To the Editor of the "Norra-Catna Dairy News."
Sm,—In a short article you recently published commenting on the Polar Expedition, to which perhaps much undue publicity has been given, I think you are hardly fair in dimming to some extent the brilliant exploit of Amundsen in outstripping Scott in the race to the South Pole.
You attribute the victory of Amundsen to his good luck as compared with Scott's bad luck in being handicapped by prolonged blizzards. It is, however, a fairly well-known fact to those who have studied Arctic exploration that Scott's failure was primarily due to an error of judgement on his part in selecting Mongolian ponies and motor slodges for his dash to the Pole. Amundsen used dogs. He knew what they could do and obviously thought that experiment in other methods of transport was a too risky chance considering the almost limitless possibilities of disaster.
While no one would wish to disparage Scott's gallant but unfortunate attempt to reach_ the South Pole first, it must be admitted, one would think, that bad judgement as well as bad luck contributed to his failure.
I am, etc.,
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