NORWEGIAN BOOK IS
PUBLISHED. BY TEACHER
A copy of Arthur Xideit-Tiew book,
'Among the Wife Traders.” wit.
• reived by the author* in iuneau -re
cently. and the -first shipmentA-frour
Norway is expected"" shortly.
The hook, printed" in "Norwegian:at
Os o and bo~nd both'in paper and- in
b-ards. describes the” Irring'cctjndi
ti-ns end -rital custom s'of-the resi
dents cf the Diomede islands. Elide,
a v -11 known Juneau resident’,- is
sl-o "ho author cf a book of Eskimo
f 'k-ta’e.- wh'ch is now in.-use in’Ai
n'ira Territorial schools.
The descriptive sdranceo notices o?
the rrw he ok "have been-translated1'
as fo’’-ws: , T!
•■"he bv's T'"ord3 a white man’s
r - ratable esrierierce as a school
tec'h ' to a prifr.Ttivt- people.
^In’ the middle *cf ’ the" Bering
Street, halfway between’Alaska and
Siberia, lie two small- 'islands. Big
and Little Diowede'.'kncrwn' to ’ th*
E-kimo a? Inhalit and Imaklit. Lit
tle Pionrde belongs-to * the ’ United
States. E:g Diomede to Russia. Lit"
ti Die-rede if or.e of the most God
forsaken spots on the globe: water is
at a premium- as no wells or rirer is
found on the island!’ Herd the people
live a very primitive-life.
—It is a hard struggle to civilize
■" th“se semi-barbaric tribee with their
r.s’cient spirit of- worship and power
ful medicine men. In 1907 a school
was built on Little Diomede, but only
’ three Vlrte teachers alternated teach
-ing there until 1917: then th» Bu
reau of Indian Education decided to
,'->se the school as they figured that
to educate these people was wasted
r. ->r*y and "effort.
•'in'v a rew wmte men nave vis
ited this ’island.' One of these is
Arthur "Eide, who hails from the
northed! part of Norway. He came
to the Ub tied States as a
-young ir.an. In ' Fan Franc:sco. he
studied ' theology*' in ' the Berkeley
Pc-rr.irnrv. ' Here he met an Eskimo
girl, Anne KoodlaTook. who as a
child hod beer, adopted by the Alaska
mfssr nary." Sheldon Jockson.
She was educated at ‘ Harrisburg,
Penn., then she became assistant
tescher with Charles Hawkesworth
in her heme village. Point- Barrow.:
Here «h-> also acted as interpreter
for H'alrrar Stefansson, the" Arctic;
explorer. Theti she was in Sah Fran-,
c:s-o studying to become a nurse—
E!dc was attracted to this' charming
cml from the north. They were both
bom :n the Arctic under the Nothern
I/chts, and the "Midnight ~ Sun—dnd ;
thev w°re both preparing for
the same life w’ork.~Thejr ma'rrled,
rrr’Vd for a position as teachers in
Alaska, wt*0 accepted and amt to
th~ Tittle "Diomede Island.
“TTrrr Arthur E'de and his Eskimo^
wife mere received with open—areas |
fcy •’he islanders. bnfwheh he intro
duc'd sanitation.' the medicineman,
OtcV'-Ek. decided thaF'Eide was not
a'fmend anv longer but a dangerous
mm—and then when Eide began to
dig in the ancient graveyard for'his
torical evidmee. the medicine man
prophesied that evil day would com^
upon the people.
“Sure enough." the’ following fall
furious storms- came upon the isidnd
and the pcbple' almost starved * to
death.
“Ot-ktak- called the people togeth
er at night.’and Eide was condemned
to dea'h. Eide, who was at the meet
ing; decided to meet fire with' fire
■and called the neonle together at the
school house.'"Here he told the starr
ing E’dcimod that the medicine man
was only' arbumbug and that ha wag
powerless to he’o th°m. ar.d that tha
only salvation fer them was to turn
from him to the whit* man's God.'
In their extreme need, they prayed;
with the remarkable result that the j
storm* died, plenty of game wa» aa-!
cured. Eide had saved his life and
the medicine man had lost face.
"It is as school teacher that Eide
tells, cf the life and habits of these
iitile^known people, after years of
fathering material all over Alaska
with the able cooperation of Koodta
T-'okt who died at Nome after oaly
nine years o£ loving work among her
people.
“The Norwegian edition, which it
now.off the press, has been edited by
. the -.well-known author. Axel Kregh.
‘Among.the Wife Traders,’ is m very
'interesting book telling of a people
‘ living - far away from civiliration.:
With its many original pictures, it
is indeed a'strange story, it is print
ed ed ih Oslo* Norway.”
DENIES PLANS TO
RECOGNIZE GEN. FRANCO
LONDON—Lord Chamberlain told,
the House of Commons that the Bri
.sh r0verr.7r.ent had not drelaxed a
de fact: diplomatic recognition of
the Sp&nish insurgents because • <af
the appointment of commercial
-gents iox trace between the two,
. overnmtnts.
“These agents have no diplomatic
status whaterer,"he declared. He ad
ded that the British government waa
‘ bound to take account of the re
sponsibility it owes its nationals and
British ccmir.ertial interests throagfc
out the whole of Span including those
large areas in the northwest and
southwest as well as in the Spanish
zone in Morocco.”
Considerable speculation arose the \
early par; of the week whether Eng-'
land was preparing to recognize the
insurgent government when she ar
ranged to carry cn commerce with
General Franco.
GOP SEEK FIGHTING
ATTORNEY AS NOMINEE, 194«
C H I C A G O—Young Thomas E.
Dewey, New York’s “racket busting”
| prosecuting attorney, was boomed as
a 3940 Republican presidential can
didate by some of the Republican na
tional committee members.
Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Repub
lican of Massachusetts, chairman of!
the House Republican congressional
campaign committee, said Dewey,
who was elected district attorney of
New York over a New Deal-Tam
many Democrat in the recent city
election, was the bright hope of th*
party right now.
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NEW DEAL PLANS
RETRENCHMENT PROGRAM
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NEW YORK — Secretary of'the
Treasury Henry M orgenthau, Jtt,
; recently announced ad&ndoranenfr by;
the New Deal of the husiaesa "patnp* i
priming’ policy and disclosed .admin- .
istration plana to balance the T83&
39 budget by curtailing federal ex
penditures $700 {tftO.OOO.
Ne additional taxes are being con"
templatcd, he said, and the entire
ftderaJ tax structure is being studied
with a view toward relieving the in
equities against taxpayers without
. reducing government revenues.
The cabinet official outlined^ the
administration's New Deal plans m
a speech before the.Academy at Po-j
litical Science at the Astor hotel
He was preceded to the • platform
by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Democrat,
of Virgin a, vigorous New Deal cri
tic, who charged that the New Deal
expenditures had created a “perilous
situation” and contended that only
i immediate retrenchment could tsafe
: guar : the nation's credit,
Mo'"cr hrj defended the expendi
tures as essential to comb3t the de
flation:, ry f orces cf the depression,
but said the time ha3 came to cur
! tail them.
lne przm.ng, Morgtntnaj sa:d,
cannot be dore on .he regular esc
peasts of the government. Instead,
he declared, the reductions must be
made in expenditures mauniy re
sponsible for past deficits, pnblie
highway s, public work*. . unemploy
ment relief and agriculture.
In order to save an additional
[ $700,000,000 balance the budget,
: Meryer.thau urged:
1— Reduction of federal grants to
| states for hi(.-> way construction tu
the pre-deprtssion Spare' of $100.
(■00,000 annually.
2— A sharp reduction in .public
works expand cures which reached
$573^500,000 tens year and -are-- - due
to soar te-^5O0,0»Xi,e00 nest year, j
Subste»tiak~rgduirtions, if vqpfoy
ment conditions permit in relief and
CCC yt-TpvndUures, -which: already
dropped $750,001,000 thissyear.
4—Trimming of the apriciritnral
expenditures which this ..year, esc god
$90C,GCG,ro0 with1 -ftirther* increases
under discussion.
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put in a strong vinegar war*r for jp
few -minutes. W
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