Alva M. Janes, Ph.D.: Arctic explorer

              ALVA M. JANES, Ph. B. 
Arctic Explorer


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World Traveler — Banker — Lecturer

2040 Orrington Avenue Evanston, Illinois




Alva M. Janes, Arctic explorer, world traveler, farmer, stockman, banker and lecturer, possesses an almost unlimited store of valuable information gained through various institutions of learning, broad business experience and extensive travels.




He is a man of sterling worth and character, with a message to deliver and has the power, personality and force to make his lectures interesting and instructive.




The Lectures are illustrated by slides taken during his extensive travels and his talks the result of intense study and investigation.





SUBJECTS



During the winter of 1924 we took the Mediterranean cruise and have added three lectures to the two on South America.




No. 1. Agriculture in Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentines

Rio de Janeiro Corcovada, Sugar Loaf, Botanical Garden, Monroe Building, Municipal Theater, Royal Palms, Sao Paulo, Snake Farm, Ox Team, Armour Plant, Zebu, Montivideo, Buenos Aires, Palermo, Race Track, Rose Garden, Cattle on Estancias, Branding Cattle, Ostriches, Tunnel, Christ of the Andes.


No. 2. South American Mines and Trip Through Andes

Copper and Nitrate mines in Chili, Santiago, Valparaiso, La Paz, Mt. Illimani, Lake Titicaca, Mt. Sorata, Araquipa, Indian Scenes, Alpacas Llamas, Cuzco, a trip to the Urco farm in the eastern part of Peru located on a tributary of the Amazon, Lima, Museum, Pizarro, Cathedral, Panama Canal.

No. 3. Land of the Kings, Spain, Algiers and Egypt

Madeira, Seville, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Algiers, Egypt, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Tutenkhamen, Cairo, Mosque of Mahommet Ali, Mahommedan College, Street Scene, Pyramids, Sphynx, Memphis, Sakarra, Nile River, Sailboats on the Nile, Luxor, Karnac, Ancient Thebes, Temple of Queen Hatsu Rameses II.

No. 4. Scenes and Stories of Palestine

Palestine, Mt. Carmel, Sea of Gallilee, Tiberias, Bethsaida, Capernaum, Bedouins, Mary's Well, Nazareth, Armenian Children, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jews' wailing place, Mt. Maria, Site of Solomon's Temple, Mosque of Omar, Garden of Gethsemane, Mt. of Olives, Bethany, House of Lazarus, Jordan, Dead Sea, Jericho, Mt. of Temptation, Via Dolorosa, Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

No. 5. Beauty and Tragedy, Turkey, Greece and Italy

Turkey, Constantinople, Bosphorus, Mosque of Sofia, Calif, Greece, Athens, Acropolis, Parthenon, Mars Hill, Italy, Naples, Vesuvius, Pompeii, Amalfi Drive, Rome St. Peters, Vatican, Roman Forum Catacombs, Palatine and Capatoline Hills, Colisseum, Lisbon, Cintra.

No. 6. The Rockies from Canada to Mexico

Tacoma, Mt. Shasta, Yellowstone Pk., Colorado Springs, Manitou, Grand Canyon, Hopi Indians, Yosemite, Sutro Baths San Francisco, Berkeley, Mojave Desert, Riverside, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Catalina Island, Coronado Beach, San Diego.


I have just recently returned from a trip around the world taking me one year and covering 45,000 miles.  This extended over the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon and Africa.  This gave me the material for five new lectures, Viz;



No. 10. Islands of the Pacific

Honolulu, Waikiki Beach, Beautiful Flowers, Royal Palms, Royal Palaces, Hawaian Dancers, Kilauea Volcano, Molten Lava, Volcano in state of eruption, Pineapple and Sugarcane Plantations, Fijii Islands, Firewalkers, Island of Bau, Outrigger, Levuka, Friendly Islands, Samoa, Apia, Cocoanut Groves, Grave and Residence of Robert Louie Stevenson.  Native Samoans.

No. 11. Agriculture in New Zealand

Auckland, Mt Eden, Rotorua, Guisers, Native Maori's, Agricultural scenes on North and South Islands, Large herds of Sheep and Cattle, Fruit Orchards, Chicken raising, Jersey Cattle, Plowing with tractors, Cutting Grain, Stacking Grain, Making Hay, Threshing, Wellington the Capitol, Beautiful Rural Scenes.

No. 12. Agriculture in Australia and Tasmania

Sydney, the 2nd most beautiful City and Harbor in the whole world.  Manley, Cogee and Bronte Bathing Beeches.  Botanical Garden, Captain Cook Monument, Jenolen Caves, Large Herds of Cattle and Sheep, Splendid Horses, Large Fields of Grain, Canberra the New Capitol, Melbourne with its beautiful Streets, Parks and Gardens, Scenes at the Great Agricultural Fair, Tasmania, Hobart its Capitol, Mt Wellington, Port Arthur, noted for its Horrid Prison life from 1820 to 1855, Queensland, Fields of Grain, Sugar Cane Plantations, Great herds of Cattle and Sheep, Splendid Fruit Orchards, Tremendous Forests.  Invited to tea by Madam Nellie Melba.



No. 13. The Dutch East Indies of Today

New Guinea, Rubber Plantation, Birds of Paradise, Cannibals, Aborigines, Thursday Island, Pearl Divers, Java, Bromo Volcano, Tosauri, Rice Terraces, Volcanic Peaks, Tobacco plantations, Sugar Cane, Malabar Tea Plantation, Quinine Sultan of Jokja, His Wives and Reception Room, Borobudor Temple, The Greatest Shrine erected in memory of Buddha, Beitenzorg, the residence of the Governor General, Botanical Garden, Batavia the Capitol, Streets in Old Batavia, Borneo, Kapuas River in Central Borneo, Scenes at Sangau, Dyaks, Headhunters, Dyak Homes, Strange Costumes, Pagan ceremony, Singapore Harbor, Gariksha, Beautiful Avenues, Gorgeous Scenes at Sunset.


No. 14. Africa from the Head Waters of the Nile to Cape Town

Kilimanjero, Nairobi the headquarter for hunting Lions, Elephants, and Rhinoceros's, Jinja a town at the source of the Nile, Rippon Falls at the North end of Lake Victoria, Nyanza the beginning of the Nile, Mozambique, Dar es Salam, Tanganyika, Zambizi River, Victoria Falls, On a lunch above the Falls, North and South Rhodesia, Bulowayo, World View, The Tomb of Cecil John Rhodes, Union of South Africa, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Pretoria the Capitol, Paul, Kruger, Capitol Building, Johannesburg, The Rand, Wonderful Gold Mines, Native Blacks, Krauls, Kimberly, Diamond Mines, Cape Town, Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope, Great Fruit Orchards, Beautiful Mountain Scenery, Home of the late Cecil John Rhodes.


No. 7. Arctic Lecture

Bergen, Norwegian Fjords, Laplanders, Reindeers, Hammerfast, Birdrock, Northcape, Glaciers, Icebergs, Spitzbergen, Midnight Sun, Advent Bay, Temple Bay, Kings Bay, the place from which Amundsen and Byrd started to make their Polar flight, Coal Mines, Seals, Whales.  Polar Dogs, Andre, Pack Ice, Polar Bears, Caught in the Ice at 80 degrees and 14 minutes a short distance south of the North Pole.

No. 8. The Land of Castles, Cathedrals, Museums and Colleges

Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Pottsdam, Leipsic, Dresden, Heidelberg, Wittenberg, Weimar, Eisenach, Manheim, Worms, Frankfurt, Mayence, Coblenz, Bingen, Cologne, Bonn, Essen, Ruhr, Dusseldorf, Krupp Works, Castles on the Rhine, Intensive Agriculture, Great German Musicians.

No. 9. Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Eastern Norway

Hague, Peace Palace, Amsterdam, Island of Marken, Dykes and Canals, Dairying, Holland Cheese, Copenhagen, Rosenberg Castle, Gota-Canal, Stockholm, Stadthouse, Upsala, Castles, Skansen Park, Visby, Folk Dancing, Oslo, Skiing, Viking Ships, From Oslo to Bergen over the Trans-Norwegian Scenic Railway, Waterfalls and Cataracts in Summer, Ice and Snow in Winter.



WORDS OF PRAISE



Glencoe Chamber of Commerce
Glencoe, Illinois
December, 18, 1924.


Mr. Janes:




The men here enjoyed your evening's entertainment the other night immensely and thought it might please you to know this.




With the hope that we might again be able to avail ourselves of your services I am




Very truly,
L. J. Hillman, Sec.



October 3, 1922.




To Whom It May Concern:




Mr. A. M. Janes is a graduate of the College of Liberal Arts, Northwestern University, class of 1893, and I have known him for many years.  In 1920 he spent five months in South America, and since his return has lectured acceptably before several Departments of the College concerning his experiences and the scientific aspects of his trip.




Signed, Roy C. Flickinger, Dean, College of Liberal Arts.




August 1, 1921.




To Whom this letter may concern:




The bearer, Mr. Alva M. Janes, is a graduate of Northwestern University of some twenty-five years ago and a near neighbor of mine in Evanston.




He has recently visited South America, making an extended tour visiting the principal points on both the east and west coasts.  He is a keen observer and acquired a very comprehensive and intelligent view of the things he saw.  He has a multitude of beautiful illustrations of the various points, which he exhibits very effectively.




I know Mr. Janes to be thoroughly reliable and commend him to the kind consideration of any persons to whom this letter may be presented.




Respectfully,
Signed, Thomas F. Holgate,
Former Dean of
Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois.



My dear Mr. Janes:




Both teachers and children enjoyed your lecture.  They were interesting, instructive and made the industries, customs and geography of South America real to us.  We wish we might hear of all countries in such a way and hope you may talk to us again sometime.




Very gratefully yours,
Margaret Conyrie.



Orrington School, Evanston, Ill.





May 2, 1921.




Mr. Alva M. Janes,
2040 Orrington Ave.,
Evanston, Illinois.



My Dear Mr. Janes:




I venture a word of grateful recognition of the pleasure your presentation of South America gave me on Friday night last.  I agree with you, that there is no more inviting field, whether for social interest or religious enterprise, than the great continent of the Pizarro.  Your slides were a revelation.




Very cordially yours,
Signed, Charles M. Stuart.



President's Office,
Garrett Institute.



January 17, 1923.




Mr. Alva M. Janes, Evanston, Illinois.




My dear Mr. Janes:




May I pass on to you the cordial appreciation of our members of your address.  I believe no lecturer, this past year has made a deeper impression on our young men than you, and I attribute that interest not only to the young men's interest in South American development but also to your masterful delivery.




With cordial regards,
Signed, Norman Thompson.



Central Department
Young Men's Christian Ass'n
Director of General Activities.



October 3, 1922.




To Whom It May Concern:




Mr. Janes advises me that he has a series of pictures upon the nitrate fields of Chili which should prove of great interest to young people studying chemistry.  Some of these pictures I have seen and know them to be thoroughly descriptive of the region mentioned, which, together with the peculiarly strategic place of nitrates in war and agriculture, should give special interest to his presentation.




Signed, W. Lee Lewis.
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University.



Reprint for The Lovington Reporter August 17, 1923


On Tuesday night Dr. Alva M. Janes, the farmer-stockman-banker lecturer, gave an interesting and entertaining lecture on South America.  His talk was illustrated with stereopticon views, many of which were pictures he had taken during his travels through that continent.  Dr. Janes fairly startled his farmer listeners with the possibilities of the Argentine country, where he claimed the land was as productive as central Illinois, the market prices as good and the price of land only one dollar an acre.




Reprint from the Daily Illini June 26, 1923.


U. S. Should Not Neglect South America,
 says Janes.  Urbana Chautauqua Speaker praises southern continent and shows possibilities of development.  People of the United States have devoted too much time to learning of Europe and its affairs and have slighted the continent to the south of them which is so full of possibilities for expansion, A. M. Janes told an audience of 500 people who attended the Chautauqua last night in Crystal Lake park.  There are cities in South America more beautiful than any in Europe, the struggle of the Latin American republics for independence furnishes interesting and valuable history while the lands are fertile, and the possibilities for exploitation are great.  German capital is regaining its foothold in South America since the war, the lecturer stated.  America should take its part in the development of this country.  The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides showing many and varied views of South America and its life.  Janes, who is a northern Illinois stock raiser and banker, went to South America to investigate the possibilities for stock raising.  Last April he made talks before the local high schools and the University students.'




Scenic Glories of North Illustrated for Optimist Club



The scenic glories of a part of the European northland were explained and illustrated by A. M. Janes, world traveler, in his lecture Tuesday at noon at the weekly meeting of the Optimist club in the Block & Kuhl tea room, Peoria, Illinois.




With the aid of lantern slides Mr. Janes took his audience on a trip through part of Norway and into the desolate country that lies farther north.  He showed them glaciers, one of which is the second largest in Europe, Laplanders and reindeers, numerous fishing towns, towering mountains and a remarkable picture of the midnight sun.  The trip ended about 500 miles from the north pole because the boat in which Mr. Janes' party was traveling could go no farther.




Bob Herschel was chairman of the meeting.  Mrs. Lillian Morgan Miller played two piano numbers.