Nome Nugget
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~ MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1944.
AFTER 10 YEARS OF GIVING
AMERICA BEGINS TO WONDER
Sister Elizabeth Kenny is reconsider
ing her recent decision to leave the Unit
ed States because of insufficient finan
cial support. A group of New York civic
and business leaders is reported ready
to make it possible for her to carry on
her work and teaching at a medical in
stitute in that city.
Sister Kenny, as nearly everyone
knows, is the Australian army nurse who
originated a system of treating infantile
paralysis. Reports of her success in
Australia spread around the world. She
was induced to come to the United States
where the people, by various means in
recent years, have been kept keenly
aware of the perils of “polio” and the
need of constant effort for prevention
and cure.
Sister Kenny’s work in this country
has been mainly in training students in
her method of an institute bearing her
own name in Minneapolis. Many have
take this training. Early this month
Sister Kenny announced that she must
leave the United States because of lack
of money to continue the fight “in the
way I have found best.” She needed, she
said, not less than $150,000 a year to
carry on.
Now there is reason to hope that Sis
ter Kenny’s departure may be delayed.
If she remains, it will be with support
from private sources. In such circum
stances, it is only natural that many
should wonder why the necessities of her
case seem not to have warranted suf
ficient support from the prodigious
amount of money that has been collect
ed during the past ten years for the fight
against infantile paralysis.
On hearing of her decision to quit the
United States for lack of money, Presi
dent Basil O’Connor of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said
there has been no break between his or
ganization and Sister Kenny.
No doubt that is true. There could be
no break except of previously helpful
relations; and there is no evidence that
I Mr. O’Connor’s organization and Sister
Kenny stood in any such relations at any
time. No quasi-public organization in
the country has been given as much
money as his. Sister Kenny was about
to leave because she has none of it, nor
nough from any source.
We would not make pretense of
enough knowledge to pass judgment on
Sister Kenny or her method. Her repu
tation speaks for itself; and there has
been little forthright question of the
beneficial results from the treatment she
devised. The point of the matter is, that
with a huge abundance of money avail
able for investigation, experiment, pre
rentive and curative work. Sister Kenny
has been left to flounder.
Every year, beginning with President
Roosvelt’s first birthday anniversary in
the White House, January, 1934, there
have been great balls and innumerable
lsser social gatherings in virtually every
:tv aqd town in the land, dll "to raise
money for the foundation over which
Mr. Roosevelt’s former law partner, Mr.
, O’Connor, has been installed as presi
; dent.
Of later years, the proceeds of such
; philanthropic parties have been supple
mented by the “Mile of Dimes” intake.
We have no least idea how much money
has thus been contributed. No doubt
Mr. O’Connors organization keeps
books, but as to amounts received and
the nature of disbursements, the public
seems wholly uninformed.
The President’s profound interest in
,the matter is unqustioned and under
standable. The incidence of infantile par
i alysis in this country was never so high
as during 1943, after the foundation to
fight it had been in operation more than
nine years.
This is the last year of the President’s
third term. By what inspiration or
means will the foundation be sustained
should some one else happen to super
sede him in the White House before his
next birthday?—(Seattle Times).
Communications
The Nome Nugget,
Nome, Alaska.
Sirs:
During my recent visit to the
Pilgrim Hot Springs I made a trip
over to the old Mary’s Igloo and
the new Mary’s Igloo, where I
spent a day with the school teach
ers, Mr. and Mrs. Benson. I talked
with many of the men in the vil
lages and also at the old village,
had a nice little visit with old
John Karkarguk, who I knew over
40 years ago and who still traps
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and hunts, being out practically
every day. He is a fine old man
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and has raised some good boys
to carry on. His son David is in
charge of and lives at the hot
springs, and certainly does every
thing in his power to make things
pleasant and agreeable. The water
could be made as hot as you want
it and the bath tanks are big
enough for all purposes.
In going over with Bill Munz
I noticed no signs of reindeer and
spoke to him about it. He told
me he had seen none this winter.
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seen deer.
Everyone with whom I talked
‘old me of the wolves and of how
they were destroying the rein
deer. There was a small herd about
four or five miles from the springs
which the herders work in four
six-hour shifts to protect from the
wolves which could be heard
howling most any clear night at
the springs. David told me of a
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lone wolf coming right into the1
springs and attacking his dogs,
mangling two of them so bady
that he had to shoot them. The
third one which they tried to
save, developed symptoms of hy
drophobia and had to be shot. The
wolf was frightened by turning
a flash light on it and shooting
at it with a small caliber rifle.
Last June, a short way up the
Noxadapaga, David dug out a fe
male with a litter of eight pups,
braining the mother with a shovel.
His brother, John, has been suc
cessful in killing quite a numbtr
of wolves this winter, one right
close to the village. Sig Wien saw
a band of wolves which had a
number of deer surrounded near
Bunker Hill and telephoned the
word back when he arrived in
Nome. The word was go’ten to the
herders and two of the wolves
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were shot and the deer driven i
back into the herd from which'
they had been cut out by the
wolves during a storm.
Everywhere the story is the
same. The wolves are increasing
and the deer diminishing, so it
will be but a year or two until
the reindeer are gone unless some
drastic steps are taken to anni
hilate them. It is not safe to be
out with a dog team without a
rifle on the sled as the wolves
seem to like to kill dogs. These
wolves are big ones and range
from white to black in color. They
fight among themselves and some
have been found dead showing
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it. They are cunning arid des
tructive and the Pounty alone will
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not keep them in check. With all
the money the government has
put into bringing the deer here
and trying to get them into the
hands of the Eskimo, it is a sl^me
that some drastic step is not be*
ing taken to abate the menace.
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