Father Tom Says Eskimo life
Is Distorted By Cheechakos
Father Tom Cunningham, well
known in this area, visited his
many friends in Nome yesterday
before departing for Fairbanks.
He plans to return soon.
In a recent address “Father
Tom” gave in Anchorage, he out
lined the Catholic missionary
work in Alaska which began in
1877 and discussed the life of
Eskimos among whom he has
lived for 18 years.
Most people, Father Tom said,
hold erroneous beliefs concern
ing the Eskimo way of life—their
language, dances and methods of
work being especially susceptible
to distortion by those who know
little of the natives.
Eskimo Language Unique
Their language is unique in that
it has no generic words, and is so
precise that it is almost impos
sible to be redundant, he said. Fot
instance, each rib in their sealskin
boats has a specific name: there is
no such thing as “first rib,” “sec
ond rib,” and so on. They can
count to 20 (the number of their
fingers and toes), and use a sys
tem of multiplication and addition
to arrive at any higher number.
“The dialect spoken on King j
Island and the Diomedes is the
same as that spoken all along the
coastline from the Seward Penin
sula to Hudson’s Bay, with little
change from place to place,” he
declared.
The Eskimo Dances
The Eskimo dances, while in
teresting and unusual, especially
the beautifully rhythmic women’s
dances, have no more meaning,
Father Tom said, than does the
American fox trot.
Contrary to popular belief,
these dances are not founded on
legends, but are made up to suit
the Eskimos’ fancy of the mo
ment.
One dance he mentioned spe
cificallv-was fashioned around the
sentence, “He doesn’t want to
sing, he doesn’t want to dance;
he just wants to sit down.”
The Lord Seems to Provide
He said that in his 18 years
on King Island, he had never
known of anyone to die for lack
of medical care, despite the fact
that the nearest doctor was at
Nome. “The Lord seems to ar
range it so that the natives have
appendicitis, or other serious ill
nesses, while they are on the
mainland near the hospitals.” He
j had known of no woman to die
in childbirth, nor heard of the
death of a baby.
Father Tom also corrected the
widely-held, but mistaken belief
that the Eskimo women chew
skins to soften them. The teeth
are used in skin-working only to
shape the toes and heels of muk
luks by crimping them. If the
women’s teeth are worn down, so
are the men’s; and this is a result
of eating rather tough food, not
chewing skins.
Kurt Schumacher, German
Socialist and Foe of West
German Rearmament, Dies
BONN, Germany, (/P) — The
strongest foe of West German re
armament and alignment with the
West, Socialist chief Dr. Kurt
Schumacher, died here Wednes
day night. He was 56.
The fervent leader — second
only to Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer as a political force in post
war Germany — succumbed to a
circulatory ailment.
A cripple with only^one arm
and one leg, he had beerf failing
ever since his health was ruined
in Nazi concentration camps.
Quiet, soft - spoken Socialist
party vice-chairman Erich Ollen
hauer is slated to inherit Schu
macher’s party leadership. The
opposite in appearance and ac
tions to his fiery predecessor, Ol
lenhauer is expected, however, to
keep pushing the Socialists on the
same< nationalistic course, op
posed to Communism on the one
hand and European federalism
and common defense on the other.
It remains to be seen how the
loss of Schumacher’s personal,
militant leadership would affect
the Socialist campaign now in full
cry against ratification by the
West German parliament of a
pending peace contract and mili
tary pact with the Western allies.
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Postmaster General Asks
Congress Hike Postal Rates
SAN FRANCISCO, (yP)—Post
master General Jesse H. Donald
son says Congress should either
raise postal rates or recognize
publicly that the Post Office De
partment is to operate at a fixed
deficit.
“As it is,” Donaldson told a
press conference here yesterday,
Congress %makes the Post Office
the whipping boy for a deficit it
(Post Office) is helpless to do
anything about.”
Donaldson said postal rates
might have been increased this
year, but no Congressman wanted
to vote a boost during an election
year. He said he has recommend
ed that some action be taken next
year.'
Business Is So Good That
They’re Going Broke !
WASHINGTON, {/P) — A vol
cano in Hawaii is saving Uncle
Sam. so much money that an air
line complained today.
It’s a matter of airmail pay,
the Trans - Pacific Airlines of
Honolulu, explained in its com
plaint.
Sightseers flocking to the island
in great numbers to see the newly
erupting Kilauea volcano have
produced a traffic boom and sent
Trans-Pacific’s sliding-scale mail
rate into reverseAThe scale goes
down as traffic increases.
The airlines asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board to put a floor
on its rate formula to guard
against further losses.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tonight and Saturday. Light
variable winds. Lowest tempera
ture expected tonight 43, high to
morrow 65.
U.N. Planes Carry Out
Out Two Massive Raids
On Communists in Korea
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
SEOUL, (i?V-U.N. B-29 Super
forts, B-26s and fighter bombers
left Communist factories, stock
piles and troop installations in
flames in two massive raids over
Northwest Korea Thursday.
Thirty - eight Okinawa - based
B-29s hurled 350 tons of bombs
on Pyongyang, the North Korean
capital, after civilians were warn
ed to get out. The Air Force said
the big bombers rubbled 400
acres of troop, supply and indus
trial areas and left huge fires
burning at opposite ends of the
city in the four-hour strike.
All 38 planes returned safely,
despite Red anti-aircraft fire and
fighter opposition.'
More than 100 B-26s -and fight
er bombers followed with a day
light bombing of a giant cement
plant at Osu: about 50 miles south
of Pycnyang. Returning pilots es
timated they destroyed €3 build
i ings and damaged 29 others.
The Osu raid was the third big
Allied bombing of Communist
targets in two days. The Air
Force said 59 buildings were de
stroyed Wednesday in a 200-plane
Navy and Air Force smash at the
Red build-up area near Namyang,
25 miles northwest of Pyongyang.
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