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GREENLAND UNDER
THE DANES
Greenland is an island, the largest justify large-scale mining operations. worked at only one island in the world, measuring more It is found and than 827,300 square miles. It is true spot in the country-at Ivigtut, on the that almost six-sevenths of the total shores of the Arsuk Flord. Since 1865 area is covered with an enormous and a monopoly for this mining been granted to the continuous ice-cap which is uninhabit-has able and almost inaccessible, but at Cryolite Mining and Trading Com- the present moment, in seventy dif-pany, under the terms of which con- the net profits ferent settlements and trading places, tract one-third of there are about 17,000 colonists en- went back to the Greenlanders. tirely cut off from Denmark and their only source of supplics.
Since 1782 it was recognised that the provinces of North and South Green- Since 1776 Greenland trade has land were virtually two separate coun- been carried on at the cost of the tries, one inside and the other out- Danish Government. The Royal Green- side the Arctic Circle, and in each the is entirely different, land "Trade" or Trading Company has regime of life the sole right of navigating and trad- each showing quaint differences in ing in these parts. Both Danish sub- the matter of "human response." Each jects and foreigners alike are for has therefore its own Parliament to ad- bidden to trade with the Greenlanders | minister its own affairs, the Northern or Danish settlers and all vessels met | Parliament
off these coasts by Danish war- ships are bound to submit to the right of search.
consisting of twelve
By PROFESSOR W. W. JERVIS
Denmark made a "closed country" of Greenland so that the Greenlander should continue as far as possible to pursue his natural economy and to live his own life, that contact with the Danes should aim at bringing to Greenland the advantages of Western civilisation as far as they could be assimilated and adopted, without its members elected on the basis of pro- disadvantages. In other words, the portional representation--meeting at aim was to create a good Greenlander Godhavn, and the Southern Parliament and not a poor imitation of a Dane,
meeting at Godthaab. The next large The rate of progress from Stone administrative unit is the Sysler, a Age culture to ability to participate county which has a council called the in the general cultural life of Europe Sysselraad to administer its affairs and should not proceed at a quicker rate is presided over by a Dane who is the than the majority of natives can keep manager (or chief civil servant) of the pace with. The Greenlanders them-colony. Every little settlement, or. selves could not possibly handle the Udsted, has its own Community Coun- trade, they have
natural ability | cil no
(Kummuneraad),
chief whose for commerce, and to grant them entire | function is the administration of re- freedom of trade at present would be lief to the poor and needy. The chair- but to hand them over to deal with
men of these councils serve on the private individuals rather than with Sysselraad of their districts. All this protective and benign State. It has arisen out of Denmark's conscious- worked in this way. In Copenhagen ness
of responsibility as trustee there existed a special department of these "backward inhabitants."... the Ministry of the Interior whose function it was to deal with all af- fairs relating to trade, health, religion, and education in Greenland. This de-schooling was free, North and South partment (the Gronland Styrelse) was under presided over by a director whom there was an assistant who was responsible for the purchase of com- modities to be sent to Greenland and for the sale of all merchandise export- ed from Greenland.
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Wheaten flour, coarse rye meal, rice, wooden boards for house-building, coffee, sugar, tobacco, rubber boots, fishing tackle, net strings, Ironware, enamel-ware, fabrics, glass and china the were sent to Greenland, while State ships, which normally make the four times a voyage to Greenland year, brought back cargoes of skins of fox, bear, seal and narwhal, ivory tusks, and barrels of blubber. At the end of the financial year every penny of profit on this trade went to the Greenlander in the form of a bonus.
The only mineral that has become an article of trade and given rise to a commercial undertaking in mining is cryolite, that rare fluoride of aluminium and sodium which is large- ly used for the making of opalescent glass and, with bauxite, in the pro- Greenland is duction of aluminium. the country in the world where this mineral occurs extensively enough to
of
No charge was levied on the Green- landers for medical attention and
Greenland each can boast an excel- lent newspaper issued monthly and given gratis. All Greenlanders over the age of 55 were given a pension by the Danish Government (£4 10s. a year to a single person and £6 15s.-to a married couple).
To the people of Denmark the pos→ session of their Greenland colony was a costly luxury, the only justification for the possession of which was the recognition of a cultural obligation to the natives. Greenland was their trust trust nobly discharged. Every outlying "dwelling place" of Green- land received daily from Denmark a wireless programme, the news being broadcast in Danish and Greenlandic.
But what is the situation to-day? Such a cultural obligation is beyond the comprehension of the Nazis. What of the news is reaching Greenland events in the outside world? To whom poor folk, living at the must these edge of the habitable globe, now turn for succour? We remember, of course, that a short while ago endeavours to establish an air route between America and Europe for a time focused the eyes of the whole newspaper-reading world (Continued on Page 11)
By George McManus
Bringing Up Father
WHERE IS THAT SON-IN-LAW OF OURS? HE'S UP EARLY, ISNT HE?
IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING IF YOU WERE MORE LIKE HIM-YES, HE LEFT EARLY TO TAKE A STREET CAR RIDE – HE WANTS TO FIND OUT THE PLACES OF INTEREST HERE IN OKLAHOMA CITY SO HE CAN TAKE US TO
SEE THEM TOMORROW ?
I WONDER IF HE IS ANYWHERE AROUND THIS OL FIELD?
FOR GOODNESS SAKE/ WHAT ARE YOU DOIN'
IN THERE?
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TOTHE
I'VE BEEN SITTING UN
IN THIS TRAN FOR FIVE HOURS AND IT HASN'T STARTED VET/
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