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New-York tribune., 1922-02-05

was dean Of the Law School, began and ulti.
mately carried TO completion g monumental
legal work. Together they are the authors Of
Pepper and Lcwis's Digest of the Laws Of
Pennsylvania from 1900 to 1901, in four vol.
umes, and Of "Pcpper and Lewis's Digest Of
Pennsylvania Decisions and Encyclopedia Of
Pennsylvania Laws in twenty-three Volumes
10 lawyer IN Pennsylvania would attempt to
practice law without these remarks
As an orator MIR. Pepper is not Of the
iiag-waVlng type nor does he indulge in hu-
morous stories. lie takes it for granted that
his audience wants him to communicate the
thought which has generated in his mind And
when he has finished his speech, unless the
hearers are unsound mentally, they can carry
something worth while away. His oratory is
an appeal to the reason, but it never becomes
dry or tedious, because he garnishes his
phrases with illusions that add sprightliness
TO subjects which otherwise might become dull.
Probably the last big job for which Mr.
Pepper was mentioned was that of high COM
missioner Of baseball a post which now is
filled by Judge X. NJ. Lands, of Chicago. This
was largely due to the successful manner in
which, Is chief counsel for the organized base
ball forces, he had handled the famous Fed
oral League litigation in the Federal courts
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER
PUZZLE TO POLITICIANS
By EDWARD ]. HUNTER

and Solicitor General Of the United States
lustlco Of the Supreme Court of tho United
States, omcassles-but Mr.. Pepper never mani
tested the slightest interest in any of them
iA TACT, when he received definite offer of
"a Jucgeshlp i'll the United States Court for
the Eastern District Of Pennsylvania, he re
fused it,
For many years it has been understood that
nc was ambitious to go to the United States
Senate, the one Office which seemed beyond
has reach. And at last the Scnatorship came
10 him when he unquestionably believed he
had not the slightest chance to get it.
When Boies Ferrosc died, according to the
lights OF the Pennsylvania politicians, the
proper move for Governor Sproul was to re
sign and permit Lieutenant Governor Edward
r. BedemaN. as his successor, to namo him
TO the Senatorship. This they believed and
URGED upon Sproul was the logical and neces-
AIRY procedure in order that Sproul might at
tam the place ne long had coveted, the Re
publican leadership Of Pennsylvania. They
ooked upon the Senatorship and the boss-ship
rs lnsepara5le, for so far back that the
memory Of man runneth not to the contrary
the boss always has been a SENATOR
But moral force. which since the davs @,
Matthew Stanley Quay has worried the Re-
publican cheftains and frequently has threat
ened TO destroy the seemingly unbreakable
machine, convinced Sproul that his political
advisers were wrong. He finally turned deaf
car 10 the men who werc advising him to "grah
It, and announced that he believed his re
fTement to assume the Scnatorship would be
The equivalent Of "embezzcment as trustee.
Immediately sentiment crystallzed in favor
OF Mr. Pepper Other prominent men in the
Eastern part Of the state were mentioned
for custom required that the place should 90
to that secton-but these "boomlets" all fad
ed and in the end the Governor recognized
that the people wanted Mr. Pepper and named
nim The politicians were astoun led-pri
Fately they characterized the appointment a.
"a crime for the new Sepator never has
taken any interest in active politics. in the
management OF voting precincts and the ma
aipu.atlon of votes, and they viewed his Sc
lection as The wasting of political berth
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05

ahead without either, relying m -,
or on undiscovered and uninbabitas SSs 'e
supply both indehnitely.v Nov, '4nas 70
naivet@ Of The following: "Th;s n. 1--WE 'ts
our plan Drancbed off from those - "asTi
explorers and whore our men uera Mss''e' I',.
o. more than that /. vas the a,,,: ,-'''o'
along rev path that haa to ,ry 'i's o''
before I could expect any one 10 yol,r.. .a'a'i
the undertaking" 10
Here at last was a man sgno accen.aa
of battle With the North on lis own tsrn. s,s' !.
would abandon food and fuel, strik. in+s ''' n NJ
heart Of the waste and find what fo 49, .''
TO keep life going, on the So lee Or - .1s' .1s
hitherto With never & footprint Of man s"- ~'
them. The very thought IS enough 70 ~y W.T.
the blood Of this twentieth century t.nyo 'S''
yet are we a race Of weakiings. The w.. ~
man Of a temperate zone pvo~es b;s'.
bolder, more rcsourcefu, better aolo - r
in any latitude Of the Id earth. than h. ~ w.
cestors or his fellow Of any other trba ,.. o.
age or 5arbarouz. That sounds = h. :,
brse- II you care 10 prove j, read his,,~
Stefanssor did it, and in TIE doing caused :.
evapoaate several misty ougabeos and o5s..
Up = new field for Tic ardor and the s,..
prise Of lnen-that Is, for those who bsv. /,
them tha good grit Of gct-thcra and hoIi....
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
Ward Leaders Don't KnoW
What to Make of Hin,

The politicians, so far, don't know What lo
make Of him. He writes letters to constituents
Of the common or garden variety, who pre-
sumptively control only their own votes, i'll
which he affirms that he is glad to receive their
views. that he will give his attention to sub
jocts upon which they write that he Is hope
ful Of winning the approval of the people hN
his attitude on public questions arising IN the
Senate-and otherwise lets it appear that he
feels that as q member of the greatest delhi
erativc body in the world he Is merely the
spokesman Of the whole body Of Pennsylvania
citizens. And he dictates and signs the letters
himself. instead Of delegating the task to
secretary.
Now that sort Of thing never really has
been done by Senators of the keystone State.
If citizen desired to bring a subject to the
attention of q Senator he saw his ward leader
and his ward leader saw the city leader, and
unless these WORTHLESS placed their @. K. ON tho
proposition the Senators secretary would side
track any communication. It was thus the pc
ltical prestige of the underlinc5 was main
tained
Just how long Senator Pepper is CONG }a
continue the practice Of personally communi-
eating with constituents who have something
pl tlit4I tti-iNN - 81 iittNi Ol HttNudt t'
he's a vertable bulldog for sticking 70 any line
Of action he maps out, and it is safe to say he
viii keep on until the mail swamDs him
Still another jolt came TO the politician
when Senator Pepper was called upon u rec
ommend q candidate for the place OF prohit
tion officer for Pennsylvania. Certain Pitt
bueh and Philadelphia leaders, who believe tha
Il is unvso politically 10 leave the thirst of
their constituents unquercncd, went down In
Washington and whispered in the Senator
ear the names Of men who would make excel
ert occupants Of the post. But when the time
came for Mr.. Pepper 80 make decision be
recommended the Rev John c. Davis, of Blair
County, saying that he thought the enforce
nent Of the law ought to be in the hands Of
It's friends.
To people accustomed to seeing everything
Of this sort carried out on basis Of pohtica
considerations this display Of independence
was extraordinary, unlocked for.
Still another feature of the change vnich
made Pennsylvanians sit up and take notice
was the manner in which Senator Pepper va
received at Washington. Ordinarily The indue-
ton Of q Pennsylvania Senator has been at
tended hy the presence Of host OF ward lead
ers, wearing one day-stand silk hats and tho
eufusion Of the Senate Chamber with monster
floral pieces that made the elder statesmen
order the opening Of windows and mildly i'm
quire what it was all about.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
The Conquest of Cold
BY Cooperation

And now Stefansson deliberately forgets
The word defiance" obliterates al traces cf
the ancient dread, and brings new word,
'co-operation,' into use as definition Of
new phase Of Arctic research, charting and
living. In obeying a code suggested b. this
word he has refuted what Peary had to say,
and even made incorrect the claims Of the
Eskimo. For Stefansson had new plan, one
that if corroborated in practice would alte-:
the whole grand-scheme Of Arctic life. Other
explorers had always planned 10 turn back
before the food and fuel brought along with
them had been exhausted. He planned to Ego
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
Montana Beats the Pole
By Eight Frigid Degrees

4 proIer qleTy - iais po.h. concerns i,s
barrier Of the Arctic that pictured !, q.
universal mind Of those who haven't bs.,
there. Isn't the cold something errible, on
has i7esoIne visions Of thermometers .s.-
can't register low enough and men losrp
noses, ears, hands and feet, or lying out upds.
the steely stars Ike icicles Ststarsson nrr
nave chuclsled when he compared Montss;
winters with those at The north, to the d.
cosntiture OF the former Neither place is e..
actly balrny in January, but Hayre, Mont, ss,
SHOWN So degrees below zero. While we k-c7
Theoretically that it canrot ever get nu.
colder than so degrees below II the North Pos
which lies IN deep ocean" Therefore, north...
Montana beats the pole by degrees Of ii.
g;di.y. Stefansson had his little iaugh wiz
he wrote 80 If YOU happea 10 he living !.
northern Montana and want 10 90 polar q
ploring it would seem you might leave behir
Z few Clothes" He found that il never 8
colder than a degrees below zero on the rors
coast Of North America at sea eve4 VIA. 1
called The cold pole" Of the Northern Her.
sphere is not at the North Pole, but is h
iieved TO be on the continent O. asia north Z
Irkutsk. where the temperature IS said at tina
70 sink to 80 degrees below zero. Yet it i.
settled country the Inhabitants CT VII
probably do not complain any more abou. t.
climate than do those Of London or New YORK
Now for bigger surprise. Stefanssori
statement Of heat north Of the Arctic Gin.
IS amazing. We quote three sentences ttg
upset all our traditions in this direction:
II spent the summer Of 1910 from fifty =
seventy-ive miles north OF the Arctic C.rit
IN Canada, northeast OF Great Bear Lake, sa:
for six weeks The temperature rose 10 IL
vicinity Of 80 degrees in the ahade nsarT
every day. Neither did il fall low at nigh.
for in that region the sun does not set, sr!
there is no respite through the cooling da,E.
ness. The sun beat down on US from cloud
less sky as it continued It's monotonous CIR
cling, and all Of my party agreed we had mere
i. Our experience suffered as much from cot
as we suffered from heat that summer
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
"Practicai Politics" No Part
of Peppers Gospel

Pennsylvania never mas sent to the United
States Senate a man exactly like Mr.. Pepper.
Knox Penrosc, Quay and Simon and J. Don
aid Cameron all we've men Of the highest in
'eleetNal capacity, hut they rose to their
a'2ses OF influence and power by means Of
npll' zeal machinery, and the welfare of the
rarty organization was always their first con
dera1on.
Mr. Pepper lacks the veneration for the 30
-tieal machine which his predecessors held.
he is Great believer in the voice of the peo.
ple despite the cynical view the average Penn
yFania politician takes Of it. He does no;
oppose party organization or feel that he can
lttorll IGNORE political leaders. for in all things
Ae is emincntly practical But he believes the
rtrty organization is only Of value SO long as
j stands for the coed Of the people, that il is
only means 10 attain ends of value to the
city. the state or the nation, and he is ready
% part company With il when it calls upon
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
GOTHAM ARABIAN NIGHTS


& LLAlIO aAhbar. va allah lllan allah,
"a Baw 10 the East, OH ye Faithful. i
81 is the third hour of prayer Bend
lcvorently the body toward Mecca and
raise ve the name Of Allah who knoweth the
ways Of VILE ibn Hearst, yea, oven the mind
md motives Of the sheik u Islam Allah is
INC trpe Cod! All wisdom is his 50 ;hat he
comprcheudeth even the speeches Of the good
Caliph liy-ian Of the Ruddy Countenauce
Praise ye his might and. rising give ear to
thc thousand and thirty-fifth tale. told by the
eultana Shahrazad to her lord, concerning
the Caljph. the Sultan and The Issues.
Nov Il came 10 pass in the fifth year Of The
Profit that idleness safe heavy on the shoulders
Of Will i6n Hearst, the shek ul Islam. For
the folk Of the land of Ire had made peace.
against the advice Of the Sheik, with the King
Of the Bgtons and the conference that had
been called to do away with war had failed
of its purpose Wherefore Will, seeking
for something to rale at. found it not and
vas mournful
And he cast his eye toward the palace OF
me Caliph where a glowing window pro
claimed that Hy-lan safe behind it, and he felt
mbltloA stW in his soul. Then spakc he
.loud:
Behold my pupil whom all men honor. H
'itteth on the seats of the mighty and all bow
before him. Is it fitting therefore that who
nave raised him to this height should remain
obscurityr
by my land We're the Issues fashioned
whereby he was victorious over the hosts Of
I he interests and the Sultan Nathan. sur
named the Curious Behold the Issues which
brought success to him still remain"
Then sought he the Caliph and in the fash
ION Of the dervishes preached to him holy
war, saying:
Let US arise in our might and topple from,
ais throne the Sultan Nathan. Behold the
common folk, schooled by thee at my direction.
still clamor for a five-cent fare and home rule.
Go forth therefore and preach TO them .
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
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IS your due There is TO need 10 mention
his name TO this intelligent -
But messenger clanbered to the rostruI.
where the Caliph spake and whispered in his
saying: "Abate thy eloquence. O, Cousin
TO the Corhagration, for I bring thee word
that the Sultan Nathan has even this day de-
clared that thy city should have the home RUE
for which it crieth.''
Then wrath filled the breast Of the good
Caiiph and he thought bitterly Of The Sultan
Nathan and his ways, but since none Of his
scribes was present, he remained mute and
withdrew to his own place.
And he paced his chamber in bitterness,
saying:
Behold the Sultan Nathan is an ignoble
Zoe, since he taketh from me the issues upon
which was determined to battle against him.
Che labor Of my scrbes and the drain upon
my oratory go for raught. Yet one issue re-
snainetl. shall assail the Sultan with
busses'
Then summoned he his scrioes and to one
quoth:
write HE q proclamation to my people,
bidding them arm and equip themselves and
prepare to march upon the palace Of the SUI
tan &C Al Bany demanding that the Calph be
permitted 70 run DuSSeS on "IaC StreeCS OF CNe
city he shall see fit
And to another he spake, saying: "lt is ny
will that make speech nominating the Sheik
III Islam Will ibn Hearst-Allah send him
length of days-for governor on bus plat
form. Write such speech for me-
Yet when the proclamation was sent broad
cast through the city the Sheik ul Islam strode
into the chamber of the Caliph, who bowed
before him and would have hailed him as the
next Sultan, but Willi ibn Hearst quoth:
Make thou no more speeches in my behalf.
And come thou hence with me TO Palm Beach.
For in sooth, if thou continuest to dispute the
issues with the Sultan Nathan the first thing
K ow we aren't going to have darned
issue left
And the Caliph rendered his customary
obesance to his lord.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05

I
W. Stefansson, the author Of that new
and remarkable book, 1.-The Friend
ly Arctic When VIC sat down /,
quiz him We were fortified by all NC had
read about Hudson, Davis, Franklin. Kane.
Manson, Peary and The remainder rf
the heroic band iiat dared the berqs, the
Hoes and the unrclenting chill Of the arctic
night Had this quet, possessed fellow before
us anything TO say tnat would throw into dis
order any Of our beliefs and theories? The
keynote to Stefansson's revolutionary remarks
they were nothing short Of that-cane out
at once in a sweeping statement; man not only
can live the year round within the Arctic
Crcle--he can secure The means for his own
sustenance there. 1t doesn't do to sit and
stare at a chap when he comes out with some
thing so topsy-turvy as that So We consulted
with Stefansson. You'll find tie substance Of
What be said with very much more, in his
book, wherein group Of old notions Is brushed
aside with the nonchajant gesture Of one Who
Knows.
The dread Of The North has been diminish
lug in it's vigor. The earliest navigators of
the type Of Davis and Hudson, searchers fcr
q northwest or northeast passage, believed
shat men reared in the climate Of England
could not survive polar winter Stefsnssor
graphically describes the explorers Of q second
class tl4aS followed On the heels OF the first
Edward Parry is typical Of the group.
"The polar winter was still dreadful, but Z
few men we're found Of such stern stuff tha-
they were willing to brave its terror The
battle with frost and storm at that time was
q form Of trench warfare. The hardy naviga-
tor penetrated as far north as might be b.
ship and then, fguratively speaking, dug him
self in and waited for winter to pass, coming
out Of his Information in the spring.
Peary represents the third step in polar e..-
poration. His stride was & much longer one
than any taken by his predecessors, for he
'saw that the cold should not be avoided but
courted, and that the most successful Journeys
could be made in winter, beginning in January
or February, and should come to al end or
any properly managed expedition by April.
before the first thaw.' His attitude was
wholly mental one, inspired by :. defiance
oil the North and determination 10 utilize
what it had to offer in the way CT making
winter period for work, and not fer res.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
The Terror of Polar Cold
Inspired by ice

y pretty broad pat., OF lighe Is spread o7ss
the above described climatic conditions u
what Stefansson says about the glacial regions
Of the Arctic. "There Is one land in the nora
that < covered with Glaciers and from It ST.
the rest OF the north has been pictured N
analogy Greenland is rdeed by high m0ua'
tains. The preci pitation there IS SO nea'S
that the heat Of the summer does not
ceed in thawing all the masses Of winter SNOW
These heaps change into glacial ice that moves
down the valleys to the sea, and then bFsaN
off in icebergs. For years, during the hisp
tide Of the whale industry. men returned f''n
The north with great tables Of tie mug
floating ice cakes and bergs. The loss o. u.
Titanic was an eploguc to the long st0F! q
decades, even centuries. And all the reco.'
vas one that accentuated the terror OF ''
ice and its logical background Of intense '~
yielding cold.
1t happens, and this Is 2 significant tr'.-
when we analyze the problem OF winter 's
Ihe Arctic, that the glacial regions are 's,
and limited. They exist in Franz josef Law
and Spitzbergen, in Ellesmere ana AKA ~.
berg Island, and to small degree N D'as
Island. "But when You get west Of tia' -;
great archipelago that stretches nortnSs..
from Canada toward the poie is quite -.
Of them, and so is all the Canadian ma'".s -,
along the polar sea and southwark ~ ,:ss
Arctic Circle and beyond, except for s0n'' 49,
valleys and peaks IN the Rockies. -.
Glaciers suggest snow. We had lnasa ~
the north'and to be one swathed in white NV ~
year round. Stefansson tells US tina.
snowfall in the Canadian Arctic ls'anu, &
on the north coast of Canada and A'S'.a ...r
less than half, and in many places iess h
. quarter, Of what it is, for ins'aAsa - Il
Montreal or Petrograd or the RMS 0', u.r
Christiania 1t is less than in Cmcago 4
saw, northeast Germany or the high'A"s
Scotland" as.
sverdrup estimates the total annual 'ss,t sa
fall of Ellesmere Island, the most XVI ,ra.
island yet found in the world, at aD0s. w. sn. /
tenth of the Weather Bureau estimate ~ .oa
nual snowfall of ST. Louis. So rnuen iV'
heat, glaciers and sncwI
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
Something Net0 in The Way
of Senatorial Welcomes

But when Senator Pepper weai To Washing
ton to take his seat things were different.
President Harding held up Ca1ino, meetine
so he and his secretaries coild qive Sir. Pep
per 'wecome to our city Nicc-Prosia iaent
Coolidge remained ia his seat as President oi
ne Senate, instead Of going 10 jhe Cahae'
meeting SO he might preside at the nduction
and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge asked and re-
ceived The honor Of escorting NJ Pepper into
he chamber,
All of which was told with copious detail
the Pennsylvania papers-for being withou,
precedent it was real news. The result is that
Pennsylvanians--so used TO feeling that Sen
ator had 10 be in Washington for at least one
term Of six years before his presence would
be noticed-a1e now almost ready to believe
hat the United States Senate consists of
George Wharton Pepper and q number of
other estimable gentlemen
1t would be mistake, however, to imagine
that Senator Pepper popped out suddenly on
he people Of Pennsylvania when Governor
William c. Sproul named hin as Senator Pen
roses successor. The truth is that Mr. Pep
per is a striking refutation of the adage that
:. prophet is not without honor save in his
own country. Pennsylvania and Philadelphia,
his native city, have long honorca and re
sT"ct"1 him-not only as one Of the great cor
n-sa~v5n lawyers Of the country and ole OF the
Nations leading authorities on international
'aw, but as citizen of the highest order Of
who personfed real Amercanism
That Mr.. Pepper did not long ago hold pub
lie place is not the fault Of Philadelphians
There is hardly an Office in city, state or na-
ton to which Mr. Pepper was eligible for
which he has not been mentioned at some time
IN the last score Of years. There have heen
'booms" for him for Mayor Of Philadelphia.
Governor of Pennsylvania, Attorney General
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
PENNSYLVANIA has just passed out Of
~~ long political tunnel. welcome
n change has come unexpectedly--a sud-

change has come unexpectedly--a sud
den transition from political darkness
10 sunlieht-and the people Of the common
wealth are still wondering whether it is
reality or merely 8 pleasant illusion.
This sudden changing of the old order has
come through the appointment Of George
Wharton Pepper, Of Philadelphia, as the sue
cessor Of the late Boies Penrose In the United
States Senate. In the comparatively short
sine in which he has worn the toga Senator
Pepper has stripped more gears of the Penn
sylvania Republican machine than all the re
form movements in the last quarter Of
century
Senator Pepper has startled folss-particu
'arly the practical politicans-by his unusual
Conception Of the role he has been called upon
10 fill He has let it be known in unmistakablo
fashion that he intends to be statesman and
aot political boss; and further, that no po-
teal boss is going to manipulate him.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
"IH HE FRIENDLY ARCTICM
"A LAND MISUNDFRSTOOn
BY SAMUEL. ABBOTT

Nv yE'Yb had & chat with vilhjalmur
W. Stefansson, the author Of that new
and remarkable book, "The Friend
ly Arctic" When VIZ sot down J.,
The Washington times., 1922-04-02

toys. Then suddenly she seemed
to sense that she was mot her
self" and she begged her mother:
Please take my hand and play
you're Mrs. Harlow. and maybe 1
can grow up again"
Mrs. Beauclaire entered tremu-
lousy into the spirit of the wish
and, insisting that she was the
psychoanalyst, persuaded the girl
to sleep. When Claire Weakened
Mrs. Harlow had como to visit her.
and the girl said:
IT am going to get well and
stay grown UP. I know I am"
And since then, the spells have
been less frequent and there is
every indication that within
brief time, Claire Beauclaire will
be permanently dispossessed Of
whatever influence It was that
had been able to seize control Of
her brain. regardless Of her own
WIN.
Mrs. Harlow, reviewing the
case, said,
1T 10 Gignificsnt that Claire
IL confident I can help her. for
I am told that shs never before
believed she was goinE TO grow
up When I first called on her,
I found hAr Like . child Her