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The Clinton News Record, 1930-03-06, Page 6"'Peace River" Jun Tells of ,Eskimos Interesting information on pur Northern words Ap- peared in a Recent Number'of the "Northern Miner' A' visit from "Peace River" Jim Cornwall, famous trader, explorer, statesman • and apostle of the last great north is au event, FIe Is a won- derful person. 'There is no other way to describe this b, powerful, keen - minded traveller • who, survived • 30 years of• northern, life and emerged with a vast fund of knowledge of that great land and a thorough appereia- tion of its problems. Sim Cornwall knows the Indians and the Eskimos as few men have come to know them, He knows, too, the traders, the trappers; the mis- siouaries and the police, butthe taloa he tells of tlib aborigines, their char-- aeteristics and peculiarities : provide startling •evidence of the penetrating quality of his mind 'and'the' closeness -of his observation... This 'author'ity .confirms the pre- viously -held opinion that the Eskimos. would perish, ands, quickly, if brought •alto close contact with, tyhite• civiliza- tion He says, they lack resistance to disease; 'the result eta life'of coutin. nal hardship ft_om ,the cradle':' to the grave. What to a white man 'would be a simple cold often means death to the natt'ye. On the northern coast When the rare ship touches the Erik! mos sometimes catch what in their language they call "ship's disease," but, which. is .teething. more, than in- fiuenza,'ofteii fatal to them: Thereligion of these aborigines is largely euperstition. They, have"meds- eine filen"' in whose rowe`r's they be Sieve. When the MacAlpine party vias waiting at Cambridge Bay for the three. relief airplanes which the wire- less had advised would arrive -on a. certain day, one .ot the party Suggest- ed to McKinnon the• Hudson's Bay. factor at the post, that the Eskimo "medicine man" Who, with his tribe, was there,` be tipped off in advance, :[b that he could elaim;credit for bring- ing, the planes. He said that Mete Would be no standing that individual as long as he lived. The Eskimos would believe him, and his fame would travel all over the Arctic. He would never do another tap of work as long as •he lived. r Cornwall says -that when travelling with the Eskimos it is .necessary to eatablish a complete ascendancy over them. 'They cannot understand any-' thing else, Food sTipply has to be carefully watched and in charge of the white elan, as the natives would otherwise eat the whole lot, letting to -morrow look after itself. Likewise the white man must eat the same food and the same quantity of food at the same time and place as the 'Eskimos of his party, .jr he will get tato trou- ble. The natives of the Barren Lauds and Arctic Coast region do nbt read or write, nor c,5u they count, . this authority states. :They have sign writ- ing of a sort and they hnvo a sign `language which Cornwall says is about as easily understood as that of a .mute. Where the missionaries have touched them, the natives have ac- quired a slight veneer of. Christianity, You can bear the women humming hymn tunes while carefully 'wearing . their own private pagan chanes. Au Igloo cannot be made comfort- able in the white man's sense. The big problem te,to keep it heated just enough to prevent it from collapsing. That means it muse be just about freezing. Life is a hard proposition, and yet the • natives keep cheerfui. Cornwall sums up their, philosophy in their own words: "It might be worse." They laugh and joke and are merry under the worst circumstances, and they do not like gloom in anyone else. The mentality of the Eskimo is not great; he is slow mentally aiud physi- cally, but thorough in his work. He le mechanically minded, find can do wonders with the small resources of his bleak and barren land. Wood is one of his greatest lecke. Food is his constant pre-occupaton, and he can eat enormous quantities of it, Wives, says Cornwall, aro absolute necessities to the Eskimos. They must have women to help them, par- ticularly in the matter of,nuaintaining a supply of skin clothing and to do other sewing, whiolt is a„never-ending teak, The have troche mistime ire- euliar to their 'race, especially to the, matter of wives, which niay be plural and interchangeable, When there is: trouble, resulting' in murder some. times, it can be traced to the women, as in more civilized climes. Cornwall, who asisted in the Mac- Alpine search, states positively that the Eskimos heard •"Punch" Dickins in his heroic flight down the Copper- iaiue. ide says if Aldrins had"con- tined on for another score or so mites he would have `flown right over him. it world here made a big difference iu • the rescue work; saving many weeks and heave anxiety and expense. Dick- ies was drying above clond, and the natives heard`ltim turn in. a wide , ()tide and fly back to the Mackenzie Meer. The Mackenzie River and its water- shed is the • stamping ground of Jim Cornwall, who has travelled it •since the days of the Yukon rush. 1 -le says the country is passing through a transition phase and is beset with problems, the greatest of which is the salvation ' of the • Indian population, ;which is threatened with extiudtion, The Indian is a tough man, Cornwall says, tough in the sense that he is hard to kill But he is up against dif- /cult conditions at this ttnte, Pain Relieve' by Heat. - Good idea, 'When somebody 'gives you e, pain in the neck just get hot under the• Dollar and the pain will melt away. • We: doubt very much whether harnes- sing the atom, it and when accomp- lished, will be found to be much hard- er than pulling leggings of to an ac- tive citizen of four. The Trek of 3,000 Reindleer in North Those eight fleet and sturdy steeds, Dasher, -Dancer, Prancer, Vixon,..Com- •et, Culiid, Donner and Blitzen, who. furnished Santa's ,and power Ori his anneal World tour, had cotter lode to their.' travel laurels; So tbinka a New York Sun anter,' who tolls : us low 3,0e0 Alaska reindeer aro_ being moved• on, foot to northern Canada. These turdy beasts, providers of food, Fotothing, and transportation, who arc almoat the sine' qua 'non of life in the Far North,,'have been bought by' the .Canadian Govermtlnent from. the Lomen -brothers, owners of huge; herds of reindeer to Alaska; The movement,' say's The Suit,, "is uuigde in"the :annale of the North. The reindeer are being moved for the purpose of forming the nucleus of reindeer herds in the Aretic and sub- Arctic regions of Canada. Heavy in. roads made on the wild life . of that part of the Dominion by the introdue- tion of high-powered firearms and Modern hunting methods • among the natives melte the establishment et domestic ,reindeer herds necessary." The reindeer finds its own food, dig= ging through the snow in:winter for the succulent lichens, orreindeee moss, we are reminded. by W. D. Play - fair in the Boston Evening Trensarlpt. in :tnrther praise of the camel of the Arctic: It provides meat, milk, clothing front its' pelt, even transportation. It waxes fat, -and n.ultiplies hi a wilder- nese.of snow and. ice. Its, cousin, the Wild 'caribou, once numbered in le- gions yin Arctic•Amerlca, Bila dwindle ed since the Introduction . of high- powered rifles, • and taken to safer haunts in the interior. Without the reindeer the Eskimos live precarious ly by fishing and trapping fox, tigh- tening their. belts :often when the luck is poor. It was this situation that led the United States in 1892 to introduce the first reindeer .into Alaska. • 'On the Siberian side of the Bering Straits the natives were living in milk and honey They had reindeer herds. On the Alaska side the natives were in want. They had none. Between the years provided"by airplane patrol, 1892 and 1902, 1,280 reindeer were im- In their report to the Government in. 1928 the Porsild brothers saidthat on the basis of forty acres per head there is pasture for 250,009 reindeer in the coastal area from the Alaskan- Tukon boundary to the west side of Franklin Bay. Speaking of Um 15,- 000 square miles of available pasture land which they estimated in thla re- gion, the report said: "The coastal tundra i3. of somewhat different type front the Alaska tundra. It is not dutttp so rich in aucculent greases and 'sedges, but titin defici- ency is 'generously compensated for by the texture -rt the tura which is rather hard and firm, and not ao sus- ceptible to damage by trampling of herds, The hinterland, near the edge Of the forest, on which the reindeer depnd for winter pasture, is excep- tiona[ly rich in re[adeer nnYit " ADAMS N'S ADVENTURES -.ley 0. Jacobseon to the Arctic. Then it skirts the coastline to the. Mackenzie Weer. Colville asin fa time for the fawning season. All next summer the deer will graze in the basin, and at the freeze-up next fall wilt resume the journey. The trek from Colville basin to the Mackenzie, and over fifty miles of ice to the delta range, will be the program for next winter,. Reports as to the progress of the drive will be ported from Siberia, and from that nitcieus'there has been developed an industry now valued at more thaut $20,000;000. •By. 1922 the herd had increased to 200,000; by 1929, to 750,000. In tire meantime 200,000 had been slaughter- ed for meat. Of the total, more than two-thirds are owned by natives, in accordance with the policy of the Gov- ernment. Co11tstorage facilities have been developed; reindeer steak may bo purchased at times on the Boston market; Alaska reindeer pemmican is on sale at our sporting -goods shops. . When the Canadian Government turned its attention to reindeer, it found readyat hand two men emin- ently fitted -to -cope with the problem, They are A. E. Horsed, botanist and biologist of the Northwest Territories and Yukon branch of the Department of the Interior, and his brother. Robert 7t. Porsild. They had lived many years north of the Arctic Circle, and could speak tine Eskimo dialects, Together they made the preliminary studies 'of the field, in Alaska, the Mackenzie Delta, and in the vicinity of Great Boar Lake, They have divided responsibility for the actual transfer of the herd. A. E. Porsild made au airplane reconitahssauee or the route of the trek, in addition to the journey previously taken, aided in the selection of the animals at the fall rouud-up of the Buckland Valley, Alaska, herd, and is accompanying the drive to the point where summer quarters are to be selected. As the herd is to be the basis of Canada's reindeer"population of the future, the largest and most vigorous animals were selected tehen the Lent- en deer„_were rounded up at Eleph• ant Point. Reindeer vary consider- ably in size because of climatic and other conditions. Those of the Se- ward peninsula dress about 150 pounds oh the ai'erage, Farther north at Point- Barrow the average weight of a dressed carcass is 100 pounds; while a herd 200 miles east of Point Barrow showed an average of only seventy- five pounds. ' . Crossing w'th the wild chribou results in a larger and super- ior animal, but there is a tendency on the part of the reindeer to run away and join herds of their undomesticat- ed relatives. 't The Northland is Topsy-Turvey- Land, it would seem from this account, For example, the winter is considered the pest time for travel, 'R'by? We soon learn: Then the tundra is frozen hard and snow-oover'ed, permitting sled travel, In summer pack -dogs or deer lutist re- place' the sled, frequent marshes make going hard, and multitudes of flies make life a burden.: To man' the Arctic Is a desert of snow in winter; but the, reindeer knows better. His sbarp•yhoots uncover the reindeer moss. ' The route finally chosen follows the Noatak River valley to the Arctic wa- tershed, and 'down the Colville Sliver More Miles To the Galion Here's Howl Thomas Had Said This t Us There was at least one very rater- suggestion made during the Em- pire Free Trade Debate in the British House of Commons. It bane from Mr. Wise, the Labor M.P., and •Members of all parties were interested la his suggestion to Mr. Thomas: Mr, Wise said:- "This •country is still, and is like- ly to be for some time, by far the best market In the world for the agri- cultural preduce an e a material p d d th raw of the Dominions and the great pro- ducing agricultural countries. "A third of their wheat, three -guar• ters of their meat, most of their but- ter and a great deal of their other produce must be sold in this market. Can we use that in any way In order to stimulate our export trade with those countries, as contparedLsWith the export trade' of our competitors? We have heard a great deal- from the Lord Privy Seal and others about de- veloping our export trete. "A few months ago the Lord Privy Seal went, as he said, like -a com- mercial traveller with a packet, or a beg, or, as I understand, a sllipfui of samples to Canada, in order to see what he could sell. Apparently, Ste was not very successful. He suffer- ed the fate of many commercial trav- ellers, who go into a shop, but find that they are not very welcome. Sup- pose that instead of going with a bag tall of samples, 'ire had gone with a pocket full of orders. "Suppose that he had been able to say to the Canadian wheat pool, the Canadian Government, 'I want to buy, wheat. I want to buy—shall we say —2,000,000 tans of wheat for each of the next live years. I am prepared to place a definite order. You wilt know precisely where you are during that period. You can have a steady Price, or we can work out 'the basis of price to suit your convenience and ours. In any case, whatever may happen, you will be under no danger ot your greet markets being spotled by German or by American or any other dumping, or by our custom be- ing transferred elsewhere.' "Suppose that he had said: 'I want to do the same for your cheese; and we would like to do the same with regard to other produce.' He might also have said: 'As a matter 01 fact, we already buy from you three or four times as much as you buy front us, Would it not be a reasonable business arrangement that some ot those mast orders that you now place is the United States should be switched across the Atlantic to us?' "Orders for their State. railways, for their municipalities, for their State electric power stations, and or- ders, so far as thefarmers are con- cerned, for the supply of the con- sumable goods that are needed In their co-operative stores throughout the West—the co-operative movement is growing in the West --orders for the variety of goods which Canada must buy from abroad and whiolt now alto is buying from the United States and elsewhere. "He might have sono to Australia with the same:aort. of .offer.. Austra- Lla wants to .sell butter, dried fridge wool, and 'a' variety of other things. Millions of dollars could be saved annually by the automobile -owning public through a more strict observ- ance of the tactors that govern fuel consumption. Thesuggeations ares 1. When standing or waiting for the light to change, don't race your motor. 2. When you are to make a stop of more than a minute turn oft, your motor. - 3, Dent drir ' at excessive speeds unless the occasion demands. High speed travelling burns 'tore gas. 4. Remember that the faster you drive the more gas you consume. 40 when you find that you are about out of gas and are heading for a gas sta- tion, take it slowly and your chances for negotiating the distance will be greater. 5, V.'iten starting watch the choke. Don't drive with the choice out a mo- ment more tjtan necessary. 6. Be sure that your brakes are not dragging. Tide cuts down your mile- age. Get your brakes inspected fre- t quently, 7. Hare your varves ground when they need it, 8, See that the Idling adjustment ou your carburetor is set at the proper Point so that the mixture is not too rich. It gives you inefficient idling performance and wastes gas. .9. Dont' • fill your gas 'tank full to the cap, some will escape through the vent in the cap. - 10. Don't ride the olutblt. 11. Watch gas line for leaks at the joints, Check it periodically to se that fittings are tight. • . 12. Be sure that spark is in full ad veueed positron. 13. Avoid excessive use of brakes i t fli > 0 a ra c. Stating Hie F-.icls So nta,ny atgtements appear in the ,. Brttiah pre%% from time to time allog• ing tlttt hard Mt of the Brittah .omt grant In Canada, or•Adstrala _that Itis dietinctly stimuiating to find- ao in- • . -fluenttala writer, a% %ic. Jaynes'Spence coming to the defence of title country sad, the An,tipotlea' la an:article' in "Emaite Prodectiou,” Mr, Spett,ge JO'et. eentilderaljle pales, . eto dispel certain ,common illusions, in the first, instance, A short onurse of farm trs'iing in England, Ile points' out, Is,tn&tti[lclent' 1 'lnalify n man or. or youth ine.cperieaccd is Canadian 'conditions to receive thee remunera- tion fully trained men get, and their expectations in this,eonnection ;are a sourceof annoyance to the hard -bead• ed established Dominion farmer. The intensive courses of`tralnlne at pre- sent provided in'England -and Scot land should be regarded at best as a, preliminary .designed to allow .;the Would-be settled If he is suited to farm with. "They must be followed by long and willing,labor in Canada itself. To allow the trainee to think otherwise is to sow tate seeds of.dis- illusion with all its .bitter consegn- eneea," Mr. Spence asserts. This is sound' advtee.: The pity is that nobodb seems to have thought of it beford and given' it public voice. Mr. Spence is welt within the facts when he •points out that he reealci trent failure invariably takes lea stand upon the allegation that he has been misled and that his clamor makes hire a burden to blmself and the authorities and tends, moreover, to create an entirety wrong impree- ston on the part of the Canadian.re- garding British mtgrants as a whole and to lead the more gullible sections of the British public into the belief that Brieishers ,'are not wanted in Canada. We have hard proof and to spare of this sort of thing. 'Possibly it would be Lose obvious if the people in the Old Country heard more about those who succeed. Many thousands of British settlers are now firmly es- tablished in this Dominion, and the record of their experience ought to be;invahiabre, not only as a stimulus but as an antidote to the poisonous Propaganda spread la the OId Cottn- try by so many returned incompetents. At the same time 111r .Spence ut- ters a.thoroughly well justified warm- ing against Judging all immigrants who do not succeed by the Incompet- ent The tette for failure, he says, lies sometimes with circumatanose over which the migrant has no core trot, settlement administration can- not be perfect, as he pointe out, but there is pleats' of room for very marked Improvement along very Im- portant channels, and the sooner this Be undertaken by the joint effort et federal and provincial aitthortties, the bettor. Tile average, Canadian will eu- dorso without reserve Mr. Spence's closing note: " .. [a the long run it fa the heart that coants - the something that makes it, man smile when fate seems set against film. Canada i3 no place for the halt -hearted, be he settler or business mane She requires those who can work, and work hard; those who Can recognize and develop to the utmost of titer power the opportuni- ttes with which site abounds," There you have the matter in a nut- shell. The hard-working optimist who can "take occasion by the stand" and profit by it is the man upon whom Canada relies for aid in the up- buitding of her sturdy citizenship iu the tuturc.—Montreat Star. Alt the time that her market Ls here, her best market itt here, and all the time she is buying from. America, from Japan, and from other emu/drier), an lncreasiag, a rapidly increasing,, quantity of manufactured goods that' we used to supply and that we would Ike to supply, "I-thlak that is a business propose. ton, the sort of proposition which he Canadian would listen to: and it has the'advaatage that there is no question of taxing the'food of the people in this country, or of increas-, ng the price of raw materials. The' offer we make to them, and it Is a Perfectly good busineae offer, is that we.ehould give them a stable market, a aecure market, and a guaranteed market, and I think it the offer were made the Dominloaa would very quick- ly respond. And even it they slid not respond, I am quite sure there are other countries that would. "In a smelt way this method has been already tried by Lord D'Aber- non is South America. As a matter of fact, I ant informed, and I think the latormation is rigid, that to the last few months Australia herself has been. making this bort of-proposet In regard to the export of wool, I think, to japan; and Sayan herself hoe made a deal on those lines In. respect of cotluu and cotton goods with some of our East Atrican Protectorates, It has never be , tried on a large scale, but I attbm[t that with the inareas- tug centratizattoa of the sale of agri- cultural goods this is a. businesslike way of dealing with. the problem." Junit.,r Finance A youthful depositor of one of New York's large banks recently appeared at the teller's window wtttt'a slip to withdraw 25 cents, which he said was for car fare home: It was explained to him that no transactions. wore made, in amounts of less than one dollar. However, he had not a cent is his pocket, and necessity again was the mother of invention. Returning to the window la a few minutes he presented a slip to with- draw $1,25, which of course was given him. Thereupon, he Immediate- ly redeposited $I ot the withdrawal and proceeded on his "ay. We can match this yarn front New York with one from Toronto. A twelve-year student at Upper Canada College reeetve: $50 from his father for Christmas, witch he put in its bank account near the school. The stun was to last hint until Easter but about two weeks atter Christmas he found that he had only $2,13 left. He tools this sum and went down to the corner et Icing and Yonge Steeet, en- tered the main Toronto office of the Royal Bank of Canada and asked to see the manager, He was ushered in- to the manager's office affil announced that he'wished to deposit his $2.13 at that branch. He explatued that he wanted to get his 'bank account as far away, as possible from the school. It was too easy to go over to the bank on the corner near the sehoot.—Finan- aiai.Post. If the Naval Conference wants a satisfactory example of diaasmament, let it turn back t0 the abolition of the hatpin. { '., .rglilweiglet ' 'oolette Creno' Sale and J'graey ` By ANNE"t'TE This swagger tweet coat ins raight- line with belted waistline hi fashion- abie green coloring, does doub a duty, for it may also be w0011 as a separate sports coat. The sports dress of stat silk crepe in harmonizing green shade may also be worn •without the coat. Style No. 231 includes the pattern for dress -and coat. It is designed in sizes 10, 18, 20 years, 30, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. The dress is a slip-on type with new Short kimono sleeves finished with turn -back cutis. The coll'arless neck- line has an inset band of white pique. The front of the bodice is decidedly modern in its pointed outline. Kilted plaits at either side of skirt below hipline are insets for this favorite dress is a one-piece affair. A narrow belt is worn at normal a aisttine. The fronts of the coat aro under - faced and ,rolled with the attached collar into revers. They employ the plain sick crepe which is also used to line the coat and for cuffs of sleeves. The dress may also be made of wool crepe which is used for Tinging and trim. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want, Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. H3ovf Bells May Ring Again London,—Bow Belis will be able to ring again if an appeal issued by Sir 'Louis Newton in his capacity of Alder- man of the ward of Cordwainer in which the Church of Se Mary le Bow is situated succeeds in raising £15,000 for the repair of Sir Christopher Wren's- famous masterpiece. Tho church was built on the site of an older structure destroyed in the great London fire of 1666. The crypt with its Roman bricks and Saxon -masonry still remains. The chief re- pairs necessary are to the steeple, but the bells—sllent,now for more than three years—will all have to be re- hung'aud two probably recast. "A girl admirea a man who can p ill himself together atter he flies to Mecca in a rage." • Then there's the griddle generation —tile one •: that. teems the younger generation for the older generation to worry over, "Otte truth. dominates all history— it is easier to make war than peace." —Gaglieitno Ferrero. Canada and the Empire Ottawa Journal (-Cons.): If Canada "pursues the right bourse now, if she, following General Smuts' advice, eag- erly assists in tightening the boucle of the Commonwealth, site will not only benefit Britain, but she will enor- mously advance the seltdnterest of this Dominion. The clay is coming whets Canada will perhaps bo the most - populous, tate richest and the most powerful state under a common Crown.' Tlteretbre, everything we can do for Britain and the world-wide Com- monwealth hencefortit will be some- thing done for the Greater Canada of tho future. A watch is that round, metal device, which the speaker of: Ott evening places before him on`the'table as he arises, aud'does'ltot consult thereat ter. 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