SOVIET OUTSMARTING U. S.
IN ARCTIC. EXPLORER SAYS
Stefanson Feels Russians Are
Building Up Vast Strength
In North
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By PHIL AULT
Uniten* Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK N. Y. (UP)—In the
Greenwich Village section of New
York, on a street where trucks
haul cargo down to the Hudson
River Docks, stands a dreary red
brick apartment building covered
with grime. Ash cans line the
sidewalk and baby carriages clut
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Inside, one flight up, the emi- ;
nent Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur
Stefansson sits among his 20,000
polar books and documents. From
his crampon* quarters he watches
the .Soviet Union and the North
American powers maneuver for
position in the vast area above
the Arctic Circle where he spent
a great many of his 68 years.
He sees the Soviet Union far
surpassing the United States and
Canada in developing its Arctic
resources.
Strategically, he feels the Arct
ic Seti is the most important
body of water on earth. The Rus
sians, he contends, are giving
their far northern defenses a
broad base through intensive col
onization. The United States and
Canada are failing to o'o so.
Russia Doing More
“We of North Amercia are told
that among our present weaknes
ses is the tremendous size of our
cities and the top-heavy grouping
of our industries around a few
centers,” Stefansson said. "There
is the same talk in the Moscow
press and on their radio. The dif
ference is that they are doing
more about it than we art."
"Believing that eventually there
; would be an attack on the Soviet
j from the east ana* west, they be
i gan building industrial centers in
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‘‘Now that they are beginning
to visualize an attack from North
America, they have an added
tendency to move their coloniza
tion north, this time on the basis
of being ready to counterattack
in an air war.”
The explorer, born in Canada
of Icelandic parents, is the most
prominent American protogonist
of the view that the Far North
is habitable. ‘‘The friendly Arc
tic,” he calls it. His explorations
of Arctic Canada, Alaska, Green
land and* Iceland since the be
ginning of the century have most
stressed scientific investigation i
of ligvin conditions.
Arctic Earth Yields I
To help feed the miners, the
government established the Vor- (
kuta agricultural tsation. Twelve j
state farms produce vegetables
and dairy products for the ctiy. 1
Experiments have been made to
develop frost-resisting types. The
Arctic earth now is yielolng rye,
barley and potatoes during the
brief but warm summer. j
At Ukhta, an oil producing cen- j
ter south of Vorkuta, standing
slightly below the Arctic Circle
there is a similar story. This city
has grown to 40,000 population
and had an eleven-fold increase
in oil production between 1940
and 1945.
‘‘Vorkuta and Ukhta together
equal the 70,000 total population
in all Alaska," the explorer point
ed out.
I "In America we have lost the
pioneering spirit,” he said. "In
stead of seeking new places to
colonize, we have reversed the
nineteenth century trend and are
migrating to places like South
I ern California where the climate
is easy. We don't have to worry'
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VETERAN AID DISTRIBUTED
UNEVENLY, SURVEY SHOWS
Washington (UP)—Direct gov
ernment expenditures for veter
ans’ activities in the last fiscal
year were the equivalent of $366
per veteran, a study of Veterans’
Administration records show.
Excluding transfers of funds or
expenditures made from revolv
ing funds, the government matfe
direct appropriation expenditures
of $6,678,000,000 during the fiscal
year ending last June 30 for an
estimated veteran population then
of 18,237,000.
Each veteran did not receive
anywhere near his proportionate
share, the records show. That is
because somewhat fewer than
7.000,000 of the 14,3000,000 World
War II veterans did not partici
pate in any type of veteran pro
gram or benefit uno'er the veter
anls' administration.
Tuiition Adds Up
Others receiveing up to $500 a
year for tuition in educational in
stitutions and at the same time
received up to $90 a month for
living allowances.
Still hundreds of thousands of
others were drawing $20 a week
for up to 52 weeks for unemploy
ment compensation and others
required expensive hospitaliza
tion ana' medical care.
fc.xpenclitures by states shows
that the amount spent per veter
an was higher generally in south
ern states and some northeastern
and western states than in the
middle west and northern states.
All the middle western states
had a higher percentage of veter
an population than the veterans
in those states received propor
tionately from the federal gov
ernment.
Illinois, for instance, had G.07
per cent of the total veteran pop
ulation but only 5 percent of the
total spent went to Illinois veter
ans. If Illinois had* received a per
quota share based on population
veterans in that state would have
received approximately $405,354,
000 last year instead of $339,900 -
000.
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Veterans in New York State
would have received an addition
al $60,000,000 on that basis.
On the other isde of the pic
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have received somewhere around
SI 10.a00.000 instead of $152,500.
000.
The District of Columbia, with
loss than three-fourths of one
per cent of the total western pop
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the money spent. That was be
cause the nation's capital is
charged in the break-down with
the full expense of operating the
Veterans’ Administration central
office.
Southern states receiving a
higher percentage of the money
spent than they have in veteran
population are Texas. Missouri,
Nortl; Carolina, Tennessee. Ken
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Rhode Island and Massachu
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Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mex
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