Evening star., 1924-12-18
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
DAWES AS TRUSTEE
Nice PreSident-EIect Has
Been Member of National
Society rs Years.

Charles G. Dawes, Vice President
elect, it was announced today, has
been elected a member of the board
of trustees of the National Geographic
Society. Gen Dawes succeeds to the
vacancy made by the death of S. n. ID.
North.
Gen. Dawes has been a member of
the National Geographic Society 25
years. He Joined in 1899. soon after
lie came to Washington as con-
troler Of the currency. Since then, he
has shown a keen interest in the
society's work and it's development
DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of
the society, announced to the board
of trustees yesterday that the jan
uary edition of the National Geo
graphic Magazine had run to more
than 100000 copies to meet the de-
mands of the 1925 membership.
Huge Mailing List.
Not only is the mailing list of the
Geographic today a gazetteer of the
United States. including every com
munity of so or more white persons,
hut It's foreign addresses comprise all
nations with postal system and
some where the members are reached
by camel caravans. reindeer sleds dog
teams, coolies backs and queer water
craft. The society's mem mbership rep
resents 1872 separate nations, colonies
and mandatories.
The growth of the National Geo
graphic Society dates from a period
of only a little more than 25 years
ago, when it was a local Washington
body of only 500 members. In the
last quarter of century. noted
explorers. geOgraphers and dis
tinguished men and women in every
department of scientific and educa
tional work have enrolled the the
aocietys membership. Among the
internationally known member con-
tributors to its official publication.
the National Geographic Magazine
have been President Coolidge. Chief
Justice Taft, the Marquise Curzon of
kedleston, Ambassador Jusserand of
France, George w. Goethals. the late
Theodore Roosevelt, Alexander Ora
ham Bell, Niscount James Bryce, Sir
Ernest Shackleton, Sir Ross Smith.
Joseph Conrad and scores of others.
Explorations Have Been Notable.
A resume of the expeditions of the
society in that period show notable
series of explorations which have
added substantially to our scientific
knowledge of the world.
The scene of the society's. first
volcanic Investigations was balmy
Martinique. which. in 1902, was a
favorite Winter tourist ground and
which, year later, wiped out prac-
tically all the 10000 people of st.
Pierre and destroyed II ships an
chored in the harbor
BY its studies there, the National
Geographic Society gave an impetus
TO investigation of volcanoes-a vir-
gin field.
The volcanic studies reached their
climax in the expeditions to Mount
Eatmai. Alaska, which made the
most thorough survey ever attempted
OF an eruption's after effects. Later,
through following a wisp of sky-hung
smoke that could not be accounted
for by known phenomena. the leader
discovered and made known to
science the now world famous Valley
of Ten Thousands Smokes. one of our
foremost natural wonders.
Working in New Mexico.
pedltHf6hhs now dTpei is Of Breathing life into
early American history by it's ex
ploTations in Chaco Canyon, New
Mexico. There resourceful explorers
built a tiny railroad and put a small,
putting engine to work hauling away
the debris from Pueblo Bonito-the
beautiful village" of pre-Columbian
civilization. In that geographic hay
stack they are finding minute eyid-
ence of how those long lost people
worked and lived, played, warred and
worshiped their gods.
Older members recall that the
society had an important part in at
tainment of the North Pole. Its
participation in polar exploration
eliminated when Peary planted the
Stars and Stripes at the earth's
northern axis
Capt. Robert Bartlett, Peary's chief
lieutenant, during the past Summer
was sent by the society to study the
currents, temperatures and harbors
of Alaskan shores, in anticipation of
aircraft flights to the pole and ex-
ploration Of the largest untraversed
area, Beaufort Sea, remaining on the
face of the earth.
Strange Peoples Found.
Perhaps the most alluring of all the
society's explorations today are those
which discover curious, remote
peoples, often remnants of some long
forgotten chapter of human history.
Joseph F. Rock and Frederick Wul-
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