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With the taxes soaring'and our
■erven a little on edge from war's
aftermath, H is not surprising that
the Nary’s proposed transpolar
flight with its huge new dirigible,
the 'Shenandoah, next summer has
stirred up adverse criticism.
But there is more common sense
■In the scheme than meets the un
hJBume that the Nary spends $25.
•50,000 to build and send a pioneer
dirigible across the -polar sea. That
Is really more than It cent; bpt we
can afford to be generous on paper.
▲Iso, several attempts may hare to
he made before success Will be at
The exploit will estahii*h *l once
the practicability of using the polar
route Are months in the year, from
Way to September, inclusive. tabes
air conditions lt> the North are ideal.
Almost immediately will follow
acme diversion ot express, light
flight and paaneuger service to the
new route. l^at this is unavoidable
will be teen from a glance at a map
of the world. Existing travel lanes
between Europe and the Orient are
oyer 11,00.0 miles in length. Across
the pole the same interval is near
5,000 miles or less than ball.
Connect these figures with oar ex
port trade last year. In 1022 we
supplied the Orient with $4$0.*5B,
400 worth of goods. To North Eu
rope and Scandinavia we sent in
ronnd numbers a total passing $500,.
00i,000. Compute the carriage
charges on one billion dollars worth
of freight and take half of it. That
, figure—it runs into millions—is
what Scandinavia will profit when
the polar route shall enable their, to
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buy singly on the opposite sidp of
the globe.
Go back to our $25,000,000 invest
ment. What ships carry freight in
and out of American ports? Mostly
British. Why? Because, generally
speaking, they are the first. In other
words, it is an established axiom of
international sea-borne trade that
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Their owners pay taxes, direct or in
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nation grows richer. A careful es
timate indicates that we shall have
our 125.000,000 back *n about ten
years. After that it should pay in
creasing dividends past a minimum
lot! ten per cent.
j Does the reader recall our nation
wide protest when we started the
[Panama Canal? Never .pay for it
Iself in the world! White elephant
[ Crazy Congress- That is, all crazy
except those like the Senator who
made the speech hotly criticising
Junketers for using naval vessels to
convoy them back and forth in order
that their legislation on the subject
might be sensible. Now the Canal is
paying for itnelf so fast that Uncle
Sam works overtime figuring out his
Give a thought to what the Canal
did for’Cape Horn.
Of coure the United States is not
going to be isolated by a new trade
route to the same sad degree as the
Horn has been. But something of
the sort will take place. And we are
going to thank our lucky stars tba*
Alaska is there like a corner service
station on top of the world to sell
gas and peanuts to the passer-by.
Point Barrow is just half way ac
ross. There ought to b»* a metrop
olis on that desolate beach some day.
For when dirigibles and planes are
hopping in and out at the rate of
several hundred every twenty-four
hours, carrying goods and passen
gers back and forth between a bill
ion human beings in Europe and
Asia, the same thing is going to hap
pen there that hapnened at Chicago
Men called the West a wooly wild
CTTiess, ju.^t as they now call the pol
ar sea an icy desert. But when Lo?
Angeles and San Francisco and So
attle began doing business on a large
scale with Boston. New York and
Philadelphia, as the saying is. hell
began to pop. And the focus of the
noise was at Chicago. Likewise,
when London and Paris and Copen
hagen begin their polar trade with
Tokyo. Vladivostok. and Peking
about the spring of 1925 Point Bar
row will be spoken of by its leading
citizens as the “Chicago of the
The Shenandoah’s success will
also have a tremendously beneficial
effect upon the morale of commer
c-al aviation in the United States. Of
the major Powers we are the most
backward nation in aircraft develop
ment. To most people the cause of
our delinquency is not clear. The
j np the money. Capital can not often
be swayed' toward any new project
until the project is of proven value.
Aui even ufer the proving there hi»
to f>»* some sort of bomb to provide
the final jolt.
There is the case of the now fam
ous Look Beach oil fields near Los
j Angeles; one of the richest oil domes
the world has known right in the
center of a city. The first wildcat
well came in in 1921. But not until
a neighboring well exploded and shot
a gas flame two hundred feet into
the air for five days with a roar that
could be hoard for ten miles did cap
ital really provide enough money to
develop the Held.
It is that way with the polar air
route. Five months of perfect wea
ther. Son doesn't ever set. Helium
making dirigibles absolutely fool
proof. Enormous loads easily car
ried. Freight rate* bound to be
sin all. Development of similar
routes all over the. United States.
But no money to put the scheme
through simply because nature has
not rho means she had at Long
Ihsich to joit f.unds loose from those
wiio have them. Hence the justice
of our Navy’s initiative.
One aspect of the flight is really
thrilling, even while far-fetched.
Amundsen's activity baa drawn con
siderable attention to Norway’s In
terest in the unexplored area of the
polar sea. This area is over 1.000,
000 square miles in extent, the larg
est unknown space on the globe.
During September, 1923. Norway
reminded Denmark that the Vikings
discovered Greenland in 985 A. D.
Norse colonists followed later and by
the end of the fourteenth century
had built up large and wealthy vil
lages with inhabitants to the nura
| tv r of 10.000. Thus, despite the
I fact that although Denmark sold the
f Virgin Islands to us in 191B and put
jit: the bargain that we must reiin
jqnish all claim to Peary’s and Kane's
j explorations, her title to her Green
land settlements still seems by no
Following the train of thought set
tup by Norway’s action and Amund
! sen's plans. wo are led to speculate
| upon the fate of her original col
J It will be reuieniberd that early in
tlie fifteenth century Europe went
: !nto about the same sort of hysteria
'that struck the world in 1914. Her
j cities became a shambles and her
population seemed almost to evap
orate under the ghastly mortality of
ian awful plague that swept every
j corner of the land.
Greenland fell out of the minds of
linen. Tn 1410 the last ship is known
1 to have made the voyage between
^the home country and her colonies,
i Thereafter even the sea route was
' forgotten. The haopy. prosperous
J colonies were abandoned to their
(fate. In Bergen today may be seen
the original receipts for oil and ivory
that were sent by thp Greenlandic
j pioneers as their contribution to the
Crusades.
j Some two hundred years later a
party of Copenhagen merchants es
!sayed » cruise to the northwest and
'rediscovered Greenland. They
j brought back the tragic news that
the colony had completely disappear
No reasonable answer to the rid
dle has ever been established. The
Luace-lovJng Eskimo t'-uld not p »
|sibly have attack* d the Norsemen,
j Eskimos have neither organization
! nor weapons; and they are consti
tutionally opposed to any sort or
combativoness. The v
not sail away in ships
no ships, nor lumber
hite men did
for they had
o make them
of. Disease was not the cause or
their disappearance, for perms do
not flourish in that climate.
Native tradition describes the Nor
wegians emigrating in a body to
wards the* north. Moreover, the
I Eskimos claim t.h;ut a land of mod
erate climate and game aplenty lies
I that way.
J Whence we may arrive at the fas
ifloating conclusion that there may
jbe in the midst of the polar sea a
httherto undiscovered laud to which
'the lost Norsemen wandered; and
that the ZR-1 or Captain Amundsen
j may trnd their survivors there alive
i The theory sounds far-fetched
enough. But it is interesting to
[note how far science and known facts
[support it.
I For instance. Dr. Harris, the tidal
j expert, avers that bis study of Arctic
[currents has led him to the incontro
vertible conclusion that there must
jbe a large maas of land in the polar
jsea somewhere to the Northeast of i
Alaska. Peary declared that he saw [
j land In this vicinity. Whalers cruis
ling north of Barrow in open season]
ihave made similar reports.
! Regarding a relative warmth of j
|climate we are compelled to strain j
our imaginations considerably. It]
i can be pointed out that the center of j
[ the unexplored area lies in the sies-,
jmic axis of Japan and the Aleutians.
' And that Iceland, on the opposite
[shoulder of the globe, is one of the
most intensely volcanic spots on
j earth; that an engineering project
| to heat the whole of Iceland by hur
ir.easing its natural sources of heat
has made considerable progress;
[that wild orchids protected by nat
ural springs bloom out of doors in
j the dead of Arctic winter at Disco,
iGreenland. All in a way indicate
that a territory heated by subterran
ean fires is a conceivable phenom
enon even in the center of the polar
I But it is by no means necessary
I to go so far in order to justify the
Navy in sending out the ZR-1.
I The chances of land are very sub
stantial. That it is inhabited is a
I good deal more remotely possible,
though Stefansson found isolated
j Eskimos in the Coronation Gulf re
jgion thad had never even heard of a
I The real point is that such a land,
even if little more than a rocky, ice
girt mass in the middle of the polar
pack, would inevitably control the
j Alaska is not more strategically 1
|situated than Iceland or Spitzbergen j
ion the European side, or Northeast i
.'Siberia on the Asiatic side. We may
look for its profiting in the early
iyears of Arctic aviation mostly be-'
cause we are in a position to sustain
lit economically. But from an ulti-*
I mate military point of view Alaska
J is not wholly what wfe want in that
! More to our taste would certainly
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tween Alaska and the Pole. That
lent reasons to believe. But it will
not be «>urs unless we get there first.
A final interring point arises as t<»
the validity of our claim even ,f we
do get there first.
Great Britain through her Cana
dian sovereignty theoretically con
trols th** North American archipeli
go lying toward the Pole from Can
ada. In effect, the new land would
belong to this category.
On the other hand, if any sort of
inhabitants are discovered, then Nor
way will have basis for her claim.
Even if. as was the ease at Banks
Load, these natives have only signs
of an intermixture ol white blood it
Is possible that scientific reasoning
might lead to proof or early Norse
colonization.
The pressure of decision in such an
event would really depend upon the
military and economic outlook.
There are lovely islands on the Pac
ific today that no one claim simply
because they couldn't harbor a bat
tleahip, land a plane, or pay divi
dends on any commercial Invest
On tho other hand a deposit of
32,000,000 tons of coal was recent
Ij discovered in Saskatchewan and
oil is now' flowing within a stone's
throw of the Arctic Circle. So the
new-found polar continent may
prove a rich bone to squabble over.
Summing up: The Zft-1> trans
polar flight is daring but not fool
hardy. It is expensive but not ex
travagant. It covers a desert of ice.
but one which, like other deserts,
may contain an oasis. The Navy’s
investment ran pay no dividends;
mous National profit both in dollars
and in security. The flight may be
called a stunt, and propaganda, and
waste of Government money meant
for things nearer home. Yet spec
quired to rouse us from our daily
lethargy. And nothing is waste of
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