View of Godthaab, Greenland.
. hv the National Geographic 80
fifty. Washington. D. C.) . .
N KKHNI-AND replaces Spits
tw^en in the public's Inter
J,.st since the summer explor
ation of the North Polar re
is being conducted from that
[1; continental Island. The Mae
n expedition under the auspices
e National Geographic society not
li;js its chief base in Greenland,
far northern Eskimo village of
l,m the navy planes which are
Lmpu-vint: the party will fly over
i:ia|* large areas of the interior
die island, and in addition studies
be made on the ground of Green
Ls old Norse ruins.
v,-en!:ind is an interesting region
ueif apart from the scientific ac
l?e!r.g conducted there this
,nier it is the largest island In
world (if Australia be classed as
?eminent). has the land reaching
^st to the North pole. Is the coun
t.srburing the northernmost civi
(?(.mmunity. and is the one land
; where conditions of the great ice
are now dominant.
levator of map fame has unwlt
lv confused the mind of the world
reran! to (Jreenland. Because the
.re is flattened cut on many maps
tbi>uuli its surface were stretched)
enknd. v;;st as It is. is made to ap
ir many times larger. It is as
the island were reflected in one
mirrors set up at country fairs
the thiu appear fat.
? viewed properly, the great north
iriaaJ bulks large enough to com
ni reject. If its northernmost
sr ?ere place<l at the Canadian bor
in .North l>akota. Its southernmost
t would reach to the mouth of the
tirade. tlie southern extremity of
IS. Its greatest width is approxl
tely equal to the distance from New
1: to Chicago.
to though the Island Is almost con
sntal in size, having an area of
tit SflftdOO square miles, it hns only
oi inhabitants. the dally popula
1 of a single huge office building in
er New York city. The reason for
sparse population Is not alone the
northern position of the country,
the lower half of the island is in
n-simately the same latitude ns the
iiiiuavian peninsula with its 8,000.
souls. Hut while Scandinavia Is
*4 by the warm Gulf stream, and
and. too. Is benefited by it. Green
lies fur from Its influence and is
&hw! only by Icy Arctic currents.
Buried Under Snow and Ice.
Closed to the full effects of the
the Arctic, the great Island
ch at one time In geologic history
the climate and verdure of Call
:a- has been changed Into a frozen
?ft. The once green country has
?E burled under a sheet of snow and
'inland's mountains are "Icy" as
missionary song has it. All moun
" that are high enough are Icy
Vnder the Equator. But the song
N the real point: Greenland's
l?.ys are Icy?filled solidly full of
it! fflet. It is doubtful if any
fr** else in the world such a tre
llis ice slieet exists as in Green
? The snows of perhaps a dozen
^"re '"Slle-iiniums have built up a
'dankej that In places Is six
?"mi tluni-nnd feet thick. It has
V::lU?ys, hills and mountains
? ntakint; -entral Greenland Into
^ sc"w and ice plateau, a single
l ^n<|",ls glacier wltn countless ten
Nat extend down Into the coast
M,'r feeding icebergs to the
?...
tii' S n!Tr"u fringe along a part
^ toast is free from the Ice cap,
,"eu 1,1'K ground Is frozen in wln
fio Tr *' Wlt'1 snow- 11 is along
J r's (l' these narrow Ice-free sec
'' j,le ro:,st that the few thou
^ "s-iino<t iinti the handful of
Wi|, "P 'he population of
k-n" lm<' a >,recurlou? livelihood.
, 1 x]* s,lf?rt summer the inte
' 'feenland presents phenomena
? nil'1/1'1 n?wlier? else In the world;
"? ,,nl 'rozf*n w"stes are Inaccessible
?a?es\?U feW eyes ,iave behe,d the
t 1,1 lulfe place there when the
! lorrrf j t0 the north- Great lakes
*0.. ? fnlghty rivers flow be
*tZ?yStal bunk8, tiieir water*
m;i y" , nR a stone nor a fragment
tlle'V flna,,y P'nnge down
'ofin ,lle I<*. (ilaciers push
'"""ntless fiords, some dls
% 1,. "e i:ito the sea at the rate
C :?" *r
?in,) "l'hens and a few flow*
(wru' s',rln? t0 sudden life in
il'or|g the Ice-free fringes
***? l?ut iuw ytuceuUtw vxcuul
radishes, turnips and lettuce can b<
grown. The people of Greenland art
almost entirely dependent for food on
the sea and on supplies brought from
outside.
West Coast Settlements.
Greenland's history has been a his
tory of its west coast. The east coast,
although nearest Iceland and Europe,
is inaccessible. It has been dubbed
"the most Inhospitable shore in th<
world." A broad stream of icebergs
and smaller fragments of ice is con
stantly moving southward along the
coast, forming a barrier that is Im
penetrable by ships for a large part of
the year. Angmagsalik is the only
permanent. settlement on the east
coast. Its population consists of sev
eral hundred Eskimos and a mere
handful of Danes?trader, missionary,
doctor and a few minor officials. In
the summer a considerable volume of
water (lows out from glacial rivers cen
tering at Angmagsalik, which tends to
make an opening in the drifting off
shore ice. It is then that Angmagsalik
counts on its annual contact wjlth the
outside world.
Along the fiords of the west coast
are the remains of one of the most In
teresting colonies the world has known,
the settlement built up on the edge of
America by Erik the Red and his fol
lowers and conducted as a Christian
community 500 years before Columbus
crossed the^ Atlantic. On the narrow
ice-free strip of coast, several thou
sand men of Norwegian blood main
tained this colony, and another farther
north for several centuries.
Because of the inaccessibility of the
east coast1, the first immigrants from
Euroj>e to the Western Hemisphere
rounded the southern end of Green
land and' landed on the southwestern
shore which is ice-free during the sum
mer. They settled In two districts:
the Eastern Settlement (more proper
ly the southeastern) about 100 miles
around Cape Farewell, near tlie present
Julianehaab; and the Western Settle
ment (more properly, the northwest
ern). nearly 300 miles farther up the
west coast nefir the present Godthaab.
Soon after the year 1000 these set
tlements with their 2.000 or more in
habitants were rated Christian com
munities. Twelve churches were built
In the Eastern Settlement and four in
the Western. About 1110 a bishop of
Greenland was appointed and there is
a fairly complete record of bishops to
the end of the Forteenth century. A
monastery and a nunnery even were
maintained in the Greenland colonies.
The Norse settlements in Greenland
were at their best In the) Eleventh and
Twelfth and duping the Thirteenth cen
turies. After 1300 they seem to have
started to decline.
What happened to the Norse colon
ists cut adrift in Greenland has long
been a mystery. Some tradftionjs have
It that they were destroyed by the Es
kimos, others that the went westward
to other land. It is in the hope of
finding evidence to support this latter
tradition that the MacMillan expe
dition is making Investigations thl?
summer.
Now Ruled by Denmark.
Although the early settlers of Green
land were Norwegians, the country
later came tinder Danish control. This
occurred when Norway was combined
for a time with Denmark. A Danish
missionary who reached the southwest
chores of Greenland In 1721 was the
first to renew Scandinavian settlement
of the country. Other settlers fol
lowed and Denmark established a pa
ternal government over the Eskimos
of the south.
Northwest Greenland was discov
ered, explored and occupied as a base
for Polar expeditions by Americans
during the Nineteenth century?no
tably by Peary and Greely. When the
United States purchased the Danish
West Indies in 1917, us part of the pur
chase consideration it relinquished all
olalm to any part of Greenland. Since
then the Danish government has ex
tended its authority to the sparsely
settled northwest coast, and to all other
inhabited sections of the island.
The towns of Greenland are few and
unimportant. Godhaven of Godthaab,
the capital of the northern Inspector
ate, 1* the chief settlement and yet has
only a few hundred Inhabitants. Uper
nivffc, near latlture 73 degrees, Is the
northernmost "town" in the world,
while Etah Is the northernmost set
tlement. Julianehaab, near the south
west point of the Ir.'ar.d. is close to the
of the settlement of Erik the Red,
): :id in the vicinity are still to be seen
mlns of the stone house* and churches
.lilt in this isolated corner of America
in the days of the early Crusades.
/
Daddy's
?4[ki\ii\g
Fairy Tale
<5y/Wir GKftHAM BONNER
?? ? ? CQmicwT |Y *?m?* m^?n* - ? i T_
PLAYING FOUNTAINS
In the center of a square In n town
was a large, round flower bed.
The flower bed was filled with bright
red geraniums and around its edges
were pansies, myrtle and mignonettes.
Every one in the town loved this
flower bed. It belonged to the town.
No one ever picked any of the flowers
from It, for If one started to pick
flowers, and then another did the same
thing, and then a third should follow
suit and so on, there would/ be no
flowers at all. \1
\ ' * v J
So every one came and looked at the
flowers and admired their bright color
andSheir beauty and loved them be
cause they made the town so pretty
here about the .square.
Around this square were paths and
benches and at one side was a band
stand.
Here, on summer evenings, the band
played and the people came and
listened to the music and clapped
their hands or tooted their automobile
horns to show how much they liked It
People passing through tile town
would see the square, and In the cen
ter the beautiful flower bed and would
say:
"Oh, do look! Aren't those flowers
lovely! So bright and so gay."
It made everyone very proud of the
flower bed. It was cared for by a
gardener who loved flowers, and for
whom flowers always did their best.
Flowers are like people that way.
They, do their best for those who
love them, and appear at their best
for those who think they are capatle
of a great deal.
When people from the town came
to the square they spoke of the flow
ers as "our flowers," and "our flower
bed."
On either side of the flower bed was
a fountain, a small but very pretty
fountain.
The water dashed up and then broke
In such a pretty spray, and fell down
once more Into the tiny, tiny pond
waiting to receive it.
It did this again and again and
again.
And this was the way it was with
each of the two fountains.
They were both alike. When the
'vZfW ,
x,- v**#
Lovely Little Parkl
sun shone down upon them there were
many colors to be seen gleaming and
sparkling In their clear water spray.
The fountains were owned by every
one, too. They added to the beauty
of the square.
They, too, were admired by passers
by. "What a lovely little park," they
would say. "with the flower bed and
the dear little fountains."
Sometimes they were called "dear
little fountains." sometimes "pretty
fountains." and sometimes they were
even called "darling little fountains."
' They never seemed to be weary.
They loved their spraying, tumbling
llttje game.
They played all the time. They en
Joyed their gentle, water life in the
square.
"We play," they said, as they tum
bled, "our own favorite game. 'v It In
always the same game.
"We never weary of-lt.
"We can keep on playing It day
after day, day after day, with Just as
much Interest.
?'An old game doesn't tire us. Each
time we do the same trick we are just
as Interested us the last time.
"Sometimes when fountains are still
they are taking a rest. IJut when they
are playing they always play with Just
the same spirit. Some have more
power than others but that doesn't
matter.
"They never pla.v: In a half-hearted
fashion, or a half-spraying fashion as
one might say If one were a fountain.
"That is why you may depend upon
It that when a fountain is playing It
Is playing in a happy way and not
In a sulky manner.
'A fountain never sulks. Maybe It
a fountain should sulk people wouldn't
say 'playing fountains,' and the ex
pression Is so lovely that no fountain
will ever do anything to stop people
from using It.
"Either a fountain rests entirely or
It plays happily."
People in the square used to say:
"What pretty little sounds the foun
tains make when they play."
They were the sounds nor only of
the fountains at play but of the foun
tains talking playfully at out play!
Electricity and Gas
Sammie. watching his mother comb
her hair, "Ain't we funny folks?"
Mother?Wby?
Sammie?'Cause you've got elec
tricity in your hair and grandma has
gas in her stomach.
, * ?
HER REASONING
' ( '? ' ' O V
A man wanted to learn boxing, but
his wife wanted hlin to take up fenc
ing Instead.
"But, my dear," he argued, "If 1
were attacked I shouldn't have my
foils with me."
"Well," she answered, trlumphant
ly. "you might not have your box
ing gloves with you either."?Tit-Bits.
Time
As the train entered the long tun
nel a drummer breezed Into .the smok
ing compartment
"Lots of kissing going *on back
there," remarked the drummer cheer
ily.
Whereupon several husbands made
hasty exits.
SAFETY FIRST
lieggie?Uli, Unit you could be with
me in the many flights of thought I
take on my highest mental plane!
Miss Sharpe?Flights on u good fflr
plane would appeal to me as much
safer, Mr. Sapp.
Mary's Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb.
Her father shot It dead.
* And now it goes to school with h?r.
Between two chunks of bread.
The Greater Love
"What If I have lox*d another, dear?
Don't you know i* has only prepared
me for the greater, higher love I have
for you?
"That's all right; but how do I
know that the love you now have for
me isn't preparing you for a greater,
higher love" for someone else?"
That Much
i Two schoolmates met after many
years.
"Yes, Myrtle," admitted one, "I mar
ried a poor man. Right now I bare
; only one hat."
VAt any rate you don't have to
^w/rry about what to wear."
Prima Facie Evidence "
Jean?1 think Helen is going to an
nounce her engagement to Jack to
night
Jane?Did she tell you she was?
Jean?No; hut see how uncomfort
able Jack looks.
: Real Economy
He?But don't you cook much more
for dinner thun we use, darling?
She?Of course, silly! If I dldn'
how could I economize by making left
over dishes??Windsor Magazine.
Try, Try, Again
"A resolute man can accomplish al
most anything."
"Except keeping his hair from fall
ing out."
BEHIND AND AFTER HIM
"Tom says lie 1ms u number of citi
zens behind bim In his business oper
ations." ?
"Yes?trying to catch up with him.
1 hear."
Mutt Wash Dishes
The blushing bride soon finds
That being Mrs.
Means ma is not around
To do the dishes
Maybe Not
"What's that you say about golfT*
"I say It doesn't seem to Inspire a?
mueh poetry as baseball."
Ho, Ham t
"Gosh! I heard a tiresome talk last
night," remarked the first radio nut.
"Why didn't you tune out and fry
for some other station?" asked the
second dlita
"No chance. Station WIFE was do
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"And your age Is??" asked th?
woman lawyer. ..
"Oh, about the same as yours," im
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Working class and middle claBS
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Mr. Brown looked up from his eve
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Farmers of Jugoslavia prefer Amer
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For 78 Year*
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WOMAN'S BACK
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1 Suffered Three Years. Re
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Senator Cameron was analyzing at
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, "So the business men who are try
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"The medico was dashing along at
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