The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-01
TOLD ENGLAND
TO ADD Land
Sir Douglas Mawson Wants
Part Of Antarctic Region
Taken In.
MAY HAVE GOLD DEPOSIT
Explorer Favors Suffrage and Tells
What 1t Has Done for Australian
Sections.
MAY HAVE GOLD DEPOSIT

Sir Douglas Mawson, the noted British
explorer, who spent three winters and
five summers down by the south pole
where gales blow 200 miles an hour In
stormy weather and seldom do less than
50 miles an hour, last night revealed his
pet, plan that England add to its over
seas territory by taking under its wing
about one-quarter Of the antarctic CONT
nent. which Is nearly as big AZ North
America.
The quarter that Sir Douglas wants to
sec beneath the lion and unicorn en-
braces about 100000 square miles. and
according to Sir Douglas. Is rich In
possibilities" He called attention to
Alaska in such a way as to indicate a
belief that the antarctic continent may
be a second Alaska, with a Klondike
heavier in gold even than that under the
Stars and Stripes.
"who Can Tells"
"Why," exclaimed Sir Douglas, 1--WE
may find the very biggest god mine in
the world down in the antarctic. Who
can tell? The land is not much farther
south than Alaska is north, even though
1t is much colder in the antarctic than
In the arctic. I believe gold could be
mined ON the coast Of the antarctic con-
tinent easier than in the interior Of Aus
Sir Douglas added about 1000 miles
Of coast line to the antarctic contine mt
that existed only in theory before he
went ashore there with a party OF
seventy scientists and mapped out the
land. That coast line is the nearest
antarctic land to Australia, and belongs
to that part of the continent explored
by such men as Scott and Shackleford.
Imagine the earth is an apple" said
Sir Douglas, land picture the stem Of
the apple as the south pole. Then, be-
ginning at the stem, cut the apple into
four sections. Now that section of the
apple which would be antarctic land
nearest Australia Is the quarter section
Of the antarctic continent that I want
to see England e'hold Of. England
can do 1t without any trouble, so far as
I know.
Just before the war wrote to the
government asking about the plan and
was told that they would consider II
Then the war started and the whole
thing is knocked out until there is peace.
I am not at all selfish about the affair.
YOU know, for there still will be three
quarters of the continent left for other
nations and I would like to see them go
in, map it out and explore it"
Wants Women to Vote.
Sir Douglas lives in Sydney, Australia,
and he gave interesting views on woman
suffrage In Australia. I'VE have been
able to detect very little difference In
Australia since women were given the
vote" he said. "Gving the franchise
to- the woman increased the labor vote
greatly. The laborer's wife considered 1t
quite holiday to vote. you know. sort
of an outing with motor rides. but the
vote didn't excite the society woman at
all.
THE women's vote has done some
peculiar things. I know of one man
who was thrown out entirely by the
women's vote because of his private
mode OF life. The men thought he
was a good business man and were
quite willing he should go in but the
women tossed him out.
I'm the women's vote there always
is the tendency toward prohibition.
Yes, they cut down the public houses
In q mining camp-the
biggest mining camp In the world
where the men did drink quite bit,
as miners do, the women voted solidly
against drink and We thought for
time they would make it absolute pro-
hibition. but they only cut down the
public houses in number.
II think the women of England will
get the vote after the war. 1 think
they would have been granted it be-
fore the war, IL they hadn't started
tossing bricks. 1 am in favor of CIV
ing them the vote rather than row
about it. 1t makes very little diff
ference one way or other whether they
vote or not, we find. 1 am quite sure
hat tbs woman's vote will come about
in time"