Seward daily gateway., 1933-05-19
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
 BY FR. f. MENAGEA
 PACKED WITH INTEREST

Adventure, romance and hard work, rubbing elbows with each ether, supply the ingredients en- tering into the life of a missionary priest ministering to Uncle Sam's most primitive children, tucked away in warrenS and crudest of homes along the shores of Boring Sea and far into the hinterland of the mighty Yukon.
 This is the impression one re- ceived after listening to F'r. Mena- ger, Superior of Northern Missions for the Catholic church.
 Fr Menager entertained a large audience yesterday afternoon at free illustrated lecture, during which some 600 slides were pro- jected upon the screen. These re- vealed the Northern EskimoS and their homes in gradations all the way from the most primitive and rigorous to the product of those wonderful men and women who, dedicating their lives to a labor of love and mercy, are gradually lead ing the last aborigines of the Am erican continent from their dark ness and within the portals of civ iliaztion
 The scenes displayed were taken on alternate dogteam and airplane visits to the various missions under Fr. Menager's supervision.
 It was while being flown by Arthur Woodley brother of the late Fr. George Woodley, in vis- it to 40 missions that Fr. Menager encountered many adventurous thrills, among which was long journeys high above immense fog banks which spread like a fleecy carpet below, plotting out the mountains and bleak tundra land scape which fringes the coast of Bering sea; then to labor long hours with Pilot Woodley, warming up the engine of the plane for an- other thrilling adventure in leap ing the ice-strewn waters of Der ing sea to King Island, that rug ged and scared mountaintop thrust 600 feet above the waters, and to whose preoipitous crags cling the habita tions of the strange people who call it home.
 Here it was necessary to land on a narrow, rocky shelf, lilly pro- tected from storm and tides, to finger for a few hours, and make the return journey of 40 miles before fog banks obliterated visi- bility.
 Again, the audience saw great white sketches of snowy tundra, with little dots here and there where the primitive natives bur- rowed like foxes into the earth, along with their children, dogs and foodstuff, there to hybernate for seven months while the Arctic blizzards whined and dared man and beast to venture out.
 Commenting on his experience of floating along in the great white silence of the upper ether, with the mantle of fog plotting out the earth and brilliant sunshine, pour ing down from the sky Fr. Mena- ger made this observation in his lecture
 Tt is automatic that when dan ger threatens, the Lord holds man by the hand. When he is flying above fog bank, the Lord has to hold him by the back of the neck"
 Preceding with his description of the primitive lives of the Hooper Bay Eskimos, who live in a srot of communistic state in dugouts of 14 by 16 dimensions, Fr. Menager said that courage was necessary to essay a visit to these subterranean dwellings.
 Where the dwellerS cannot af- ford glass, some of them use the intestinal membrane of the seal for window lights; where this is not available, they cut a sheet of ice and fit it in the hole left in the ceiling. All other illumination is by use of seal oil and moss wickS.
 It was into these warrens, reach ed via a small tunnel, thru which the occupants crawl, that Fr. Men ager was compelled to descend to