The Cairo bulletin., 1910-10-24
EXPLORER PEARY
IS REPUD|ATED
NOTED GERMAN RONOMER
DECLARES AMERICAN DID
NOT REACH POLE.
nQQ[QUhTInNQ IIQ[IE0c
OBSERVATIONS USELESS
Another Professor Makes Startling
Statement That 30 Per Cent
of Rogues Are Dark
Haired.

BGFllD, Ocl. Zo.--COlUcldenlally WI.
Commander Peary's promotion to q
leaptaincy, that really eminent astron-
omer. Prog Andreas Gale, chief OF
the Geological Institute, after care
ful investigation, insists that the sx.
plcner's claim Is not valid. He de.
! clares that the Peary records reveal
nothing, from scientific viewpoint
that confirms his claim.
I Prof. Gale firmly believes THAI
peary did not reach the pole, but
passed it on one side. He says the
figures published by Peary are of N
sufficient value to de;ern inc the point
and unless fresh data is forthcoming,
! scientists can not assume that Peary
accomplished his object.
| The professor says that Peary did
not possess 3instrnments necessary 70
determine his position, and alleges
further that Peary aTa not possess tho
! Laauisite astronomical knowledg !,
| Peary, he says, could not know ne
was going directly northward durln :
the latter part of his journey. Prof.
Gale says the only accurate method
TO find the pole would be. that OF
using the theodolite for asSertaining
the height of the stars, but Peary d |
! mot use this method
Prof. Gafle says. ii IL unfit, to use a
J mild term, that Peary should have
reached the pole as he says he did
because on that particular day the
sun was too low on the horizon to ~
low OF accurate observations. Tht
fact thst the sun was always in from
Of him does not prove that Peaal
was going toward the pole,
Prof Gale viii publish the ful
scientific details of his reputation o
Peary's claim in the forthcoming is
sue of the Deutsche Revue. He con
r cludes:
Nobody can claim to have reached
the pole unless he has observation;
taken upon scientific basis to prove
it. and Peary's observations We're no
scientific. Peary hardly seems to have
had any idea Of the value Of the Oh
servations which he took. They were
in fact, in a scientific sense, almost
worthless"
Black Hair vs.. Light.
Another professor has also bobbe'
into the limelight this week with ces
tain startling assertions about the dir
ference between light haired and da't
haired people. This is Prof Lansen
dorf OF Vienna, who has apparently
taken up in downright earnest th'
eternal discussion of the superiorit,
of blondes over brunettes.
The scientific tables and data whic'
he has collected are appalling in thei
influences and volume. TO reduce
the professors conclusions to some
thing like brevity, he finds that 81
lper cent or the worlds great literary
men artists, musicians, philosopher
and scholars, as well as people whit
have ethical ideas ana high mora
principles, are blondes. Black hafre
. people, he says, are money Garner
and brutal oppressors.
Prof. Lansendorf's statistics shoN
that so per cent of the gamblers
swindlers, userers and mmdercrs ar
. dark haired. He notes with grief th9
dark haired people are getting none,
and depressing the fair haired people
and ends by urging the fair haire'
contingent of humanity to flgh
against the dominance Of thei
stronger but morally inferior blacl
haired conquerers.
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