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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
Bv lydia Rose McCabe.
TIME Little People of the Arctics' are
deteriorating!
- In this year of civilzing World War
+hev lie beg and pilferl

II In this year of civilizing World War
they lie, beg and pilferl
DR.. Anderson - associate of Stefansson-
back from three years of scientific lnvestlga-
ton along the north coast Of the American
continent, makes the discovery which the I'M
knowing of Northland conditions are prone to
resent as a reflection on the civilizing white
race.
Months of personal contact with and close
observation of the Eskimos of Northwestern
Alaska Seward Peninsula) in his enforced
process of Americanization qulckens the
writer's wonder that an Arctic explorer or
Nortbland tourist finds at this late date one
honest self-respecting Eskimo IN Alaskas
59OSS4 square miles. For if ever there was
a race-aborigine or extraordinarily torn
from its inherent virtues and material IN
heritance and forced in self-defence to lie,
steal OF beg not to mention baser crimes, 1t is
the Little People of the Arctics."
Eskimo seers are not blind to the havoc Of
the white mans invasion.
Eskimo woman she no more good signed
to me a native wise man. Eskimo man ne
lie. he cheat, he steal like white man. Like
white man. he take away his neghbor's wife.
No more he give fish and caribou to poor, sick
Eskimo. He sell it to him like white man.
Eskimo he drink white mans hoosch; ne no
more same. Love his family-pelut" (No
good. All gomez
The United States paid Russia S7,2OO,OOO
for Alaska, but it has never paid penny to
the Eskimo for his right to the soil and the
walrus Timberland, hunting grounds, mining
claims have been taken from him without com
pensation.
Not until he was despoiled by unscrupulous
whalers and traders of livelihood, and starved
and diseased in consequence, did missionary
come with Bible, schoolmaster with rule, to
convert these peaceful guileless children OF
nature into law-abiding, self-supporting citl-
zens.
Now, after thirty-two years of public school
and twenty-four years Of reindeer industry
comes a tardy cry-veritable cry in the wilder
ness-for what should have been first aid IN
their Americanzation - medical treatment
doctors, nurses hospitals. Spasmodc effort is
now being made to reach the natural man,
and government reports bristle with appeals
for hospitals.
Money spent for textbooks is openly decried.
TO force the three RS on Arctic minds through
alien tongue--no Eskimo speaking teacher has
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tiation into the mystery of the Incarnation Is
bringing its inevitable fruit, so flagrantly does
The white invaders life and his dealings with
the Eskimo belle the missionaries teaching
Truth and honesty are inherent Eskimo
virtues.
white man he lie plenty.
1t was Happy Jacks first day at Nome
mission. With chdike simplicity he heard,
and for the first time understood, that truth
and honesty are keys to the white mans King
dom of Heaven. Happy Jack understood, for,
unlike missionaries met elsewhere in his no
madic life, this man of God spoke Eskimo.
white man he lie plenty" repeated Happy
Jack. and the parka-hooded about him nodded
merry acquescence.
The young dominie's cheeks redeemed while
Happy Jack recalled the deer skins and warus
hides whalers and traders had stolen from
him; the St. Louis World Fair medal, given
for $40 in payment for his ivory carvings; the
miner who had stolen his wife; the Federal
court official who had abandoned his NICE; the
Lapland herder who turned his brother adrft
after four years apprenticeship and claimed
from the government the deer that was rightly
the Eskimos.
w hlte man ne lie pIeHly-PlcHIy SOOu'
cried Happy Jack.
Tears trembled in his Japanesy eyes.
eyes, Jack" said the dominic, white man
he lie plenty, and he be plenty punished
''Not in Alaska" said Happy Jack.
Alas, the too frequent miscarriage OF
Justice in Federal court mining litlgatlons OF
the whites has not been lost upon the Eskimo
of Northwestern Alaska.
No race in world history has confronted
such drastic and rapid fire innovation as the
native population of Northwestern Alaska
From centuries of aboriginal communal life
it was literally hurled, without warning, with
out preparedness into the vortex Of a frontier
invasion unparalleled.
It's first contact with the white race dates
from the summer of 1900, when discovery of
gold on the Nome beach brought thither from
the tag ends of Chrstendom soldier and
solderess of fortune. True, for fifty years
whalers and traders touched the coast IN
summer to exchange tawdry calico and bad tea
for native furs and worries. But of the all
conquerng white man they were innocent until
the mushroom city of $4,000 tents vanished
from the beach, to be magcally replaced by an
incorporated town with electric lights, tele-
phone, wireless, Turkish BATH the worlds most
northerly railroad-and table dhotes to
musical accompaniment!
If this physical transformation astounded
Captain Roald Amundsen, dscoverer of the
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They Keep Their England Merry Still

says. An i'm so dead e was cold,
with all them numbers burnin' bright as fire
on lis bloomin wris'.
can with that I went off-hit was in me
chest I'd been it. Kckin' hup something orful
hit were. Thought was goin' over. Bloomin'
end, | says. They'll be buryin me with
Bosches.'
Get me out all right? Rather. opened me
eyes, an a nurse was arskin' after me 'calth
A bit of cap she 'ad, an red stripes. An
pretty-my word!
ats blighty for me-" l says to 'er.
From which, told me by boy just turned
nineteen by the slender margin of two days.
] learned very great deal about the color of
war.
Then the doctor came back for me, and we
went together into the next coach. And | saw
while | was waiting by the door one Of the
Sisters making new tourniquet for "A mans
arm. Her gray shoulder cape with its broad
crimson band made great splash Of scarlet
against the white cot which she was
lending. Some rather dreadful things had
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with pain was trying to whisper his thanks to
the Sister who had just made new bandage
for his arm.
Which was but ono of the wonderful things
that | saw. For in each one of those cots
there was an epic of war. Each and every
one of those men had had his part, great or
small, in the big offensive by which England
has come into her own. 1t was very fine
and splendid history they told me, this history
of victory. And one among them showed ME
certain spos of war. He told me how he had
found them in enemy dugout, which was
like house under the ground. There we're
pictures in it, even a mirror, a big mirror
shattered into splinters in its gold frame
This dugout was filled with dead
poor devils" said the man who told me, IAN
not even priest to read over them
And so, listening to the story Of war gwen
to me by men in whose eyes it was written,
journeyed to London. ! do not know how
many hours it was, this trip | made. But
when ! returned again to the forward COM
partment with its blue touches and its bright
flowers | saw that we had come already TO
the gray houses of the city. They rose on
either side, spreading out to the dim sky,
family illumined in the failing light. Per-
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and who had asked me 10 look out Of the little
window at the end Of the compartment and tell
him what IL looked Ike out there, had been
eft for one night lying on the bottom of
German trench which had been won and lost
three times in the space Of one days fighting.
"You never see such strain" he told me.
AN such fghtn' Yellin' an whoopln' we
was, an bornbin' EN- out, the beggars. Their
'elnets was lynn all over the place. Walkin'
al over EN- we was, mashin' EN- up. 'Oles in
the ground bigger'n a 'orse. You never see
such 'oles. ! was JUS goin' 10 sling few
bombs in that bosche trench for luck. Standin'
on the parapet I was. An Minnie was loopn'
EN- hover, sizzlin' overhead they was, boin'
an spittin' An them pink shrapnels-a bit
Of show, them.
"'Might be a few in this ere trench the
blightcrs.' said 10 mcself. I'll spill few in
on me own An with that ! got il in the chest
Fad over eels went, rollin' an rolling, right
in with the lot. so ere / am ! thought
'Righto'
"Yes, it was full Of EN-, that trench. An
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the Eskimo were the privilege of de-
nominatonal missions or the chance char
ity of the wayfarer. Unlike the Indians
in the United States, who are government
wards sure of their rations, the starving
Eskimo who applies to the United States mill
tary post, Fort Davis, four miles east of Nome,
must be denied food, for no Federal official,
no matter what his position, is authorized to
aid the Eskimo. If Fort Davis's quarter
master give the starving Eskimo food he must
charge himself with its value. This in land
where explorers have ever been dependent
upon the natives and never found them want
highland where no white "musher' was ever
turned empty-handed from an igoo, denied
half the Eskimo's fish or bunk at his fire.
side!
Is it any wonder DR.. Anderson and his kind
find these days that the Eskimo has deteri-
Grated is given, as not formerly, to begging,
cheating, pilfering?
The Eskimo is a born trader. To white
mans coming he owes his unique market place
on the Nome Sandspit. Thither he comes from
the interior and islands skirting the Siberian
coast, in picturesque on,iaks (walrus skin
houseboats) and kydks (skin canoes) which he
hauls up on the sandspit to convert into land
homes. From early July until the wane of the
Arctic summer they ply there on the sands
their wondrous handcrafts-ivory carving,
leather, fur bead and basket work. These
crafts a<> fashioned for the most part with
crude jack knives, mouth drills, needles and
thimbles hewn from ivory blocks, thread spun
by their nimble fingers from the dried sinew
Of the caribou.
In the wake of American canvas tents on
the sandpit now come aniline dyes to replace
the madden, the vegetable they formerly
travelled over tundra and mountain to gather;
cotton spool and American Sharps $40 are
supplanting caribou sinew and ivory needles.
With their wares they stroll through the
camps shacks and shops, happy, smiling
children, observant of white mans ways,
everywhere welcome, for failure to sell does
not damp their good humor.
First drastic awakening to white mans
trick of trade came with curio dealers intro
duction of machine made mutltks (native high
seal or deer skin BOOT Made in Chicago,
Eskimo boys were paid to sell them at price
with which the Eskimo woman could not COM
pete, and she found her handcraft of centuries
perfecting back on her hands.
This was an eye-opener. Shortly after there
was rise in price of native ivory work, to the
chagrin of merchants fattenng on their dis
proportionate profits.
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| was witness to a similar rise in photog
raphy Nomes first invaders were armed wit
kodaks. The bewidered native fed to b
wooed to focus by a shining silver quarter
Two bits forthwith became the price for
single pose. Unchallenged it remained unit
| took the camps famous photographer b
snap an old woman in the act Of preparing her
supper. From a neighboring tent stepped an
American Eskimo youth in American garb.
"Say four bits" he whispered TO the Old
woman. Bewidered, she glanced from youth
to photographer.
-Four bits" demanded the youth.
1.-TWO bits" said the photographer. "No .
penny more. You're a mischiefmaker'
-Four bits or no picture repeated
authority.
ut has always been two bits and you r0E
it, maintained the photographer.
But it won't be any more. You sell or
pictures to white people in the States and max
big money. Four bits" persisted the yOua
and he won out.
At Cape Prince of Wales Mission he hst
acquired English. In the Federal court
was interpreter. That season he had shippt
as cabin boy to Seattle, where he confronls
in the shops pictures of his people bringing
good prices. Back to the Spit he came to SCI
the first seed of revolt. With the CELEBRITY all
autocracy of walking delegate his mandih
spread throughout the peninsula, and four oa
remains the inviolable price for single pos
Not to be outdone by her white sister, tr'
first American go-cart was quickly duphcais
by an Eskimo mother, who added 10 fronis
gayety by dscarding the hood Of her parks
Eskimo infants stronghold-and trundlingH
offspring in delivery cart. Few Eskimos 81
now without an American go-cart.
Reindeer is unquestionably the Eskimosr
dustrial salvation. Nevertheless, It's deveoF
ment has not been conducive TO the presef"
ton of the Eskimo inherent truth, honesty
loyalty. For, however just and liberal Unes
Sans intention in introducing reindeer
Alaska for the maintenance Of the natives ~
fact remains that Laplanders and whites AZ
the chief benefciaries and the Eskimo IS ." /
tardily coming into reindeer possession.
That his finish as an independent reindN
owner is imminent a late Bureau Of Educau"
report foreshadows. "A company orgahN~
at Nome" it records, "has purchased he'''
owned by Lapanders and will engage IN q
porting reindeer on a large scale
Is an Eskimo reindeer herder strike
added to Uncle Sans possession problems
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happened to that mans arm; could see the
ugly gashes in it, spreading from the elbow.
His bed, which was at the very end Of the
coach; the dark blanket with the sheet turned
back over it in deep hem, the inert, relaxed
bulk Of the mans body, the Sisters starched
cuffs-these things were the very concentra-
ton of war. 1t was such clear, brilliant
picture | saw even the fine, frayed edges Of
the gauze as, fold by fold, the Sister wound it.
When the bandage was done the man smiled
and thanked her. His eyes, looking UP into
hers, were extraordinarily big and dark in his
white face
It was at this moment that happened to
glance out of the little window by which was
standing. We were passing through a vii
lage; the matched cottages very close to
the lines, divided from them only by low
fence. And all Of the children from the cot
tages had come down to the foot of the gar
dens to see the ambulance train go by. saw
three boys and little girl waving their hands
and shrieking quite soundless things.
And inside the coach man with eyes dark
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black as sin in there, blacker. But it was dead
uns. they was. 'Eaps Of 'em, | give you me
word. Feet an legs an harms stickin' out all
round the place. An harf the parapet on
top it, Cave in, it 'ad.
81 was pretty sick. was lynn down for
while. Then was crawln' round. / was look
in for 'elmet Thought I'd better take me
chance an get one. Seemed like they
admit got no 'elmets-but then ] wasn't hup
to much meself. gettn' aroun' there in that
dirty black ole.
"An' all sudden, | see an eye watchin' me.
Big as a arf-a-crown it was Starn' bright
it was. An it KEEP on watchin me. Never
see such eye. 1t gimme the Jump. An it
never shut--only when a star-lighter I'D 90
hup. Then that eyed go out. Go out it did
I'd take look then, an no eye.
"Harfter bout two hours, | couldn't stan hit
no longer. ! crawled hover an 'ad a look or
me own. Crawlin' hover heverythng | was
sticks an stones and bosches
"An' then | 'ad a larf, oh, 'ad larf
Owing an owing | were. All alone owing
That eye was watch, one "A them
shiny-face watches. That Brighter, e 'ad the
time day, all right Illuminated dial, says,
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haps there were men on the train VINO %.
come from some of the very houses. 90 u"
know. But know that in each one OF 'n'-
in great or small measure, the price OF W
had been paid.
well" said the doctor. 'hsye you ~
courage" Z,
We were just coming under the black y.
of the station. | saw beside the platform
gray ambuances with their crosses OF ~
Beyond, by the ratings, great crowd ~'', y
| knew there would be cheering and sp'e".
moments when the doors of the white :"
were opened But was thinking about -
the things / had seen-of the orderies "
ing and going with their heavy stretehe'H
the great organization by which wounde' -.
are brought from the trenches to the hosp a
of England. was thinking Of the terrOs
of war. al
The train stopped. The doctor stoou "
tell me goodby. | thanked him as "
could. There were many things Tor WIZ" a
owed him my gratitude. He had adn'''N
to new world. | had seen at other 'lnN
other places, the faith. the hope, the hs
which go into the making OF war. bu' .as
world only had found in its fullest NV" "a
the greatest Of all these things-the wv
of Britain.
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ever penetrated the Frozen
North-is recognized as
waste of money and ener-
gy. Never were a people
filter for manual training,
and this has been withheld
until a very recent day.
To unsettle the Arctic
mind with attempted ini-
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masterful ways, to unhap-
PLY initiate his vices,
elude his virtues.
No incorporated Alaska
town admits a native to
its public school. Sew
ard Peninsula for long
had no active school. The
care and maintenance of
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-12
Dye-HaY,i tor,

PARKERSBURG.#D Dec. Il . we'd
ding that viii come as complete
and pleasant surprise to the many
friends or the young couple in this
city was solemnized Saturday in Gin
cinnati. the participants being Miss
Laura Hamilton, Of this city and
10y Dye, formerly of this city now
u Bridgeport, III. The ceremony
was performed at high noon in the
parsonage OF Tic North Avenue Bap-
ttst church BY the Rev. Carleton At
Walt pastor OF the church. The
bride was c1larminEly alfred in a
dark blue velvet suit with blouse. hat
and other accessories TO CORES pond.
and her flowers We're a corsage Of
brides roses and valley lilies.
Mrs. Roy Dye is a daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Hamilton. Of ClaFks-
former residents OF this city. and
since the departure Of her parents
for C1arksburg has made her home
With Mr. and Mrs Virgil Butcher on
Sixteenth street. She had been en-
3
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-12
SPECIAL PENSION
Bill introduced by Congress.
man Nicely is Passed on
FaVorabIy.
ttrrelAl rs No rrlua.s4,.

WASHINGTON. Dee. Tie
first special pension Bill tO TN passed
on favorably by the committee on in
valid pensions OF the House was that
introduced by Congressman Nicely to
grant Il pension OF StO Il month to
David Rtne, ot Moundavillc, Siinilnr
bills introduced In the House hy Mr..
Nicely today provide i pension or
$50 Il month for James Young, OF
Wheeling. and $50 month for
~ pension of ST. Il month has been
granted Mrs. Rebccca henderson. OF
MoundsNille. dating from last June.
Nj. Nicely called npon the commits
sioner of internal revenue TO urge
that penalties assessed against the
German Hnlf-notlar Savings Bank,
of Wheeling. and the Chicago Dairy
Company. OF Fairmont. be rescinded
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-12

ployed in the business Office Of the
Empire Cleaning and Pressing Com
pany for the last six years and the
possessor OF Il beautiful contralto
voice has been one OF the leading
soloists in the choir Of the First
Baptist church. She is very at
tractiye and cultured young lady and
is possessed with large circle Of
warm friends.
Mr.. Dye is a son Of Mr. and Mrs.
+. j. Dye, prominent residents of Sa-
lem, and is a splendid and capable
young man. He is we'll known in this
city, having been connected with the
Acme Fishing Tool Company here
for number of years, and is now
employed with the same company at
Bridgeport, III. After spending a few
days in Cincinnati, Mr.. and Mrs. Dye
will depart for Bridgeport, where
they will reside.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-12
S:H.g.:T TO! DEATH
is Buckeye. Shaver at Mo-
nongah, Hoy Ghristner Being
Jailed as Murderer.

MONoNGATI, Dec. j Fred sha-
yer, former member Of the Monon-
gali police force, Familiarity known as
buckeye" Shaver. was shot and In
stan thy killed Mon day afternoon near
the trolley station. and Hoy Christ
ner is a prisoner in the Marion coun-
$ty jail at Fairmort. charged with
having murdered him with shot
gun.
Different reports have been given.
or the tragedy. one being that Girls
5ner and man named King had a
fight IN which Crisner was badly
beaten Crisner went after his shot
gun. ar 1t is said, Shaver interior
ana Il ensued. which resulted II.
the shooting.
Crfsner declares he shot IN self
defense. The dead man was a broth
er Of Patrolman O. ID. Shaver, who
was shot and kill two years ago
BY man whom he was trying to ar
rest.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-12
WOODWARD
Files His Certificate of Election
for the Next Term Withthe
House Clerk.
-IsreelAL e &c 7ELraaAnl

WASHINGTON. Dec. Com
gresham H G. woodward or the
Fourth district of West Virginia. has
filed his certificate of election for the
full term of two years with the clerk
of the House.
Mr.. woodward announces that he
has an appointment to make for West
Point, but has no applicants from any
boys In his district for the nomina-
tion.
If a bill to appropriate $4,000 for
the purchase Of a site and the erec-
tion or a building, introduced BY Mr.
woodward in the House becomes a
law, the met npol1s OF Roane county
will shortly be Boosting hand
some postoftice building. 1t is the
only town of any size in the Fourth
district which isn't able to make a
boast OF that kind. all the rest OF
them being provided for in that par
Iticular.
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With the Fingers ]!
Says Corns Lift Out
Without Any Pain

z 5.i.
Sore corns. hard corns. soft corns
or any kind OF Il corn can shortly be
lifted right ont with the fingers II you
will apply directly upon the corn n
few drops of freezone, says a Cincin-
natl authority.
tits claimed tina I ut small cost one
cnn get a quarter OF an ounce of
freczone at any drug store. which Is
suff1cient to rid ones feet of every
corn or callus without pain or sore
ness or. tn Q. danger OF Infection
This new drug is an ether com
and while sticky, dries the mo-
mont 1t is applied and does not In
fame or even irritate the surround
Ing tissue.
This announcement will interest
many women here, for 1t is said that.
the present high-heela footwear is put
ting corns on practically every wom-
ans feet. Advertisement.
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DEAN "A. 'H0GG'
5 among The West Virginians
Who Are Visiting the City
Of WASHINGTON.

8 3 &
WASHINGTON. Dec l6- Charles
Edgar HoEg. or Charleston. IL in the
city attending to business In the
United States supreme court Mr..
Hagg was member of the FiftIeth
Congress elected in 1886. He repre-
scented what Is now the Fourth dis
trict. which was n larger district IN
those days. AS m ex-member he is
entitled to the privilege of the floor
of the House. and he avaued himself
of the privilege yesterday.
Other West Virginians in the city
are II. w Fleming. Fatrmont; Col.
w II Thomas, OF Bramwel1; Mr..
and Mrs o. l.. Lockwood, Charles
Town; James w. Brady. Falrmont;
II. 4. Davis Elkina; r. r. Boil, Fair
mont; 81 r Harrison. Clarksburg:
Mrs. " Nightbeer. Logan: William
II Kcndrtcls. Morgantown; G. .,
Weidenhamer, Bucllhannon, and II
Rogers, Huntington.