The Washington times., 1922-03-12
Woman Explorer to
Repeat Lecture ON
Pan-AmericaIl Trip
Harriet c. Adams Is
Highly Regarded i'm
South America

ALONG with the Pan,American
receptions and the Pan
American mass. an unofficial
sort OF Pan-American' event
has gradually grown up In Wash
ington--that Is the annual lee.
ture of Mrs. Franklin p. Adams
uIarriet Chalmers Adams) before
the National Geographical Society,
and this year Mrs. Adams Is
planning repetition Of her LEG
tnre next Saturday evening at
the New Masonic Temple, under
the auspices of nobody but her.
self. a plan in which the diplo-
mats and their wives from South
America are showing keen inter-.
est.
Broad-minded as men are these
days about women's entry into
their most cherished professions
and prerogatiyes. l must admit
that a man friend of mine dis
posed of the woman lecture idea
in curt Gellet Burgess fashion by
remarking. "a woman. explorer?
A
Never saw one and never hope
to see one" Well was amused
when he did see Mrs. Adams. who
was pouring tea at the time. and
for a time declined to believe
that this winsome, pretty and al
together charming. even diff
dent, young woman was one Of
the same who had
Wen, here am getting in
deep water. but the records have
Il that she went in the saddle
across Haiti. being the first.
white woman to do so. and return
ed. with eight soienodon. No, ]
haven't the slightest idea what
o solenodon Is. Evidently the
scientists place some store by 1t.
And went from Siberia to Su-
matra. studying ancient races,
and rode across the Andes on
-mule-back, and travelled some 40
600 miles in places where white
women had not ventured before,
in South America. and spent
many months studying the Ian
guage of Indian tribes In the
United States.
Now, it seems, Mrs. Adams has
brought TO this country motion pic
lures Of jaguar hunts, and the
game of head-ball. and curious
dances from the jungles of Brazil;
all of which she showed before the
National Geographic Society and
IS going to show a second time in
the interest of spreading more In
formation about our neighbors of
South America.
MY South American friends tell
me that not only is Mrs.
Adams ADMIRED for her interpidity.
and that Washington to them Is
further identified by being the
home city of one Of the most dar-
ing women explorers in the world;
but that their governments are
deeply grateful to her for her
services and sacrifices in the more
prSsaic work OF telling the Ameri-
can people about conditions In our
South American neighbor nations.
Mrs. Adams showed herself a
good reporter as well as an ex-
plorer. too, 1 might add, in bring
ing back an account of the work
of General Rondon, who has been
called the William Penn of South
America, for making peaceful
penetration among the most primi-
tive peoples, never allowing his
men TO retaliate, and making such
friends of them that they now
help in the rubber industry and
assist in guarding the telegraph
lines he strung across a wilderness
which bears his name--an area
larger than our own State Of Cali
fornia.
General Rondon's work has
special interest for Washington,
too, because he accompanied
Colonel Roosevelt and our own DR..
Zahm on the trip along the now
famous River of Doubt"
Women's Legion Plan