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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
THE DULL CHILD
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
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While a sedentary people are usual-
ly supposed to lack the courage of
roving folk, it is evident that fear was
an almost unknown emotion to
Arickara hearts. They would capture
disabled buffalo as they crossed the
river, swimming up to the great beasts
boldly. Early writers have often de-
scribed the ferocity of a wounded
buffalo, so that the temerity of the
Arickara in catching these animals
thus is beyond comparison.
Another extremely bold exploit
which they performed yearly was the
gathering of wood which they took
from the river. In the spring, when
the ice broke into cakes and floated
twiftly and dangerously down the
j stream, these fearless Indians, men,
women, and children, engaged in the
occupation of hauling wood ashore. It
required a sure foot and a quick hand
to leap lightly across the shifting ice
cakes, tie a cord to the drifting wood,
and return to shore to pull the fuel in.
The Arickara, besides this fearless
manner of providing meat and fuel,
could boast considerable versatility
in the more sedentary arts. They
made boats of buffalo hide fastened
over a round frame of willow, in
which they could cross the Missouri
three at a time. They made basket
traps to catch fish. Pottery cooking
utensils, basketry, stone mortars for
crushing corn, horn spoons, flint
knives, and hoes made from the shoul-
der blades of buffalo, were among the
products of the Arickara, before these
implements could be obtained from
traders in simpler and better form.
They had a manner of melting glass
beads and pouring the colored liquid
into molds to make ornaments, and
they also embroidered garments with
dyed porcupine quills, to make a very
effective decoration.
One of their strange customs was
that of “packing” meat on their heads
and backs, instead of loading it an
their horses. Heavy packs were car-
ried in this way for great distances,
and those who excelled in transporting
the heaviest burdens sometimes gave
the meat to the poor, that they might
gain merit with the Lord of Life
thereby.
The Arickara were also skilled in
“magic,” which is so remarkable when
effected by a trained Indian wizard.
Not every tribe was fortunate enough
to have members who excelled in the
art of legerdemain, but those who did
regarded this talent with great rever-
ence. Certain forms of magic were
believed in by all Indians, and their
legends often embody the use of this
power.
Their history shows that this was
once a southwestern tribe, closely affil-
iated with the Skidi. The two tribes
moved north, but when the Skidi set-
tled on Loup river, Nebraska, the
Arickara continued northeastward,
meeting some of the Siouian tribes,
with whom they were sometimes at
war and sometimes at peace. Long
ago they built houses along the Mis-
souri almost as far south as Omaha,
and these dwellings were later occu'
pied by the Siouian tribes, who were
drifting west.
Lewis and Clark met the Arickara
in Dakota in 1804, and found them not
unfriendly to the United States, but
later they became hostile, and, since
the rivalry between trading companies
caused many of their troubles, they
even attacked a trader’s boat, killing
thirteen men. For a time after this,
there was considerable unpleasantness,
and to add to their unrest, their crops
failed for two years.
They decided to leave the country
where so many bad things had. come to
pass, and to go back to Loup river,
where they had left the Skidi, but
this became a stay of only two years,
as their hostility to the whites prompt-
ed the request that they return to the
Missouri, and by this time it was
very certain that the whites were
master. This was the last eventful
move they made, for in 1880 the Fort
Berthold reservation was established
for the Arickara, Mandan, and Hidatsa,
and in 1900 they were given land in
(Severalty, and made citizens of the
United States, subject to the laws of
North Datoka.
, (©. 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
The Arickara
In Indian sign language, the Aric-
kara are called “corn eaters.” They
had a small-eared
corn which was
very delicious, and
so popular that it
was used as an ar-
ticle of trade.
Corn was a prom-
inent article in
their ceremonials,
and some of the
ears were kept for
generations and
were regarded with
reverence. “The em-
blematic ear of
Arickara corn was ad-
dressed as “Moth-
er.” Certain rituals were observed at
planting and harvesting, as well as at
certain times during the growth of the
corn. Even the picture writing sym-
bolizing the people stressed the corn
motif, and sometimes they were drawn
as an ear of corn with human mem-
bers.
It is hardly necessary to say, then,
that from the earliest days of their
legendary history, the Arickara were
agricultural people, although they
spent the winter season hunting
buffalo.
By WALTER TRUMBULL
Specializes in Diseases cl Fish
James Palmer of the Walker house aquarium at Toronto, Ont., is said
to be the only fish doctor in the world. He operates a hospital for sick
tropical and goldfish, in which the services include individual tanks, doses
of castor oil and operations, if necessary. Fish come to the hospital from
all parts of the continent for treatment..
Should you be in Miami beach in
the morning and in the vicinity of a
certain hotel, you might stand on a
strip of green grass and whistle. Then,
if you knew the proper window, you
might look up and see, rising between
sill and lowered shade, a most ma-
jestic forehead stretching well toward
the hack of the head. A stranger might
at first suppose that this fine example
of human architecture in the shape of
a dome belonged to Charles Dana Gib-
son, but those acquainted with the lo-
cality instantly would know that it
was the property of Walter Donaldson
who just at present is the author of
more popular song bits than any com-
poser in the business. It was Mr. Don-
aldson who wrote “Making Whoopee,”
“My Blue Heaven,” and “Little White
Lies.” The last mentioned, even I can
hum with a fair amount of accuracy.
I learned it from a young niece who
visited me and played it on an average
of fifteen hours a day.
* * *
Walter Donaldson is a peculiar type
for a man in his business. LI is idea of
personal publicity is to go around with
all the noise and assertiveness of a
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New York.—To expedite building
projects of the federal government
and* thus help to relieve unemploy-
ment, the Treasury department has
recently placed construction work
totaling $130,000,000 in the hands of
private architects • throughout the
country and will soon add projects
costing $200,000,000 to this total, ac-
cording to Assistant Secretary of. the
Treasury Heath in a statement made
In the American Architect.
The magazine, w’hich began a cam-
paign to stimulate employment and
building by accelerating these federal
projects, publishes the assurance of
Secretary Heath that part of the gov-
ernment’s construction program will
utilize private architects. Heretofore
practically all of this work has been
done by the office of the government’s
supervising architect, which will con-
tinue to provide plans for projects
less than $500,000 and the smaller
standard jobs and to supervise all
construction.
“The department will continue to
employ outside architects in connec-
tion with the larger projects wherever
it is evident that the public building
program will be expedited by so do-
ing,” says Mr. Heath’s statement.
“Projects for which the limits of
cost are fixed at less than $150,000
are of such a size and character that
pians for certain buildings already
constructed can be adopted to sucl
projects, thereby saving much time in
the preparation of drawings and speci
fications. For this reason projectsrof
this character are generally handled
in the office of the supervising arehi
tect. Also, experience has shown that
the plans for extension and remodel
ing projects can be handled more ex-
peditiously in that office, all data re-
lating to the existing buildings being
on file there.”
CARRIES OFF HONORS
shadow. If you corner him, he will
answer questions in a quiet voice and
may even be induced to tell you how
he happened to write some of bis
songs. But he is happiest if you put
him in a room with a piano and just
let him sit and play to himself. There
may he a noisy crowd in the room,
hut that doesn’t-disturb him. He just
doesn’t listen.
* * *
Critics make fun of novelists who
lean too heaeily upon the “long arm
of coincidence,” hut I can tell you a
true story, which any novelist would
consider too improbable to use. Wal-
ter Donaldson and John Golden had
never met. As you may know. John
Golden was a song writer before be
became a theatrical producer. That
he was a successful song writer is
evidenced by the fact that bis total
royalties from “Poor Butterfly”
amounted to about $90,000. Gene Buck,
Ray -Hubhell and other mutual friends
were determined that Donaldson and
Golden should be brought together. A
tournament of the Artists and Writers
Golf association, held on Long Island,
seemed to be an occasion on which
the men could be brought together.
* * *
But it happened that a play pro-
luced by John Golden. “That’s Grati-
tude,” written and played by Frank
< ’raven, opened the evening of the day
on which the tournament was held and
Mr. Golden was so busy with various
letails that be couldn’t get away. Fre-
quently be doesn’t attend openings
of his own shows, although when in
New York he usually makes the cast
believe lie will be there. On this oc-
casion he cleaned up the last detail
and hurried away to see the MoLar-
nin-Singer bout at one of the ball
parks.
* * *
That bout was of short duration, Mc-
Larnin winning by a knockout in jig
time. Looking at his watch, Golden
saw that, if he hurried, he still had a
chance to get to bis theater before the
play was over. But thousands of per-
sons seemed to be in just as much of
a burry as Mr. Golden. Finally be man-
aged to get out into the street with the
crowd and then be sought earnestly
for a taxicab. He bailed many, only to
discover that they were occupied. At
last lie sighted an empty one, only to
have somebody beat him to it by a
couple of steps. -He heard the fare
fell the driver to go to the Park Cen-
tral hotel. Without any more formal-
ity Mr. Golden pulled open the taxi-
cab door and scrambled inside.
“Hey, you!” exclaimed the first man
in. “what’s the big idea?”
“Just a minute,” said Air. Golden.
“I’ve tried my best to get a cab. I
beard you tell the driver to go to the
Park Central and I’ve got to get to
my theater, just a couple of blocks
from there, in a hurry. I’m open ng a
play there tonight. Tf you will let me
ride with you. I’ll pay for the cab
or pay my share of it, whichever you
prefer.”
, “What’s your name?” said the man.
“John Golden.”
“Well,” said the man, “you can ride.
I’ve been hearing about you all day.
I’m Walter Donaldson.”
Mr. Donaldson bad gone to the golf
tournament, won it, and then come in
to see the fight. Out of a crowd of
$0,000 persons, these two had picked
the' same cab. And critics talk about
coincidence.
(©. 1931. Bell Syndicate.)—WNC Service.
It seems as though
the less we think of
some people the
longer it takes ns
to express our opin-
ion of them. Guess that’s human nature*
Both Wise Fools
The wise man and the fool seem
alike when they fall in love or try to
explain hard times.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS—By John Hix
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I have been put into circumstances
at one time or another when I was
forced to tell par-
ents some very
disagreeable, not
to say t r a gi c,
things over a
period of years.
I .have bad to do
with stealing and
forgery and sui-
cide and accident-
al drowning, and
drunkenness and
lesser and so
more frequent ir-
regularities, and I
have had to be the
first one to communicate these things
to the parents of the young people
concerned. I may have shrunk back
It’s William E. Woodward. His
striking resemblance to former Presi-
dent Calvin Coolidge has fooled hun-
dreds, even personal friends of Air.
Coolidge. He is as reticent as the
former President, carries himself In
tha. same manner, and is a native of
Landgrove, Vt„ within 25 miles of the
Coolidge home at Plymouth.
POTPOURRI
Famous Diamonds
The original Cullman diamond
weighed 3,025 carats, or 1.37’
pounds and measured 4 inches
by 21-2 inches by 1% inches. Its
value was variously estimated up
to $5,000,(XX). It was later cut
into nine smaller stones. A stone
of 136 carats is in the Louvre.
Paris, and is valued at $2,500,-
(XX). The Russian stone, Orloff,
weighs 195 carats, and the Eng-
lish “Koh-i-nur,” 102% carats.
((c), 1931. Western Newspaper Union.)
from the unpleasant and difficult task,
but if so it was hut for a moment;
I have braced up and broken the news
in as frank, direct and sympathetic
way as I could devise. The situation
which I have disliked the- most was
when such a communication had to
be made over the telephone. Tele-
phones were never intended for the
transmission of such personal mes-
sages.
The one thing which I have not yet
found a satisfactory way of saying to
a parent is that his child is stupid—
is in fact not mentally capable of do-
ing the work which he has undertaken
to do. I can announce frankly that
the boy is lazy, indifferent, unwilling
to work; I can say that he has had
habits and go into detail as to what
these habits are: that he has done
this or that which is contrary to law
and good morals, but I have not yet
developed the courage to say that the
child is incapable.
Fortunately such cases are rare,
but they do exist. In most instances
the hopelessly dull child drops out of
school before he finishes high school.
He shows an inclination to do manual
rather than intellectual work, and his
parents yield to the pressure which
he applies to give up school. But
there are cases where pride and am-
bition blind the parents’ eyes, where
possibly influence keeps the child in
school, and*finall.v forces him into col-
lege, for the work of which he shows
neither interest nor ability. It is very
hard to convince parents under such
circumstances that there is net some-
thing radically wrong with college else
their son would be making more rapid
advancement.
(©. 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
NOT EX-PRESIDENT
Alidshipman J. W. Byng of Wash-
ington, D. C., is expected to he the
only three-letter man at the Naval
academy during the present year.
Byng has his navy “N” in football,
baseball, and expects to get an “N” for
basketball.
Fight Three Hours Over
Primo Camera Statue
Rome.—A three-hour intensive fist
fight, iu which everyone took part
indiscriminately, took place in a cafe
here over the dispute whether or not
Italians should erect a giant statue
of Primo Camera, the Italian boxer.
From the result it may be judged that
the opponents of the statue plan were
in the majority about ten to one.
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San Francisco.—Like a roving spirit fourteen other murders of his coun-
of the mystic East, whence he came, trymen that have baffled state, county,
Sant Ram I’ande, slain University of and city peace officers for months,
California student, has returned from Sheriff AIcCoy believes.
the dead to ppint the finger of accu-
sation at his murderers.
He came hack in the text of a little
red book of handy pocket size, a diary,
in which lie kept a minute record of
his last month of life.
Found by accident among soiled
laundry and personal effects he left
with a friend the night before he van-
ished, the blood red hook was hailed
by Sheriff Charles J. McCoy of Yuba
county as the possible solution to the
university student’s mysterious slay-,
ing.
And if it solves Pande’s death it
may go far toward unraveling the
Beginning January 1, 1931. it con-
tains a daily record of Pande’s com-
ings and goings and names some of
those he feared. The name of Nukan
Singh, held in jail in Sacramento for
the student’s murder, appears promi-
nently, the sheriff said.
So highly do the authorities prize
these last writings of the slain man,
they refused to divulge details of its
contents. It is being closely guarded,
and will he until men named in it are
captured, McCoy declared.
That Pande was close on the heels
of the Hindu murder ring, authorities
are convinced. It was his relentless
pursuit of the slayers that prompted
them to kidnap him and throw his
headless body into Cache slough, near
Rio Vista, chained to a tractor wheel,
according to Clarence S. Morrill, chief
of the state bureau of criminal iden-
tification.
Coincident with the finding of the
diary, AIcCoy also learned of a plot
to kidnap Delip Singh, president of the
East India corporation. Shortly after
one o’clock in the morning, recently, a
Hindu attempted to lure Delip Singh
from his cabin on the pretext of need-
ing help to get his stalled automobile
started. Delip refused to go. McCoy
said investigation indicated the un-
known Hindu was trying to coax him
into a trap.
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