The Kusko times., 1937-12-03
NORWEGIAN BOOK IS PUBLISHEn- BY TEACHER

4 copy of Arthur EideS-new book, Among the Wife Tradefs.n wxE-rs= ceived by the author. in 5uneau re gently, and the first sh:pmentF feom Norway is expecteds shortly
 The book, printed in tNoEwegizn@st Os'c and bound both in paper andT in boards, describes the living Scondi- tians and -rital customs of the resi- dents cf the Diumede' islands Eide, a yell known Juneau resnfent,s is also the author of book of Eskimo fa-k-taies which is now iR- use in AL e=l.a Territorial schools.
 Tcc descriptive advance notices Of the nv tcoS nave been translated. ss tor-ws:
 "he b5ak records white mans ra7. srkab.e- e1rie-:e1ce as school tcache- to 2 primitive people.
 n :he middle If the Bering Strait. halfway between Alaska snd Siberia. lie two small islands, Big and Li.tie D:Sn7eae.- known to the Eskimo as Inralit and Irnaklit Lit lie niomsde belongs D the United States. Bic Di9mede 70 Russia. Lit l. Dio12ede fl ore of the most God forsakon spots on the globe; water is at q premium. as no wells or river Is found on the island. Her5 the people live very primitiveslife.
 "Tt is a hard struggle to civilize these semi-barbaric tribes with their sncient spirit cf worship and power ful medicine men Tn 1907 . school was built on Little Diomede, but only three white teachers alternated teach ing there until 1913: then the Bu- rsau of Indian Education decided to Sl,se the school as they figured that to educate these people was wasted Esorey and effort,
 ''Onlv a few white men have wis., tied this island. One of these is Arthur Eide, who halls from the northern part of Norway. He came to the United States as young man. Tn San Francisco. he studied theology in the Berkeley Seminary. Here he met an Eskimo girl. Anna KoodlaIook, who az child lad been adopted by the Alaska missionary, Sheldon Jocksoa.
 She was educated at Harrisburg, Penn, then she became assistant teacher with Charles Hawkesworth in her home villaee, Point Barrow. Here she also acted as interpreter for Hialrar Stefansson, the Arctic explorer. Then she was in San Fran. cisco studying to become a nurse Eide was sttracted to this charming eirl from the north. They were both born in the Arctic under the Nothern Lights, and the Midnight Sun-snd they were both preparing for the ssrre life work They married, aprlic5 for 9 position as teachers in Alaska. were accepted and sent to ths little Diornede Island.
 Huere Arthur Eide and his Eskimoi wife were received with open--xTns ty The ;slenders. but when he intro 6uc-1 sanitation. the medicinemsu, Otoktak: decided that Eide was not a friend any longer but . dangerous rrsn-snd then when Eide began toI dig in the ancient graveyard for his torical evidence, the medicine man prophes;ed that evil day would eomss upon the people.
 "Sure enough. the following fan furious storms came upon the isiand and the pebple almost starved to death.
 "Otoktak- called the people togsth- er at night and Eide was condemned 10 death. Eide, who was at the meet ing, decided to meet fire with ire and called the people together at the school house. Here he told the starv- ing Eskimos that the medicine man was only ashumbug and that he was powerless to help them. and that the only salvation for them was to turn