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evirlfw macn actlv 1ue americas peary yriviljvfl ldlioccil ivary had built so many hopes around ikil imnftlt crossing greenland that ho actually fvlilg tl luc llwul r x n j ru a him when ha read in tha papera oaa morning a career of achievement ill that nauaen had done this imposs- i many fields lies behind thcreare perhaps on the whole o fridtjof nansen the ram- lew royal roads to greatness but they i ous explorer who is now comparatively numerous in the lit a j vrl field of exploration for whero else f visiting america and who do ym dscover so manv achievemt instead of resting oil his whlc hfne public believes to be itu- laurels plans at the age possible or superhuman but which c a7 m rvt those on tho inside know to be easy of 67 new conquests m l- who sto tells us the polar regions i in nikjjui hftppy in the wilderness of midontario lly vilhjaumur slefanssoo noted arc- j tie kxplorer scientist and authoi in new york heraldtilbune several travelers including myself ara used to beii presented to audi ences where no other well known traveler present as the greatest living extdorer but when no po tentially jealous explorer is present and when men ot information and judgment in the matter are gathered together tho name is always the same that of frihjot nansen that citizen of the world born in norway who has just lauded in xow york for a tovr through the united states there are several explorers living who nro great in their own fields if used to wink at each other in passing on this fortunate peculiarity of ex i ploratiou tho ease ot us lilticult i achievements is based too that sysj tem of ethics which makes it the in- j forgivable sin for an explore- to lake j tho public into his confidence about j tow easy soniu of the heralded feats j really were it is safe by now how- i ever to tell the truth aboutthe cross- ling of greenland for both of the cbnj tenders peary and nansen have since j risen to unassailable heiehts recog- nied as leaders in their craft by ex plorers as well as by the public their reputations now rest safely on the do ins of really great and fundamentally j important as well as difficult things zlt is the mood of children to kick at obstructions the small and petulant you concede greatness at all to a craft of this nature hut xauseu so far as wo can judge would havo hoeit a great or at leaet a distinguished and outstanding man had he followed sl- un most any other congenial occupation i lavgll gvwt there had been and many occupations are con- hteh genial to him for he is a man of varied tastes and numerous talents ho did not win the nobel prize for instance through any achievement in the line ot exploration or through work whore his previous distinctions helped him materially ho won it in the humanitarian task of marshaling i ho relief forces of tho world afcainst that russian famine which has been made lu our eyes even more terrible than it was by the propagandists who wora trying to blame it exclusively on bolshevism it was terrible enough in reality even it you believed it to i ba wholly o- chiefly tho result of de ficient rainfall and ot other natural and at present uncontrollable condi tions nansen started in life as a biolo gist- he bad already won recognition in this field and was curator ot the bergen natural history museum when only twentyono years old his in terest in human iifo on tho sea was natural for he was a descendant ot those lords ot the northern oceans the vikings who had dominated kurope through their shipcraft a thousand years before his interest in the animal life ot the saa was equally natural for the woalth of norway today and her lead ing occupations are dependent to a groat extent on fisheries tho plants of tho sea would ihlererl him too for it is on them that the animals live wtich glvo occupation and wealth to the people the temperatures and currents and other physical conditions of the water must interest him as well for upon these in tho last analysis the plants depenj i bergen has been a seaport ot conse quence from tho beginning of history hvorythlug- conspired to interest nan- son in the ocean when once he had en tered the biological field and had set tled on bergen as tho place of his work it was interest in the sea and know ledge of it that led nansen to contri- ijate eventually a new idea to the thought of the world to develop a really ner idea is greatness or the foundation of greatness j man who can succeed in routine i work aro numerous there are sever- j try to conquer nature and to bend her forces to their will they are driven to magic and makebelieve and to thwarted struggles against the imposj sible on the part of such children ot be fore nanseils time many high expres sions ot lofty but ineffectual purpose about conquering the arctic there had been too advances by a few men ot genius by eric the red by learry rae mccliutoek and perhaps as many others as you can count on the fingers of two hands still noue even of these great one had done more natural obstacle to conditions as they found them and tie snovvbathed woodlands keen air and hlth tlle jolly weekend in airs exhilaration neither aro thu- reaiijiecu cooua thorough arctic basin was from the side of alaska bering strait and eastern si beria toward the side of the atlantic norway and iceland ho built the irain and put her in york and peking london and tokio i nautical development as nansen does not retire uor rest on fare between old world and new his laurels after becoming foremost world commercial centres santa among explorers he took part in win- claus being the crystallization of an niug for norway her independence idealistic dream could as easily visit oin sweden and later represented our kiddies from the moon as from norway as minister to london he lapland or alaska carried on his oceauographic work i the importance ot the coming nan- to go ahead with their work on that new from the historical j while lie was a politician und diplo- sen flights is essentially one ot pub- basis nansen was the first to formu- 1oint ot vew bllt we ko new tvom mat lly carried it on too while as a licity or as wo now euphemistically lateand carry out a plan by which tho tlle scientific or logical point of view j statesman representing the league of say public relations he should j011 1 that most ot tho highest authorities nations he administered the famine therefore employ the best ot public i in the world had called them every- relief in russia relations counsel j thing from impractical through visij lie is carrying on oceanography still libera lonary and suicidal to insane and at sixtyseven is about to reenter tional polar exploration though on a basis must study every angle especially i entirely different from liis pioneer suggest the personnel of the expedi- wovk ot thirtyfive years ago he is j tion girl scouts or debutantes should ren ot these great ones i t p tho ice in 1s9k she emerged in 1s9u i e than to stop fighting i with complete vindication of a theory les to adapt themselves fi frtmii i n i i olid of a method that were not only lmviril socalled hostility ot the arctii bo actually made to cooperate in plan for its own subjugutioc kveri pearry had been outright de feated by tho circumstances that the polar sea is not covered with one vast expanse of ico which you can treat as if it were solid land but with multi tudes of cakes ot ice which offer a con stant alternation between solid and liquid and which are moreover in constant drift constant only in that they are moving but not in the direc tion of their motion nansen was the first to make planned uso ot this dif- j ficulty there are predecessors to every in ventor tbere are steps in every dls- eovry even in such great ones as nan- sens the tegetthof under the aus- trians had drifted with the ice in ls7274 showing that it could be done fo ra time at least with comparative safety aud comfort the jeannette financed by bennett of the new- york herald had drifted northwest ward through what was really water although it had been supposed to be land and her commander the ameri can naval lieutenant delong had even formulated we plans that could be based on thai kind ot drift perhaps had delong lived he might have been the originator of the roundedout nansen plan ot building a ship hat was peculiarly adapted to re sisting ice pressures stocking her iwith wholesoino food planning to live aboard or near her an active openair life through year after year counting campaign and the publicists nansen is a man of rounded char acter and balanced genius 1as drift accordingly was no more triumph of work of thirtyfive years ago no i one theory but carried with it the doing now nothing that is revolution- accompany the flight if the real in gathering of the largest body of ac- ary but instead everything that auth- 1 terest of the public is to be enlisted in curate and important knowledge that i orities agree is feasible and compara- the venture lively easy but rich in promise of re- at the very least we must know that suits there is a broad scientific foun- several of tho members have gray- dation for his plan to engage the ger- 1 baired mothers who are fond of them man airship graf zeppelin and to j gats should be taken dogs and pig- make with it several crossings of the eons some of tho crew should be the latter part of next by has ever been brought logethei single arctic expedition ne sample from many will show how novel the conclusions were in some cases becoro that timo even scientists had commonly believed that tho arctic was particularly stormy nansen accumulated a mass of data t which enabled him to show lu no ara ot equal size in the world aro storms so tew and mild on the aver- j age j how novel this view was when he set it forth in isd7 you can convince yourself if you look over the various popular books about the arctic for it is doubtful that you will find more world is to mako practical us of tills j to propose it the rarity and aver- n year on fresh moat secured by hunting to maintain the health of the crew and nansen finding rrl festonols mo bsyseulngurvlfaalntbejgram for use of the arctic as arctic durin winter whatever the scientific results of this journey may really prove to be no one now epects them to be revoltt- tionary but merely he continuation of i logical development but if not re- volutionary in science these flights j will bo revolutionary in the populari- zation ot that real knowledge of the i arctic which nansen has done more i than any ono else to develop but than oue or two ot them even thirty- n 1il beeu powerless as all years later that do not express or invk ilve em1 to got lhe public t0 ply tlie old belief in tlio prevalence of 1 10 violent storms ignoring not only nan- urli 1eox ue alclc is sens conclusion itself based upon suf- j h c seem nation- ficient evidence but all tho mass of aml tcrimuonally unwilling that corroborative testimony that has been a lcl sh ireyau i our pillilislied since then including for instance tho reports ot my own ex peditions which have covered an ag1 gregale of more than eleven yean i enevolent saint within the arctic circle tevially it seems to me i have found la way around the apparent dilemma lhe lime is just coming when the j havo in lt but waut thoughts of tho far north person ally fond of santa claus i would be the last to desire that any one should at no doubt who could have handled ftuosidft from wliiclrthedriftj aerial highway to lly by the shortest tho russitn famine as well as nan i hmuin ik1i lseavedto expecting her j routes between such populous centres apiwaiuii to the north temperato zone asjie on when opposite sides ot he arctic from cac i emerge at tno ojosito sun v t afresli jn connection with the visit of tho greatest of ex- emlianess p storms in the arctic lo tue we side of the at fan tie why not transfer the residence of santa clans to the iiipbti and moht of our folklore interest of tho arctic to the tuoon along with itimv then vc z iihwlleil ill the facts and other a for instance chicago and hy truly modern methods and to he- cents ss across tho sockholm seattle and j would be free to promote the arctic by truly modern methods and to he- berlin new k lls it in line with current aero handsome and others pleasantly homo ly with warts on their noses there might be a chaplain so broadminded that we could be informed that he secretly enjoyed the terrific oaths of some seadog who might ha taken along with the flyers to do the swear ing for on expeditions the public would really notice queen marie of rumania should be induced to go along if some such program is followed the nansen flight of 1930 will bo like ly to succeed in calling to the atten tion of the public soma of the out standing conclusions of his drift voy age in lsmdc tho gads he gather ed then and tho principles he estab llshed would begin after thirty years to fill tho press dispatches it those methods wero followed and might even succeed in getting a footing as low down as our common school text books nauseas ideas might begin to move tho world but whether or not the public de cides to find out and understand what nansen has done lets treat him well i nany case now that he is among us for tho nobel prize and the gold medals ot scores ot learned societies certify that lie is a great man and wo are used to worshiping great men oven if we do not understand them men llko kinstein for instance it does us lots ot good the thrill has a tonic effect j royal road to learning reading aloud lo boys and girls called easy road to culture recently charles f 1 peldeu director of tie boston ptfbue lbrary tod the secretary of tha marry 11 iterovshs newsboys fosntlauoa in boston that it would glvo 11m treas ure u cotvo down and read aloud ono evening to a sroup of boy in tua fcumht ion library how many win be thirst ir behlen inquired as xuaisy as you like from a dozen to sco tho secretary said eljitt mil dred is to many said mr beldca i am not going to mako u speech i am going to read a stoiy storied are best read to small groups so on a certain evening mr pel deu read conrads story vailed youth to about so boys later in bis loom at the library mr bciuea explained what he had in mind in reading aloud to the boys himself and arranging for others to do so too at intervals ha is a tall sparv man ot precise speech hi3 room is small ami dusky with a long black table set diagonally on iu scarlet carpet and the vaulting in the low ceiling is pick ed out in tho turquoise blue that anci ent kgyptiau princesses loved two doors of tho room stood open be tween these mr belden walked back and forth back and forth leaning against liroxloor for a moment when he had turned before crossing the floor again i took conrads story mr belden said because my own four children had been happy heating it read aloud at the timo their ages wero between eight aud seventeen 1 believed the ages of the boys at tho foundation might vary it was a long story to try thm on but a good oue it shows that there ara beauties iu literature beyond the printed word one would not read it and thereafter had read ing unattractive subsequently mr belden arranged for others to take turns at tha read ings professor ross of the emerson college of oratory mr and mrs john cronin tbe librarys own story tellers and others mr beldeu spoke oi professor copeland tha famous copey as the ideal ot all readers mr belden asked what he believed lay in reading aloud that was more provocative to boys and girls said well in my house tha children say and now mother will you read us a chapter after supper mrs bel den does wind in the willows or huckleberry finn then it is bedtime and she says we will go on with this another time i am certain that tho children will not wait for someone to go on with it another time but that they will go on with it for themselves it takes very little of tlfal you know to establish a read ing habit that has nothing to do with compulsion and everything to do witli the pure joy of investigating good books dan though ho did handle it well enough to deserve tha nobel rrize but there were few iu europe or any where probably none who hail at onco the information upon which nau- on based his new idea and he orig inality to synthesizo that information and bring out an idea from it j somehow the public is usually mil able to perceive greatness in on exj plorer or imagine greatness in him nil less ho has really or supposedly per- formed soma deed of physical prowess nansen began his career with that i sort of prowess which may have been accident or diplomacy no ono had j crossed greenland ordinarily human ionsoniug goes no farther than to as sume that what has not yet been done 1j elthor impossible or at the least very difficult about greenland indeed many had said specifically hat it could not be crossed peary had climbed the west ern slopes and it is easy tosce now from analysis of bis testimony that ha foreshadowed tho crossing more over he understood that it could be dona and wanted to do it no one doubts to day that ho could have done lt thero is even some reason to be lieve that peary would have done it more easily than nansen for certainly ho showed in his career a genius for organization and for the development ot now and good methods of snow and lco ravel which nansen hardly ap proached indeed tho technique of cold weather living and tho method of sledge travel were always nansens weakest points tho fact was however that nansen j v startled the world by crossing green- 1 v land thoreby incidentally certainly t x without premeditating it probaiiy j something in siamese saniparu or a nig war lnoe without realizing it li boko or siamese claim record length for the class of war canoes would have broken had i been break- sianwse iia picturoique traditional cb paddllnj tha worlds tongtst craft ot iu kind at lh water carnival at noadapun ncsr ia able he heart of the other erv ex- o arr f ffr porcr je o-i- ssriws corpttt- of will we have what we want points to be considered in selecting your motor boat a number of qualities should bo considered when buying motor boat rrys henry clay foster in the march issue ot filed aud stream tho boat selected will probably not come up to the ideal standards you havo been thinking about but bear in mind writes this boaj editor that no one boat is built to perform the duties of all other kinds when you want a boat for one kind ot us mainly ho writes you get a boat which simply isnt suited i admirably for every other uso a good stoutly built fishing boat with a fish well in it and otherwise equip ped for rough usage simply isnt a sleek mahogany runabout for social purposes thero are certain qualities like seawort illness in choppy water speed j lu rough water speed in smooth wa- tor comfort at anchor in rough water maneuverability under various condi tions etc which arc paramount in certain types ot models but when theso are sought by tho designer in unusual degree he sacrifices other things for it we must vecognlzo that specialized models have their drawbacks as well as their strong points if yau want a boat which folds up continues foster do not expect it to bo as stout or capable of absorbing as much nbusc as a common old white pine rowboat about a commercial an chorage it wont stand it and thats no fault ot tho maker cither if you really want a boat which folds up and is easily transportable you want it bad enough to take earo of it use it within its limitations and keep it in good sbape for tho next trip it you dont give up the idea it it is seaworthiness that you want stop and think seaworthiness where if it is speed what kind ot speed and where it it is comfort fromember that is also a comparative term how much comfort you cant havo the comforts of a 30foot cruiser in a 10foot rowboat iovc is nil art that must bo learn- cd onco learned it is t very nleaf- lok the thins though there ai daggers sherwood eddr-