my opinion It will tnke years, each party profiting by the experience ucqulred by Its predecessors nnd each gaining a thousand or more feet on the previous record. One thing Is certain, and that is that the conquest of the highest peak in the world will be far and away the most terrific test of endurance human beings have ever undergone. The Journey to the north or south pole, as far as physical effort and moral courage nre concerned, would he mere child's piny compared with the nscent of n mountain more than 20,000 feet high. The highest altitude yet at tained Ls about 124,000 feet. "We know that the number of feet nn nctlvo climber can ascend per hour diminishes with the altitude. Thus, up to 10,000 feet an average climber can ascend about 1,000 feet an hour over easy ground without exhausting liliusclf. Above 23,000 feet the ascensional rate falls below 1!(K) feet nn hour even for exceptionally strong climbers. What it would he at 27,000 feet no one can tny without experience. "Judging by whnt we know of tho diminution of the nscenslonnl rate of strong climbers above 23,000 feet, It would seem doubtful whether It would be possible to ascend more than 100 or 1.r0 feet an hour ubove 27,000 or 28,000 feet. And, moreover, tl ese figures nie based on the supposi tion thnt the party meets with no great dlfllcul ties, such ns powdery snow, high wind, steep rocks, sickness, etc." The one south pole exploration, now on the way, seems Importnnt, It Is the British Antarctic expedition, headed by Commander John Lachlan Cope, fellow of the Royal Geographical society and formerly of the Bvitlsh navy. It lias been financed for .?7.r0,000, nnd there will be five ships. 123 men, several airplanes and extensive wireless apparatus. The object Is to circumnavigate the Antarctic scar make n dash to the south pole, lo cate new whaling grounds and map fields that are supposed to be rich In gold, silver, coal and rubles. Plans have been made for tin nbsonce of five years. Dr. Donald B. MacMlllan, veteran of six trips to the Land of the Midnight Sun, heads the list of Arctic explorers. He is building nt East Booth bay, Mo., tho schooner Bowdoln for an expedition .scheduled to start in July. Under favorable weath er conditions the Bowdoln should reach Fury and Hocln strait early In September. There the ship will he frozen In. Leaving their ossol under gunrd the party will push forward on sleds drawn by dogs. Doctor MacMlllan expects to establish n Minp 700 miles south of Eton, In northwest Green) ind, from which he will try to circumnavi gate Bnflln Land nnd to penetrate l,f00 miles of its weJf.ern coast, said to be the longest stretch of unknown coastline In the world. Four expeditions nre In progress. In Africa, namely, the Biltlsh Natural History museum ex pedition to penetrate the becrets of the west coast and of the .leb-Marln mountains; the effort of tho duke of tho Ahruzzl to find the source of the Webi Shebell river, which Hows from Abyssinia through Italian Somnlllnud Into tho Iudlnn ocean ; the en tour'.oglcnl tour of the Belgian portion of Tan ganyka and the Eastern Congo, by T. A. Barns, who explored the Iturr-and Semlkl forests, finding n strange race of pygmies nnd making a wonder ful collection of moths and hutterilles, and the Mackle ethnological expedition Into Central Africa to study the Bahlimi, one of tho chief pastoral tiibe.of Ankole, a district west of Uganda. After Every Meal WRWLEYS Sealed Tight A Kept Right I WRIGLEY'S has steadily I ) kept to the pre-war price. II find to the same hleh stand- II I ard of quality. I No other izoody lasts so I 1 lonu-costs so little or does H J 60 much for you. II Handy to carry beneficial I In effect full of flavor a M ill IH J solace and comfort (or I 1 youne and old. I I THE FLAVOR W L LASTS J Fuel From Wheat Straw. A ton of sun-dried wheat straw hns been found from the Canadian experi ments to have a fuel value about equal to that of 32 gallons of gasoline. It yields about 10,000 cubic feet of purl fled gas, GOO to 030 pounds of carbon residue, and about 10 gallons of tarry liquid. 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