The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-28
NO KID eLovrs.

Lieutenant PeaFy declares that there are mo kid gloves in this Arctic busi- ness" and his experiences so far as
 they have been made known give am pie proof of the correctness of the re- mark It will not be many days now until full accounts of his efforts, priva- tions and sufferings will be given out and when that is done it will be a matter of surprise to learn how much men will risk and how much they can endure. When we read of such adven- lures and struggles we feel to wonder if the object is worth the danger and expense and suffering that have been experienced Peary seems to think so. for he Is already planning improve ments to be made in his next vessel, and appears confident that he will yet reach the object of his ambition.
 So far, Arctic exploration has been little else than record of human ad- venture, human endurance and human failure. For generations men of cour-. age and ambition have been fired by desire tS reach the North Pole, that mysterious spot on our earth which has apparently been securely locked and barred against humanity. Millions of dollars and thousands of human lives have been spent and almost unthink- able sufferings endured. and yet we can hardly assert that anything has been accomplished. One adventurer goes as far north as he can and finds ice An- other goes a little higher ana also finds ice. If one succeeds in reaching the desired spot he will probably find more ice and nothing else.
 And yet we may safely predict that they will keep trying. If there, is one thing that the Anglo-Saxon detests more than anything else 1t is being beaten. Money, trouble. danger. death itself will not deter or suppress the possibility of accomplishing an object Thus 1t is that men have striyen and ventured and endured everytAins in the hope of reaching the Fole. A ful account of what Pearx endured will not deter others, or even himself. And NHtS AAAAA AA W NtA AAAE fAhAA1SA VI ehO world have gained anytninge
 Referring to this expedition The New York Post says "the bearing of this expedition upon Polar exploration gen erally can only be surmised It is clear that without the delay of twelve days on the march northward which depleted the stock of provisions. and with equal ly favorable conditions at the end, Peary might readily have got, say, a hundred miles nearer the Pole. He was stopped not by natural obstacles, but by the state of the commissariat and the necessity of getting back. Here. indeed. is the fne1uctahle difi- culty of any such attempt, and 1t is hard to imagine any sledging expedi- ton from the Greenland approach greatly bettering Peary's record. When it Is recalled how far north the Tram drifted. it would seem that a dash might, under fortunate circumstances, bring some happy explorer within con- siderably less than 200 miles of the Pole The getting back will always be the pinch, though some emuIator of the unfortunate Andree may yet do the trick by balloon. For sheer success. however, in setting human intelligence and courage against the forces of the frozen north. it is not likely that Pearys latest 1ournay will be sur passed"
 No one, we presume. will doubt or disparaGe the work of Peary, or under take to rob him of any of the credit of his achievement. The hardships ana discouragements he endured are almost but when we are reading the accounts we are impressed by the facts that the same obstacles he en- countered are likely to stand in the way of future efforts. The great storm that came on him, the loss Of sledges and dogs. the losing of his bearings, the narrow escape from starvation-all of these may stand in the way of eth- CTS or of himself when another effsrt is made. It is not so much tho known difficulties and dangers as it is the un- known ones that stand between man and the Pole. Other attempts will be made, of course, and success may come, hut when?0