Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-02-15
MONOGRAPH ID ADDRESS INDIANS Novel Idea Used by Wilson to Reach Many
 Tribes.
 LAUDS RED MEN. President Thinks Day Has Come When the Aboriginal Can Secure
 Benefits of Civilization.
LAUDS RED MEN.
BY SIDNEY ESPEY

Wilson has spoken to one hundred and eighty-nine tribes of Indians dur ing the past six months. His speeches were not made in person, but through the medium of photograph appara- tus in charge of Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, who headed an "expedition of citizenship to the North American In- dians," financed by Rodman Wana- maker of New York and Philadelphia, and son of John Wanamaker.
 Rodman Wanamaker is also finan- cling the Indian memorial in course of construction at Fort Wadsworth in the harbor of New York. It is esti- mated that the memorial will cost a million dollars. The top will be a large statue of an Indian. The base i will be combined museum and art gallery in which will be exhibited pic. lures of North American aborigines, weapons used by them, etc.
 Mir. Wanamaker first became inter- ested in the Indian through Dr. Dix on. He explained to Dr. Dixon that he wished to do something for his country. The latter pointed out what might be done to promote better feeling between the red man and his pale faced brother. Dr. Dixon is recognized as an authority on Indian folklore.
 MT. Wanamaker's recent expedition had the official sanction of the gov ernment. Dr. Dixon carried the "can- ned" speeches to practically every party of the country, traceling more than twenty-six thousand miles by rail, stage coach and horseback.
 All of the dime novel type of red skins must have gone up to their happy hunting grounds in the sky, i for Dr. Dixon failed to find any on his trip. He believes that a new type of Indian is developing. He states that the old red man is fast losing his identity in the waves of Caucas- ian civilization.
 Dr. Dixon regards the Indian as a poet and an orator. He found many touches of pathos in present day life among tn etribes. He urges that the Indian be given an opportunity to live his own life. We need a revolu- tion, he says.
 l Money and ambition do not appeal to the Indian, says Dr. Dixon "but . cloud in the sky or the flight of a bird has meaning. He lives in 3 mystic world and one cannot cross his path without crossing some of his ceremonials. His ways are as much mystery to us as metaphysics are to him."
 The expedition gathered vast fund of knowledge concerning tribal con ditions. reservation life, politics, fi- nancial and social influences. Des- bite the fact that there are now only three hundred and twenty thousand 
 red men in this county, as against the one-million, two hundred thous- and who roamed about few years ago, Dr. Dixon has visions of an era of regeneration. "There is a new light in the sky" he says.
 The idea of interesting the Indian in. citizenship and loyalty to the flag was the prime object of the expedi- tion. Many of the wards of the gov- ernment had no previous understand ing of what the flag meant, and a large number had seldom seen it ex- cept when raised on their reservation.
 Therefore, each time tribe was visited two flags were carried. One of these flags was the one raised at the Fort Wadsworth services. when President Taft started the work by digging the first spadeful ofsdirt for the memorial foundation. The other flag was presented for the use of the tribe. The ceremonies attending pre- sentation were impressive. following as closely as possible those held 1T New York. [
 It used to be said that nothing ever aroused an Indians interest to the noint of wonderment. That day must be past. for the red men made as DE II fr.s over the uhonograph as child makes over its first Christmas