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Show Dispute Grows Up on Eskimo Clothing; Blame White Man's Garb for Tuberculosis Neb., has spent several summers among the Eskimos of the upper Hudson bay country. He reports that the natives showed a fondness for the white man's clothing. At one time he wanted to take a picture of an Eskimo woman In her native garb. "Wait till I change my clothes," she said. Running into her igloo, she returned wearing white woman's wom-an's apparel. Study of health conditions among the Eskimos of Alaska has led Dr. Victor E. Levine, Creighton univer-sity univer-sity professor, to disagree with a senator that the high death rate from tuberculosis Is due to the natives' na-tives' wearing white men's clothing, writes an Omaha United Press correspondent. cor-respondent. The chairman of the Senate Indian In-dian Affairs committee, on returning return-ing from an inspection trip of Alaska, Alas-ka, 'declared that the natives have taken to "silk stockings, calico dresses and white man's clothes instead in-stead of warm furs." Dr. Levine says that the Eskimo uses the white man's clothing only in the short summer months. "In this respect he is very sensible," sensi-ble," he said. "In the long winter months he wears his native fur clothing." The death rate among the Eskimos Eski-mos was stated in a study made by Dr. F. S. Fellows, past assistant surgeon general of the United States Health service. Dr. Fellows reported report-ed that the death rate due to tuberculosis tuber-culosis among the Indians and Eskimos Es-kimos was 655 for 100,000, against 57 for 100,000 in the United States. Rev. W. H. Hunter, of Benson. |