The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 01, 1927, Image 8
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TRADE BETWEEN
! INDIANS SHOWN
Relics Reveal Barter by
Tribes Separated by Geo-
i graphical Barriers.
Baltimore, Md.—That Uade rela
tions existed between the prehistoric
Indian groups in America, though they
yere separated by geographical bar
riers and tribal enmities*- is further
evidenced in a collection of archeolog
ical objects from the Columbia river
valley, in the state of Washington, ob-
taimHI by the Smithsonian institution.
The relics were gathered and are
now being classified by Herbert 'W.
at the
Smith-
T
Krieger, curator of ethnology
National museum,L under the
Son am.
Among the artifacts found, by Mr.
Kiicger at the ancestral homes de-
tern d by tl»e Columbia river Indians^
more than IdO years ago, are catllnite
pipes from Minnesota and pipes from
the Pueblo region in the Southwest ^
ubalone slieil charms from Alaska; ha-*
Jiotis shells from southern California,
and dentalium beads from the Pacific
COJJSt
Establish Link.
The type of subterranean house la
Identical with that to be found In
Alaska,-the Aleutian islands, and Si
beria, it i* said. Yet the Columbia
river Indians had no means of trans
portation to take them over the moun
tains and they were held to the river
for tliefr food supply. As a tribe they
were nonmigratory, but individuals
made casual trips for trading and
liuhting purposes.
Mr. Krieger’g study, It is announced,
bas established the link which has
been missing to show the continuity
of culture among the early inhabitants
of America from British Columbia to
the Pueblo tribes of the Southwest
Customs sifted through from one com
munity to another, much as the In
dians themselves spread, no doubt. It
Is said, from Asiatic ancestors who
drifted .in ages ago.
That, the Columbia river Indians es
tablished themselves in the valley be-
fort* the time of the domestication of_
the pig, shqep and horse In Asia, be
fore the invention of the wheel or the
cultivation of cereals, seems evident,
it Is said, from the reconstruction of
their civilisation.
Master Stone Workers.
The Columbia mer valley, was
thickly settled, possibly the most pop
ulous Indian center of early times, ac
cording to M/. Krieger. For 500
miles, from the Dalles in Oregon to
the Canadian border, the. campsites
and bnrial grounds line the river
bank*. . *
These Indians were masters of the
pione. worker’s art, according to the
Smithsonian collection. They culti
vated only tobacco and got their food
from the river.and from roots. The
dead were cremated with their pos
sessions, or buried in cemeteries on
Islands in the river.
Samples of the picture writing prac
ticed by the Indians abound. The
markings are about - one-half inch
deep, usually made in columns of
basalt.
Animals, such as sheep, goats,<-deer,
and elk, were commonly represented;
also the human figure; conventional
design*, such as the risiag sun, and
mnemonic or memory writing, con
sisting of arbitrary signs understood
by the members of the tribe. The"
writing was apparently more a means
of artistic expression than a method
for conveying thought, according to
Mr. Krieger.
. . Find Horae Picture.
- OhTy one picture of a horse bas
been found. It was the introduction
of the horse about 1750 which broke
up this old civilization in the Odam-
bia river valley, for with the horse
the group became mobile. It Is an
Interesting fact, says the announce
ment, that the horee in North America
spread from a nucleus formed by a
few which escaped from t’oronado’s
,troops in 1514.
Members of the Columbia River
Archeological society and others In
terested in antiquities have done
much, it is said, to preserve objects
found in the old graves, villages, and
fishing grounds. Large collections
are in the hands of officials of the
Great Northern railroad and residents
of Walla Walla, Wenatchee, Quincy,
and Seattle, Wash:
HAS HIS Y RETHli:
Domestic Tangles Do . Not Invotvs
Shooting or Expensive Court
Proceedings.
First Advertisement in
London Paper in 1695
London.—What Is believed to be the
first newspaper 'advertisement has
b< en discovered in the files of' a Lon-
*don newspaper. ,.lt is exhibited at the
j fidvertisin&E^xliibittfm and convention
'held in IjontfolL-during July,
j The ad is from a newspaper called
i “A Collection for Improvement of
, Husbandry and Trade,” published In
j London, December 13, 1GD5. It reads
follows:
1 “A Commander of a very good mer-
' chant ship wants an apprentice that
bath his Pen well, and understands
Arithmetick to assist him in the keep
ing of Books and doing of Business,
•nd hath Friends vrtio will be bound
for hia true and faithful Service dur
ing hi* Apprenticeship.”
LOs Angeles, Calif.—Travel articles
illustrated with photographs of Afri
can natives clothed in little or noth
ing have created an impression that
these natives are immodest; on the
contrary, they actually wear more
clothes than most American girls.
E. K. Gade, cotton glnner from l5ar
es Salaam, German East Africa, made
this comment at the Biltmote on the
popular conception of the Swahili
women in his country. These women
actually are quite shy and modest in
the cities where they mingle with
crowds, he said. They wear a thin
shawl that covers them from neck to
agkies as -a general thing, and they
are as fond of gaudy colors as gypsies,
lie declared.
Back In the jungles where the ne
groes live by themselves without min
gling with the whites, the native men
and women appear as they do in the
travel pictures, he said. And here he
had another observation to make on
a popular fallacy. Many people de
fending present dress of women have 14.
declared that familiarity with legs
causes them to lose their attraction
and have pointed to the scantily-clad
Africans as proof of their statement.
These negroes are very moral and
faithful to their spouses, they say.
All wrong, says Mr. Gade. The ne
groes are not moral, but he hastened
to add that he doesnT lay the blame
to the lure of the legs for this condi
tion. Men there bay their wIvm, pay
ing perhape $25 for them, and they
look on them as property, not as
sweethearts. Frequently tba wife la
ter meets some man who attracts her
and poor hubby is forgotten.
Does he get out the old bow and
arrow or spear and rid the tribe of
the home wrecker? Not a bit of It,
says Mr. Gade. He goes back to the
girl’s papa and gets his $25 back.
But with all Iti Interesting features,
Africa la a disappointment to one who
is seeking to develop a country, Mr.
Gade said. He has lived there for 21
years and declares that progress there
is so slovf as to be almost negligible.
Gade declared he has sold most of his
interests there and plans to locate in
the United States or'England. He is
In Los Angeles visiting bis brother,
Svend Gade, * motion-picture director..
Hunger Conquers Fear
in Park Deer Herds
Washington. — Hunger is future’s
common denominator.
It tames the wildest deer and
brings the stately elk to feed on man
made hay.
In the Kaibab reservation 50,000
deer ^dart from man’s approach in
summer, for Montana grass is green
and their appetites are appeased. Yel
lowstone’s 16,000 elk stamp in regal
fright when the national part: Is ver
dant.
But winter comes, and with it for
age is^ curtailed. Starvation stalks
the flferds." Deer over-reach the Kai
bab food supply, nor can they move
out. for tiie Grand canyon halts them
on one side and a desert on the other.
The wild state wavers, and the deer
turn to human friends.
All summer Uncle Sam bas mowed
alfalfa for his hungry wards. They
^cotne for it for food and survive the
winter.
The Chronicle does not necessarily
endorse or commend all of Mr. Brils*
bane’s views and conclusions. .His ed
itorials are published as expressions
of opinions of the World’s highest sal
aried editor.
ALAS, POOR BEARS
FOR CHILDLESS MOTHERS
THIS CHANGING WORLD
HERE TO STAY
Three hundred thousand dollars is
bid for a New York Stock Exchange
seat. The price moved up $130,000 this
year, only a beginning.
Stock Exchange seats go up with
stock prices. The public is always a
bull.
Poor Wall street bears!
Virgil Jordan, chief economist of
the National Industrial Conference
board, tells the Railway Business
sociation:
as-
that will make 1925 and 1926 look like
a depression.
“Business expansion in 1928 and
later will strain our transportation
facilities and credit resources to - the
limit, and put the powers of the Fed
eral Reserve system to a real test.”
The average citizen will say:
“Amen, let .’the expansion expand.”
This news, if confirmed, will lighten
the hearts of many women. Dr. Ma-
gian of Manchester, a scientist of
standing, says that by an operation in
gland transplanting it has been made
possible for hitherto childless women
to bear children. 'Only those who
know the intense sorrow of a woman,
married and childless, can realize what
this means.
The world accepts changes as they
come. Not long ago crusaders in New
York tried to prevent bicycle riding by
women, called immodest, luringJadies
too far from the house. Now IRy go
1,000 miles in motors, or try to fly
over the ^cean.
Next, aldermen decided that women
must be forbidden to smoke in public
restaurants. Now the big Pennsyl
vania railroad puts ladies’ smoking
cars on its first-class trains from New
York to Washington.
iSlevertheless, women should not
smoke until they are* through with
child bearing. Each child should have
half a chance, and gets it, no matter
what his father may do, when his
Holland Refuses to
Yield on Cleanliness
Zaandam, Holland.—Many quaint
country traditions are passing in Hol
land with the widespread adaptation
of modern agricultural methods. But
scrupulous cleanliness Is not one of
them. It still is literally true that
many cow stables in Holland are car
peted.
The windmills which used to pump
the water for much of the scrubbing
that goes or/ are disappearing, how
ever. A national aociety for the pres
ervation of windmills recently sprung
up to counteract the tendency of
hard-headed Dutchmen to allow their
windmills to fall down for lack of re
pairs, once they discovered that It
was cheaper to use motors.
Refers to Dress
New York.—Green chartreuse Is to
• be popular In the spring. It’s a shade
t fior Tnilady’a clothes. The forecast is
Biade by Mias Margaret H. Rorke,
^textile color expert, just back from
.|>»rifl.
Lovely Son! v
White Plains, N. Y.—Paul Mateyoke
was sentenced to four years in Sing
Sing by County Judge Bieakley for
beating Ids mother and forcing her to
live in a chicken coop In the rear of
their home.
1 11H +-H-1-H -H I I I 1 1-H -M1 I H
Beauty Patients Give
House Mysterious Air
London. — London has its
“mystery house,” little more
than a mile from Piccadilly, out
toward the open country. After
nightfall mysterious veiled fig
ures-may be seen issuing from
the house and wandering about
the neighboring parks.
These figures are not ghosts.
The house Is the headquarters
of a famous "beauty specialist.
While women patients are In
course of having their faces
altered they do not permit them
selves to be seen abroad in day-' •;
light Fresh air, however. Is !!
necessary, and at night they ;;
stroll about the purlieus of the *!
private hospital, hooded *nd
mysterious. “■ t| j
h-hi n 11 m i m nm m i-;
mother doesn’t smoke or
liquor before he is bom
Hans Lagenseth, who died «ct eighty-
two with a.beard seventeen feat long
had claimed the world's long beard-
championship. He did something bet
ter than anybody else, yet no One made
"a beaten path to his door” on this
earth. '
However, when Gabriel calls us all,
his beard, longer than anybody’s, will
probably attract attention and amaze
the beardless angels.
Generally speaking, we axe prosper
ous, those willing to work get along.
But Mrs. Hildegar Wywias did not
find it so. She struggled for five years
with four children, -feeding, clothing,
paying rent, washing, cooking and
working as a “garment presser” for
$25 a week. She sqorched one expen
sive dress. That took a week's pay.
Each month the rent took a week’s
pay.
Prosperous America was not pros
perous enough for Mrs. Wywias. She
broke the gas meter, opened all the
jets, then knelt by the bed where her
five-year-old son was sleeping, her
three little girls asleep nearby.
All were dead, when found, with no
more rent or food, bills to pay. There
is still room at the BOTTOM for those
that would make conditions better,
Birth control and publishing infor
mation about it are approved by Brit
ain’s “National Council of Public Mor-
als.” -
* A great industrial boom is coming^ ^ Theoretically, women should have
the right to decide how many children
they will have.
But it is well that understanding of
birth control has been postponed. It
might have prevented the arrival of
Napoleon and Carlyle, and surely
would have prevented the arrival of
Caruso, a nineteent^child.-
Mrs. Peabody, head of the Women’s
Committee for Law Enforcement, says
“ten million women are not only talk
ing and praying, but working to re
tain prohibition, and see that it is en
forced.”
They need not work or pray to keep
prohibition in the Constitution; noth
ing can get it out.
As for enforcement, there is room
for much working and praying in that
direction.
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