Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-18

MEMBER
 ATIP TO POLAR EXPLORERS
 Since Capt. G. H. Wilkins and Ben Eelson, our own intrepid pioneer of the aranes of the North have an nounced their intention of spying out the blind spot of the Arctic in search of and it might be well to them that they contemplate visiting the Pole they will discover that Commander Byrd and Admiral Peary had been preceded by little matter of twenynine hundred odd years by gentleman named Odysseus, whom Homer styles the fostering of Zeus and of many devices"
 The time of Odysseus adventurous Journey to the Pole may have antedated the time stated there is record in history of just what going around Ithaca and it's subdivisions when Odysseus started out to clean up the Trojans Hence Wilkins and Eieson may not be surprised if there has been few changes since the n trepd A1chaeans fled from the harbor of Lomos in time to get from under powder the size of Congressmans ego hurled by of the retaners of Anphaes who ccordng to Odysseus mayor chief of police of Lo about that time and enjoyed nothing better for his lunch than haf-dozen Ithacans lched from the voy agers ships and stuffed into the pockets of the giants after demolishing fleet of ships with bowlders
 We will not vouch for the truth of the yarn Odysseus swapped to the good Acones and others in return for hospitality and with which he explained to Penelope why he had been detained at the office 20 years and therefore late for supper but there is plausbty that statement about having fingered about the Pole for few hours while other members of his company gave it the over" to see if there anything not nailed down and that they could merely by suggng the King Antiphates with blackjack making proper ar engagements with the police for cut in the spois
 But let us get at that bit of Homerc history:
 Odysseus says what struck him most forciby in the land of tn Lastrygons was the fact that sleepess might double wage are the outgoing and incoming of night and day; herdsman exchang ing greetings he returned to the corral with his ocks with another taking one last yawn before bracng him. self for the task of listening to sheep bea until the bell rang announcing time do the chores wash up and st in"
 Which shows that Odysseus not in harmony with Henry Fords fve-day week, but might have made few calculations what he would have to give up to the in tax with all of that overtime at price and half, with the Bolshevik six-hour day.
 Proceeding further in his report to the Bureau on North Poles, Odysseus gave the place black eye with spect to it's adaptabity for raising family He claimed the island had but harbor while the remainder of the coast line composed of sheer walls smooth cop per and towering thousands of feet into the air. From the way his party pelted with stones by the giant Laestrygons it mi ght good naval base for a gang of Shadegys from Connemara
 To end his narrative, Odysseus told Accnes that the Sheepherders union had the place pcketed with giants who after smashing eleven ships with bowlders Iran their fingers through the waters and picked up the Ar chaeans like little fishes" and then went home to make meal of them.
 What the world will be most interested in is whether Odyssels filled up postwar mule after he and Aga lost that decision to the Troans and it took him 20 years to out of whether Doc Cook took the route of Homers hero and he did how he got past Scylla and Chirobdis.
 There broad field for activity north of Point Bar row. and who knows but Eelso like his Morse ancestors might get to snoopng around and discover that hstor have been only speculating where Troy actually stood and instead of its being of Phoncian origin in fact part of Alaska and that its siege not 1osI 1~~4I 4I.A o1- s~