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irr • Keeping the Horse Before the Cart '• A word from the wise mayn't be out of place at this pertickler i season of the year, with so many j fernanchel boogaboos a-lookin' us ,j square in the eyes. I got my wis dom from the skule of experi ence. I started to that skule when I wus too leetle to wear anything but a ieeue slip of a frock made "rom the scraps left from pap's homespun shirts. Leastwise, as fur back as I could recollect I wus so leetle hit wus considered downright extrava gance to hire shoes made fer leetle shavers that weren’t big enough to do nothing but cat and sleep and be around in the way. Us leetle shavers sot in the corner by the far in the winter j time a-bakin’ us toes and shins. .. a-tryin' to keep warm. Them a b f c's of my' early experience wus ' hard to master. I thought, hit -j wus plum downright cruelty to f animals amost not to be allowed to have shoes in the winter lark the bigerns, so's I could git out In the snow and play. Blit when I axed why I couldn't have shoes I wus told many a time. "When you git bigger nuff to work ouo some shoes you can have some, and not before.” Now wouldn't hit J be a fine piece of business these it days ef everybody that is able to work had to work out what they g got afore they got hit? Glory ? be! Well, hit seemed lack ages afore that eventful time come around. I member I wus big enough that fall to ride with pap and help him haul corn, or least wise my job was settin’ up be side pap on the callog extension a-twistin' of ole Buck's tail to git him to shamble along faster. Pap told me I wus gettin' to be a shore nuff leetle man and ef I kept a-bein’ smart when Uncle Jake Stubbs come round that winter a-makin' up the family winter shoes, maybe he’d have me a pair made too. I wus so tickled I most twisted Buck's tail off and he come nigh runnin’ away. I felt myself expandin’ sev eral inches in every direction. ine neignt oi my ambition l wus to git big enough to hitch i up Buck to the cyart right by j myself and go alone to the mill ; for the family bread. And after' many years and years hit seem- I • ed I finally experienced that 1 i thrill. I'm shore nobody ever tuck j ; a scursion trip they enjoyed bet i ter than I did on my first goin' to mill by myself. Uncle Miller called me "young man" and I growed several more inches right there on the spot, hit peared. i Well, I though I wus gittin’ big enough to know my a b c's ex- ! periences by heart, but as time; raced ahead I have found that there is times all along through life that we need to go back and review over our a b c's in order to git up some of our lessons of I experience so's we can pass on | our ever'day exams. Sometimes! we fairly have to skin us back in order to squeeze through. Well, them words ring in my years to day that wus repeated to me years and years ago—"When you git big enough to work out, some shoes you can have some." I and Mandy have tried to apply that same rale lo our mak in’ a livin' experience all along through these years—to work out what you git afore you git. hit. I hain't exactly a-braggin’ on I and Mandy but we come as near workln’ out our hog and hominy afore we git hit as ary tenant on Need Moore's farms. Need says f and: Mandy keep the boss afore the cyart instid of the cyart afore the hoss. In other words, cl we; don’t make nothin' to git with. I we don't do much' gittin'. And an other thing I do, my brother renters, is to preciate somewhere to live enough to keep the farm 1 in a spink and spank condition so’s hit will advertise the kind of feller I want tire- public to think I am. Why not preciate our landlords? What on earth would we poor cusses do thout a shelter to git under? And wc. the landlords that's skimped and saved and gone through all man ner of hardships who makes that possible fer us havin' a shelter to git under. Why in the name of 1 Jerry don't we look with favor on theifi and try to cooperate with | 'em instid of tryin' to take what. I they’ve got in our possession and lord it over them and all their I possessions. Here's what Need1 says about me. "Siam, you've got a home here with me as long as you want a home. Jest as long as.you keep on a-keepin' on lack you've been keepin'." Notv. my brother tenant, in or der to make a success of this rentin' business, we must not rise with the sun. but InStid we must rise by the moon and go to bed by the moon. Sunrise gittin’ up won't do fer these short days. But ef. brother tenant, you have hustled up, done the mornin' jobs, et your breakfast and has started or got to yer day's work by sun up that will do mighty well and good for a good will do purty well fer a good day's start. And ef you’ll keep buckin’ to hit six days in a week hit will shore do you good and ] help you too in more ways than1 ."fie .. 1 By SIAM CLODHOPPER That's the way 1 and Mundy got started and I and Mandy’s alius got bread ef hit does take; a lot of sweat from the brow to git hit. And another thing I and Mondy don’t do and that is knock off on a Saddy evenin’. We go to us meeting one Saddy in each month in the middle of the day: to git a morsel of speritual food to keep us tempers oiled upi through the followin’ week, but] mind you. by keepin’ everlastin’ at hit we keep us work rounded up1 so’s when Need comes over to; look over us crap we hain’t! ashamed to look him in the face j ner afeard he’ll stroll down to I the backest side of us lower field. I He alius leaves in a mity good I humor, and says. "Ef there’s any- i thing you need. Siam, you can I git hit.” That encouragement does I and Mandy a world of good. We know Need trusts us and hit makes us feel good to think we’ve worked hard fer that trust afore I we got hit—keepin' the hossl afore the cyart, you see. Why, I and Mandy’s done got us winter farwood done sawed up and enuf stove wood done cut and racked up fer us and another neighbor or two. They alius run short and come over to borry a leetle dry ever now and then, so we alius prepare fer mergency cases. And ef there is anything that gives me cold chills up and down my backbone in August is to let me git in a push with my work then hear the women folks squall out. j "Ef you expect much more ra tions cooked ye’d better stop and! git some stovewood. That’s enuf j to make a cussin’ man let go. Well, my brother renter, ef ye hain’t attended to that vital nec essity. I‘d advise ye to git out from around the ashes betwixt showers and lay .vo in a suunlv. It’s simply gittin’ the cyart be hind the hoss. We all want to eat, rain, snow or shine, and ef we don”t keep everlastin’ly at the time, we're eatin’ the rations i this preparation business, lot of! our landlords have done exposed1 theyselves through the heat and cold to git and makin’ of us selves deadbeats. None of us like ! to be called deadbeats, but that's; a mighty fittin’ name fer some j of us fellers that’s settin’ baok with us legs crossed up on a' cloudy day expectin’ hit to rain1 atter a while, or air burnin* cred-; it gas jest to be parsin' away the time ontwell the ground gits dry i enough to plow. Honest, I and I Mandy’s done got my stalks cut, I ditch banks cleaned off. my ditches cleaned out, and my new fence posts in along where they’re needed. And there is alius a few a-givin’ way specially where folks} crawl over fer convenience. Mast, of them though, in gittin’ over a bout middle way betwixt the post and ride down the wire so low that its up to a feller to go round bis fields three or four times a year so’s to keep the feller’s stock that’s still usin’ free range from devourin' his labor. There is one outstandin' pint' about tltr feller that keeps ever lastinly a-hittin* ’em—ye skacely; ever hear of-one of ’em gittin in jail. Ef we’ll do our bounden doo ly, brother renters, we won’t have rime to hunt up trouble enougn to git in jail. Need wus down last week a-lookin' around and he wus some pleased at my cleanin’ up and gittin’ my wood ahead of time. He said that wus a sam ple of a fur-sited brain and ho said, ’ Siam, old man. I'm proud of you and Mandy.” And he pulled out a square of boughten tobacco and gin me and he gin j me a quarter to give to Mandy to buy her a bladder of her favorite brand of snuff. Need’s a big- i hearted feller and I know I help j him to keep big-hearted by givin' i him a square deal in time and j labor. He seen my big pile of wood and axed me whereabouts I got hit, and I told him I’d been followerin’ his advice he gin me when I fust rented from him and that advise wus to git my wood around the edges of the fields as 1 there is alius quite a lot of tim ber a-growin’ up close to the fields a-suckin’ the strength from the crops. I told him I wus a thinkin’ of takin’ in a leetle streak of new ground so’s to have I something to work on when I ketched up with all my work through the winter and spring t j. weather. He slapped me on the shoulder and said. “Siam, you air a cinch, you shore air.’’ He says. “Go to hit. and I and you will go halves on the wood you git off of hit. And you may have all you can make on the land for three years. Hear?” I says. “Much er bleege and thanky too.’’ I seen where I wus gointer git my spring tonic from thout pullin’ money outen my pocket. Ef work in' in a new ground won’t give ye an appetite fer three square meals a day. ye needn’t send after none of these new fashion ed patent peruny tonics to do hit —ye air jest a gone case, that’s all. Now besides makin’ a favorable expression with Need by showin’ him my willingness to do a lot of extra work that most tenants won’t turn they hands to becasc hit’s a lectio hard on they mus cles. I'm goin’ to git a big thing outen this new ground business. Outside of the spring tonic hit will furnish me. which will well pay me fer the extra work. I’ll git not less than 25 dollars fer my part of the wood, enough to buy Mandy’s snuff and a leetle store boughten terbacker to use when I go to meetings and it’ll help mightily to pay my taxes and git the extra few needs sich as plow works along through the sum mer. so’s Mandy can lay aside her agg and chicken money to buy shoes and a dress or two I’ve been promisin' her fer a couple of years. Then too I’m goin’ to make a bumper crop of sweet taters in that new ground and plant ’em early so’s to ketch the top of the market and you see I'm to git all of them and I'm dead shore of giftin' fifty or more bushels which at a dollar a bushel will fetch me 50 dollars and by diggin’ them early I’ll plant Irish pertaters as a second crap and a new ground wall make as many Irish pertaters as a feller will have time to house at that time of the year. We’ll have plenty of Irish pertaters fer us selves through the winter and plenty fer us neighbors who fer trit to provide sich things who rxpect you to divide the last thing you've got with ’em. And ■' iiiascs a migniy nne teehn from their side of hit and the iivcr has the scripture ail on his ide which has some consolation n hit, “It is better to give than ■o receive." We'll have, ef the fats don’t eat 'em. and we can ceep 'em from freezin', all the leetle underlin’ taters to plant next spring that'll save a couple :>f dollars and as I'm to have this particular piece of ground ter two more years fer my over industriosity I'm going to have a couple of brag patches of corn for these two other year.* that will net me around 50 dollars, with the peas added in that I expect to grow. So some of you flow-poke tenants can ad at your leisure how much profit I'll git in dollars and cents and see ef 1 ain’t goin't to git a big thing outen what some of you lazy fellers would call nothin’ to start, with. The biggest thing about it is l he purty example I'm sett.in’ a f armin'. Ef jest a few fellers would fuller my example, how things would pick up though, and 1 hem fellers what follows would be selling sich good examples Dial, still more fellers would take tiler them and so on down the inr oni well it thought spread lack the wildfire we read about in these grassy countries. And another thing, brother ten mis. ef your crop is rented on hares, sec to hit that your land lord gits ever' mite of his shares. I've known tenants that would to about in the cornfield and pull roastin’ years here and yander. n' cut down corn In the stalk on Die back of the fields where hit wouldn't show, and tote corn from the back of the field to feed he stock on afore housin’ time; •lippin* terbacker off and spilin' nit unbeknownst to the landlord nr scratchin' taters and eatin’ 'em 'way afore housin' time of slip bin’ fruit off and disposin' of hit without the knowledge of the land owner; sltppln’ down m ’the woods and cuttin' down valuable liglitwood trees and other timber ~~****«» iui lacwuuu alter 1(1 d plainly told 'em posts wus tittin skerce and tO' bum the ivaste on the ground: I've even, Hearn of one or two that actually -ut up some of his landlord's tor backer sticks fer stovewood. Now we'd hate to be called roughs but what air we then ef we air guilty Jt these things? Now I'm asham ed of the whole dadbum lot of ve. that air guilty of any of these offences. Ef any of you air guilty af any of these charges I hope they will never agatrttft ytr cases any more, and we'll never hear of 'em again. We can be jest as good, honest and upright as our landlords and a whole lot more ° than many of them ef we’ll work hard enough to keep the hoss afore the cyart. We don’t have to own land ner dress fine in order to be honest and hon orable and a first class citizen, nul we do have to lmve a dean 'character woven into our ever' day lives to help keep the hoss ibefrorit the cyan. Jenuary has passed out and I let’s thank God fcr sparing us. ; Let's git on our knees and pray over our shortcomin's and ef i there is any kinks in our past 1 dealin's with our landlords let's lask God to help us git 'em out, ! and less spot in us hands and I lake a fresh February start, and may God bless ever’ one of us i that tries and pity them that don't. May these next eleven | months find us tendin' to our own business one half of the time land spendin' the other half of our lime a-lettin' the other fel ler's business alone. I’m shore our landlords will be better ef we’ll 'only t.ui'ii over a new leaf. I F. S. I most forgot to say : that I and Mantiy have done I killed our three let lie runt shol.es J that net ted us 215 pounds, and for which we air truly thankful. I Now ef it weren't that Brother i .liner stopped with us so much I'm shore hit would lie a plenty, and I'm trustin' Mandy to stretch hit and make hit last anyhow. The way she's makin' her lard ; last is. she puts jest half as much in her biscuits as she would ef we had a whole lot, then take lout half of that much, and we I don't be bothered with indtges I tion. ON MAKING A MAN Sr M bit. Getting out a good newspaper is a fascinating task, but it is • also a difficult one. N'o ether job that comes to mind is quite so taxing, ;-o hurried or demands greater pains. From the moment i a newspaper is started, be it either daily or weekly, the work is carried on under pressure, a race again.-t time. Put ycurscif in | an editor’s position—could you do ! it? •Could you, for example, spell correctly, off band, the names of j a large percentage of the resu id.nts of the town? If you could do that could you write their I initials correctly without resort I ir g to the telephone directory or bother authority? Could you write I down, offhand, the names of your city officials, getting all the iisimts, initials, and offices cor i oat? Cculd you gather the 11'leads cif a story from a half dozen persons and weave them :rto an intelligent, readable ac count the first writing-? Could > _ u write seven columns c.f ma terial of 1200 .to 1400 words each in two or three days, week after week, year after year, and when yi:;u had finished thbse seven, pound out two or three columns i •more before press time? In writing a headline, could you cai! | to mind in a mbnient enough J synonyms so that you would m: ! repeat the main thought an the i 'Same words? Could you judge in j a minimum c>? it'me what size I headlines and wh<a>l position in the 1 p.:per should be given each of the j 7,500 or mere stories that might ' g> ir.'to your paper? Could you j decide in a moment, or exerc:--.- j ' -nap” judgment- on the d'ozen-. of questions a newspaper man i lTi-ust face daily and get a major ity of thrm cor roc l? VVV won’t time y~.<u —but if you c«;lilt! do these few simple things *i'nd a thousand and r,nc more dif- : f-.ei:!L ones, yen should be a news- \ 1' apt. r editor. The point -we wish to moke is, that, one can produce a goo I mwspapur only after cortitu;a!, j diligent study and years of pr.ac ttical experience. You have hear ! j dozens of persons remark that i they could turn out a new, pupo.J and a good one, too, a VH bettor, in fart, than the one they are getting. That is not true, unless they 'have gone through the year. and study that a good new -paper demands of its makers. 'Were it not for the peculiar fascination associated with news paper work, there would he no oeiw spa pens, for there Ls no great er tiKsknvaker .and money alone would ibe fur too scant conipensa \ i c n.—1VI op roe K nqiri rer. 19301 Catalog of [ WOODS SF.F.ns Mailed free on request I Write for it. Illustrated and con tains valuable in formation for the farmer drgardener T.W.WOOD L-SONS Seedsmen Since IG79 55 5.1V5tRichmond. Va. I Weatherforecast broadcast dailv at6:58P.M.station WRVA.270.1 meters Mother, Home and Heaven An Essay By J. Ruffin Johnson While a Student at Turlinirton Institute. Sniithfield. N. C., in 18!)!). In Contest For Medal Won By Miss Rena Bingham. Now Mrs. T. J. Lassiter, Editor of The Herald. The sweetest and most treas ured words of the English langu age are. Mother. Home and Heaven. Mother is both the morn ing and the evening star of life. Clod has been pleased t.o adorn the earth with many beautiful and movable things; yet Ho has given us nothing that brings to our soul ihe joy and happiness which we realise when we, at morning look into mother’s face as we hie away to school, and view 1 hat furrowed brow, anxious eye. and silvered tresses, white by ilv frosts of many years; and realize by lire kiss imprinted upon our cheek that her soul is filled with love for us. Can a mother's love be sup plied'.’ No! no! a thousand times no! By the deep earnest yearn ings of our spirit for mother’s love, by I he weary aching void in our hearts by (he restless, un satisfied wanderings of our af fections ever seeking an object on which lo rest, and by all the blessings and comforts earth can afford, by all these we answer no! O. how oft’ do I sigh for the kiss, the anxious look, and kind words once received from a mother; but alas, ’tis too late, for God has been pleased to say to her spirit "come up higher" and now her body lies beneath the clay awaiting the resurrection morn. How little we appreciate a mother while living. But when she is dead and gone, and we ex perience how hard it is to find a true friend, how few will love us. how few will comfort us in sorrow and disappointment, then it is we think of the loving moth er we have lost. Only the orphan can realize what a mother is. O. a mother's grave! How oft do our thoughts take us back to the Place where we one day stood ire tide a eoffm m which lay the cold form of one who had cared for us in childhood, guided our feet tn tlie paths of duty, and one "’hose car had always lie™ open and ready to give attention when we should call for mother; but on this memorable day when I gazed "P"h that once bright, but now cold, pale face and said: "Mother. 0 mother, why have you left me alone?" Then pausing a moment ( realized that her lips were clos ed to part no more. Then it wa 1 realized what mother means. Earth has some sacred spots. foul none are so •.acre.;! as the -•Pot where rests the remains of our mother. Around such places our thoughts twine and bind as wild vines around a tree. Day •nter day docs one’s mind, when iie has gone off in disobedience to his mother take him back on the wings of recollect ion to home and mother. How vivid he recalls sene after scene of his mother as site bows her tottering form by her bedside at night and how distinctly he hoars the words as they fail from her lips entreating! God to show her son the path of duty and help him to walk there in. “How thought less I was,” sayt lie. "in my boyhood." 1 knew not , then iiow a mother loved a son A mother’s love is strong and tin-j though he may have fallen into msgrace and ambrares him to her bosom and imprints upon his sin marked cheek, a kiss whose | meaning is too deep for words to I express. What is life without home and mother? The orphan only ran answer this. Truly we may say. mother is the angel 1 pint of home and life. Home, sweet home, "There is no place like home. There are many things that earth may offer for comfort and happiness; but I nothing causes our hearts io beat with the warm impulse i ihat it does, when we meet I around the fireside with loved! ones in our little home on the hill. There is no heart so hard i or sinful that does not beat with | ffection at the thought of home and mother. We do not think of home in its purity until we are deprived, of its comforts and pleasant as sociations. What is home? Ask i he wayfarer as he moves slowly onward with tremulous steps, his iace furrowed, his locks silvered by the invisible hand of time, and his frame bent by the load of age. He will tell you it is an oasis in life's desert. As the traveler finds there, water with which to quench his thirst and trees under whose branches he may rest his wearied feet, so. does the wayfarer find himself' time after time standing by the1 old well just back of the little cabin, drinking of its sparkling water, and then sitting down in ihe shade of the old oak tree by ;he gateway, listening to the. mocking bird's song, and sips of ihe sweet perfume of the flow ers of the field, while mother is busy about her work and from her lips are falling in sweetest strains, "Home Sweet Home." How sweet the memory of home and mother. How often is the convict taken by the sweet memory of home and mother, rrom his fallen and degraded con-'! dltion and raised for a moment, lo perfect happiness, but alas! i when he thinks bf himsel* de graded as he is. away from home and mother, then it is that he can tell you what life is without these. You may leave the home of your childhood and have a palace to dwell in, and among the pictures which adorn your parlor, hangs the picture of the old home, and in that picture you may see, through fancy, a mother bowed by her cot asking God to give her son a home at last in heaven. You may take this picture from the wall; but an invisible hand rehangs it. You may see it no matter how great tiie darkness may be. Home is the moral oasis of the heart. Here is a mother’s watchful love, a father's sustaining influence and here we are all happy in each other’s love. Take from us mother, home and the hope of heaven and then all other things earth could offer would be but as stinging serpents. Home is the magic circle where in the wound ed spirit and bleeding heart find ust when met by a smile and comforting word from a loving mother. Every heart beats with warm impulse at the thought of Mother, Home and Heaven, and what a blessing it is when weary with care and burdened with sor iow. to have a home to which we may go and there meet a true lriend: mother. i uc memory oi nomc ana mother can never, no never be forgotten. Let a man go where he will, gain or lose what he may, these will never be lost. Let him stand on the banks of the great Mississippi River and even the water as it goes hurrying on its way to the mighty deep will sing "Home sweet home." Let him stand on the mountain top and gaze on the beautiful flowers as they wave to and fro to gladden the organs of smell with their fragrance and they too softly whisper. ' Home." As the nightingale swings to and fro on the branches of the elm tree and from his little throat are bursting forth many sweet notes, his little heart happy and content because he is at home; they too seem to say to the or phan. "Home, beautiful home of my childhood." What a sad pic ture is the homeless orphan. Let us turn our minds for a moment heavenward. What treas ured letter are H-E-A-V-E-N when combined. "Heaven.” That name touches every fiber, awak ens hope in every soul and makes! the heart rejoice amid all the' dark scenes of this toilsome life.1 The hope of heaven makes smooth the maddened waves as they roll on life’s stormy ocean. Heaven is our last and eternal home, the home of God and His holy angels. This is a most beau tiful home. A home where the sun never sets and the leaves never fade. A home where sickness and sorrow has no being. Its gates arc of pearl. Its walls of jasper and its streets arc of pure gold, and here the death angel has long since ceased to sway his scepter. In this home we' hope to meet .vou all; and especially "Mother.” To inherit this home it costs a great price. Jesus paid the price. Yes gave His life in order that we might spend the endless years of eternity with God at home in heaven. Heaven is the home towards which all Iho righteous are tread ing with steady footsteps. In fancy, methinks I can see those who have entered the portals, now easting their glittering crowns at the Saviour's feel and clapping their .hands in praise to '.lie most high. Methinks I can dear the harping Angel strike on nil the golden chords, and send forth, to welcome those who have come through the valley of the. shadow of death, and crossed the dark, cold waters of the Jordan, the sweet .trains of "Home sweet home." O, that it is as fancy paints it! And when this heart shall have ceased to beat, and the cold hand, death, shall have wrapped our bodies in eternity's robe, and the sealed tomb be our only home; and earthly friends can help us no more. O. 'thou guard ing angel bear our spirits away on your snowy wings to our mother at home in heaven. When our bodies lie in their cold beds of earth, our souls have taken their flight to cross the river whose waters will not be chilly. Methinks I can hear sweet strains' of "Home sweet home." Through an eye of faith me ihmks f can see mother, as she stands within the pearly gates singing praises to God and be ckoning to her son as he ap proaches the river of death. O may God grant to give us ■ lor our last and eternal home. Heaven." Then we will give thanks, through the numberless ] rears of eternity to the King of | Kings and Lord of Lords. A glance at heaven I long to see. though to none on earth is aiven: Still three words more dear lo me a~r. "Mother, Home and Heaven." - Farmer: "No I wouldn't think1 of chargin’ ye fer the cider, j rhat'd be bootleggin’—an’ praise ' the Lord, I ain’t come to that! vet. The peck o’ potatoes ’ll be five dollars. ANTARTIC ICE MENACES WORLD Thaw at South Pole Would liaise All Ocean Levels; \ alue of Byrd’s Flight; Scientific Knowl edge of Vast Importance Re vealed By Exploration. By Caleb Johnson. Commander Richard E. Byrd s flight ever the South Pole ha.i revived interest in a part of the world of which less is known than cf any ether region of the earth. Yet on the question of wheth er or not the ice-cap at the South Pole is thawing or not the fate of the whole world lite-all.v dc pends! If the ice-cap is getting thick er it means that moisture whie.n otherwise would fall on settled lands in the form of rain is oeing stored permanently as snow at the South Pole; it also means that the level of the sea is giad ually falling. On the other hand, if the Antarctic ice is diminish ing in thickness from year to year, the level of the ocean must ibe rising. If the mass of the mountain ranges and polar pla teau is principally ice, geologists have calculated that the melting of the entire mass would raise the occ-an level fifty feet, com pletely submerging Holland and Belgium and parts of Germany and France, putting nearly all of Florida under water, flooding New York. Boston, and every ot.ier lew-lying seacoast city, and changing the map of the whole It will take many exploring expeditions and the-comparison of data over many years to get the true answer to the question o' the South Polar ice. ut almost equal importance to the people cf the Southern Hum sphere is the study of the winds of Antarctia, which blow in an almost continuous gale from West to East. For all the nations south of the Equator the Antarctic is the breeding place of storms, and a study of weather signs near the pole may be of great aid in fu ture (Weather forecasting for South America, Africa and Aus tralia, as well as for navigators on the stormy southern seas. If there were no other knowl edge to be gained, South Pole ex ploration would be justified, in spite of its terrific hardships, far greater than those encounter ed in the search for the North Pole. The easiest way to understand the dificulty of South Polar ex ploration is to compare that end of the earth with the northern North cf GO* north latitude mil lions of people live; Petra grad, the capital of the Czars, lies al most on the 60* line while more than half of Russia, all of Fin land, most of Sweden and Nor way, almost all of Alaska, half of Canada, all of Greenland an(j Ice land, are farther north. And be yond these lands the North Po:o is a point in the middle of an ice ccvered ocean. South .of 60* south latitude ii an open stretch of the stormiest ocean in the world, broken on'.;; bv one group of uninhabitated is lands, the South Shetland*. Not h single human being lives south of the 60* line, or within several hundred miles cf it. But beyond the Antarctic Sea lies the great1 continent of Antarctica, a body of land twice as large as the whole United States, <5,000,000 square miles, an,i in the center cf this1 continent, on a plateau 10,000 feet above sea level, surrounded by mountain ranges from two to ‘ three miles high, is the South Pole. DR. J. C. MANN The Well Known Eyesight Specialist and Optician will be at his office in Stevens Bldg, next to Postoffice Bldg. Smithfield, N. C. every second Friday in each month from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Headache relieved when caused by eyestrain. Over 20 years daily experience in examining eyes. When he fits you with glasses you have the satisfac tion of knowing they are cor rect. Remember the date and see him if your eyes are weak. Children with Teak eyes should have them examined before school opens, His next visit will bw— FRIDAY, MARCH 14 The coast of Antarctica is sur rounded iby 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 con tinent is also covered with ice ex cept around the crater of the ac tive volcano, Mount Erebus, and where rocky mountain cliffs re tain through the lcng winter enough stored sun heat to melt the snow as it falls. In the north polar regions ani mal and vegetable life flourish. Polar bears, foxes, wolves, er mine, reindeer, are among the fa miliar land animals of t^e north. The world’s greatest supply of merchantable timber lies north of GO* and many kinds of ed’blo 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 vegetable 'life is moss and lichens. -It never rains in Antarctica; 'even in midsummer the tempera ture is around or below freezing. The sunrays in December and January give explorers the im tlie seasons being reversed every where south, of the Equator; the sunlight comes from the North instead of from the South. Byrd's flight was made in the warmest season of the whole year. Byrd was not the first explorer to reach the South Po-le. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian, reaen cd the Poltf on December It. 1.911, 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 Polo nr .Tiinunrw 1Q l!il2. Twenty or so other expe ditions have explored parts of Antarctica since 1840. None 'as covered as much ground as Byrd did in his single flight, in wnicii it is estimated he had under nis eyes 164,000 .square miles of territory, nearly one-thirtieth of the whole continent. The photog raphic 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, perhaps, 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 dia monds. Nothing less valuable than those would tempt adventurers to this bleak and almost inaccessible end cf the earth. The staff of geologists, meteor ologists, botanists, and other sci entists in the ' Byrd party are gathering data which may prove cf priceless value in time. 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The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.)
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