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...lift the eating standards of the 20th Century Soviet people from stinking fish to somewhere near the standards of American sharecroppers, has been the achievement of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan. In the '305 he visited the U.S., brought back to Russia the Eskimo...
...second feature, "Nanook of the North" has returned. This classic Robert J. Flaherty documentary of a generation ago still surpasses a lot of current professional films. The simple portrait of an Eskimo family and its struggle against the snow and ice of the Arctic is enlivened further by the obvious enjoyment Nanook himself found in front of the camera. You can learn something from this picture, even if you're not interested in building an igloo or harpooning a seal through the ice. A "March of Time" feature about Broadway's current troubles rounds out the Exeter bill...
Alas, the Eskimo Curlew. Most extreme of the Neo-Malthusian scare books is Vogt's Road to Survival. Vogt is an ornithologist, once editor of Bird Lore, who (to quote the book's jacket) "became interested in the relationship of man to his environment through his studies of bird behavior." Now chief of the Conservation Section of the Pan American Union, he still seems to care as much for "wildlife" (especially birds but including bighorn sheep) as he does for the .human species...
Again & again he yearns for the "lost song" of the extinct Eskimo curlew, "a Mozart of the prairies," and all through the book he develops the idea that men cannot live happily and permanently on the planet except in "ecological" balance with "the wildlife." In many cases, he thinks, this balance can be restored only by drastic reduction of human population (100 million Americans would be about right). According to Vogt, medical men who keep people from dying, upset nature's balance; if more people died there would be more room for mountain lions...
...there, the brains are there. If he uses his head he can eat hearty-indefinitely. He might even produce enough to help out Dr. Vogt's friends, the woodland caribou, the Florida manatee, the wolverine and the bighorn sheep. Unfortunately nothing can be done for the extinct Eskimo curlew...