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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-02-23
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

trying to save merely the Jew, in
stead of trying to save the whole of
humanity. It seems almost a pity
to have to remind Mr.. Loevinger
that self-preservation is the out
standing instinct of humanity. HUI
mainly will be saved when the
groups and individuals composing
it are saved. Accepting Mr.. Loev-
myers premises that it is immoral
to save part if the whole cannot
be saved, have a vision (may it not
be a true one y of him refusing to
swim to shore after a shipwreck be-
cause the rest of the passengers can
not SWIM If Zionists are wrong in
attempting to secure Palestine as
nucleus for a Jewish state before
other groups in Turkey are assured
like privileges, then Ireland is wick
ed in attempting to secure home
rule because India has not yet Sc
cured it, and Poland is criminal in
asking for autonomy while Finland
is still under the Cars rule And,
of course, if Mr.. Loevinger is cor
rect, then the United States of
America must perforce surrender it's
independence and offer to become
an integral part of the British En-
pire, for did not the United States,
in it's war for independence demand
privileges that were not conceded to
Canada, and to other dependencies
of England
One admits sadly Mr.. Loevinger's
statement that "anti-Zionists did
not fully understand the movement"
but one is forced to add still more
sadly that among those who perse-
we're in misunderstanding the move
ment is Mr.. Loevinger himself. 1t
is not true that Zionism must
choose between seeking Ito secure
for the Jew publicly recognized,
legally-secured home in Palestine
with Jewish autonomy without wait
ing for the general emancipation of
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-02-23
February %, 1917

tllC jew duu oP1Sou VI NSliiOSl o|iS
forms of government to European
or Asiatic states; or it must
be willing to await the spread of
democracy with it's natural auton-
omy for the Jews in Palestine as
we'll as elsewhere There is moth
ing incompatible between the two
positions and there is no necessity
of choosing between them. AS
matter Of fact, Zionists have adopt
ed BOTH It is not statically await
ing the spread of democracy, be-
cause the forces behind democracy
are not static but dynamic; but by
it's insistence on the right of Jewish
national existence, it is fostering the
spread of democratic principles.
Again, let me remind Mr.. Loevin-
ger that democracy and social JUS
tice and international service, if they
ever really come, will come not as
a result of demanding someone
else's rights, but of demanding ones
own. Democracy means to it's ad-
herents only indirectly equality of
opportunity for your neighbor; pri-
marily it means equality of oppor-
tunity for yourself The truism
stands for all time that the best way
to improve the world is to improve
yourself; the improvement OF. the
world will come necessarily and in
evitably as the result of your own
improvement. --.
And that is the reason why Mr..
Loevinger's closing statement that
with emancipation and democracy
all lands will be Zion" is SO funda-
mentally wrong. Emancipation and
democracy without Zionism will
mean that no land will be Zion, and
the distinct contribution that the
Jew has to make to the world will
have been lost. Here, too, Mr.. Loev-
niger is in absolute contradiction to
his professed sympathy with Zion
ism as IAN aspiration for self ex-
preston and self realization of the
Jewish consciousness, hope that a
people so wonderful when dispersed
will prove a yet greater blessing
unto themselves and all mankind
when free to live their group life on
a soil sacred to them by means of
it's association" This definition of
what is known as "cultural Zion
ism" can remain only an aspiration
if at any time, no matter under what
favorable circumstances, we come
to the conclusion that "all lands are
Zion."
1t is painful to have to decide that
Mr.. Loevinger is not sport" He
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-31
LANE COUNTY LAND

For sale at reasonable prices, and on
easy terms. We can sell you good
smooth wheat land at from SO per
acre up. Write or come and see me.
v. E. West, real estate dealer, Digh-
ton, Kan.-Ady 4
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-31
(First published in Western Kansas World.
March "a. 1870
Executor's Notice

State of Kansas, Trego County. In the Pro-
state.
Notice is hereby given. that letters tes-
LaheDtory upon the estate o. BENJAMIN
deceased. have been granted TO the I'M
dersigned. Norman B. Mapes. by the Probate
date the 18th day of March, 1917.
All persons having claims against said
estate are required to exhibit them
me for allowance. within one year af-
ter the date of said letters. they may
be precluded from any benefit of said estate.
and if such claims be not exhibited within
two years from the time of the publication
OF this notice. they will be forever barred
Dated this 18th day of March A. D. 1917.
NORMAN MAPES. Executor,
Estate of BENJAMIN MaPes. deceased
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-03-31

(F'irst published in The Western Kansas
World March 81. I9l7)
Administrator's Notice
State of Kansas. Trego County:
In the Probate Court held in and for said
County and State:
Notice is hereby given that letters of ad-
minislration. with will attached. upon the
estate of Jacob H. Deatrich. late OF Trego
county, Kansas. deceased, have been grant
ed TO the undersigned, L. E Seeigelman. by
the Probate Court of said county of Treeo.
bearing date the 22nd day of March. 1917. vice
A H Blair resigned All persons interested
in said estate will take due notice hereof and
govern themselves accordingly.
Dated this 22nd day of March A. d. 1917
L. E STEIGELMAN
Administrator.
With will attached, estate of ]. H Deatrich.
deceased.
Attest A. PEACOCK
Probate Judge.
Evening star., 1917-03-11
Significance of lea's Presence at British Imperial
Council Table is One of the Developments of the War

ing dependency. Consequently India
was ignored.
That it cannot be longer ignored in
these economic and fiscal questions is
now evident If imperial trade prefer
ence is to prevail, India will want
in the whole scheme. In having her
say she is apt to consider her own in
terests first, just as do Canada and Aus
tralia.
The subject involves not only trade
with the United Kingdom, but with
England's allies and with the British
colonies. as well as with countries such
as the United States
There will be little difficulty in put
ting into effect a hostile policy as to
the central powers. The Germans and
Austrians already have been ousted
from their markets there. These have
been taken over more by the Japa-
nese than by the manufacturers of the
United Kingdom. and this knowledge
is causing the trade imperialists some
concern.
Japan is very insistent on maintain
ing any trade advantages she gains and
she will not allow herself to be ousted
from the markets of India which are in
creasingly valuable to her. This may be
one reason why she announced her ad-
herence to the economic pact of the al
lies. AS member OF the economic al
lance, Japan will be able to resist any
encroac achment on her trade in India.
This is one of the many phases of
the subject that have to be taken into
consideration by the imperial confer
ence The presence Of India at the con-
ference at least will enable the matter
to be discussed with some view to the
effect on India as we'll as to the larger
interests of the British Empire.
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It's Better Now.

s6E NGLAND with her new Lloyd
IL George government now stands
a good chance of winning" said Alfred
Noyes. the poet. just back from London
to resume his lectures at Princeton
Her old wait and see government
treated the submarine danger and the
food shortage and every other question
as the Nola Chucky pay bridge COM
pany treated the peoples protest.
"A Nola Chucky woman fell through
a rotten plank of the pay bridge and
was drowned. The people held a town
meeting and sent in a strong protest to
the bridge company. The company re-
piled in these words: "Sirs: Your
protest about the drowning accident
due to faulty woodwork in our bridge
has been duly received, and same will
be laid before the board at our annual
meeting eleven months hence. In the
meanwhile, to prevent, if possible, a
recurrence of similar accidents, we
would suggest that the good people of
NoIa Chucky use our companys other
bridge, the Paint Rock structure. four
miles north of the town. The water
there is scarcely deep enough to drown
a man of full height
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sign means, and where the tribal signs
end and the individual signs begin The
totem in front of a house tells him who
lives there, and also the story of their
ancestors. Similar crests are used on
baskets moccasins and in carvings of
had a letterhead. he would probably
print some of these signs at the top Of
the sheet.
During my stay at Sitka, I visited
the Sheldon Jackson Museum, which
has many relics of early Alaska. One
of its former curators says that the
totem pole was invented by the Haida
Indians, and that it was of three differ
ent kinds. One kind was erected in
front of a house. This had the figures
of different animals. and represented
the totems of family and their rela-
tiyes. Another totem pole was called
the death totem. This was sometimes
mortuary post which contained the
ashes of the dead, and it was sometimes
erected over the grave. A third class
of totem poles was put up by the Hal
das as monuments of remarkable events
that had taken place. The last illus
trated legends and other stories. 1t
was a record of history, and the story
was told by combinations of figures or
sort of picture-writ1nS, as
IT were The Haidas We're divided into
three classes: the rich, the middle class
and the slaves The slaves were never
allowed to erect poles in front of their
and the higher the pole, as
general rule, the richer and more aris-
tocratic the owner.
The totem poles about the dwellings,
Of the Indians range in height from
that Of a man to that of a four-story
house. They are carved out of solid
tree trunks, and some Of the larger
ones are valued at several thousand
dollars apiece. Many Of them are beau
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Niqht Life in Berlin.

ssA7 IGHT life in Berlin" said a.
IN Cleveland sculptor who was
forced to leave Berlin on account of
the food situation there: might life in
Berlin before the war was .kolossal.'
Nothing like it had heretofore been
seen.
"They tell a story about temperate
American business man who registered
at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin one night,
and at s o'clock sharp the next morn
ing came downstairs to breakfast, ac-
cording to his usual habit.
Everything was turmoil and con-
fusion of sweeping and swabbing,
scrubbing and cleaning, and when the
American business man entered the
dining room a waiter in shirt sleeves
and carpet slippers rushed up to him
and said excitedly:
".BeE pardon. sir. but it's strictly
against the rules Of the hotel to serve
suppers after 7:46 am.
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In a French Restaurant.

MMAYOR BATES of Ithaca said at a
3V0 Cornell tea:
There's nothing more valuable than
knowledge of foreign languages.
Il know an Ithaca man who. on a
visit to New York. took young lady
to one of those 5th avenue restaurants
where the bill of fare is all in the
French lingo.
THE poor Ithaca man looked hlankly
up and down that long list of unin-
telligible terms, and then in despera-
tion he put his fnger on an item and
said:
We'll begin with some Of that
but, sir said the waiter. smiling,
that is mayonnaise.
"T know it is. don't L? growled the
Ithaca man.
Then said the waiter. perplexe ed,
what will you have it on, sir?
"'Why, on a plate, you dub!' roared
the Ithaca man. Is 1t the usual thing
here to feed your guests out Of
troughs""
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of the great Eagle family. 1t is per-
fectly proper for her to unite with a
Shark, Whale, Wolf or Bear, for they
all go back to the Eagle family, but
she cannot marry a Salmon, Seal, Frog
or Beaver, who descend from the Crow
relatives and does much for the health
of the tribes.
*
am told there is a certain caste, or
rank. in the families so subdivided
Some branches are much more aristo-
cratic than others, and a woman who
marries beneath her is considered dis
grace to her family. She is more de-
spised than an English duchess who
marries shopkeeper. and her reIa-
tives will not chip in for as costly a
burial as though she had married in
her own class. A daughter of one of
the Brown Bear divisions would be dis
graced by 4 marriage with son OF the
Mouse or the Snail, and the Crows and
Eagles at the top of the genealogical
tree can only marry one another.
Another curious thing, in these days
of the new woman and woman suffrage,
is the high position that woman has
always held among these Indians. She
rules the family. No bargain is made.
no journey undertaken, nor any i'm
portant thing done without consulting
the woman. The emblem of the wife Is
at the very top of the genealogical
pole. and the totem Of the husband
comes lower down. Any Indian. on see
ing totem pole, can tell the family
of the mother and knows that II rules
the house. If he belongs to the. same
family he is sure to be welcome. but
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interpreted and applied by natives. This is
Il very disagreeable prospect for nu-
merous British bureaucratS in India and
is certain to bring out bitter protests
along with the usual contemptuous
opinions as to the ability of native
Hindus and Mohammedans to do any
thing that is not done under the eye OF
the British overload.
The economic difficulty lies chiefly in
the United Kingdom. The Indian fiscal
system, including the customs sched-
ules, is made in England. and for the
benefit of Englishmen.
The viceroys council in India is sup
posed to be the body which determines
these matters, but it records only what
the policy of the British ministry de-
termines. The native members of the
council. and sometimes the viceroy him
self, are impotent as against the real
power in London.
When it comes to establishing GUS
toms duties, and the attempt is made
to encourage the native cotton industry
by very moderate protective duties, the
benevolent Manchester school of free
traders steps in and ins-sts that there
be duties which Will Off
set the protective duties. III tflS We're
not done. the Manchester mills would
be In danger Of losing fraction OF
their market in India.
The country is exploited in other
ways for the benefit of British manu-
facturers and British capitalists. Since
India is British dependency. manu-
facturers and contractors in the United
States have no ground for complaint,
because those in England are favored
either through administrative methods
or by direct protection against outside
competition. But when the opportunity
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the ground, and each tomb marked
with board painted white, while each
collection of graves was surrounded
by fence of bright-colored palings.
In southeastern Alaska a curious sur
vival' of the old customs is to be seen
in the totem poles which formerly stood
before each house and often over the
graves of the chiefs and others. These
totem poles are not tombstones nor
idols. and they We're never regarded as
such by the Indians. They are tribal
emblems, crests or coat-of-arms. and
the natives are as proud of them as the
nobility of Europe are of their en-
blems of heraldry. The Indian can read
a totem pole as easily as you read this
newspaper. He knows just what each
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since. in behalf of the conference, he
made the CLOSING speech in answer 10
the viceroy. In his address he prom
ised unswerving loyalty to the throne
x
The accounts of this Delhi conference
which have been received all come from
British official sources, and 1t may be
that the loyalty which was said to be
manifested by the native princes was
somewhat exaggerated. Yet 1T may
fairly be taken as an effort on the
part of Great Britain, as represented
by the viceroy and the native princes,
to get together on the basis of a bet
ter understanding and to cooperate
more heartily in the future than has
been done in the past. The significance
of the event is not to be overrated,
for it really marks forward step in
British policy in India.
How far the London imperial con-
ference will succeed in satisfying the
native aspirations and what degree of
participation in imperial affairs the In
dian dependency shall have are ques-
tions yet undetermined. lntlmatlons
have been thrown out from London
that India's voice in the future would
be listened to. This means an actual
participation in imperial affairs and an
enlarged control by India of India $
own affairs.
The obstacles to carrying out this
enlightened policy are economic and
racial. The economic obstacle is en-
countered in England The racial OBJ
stacle is met with in India. The sys-
TEN of British caste. as it affects India.
is as ironbound as the native caste
systems of the Hindus.
British bureaucracy has done much
for India in the way of ending an
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ish associates with the maharajah. One
of the former is Sir. Satyendra Pra-
sanna Sinha. who is the frSt native 10
be appointed member of the executive
council Of the viceroy. lie was knight
ed by the British government, and now
holds the Office e-of advocate general OF
Bengal. He was president of the ma
tionai congress of India two years ago.
This is the assembly which repre-
sents the nationalistic aspirations Of
the great mass of the Hindus and Of
a considerable number OF the Mohan- =
fucdans 1t never has become a sedi-
tious body, but il has been quite bold
I'm voicing Tndia's demand for larger
measure Of self-government. British
imperial policy recognizes the lhpor-
tance Of conciliating influential mem
hers Of this native congress. Hence
knighthoods and other honors.
British ofiicialdom in India is repre-
scented at the conference by Sir James
Neston. Lieutenant governor OF the
united provinces of Agra and Oudh. lie
Is understood TO be sympathetic to
the Indian aspjra tons for participation
In the affairs of empire and for Il
greater degree of elf-government.
Tue sending of representatives to the
imperial conference is the sequel OF a
rulers held with the viceroy in Novem-
ber. They met at Delhi. at the ingi-
fation Or the viccroy, TO consider gues-
tlous OF Importance 20 their states. and
also to advise the British government
on certain matters Of mutual interest
one of the members of ihis confer
once was the GaekWar of Bsroda, who
has visited the United tates and who
represents the most advanced type of
the native rulers of India. At the be-
ginning of the war the Gaekwar made
some pointed criticisms of the govern
ment and was sharply rebuked for his
temerity. His sincerity. however. does
not seem to have been questioned,
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In the recorder of deeds office in the
property from Joshua Beall to Walter
T. Greenfield, the grantor conveying
to grantee in order to dock and bar the
entail. The next day Walter T. Green
field decided the property back to
Joshua Beall and both deeds were re-
corded on the same day. February Is,
1911. Joshua Beall died intestate. leav-
ing as his heirs at law Amelia Dorset,
Ann. Berry, Susan Beall. Walter T. g.
Beall and Elizabeth Beall, who had be-
come the wife of Morduit Young. There
was partition of the lands of Joshua
Beall among his heirs in April. 1918,
and the part of the tract of "Conclu-
sion" on which the old house stands
was allotted to Elizabeth Beall, wife
of Morduit Young Elizabeth Young
Young, who married Fielder Magruder:
Susan G. Young. who married Lemuel
Sheriff. and Amelia! b. Young, who mar
ried James L. Holiday. Name variously
spelled in the records. There is recorded
at the city hall a mortgage on the Nir-
gins Garden which Morduit Young
gave to William Young the year after
the death of Elizabeth Beall- Young.
Morduit Young died in 1874. His will,
dated July Is, 1899. witnessed by Rich
ard S. Suter. Enious De Fuller and
Thomas Thompson. was recorded Au-
gust Is. 1914. 1t is will containing
some interesting features which throw
Young. 1t shows on the part of the tes-
tator kindly solicitude for his slaves.
other things he directs that his
servant woman Anne "and the children
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tifully carved and their ugliness is
that of design, rather than execution.
Most of the carvings are those of ami
mails and birds. and each figure means
something. The house poles indicate to
which of the two great families of the
Indians the inmates belong. These
families cover southeastern Alaska.
They are known as the Ea gle and the
Grow. Each has its subdivisions, which
are shown by subtotems. To the Eagle
family belong the subdivisions of the
Bear, Wolf, Shark, Whale and others;
and to the Crow family belong the
Seals Frogs Salmons and Beavers.
There are numerous other subdivisions,
but they all belong to the Eagles and
Crows.
According to the unwritten law Of
these Indians, a. husband and wife cam
not be of the same tribal family Miss
Crow must always expect to marry q
Mr.. Eagle, although her husband may
belong TO any one of the subdivisions
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Maryland and the connections of tf,1s
old family are numerous in Maryland
and the District Of Columbia The Ram
bier has recently seen two Wartng
wills. Ono Is the will of Marsham War
ing. dated 1912, in which he set free
his servant Tom and devises property
ing Tighlman Hilleary, Fielder CAN'T
and Christopher L. CAN'T. Another will
Is that OF Richard NJ. Waring of the
county OF Washington, dated 1S45, in
which he mentions a brother John
Young house )and leaves beauests to
his son Gustavus Adolphus Waring. his
nephew DR.. James Waring and his sis
tere Kitty Waring. Eleanor. wife Of
Clement Baden and Caroline Hilleary
Evellne. the wife of John =. Waring,
died, and the property. that is. the Nor
du!t Young house, descended first to her
widower. John p. Waring. and then to
their only child. Sarah Ann, who be-
came the wife Of George r. W. Mar
shall of Stony Hill. This lady. who died
in 1875. bequeathed to her children,
Susan Edmonis. Sarah Gertrude. Carrie
Marie and Wilfred John Robert Mar
shall. "All that tract of land lying in
the District OF Columbia containing
about $50 acres formerly owned by
Morduit Young"
The old house on the hill. where the
ttials M. Y" in the stone support Of
the porch post, has passed through a
number of vicissitudes since the
Youngs. Warnings and Marshalls owned
1t. Living there now are DR.. NJ. W.
Hefing and family. They are city peo-
pie, who use the old house as sort OF a
suburban bungalow. The view sweeps
large tract OF country north. south
and east. and over some intervening
highlands looks down upon Washing
ton. 1t is quite curious that standing
a one corner OF the house and a few
feet from the inscribed stone the dome
OF the Capitol and the Monument are in
line. the upper portion of the great
shaft appearing to project upward from
the top of the dome.
Near the point where the Rambler
left Benning road to travel east,
through the mud OF Central avenue, to
ind the Morduit Young house, there is
hill. which rises from the southeast
intersection of the roads. On that hill
stands beaten house, now
the home of Daniel Mccarthy. Long
ago it was the home of Robert X New
lit. as the Rambler caught the name
from Henry Speakes. who lives on a
part Of a ct'which was bought either
during the civil war or about the close
of the war by John Payne colored. out
OF the large tract owned in the Ben
ming neighborhood by Selby Scaggs. In
this neighborhood are several other old
farms on which the Rambler has NOT
Yet touched. notably those of DR. Man.
ming and Hilleary Williams. and the
Rambler hopes to walk over those
lands at some other day.