Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-07-17
7. G.. HAINES GUEST OF
HONOR AT ROTARY MEETING

ROJar1anS, Rotary AIMS, and IN
vited guests-in all to the number
of about so. were present at the
regular weekly meeting of the Ro-
tarians held Friday night at the
Kennebec hotel. The guest of hon.
or was VIM. C. Haines, meteorologist
for the Byrd south pole expedition,
who was spending about week
with his home people at Reiners-
vile, and some of Mr. Haines' rela-
tives and friends at Reinersville
were among the guests invited to be
present.
l.. " Busche, the official, efficient,
and popular Rotary song leader,
carried out his part of the program
in his usual capable manner, giving
the distinguished visitor what he
called the iceberg welcome. r. r..
Baker, president, presided, and fol-
lowing dinner introduced DR.. d. G..
Ralston, chairman of the entertain
ment committee. DR.. Ralston in a
few fitting words in which he spoke
of the Byrd expedition, stating that
the man to select the day when the
/, flight should be made was Mr..
Haines, introduced him. Upon be-
| ing introduced, Mr.. Haines, as is his
custom, declined to make speech,
but expressed his willingness to an
swer as best he could such questions
as might be asked him. Accepting
his offer, for more than an hour a
regular barrage of questions was
| fired at him, and Mr.. Haines answer
ed each in his pleasant, capable
manner. Many of the questions he
answered referred to the same mat
ters as those that appeared in this
paper last week, following an inter-
view the writer had with Mr..
Haines, and so will not be repeated
here.
The noted meteOrologist was, Fri
day night here, made an honorary
member of International Rotary for
life, and President Baker presented
him beautiful Rotarian emblem.
Upon receiving the emblem, Mr..
Haines expressed his hope that he
might live up to the standards of
Rotary.
Briefly few questions answered
by Mr.. Haines: Tried eating a whale
not very good; tried seal, not
much better; dogs thrived on seal
meat-killed 800 seals for dogs;
four persons were in plane when it
went over pole; Paramount picture
corporation took pictures and owns
right; took many panoramic views
of country; fuel used was coal oil,
gasoline, and they had so tons of
coal; mountain range within about
800 miles of pole; pole on high plat
eau, practically level, with surface
unbroken; mountain ranges about
Is 900 feet high; rocks of mountains
in places are exposed; kerosene in
lamps froze when temperature went
from SIS to so degrees below zero;
aurora borealis seen almost every
night, while beautiful, not so pretty
as that of the north regions; ships
left camp at Little America" and
returned to New Zealand for winter,
leaving the AZ men; nearest inhab-
itarlts better than 1000 miles away.
In the airplane flights not a plane
was brought down because of wealth
|er conditions (since Mr. Haines was
relied upon solely as to time OF
flights, gives splendid idea of Mr..
Haines' WORTH; wind sometimes at
tains velocity of 70 miles; very lit
tie wind makes bad weather; coun-
try down there about pole larger
than entire United States; territory
discovered named "Marie Byrd
Land" in honor of Commander
Byrd. 1t is situated between Ross
Sea and Graham Land; much colder
than north polar regions, sometimes
reaches more than 70 below zero
the interior believed to be still cold
er; radios subject to fits of static,
same as here; generated electricity
with outfit; light kept burning on
ger of getting lost, if they ventured
storm snow dazzling, had to wear
blindness; calmest and clearest
weather from September until De-
cember; zero weather every month
in year; warmest was about "a de.
grees; but little homesickness ex-
perienced among the party: morale
of men good. Haines acted as bar
Der; cut hair short so as not to be
bothered with it; wore woolen cloth
ing with fur parkas; while Byrd
was on flight over pole, Haines who
was fourth in command OF the ex-
pedition, was in charge of base; by |
radio listened to hum of motor on
fight; humming ceased, and knew |
plane had landed; sent out another |
plane, it too ceased to be heard, and |
they feared that both might bel
tense moments; soon heard |
hum, and signal that all was o. X; |
relief plane returned-the other |
went on and over; dog teams in lay |
ing base supplies, pull load of better (
than ton; dogs were from Alaska !
and Labrador. Asked if he was 60 !
ing on another expedition with |
Byrd, Haines replied-not unless he |
will make it short and snappy. Left !
camp practically complete, including |
radio tower, records and library.
AT the conclusion of questioning, |
President Baker stated that while /
they had gained new member, they |
were sorry that one of their old |
who had meant so |
much to the club, and was one of I
its organizers here, was to leave
Prof. G. E. Carr, whom he intro
duced. Mr.. Carr spoke briefly, in |
which he stated that it was hard for
him to say goodby. He expressed |
the pleasure meeting with Rotarians |
had given him-of the help and sup
port he had received from the club; |
and of the service Rotary had rem
dered. He said his sorrow In part
ing with friends and relatives. to go /
overseas in the World war, was no |
keener than it was for him now to !!
leave, and that every Friday evening |
at o'clock he would be thinking of
the meeting of the Rotarians here.
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