Dayton tribune., July 21, 1922, Image 5

Wonderful Photograph of the Thames at Night
Alaskan Natives
Mourn Kilbuck
AUTOMATIC LIGHTHOUSE
tundras—prey to wolves and wild dogs
and equally unscrupulous 'breeds.' ”
With the first word of the thaw
they took a steamer out of Seattle.
They arrived none too soon, Influ­
enza already was taking Its toil. ito!
! they did get there In time to save
i hundreds.
The Kllbucks took up their work
where they had left off uism their de-
From Kansas to Arctic John Hsnry portare for the States. They were
Kilbuck Carried the Gospel, Sav­
Just whipping things Into shape and
ing Lives and Winning Lova
getting comfortably settled for the
last chapter of their life’s book when
of Natives.
pneumonia and typhoid, diseases from j
Juneau.—There Is gloom among the which they had saved thousands of
Uncle Sam's little Indian wards, !
natives In Alaska today.
From Point Barrow—the farthest struck home, In three days Kilbuck .
north—to Metlakatla and Juneau in was «lead.
It was back In 1885 that John Kll- I
the south; from the headwaters of
the Kuskokwim and Yukon down to buck and his white wife arrived in
the sea, is traveling forth the word Alaska. He had just graduated from
that “Kilbuck is dead.” Everywhere the Moravian Missionary school st
the news permeates, there follows sad­ Nszareth, Pa., where he had been 1 New automatic lighthouse recently
ness. Grown men and women among sent by a Christian worker among completed at Barry Holmes Gower,
the Eskimos and Indians grieve like the Kansas Indians.
England. The only attention It needs Is
It took years to gain the confidence to be replenished once In two years
children. All because the "most loved
of the Alaska natives, but patience with chemicals. When the actinic
man beyond 54-40” is no more.
For more than four de<-ades John ; and kindness finally won and now no light value reaches a certain degree It
Henry Kilbuck, Muncie Indian of the * name is better known or more -- beloved
--------- . lights Itself, and when the daylight
old Delaware nation that roamed over < among the Alaska Indians or Eskimos reaches a corresponding degree. It ex-
Pennsylvania before the days of ; than Kilbuck.----------------------------------- ‘tlngulshes Itself.
Washington and William Penn, had I
been intimately associated with the |
Kilnkits and Takus of southeastern -
Alaska, or the Eskimos and breed
tribes around ) olnt Barrow. With
his pale-face wife I.e was guardian,
counselor, spiritual guide and friend.
Will Not Forgst Him.
But the country which John Kilbuck
played such an important part in de­
veloping will not forget him. The
thousands of reindeer that roam the English Woman Novelist Learns matter of coarse. I know the cookery
recipes now as to the best methods of
tundras under the watchful eye of
Ways
of
New
Guinea
Epicures
preparing human food.
forever
their native shepherds, will
Huge Stove Oven Used.
remind the natives of him. It was
During Long Sojourn.
“In one part of the country there is
Kilbuck who, at the request of the
a stone oven six feet long dug Into
United States government. Introduced
a side of a hill for the purpose of
reindeer propagation in Alaska, and
dealing
with the victims. The Inhab­
by so doing he banished the specter
itants of one village may attack an­
of famine that periodically wiped out
other. The prisoners are tortured ter­
entire tribes when the hard times
came and the winters closed In before j Says Hypnotism Prevails Among Na­ ribly, and then eaten. One method Is
to take out their eyes and then roast
they were prepared.
tives to An Extent Appearing In­
the
body alive in the traditional three-
Akjak and Bethel, both founded by
credible—Position of Women
legged caldron. The cannibals break
the Moravian missionary, some day
Is Deplorable.
the bones and legs of their victims be­
may grow Into flourishing cities when
forehand sometimes, and then let the
Alaska comes into Its own. And they
London.—Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, body lie in a running stream, which
will cherish his memory.
the well known novelist, who has been method, they believe, makes the meat
Doings of missionaries, ns a rule, 15 years in the Soutn Sea islands, has
more tender. The odd feature of it
make rather tame reading. But the returned from New Guinea. As an all is that the most determined canni­
activities of John Kilbuck and his indication of the wilderness and the bals are extremely well-mannered, and
wife were not conlired to strictly spir­ unknown character of the vast tracts in all other respects are the best work­
itual things.
of territory comprising that country ers you can find. As to whether can­
Four different times did the Kll­ she mentioned that quite recently the nibalism springs from the love of hu­
bucks go “below” with the Intention missionaries, with the aid of airplanes, man flesh or is merely a ritual one
of spending their declining years in had discovered a valley containing 10,- cannot say. I think the cannibals real­
tiie States. And four times they went 000 people whose existence had not ly like the human flesh. But you can­
back. The call was irresistible.
aven been suspected. They were found not get them to talk about it.
The last time—it was to have been to be living at an altitude where It
"Sorcery has a remarkable hold on
different. With all the best intentions, was imagined that human life could the people in this country, and the
accentuated by memories of past fail­ not endure. She had a wonderful sto­ occult powers that are displayed can
ures to keep good resolutions—the ry to tell of her experiences. To a only be regarded by white people as
pioneer torchbearers of civilization re­ representative of the Evening Standard amusing. The natives even have a
solved to spend their declining years she said:
sorcerers’ university where natives aro
near the homes of their forefathers—
“New Guinea is one of the most taught for a period of two years.
on the Chippewa Indian reservation noteworthy countries in the world, Sorcerers can carry poisonous and
down in Kansas.
and a great deal of It has never been dangerous snakes iu their hair, and
Deep down in their hearts, however, explored by white people. Within a can train them to bite people, leaving
they had a “hunch” that the North certain distance the government has them loose In a house, and it Is even
would win. It always had.
done a great deal, but there are possible, It Is said, to make a snake
So the North Won Again.
stretches in which cannibal tribes live bite a particular person. Equally ex­
In their little white and green cot­ to themselves. Many, however, are traordinary are the powers possessed
tage, nestling In the Chippewa hills induced to work on the plantations, by conjurors.
“I believe these natives understand
and overlooking the placid Maruis des and the cannibals are certainly the fin­
Cygnes river in eastern Kansas the est native workers, because of their hypnotism from end to end. They do
Kllbucks were waiting. Walting for physical development and their de­ table-turning with a sort of alligator­
word that the break-up In the Yukon meanor. But cannibalism flourishes, shaped Image. They ask questions of
and Kaskokwim was about to begin. and the people who practice It do not spirits, and see blue lights. This hap­
They had reached their decision.
regard it as wrong. In the interior pens In the Gulf country. The power
“They need us. The influenza has cannibals live to themselves, and it is of hypnotism Is used to an extent
reached Alaska. If it gets into the only when they come under British that seems barely credible, but there
Interior before we do nobody knows jurisdiction that their cannibalistic is no doubt, to my mind, that certain
what will happen. Thousands may tendencies are checked. One gets so natives are believed to hypnotize
perish. Their deer, now numbering accustomed to this question of canni­ whole audiences, and they do it In
thousands, will be cast adrift over the , balism that It Is accepted almost as a one instance by means of a dance of
the most peculiar character.' I have
seen this dance, and the extraordinary
effect of It. The performer apparently
dominates the whole of the room by
his actions. The effect of the dancing
is that hypnosis on a massed scale like»
this can be induced in the wierdest
possible way.
“Several people have tried to inves­
tigate the meaning oí the mind, hut
they have not succeeded. It Is quite
obvious that the natives are saturated
In hypnotism as a result of the prac­
tice of many centuries, which enables
them to do all sorts of things that to
us are always Inexplicable. I do not
admire spiritualism or hypnotism, and
I am rather glad to And that it has its
roots among savages.
“The position of women is deplor­
able. They are tn effect slaves. Mar­
riage is by purchase, and It Is usually
dependent on the number of pigs that
can be offered by the bridegroom to
the bride's parents. The pig. In fact,
is thought to be of very much more
value than the wife.’’
Gloom in the Far Northland Fol
lows Death of Beloved Indian
Missionary.
WILL NOT FORGET HIS WORK
Here ia n mont remarkable view of the Thames nt night, taken during the recent heat wave, when the atmosphère
of the usually foggy city was startlingly clear. On the left bunk uro the houses of parliament.
Uncle Sam Saves
on Office Rents
Government Is I argest Property
Owner in the United
States.
ECONOMY IS THE WATCHWORD
Congress Keeps an Eagle Eye on ths
Government’s Housing Bill—Com­
mission Savos Half-Million In
Rsnts in Thrse Years.
Washington, D. U.—In the vigorous
bunt for more ways of saving a dol­
lar, congress Is keeping an eagle eye
on the government's housing bill. The
government clerk may work In a gran­
ite masterpiece of Greek architecture
that suggests a large and lavish scale
of administration, but the classic edi­
fice is run on a strictly modern, save-
tho-pennlea basis.
The government is the largest prop­
erty owner In the United States. Be­
sides the grout department buildings
Ui Washington, each costing several
million dollars. It owns offices all over
the country. These Include L2C0 post
offices, nuiglng In value from small­
town building worth only a few thou­
sand dollars to the Chicago post office,
which cost more than >5,000,009.
Economy Becomes Watchword.
Economy Is now Ilie watchword In
the management of all this property.
Tuke the stucco buildings which
sprung up to house the army of war
stenographers and filing clerks in the
capital.
About
war workers
huve departed and whole blocks of the
“tempos,” ns the war buildings were
called, have been struck like circus
tents. But some are needed because
Washington still has twice us many
clerks ns In pre-war days.
The tempos near 1’otornuc park
stand on leased land and the lense Is
about to expire.
Furthermore, the
owners «unt a higher rate of rent, nnd
if the government turns the property
back to the owners it must tear down
its stucco buildings nnd even pay for
the structures that stood ou the land
when it took possession.
In this dilemma the government
finds one satisfactory way out. It can
buy the land for >1,590,1X10, about what
three years' rent would cost. Congress
is considering this obviously economi­
cal measure, and approval Is said to
be certain. The temporary buildings
are regarded as good for several years,
nn<l after that the government will still
have the land as a site for permanent
structures.
Buildings Present Problem.
Across the street from some of these
temporary offices Is another govern­
ment problem. Here nre two build­
ings, joined by passageways, which to­
gether make the largest .office build­
ing in the world. They are the Navy
and Munitions bplldlngs.
They con­
tain 1,700,000 square feet ot space and
some of the corridors are 1,500 feet
long.
These record-breaking office build'
Ings are it bone of contention because
they were put up as temporary war
structures. They stand firmly enough
on government-owned ground, but the
land Is a part of Potomac park, and
the city-planning scheme calls for the
removal of the prosaic buildings to de­
velop the park.
The buildings are modern In every
rcsjs'ct and are extremely solid for
temporary construction. If they had
been built across the street on the
lensed ground which the government
is now buying they would have stood
unchallenged ami serviceable for at
least fifteen years to come. They may
stand for years ns it is. The two
buildings together cost more than >7,-
090,000. They bouse several thousand
workers who would have to be pro­
vided for somewhere if the biggest
government'office unit were scrapped.
Commission Put In Chargs.
Economy nnd the city-beautiful idea
are contesting over this situation, nnd
economy has the advantage now. Its
cause being advanced for the govern­
ment by a public buildings commission
at the cnpltol. This commission has
for its ultimate alm the removal of ev-
ery government office In Washington
from rented building space. The De-;
pertinent of Agriculture, which is
housed In 20 different buildings, about
half of which are rented, Is an example
of the problem which confronts the
commission.
The public buildings commission is *
out to save the government money, and
It points proudly to the fact that Its
economy begins at home. It has no,
crew of stenographers, clerks und mes- j
sengers.
Three years ago when It ;
started It Aas given an Initial appro­
priation of >10,000 by congress, and It ।
still lias >1,000 to its credit In the |
bank.
In three years It has saved the gov­
ernment more than half a million doi-
hits in rents by moving bureau* out
of rented buildings Into government-
owned offices. Thus the commlsslon
notes that the Veterans’ bureau per-
sonnet Is shrinking dully and it finds
that there is room in the war risk
building for the entire force of the
alien property custodian. This official
and Ills staff have been occupying a
six-story apartment house at a cost to
the government of >3O,(MX) a year rent.
The commission arranged with the bu-
renu to move and credits itself with
saving the country >30,000.
Lavish Building at an End.
Unless there Is a sharp reaction from
the present tendency toward efficiency
and economy there will be no more
elaborate monumental effects In de­
partment buildings. Slxteen-foot ceil­
ings, fireplaces, thick walls and labori­
ously-carved room decorations such as
are seen about the state, war and navy
building, and other early government
edifices, nre conspicuously absent
from recent government construction.
An example of the old-style ponder-
ousness which characterized the first
federal buildings is found In the gran-
Ite pillars on the treasury facades,
These hug* pillars were quarried In
Maine and shipped to Washington on
sailing vessels. It took 18 oxen and
eight horses to carry each of them to
the building. Time was no obstacle In
those days.
Seventeen years were
spent In constnnRIng the state, war
nnd navy building. The new navy nnd
munitions buildings were run up In
five and a half months.
The state, war and navy building
cost >10,1X10,000 at a time when labor
was cheap. The new buildings
nge about >3.000,000. They have Ionic
and Doric columns and they are shin-
Ingly white, but they nre distinctly
businesslike in appearance. They
Goes Back to Prison
Cell for Forgetting
New York.—For being forget­
ful, Alexander Werchinsky, a
convict, has been returned to
Sing Sing prison us a parole vio­
lator after five months' free­
dom. and will spend two and
onv half years more In prison.
H was originally sentenced to
from two and a half to five
years for alleged assault in
Manhattan.
After serving his
minimum term he was paroled
and released last December 12
with instructions to report reg­
ularly to his parole agent. He
fulled to report and vanished.
When rearrested he said he
Is absent minded and forgot to
make the periodical report.
Gets Recipes
of Cannibals
THEIR MANNERS ARE PRAISED
suggest, rather than imitate, Athens
and old Europe.
Post Office to Be Plainer.
It Is probab^ that the day of the
beautiful, be-columned marble post of­
fice Is past. Since 1913 there has been
no public buildings bill to provide at
one time several hundred post office
buildings for the country. These bills
had very little to do with economy. It
was not uncommon for a town of a
few thousand souls which was repre­
sented by a live congressman, to win a
>40,(MX) post office. Each congressman
voted for the appropriation bill be­
en use It contained some item In which
he was interested and to disapprove
of any clause was to ditch the whole
measure.
Congress «as criticised for this sort
of pork legislation. The most success­
ful post office getters retorted that a
federal building of beauty and dignity
was an Inspiration to the citizens of
a town, and that from that point of
view It was a worth-while investment.
The European war put a stop to such
argument and to the marble-front post
oftices.
A few post offices are still being con­
structed from the provisions of the
1013 bill, but no construction work for
the government is being done in Wash­
ington. Nor is there much prospect
of any new government buildings for
a year or more. The Important ar­
chives building waits only for the word
of congress.
Two recent fires in the treasury
have shown that the old buildings are
not invulnerable, and that documents
of great value stored In them nre far
from safe. But economy is rampant
and It will doubtless be many months
before congress can be persuaded to'
spend money for a building program,
even to insure the safety of the na­
tional records.
Two of Marshal Foch’s Souvenirs
Sun Yat Sen Welcomed at Kweilin
Tree That Grew Apples
Now Produces Cherries
underwood
UNOtRWQÇ
Marshal Foch has gone back to France, carrying with hltn numerous sou­
venirs of his visit to the United States. Among the most prized are the gold
sword presented him by the French institute in the United States, which he is
here seen receiving from President MacDougall Hawke; and the Montana wild­
cat given hltn by a post of the American Legion, shown below.
tree that produced apples
last year and Is filled with clier-
ries this year. Is the unusual
sight on the William Bagley
farm, near Onancock, Del. The
tree was one of several pur-
chased from a nursery, and was
bought for an apple tree. In
every apiiearance it Is an apple
tree. Last year it bore for the
first time three fine apples. This
year the tree is filled with cher­
ries and not a sign of r.n apple.
Snn Yat Sen, head of the government of South China at Canton, may now
be induced to submit to the Peking government, since General Chang, whose
cause he espoused, has been defeated. The photograph shows Dr. Sun being
welcomed oy the citizens of Kweilin after his army took possession of that
city.
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