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The Official Organ of the | Virginia Military Institute Athletic Association The Cadet Published Weekly By The Corps of Cadets Virginia Military Institute Track And Baseball Season To Open DuriiMr^T7r> VOL. XXVII LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934 Situation In Orient Outlined To Corps Japan and Russia Are Now Principles Of C l a s h i ng Views In The Far East Railroad Strategic Conditions Today Will Show Diplomatic Views Taken By These Two Nations Anderson Has Long Service At Institution Concluding his series of lectures on the relations of the nations of the world to one another today, Colonel Magruder spoke on the pre-vailing conditions in the far Eest and the situation centering around Japan, Russia, and China. The in-terest of the lecture was greatly increased by the fact that the speak-er had spent a number of years in China, as Military Attache, where he was able to study the conditions which are so vitally important in regarding the situation as it stands today. To understand properly the situa-tion, which the nations are facing, we must know something of the Served With the Engineers In France A s Captain During the World War Back in 1920 the powers-that-be decided that electrical engineering was of enough inmportance to be made a separate departmet. Here-tofore it had been a branch of the Physics department. The man chosen to head this new course was Col. Stewart Anderson. Under his guidance Electrical Engeering at VMI has grown and prospered steadily. Stewart W. Anderson was born in 1886 in Portsmouth, Va. He at tended the public schools and later two prep schools. In 1904 he had completed his pre-college educa-history of these countries and how j t i o n> a n d a f t e r careful deliberation the fortunes of each has undergone a gradual rise or decline through the ages. The physical outlay of Asia is one from the pleasant civilized country of one part to the barren, desert-like stretches of the Gobi. A notable geographic fea-ture is the high inaccessible plateau decided to enter the Institute. He spent the usual four years here, in, no doubt, the more or less usual manner. He was a member of the gym team for some time. Unfortu nately .however, he one day fell and broke his arm, which prevented any farther participation. In his first of Tihet, in the eastern portion o f ' c , a s s y e a r h e h e l d * position analo-which rise five of the largest rivers of Asia. The climate varies from extremely hot to extremely cold of the Siberian country to the north. Ancient Race Just how far back the Chinese race goes is not definitely known, gous to the present Chairman of the Hop Committee. In 1908 Cadet An derson was graduated with a B. S. in the electrical branch of the Phy-sics Department. Commandant of Cadets Durig the year following his grad-but we do know that 200 years be- uation, col. Anderson continued in fore Christ, when the Romans were t h e military life. He was Com fighting the Germanic Barbarians, m s m d a n t o f Cadets and instructor of the Chinese were a settled race. The great wall of China was"built as a protection against the inroads and attacks of the terrible people of the north, who we now know as the Tartars. From these Tartars, the Turks and Huns, who later over-ran Eastern Europe and Asia, originated. The great Mongol leader Genghiz Kahn came from these rough primitive people. In eastern China the Mongol Dynasty was established at Peking by Kubla Khan. This dynasty continued for about a hundred years and was superceded by the Ming regime. China remained for hundreds of years a land of mystery and a closed country to the rest of the world. When the world of trade began to open up in the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries, China was forced to make concessions which opened her doors to the world. Japan Opened As for Japan, it had remained entirely closed to the world, taking what civilizing qualities and what-ever trade necessary from the Chinese. In 1854 she was forced to open her ports to the trade and goods of the world about her. With the opening of her country to the trade of the foreigner, Japan began to take on the aggressive spirit of the western civilization and to wish to spread her colonization and ideas over Asia. Korea seemed a good place to form a base for such move-ments, but here she was faced with something of a difficult and puzzli-ing situation. Both China and Russia were settling there in hope of establishing themselves securely in the peninsula. North of Korea, the Russians had opened the port of Vladivostok. The Chinese-Jap-aaese War of 1894-95, in which the Chinese were defeated gained for Jqpan a more decided foothold on ttoe peninsula. Naturally Japan (Continued on page 7 science at the Charlotte Hall School in Maryland. In 1909 he left Mary-land and obtained a position as electrical machinist with the U. S. Navy at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. This work offered a wide variety of work, as it included repairing and installing all the electrical devices and machines used on the ships. Af-ter six months Col. Anderson took the civil service exams and was made a permanent employee. He transferred to land duty and was concerned with the generation and distribution of power. Served In France In 1911 Col. Anderson returned to V. M. I. as instructor in physics and electrical engineering. At the end of two years he left the In-stitute and became a graduate stu-dent and instructor at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin. In 1914 he re-ceived the degree of M. S. and once more joined the teaching staff of the Institute. Then, to use a well-worn (Continued On Page 8) Golden Gate Bridge Construction Shown The VMI Chapter of the ASCE held its bi-weekly meeting on Friday morning of last week. The subjects chosen for discussion were well chosen and arranged by the cadets giving them. Finlayson, the first speaker on the program, chose for his talk, planning and development of the Tennessee Valley. Such phases as power lines, flood controls, and provision for phosphate were brought out in the speech. Meador illustrated his talk on the Air Wheel as landing gear for planes by a picture show which was very interesting and instruct-ive to the members of the depart-ment. Following Meador on the (Continued On J>MW •) Leader of Expedition Gen. Lejeune Sends Message To Byrd Keydets Visit Cement Plant On Civil Trip i Unusual Activities Are Recorded In Course Of The Day's J o u r n ey j Antarctic E x p e d i t i o n Is Established On Ice Cap At Little America Base Member Class '08 Admiral Byrd At Present Time Is Visiting Post 100 Miles Nearer the Pole The Second Class Civil Engineer-ing department last week enjoyed an interesting and instructive trip to the plant of the Lehigh Cement company at Fordwich. Va. The trip was made under the direction of Colonel Marr on Wednesday, March 21. On the way to Fordwich a stop was made to inspect an abandoned blast furnace, which although not in use for some years, had many features of interest to the cadets. In Fordwich the group visited first the limestone quarries, where the i work of extracting the rock was explained. The Superintendent of ! the outfit evidently recognized the | potential ability of Sherman, Vaden : and Vanderslice, because they were allowed to fearlessly stand in a steel shack during blasting opera-tions and watch the dynamite doing its stuff on a cliff of limestone. Upon coming out of the nerve rack-ing experience such remarks as— col:.jsal, stupendous—were heard to emit from their lips. All attempts to interview them were a failure, although Sherman kindly condes- _T _ __ „ . cended to give out the information New System f o r the Hook Flames Quickly Put Out that this blasting game was nothing To Be Used Next Year gy Keydet Fire Force new to him as he shot firecrackers all his life, and that the dynamite (By Pacific & Atlantic) REAR-ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD Bomb Pictures Of Fire In Barracks '35 Taken In April During Last Week it was recently announced by W. | A Scoop! The peaceful atmos- C. Holt, editor of the '35 Bomb, that p h e r e of barracks Saturday was many new and unusual and unique disturbed by a cry of fire. For features are to be included in the t h e f i r s t t i m e at t h e I n s t i t u t e > m a n y book. Plans which have been made c a d e t s s a w t h e f l r e f i g h t i n g ap_ forecast it to be one of the most p a r t u s i n a c t i o n . At ia s t t h e g u a rd striking annuals put out in many succeeded, after many attempts, in a year. Introducing a feature which unrol l i n g the hose. One of them is both new and novel in its field, strolled into the O. D's. house and the Bomb has planned to run an brought out a wrench to turn on was only on a little larger scale. Even under stress you will never find a V. M. I. man who forgets its 'time to eat, so the whole motely crew went into town, where they gave a fit demonstration of how a starving army of Armenians would take over the village eate shoppe. Some of the boys appeared as if this was the first meal they had had in individual picture of each man in, t h e w a t e r x h e f i r e w a s diSCOvered months from the quantity which the Corps. The arrangement 011 t o b e down in Archie's hole, where they very dexterously consumed, these pictures has been so planned q u i t e a n u m b e r of o i l y r a g s w e r e It i s rumored that Jordon only gave as to form a decided contrast to the burning cheerfully, much to the usual form of group pictures of the s m o k y disConfort of those who classes. This will in no way sub-1 roomed above. Some excitement! ordinate the First Class as they' x h e t r u c k s f r o m Lexington came will occupy the same prominent, o u t a n d a f t e r m a n e u v e r i n g for position that they have occupied in s o m e t i m e t o f j n d a w a y tQ b r j ng the past. By this new system each t h e i r apparatus to play on the fire man will have a definite place in f i n a l l y g a i n e d a p o i n t Qf v a n t a ge the book, and those Brother Rats w h e r e t h e y p u t o u t w h a t a m Q u n t Qf who have dropped before the grad- f i r e remained. The Cadet appara-uating year may be recalled by (Continued On PaKC 8) reference to the Bomb. 1 — pi^ure^w^r constitute 'those ^Mhe ^ Weems And His Famous Band have their pictures taken some- To Play Here For Easter Dances time in the near vicinity of April — 6th. Mess jackets will be worn. The Gentlemen—The Hop Committee, Marsh will not be with the band uniform to be worn by the under persents Ted Weems and his Or-1 this year; however a new feminine up the ship, when he had expanded so he couldn't reach the table. That afternoon the cement plant was gone through, with the super-intendent explaining the various steps in the making of cement, the rotary kilns, furnaces, crushers, etc. The assistance of the various mem-bers of the plant, in showing the men how the different machinery (Continued On Pave 8) classes has not as yet been decided chestra playing for Easter Hops, upon. At recent meetings of the which are to be held on the eve- Third and Rat classes it was agreed ning of April 27 th and 28th. Weems upon that they would stand the ex- needs no introduction to the Second pense of the taking of these pic- a n d First Classmen as those mem-tures. | orable strains of his music from the Finals of '32 still linger on as a Culver Officers Visit tribute accorded one of the most Colonel Rossuw, commandant of popular orchestras to ever play at cadets, and Colonel Chambers, ad- the Institute. Practically the same ministrative officer together with a band will hold sway in Ninety-Four group of the tactical staff paid a Hall once again. With the orches visit to the Institute last week. These officers are making an ex-tended tour of various schools of the country and alumni of the Cul-ver academy. They were shown about the post by General Lejeune, who explained the military features of the school. Incidently it is o f i n - terest to note that the present su-perintendent of Culver is a V. M. I. man. tra there is Parker Gibbs, baritone vocalist; Red Ingle, sax and tenor soloist; "Country " Washburn, bass; Elmo Tanner, whistling soloist and dialect specialist; Ormond Downes, World's greatest drummer and ori-ginator of the South American guiro for rythm effects; Jack O'- Brien, pianist; and Art Weems, trumpet with Don Watt, clarinet. The only regret is that Andrea touch is to be added before the dances at VMI. The entire orchestra of fourteen pieces will be here to give their idea of just how dance rythms should be played. Upon leaving the University of Pennsylvania, Weems organized his famous 'All American Band", which has enjoyed unprescented success from that time on. For two years he played at the World's most beau-tiful ballroom, the Trianon in Chi-cago. Then to the Pennsylaviana and Waldorf-Astoria in New York and the Bismark in Chicago. He has recently completed a long term con-tract at Lincoln Travers. His music has reached millions over the coast-to- coast broadcasts. Weems with various members of his orchestra have contributed some of the coun-try'* greatest song hits including ( C o n t i n u e * On Pace 8) Hailed as the greatest scientific achievement of the age. Byrd's Antarctic Expedition pushes on \ toward the South Pole. At his base of operations. 200 miles from the pole, he is each day combat- ' ing the forces of Nature which have so often proved victor over the puny attempts of the mere hu-man being. Four specially con-structed tractors are forcing their way slowly toward the pole, over the ice cap which lays between them and their goal. The dangers I in such a trip are shown by the fact that this is the first time what mechanized transport has been used with any degree of success in the polar regions. The giant cre- 1 vaces which, unseen, beset the ways have been the graveyard of many I similar attempts to reach the ' South Pole. In this land of ice ' and snow the temperature at most times remains as low as 50 de-grees below zero. This only is a small portion of the hardships which these men must face in ord-er to be of benefit to the world of science. In the two years which the expedition expects to be in the Antarctic, they will accumalate a vast amount of data which will be of untold value to the world. Rear-Admiral Byrd. leader of the expedition and famous son of | the Virginia Military Institute, Brother Rat of the Class of 1908, has been directly responsible for ' most of America's greatest discover-j ies in the areas surrounding both the North and South Poles. He is [ the only man who have ever been I to both poles. No party prior to /.his has attempted such an extend-ed stay in Antarctic regions. Through radio facilities the Byrd Expedition is kept in touch with the outside world. Saturday night at the regular time for connect-ing the correspondent at Little America, Major-General Lejeune sent the following message to Ad-miral Byrd: "The Cadets of Vir-ginia Military Institute assembled in Jackson Hall, classmates of 1908, and alumni send you their greet-ings and hope for greatest success to your expedition in the Antractic" Signed, Major-General .John A. Lejeune. As the base of operations is so near the South Pole, unusually severe magnetic storms makes re-ception impossible at times. The first attempt at a hookup was made through Buenos Aires, but after this was drowned out another attempt was made overland thru South America by a 9,000 mile trans-continental circuit. Later the air cleared enough to enable the Byrd correspondent to give latest news of the Party's progress. Ad-miral Byrd was at the time making observations from an advance post 100 miles from the pole and was therefore unable to acknowledge the mesage to him. He is expected to be back at the base within the next day or so. All the world joins in acclaiming him as the greatest explorer of the modern age and V. M. I. can be justly proud of hav-ing within the ranks of its alumni such a man as Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
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Full Text Search | The Official Organ of the | Virginia Military Institute Athletic Association The Cadet Published Weekly By The Corps of Cadets Virginia Military Institute Track And Baseball Season To Open DuriiMr^T7r> VOL. XXVII LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934 Situation In Orient Outlined To Corps Japan and Russia Are Now Principles Of C l a s h i ng Views In The Far East Railroad Strategic Conditions Today Will Show Diplomatic Views Taken By These Two Nations Anderson Has Long Service At Institution Concluding his series of lectures on the relations of the nations of the world to one another today, Colonel Magruder spoke on the pre-vailing conditions in the far Eest and the situation centering around Japan, Russia, and China. The in-terest of the lecture was greatly increased by the fact that the speak-er had spent a number of years in China, as Military Attache, where he was able to study the conditions which are so vitally important in regarding the situation as it stands today. To understand properly the situa-tion, which the nations are facing, we must know something of the Served With the Engineers In France A s Captain During the World War Back in 1920 the powers-that-be decided that electrical engineering was of enough inmportance to be made a separate departmet. Here-tofore it had been a branch of the Physics department. The man chosen to head this new course was Col. Stewart Anderson. Under his guidance Electrical Engeering at VMI has grown and prospered steadily. Stewart W. Anderson was born in 1886 in Portsmouth, Va. He at tended the public schools and later two prep schools. In 1904 he had completed his pre-college educa-history of these countries and how j t i o n> a n d a f t e r careful deliberation the fortunes of each has undergone a gradual rise or decline through the ages. The physical outlay of Asia is one from the pleasant civilized country of one part to the barren, desert-like stretches of the Gobi. A notable geographic fea-ture is the high inaccessible plateau decided to enter the Institute. He spent the usual four years here, in, no doubt, the more or less usual manner. He was a member of the gym team for some time. Unfortu nately .however, he one day fell and broke his arm, which prevented any farther participation. In his first of Tihet, in the eastern portion o f ' c , a s s y e a r h e h e l d * position analo-which rise five of the largest rivers of Asia. The climate varies from extremely hot to extremely cold of the Siberian country to the north. Ancient Race Just how far back the Chinese race goes is not definitely known, gous to the present Chairman of the Hop Committee. In 1908 Cadet An derson was graduated with a B. S. in the electrical branch of the Phy-sics Department. Commandant of Cadets Durig the year following his grad-but we do know that 200 years be- uation, col. Anderson continued in fore Christ, when the Romans were t h e military life. He was Com fighting the Germanic Barbarians, m s m d a n t o f Cadets and instructor of the Chinese were a settled race. The great wall of China was"built as a protection against the inroads and attacks of the terrible people of the north, who we now know as the Tartars. From these Tartars, the Turks and Huns, who later over-ran Eastern Europe and Asia, originated. The great Mongol leader Genghiz Kahn came from these rough primitive people. In eastern China the Mongol Dynasty was established at Peking by Kubla Khan. This dynasty continued for about a hundred years and was superceded by the Ming regime. China remained for hundreds of years a land of mystery and a closed country to the rest of the world. When the world of trade began to open up in the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries, China was forced to make concessions which opened her doors to the world. Japan Opened As for Japan, it had remained entirely closed to the world, taking what civilizing qualities and what-ever trade necessary from the Chinese. In 1854 she was forced to open her ports to the trade and goods of the world about her. With the opening of her country to the trade of the foreigner, Japan began to take on the aggressive spirit of the western civilization and to wish to spread her colonization and ideas over Asia. Korea seemed a good place to form a base for such move-ments, but here she was faced with something of a difficult and puzzli-ing situation. Both China and Russia were settling there in hope of establishing themselves securely in the peninsula. North of Korea, the Russians had opened the port of Vladivostok. The Chinese-Jap-aaese War of 1894-95, in which the Chinese were defeated gained for Jqpan a more decided foothold on ttoe peninsula. Naturally Japan (Continued on page 7 science at the Charlotte Hall School in Maryland. In 1909 he left Mary-land and obtained a position as electrical machinist with the U. S. Navy at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. This work offered a wide variety of work, as it included repairing and installing all the electrical devices and machines used on the ships. Af-ter six months Col. Anderson took the civil service exams and was made a permanent employee. He transferred to land duty and was concerned with the generation and distribution of power. Served In France In 1911 Col. Anderson returned to V. M. I. as instructor in physics and electrical engineering. At the end of two years he left the In-stitute and became a graduate stu-dent and instructor at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin. In 1914 he re-ceived the degree of M. S. and once more joined the teaching staff of the Institute. Then, to use a well-worn (Continued On Page 8) Golden Gate Bridge Construction Shown The VMI Chapter of the ASCE held its bi-weekly meeting on Friday morning of last week. The subjects chosen for discussion were well chosen and arranged by the cadets giving them. Finlayson, the first speaker on the program, chose for his talk, planning and development of the Tennessee Valley. Such phases as power lines, flood controls, and provision for phosphate were brought out in the speech. Meador illustrated his talk on the Air Wheel as landing gear for planes by a picture show which was very interesting and instruct-ive to the members of the depart-ment. Following Meador on the (Continued On J>MW •) Leader of Expedition Gen. Lejeune Sends Message To Byrd Keydets Visit Cement Plant On Civil Trip i Unusual Activities Are Recorded In Course Of The Day's J o u r n ey j Antarctic E x p e d i t i o n Is Established On Ice Cap At Little America Base Member Class '08 Admiral Byrd At Present Time Is Visiting Post 100 Miles Nearer the Pole The Second Class Civil Engineer-ing department last week enjoyed an interesting and instructive trip to the plant of the Lehigh Cement company at Fordwich. Va. The trip was made under the direction of Colonel Marr on Wednesday, March 21. On the way to Fordwich a stop was made to inspect an abandoned blast furnace, which although not in use for some years, had many features of interest to the cadets. In Fordwich the group visited first the limestone quarries, where the i work of extracting the rock was explained. The Superintendent of ! the outfit evidently recognized the | potential ability of Sherman, Vaden : and Vanderslice, because they were allowed to fearlessly stand in a steel shack during blasting opera-tions and watch the dynamite doing its stuff on a cliff of limestone. Upon coming out of the nerve rack-ing experience such remarks as— col:.jsal, stupendous—were heard to emit from their lips. All attempts to interview them were a failure, although Sherman kindly condes- _T _ __ „ . cended to give out the information New System f o r the Hook Flames Quickly Put Out that this blasting game was nothing To Be Used Next Year gy Keydet Fire Force new to him as he shot firecrackers all his life, and that the dynamite (By Pacific & Atlantic) REAR-ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD Bomb Pictures Of Fire In Barracks '35 Taken In April During Last Week it was recently announced by W. | A Scoop! The peaceful atmos- C. Holt, editor of the '35 Bomb, that p h e r e of barracks Saturday was many new and unusual and unique disturbed by a cry of fire. For features are to be included in the t h e f i r s t t i m e at t h e I n s t i t u t e > m a n y book. Plans which have been made c a d e t s s a w t h e f l r e f i g h t i n g ap_ forecast it to be one of the most p a r t u s i n a c t i o n . At ia s t t h e g u a rd striking annuals put out in many succeeded, after many attempts, in a year. Introducing a feature which unrol l i n g the hose. One of them is both new and novel in its field, strolled into the O. D's. house and the Bomb has planned to run an brought out a wrench to turn on was only on a little larger scale. Even under stress you will never find a V. M. I. man who forgets its 'time to eat, so the whole motely crew went into town, where they gave a fit demonstration of how a starving army of Armenians would take over the village eate shoppe. Some of the boys appeared as if this was the first meal they had had in individual picture of each man in, t h e w a t e r x h e f i r e w a s diSCOvered months from the quantity which the Corps. The arrangement 011 t o b e down in Archie's hole, where they very dexterously consumed, these pictures has been so planned q u i t e a n u m b e r of o i l y r a g s w e r e It i s rumored that Jordon only gave as to form a decided contrast to the burning cheerfully, much to the usual form of group pictures of the s m o k y disConfort of those who classes. This will in no way sub-1 roomed above. Some excitement! ordinate the First Class as they' x h e t r u c k s f r o m Lexington came will occupy the same prominent, o u t a n d a f t e r m a n e u v e r i n g for position that they have occupied in s o m e t i m e t o f j n d a w a y tQ b r j ng the past. By this new system each t h e i r apparatus to play on the fire man will have a definite place in f i n a l l y g a i n e d a p o i n t Qf v a n t a ge the book, and those Brother Rats w h e r e t h e y p u t o u t w h a t a m Q u n t Qf who have dropped before the grad- f i r e remained. The Cadet appara-uating year may be recalled by (Continued On PaKC 8) reference to the Bomb. 1 — pi^ure^w^r constitute 'those ^Mhe ^ Weems And His Famous Band have their pictures taken some- To Play Here For Easter Dances time in the near vicinity of April — 6th. Mess jackets will be worn. The Gentlemen—The Hop Committee, Marsh will not be with the band uniform to be worn by the under persents Ted Weems and his Or-1 this year; however a new feminine up the ship, when he had expanded so he couldn't reach the table. That afternoon the cement plant was gone through, with the super-intendent explaining the various steps in the making of cement, the rotary kilns, furnaces, crushers, etc. The assistance of the various mem-bers of the plant, in showing the men how the different machinery (Continued On Pave 8) classes has not as yet been decided chestra playing for Easter Hops, upon. At recent meetings of the which are to be held on the eve- Third and Rat classes it was agreed ning of April 27 th and 28th. Weems upon that they would stand the ex- needs no introduction to the Second pense of the taking of these pic- a n d First Classmen as those mem-tures. | orable strains of his music from the Finals of '32 still linger on as a Culver Officers Visit tribute accorded one of the most Colonel Rossuw, commandant of popular orchestras to ever play at cadets, and Colonel Chambers, ad- the Institute. Practically the same ministrative officer together with a band will hold sway in Ninety-Four group of the tactical staff paid a Hall once again. With the orches visit to the Institute last week. These officers are making an ex-tended tour of various schools of the country and alumni of the Cul-ver academy. They were shown about the post by General Lejeune, who explained the military features of the school. Incidently it is o f i n - terest to note that the present su-perintendent of Culver is a V. M. I. man. tra there is Parker Gibbs, baritone vocalist; Red Ingle, sax and tenor soloist; "Country " Washburn, bass; Elmo Tanner, whistling soloist and dialect specialist; Ormond Downes, World's greatest drummer and ori-ginator of the South American guiro for rythm effects; Jack O'- Brien, pianist; and Art Weems, trumpet with Don Watt, clarinet. The only regret is that Andrea touch is to be added before the dances at VMI. The entire orchestra of fourteen pieces will be here to give their idea of just how dance rythms should be played. Upon leaving the University of Pennsylvania, Weems organized his famous 'All American Band", which has enjoyed unprescented success from that time on. For two years he played at the World's most beau-tiful ballroom, the Trianon in Chi-cago. Then to the Pennsylaviana and Waldorf-Astoria in New York and the Bismark in Chicago. He has recently completed a long term con-tract at Lincoln Travers. His music has reached millions over the coast-to- coast broadcasts. Weems with various members of his orchestra have contributed some of the coun-try'* greatest song hits including ( C o n t i n u e * On Pace 8) Hailed as the greatest scientific achievement of the age. Byrd's Antarctic Expedition pushes on \ toward the South Pole. At his base of operations. 200 miles from the pole, he is each day combat- ' ing the forces of Nature which have so often proved victor over the puny attempts of the mere hu-man being. Four specially con-structed tractors are forcing their way slowly toward the pole, over the ice cap which lays between them and their goal. The dangers I in such a trip are shown by the fact that this is the first time what mechanized transport has been used with any degree of success in the polar regions. The giant cre- 1 vaces which, unseen, beset the ways have been the graveyard of many I similar attempts to reach the ' South Pole. In this land of ice ' and snow the temperature at most times remains as low as 50 de-grees below zero. This only is a small portion of the hardships which these men must face in ord-er to be of benefit to the world of science. In the two years which the expedition expects to be in the Antarctic, they will accumalate a vast amount of data which will be of untold value to the world. Rear-Admiral Byrd. leader of the expedition and famous son of | the Virginia Military Institute, Brother Rat of the Class of 1908, has been directly responsible for ' most of America's greatest discover-j ies in the areas surrounding both the North and South Poles. He is [ the only man who have ever been I to both poles. No party prior to /.his has attempted such an extend-ed stay in Antarctic regions. Through radio facilities the Byrd Expedition is kept in touch with the outside world. Saturday night at the regular time for connect-ing the correspondent at Little America, Major-General Lejeune sent the following message to Ad-miral Byrd: "The Cadets of Vir-ginia Military Institute assembled in Jackson Hall, classmates of 1908, and alumni send you their greet-ings and hope for greatest success to your expedition in the Antractic" Signed, Major-General .John A. Lejeune. As the base of operations is so near the South Pole, unusually severe magnetic storms makes re-ception impossible at times. The first attempt at a hookup was made through Buenos Aires, but after this was drowned out another attempt was made overland thru South America by a 9,000 mile trans-continental circuit. Later the air cleared enough to enable the Byrd correspondent to give latest news of the Party's progress. Ad-miral Byrd was at the time making observations from an advance post 100 miles from the pole and was therefore unable to acknowledge the mesage to him. He is expected to be back at the base within the next day or so. All the world joins in acclaiming him as the greatest explorer of the modern age and V. M. I. can be justly proud of hav-ing within the ranks of its alumni such a man as Admiral Richard E. Byrd. |