ESTABLISHiED 1890 r zAa ~~aii MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS - - - - PRIOE FIVE CENTS VOL. XXXVII. No. 62 EIGHT PAtIES ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1926 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS DENBY FMPES FPM OSTDECLARES COMMERCIALISM LC LU u IN AHLETICS IS LARGELY "TALK" PRI AC 10 O LEN Editor's Note: The following is the first thr of pple present, te E N TONIIT of a series of interviews with Coach Field -h k }ll ii f~i~ing 1. Yost, director of interecllegiate ath- price of admission, or the total letics, dealing wtih the present problems in amount of gate receipts makes no connection with the administration .of in- ni al difre c know the people with whom he ame in contact, many of whom had ever seen white men, and as a result i brought back information that has ever before been compiled on the Iskimo. Eskimo Always Smiling In spite of the rigorous life lie leads, me Eskimo seems to be very happy nd pines away if transported from is native environment. Happiness a a mental state which the people of e North seem to possess in the face f the greatest odds. Their lives are ontinuous rounds of anxiety and toil, ad still they are always ready to ance and sing and play and laugh, tie explorer said. Their lives are entirely at the mercy f the seasons, and they are always i the shadow of dire want. Many imes a journey of a year or more is equired to obtain the simplest thing, uch as a knife or a needle. These ourneys are made with small dog eams, the men helping all Xhat they an. Old people either die or fall along he trail or kill themselves in many f the tribes, for there i-s no place or them in the hard struggle for ex- stence. Sometimes female babies re killed at birth if their. marriage is ot contracted for, because they too ire unproductive of economic factors. cannibalism is not unknown, according o Dr. Rasmussen," but it is never >racticed except in case of the most ire want. The Eskimo thinks about the spirit- ial things of life and has many very nteresting ideas, the speaker said. ;ome of them- are so close to Christ- anity and other religions asto be 41- iost astounding. Among the beliefs eld by some of the tribes are the ransmutation of the spirit from ani- mals to men. In fact the theory of reation, of one of the tribes visited, resupposes that at one time man. and the aimals existed side by side on the earth on even terms. Stars Are Holfs In ]leaven A theory which is held in relation to the heavens is that each star is a iole in the heavens for the resideice of a departed spirit of the dead, and that the moon is the means of coin- municating back and forth with the earth. When the moon is invisible, the theory goes, it is busy transport- ing the souls back and forth across the heavens. The Eskimos have holy men and prayers just as civilized people, Dr. Rasmussen continued, and the Eskimo has his songs and stories just as other races. The people even in the far- North play football as a sport; a1- though most of their time is taken with the rigorous struggle for exist- ence. Tells Eskimo Stories Dr. Rasmussen told two of the Eskimo stories; one with the title that "One should not despise little things," which was the story of a mosquito, and the two men who argued about whether a deer or a fox had the thick- est fur and the argument became so heated that they sat down to count the hairs. They worked for days and finally starved t6 death. This is typi- cal of the stories told by these people, the speaker said. EXPERIENCE HELPLESSNESS RELATION TO FORCES GOVERNING LIFE ALWAYS IN DIRE WANT Philosophers Believe In Sufferings, Privations To Open Mind Of Man To Spiritual Life RASMUSSEN TELLS OF' REALITY OF RELIGIONH IN LIFE Of ESKIMOS IN ' , .t . .I L .I i i': ' _ i Explorer Says White Men May Thrive In North But Immigration Is Illegal "White men may be able to thrive in Greenland as Vilhjalmur Stefan- .sson says, but immigration would be illegal," according to Dr. Knud Ras- mussen, Danish explorer, who spoke here yesterday afternoon. "Cattle and sheep and livestock can be grown " in Greenland as everywhere else that that climate prevails, but the Danish tion with the outsiders. Denmark has furnished cattle and supplies to the natives and they seem to be prosper- ing, in the opinion of Dr. Rasmussen. When the natives have adopted themselves to the new system it is probable that adventurers will be ad-I mitted; and it is very likely that they will find it a desirable place to live. There is no attempt to limit scientific