Radio Broadcast - 1923, August - 86 Pages, 8.5 ... - VacuumTubeEra

In Touch with the World from the Arctic 287Shown, in motion pictures, the traffic onFifth Avenue, he exclaimed, "Oh, see the dogsleds that move without dogs.Nai've, indeed, the Eskimo, but a rathergood sort, for all that and he doesn't havesuch a bad time of it, either, according toMacMillan.If an Eskimo baby lives five days, it is almostcertain to be good for sixty years unless itfalls through the ice, or gets killed by a bearor a walrus. Except for heart disease andrheumatism, sickness in the Arctic is practicallyunknown. No good Eskimo would ever thinkof having such a thing as a "cold."Time, too, is practically unknown to theEskimo. He keeps no calendar, has no weeksor months or years. No Eskimo woman knowsher age.Although the Eskimo is deeply religious, hewould never think of praying to God for help,because he holds that it is not necessary;God is his friend. His only prayers are toevil spirits, begging them to let him alone.He is sure of a future life; to his mind no onewith any sense would question Some it. dayhe will go to heaven, a place where it's warmer,and the hunting's good.earlier expedition, being third in relief when only terrible thing that impendsis anotherthe final dash was made. On this "Crocker presidential contest. This time, however, theLand" Expedition MacMillan journeyed 300 men of the Bowdoin happily enough will notHAPPY LAUGHING AL-NING-WA OF THE SMITHSOUND TRIBEEskimos do not keep a calendar, and no Eskimo womanknows her age. But that is the least of Al-ning-wa'sworriesmiles across a field of solid ice to a point 100miles beyond the supposed location of " CrockerLand." It was nowhere to be seen. He thenturned back and ascended the exact elevationfrom which Commander Peary had sighted'Crocker Land," and there, at a distance ofFOURTEEN MONTHS OR FOUR YEARS?loo miles, he beheld this imaginary countryrugged bills and wooded stretches, a perpetual andHOW many months shall we be privileged permanent mirage !to entertain our guests in the Arctic and In 1913, as Isaid, Captain MacMillan sethow long will they be able to send us instalmentsof life in the great white solitudes? months. Four years later the ice of the Arcticout on this expedition to be gone only fourteenFourteen months, if all goes well- but one gave up a ship, and a band of weary explorersnever knows.made their way back to "civilization," there toIn the year 1913, for instance, Captain Mac- learn for the first time that practically the entireMillan headed an expedition to "Crockerworld was at war!Land," which Peary reported having seen on Great changes have come about since then.his successful dash to the Pole in 1908. Incidentally,Captain MacMillan, who up to that kin but at least it has placed its people all onRadio may not have made the whole worldtime had been a professor at Bowdoin College, speaking terms.his Alma Mater, accompanied Peary on his War smolders, and at present writing, theWhat will the Eskimo say when he listens tothe radio? Something about spirits, you can bemighty sure; for the Eskimo's explanation ofmotion pictures, which Captain MacMillan introducedhim to last year, was, in effect, that thewhite man had cleverly conjured up the spiritsof people in distant lands and put them throughtheir tricks! Doubtless he will say now thatthe white man has found out a way to makethose "spirits" talk and sing!