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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947.
America's Interest
In Greenland
...
By HARRY W. FRANTZ
(United Press Star Correspondent) WASHINGTON.-Dr. Austin Clark, foremost United States expert on Greenland, reviewed the main lines of United States selentille interest towards the great northern island in an exclusive United Press interview,
He listed the United States' desire to know more about the
·Immense Greenland Ice-cap in its relationship to North Atlantic weather oa first among the goals of scientific Interest, but also: stressed the Importance of increased biological knowledge con- cerning marine resources of seas neighbouring Greenland, He praised Demuñark's treatment of the native population.
Dr Clark, a noted marine zoologist, hai for many years edited Smithsonian Institule publications pertaining to Greenland, and is the author of a scientific handbook: on "Greenland and Iceland,” which was widely used by the Armed Services in war years.
He spoke from the standpoint of the selenilst personally in- terested in Greenland, and disclaimed any knowledge of the current co-operation between the United States and Danish scientista in Greenland, which has been indicated by the recent departure of USS Whiston with scientific equipment? for the Danés now in Greenland.
Responding to a quesian as to what United States scientista would most lite to know. about Greenland, Dr Claric said:
"What we would most like to know about Greenland is its Ailantic. general algnificance in regard to the climates of Nurth countries, and the effect of the great leg-cap which covers most
of it. The ice-cup covers 730,518, square miles, about 86 most of the surface of Greenland, and is appro- ximately equal to the area of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and Utah 'combined. It reaches a height of 10,000 feet above the rea In North Central Greenland.
"Second in current seientific Im- portance in the general biology. uf the Greenland seas.
more
"Third, we need to know about the production of iceberga in Greenland, as they float down, into the steamer lanes of the North At- to lonile and become а тепасе shipping.
"A fourth matter of Interest is the As great cryollte mines at Ivigtut, there is now a large commercial use for this product in the aluminium insecti- manufacture of industry; eldes, and many other products."
Detailed Work
.80 Dr Clark said that contrary
country, popular opinion in this Greenland has been rather general- ly explored. "The Danes have done very detalled work in the exploring and mapping Greenland." He said that some of the famous names in Greenland exploration, besides the That is one of the stories the bewitching. They were used American Peary, were Knud Ras- brought back by a young an- in the hex.
Busson, who was born in Greenland, It was not for some time after- thropologist and his wife, whoward that the Tschopikes learned
and Dr Louge Koch, a Dane, who spent more than a year living they had been hexed.
had accomplished more than The word with a tribe of Andean natives came from their native help, be-
other person In surveying who still have the customs as cause they, too, were feeling the mapping the island.
"result" For instance, onc sald
Chapman
Pincher
-FINDS AN ODDITY
THIS cockerel has broken a basic law of heredity familiar to everyone who has kept poultry.
Its father was a Rhode Island Red. But it should be all white like its mother-a Light Sussex hen--for whiteness is dominant to red in poultry breeding..
Scientists of the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edin- burgh, who bred the cockerel, are baffled by I
They could account for a pink bird-a uniform mixture of white and red-but not for this specimen, which is all red on the left facile and all white on the. right.
Poultry breeders use this cross because normally all the male chicks are white and the females red. They can be separated into sexes as soon as they hatch.
This is a big advantage, for they, enn adverleed as day-old chicks, guaranteed to develop into laying hens.
then
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But until this bird began to crow and strut about. the fowl run, the scientists did not know, whether it was to be a lady or a gentleman.
Which sets him asking this LADY-or-GENTLEMAN ? Quiz
THIS RODIN has В light brown back and orange-red breast. Lady or' gontiemen ?
THIS HIVE DEE WAS gathering nector and pollen. Lady or gentleman.?
out
THESE GARDEN SNAILS, wara wakoned by the sun. Ladios or gentiomon 7
BOOKS HANDYMAN of the
by
George
Malcolm
HUMAN MIND
Thomson
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about
TT is impossible to read the Autobiography of Ben- Franklin and jamin
read it-- everybody should without acquiring considerable
great American.
thing interesting "An
their ancestors 500 years ago. his chickens had stopped laying Greenland," said Dr Clark, "is that respect and liking for
This be-witching business In Peru | eggs,
is serious business to the Aymaran Indians,
Harry Tschoplic, Jr.. native of New Orleans, said. Tacho- pik, now, assistant curator of eth-
an
An
archacologist
She is sought to do some
Agree To De-witching
Tachopik had a
and
This time t "white" excavation In
witch and a pre-Columbian ruin in the centre on assistant were hired Each witch of the Indian town, Chhuito..
was paid U.S.$15.
Intrusion Reacnted
power
have
that
It is one of the few regions in the world where the colonising
And how American Franklin has devoted itself to the develop- fouch of Jaun-me
meat and welfare
of the native was! He was first-generation
days of Hans nology at the American Museurn of dice; his wife had a sore throat. people. Since the
Hans Colonjal. His father left Ban- Natural History, said he and his They didn't believe their ailments Egede, a missionary, the Danes bury only 20 years before his
do with it, but been extremely careful, and wife, Marion, a native of Boston, had anything to
Boston, his pative. prin- birth. were bo-witched over incident to keep their
help happy they developed Greenland on the
ciples of native welfare and not ex-place, was a very young and agreed to a ceremony of de-witch- involving Mrs Tschopik
area not ploitation. It is the only Ing.
town. very populous where such a polley has been fol- lawed consistently over such a long scarcely bigger than a village. Yet already the authentic period.
American type of humanity "Instand" of forcing the Green- The ceremony took place in the landers to learn Danish, they have had evolved, in all its strength---
It involved the in-developed the Eskimo language into and idiosyncrasy. Franklin is
the proof. If you a really modern language. One of the women natives had vocation of 144 spirits, good and been using the site to plant a jevit. Every 20 minutes, u recess go there you have to learn "Green- land. The modern Greenlander is potato crop, and she resented the was called for a round of drinks.
The drink is known as "tinka," descendant of the original Eskimo, intrusion, although she had taken
native It is
made brew, money for the plot of ground,
but bears very little resemblance to him. The present-day Greenlander Just the
the Tachapiks rain alcoliol, a handful of coca same,
civilised and cultured person. learned later, she took the money leaves and a handful of cigarette is a
He publishes two fine magazines." and hired a "laiqa," or black witch, butts. to put the hex on the scientists.
Native Population estimated the Dr Clark population of Greenland at
To be-witch a person, the black
witch's home.
from
It is powerful stuff, the Tachopiks
The "de-witching" worked-
which procures a load, names it satd.
{"
mouth,
after the victim, sews up wraps it in some article that das native
beca
In close
woman
The
started avho
the
N his new edition of the (Cresset Autobiography Press, 259.) Carl Van Doren has had the excellent idea of inserting, at the appropriate place, letters and other memoirs left by Franklin. The in .con- native Autobiography" is, 18,000, sequence, much enriched. It
LIBRARY LIST
A diri in Winter. Philip Larkin (Paber, 88, 643). A novel of rosi originality. Katherine Land, war-time
SARA KRUPS Porks in &
Her col leaguesro" draws with shop, ndividuality, and the isolation of The refugeo's ta e unsentimentally" but Katherina vividly erratoo picks up the
Lpt an old episode with Robert Fennel, But the past ik no
so easy to recapture. Excel• lent writing.
*
Young Enthusiasts, Illiza- balomkins (Gollancz, G. Gd.). A teacher's expe ence, Kivent, pictara-form, a an Engllit progressive school, ag chiaren, nico and awful; the parents, very progremive and very sms- Loterant; the way humours of 1 on the crank_ front. Strongly recommended.
* * * Wartaro Accomplished. Edith Pargetar (leinemann, 10.66.1. Novel. Third of trilogy on a soldier's life in the war. Author, who served with Wrens, writes of tanks art artilles, with astonis- Ini verisimfiitide. Orly trained investigator would detect the female hand.
But
THIS BLACKBIRD has sooty- black plumage and a bright yellow bill. Lady or gentleman?
(Answers on Page 12)
Franklin was, of course, something more than a "card." He had one of the most active minds in story. For ever experimenting -one day with the effect of oil upon water,
next making paddles for the swimmer's
hands and feet and for ever inventing-
the
a new stave, a device (still used in America) for lifting books down from high shelves, and, of course, the lightning conductor.
FRANKLIN
JESTS AND
JEERS
There's nothing like a sale to draw- the window-shoppers.
Perhaps after our town planning
no sooner sets eyes expert has decided where the new
ho
air
upon the first balloon than envisages the possibilities of war: Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops that 10,000 men -descending
from the clouds might not do an in- Anite deal of mischief before u force could be brought together to re- pel them."
statue is to be placed, they will ask him where the white lines should be: drawn across our roadwayn.
What some bosses complain about. Is the high cost of loafing.
He was, too, an enormously Amiable man. He had troops British friends, and seems to have lost none of them as a result of the War of Independence. Не liked drivers is that they behave as if
cd
The Arouble with some
young women. Mme. Brillón, wife rehearsing for an accident. of a French Treasury official, call- herself his "daughter." But Franklin's letters to her were not entirely paternal.
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Overheard on the ferry:
of
our
"I was so embarrassed. My little
contact with the whole thing fled the village, the besides which about 509 Danes live makes a handsome book of. 800 Scientific investigator, diple A the hands of every industrialist. Bir got hiccoughs during 'The Lost.
vletim, kills it with a cactus thorn Tanhopiks reported.-United Press.
and burica the remains on the
victim's property.
Techopik, incidentally,
best pair of knitted socks during
lost his
し
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. OÚT
Black, D pieces.
Whilte; 8 pleces. Wälle in plow and mate in three.,
Solution to yesterday's problem:
mates
any: 2, Q. B. br. Kt
ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS
1. Meriden,
Questions on Page 9
Warwickshire. 2. Plant with small, yellow flower. 3. All of them.
Richmal 4. (a) Crompton, (b) A. J. Cronin. 6, (a) H.M.S. Pinatore, (b) Patlenco (c) Mikado, (d) Ruddigore, d. Eighth. 7. Mineral. Ward is German for sea- foam, which formerly it was sup- posed to be in petrified form. 8. The compass, D. "The Chocolate Soldier," "The Only Way."
on the island. The natives live as pages. far north as the Thule District and the vicinity of Etah. He said that there is very little cultural contact
American between
people people-af-Greenland.
and
flat, and in summer are more
was
Week-end."
Franklin is, as it were, the handy-man of the human mind. mat, agitator, practical moralist, trade union leader, Mr and Minis exalted Freemason, American ter (assuming any Minister has me patriot, one of the founders of to read) is Big Businoes. Peter
the Drucker's study of the Republic yet, for
mass-production Industry and the political problems It Isn't will power that a girl Canada, Europe and Asia are fairly greater part of his life, a de- of big capitalism
or voted adherent of the English ed.). It is a fascinating report.
(Heinemano 10s. needs nowadays, but won't power. In the last century, there
Iess ico free. This weather informa- monarchy and the British Em- much American whaling in Green-
Trans-Atlantie pire. tion is important to land waters, with the catch as high aviation. In war-tirme, Germany
year. Du 1,000 ir a single
The 50 made desperate effort to -establish called "bow-head what is the weather reporting stations in Green-He was a man of the world. most valuable, being confined to the land.
easy and confident in any Arctic Seas, It produced whale- bone of extraordinary length. Seal- ing in East Greenland is mostly con- ducted from Europe..
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in Greenland
seas
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Drucker observed "the represen tative Institution of our time" In- ulde General Motors Corporation, The fortunate thing about spoiled an empire with
400,000 subjects children is that you never have them He believes that the most demara not monotony but frustration. "The ilsing feature of the assembly line
In your family. "The marine biological problem situation or society, able to worker does not produce a
product; has resulted deal composedly with the most often he has no idea what he from a large decrease in the num arrogant Tory peer, the most doing or why." Ile does not have
laird
the The scientific weather problem ber of whales and seals. Where the philosophic Scots
satisfaction of (and
citizenship be-ome women would rather listen. mammals have been killed. off, the
as he works merely for the
to dint than sweep it. In Greenland is mostly a matter of fish have increased. The commer some, like Kames, were very pay-check, he is not a citizen. current reporting and more long-
Industry must establish A rela- range reperts," said Dr Clark, The clal fisheries could go farther north philosophic and very queer), weather in Greenland is afluene if they had to, but actually the food tho most charming and frivolous, 'tionship between the worker
(rip longer a craftsman) and the object not only by the fee cap that by con- supply comes down with the
Lago currents and feeds the fish on the lady of Parisian salons.
he makes. Unions cannot
restore
There's a man'outside, asking for ditions in the Canadian Archipelago
Though not quite a philoso- the worker's culzenship, because a job, olr.. Says he used to make s and the Polar Sen. It is part of the frond banks." Across: 1 and 9 Down, Wrong turn-whole Polar picture, but the Green- ...Dr. Clark sald that Denmark has pher, he was a sage. This they are purely negative institutions. living by allcicing his right arm into
Collectivism has no relevance to thea lion's mouth of the circus" ing; 4, Whim; 7, Habituate; 12, Ibex; land ice-cop has the effect of ex-published many excellent works word; porhaps, best describes political 19, Unlon; 14, Brer;:19, Lea; 10, Pig; tending the, weather far to the about Greenland. A three-volume. Franklin's mixture of busy need for self-fulfilment.
problem-the. * worker's
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Solution of yesterday's puzzle:-
17. In; 18, Long: 10, Tag: 21, Eyre; 23,, Ominous; 25, Anon; 26, Gull; 27, Terreno:
Down: 1, Whippet; 2, Rabbit; 3, Nix; 6, Hall; 0, Menagerie; 6, Ber- Ramot; 9, Soe 1 Across: 10, Uncle; 11, Toe, 20, Gin; 22, Yule; 23, One; 2 24, Our; 25, At.
Rupert and the Young Imp-40
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The King andles at Rupert. Indred glad to know that this young lap has done at least one good turn and for the sake of it will forgive him the mischief to the apple tree and the chestrive troe. I don't like punishing any of my people, anyway." He orders one of his guards to mount on some steps and while Rupert looks on, the charge that was made against the young Imp is wiped off the blackboard. ** That's fine," Highs the little bear happily:Now I suppose I can go home again."
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