The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-06-29
L,oing at North Pole
Costs Very Little


You will have no housing problem
because you can build a comfortable
house in about fifty minutes without
spending anything for materials or
labor.
You will not be troubled by the
high cost of living, since all the food
you can eat is all about you for the
shooting.
You need not worry about the coal
strike, since the same shot that gives
you your dinner gives you the fuel
with which to cook it.
Costless Clothing.
You will find, without money and
without price, clothing more COM
Portable to wear and to adjust than
the garments of so-cailed civilization
You will be spared even the s.
hour day, since you can live comfort
ably by performing less than two
hours of interesting work every day.
You will have a vacation every
winter, when you need do nothing
except enjoy yourself with your
friends.
All those promise" are given by
Vilhjalmar Stefansson, who holds the
worlds record for five and a half
years of continuous Polar service,
who took away the adjective Gun
known" from approximately one hun
dred thousand square miles of Arctic
land and sea.
'sThe process of settling the Arctic
region has begun Mr.. Stefansson
said in New York the other day. Il
admit there has been a temporary
recession of population due to the
fact that the first settlers wanted
graphophones, their wives wanted
high heel slippers, and there seemed
no way to make living which
would pay for their luxuries.
"There ar~r just two big things
and only two-which stand in the
way Of the colonization Of the far
north. One of these things is Chi
nese wall of ignorance; people have
been brought up with many wrong
impressions Of the country. The 9TH
er obstacle is mans Inherent conser-
vatism. He cannot go to the north
and live like southerner. He can
not live life just as he always lived
it. 49,
>'tLet me give you an instance of
what I mean. The first settlers of
southern Illinois came from Louisi-
ana, and they tried to plant southern
Illinois with cotton, Naturally, it was
a failure. And undoubtedly those
men, many of whom left the country,
would have told you that southern
illinois was land mot fit to live in
Yet now it probably is regarded as
one Of the most fertile sections Of
our country.
eff you will go north and live as a
northerner you will be able to make
a good living. If I were not an ex-
plorer, but just a man with my living
to make, could go to the north and
maintain a most comfortable exis-
tence on less than two hours day
Of work. Also, it would be work much
more interesting than factory labor
or many other jobs; in fact, it would
be work which many Americans
choose for play-the task Of hunt
ing"
In ''The Friendly Arctic his re-
Gently published book, Mr.. stefans-
son has described how he and his
party t'lived on the country by kill
ing caribou, bear and Polar oxen as
they needed food, fuel and clothes.
The blubber in the seal he used for
fuel to cook the seal flesh.
The meat of caribou, he says, is as
good as any food in the world. and
he thinks no one could tell the diff
ference between Polar oxen steak and
the sort we buy in New York. The
skins of these animals, he declares,
make better clothing than can be
bought here; clothing waterproof,
cold proof, comfortable to wear and
easy to put on.
And you may doubt his figures,
but he has temperature records
which prove that the climate is cold
er in northern Montana-10 degrees
colder-than at the North Pole.
Few Frostbites.
Neither I nor any member of my
immediate party ever had a frost
bitten finger or toe," he said, "all the
time we were in the north. Our faces
often were slightly frostbitten, but