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7 and a boy, Stag, who are both liv-
Peter Freuchen:
Jewish Eskimo
CAPITAL COMMENTS
ing in the farthest north because
their wise father assured them CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGE
both were far happier as Eskimos
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGE than they would be as whites. scions struggle but in the triumph
Freuchen's wife is dead, but he of sound humanitarian principles
CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGH
lished, but did not create a stir; still speaks of her with glowing which regard mankind as one.
affection, and every book and
" . . . We who upheld a reli-
although
a
novel,
it
was
con-
0
sic.
To this day, I can't tell the
story he writes had another vari- gious philosophy of life cannot
sidered too ethnographical for ation of her for a heroine.
difference between a symphony
sanction a practice which tends
by Bach and Beethoven. But
popular consumption. And then
Captain Freuchen is just 50 more and more to treat labor as 2
Your certified public accountant can assist you in
2
there are many songs that keep some Hollywood genius awoke
years old, but his naivete, learned only an instrument , . .
making profitable corrections.
I singing themselves within me—
3
3
among
the
Eskimos,
protects
him
"Machinery
and
industry
exist
with
the
inspiration
to
do
a
mo-
songs like "Old Black Joe"—lazy
as a child is protected from the for man and not man for them.
4
4
Southern songs, nigger songs, the tion picture about the Eskimos.
hardness, the hypocrisy of the
"The same rights of organiza- 5
sounds of the negroes in the Freuchen's book was bought,
5
white world he visits. For in- tion which rest with employers
• fields and even as they worked
and he was sent with the MGM stance, when me first met the rest also with those he employs . . 6
6
in the chain gangs, fixing the
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
expedition to Alaska where the wife of his great friend, Rock-
"Contribution to the common 7
7
streets of the city—these songs
1313
GRISWOLD
BLDG.
—
CAdillae
3338
well
Kent,
she
exclaimed:
"What
good and not the selfish service
move me enormously—and I can't picture was to be filmed.
That little youngster of yours—so Innocent, so
B
a wonderful beard!"
of a class is the touchstone of all 8
help but sense the enormous gap
Charles K. Barth. 0, P. L
trustful, so unaware of the struggles he must one
Up to this time Freuchen had
"You like it?"—and he cut moral endeavor .. .
9
9
between them and the refrain of
day face.
no
idea
he
was
an
actor.
But
off
a
great
piece
and
gave
it
to
"In the stewardship of the
"Shorn Ba-eretz" that I shall hear
after he had chosen genuine her. That's the man!
earth, society must guarantee
in Eretz Israel.
Not many years hence he is going to be a big strap-
In 1928 he gave up his various each of its members the chance 0012000-001301:85-0-000000-0-00-00-000 -0-00 0M2000001:10001:8300000
Eskimos for various roles, he
ping fellow. Will he then be able to enter college,
to labor and to earn a living
could not find an actor who interests, including his extensive
A TYPICAL CASE
or must he start the long, uphill struggle trying to
farm in Denmark, to lend his lore wage. Such a wage must be con-
would look like the trader in
I
mention
my
own
case
because
sidered
the first charge upon any
carve out a future for himself in competition with
and experience to the search for
of course it is typical of thou- his book—so he played the vil- Roald Amundsen who was lost in industry.
•
others better equipped? By investing just a few
• sands of others at the present
"The
right to work is a spirit-
lain's role himself! His all- the Nobile fight beyond Arctic
dollars a year now you can provide him with the
time. Indeed, mine is a fairly
around achievement is motion Russia. Among Russia's Eskimos ual necessity. Unemployment not
capital he will likely require for a successful start.
mild one. The cast of any Amer-
he found remarkable change, de- only breeds poverty; it is the
ican going to Palestine is a fairly picture history.
Without this capital he may be forced to struggle
velopment, progress—and was de- source of moral disintegration
mild one.
through life at a Job for which he has no liking.
A queer, unconventional titan lighted to ace the sympathetic from which every man and his
Consider the cases of the hun- is Freuchen, as I discovered Russian approach to these strange family must be protected.
Now is the time to plan for his start—through •
" . . . We advocate the adop-
dreds of thousands of Germans,
outlandish members of the So-
to my discomfiture when I met
for instance. I've been told that
GREAT-WEST Child's Policy. It provides the funds
viet family. To me he said: tion by business, state and na-
hits here in New York. I was "That bit of me which is un- tion of some form of unemploy-
at least 70 per cent of the Ger-
to pay his way through college, or to launch him
man-Jewish population has been
making arrangements to col- adulterated Jewish always cried ment insurance, as well as sonic
In business or professional life. It also provides
in correspondence with the Pal- laborate with him in his Eng- out at sight of Eskimos practicing system of nationally interlocking
insurance to cover the intervening years.
estine Amt relative to their go-
employment agencies and voca-
lish writings (a partnership their odd family customs. In
ing to Palestine.
some places girl babies were tional guidance agencies which
Get the facts regarding this policy now.
which has proven signally profit- killed lest they endure privations. will intelligently direct labor and
Probably 50 per cent of those
German Jewa were far less Jew- able and pleasant since). We In other places I saw mothers kill aid in averting crises of unem-
ish than I am.
were at the time walking their young to save them from ployment. . . . We feel, more-
• • •
over, that there should be an ef-
through a miniature blizzard hunger. That's why I did all in
1 512 UNION GUARDIAN BLDG.
my power, as trader and governor fort at some more permanent
ANOTHER SIDE OF THE CASE
on Sixth Ave., when he sud- and missionary, to get them to stabilization of employment than
I have describe,: one aspect of
DETROIT, MICH.
denly turned to me, roared a soften the ferocity of their fam- exists today. . .
the emotions that begin to agi-
That is the reason our
"We record our endorsement of
REPRESENTING
few choice cuss-words at the ily love. They were puzzled to
tate my mind as I ready myself
pensions for old age which give
Colonial Room is becoming
to leave—the aspect concerned Germans, and said half his in- see me living with one wife until
she died,. because they are used the worker his dignity in age
increasingly popular — that
with the knowledge that one, so
come was gone because his
to exchanging and replacing wives and rid him of the fear of ulti-
to speak, is leaving his roots. But
and prices which will be
books were banned there.
mate pauperism and the poor-
frequently.
I
think,
though,
the
there are, of course, other as-
sure to please your sense of
ASSURANCE COMPANY
Eskimos thought I wanted to save house after a life of labor; of
pects
with
differing
emotional
ef-
"Your
books?"
I
asked,
aston-
Nino °MCI. • •• W10011•••
sickness and disability insurance
economy.
expenses.
fects.
ished.
FROTECTICII MAX PROST} • MVDl WITI1 =MUTT • PROTECTION PIM man!
which
will
protect
the
worker
Between 1924 and the present
For remember, when a Jew
"What then?" he shot back,
from
poverty
in
event
of
acciden
We serve a seven-course
day Captain Freuchen has lees
goes to Palestine, it is something
towering over me like a snow- tured around the world on the or illness, or mother's pension
dinner for $1.25.
different than a Jew going else-
which
will
prevent
the
separatio
n
subject he knows best: the Es-
where. There are roots and man. "I'm a Yehudi,"
of children of poor widows from
roots—immediate individual roots
That was the first inkling I kimo. Such men as Roy Chap- I their natural guardian and pro
and eternal, race roots, and my had that we were racial brothers. man Andrews, Willhaljmar Ste- tect the integrity of the home
venson,
and
equally
famous
ex-
race roots are in Palestine.
At subsequent meetings he told plorers, speak of him as one of of special protection of the work-
Radio scientists tell us that
er from industrial dangers and
when the science of radio is per- me, piecemeal, something about God's noblemen. And this I found diseases, and of the rehabilitation
him to be; a man of mellowed
fected, we shall be able to tune himself.
of industrial cripples under the
in to anything that was ever said
Growing up In Denmark, he Idea, a man of immense under- direction of the state.
on this earth—and when televi- might have never have known he standing and tolerance and love
." .. There must be for women
7 cirtf'
tins is perfected, I should imagine was a Jew had it not been for of humanity. Ile has starved in industry an absolute maximum
A
to any sight that was ever seen his mother. Certainly his father among Canadian Indians, frozen Of an eight-hour day. There
a leg off among the gold-seekers
on this earth.
was not typically Jewish—all his
must not be exploitation of wom-
So that if it were perfected to- life a seaman and South Ameri- of the Klondike( and has • en in industry by giving them less
day, from the Palestine screen can merchant, whose comings and wooden leg today), and through- than equal pay with men for equal
UN'DER NEW, WELL-KNOWN MANAGEMENT
they would be able to show yours goings were great events in the out all—even his picture making work.
and my great-great ancestors, as idolatrous Peter's life. The boy —he has remained a poor man.
"It is our moral responsibility
Mr. Frank Seiden, who directs a chain of outstand-
4)..
they led their sheep in pasture, stuck to school until he was al- "I don't need money because, you to children to see that they are
) , 1 ,:- .,
Mg hotels, has assumed the management of the
4"
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bathed in the Jordan, followed most through college, anxious to see, I'm poor." That is his way well born, properly nournished
7.. • ),,,....., "Floridian" in Miami Beach, and now offers a set, ,st.i0
David in his wars, gathered obey his mother and become a of laughing off his lacking ac- and educated and given the fullest
. i : :,7., ) vice,cuisine,hospitality and comfort incomparable. ,/,'-ii 4, 11 around the forums as Isaiah and lawyer or a good business man; quisitiveness.
opportunity to develop their phys-
We saw him off on the ship ical, mental and moral powers ...
Amos
called the people to right- but adventure beckoned. One
'0.: 4 ,s' .,*, ' Located on beautiful Biscayne Bay, and within ''''''. ‘ 4 : ,;04
eousness and Elijah denounced morning his mother found his bed bound for Denmark, not so very We therefore oppose child labor
close proximity to the Beach, this famous hotel
Ato .,r;
,
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DETROIT, MICH
CASS-BAGLEY
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the corrupt Baal worshipers.
unslept in. lie had run off during long ago. He was returning to unqualifiedly and call upon so-
, ' gti offers every conceivable form of indoor and out.
the
night,
become
a
sailor,
and
ciety
to
enact
proper
legislation
his
second
wife
and
his
farm
for
door diversion (or "Rest or Play".
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TIME AND GEOGRAPHY
shipped to Greenland on a whaler. awhile.
to bring it to an end."
TWIN AEROCAR SERVICE TO BEACH
\I f
,
(Copyright, 1131, JTA.)
Well, television hasn't been per- Already a giant, Peter held his
Three weeks later I learned by
716. flo.dian .111 be operated en s inndlEad A merIus
own
with
men
twice
his
age,
and
fected
to
that
extent,
and
yet
cable
that
he
had
been
tempor-
•
Mae N.D. Roo. Includ,n4 Bruklast and Dinner.
•
to the Balkans on a lecture en-
there is something of that feeling learned to hurl the harpoon un- arily arrested in Germany, his gagement. His cable ended:
. 'MID I DIETARY LAW S CAREFULLY
FU
OBSERVED
that must communicate itself to erringly, to trim sail in a storm, manuscripts and papers confis-
"Thank God I have found some
It
anyone going to Palestine. The and to laugh in the teeth of ctead, his journey interrupted as people who care that I am a
feeling that he is not merely mak- death.
he was passing across from home Jew."
With a great gusto he told me,
ing an alteration in geography,
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
but as it were achieving some- of his first romance. That hap-
1\
1 ■ 1
thing of a fourth dimensional ef- pened in northern Greenland.
HOTELS UNDER SEIDEN MANAGEMENT
fect. Something is happening to Overnight he had fallen in love
ItostOust NOTE. LOAM DIA01. rtA
lwNaL.MTMa IPRL LAI1111000,
the time element. Something with a half-breed girl and was
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like that picture presented in dreaming of settling down here
Berkeley Square where two dif- with her. She took him among
Ntoosestomestame`woolNeut"fumeNemote7wooe'someltaamesswase"
ferent centuries meet with one her own people where a dance
another.
was to take place, and before the
And perhaps it is something of fun started, Peter watched the
this that was understood by the girl, in her shack, wash her hair
rabbinic saying, that the air of in the urine-pot. Like mad he
Eretz-Israel makes one wise. How rushed back to the dock and
can one walking and dwelling towed out to his ship.
among the scenes where the ma-
Yet with the years he came to
jestic epic of Israel's ancient his- understand that inexplicable ges-
tory was written—an epic no pro- ture on the girl's part, to under-
found that it has become part of stand the many odd customs and
the saga of almost every civilized traditions of the simple natives
of the Arctic, and to shape his
people—fail to be lifted by it?
ABOUT two and a half years ago the Detroit City
I spoke before of how the own life according to their for-
House Heating Rate:
Gas Company voluntarily reduced its rates which
mulae.
Southern
darky
songs
touched
use
Detroit's Largest and Beat Equipped Car Washing
All gas used in boilers or furnaces
—and how I would sometimes
Returning home after going as
were already lower than those in any comparable thy
for house heating purposes exclu-
Plant
long to hear them, but even those meteorologist on the Mylius Eric-
in this country,
sively at
55c per 1,000 cu. ft.
—what were they mostly about? sen expedition among the smaller
LUBRICATION — BODY POLISHING
• We cut these rates not because the Company's finan-
flan-
Nothing but Zionist songs, af- Arctic islands, Peter found his
Minimum Bills:
cial situation warranted it, but because we wanted to
cial
ter all. Just songs about the father waiting for him. The old
For the consumption of 1,090 cubic feet or less
man was stern and emphatic; he
reduce the cost of gas to thousands faced by unem-
Jordan!
per month
86c per bill.
wanted his son to resume his
Lehitraot Ze-artzenu!
ployment and even distress and to that extent help
studies. So Peter went back to
our customers through a deplorable period.
Delayed Payment Charge:
college
to
study
medicine,
hoping
Metropolitan Comment
Bills not paid on or before last net payment
Throughout the emergency of hank closings, we paid
thus to be sent among the Es-
date stated on bill will be subject to a delayed
cash for wages and materials and later accepted City
coxem. Det , 1- 11071 EDITORIAL PAGE kimos, whose way of life in-
payment charge of 10c per 1,000 cubic feet.
trigued him, but who needed hy-
Scrip at full value whenever offered in payment of
almost an all-Jewish project, is gienic instruction. Alas, he proved
bills by any of our customers. We also paid our taxes
Under the above rates, the bill of the customer whose
■ panoramic picture of early San such a bad medical student that
in advance in cash. We have a pride not only in
monthly use is 1,000 cubic feet or less will be increased
Francisco and the place won in his dean politely advised his par-
having done a civic duty but in having our Company
6 cents per month. The bill of the average customer
it is made by a ruthless steamship ents to turn their son's ambitions
in
a
sound
position
able
to
render
this
set-vice.
whose monthly use is 3,000 cubic feet will be increased
owner. Written by Melvin Levy, in another direction. This was
it is produced by the Group Thea- all the incentive Peter needed. He
18 cents per month.
Our income dropped sharply because of the rate re-
ter and directed by Lee Stress- jumped his bonds again and sailed
duction and decreased use of gas. All Company em-
Even at the new rate we will be furnishing gas to the
berg (the latter two serving in for London, where he undertook
ployees helped by cheerfully-and loyally taking pay cuts.
average user of 3,000 cubic feet at a lower rate than is
the same capacities for last year's the study of surveying, having
obtainable in other comparable large cities where the
We
Pulitzer Prize winner).
read in books of exploration how
cooperated with N. R. A. by adding scores to our
"Romeo and Juliet," not as yet vitally necessary surveyors were
cost of gas of like quality is, in
pay rolls and later restored pay cuts, recognizing con-
opened as I write, brings Kath- in trackless lands.
Sesttle
11.41 per 1.000 N. ft,
Chicago
4 .92 pet 1,000 cu. ft.
ditions affecting our own people.
Newark
111 per 1,000 cu. ft.
Balomore
.90 per 1.000 cu. ft.
erine Cornell to town as Juliet.
In 1910 Peter justified his
Boston
1.17 per I.D00 eu. ft.
Pluladelphia
25 per I 000 co ft.
Under the recovery policy of our Government, our
It, of course, should be on the choice of a career. lie was chosen
New York
1.15 per 1,000 r,,. ft.
Indoonapola
AS p,, 1,000 cu. ft.
costs have been going up for months and are still
Brooklyn
1 OS per 1,000 cu. ft.
"must" list of every serious to go together with Knud Ras-
St. Paid
.31 per 1.000 N. ft.
theatergoer.
mussen up to the extreme north
going up. Since the rate reduction sales of as have
The lowest price for manufactured pas in any other
"Within the Gates," the new of Greenland, there to found the
decreased $1,800,000 per year and, due to increased
Michigan city is $1 06 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Sean O'Casey play, likewise de- station of Thule. It was from
pay roll and material expense, it is costing us $675,000
serves a place on the "must" list. there that Peary had left the year
In connection with rates, I should like to let the
per year more to produce the lesser amount of gas.
Variously approved and disap- before to discover the North l'ole,
people know' than I have made a study to determine
proved by the• critics, it is an and the two Danish explorers
\Vhen we voluntarily reduced these rates at an esti-
if we could get natural gas in here and thereby reduce
excursion into a new technique found that Peary had already
mated loss in ref en uc of $850,000 a year, we felt that
our gas prices, but find this impossible at present.
by one of the world's greatest done much to improve the condi-
under the emergency existing the Company could
playwrights. I'm au for it and tions of the aborigines.
On this study we have hcen thorough and have spent
stand, and it was willing to stand, this reduction.
its author.
Freuchen, who is a gifted lin-
thousands of dollars. Not only our experts but those
"Personal Appearance" is a guist and speaks almost every
We put the rates into effect and hate operated under
of the State and Federal Government as well report
satirical comedy success directed European tongue, including Eng-
them for a trial period of twenty-nine months. Dee
there is not a sufficient supply of Michigan gas to
at Hollywood. Vastly amusing, lish, had no trouble learning the
to the lowered rates, increased costs and decreased
make a pipe line to Detroit feasible.
it deserves a place on the well Eskimo dialect; and soon he was
consumption,
our
resulting
loss
has
averaged
more
ronnded theatrical list.
looked upon as an "anagok," a
Moreover, after months of effort and negotiations, I
than twice what was anticipated.
"Small Miracle," a representa- medicine man in touch with the
have developed no outside dependable source from
tive of the mystery drama, divine spirits, so that his influ-
Now, facing into 1935 with pay roll upped by about
w hich it can he bought at prices which will benefit
qualifies as the bent of the breath- ence over the natives was great.
a half million dollars and cost of coal, gas-oil and
our customers. It is interesting to note that Chicago,
taking dramas in town.
Recognizing this, the Danish gov-
other
materials
upped
by
a
like
amount,
we
are
driven
wherethey bring natural gas from Texas, has higher
"The Farmer Takes • Wife" is ernment appointed him Resident
As Christmas nears, thoughts turn to
to the conclusion that we cannot continue under
rates than Detroit.
• casual and atmospheric drama Governor of Thule Colony in
home and happy family gatherings.
these conditi6ns if we are stilt to render the same
about life in the early days along 1913, a post be held for seven
We wish to say to every gas user that we value your
New York's old Erie Canal. It is years. During the years of the
high standard of gas service to which Detroit and the
business and hope to retain it. Since 1851 this Company
It Is not always possible to go, how.
an authentic bit of early Ameri- World War, the sea blockade
other communities we serve are accustomed.
has been serving Detroit and vicinity, giving the best
prevented
ships
from
coming
up,
cana.
ever. Sometimes the distance is too
Therefore we are forced to raise our gas rates and on
Eva LeGallienne is with us In and Freuchen had to resort to
possible service at reasonable rates. An outstanding ex-
great; sometimes business interferes.
and after January 8th, 1935, the following schedules
repertory. There is "The Cradle the ways of the Eskimos for sur-
ample of its policy was the rate cut of two and a half years
But even if you cannot he there in
Song" and "L'Aiglon" which we vival, since he could get no sup-
will bee
ffective:
ago. Now with costs going up we have to increase our
particularly commend. more so plies. Across the Greenland Ice-
person, you can be there by telephone. And hear.
prices somewhat. Long ago other business institutions
General Service Rate (530 Btu gas):
the latter which concerns the son cape, and to distant Ellesmere-
ing their voices is next best to seeing those we love.
put up their prices. We hoped to avoid this but could not.
(For the consumption of more than 1,000 cubic
of Napoleon Bonaparte and hasn't land he went foraging for food.
been enacted in New York since hunting, fishing, traveling with
feet per month)
The new rate will not yield proper compensation for
Note the low STATION•TO.STATION long distance
Maude Adams did it early in the the ever-happy Eskimos, he dis-
First
55,000 cu. ft. per month at Ste per 1,000 Cu. ft.
the use of the property, yet we hope the results of im-
rates shown. For rates to other points, ask atlie long dia.
covered • new philosophy of life
century.
Neat
50,000 cu. ft. per month St 75c per Loon cu. ft.
proved business conditions will later be reflected in our
"Dodsworth," and adoption of that went far beyond the white
Nest
400,000
to. ft. per month at 65c per 1,000 cu. ft.
timer operator.
Night
financial situation and our customers may be sure that
heals,
the Sinclair Lewis novel. is a man's in providing a life of con-
Nest
500,000 CU. ft. per month at 50C per 1,000 cu. ft.
r
.
•43•
7:00
w hen conditions justify such a move, we will cut our
hangover from last season. So, tentment.
Next
•S0
1,000,000 Cu. ft. per month at 42c per 1,000 to. ft.
430 a..
8.30 p.m.
740
Nest
too, is "Tobacco Road." Both
1,000,000 cu. ft. per month at 40c pee 1,000 cu. ft.
rates just as cheerfully Si we did before.
TO
Until 1924 Freuchen continued
.45
$ .70
to accompany Rasmussen on ex-
Nest 1,000,000 ro. ft. per month at Sac pet 1.000 cu. ft.
should be seen if not already.
Kalemasoo $ .90
.35
.50
Nest
2,000,000 cu. h. pet month at 37e per 1,000 Cu. ft.
peditions into the remote north
Lan•Ing
.35
Nest
4,000,000 Cu. ft. per month at 36c per 1,000 ea. It.
Gifts to North End Clinic of Canada. learned all the Eskimo
❑ c-veland •.60
.35
.35
All oust 10,000,000 Cu. ft. per month at 33c per 1,000 cu. ft-
.45
dialects, learned to love them.
Port nitro.
No wonder, then, that he mar-
North End Clinic has received a
contribution for the supplementary ried the Canadian Eskimo girl
medical assistant', fund in memory Navaranna, "the finest human be-
of Mrs. Sarah Davidson from Mr. ing 1 have ever met," who bore
him two children, a girl, Pipaluk,
and Mrs. I. R. Myers.
His chance
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