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Show 00 .CHALLENGES THE . NORTH pOLE MAN Seattle. Wash . Jan 9 Ut. Rev. P. T. Rowe. Protestant Episcopal bishop of Alaska, from the pulpit of SL Marks church yesterday vigorously challenged Captain Robert E Peary's recent assertion In a magazine that it is a mistake to attempt to spread, civilization civi-lization nmong the Eskimos or attempt at-tempt to christianize them "Peary may be an authority on the North Pole, but he is no authority in the matter of religion or morals of a people." said the bishop. 'I know the Eskimos. I have been among them for the last fifteen years, and I have come to the conclusion directly di-rectly opposite to that reached by Captain Cap-tain Peary. Tho Eskimos are fine to teach. They are docile and dependable depend-able and can" be developed into a splendid splen-did mce." nn |