The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-16
Amundsen Is Not COntented
With HOnOrs of South Pole;
Wants to Visit North Too
Against the Advice of His Friends He Will Attempt This
Summer to Complete the Most Oar gerous Cruise Charted;
He Doesn't Know Whether or Not He Will Succeed, But
He Wants to Be First Man to Have Visited Both Poles.

adventure In his heart. with n will
10 do and n heart for the doing.
Capt. Road Amundsen, hardy
Norseman. discovered the south
pole. He went through tridls and
h~ardships beyond number, but he
reached his goal.
"Bravo!' shouted the world and
Captain Amundsen had laurels
aplenty 20 rest on.
Did he rest on them? MOI
Peary discovered the north pole,
so Amundsen had no chance 10 be
the first man TO set foot there.
AT least / car cruise around
there and possibly be tho first man
10 reach both poles" he decided
And so. this summer. he will make
a drive for the spot unknown 20
all but Pcnry.
pole" Amundscn's friends have
I'm II. Look at Shackleton-iust met
his death in the Antarctic rekions.
Remember Captain Scott. You've
done enough for your country-for
the world at large. Take a rest
now"
VIII Amundsen listen TO their ad-
vice? Not that you could notice.
II must be n fascinating game. OK
ploration. which takes n man away
from his home. his relatives, his
friends. to spend months Certainly,
years probably. among %hardships,
discomforts, ms often as not'in acute
suffering. lie risks his life, future,
everything. The few who succeed
get fame as a reward. The rest get
nothing, unless Il be death.
Scott brhved the Antartic waters
and lost. Sir Ernest S]hackleton
more recently braved them also, and
he, too, lost. His wife. the news
comes. Is practically in poverty be-
cause tho Shackletons had used
their ultimate resources In QUILTING
Sir Ernest's trip, hut she is not COM
planning. That is the spirit OF X
plorers.
Why Amundsen wants To strike
out into the far north In difficult 10
see. II Is not as though he were a
now explorer, n nan with a reputa-
ton TO make. n person OF whom the
world was saying: You say you
want to discover things; let's see
what can you do"
Instead he is a man with his
achievements behind him. lie has
done his bit. put himself I'm an ever
lasting who's Who In the World"
but he keeps on fighting. The ex-
PLANTATION lies in his character, his
friends say. He is n mar who wants
to keep on accomplishing things.
out on the placid waters OF Lake
Union. at Seattle. Wash, n four
masted schooner rocks bach and
forth in the gentle swell while the
crew labors increasingly putting
provisions In her hold. on her bow
Is the name, 'Maude." In large let
ters. Idlers watching the work as
7 progresses day by day can see
chat the vessel is going on no small
cruise. evidently IL to he odt even
longer than n trip across the Paciric
and back would take.
'To the North Polc!"
"Where arc you bound?" they
ask the men at work. their curiosity
getting the better of them at last.
North" the laconic ans
wer.
For how long,"
Seven years"
"Whew! Say fellows, just where
are you going anyway"
ITO the north pole. perhaps. Do
you want TO make the trip?"
That always holds the most IN
quisitive OF the self-appointed in
vestigators. A few days later a now
crop springs up aud the process
all over again.
- The Maude Is Amundscn's ship,
the vessel he expects to carry him to
that charmed land that only Peary
has entered and whose boundaries
and dimensions TO this day are not
known fully. He started for the
north a ear & and got well into
the ice fields when a propeller blade
the Maude was broken.
Capt. G, Il. Pedersen. who has
sailed the Arctic cea and Boring
sea for twenty years. happened
along in his ship, the Herman, and
saw the plight of the Maude and
her passengers.
I'm take you south with me-" he
told Amundsen. the rescue coming
just in the nick OF time. The Maude
was brought TO Lake Union, the
blade replaced by one
that seemed SUR to stand the test.
and now Amundsen is. ready to start
The Norseman's plan Is to leave
Lake Union and Seattle June /, strike
north into the Boring sea. get frozen
the Arctic ice pack as II leaves
the Boring sea on Is n~ortheasterly
drift, and take a chance on it's car
rying him over the Pole or close
enough TO It that, as he expressed II.
We can look II over" IL would seem
TO ba the easiest kind OF a project.
Hes anyone else tried IT."
.mundsen was asked recently.
Yes, the explorer Nansen,' he
answered.
What luck did Nansen have?"
HE failed"
what makes you think you can
succeed, them"
Where Science Aids.
Because ! have a lot of advan-
that Nansen didn't have. I'm
at n later day and the mar
strides of science and, the
world OF invention have made re-
makes a person able to do a
hing today that was laughed at yes
.erday."
The presence of the n~ortheasterly
drift, starting from the Boring sea
the pole, is assured. ocean
currents. as repeatedly tested in the
circle. have shown II TO be a
fact. belongs ship. the jeanette,
was wrecked on the western side OF
north pole. and some OF her
yreckage eventually was washed up
IN the shores OF Greenland, proving
hat the drift was r the pole,