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IGLOOS ARE NOT DOOMED
ARCTIC EXPLORER SAYS 'A
TIVES HAPPV AXD COXTEX1.
Slovcmcnt to Modernize Eskimo bj
Providing Concrete Huts Char
acterized as Silly.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. The move-1
Tnent to modernize the Eskimo by
providing him with concrete huts in
place of his picturesque snow "igloos,"
as suggested by an official of the
United States bureau of fisheries,
would be the death of the denizen of
the icy north. In the opinion of Vilh
jalmur Stefansson, the Arctic ex
plorer. Not only is the Eskimo de
voted to his age-Ions habitation, as
the South Sea islanders are to their
traditional garb of flower garlands
and fresh smiles, but he i3 far health
ier, warmer, and more comfortable in
his domed mansion of snow blocks
than he could be in any modern house
of concrete.
The statement that the natives of
the Pribyloff islands were about to
discard their snow huts for modern
concrete huts, finding the gales of
the Bering sea too strong for the for
mer, upon which the story of the in
tended change of Eskimo habits was
based, Mr. Steffansson characterized
as too silly for discussion. The ex
plorer, talking at'his headquarters at
the National Geographical society
building here, said that the Prybiloff
islanders had never lived in snow, but
in wooden huts, and that further
north, where the natives do live in
snow houses, it would be next to im
possible to convert them to any other
dwelling.
"Their igloo serves-as a home for
two or three weeks. Then they build
a new one. Because it is new it is
clean and sanitary. It is as warm and
comfortable as your library. A can
dle gives as much illumination as
three electric lights, because of the
Intense whiteness of the snow. The
snow house will stand under any con
ditions. In all the igloo is as com
fortable a home as a man could wish.
"The concrete hut, like the wooden
hut, must be uncomfortable and un
sanitary. Wherever the natives have
changed from the snow to the wooden
home there has followed pneumonia
and typhoid and a tremendous in
crease in the death rate.
"The Eskimos are a migratory race.
Contact with civilization has affected
them and they are dying off. They
must soon be extinct and the concrete
hut hastens that extinction. The Es
kimos are like the gypsies,
keep a sypsy in a house of
and see what happens.
"Still the Eskimos might
verted to the concrete hut,"
Mr. Stefansson, smiling, "If it becomes
the fashion. Should concrete homes
become fashionable. all Eskimos
would soon be living in them. Human
nature is the same the world over.
Let someone Introduce the wearing
of furs, as a fashion, in the Zulu
islands, and the natives there would
wear furs. Women wear furs in Cali
fornia and Florida,-where the climate
is just as hot as on the Zulu islands.
So, you see. you never can tell.'
the American expeditionary force.
Grannan said he will be able to throw
considerable light on I. W. W. ac
tivities culminating in the Armistice
day shooting at Centralis, Wash., and
will be able to assist the government
in running down some of the worst
radicals in the country.
On the night of June 16. 1911, the
Shanta Limited was held up by two
masked men near Yoncalla, Or., the
mail car was entered and two regis
tered mail pouches said to contain
several thousand dollars looted. The
robbers left the train at Yoncalla and
made their escape, eluding pursuing
posses.
MINES CONTINUE MENACE
GERMAN" TASK OF SWEEPING
NORTH SEA UNFINISHED.
MOTHER KILLS FAMILY
Bodies of Three Infants Thrown
Into Cistern on Farm.
COEUR D'ALESE, Idaho, Dec. 20.
Mrs. Lucy M..Mullenax, aged 34,
wife of a farmer, was in the custody
of Sheriff Quarles tonight facing the
charge of having murdered her three
infant children and of having mur
derously attacked her mother-in-law,
Mrs. Mary M. Mullenax, at Mica Bay,
11 miles west of Coeur d'Alene.
The younger woman, the . officers
say, stated sne couia not leave tne
children with her mother-in-law. She
told the officers, according to their
statement, to inform her husband
that they did not suffer in death as
she had given them poison and later
had thrown the bodies into a cistern
250 feet from the house, shortly after
she had attacked her mother-in-law
with a wooden mallet in the latter's
room, beating the aged woman badly
and causing a fracture of the skulL
Try to
concrete
be con
went on
TRAIN ROBBERY CLEARED
Prisoner In Arizona Tells of Yon
calla Holdup in 1911.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Dec. 20. Leon
Grannan, said to have admitted
number of mail and train robberies
on the Pacific coast and one jewelry
store robbery, was held tonight pend
lug investigation.
Grannan, In an interview today, told
of how Joe Martinez had held up the
Oregon Express at Yoncalla, Or., in
1911 and had given him (Grannan)
part of the money. He said Martinez
was killed the following yar after
holding up a train in the Sacramento
' river canyon.
Grannan. in effect, gave himself up
claiming to have reformed in 1916
He ha.s papers to show service in the
Philippine islands and in Siberia with
SI 0,0 00 Loss Reported to Police.
Gus Miller of 651 Second street, last
night reported to the police the loss of
a suitcase which he alleged contained
the equivalent of 10,000 in French
currency. According to Miller s report
he set the suitcase he was carrying
down to step into the lobby of a hotel
at Second and Madison streets to
speak to a friend for a moment. When
he turned around a moment later, the
suitcase had disappeared. Miller told
Inspector Cahill also that the grip
contained some German money and a
Luger pistol. He had recently re
turned from overseas service.
Phone your want ads to the Orego-
nian. Main 7070, A 6095.
American Barrage Completely Dis
posed Of, Naval Official Reports;
British Continue Work.
LONDON. Dec. 20. Until, the Ger
mans complete the sweeping of-mlne
fields they laid in the North sea there
will be considerable danger to ship
ping in waters adjacent to the Brit
ish isles, say British and American
naval authorites. Even after that
work has ended, which will not be
earlier than next summer, there will
be some danger which, they predict,
will gradually diminish.
"The American barrage is swept as
completely as Is humanly possible,"
Admiral Harry S. Knapp of the Ameri
can navy, said to the Associated Press
correspondent. "After our area had
been pronounced 100 per cent clear we
re-swept 860 square miles of it (about
15 per cent) and found only four more
mines. These were at a buoyed spot
where the sweepers believed they had
missed some."
"The greatest menace now," said
Lieutenant Commander Benson, of the
international mine-destroying com
mittee, "is the unswept German area.
Until that field has been cleared there
will be a good many drifting mines
about. Afterward there will be some
danger, but it will rapidly diminish as
the elements destroy the effectiveness
of the mines."
He said the committee accounted for
mines as follows: Five per cent ex
plode when laid. 5 per cent are de
fective. 10 per cent soon become use
less through leakage and 50 per cent
of the total number laid are - de
stroyed by the different systems of
sweeping employed by the British
and Americans.
Committee members believe that a
great many of the other 30 per cent
will be carried Dy tne natural north
ward currents of the North sea Into
Arctic ice packs and destroyed, others
will go ashore on the Norwegian
coast, as have many already, a great
many will become harmless through
long presence in the water, and a cer
tain number will be destroyed by pa-
trols which the British navy still is
maintaining.
Also the British navy has Just
armed all merchantmen, except those
caning at Irish norts. with high-ve
locity rifles that they may destroy
any .mine sighted. So many ships
calling, at Irish -ports have been
raided for arms that the admiralty
believed It inadvisable to add to this
danger.
Two Irish fishing boats off Cork
recently sighted a drifting mine. The
captains mistook it for a cask of rum
or wine and made a race for It. . The
winner was the loser.- His boat was
sunk. .... . r
The admiralty has had several re
ports of a drifting mine about S00
miles southeast f New . York . which
officers hope some of the newly
armed merchantmen will destroy if It
has not already been rendered harm
less. by the elements.
TEACHER HON OPPOSED
W. T. FOSTER ADDRESSES CALI
FORNIA CONVENTION".
Head of Reed College at. Portland
Declares Instructors .Mast Deal
Direct "With People.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 20. Em
phasizing: the need of teachers for In
creased compensation. Dr. William T.
Foster of Reed college, Portland, Or.,
told delegates to the California state
teachers' convention here today that
It would be a mistake for teachers to
organize unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
"Let us not be too hard on school
principals, superintendents and col
lege presidents who, with the wolf
at the door, have not maintained the
morale . oi their teaching staffs," he
said.
"Is there a department store man
ager who could have kept any staff
at an on the wage scale of five years
ago? Is there a shipyard, or a street
railway or a bank or a mine or a hos
pital or a laundry or a theater that
could have continued doing business
at all without large Increases In
wages? Not one! Yet there Is scarce,
ly a school system In America that
pays Its teachers. In purchasing pow-
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You've seen "Big Bill" Jo
all sorts of rough-and-ready
parts, but as the
owner of a fashionable
modiste shop well, just
try that on your imagina
tion, then blow in and col
lect your laughs!
THE
COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA
Afternoons and Evenings
Director Knowles has
another novelty for you a
full string orchestra. His
score contains a large
variety of music, from
jazz to classics and you'll
enjoy it all.
TODAY
MONDAY
AND
TUESDAY
ONLY
ONLY three days more in
which to shop ! Why not
give "him" a
Ben Selling
Hat Order
and let him choose his own
style and color at his con
venience? ,
A Gift He Will Appreciate!
Dunlap Hats Stetson Hats
Trimble Hats
Cloth Hats and Caps
in Goldtones
er, three-fourths as much as it did
fH'e years ago."
Every teacher with tne professional
spirit. Dr. Foster said, desires above
all else unrestricted opportunities to
serve. He Is loath, the speaker said.
to surrender all this to a labor union.
"Teachers should deal directly with
those to whom they are responsible
all the people," said the professor.
Judges, members of congress and
policemen would make the same mis
take in affiliating with the American
Federation of Labor or with any othe
minority organization. Among serv
ants of the people divided allegiance
cannot be tolerated."
JAPANESE DEMAND RISE
Hawaii Plantation Laborers Want
7 5 Per Cent Increase.
HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 20. The
Established 1M(,
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An Oriental Rug
Many of our customers
have chosen Oriental Rugs
for their home gifts. We
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We will deliver your pur
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Our assortment of Gift
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Prices range from $60 to
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More Cold
Weather
A Splitdorf Primer is guar
anteed to put Hot Vapor in
your cylinders and to start
your motor on the coldest
day in Ten Seconds. Why
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all leading dealers for all cars.
Japanese Federation of Plantation
Laborers has presented its demands
to the Hawaiian Sugar Planters. The
demands include a 75 per cent . In
crease In wages, raising the average
Jap laborer's wages from 77 cents a
day to $1.25 with double time for
Sundays, legal holidays and overtime.
The demands include a raise to 95
cents i a day for women laborers and
leave of absence Tor women before
and after childbirth. The list Includes
a demand that instead of a man hav
ing to work at least 20 -days a month
to be included in the bonus, the num
ber of days be cut to 15 The labor
ers also want an eight-hour day, bet
ter living conditions and more amuse
ments on the plantations, such as
moving picture shows.
A man's hair. It is estimated, turns
gray five year's earlier than a woman's.
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Guitars $ 7.5
Banjos ...... S 7.5
Violins $10.00
Violin Cases . . $ 4.00
Accordeons . . $18.00
Can jo Ukuleles $ 6.00
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