COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1924
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COUNTY COURT CONSIDERING
the reason given being that it
REINSTATING COUNTY AGENT was necessary to cut taxes. The
ORE SMUGGLING IS
INDIAN DANCES
VIRTUALLY STOPPED
LIKE REVIVALS
county court will wait to hear
It is possible that Laue county from the grange and farmers* union
may again have a county agent, organizations before acting, but it
The Lions' club of Eugene has is probable that $2000 will be put
taken the matter before the county into the next budget as salary for
Buyer* Muit Try to Learn Ancient Ceremonie* Are —wrt and it is known that the a county agent, which will put the
Auniissioners favor the county proposition up to the annual tax­
Source of Metal.
Mostly Religious in Nature. agent idea, The former commis- payers ’ meeting.
sioners abolished the office over
Denver.—The game of "hlghgrad-
Washington, D. O.—Indian ceremo­ the protests of numerous orgaulza-
Hold a regular position by having
lng," which has been an annoyance to nials are rarely understood by other Lions and citizvns of the county. an ad every week.
the mining of precious metal* through­ races, and consequently the In­
out the world, has been virtually dian rites and dances have often been
stopped In Colorado mining campa unjustly criticized, says J. N. B. Hewitt
during the last nlue years as a result of the Smithsonian Institution.
of the efforts of special agents work-
The white man Is extremely gullible
ITH every set of Firestone Balloon
Ing under the direction of the aecre- when It conies to believing fantastic
tary of state In enforcing the Ore tales about the red man. It Is no rare
Gum-Dipped Cord Tires, we give you a
Buyers' act passed by the Colorado occurrence for a witness to appear at
complete set of Firestone Changeover Wheels.
assembly tn 1915.
A liberal allowance will be made for your
a congressional hearing and to testify
The term "hlghgradlng” came from regarding the evils of Indian dances
old tires.
the practice originating In the theft and later to admit that he has never
This is a special inducement for immediately
and sale of hlgh-gi^de metal ores by seen the objectionable rites.
equipping your car with Balloon Gum-Dipped
miners and the subsequent conversion
Furthermore, the white man must
Cords and getting the added comfort, safety
of the ores Into gold and silver bul­ plead guilty to a lack of sympathetic
and economy these wonderful tires give.
lion for sale to the United States Imagination when he observes the In­
mines. Colorado mine owners had dian. Aside from some ethnologists,
You will get the advantage of increased tire
tried In every conceivable way to put people who do attend Indian ceremo­
mileage—decreased gasoline consumption—
a stop to the practice, but apparently nies generally see only the gyratlous
and lower car upkeep, proved by 5,300,000
without success, according to their re­ of painted savages. Sometimes they
miles of carefully checked service tests and the
ports to the authorities.
cannot refrain from showing their
actual experience of over 100,000 car owners.
Change Rooms Installed.
amusement and scorn. Sometimes they
Some mines operating with extreme­ offend the Indians seriously.
Balloon Gum-Dipped Cords allow you to
ly
valuable
veins
Installed
“
change
drive at higher speeds over the rough stretches
One man who was present at a
rooms” where workmen were required Navajo snake dance grew righteously
without danger or discomfort. They expand
to change clothing on entering and Indignant at the sight of venomous
the usefulness of your car day by day and add
leaving the mine, but even this scheme snakes handled by the dancers, who
many months to its life.
Zerolene “F” for Fords, the
was said not to have been entirely even placed them In their mouths.
Motorists everywhere are getting Balloons
effective as the certain small percent­ When one of the reptiles was luld on
Standard Oil Company’s new oil for
NOW—as a short cut to lower car operation
age of dishonest miners managed to the ground the visitor Impulsively took
Ford cars, was for the first time
find some way to smuggle ore outside. a soda pop bottle and tried to kill It.
and increased service. Bring in your car today
The Ore Buyers’ act, passed after The white man was the Indians' guest,
drawn from the pumps at garages
—we will make changeover promptly at sur­
a bitter struggle between the Mine but the sr.ake represented some re­
prisingly low cost.
and at Standard Oil Company Ser­
Owners' association and alleged “high- ligious symbol to the daucers. and it
grading” Interests, provides that buy­ was for the time being an objeet of
vice Stations and offered to the pub­
ers of precious metals must be 11- veneration. Guest as he was, the rash
lic about the middle of last December.
censed by the state and niust poet a outsider Jeopardized his life.
bond of $5,000 for the faithful ob-
Show Reverence to Nature.
The response of the motoring
servance of the act. The law requires
Mr. Hewitt says that the ceremonies
such a buyer to make a diligent effort
public was immediate and over­
to learn where the vendor acquired of the Indian are tncorrectly called
whelming. Today Zerolene “F”
his ore and with what authority he Is pagan. No people have held a more
reverent attitude toward nature and
selling It.
for
Fords is the most popular
the Master of Life than the Indians,
Penalty for Falsifying.
be
says.
By
their
symbolism
they
oil
on
the market for Ford lub­
Otvlng false Information to a buyer
Is made a punishable offense. In this built up a system of associations, so
rication.
way the special agents have been able that when they saw the full moon or
to check the activities of unauthor­ the budding trees, the ripe corn or
Lubricates “Better—Costs Less
ized sellers. The virtual bottling up the forest animals, they thought of the
of the illicit market is said to have legends and the significance of those
The verdict of users verifies the claims of
AMERICA SHOULD PRODUCE ITS OWN RUBBER .
had the effect of stopping almost en­ things In life. Considering their “lack
our Research Engineers that Zerolene
of
advantages
”
{he
Indians
put
Into
tirely the surreptitious removal of ore.
words
an
astonishing
amount
of
truth
”F” for Fords meets the special require­
Since the law was adopted the num­
in Oregon. Oregon*s scenery, as a condition before they can be used ber of licensed ore buyers In the state regarding their universe.
ments
of the Ford lubricating system
PRUNES ARE SHIPPED EAST,
The Indian regards the tribal rltea
THERE TO BE SOLD AS PLUMS background for outdoor pictures, is to advantage. The exeriment sta­ has decreased from 32 to T.
better
than
any other oil.
with
;he main asset in the eyes of a mo­ tion has been experimenting with
Definite enforcement of the statute and all the symbols that goes
Between 400 and 500 tons of tion picture man.
this particular type of soil this dates from 1917. when eight of twelve them with the same respect that any
Yet it costs not more but less than any
4 4 This is of especial importance summer and has found that by
green prunes were shipped out of
other race feels toward Its religious
Lane county this year, largely to since, in my opinion, the big day proper drainage 40 bushels of bar alleged “hlghgradera” were given observances. A typical feast Is the
of
the special Ford oils on the market
prison sentences of two years each.
«‘astern points. By the time they of the clean outdoor picture is ley to the acre can be raised.
At the trial more than a score of min­ Iroquois planting ceremony, which
reach the east they are ripe enough coming in the near future. The
A Longer Life for Your Ford
ers testified that they had sold ore« takes place In the spring. The women
to go on the market as plums. On pex film is about dead. People are EUGENE-LORANE HIGHWAY
and girls dramatize the planting proc­
account of the dry season, prunes tired of that sort of trash. The
WORK IS TO BE RUSHED to the accused men.
We
believe
that Zerolene "F” far Fords
have ripened this year about three best way to fill an American thea­
The successful operation of the esses and sing the songs descriptive of
each.
Men
of
the
tribe
preach
and
weeks earlier than usual. Shipments ter today is to have a real live
will
increase
gasoline mileage, reduce
Decision to push through to com Colorado law has brought about the
to the east of the green fruit were outdoor picture on the screen.’*
pletion the Eugene-Lorane highway passage of similar laws In other west­ tell the others to treat one another
carbon
removal
operations, and lengthen
stopped a few days on account of
kindly, to avoid lying and gossip, to
has been reached by the county ern states.
the rain and have now stopped ADAPTABILITY OP SOIL OF
the working life of every Ford in which
court and definite plans nnnounceil
live peaceably and to be thankful
entirely because the fruit has be-
COUNTY BEING LEARNED for the start of one mile of work
for their blessings.
it is used.
come too ripe. Prune growers re­
at the end of the existing eoni- Broke in Argentina,
There Is always a feast and dancing
port some difficulty in securing
This mile is
Lane county has over one hun­ pleted maeadam.
A Ford in an A-l transportation
enough pickers. The crop is a dred types of soil, according to around the mountain four miles
He Scrub* Way Home at the close of all festivals. They be­
lieve that the Master of Life, seeing
fairly good one but not out of E. Q. Carpenter, who with V. G. from Lorane and offers a better
in
veatment. Protect your investment
New
York.
—
Benjamin
D.
Short,
Jolly
the ordinary.
Young is testing the land in the grade aad a shorter route by al- 220-pounder, hl« palm« calloused from the people dance, knows that Ills chil­
by proper lubrication.
dren are content with what He has
county in 10-ncre tracts for its pos­ most half a mile.
massaging the decks of a liner during
OREGON HAS BACKGROUND
sibilities and deficiencies, These
The court expressed itself HH
done for them, and so He is pleased.
FOR OUTDOOR PICTURES men have gone over about half the pleased with the way in which it Its voyage from Buenos Aires, smiled It Is all the Indians' way of render­
county, principally in the northern received cooperation in the matter Jovially as he helped lower the gang­ ing thanksgiving.
of right-of-way. The construction plank on which his wife, Mrs. Alice
Oregon has great possibilities an and eastern sections.
Outsiders not knowing the language
Mr. Carpenter has said that the job will pass through four farms. K. Short, and other passengers de­
i setting for motion pictures, ac­
h
and symbolism, are apt to conclude
(California)
cording to Howard Webster, mo- furmers seem much interested in Each of the land owners sold what barked here.
ion picture star, who is making the survey and a great deal of cultivated land was needed by the
‘‘The long and short of It Is," said that the Indians are holding a gay
iersonal appearances at a Eugene good is expected from the bulletin county for its roadbed for only Mr. Short, unable to repreas a smile, party, while, as Mr. Hewitt points out,
beater.
which will be published as »eon ns $50 an acre and gave the brush “that the Shorts were short of cash, If we compare the occasion to some­
Mr. Webster stated that it is the work is completed and tabula­ land.
Í
so I came up as one of the crew and thing In our own civilization, it Is
Is belief that, if an honest film tions made at the experiment sta­
Mrs. Short ate her way up. I'm not more accurate to compare It to a re­
Rising Through His Handicaps.
foducer would start things by tion at Corvallis.
lining an important picture in
Although he wns born in Dublin afraid of work, and, besides, I was— ligious meeting.
The types of soils found far ex­
Maska Often Misunderstood.
regon, the big producers in Cali- ceed the number in other counties of a famous literary family and was—too fat."
rnia would be shown the virtues where surveys have been made. educated for his profession in Ger
Use of hideous masks by certain
Mr. Short Is an employee of the
the state and would make more The hill soils seem to be mostly many, Victor Herbert, who died Buenos Aires office of the Standard tribes Is a typical source of misunder­
e of it.
of sedimentary origin nnd it is recently at the age of 64. devel­
standing among white people. The
14 It is my ambition to produce suggested that what is known as oped into the most distinguished Oil company and returned there only masks do not represent the Indians*
a
few
months
ago
after
a
visit
to
his
tns myself,Mr. Webster said, our white lands are rich in pro­ composer of light music in the
nd if my ambition is ever roal- ductive power but- need drainage United States.—Editoiial in the parents in St. Louis, which took most Idea of beauty, as many people believe,
of his spare cash. Soon after hla re­ but represent the seven winds which
d. I hope to stage my first one
New York Sun.
turn his mother and father died—with­ bring diseases. Each type of mask
in a month of each other- and he had suggests the face of the victim of the
disease brought by that wind.
to return to settle their estate.
On New Year's day masked men go
Although he cabled his attorney In
St. Louis for a $1,000 advance, he was Into each wigwam and put out the
told he would have to appear person­ fire, clean away the ashes and light
ally to collect, so he became an able- ceremonially a new fire. This Is not
a senseless rite. The ashes of the
bodied seaman.
THE OREGON STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
old fire have collected waste materials
■nd germs for some months, and clean­
Offer*
Bulgarian Swallow Bring*
ing the fireplace Is a health measure.
Back Message From India
There Is no doubt that some dances
Sofia.—Two swallows of the spring of primitive tribes have Included prac­
have brought replies to messages they tices which the white man regards as
IRE building took a big step for­
carried when they flitted for warmer reprehensible. The Indians' practice
climes last autumn. Ivan Stefanoff, a of slashing themselves and one an­
ward when the makers of United
lu the several pursuit* and profession* in life
school teacher of a nearby village, other with knives during the sun dance
States Tire* invented the Latex Process.
wrote a message In French reading has been criticized. So has the reck­
through the following school* and department*
"Greetings from wronged and unhap­ less handling of snakes, both harm­
The added strength and wearing
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py Bulgaria,” and fastened ft under less and venomous, at the anuke
(Art, English, public speaking, modern language*,
the wing of a swallow that nested In dance. Charges of Immorality In con
quality given by Latex-treated cords
the eves of his bouse. When the birds ■action with some rites have also been
history, and the Hcience*.) Providing the foundation
is something that the user of Royal
returned recently he noticed one bad a made.
1 raining upon which technical specialization is built.
The Indians themselves eay that
wrapping on Its leg and 'apturlng It
Cords can tell you about from his
THE TEN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS
few, If any daucers, cut themselves
he found tlie following written In Eng
own experience.
Agriculture 13
llah: “Good times will come for us, now In the sun dance. The Idea back
Commerce 4 deparment*
the wronged and Ill-treated of the city of the cutting was to show courage.
(B.S., M.S.
(B.S. degree)
Royal Cords are the standard of
of Melanl, India. Feb. 18.“
Sixteen officials of a Pueblo tribe
Forestry
2 department*
Engineering 7
Another experimenter received a recently denied the Implication of Im­
value in cord tire equipment—even
(B.S.,
M. S., degree*)
(B.S.,
M.S.,
more romantic reply to a message sim­ moral practices In their ceremonials
more certainly today than ever before.
Mine« 3 department*
ilarly dispatched. He is an official In by saying: “Our dances are drama,
Home Economic* 5 dep’t*
(B.S. degree)
Haskovo and hla swallow brought him opera and poetry. The womanhood of
And this hold« good whether you are
(B.S., M.S., degree*)
Vocational Education
5
the following from Medina. Arabia: our pueblo are as sacred to us as the
considering a High-Prewure Tire, a Balloon-
depart in ent*
"We beautiful daughters of Mohammed symbolic dance we are trying to de­
Pharmacy
—
Ty pe Tire to fit your present wheel* and rim«,
sigh for endearing words and careaM*, fend and preserve.”
(B.S., M.S., degree*)
(B.S., I’h.C. degree*)
Ghul Fattae. wife of Hassan Bey.**
Military Science and Tac
This «tatement was made In a pe
or a Balloon Tire for a 20 or 21 inch wheeL
Chemical Engineering—
tics five unit*
tltlon that the ancestral dances
(B.S. degree)
might continue without Interference
(B.S. degree)
Change to Be Made in
from the government.
The training include* phy*ical education, industrial
Twelve Shipboard Craft
The Indian Is said to be losing
journalism, social science*, and music, Entrance and
Washington.—Immediate conversion hla racial identity, but rneny tribee
of an Initial group of 12 shipping board etill cling to the ancestral faith and
graduation requirement* are standard. Through the
cargo vessels to OioMi-propnlled types caranonlaa.
usual rating organization* the College i* accredited to
la planned by the board, wboee experts
the beat graduate school* in America. Student life is
have been studying for several months
exceptionally well organized to develop ideal* of leader­
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volve an expenditure of $9fi.ff>).000, the
Milford. Dai.—After a battle at
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l’or illustrated booklets and specific information write to
this purpose Preet dent Goolldge has two boats, a young whale, 16 feet long
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