The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-13
POKE FUN At COOK AND PEARY
CHANGED VIEWS IN LONDON
ABOUT THE EXPLORERS.
North Pole in Law, Religion and the
Theater. Subject of Much Amuse-
ment in london and Paris.

4bCdOVAs ouUJCCJ Vi MUCH AnluSe-
ment in London and Paris.
LONDON.-The Cook-Peary con-
troversy is beginning to grow much
less prominent. To the end of last
week Peary no doubt had things
pretty much all his own way here,
and Cooks friends were few and far
between; but already the style and
tone of Peary's kilograms are caus-
ing feeling of reaction, which has
grown steadily ever since.
Cooks reticence, which at first
was counted strongly against him, is
now generally considered preferable
ITO Peary's vituperation. With this
feeling to aid il opinion seems to be
growing that there is little to pick
between the two stories. The idea
now coming to the front is that it
may be we'll to suspend final judg-
ment until the two protagonists have
given their complete data to the
world
Meanwhile the Britisher is ex-
tracing what fun he can from the
whole affair He would not be sorry
if the verdict of the scientists were
eventually to throw both men over.
He would then feel himself justified
of his first disbelief in Cook and his
present disapproval of Peary. There
are plenty who are beginning to
think that both explorers have made
mistake in claiming to have found
the pole, and one of the most fire.
quent remarks heard where men are
gathered together is Thank God
that neither of them is an English
man"
An evening paper prints a COM
munication from the president of
the Royal Eskimo Academy of
Sciences claiming the honor of the
discovery of the North Pole for All
welh and E-dun-a-bunk "a SYNONYM
of Etukishook), but admitting they
were assisted by Commander Peary
and Dr. Cook, and then drops into
this parody of well-known piece of
verse:
Acknowledgment and E-dun-a-bunk
were very great men, particular!
They used to climb up very steep
bergs, exceedingly steep, perpen-
dicular!
The bergs that they climbed were in.
Vulnerable bergs, exceedingly so,
multitudinous!
And every berg was very high berg,
exceedingly high, altitudinous!
And those very high bergs, those
very steep bergs (Which makes
the thing more inexpressible),
Those uncountable bergs, those i'm
possible bergs, were every one
inaccessible!
During the last week hundreds of
school children in London and the
provinces have listened with eager
delight to the story of the discovery
and have written essays on the sub
ject. Here are a few examples:
There is now a lot of talk about
the discovery of the North Pole" be-
gins a girl of 10. 'Dr. Cook was
supposed to have reached it, but
when he got there Capt Peary came
up over the side and told Mr.. Cook
the pole belonged to him. They both
became very angry, and waved the
Stars and Stripes, but presently
agreed to leave it in the hands Of
the president of America"
Says another: "a lot of people
have been trying to find the North
Pole, but when they got there they
died, and their bones were found by
DR.. Cook and Capt Peary. The rea-
son why Dir. Cook and Capt. Peary
did not die was because they we're
Americans.
Again another essayist afirms that
Capt. Peary reached the North Pole
on Dreadnought. He adds: "The
reason why he went by sea was be-
cause it was cheaper than going by
train"