SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
IPAlPA KIMAVS-
Tribe Leaders Denounce Those Who Take Money for
Fake Ceremony of Adoption; Does Not Make
White Man Bona-Fide Tribe Member.
'’I’ULlO CARMINATTI, who made a name for himself on
1 the stage long before lie made one in the movies, made a
few remarks—in a nice way—the other day about those com­
parisons of Garbo to the great Italian actress, Duse.
He is often referred to as ,___________ _____________________
Duse's leading man. As a mat-
timers who still think of him ns a
ter of fact, he explained, he llltle boy.
didn’t come to America with
Duse, and was never her lead­
Freddie Bartholomew, the boy
ing man.
lie did piny pnrts In wonder of “David Copperfield,” I m
some of her productions. and he studying singing with Nelson Eddy.
win cornpnny manager for n while;
he knew her slightly, which was
Bing Crosby reduced hie weight
more than ninny of her managers by Just sixteen pounds after he fin-
did.
lehed ''Mississippi“ and before he
Anil ns for eotnpnrlng Gnrbo with started “Two for Tonight”
her—well, he said Garbo was «
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great actress In her field, hut I >us»*
Apparently we people who listen
was—and then he tind to stop and to broadcasts like to hear movie
fllid words, an does everyone who
Minis on the air, for In future n lot
tries to describe Elcanora Dune's
of them are going to try their tai
acting.
cuts out before the tnlke.
As for continuing ns Grace
Hen Bernie will use movie people
Moore's lending man In pictures,
In Ids programs that will be broad­
there wasn't time to any much about
cast from Hollywood tills summer.
that.
Al Jolson goes to Hollywood next
month, nnd he, too, will have movie
Huth Chatterton casually hung headliners. In (dace of those celeb
up a new record the other dny by rilles from various walks of life
piloting her own plane from New
that he has been using In the pro­
York to Hollywood; she's the flrat grams he's been doing from the
actress to do It, and she did It just
East
because she likes to fly and was go­
It's said that tie Is taking a big
ing to Hollywood.
cut In sulry so that lie can work In
She took Itrendn Forbes with her
Hollywood. and be with ills wife
Miss Forbes Is the sinter of Italph
and Hie baby they adopted recent­
Forbes. Miss Chntterton's first hue
ly. Well, lots of men would take
band. She has been In Katherine
a cut In salary In order to lie near
Cornell's company, nnd turned down
Ruby Keeler—If they were lucky
a movie offer when she wan In Hol­
enough to bo mnrrled to her!
lywood last summer, because the
Cornell troupe Is In the habit of
It's no wonder that Grace Moore
following Its leader when the anti
jeet of movies Is brought up. How Is so successful In romantic roles—
ever, she went to Hollywood to try romance plays a big part In her
to get what she turned down last private life, ns well.
For example, when she sailed for
year.
England recently she went with her
Fay Wray planned to go to Cal husband on the lie de France, and
Ifornla for a short stay and then It was Just four years to the day
rush right back to England, where since she had sailed on that same
her hueband le trying hie hand as a ship, and met her husband for the
director.
But no sooner had she fllrst time on the trip I
shown her face In Hollywood than
Jean Harlow Ims a hard time of
Universal persuaded her to play the
lead In “East of Java,” so her re­ It when she's working In a picture;
turn to Europe hae been Indefinite Hlie Ims to have her Imlr shampooed
every night I And she not only has
ly postponed.
It washed, but Ims a massage with
Ellssa I.andl, having received her hot castor oil first.
Incidentally, that odorless castor
decree of divorce, headed for New
York Immediately, but not with oil plays a big pnrt In the beauty
thoughts of another mnrrlage In treatments of many of the Him
stars. When they break down nnd
her mind. Not at all I
For the lovely Cllsaa takes her tell you their beauty secrets they're
writing very seriously, nnd she tins quite likely to confess that they use
Just finished a novel nnd wants to It on their hair and on tlielr faces
get mnterlnl In Washington for nn ns well.
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other one. She's writing a piny, too.
Aside from making pictures and en
ODDS AND ENDS ... In "No
tertalnlng a grent deal, the poor More I mi I ici " Joan Crawford will wear
girl hasn't a thing to do!
an evening goun with a belt made of
—Bi­
diamond! and iquare-cut emeraldt . . .
Charles Hoyer hangs up new Inó­ "Anna Karenina." in which Frederic
rela for himself In “Break of March will play oppoiite Garbo, will
Hearts.” with Katherine Hepburn; be her twentieth picture . . . And
a nice picture.
the'i been a itar for ten yeari . . .
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Ilette Davit doei a grand piece of
When you tee Elizabeth llrr/ner in
"Eicape Ma Never," you'll have the
drop on a great many people uho
paid high pricei to tee her in the
Haga venion of the tame play.
For Min llergner, talented though
the ii (and many people lay the'i
the greatest living aclren), ii likely
to give a great performance one night
and a pretty had one the nevi. Ilut
for the picture the did her belt, and
it’i decidely worth seeing.
work in "The Girl From Tenth Ave­
nue."
© Western Newspaper Union.
Poland’s Gataway to Sea
On n spit of land Jutting Into the
Baltic sea. where a few yenrs ago
a few fishermen dried their nets
nnd stored them In upended boat
halves and women burled potatoes
In strnw lined an nd pits for the
winter, their stands today the mod­
—li-
ern mnjeatlc port of the Bnltlc—
Sally Ellers Is turning down pic­ tlydnla, Poland's gateway to the
ture offers these days, because If sell.
she nccepted them slic'd have to
lenve the baby, nnd she thinks tho
Island Almost Crimelesa
hnby Is foo young to be left, no
Minorca, ono of the Balaerlc Is­
matter how ninny trained nurses lands, has the reputation of be­
are In attendance.
ing almost crimeless. The Inhabit­
—et­
ants leave their personal posses­
ica reported that Ben Alexander sions on their farms and In their
Is courting Fred Stone's daughter, yards and the houses are never
Paula—which Is a shock to the old- locked.
Indian Adoptions “Racket”
“Pop, what Is flint?”
“Marine's chin.”
C Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Dogs Used in Siberia to
Pull Sledges Years Ago
As far as I know, writes u con­
tributor to the bullellt of the Tall
"'agger's club, no one has written
the history of draft dogs and I am
unable to say when they ’vere first
put In harness. In rending Marco
Polo’s travels I came across a ref­
erence that shows that they were
so used by the Tartars In Siberia at
the end of the Thirteenth century.
After describing the curious vehicle
called the sledge, he said:
“They keep In readiness certain
animals resembling dogs, and which
may be called such, although they
approach to the size of asses They
are very strong and Inured to the
draught Six of them. In couples,
are harnessed to each carriage,
which contains only the driver who
manages the dogs and one merchant
with his package of goods."
Thus we have evidence that the
custom prevailed nearly TOO years
ago. The Venetian's reference to
those dogs as approaculng the size
of asses may not he so fantastic
as It sounds He alsc assured us
that the Tibetan mastiffs were also
ns big as donkeys, but the asses
there are very diminutive and the
disparity In size between the two
Is-not as great as we might Im
aglne.
In Canada a dog team may cov­
er as much as 50 miles In a dny.
pulling a load of 150 pounds. They
will keep up this rate for days on
end on a ration of a little frozen
fish. When the trail Is smooth and
easy the dally Journey may extend
to a much greater distance.
Dictionary Not Needed
"Your dictionary misleads me,”
said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown
“A demagogue Is not one who
teaches people, but one who voclf
erously sympathizes In their Ig
norance.’’
Adoption of white men Into Indian
tribes tins developed Into a money­
making "racket,” according to some
Indian lenders. Regular. as well as
fake, ceremonies are discussed In an
article In the Christian Science Mon­
itor by Miss Mabel Knight, upon
whom the name Ta De-Win win con­
ferred when she was adopted by the
Omaha tribe In gratitude for her lec-
tures and writings on Indian sub­
jects.
When Indians don war paint,
dance around a white num and then
give him a mime. Miss Knight writes,
it may flatter the latter, and the for­
mer will tie richer perhaps by $5, but
these Indians will not consider such
n one nn adopted member of the
tribe, for this bought and paid for
ceremony Is only n mock adoption.
"This fake adoption Is getting to
be a racket.” said Charlie Wilson,
prominent Nez Perce Indian, during
a recent celebration of the tribe.
“The adoption of white people Into
the trllie and then giving them the
Indian equivalent of ’Chief Fine
White Whiskers' and ’Princess Brook
With the Silver Voice’ as names
should be stopped.
“Indians wilh no trlbnl standing,"
continued Wilson, "have been invit­
ing whites with no tribal connections
to attend our ceremonies and to be­
come members after an exchange of
’gifts.’ the gifts of the Indians being
native trinkets of little worth, while
the gifts of the whites are large
amounts of the ’good old cash.' "
No white man ever becomes a
bona tide member of a tribe by ask­
ing for that favor. First he must
prove bls worth by really helping the
Indlnns out of some difficulty, and
thorn* who like the Indians well
enough to do that would not think
of lm|H>slng ujion them by asking for
the greatest of all honors, that of be­
ing adopted Into a tribe. Probably
no trllie numbers more than a half
dozen really adopted white members.
* When a white man Is judged
worthy of adoption the honor comes
upon I i I iii quite unaware usually and
the ceremony Is dignified with the
president or chief of the tribe pro­
nouncing In tils native tongue the
words which give this new member
a nnme. not only a tribal name, but
one which nlso makes him a memtier
of so* le clan of that tribe, with all
the honors pertaining to It
When the Indians Anally decide to
honor n nmn or woman by making
him or her ii member of their trllie,
the Indlnns give, not take, and Im-
press this fact upon the new mem­
bers, so that the latter is prohibited
at that time from showing bls ap­
preciation by making presents to the
Indians. Quite the reverse the In­
dians like to show tl.elr gratitude by
giving the new members such valu­
able gifts as blankets, parfleches
cases, and ancient beaded buckskin
pieces.
Instances of legal adoption are
comparatively rare. Mrs. Harriet
Maxwell Converse of New York was
made a member of the Seneca tribe
and later given a chieftainship In
the Six Nations. But that happened
only after aiding them by preventing
unfair legislation both in Albany and
Washington. More than that her
home in New York was open to any
Indian who found himself robbed or
swindled In the city, and frequently
an Indian would leave her home the
richer hy a new suit of clothes. In
small things and big ones Mrs. Con­
verse proved a real friend to the In­
dians, and the tribe delighted to
honor her in every possible way.
A white man cannot buy a mem­
bership into any tribe. Rather be
must earn It.
Island Turning Over
Six hundred miles long. Sakhalin
Island, off the northeast coast of Si­
beria, Is less than a hundred miles
wide at its broadest point From the
east, the turbulent Okhotsk sea licks
It with cold and Aerce winds. The
southwestern part, however. Is warm­
er and the climate Is softened by the
Japan sea, writes Vladmir Kondrey
In Asia.”
Geologists maintain that the Island
Is turning over like a fowl on a spit
Its eastern shore Is slowly emerging
from beneath the water while the
western shore sinks under the ocean.
Although the process Is very slow—
only a few yards in a century—It Is
said that Sakhalin has already been
twice covered by the ocean and has
twice emerged. This has been es­
tablished by the layers of coal alter­
nated with layers of chalk.
The
Island Is moving and occasionally un­
derground thunder shakes the earth.
Quick, Safe Relief
For Eyes Irritateci
By Exposure
To Sun, Wind
and Dust —
I Pipe Surely Should Be
Broken in by This Time
Hallin Hatem Ellis of Shawnee,
Ohio, is smoking a pipe that dates
back to 1850. when It was pur­
chased by Ado Hatem, at Haman In
Persia, lie handed it down to Nader
llatem In 1700 and it went in turn
to Aca llatem In 1740; Somn Hatem
In 1870, on to Alias Hatem in 1800,
and to IInllln llatem Ellis In 1005.
says the Detroit News.
Without much fear of contradic­
tion save from the occasional arche­
ologist who dares puff a clay pipe
made by the mound-builders, Ellis
may say when be sits down to draw
the smoke through six feet of pipe
stem that he Is Inhaling from the
oldest pipe In active service In these
United States.
Mounted on a glass bowl and
standing 30 Inches high, this an
cient pipe Is Inlaid with Ivory. When
In operation, the glass bowl Is Ailed
with water, and the smoke Is In
haled through the water from the
tobacco bowl on top of the glass re­
ceptacle. The tobacco Is soaked in
“A girl often takes up Art after wnter Arst, and Is kept burning by
she had dropped George.”
means of charcoal.
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