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TKAR8 FOR HTKFANSKOK.
(From Ottawa Jurnal. April 24. 1923.)
The paid publicity agents of Mr. Stefansson impose on our Rood
nature when they say: "Regarding Wrangel Island. Stefansson has
made himself a comparatively poor man by financing the expedition to
occupy the island in the name of Canada." Stefansson is a writer first
and an explorer second. He chose the Arctic as the scene for his
writings and the Arctic has brought him a considerable financial return
as a writer. Nobody asked Mr. Stefansson to "occupy the island in the
name of Canada.” If he has been spending money to that end. he
•expected that he would get it back either from publishers or from the
•Canadian and British Governments, we see no reason why he should be
entitled to sympathy—or financial recompense by Canada.
It is only by a far stretch of imagination that Wrangel Island can
be considered as of any value to Britain or Canada, and neither has any
money to spend just now on the visions of personal propagandists.
A few years ago Mr. Stefansson was demanding that the Canadian
Government give him monopolies over millions of square miles of Arctic
territory for the raising Of reindeer. Mr. Stefansson bothered to death
the then members of the Cabinet. One of the ministers as a result re
marked that he would be willing to give Stefansson the whole Arctic area
on condition that he himself went up there to live and was not heard
from again. The suggestion might be considered at the present time.
And again in Its issue of May 1st the Ottawa Journal ha« the fol
lowing to say "AS TO STEFANSSON": '
Stefansson Is the most discussed explorer of the age. says one
of his own advertisements. A rather dangerous statement, we should
think. 'This is because,** goes on the advertisement, "he has adopted
a hew method of living in the north.”
"And it is also because in Ottawa reside'most of the men wbo
were associated with him on his epoch-making journey into
the Arctic lands and sea from 1914 to 1918. By this time most
people have ‘taken sides’ over Stefansson. and in no place more
sharply than in Ottawa. Some believe that Stefansson is ont
* quite all his friends say he is. And on the other hand some
believe that he is all that, and more.”
The Journal has been rather impressed with the significance of the
evidence that most, if not all. of the technical gentlemen in Ottawa.—the
eurveyofs, the geographers, the civil engineers et cetera—have taken
sides” against Stefansson. By the very demands of their calling these
men are invariably most impartial in their judgments; they do not reach (
conclusions hastily for their search is ever after the truth.
Probably as an explanation of his apparent desire to have Britain
annex Wrangel Island and other Arctic territories, it is commonly stated
in .the aforesaid advertisements that Stefansson is a Canadian. The
facta are that, when he was about one year old, Stefansson's parents mov
t-d from .Manitoba to Dakota and that, later, his father became a citizen
of the United States. By the British Naturalization Act 1370, when a
father loses British nationality by being naturalized abroad, the loss
extends to every child of such lather who during infancy has become
resident in his or her new country and is accepted by ii as its subject, j
Stefansson has voted in elections in the United S ates. In 1902, he was
a candidate for the office of State Superintendent of Schools for North
Dakota and was, teherefcre, accepted by the United States “as its sub
ject.” As he has never been naturalized as a British subject, he is still
a citizen of the United States.
The advertisements further state that Siefansson “adden 100.000
square miles of hitherto unknown land to the Canadian Arctic archi
pelago." The facts are that Borden, Meighen, and MacMillan Islands. ;
discovered by Stefansson. aggregate 4.100 square miles. Findley, Pat-|
terson and other Islands discovered by other explorers but surveyed by i
Stefansson aggregate 1.300 square miles. Total area 5.400 square miles, j
It is advertfced thpt Stefansson “confirmed the non-existence of
Crocker Land.” STefa-nsson was never as near to the suppositious
Crocker Island as Belleville is to Ottawa, and. in any event, its non
existence had been demonstrated by MacMillan two years before Stefau
sson was even as close as that.
It is advertised that in the Canadian expedition of 1014-1018. the
chief of the southern party (Dr. Anderson! endangered the success of
Stefansson's ice trip by refusing to give him provisions and instruments
The simple truth is that Stefansson put the “Karluk” into the Arctic ice
although he acknowledges that, as the result of losing over 50 ships. !
American whalers had "adopted the rule of always keeping between the
land and the ice." and that the Alaska view of Arctic ice navigation is:
"Hug the coast, play safe, and if you don’t get there this year you may
have another chance next.” Having lost the "Karluk” by adopting a.
so-called, "bold” policy and thus losing all his provisions and supplies
Stefansson enedavored to deprive Dr. Anderson of part of his provisions
and instruments although such action would have forced the abandon
ment liy the southern party of a large part of their work. Finally,
although the casual reader would infer that Stefansson was seriously
handicapped by such deprivation, careful reading discloses that he left
the land with nearly one and three-quarter tons <? ?( of supplies, which |
does not, indicate great faith in his much-advertised policy of “living off i
the country.” i
argued uy
expedition was not excessive. The truth is that, with the exception cf
the Franklin expedition, no other expedition to the Canadian Arctic
during the last two centuries has had such an appalling record. Of the
northern party. 15 men sleep their last sleep i-n the great white north.
On pages 72 and 73 of “The Friendly Arctic.” Stefansson refers to *.iem.
"I am one of those who think the fighting of th*» Great War
worth while not so much to attai-n what was attained as to pre
vent what has been prevented, nut I never could see how anv
one can extol the sacrifice of a million lives for political pro
gress who condemns the sacrifice of a dozen lives for scientific
I
And that is all. In the 800 pages of “The Friendly Arctic
is, so far as we have been able to find, not one sympathetic refe
these gallant men who laid down their lives in the endeavor t
the unknown and to add to the sum of human knowledge respec
■northern portion of Canada.
George Malloch. of Ottawa; Henri Beuchat. of France;
Murray, of Scotland; Bjarne Mamen. of Norway, and the others '
down their lives on the Stefansson expedition “are pressing <
happier voyage now. toward no earthly pole.” And every’ Canadi
rejoice that, of all the hundreds of books respecting exploratioi
Canadian Arctic, the only one that does not contain sympathetic r
to dead comrades was NOT written by a Canadian.
rho laid
THE IMPRIXINCi MOTIVE.
American school histories ought to be all that the name implies.
When they are perverted to serve the ends of internationalism or to ad
vance the cause of partisan politics they ought to be thrown out. and
books substituted that will tell the pupil the truth, tlie whole truth, and
nothing but the truth about his country. That is the impelling motive
behind a number of investigations that are now being conducted info
the history courses in several states.
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the enforcement of one of our organic laws, preferring to see her boot
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