Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1928 — Page 8
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FLIERS PROVE ‘LOST LAND’ OF ARCm IS MYTH Belief That Northern Sea Held Great Continent Is Shattered. By Science Service • WASHINGTON, April 26,-When Caut. G. H. Wilkins and Carl Eielson flew over the Arctic wastes, reached Spitzbergen and declared in crytic cable code, “no foxes,” they made a final stab at the hope of explorers, geographers and adventurers that land existed in the great blind spot of the Arctic. For “no foxes” meant that they had seen no land. Amundsen and Nobile in their dirigible had sailed across the Arctic sea without viewing a land break in the sea of ice. So the lure of new land, which had headed the flags of more than one nation toward the Arctic, seems to have disappeared like a mirage. Strange and fantastic were some of the legends spread about the supposed lost continent of the Arctic. The population of the Norse colonies of Greenland, isolated for centuries and then found abandoned, was supposed to have migrated there and established a wonderful civilization, warmed and nourished by volcanoes and hot springs. Scientist Started Idea Once discovered, the -strange nation would of course welcome the establishment of a mid-Arctic station of the Europe-Asia airship lines that forward-looking avation experts have proposed. A scientist’s deductions gave the first hope for Arctic land. A decade or so ago Dr. R. A. Harris, tidal expert for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, engaged upon an exploratory trip “by deduction.” He gathered all the available tidal data taken by various expeditions on the shores of the Polar Sea. He desired to find out whether there was an unobstructed flow of ocean current across the Arctic sea, and his studies led him to believe that there was either a vast shoal or an Arctic continental land mass in the unknown area. Hopes Are Shattered Hopes for land built upon Dr. Harris’ prediction were somewhat lowered by the intimation brought back in 1925 by Dr. Harold U. Sverdrup, who, during a long three years advenuture of the Maud, Capt. Roald Amundsen’s ship, in Arctic ice north of Siberia, made tital observations which indicate to him that there is no Arctic continent or land mass in the great unexplored area. Using an electrical recording cur-rent-meter designed and constructed on board the ship, Dr. Sverdrup made observations at the Bear Islands over a period of fourteen months. He discovered that the tidal wave reaches those islands off the north coast of Siberia in such a way that it “seems to come directly across the Arctic sea without meeting obstructions formed by land.” Farmer Buys Newspaper By United Press WASHINGTON, Ind., April 26. Lou Harris, Barr Township farmer has purchased the Loogootee Tribune, newspaper and job printing plant, from John T. Harris, Washington newspaper man. Harris and : his son Otto, who has studied jour- j nalism at Indiana University, will | manage the property.
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H. G. Hook, president of the Indianapolis Music Merchants’ Association, is general chairman of committees, assisted by H. E. Jenkins, Joe Ryde, C. P. Herdman, Frank Davis, Ira Williams, R. B. Hodgin and William Christena. National Music Week is a natural outgrowth of the success of the many local music weeks which were the pioneers in the movement. It was in response to a desire for synchronization expressed by the local committees that the week beginning the first Sunday in May was fixed upon as the annual date of the simultaneous observance. That observance now represents the joint efforts of nearly 1,400 cities and towns to impress upon their populations the importance of music in the life of both the individual and the community. The time seems to be approaching when throughout the entire country Rational Music Week will be a fixture in the calendar. Music Week has for one of its slogans “Music for Everybody— Everybody for Music.” This means that during that period as many as possible in the community shall be performers of, or, at least, listeners to music. By this means, the old idea that music is a mystery and that its doors are open only to the few is to be dispelled. In other words, National Music Week is a radio in which everyone becomes a sending or receiving station or both. We thus have in the life of the various communities a literal embodiment of the old song, “There’s Music in the Air.” The American genius for organization is exemplified by the team work which makes possible the success of Music Week in the different communities. The city’s organizations co-oper-ate to make Music Week a peimanent stimulus to cultural and educational advancement. Clubs, schools and churches fall in line. Stores, factories, theaters and institutions play their part in the week’s festival. Above all, music in the home is intensified during this period. Organizations that major in music and others that use it only incidentally combine to make the Music Week a real summing-up of the city’s musical and civic life. Each contributes in its own way to the joint effort to impress upon the public what music can do as a comfort, a stimulus, a nerve-steadying force and a companion to man in his work and play, in his home and in the community. Music Week is not an event of merely ephemeral value but an exposition of the city’s musical resources such as encourages the citizens to still greater musical efforts during the coming year. Indeed, the establishment of permanent musical activities upon the foundation of the interest created by Music week is one of the usual by-products of its success. The value of such a quickening of musical interest in one community is very great. National Music Week now accomplishing this result in
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WOMAN TAKES POISON ENOUGH TO KILL 56 Patient at Seymour Hospital Still Alive But Death Is Expected By Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., April 26.—Mrs. Mary S. Perry is alive despite taking enough of a slow poison to cause the death of fifty-six persons. She is in a hospital here to which she
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