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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

CHlCAGO-Theodore Roosevelt for
president and Charles Fairbanks for
vice president were nominated ycster-
day by the republican national con-
vention without a dissenting vote.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24
Fifteen Years ASo,

Justice Clinton Galbreath, a former
Oklahoman, who for several years
has been menber Of the supreme
court Of the Hawaiian islands, reached
the city yesterday with his wife, and
will make this his future home, They
are now the guests of Mr. and Mrs,
William Wallace Bierce.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24
Close at Hand.

What is your handicap, Mr..
Jims?" asked the golf enthusiast a,
the club.
Ssh" said Bill, cautiously. Here
she comes now r-Omaha News.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

Premier speaks ct the annlaton and ensavement OF Ger
many" as that the preniers terms are
reminder Of what crmany hoped the the world
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

The American Labor has It's approval to the tes
,,oh strike Nuch the telegraph service OF the country
Tha, means have backing which will enable mem 10 hag on
dni the face opposition the companies shoud see the
settlement Such strike IS bound to handle ap
and sbc which to the controversy
rh. o III not o,cn.n violence The strikers should mem
~, tina, and IN h main they But and the public does
approve collective which factor IN tn" controversy Inc
wir. oonn-ni.s should bear that mind
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

A,,ar,n,y Germany but being Germans the
neope of evil deeds do The estimate OF
Germany was substantially nation without honor decent pn
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24
CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS.

vYyFTHER regularly officer not apparent ha'
w himself THAI capacity when he ired the sho'
which killed mo,oriN guilty OF driving without m
shot hred at his car and psnner
slain No policeman legal right fire at the pepaior o m"oe
meanor society should resort TO the use
firearms a crowded thoroughe event Irac rules 'houu NC
hd hut some discretion mark their enforcement Otherwise the
polio. becom, more dangerous than the errng mo'or's
And policeman is involved the killing o Lyman Nran
OF the law The deporae a-
the officer must not he repeated
to inclined to too ready use OF
the wild Lch weapons are rarely
They should never be wa except as "
, AGAINST desera criminals Ordinarily the polcman authority
the only needed Certainly nothing more needea III hAus
obe citizens chas slight maeon Of city ordinances
To impress all officers OF the law an example SHOULD De
mad. Of the SLAYER Of young who killed where he had every
RIGHT and reason to He shot by who owed hn roee
on pmn better ver.ed he paid to enforce would have
ro, b authority gave him shoot under such circumstances
Common sense should much Policemen should have such
dm,a LEGAL knowledge Otherwise they become outlaws them
selves
Nothing can the lie OF the unfortunate victim this
should punish the one Responsible
10, il Something done safeguard the public against similar
or,ycs II there would abuse their authority the police
department rid them They might prove weu elsewhere ou no
such man officer OF the law GOOD citizens 40 not oec'
the law to be respected IS imperative 'ha'
il be observed by those cutrvstcd with its enforcement
Policemen should they servants OF the people en-
should be the last TO endanger
,.us gong pa about No prends that Pampln
intended n, Kill Crane improbable he intended but
shocking For that he should pay
,b, utmost penal Safeguarding human lie is the first duty o organized
society and that duty those entrusted with its care
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24
1orifWo1:'r@Y
- 1uRRM -
LAY OF A LAZY LABORER.

LAY OF A LAZY LABoRrR
The dignity gets paudts than the 'uffraSe's
And useful work cannot shirk
While industry Ua Tuus must &c Ss the lot most common
So il .as . TsI ih.ri,I us praise :. s,Ss,,ns s tT
The horny toll the tired tler' of the soil
Are auded lik, the srases
And those who ampua,e operate the mill and
Are s sv1Sn,d n, aho .hd ,hso, %soy ,B.l p.iled face.
They are .aishty nations strength expound at length
And tell Il m how Sweaty brow
Supasses other honors .,,
And r.ms the mot. notion H. what total loss
But get from donors.
N0' NSg SS'd hint St that st IS IS not "s''' h, ''
And y., % the1e happen "y times when rhymes
And other chores to get outdoors
And loaf as tempus passes
nd doubtless who would be lilies the heights
And Bu, "'ns, i%, ,R% Hssre @G, rs 'G' u"y. ,yt 81"
There's quite lot which would be not
Except they need the money
To amour, to much dignity ha. something
than sid. whi,ker and Prime. Albert coat
beginning quantities meaning those which
baskets and pink mosquito netting but not forgetting "0se +"
more expensive sab
Moggng cottage purchase touring is rarely
accepted as evidence OF financial genius
An FL Reno woman mani week. again reminding
| that there closed on that sort Of thing
True n ,neuha, restricted by tn. statutes bu, HES j,per
The patient may but for lack of something
to talk about
r. quite number of intemperate people who
drink with a kick IN It,
Revenue officials anticipate trouble moonshmers than
the bewhkered variety indigenous to the m country and particularly
Possibly the officers
the urban diers
ability production but unlikely that those
illicit stills the and police OF the large
will take their infant industry seriously as the widcatte OF the
hiy hneand Those old the have OF hitting
what they shoot which and frequently unhealthy
| SCIENTIFIC.
Science has discovered, among other thrilling things
That the feminine the which have the
Which recalls that Colonel kplng told the public tale
OF the female OF the species being deadler than the
Tulsa has threatened the Willard Dempsey debate
demonstrating
About the disposed praise people
high intelligence paying money
fortune teller
follow OF
then PERFECT days those
chicken will be
they league nations not why not
yoders will make feel familiar Alps
a will exhibition
cautauqua all that claimed for and also stimulates industry
ticulary the chewing industry. Long it
in journalism will readily this has day
the is still playing at home.
The days also shorter but other shortages
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24
SCIENTIFIC.

Science has discovered, among other thrilling things,
That the feminine the which have the
Which recalls that Colonel kpng told the public quite tale
OF the female OF the species being dadlr than the male
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

About the time feel disposed praise the people for their
high intelligence hear Of Of them paying money
fortune teller.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

Tulsa has threatened the Willard Dempsey deb
that there
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

The young lady across the way says
she saw In the paper that the fresh
fish supply was poor on account OF the
storms and you wouldn't think the fish
would mind being tossed around
little by wind and wave.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24
Ten Years Ago,

Five thousand copies OF the pro-
posed constitutional amendment which
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

officials anticipate trouble from moonshnes thar
bwhskered indigenous to the hill country and PARTICULAR,
in Possibly the officers
the number and ingenuity OF the urban dsers are con
but unlikely that those
90 illicit the and police OF the large
will take their infant industry seriously the wdoaters OF The
o hitting
a which 5 and frequently unhealthy
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

There also quite number of inemperae people who
never take drink with a kick IN II.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

An Reno killed a last week. again reminding
s that there 10 no closed that Of thing
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-24

restricted by the statutes but HES little perh
all in the comic journals
The rheumatic patient may suffer lack of omhr
o talk about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Faith Not Easy
To Shake

1t may seem to you that these that
we have described are extraordinary
and untenable views, and that it ought
to be an easy thing to undeceive the
men who hold them, but if you have
ever tried to change the religious
views Of one of your own countrymen
so Is to make them coincide with
yours, you will know that the knowl
edge that comes through faith is not
an easy thing to shake.
If you want to appreciate such an at
titude Of mind as that of the Esouimaus
and cannot find an analogy among your
own neighbors, l would recommend
the reading of Mark Twain's "a Yankee
at the Court of King Arthur" 1t is
one of the remarkable things about
Mark Twain that he understood the
minds Of the intellectually primitive
as few others have done--even Of those
who have made study Of such things.
Mark Twain's Englishmen of King Ar
thurs time think such thoughts as !
have found the. Esquimaus thinking in
our own generation and justify them in
tho manner in which the Esquimaus
justify theirs.
II you were to try to displace from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

the truth Of his statements about the
number of the gods?"
There are among all Esquimau GER
tain persons whom we call "Shamans"
and they call "angatkut" These per-
sons hold communion with the spirits
and are familiar with the things Of the
other world; they are the formulators
of religious opinion. The days of
miracles are not yet past among any
primitive people, and new miracles
happen on the shores of the polar sea
daily, but more especially in the dark
Of winter
The miracles usually happen at the
behest of the shamans, and invariably
1t is the shaman who tells about them;
but while new revelations are fire.
quent, they are always revelations Of
the old sort. There is little originality
In the minds Of primitive people; their
daily experiences are uniform, and
their thoughts are uniform, too.
The most fundamental thing In
Esquimau religion is that all phe-
nomena are controlled by spirits, and
these spirits in turn are controlled by
formula, or charms, which are mainly
in the possession Of medicine men, al
though certain simple charms may be
owned and used by any one.
1t follows from this fundamental
conception that nothing like prayer or
worship is possible.
AS we have said, the religious think
ing of the Esquimau Is unclear. There
seems no agreement and, In fact, no
settled opinion on the subject Of
whether there are spirits Of the class
susceptible of becoming familiar spirits
which are not already in the service of
some shaman. The general feeling
seems to be that every one of these
spirits has its master. For that rea-
son, among the Mackenzie River peo-
pie at least, when young man wants
to become shaman he must In one
way or another secure a spirit from
some one who is already q shaman, or
else secure spirit that has been
freed by the death Of a shaman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
By Vilhjalmur Stefansson

NE often hears the statement
q that there never have been dis
covered people so low that they
do not have some form of religion
This is stating true thing in such a
way that it implies an untruth. The
case is put rightly and the exact facts
are truly implied in saying that the
lower you go in the scale of cultural
development the more religion you find,
until, when you get to the people that
are really toward the bottom Of the
scale of social and intellectual evolu-
ton, religion begins to cover practi-
cally all the activities and phenomena
OF life. There is a religious signifi-
canoe in every act and accident and a
religious formula for every eventual
ity in life.
The Esquimau are people whose in
telligence is keen with reference to the
facts of their immediate environment,
but that environment Is so monot-
onous, the range of possible expert
ences IL so small, that, no matter
what the fibre Of their minds may be
at bottom, the exercise is wanting that
might lead to broad mental develop
ment.
There was time when I used to
think l knew what the word "savage"
meant. Since then I have associated
with people who dress in skins, who
live largely on raw meat, who had
never seen white men until thew saw
me, who were as strange to our ideas
and ways as any people on this earth
can be to-day, and the net result is
that the word Savage" has quite lost
its meaning. Like the word "souaw,"
or "half-breed," the word Savage" is
reprehensible, because it carries a
stigma which the facts do not Justify.
should prefer to describe the peoples
ordinarily referred to as Savage" as
ch1ld-like," because the word is truth
'uily descriptive and not odious.
To begin with, the Esquimaus are
very unclear In their religious think
ing, fact which does not, however.
diHerentiate them abysmally from our
own race. skeDticism in religious mat
tiers is unknown. If they are ac-
qaainted with my private character
and find mo in the ordinary relations
Of life rcliablej II don't tell lies con-
corning the number Or the fatnegs of
the caribou I have killed, nor about
tho distance at which shot them. nor
she difficulty had in stalking them.
they Will believe anything 7 say about
any subject.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

three inches long, to which is attached
stone or other heavy object, such as
hammer or an ax-blade. Before the
beginning of the performance the win
dow has been covered with a thick
skin or blanket. All the people take
thelr seats IN circle about the sha-
man as far away as possible from the
centre of the house, leaving him in an
rnoccupied circle of perhaps ten feet
IN diameter. The lights are put out
and the house is so dark that one can
see absolutely nothing Nevertheless.
every one leans forward and closes his
eyes tightly. If there are any children
present an older person sits behind
each> child and holds his hands over
the child's eyes.
The moment after the light goes out
the shaman begins to chant q magic
song. Presently he says: ~ do not
teel SO heavy now rs I usually do.
Somehow it seems as If were not sit
ting very heavily upon the floor. Now
| am becoming as light as a feather
Now l am beginning to want to rise
like dry stick in water"
All these things he says in a low
and indefinite tone of voice, speaking
we'll IN his throat so that it is difficult
to judge just how far away he is, but
OF course thus far every one knows
exactly where he is, for he remains
(by his own account) in the centre Of
the circle where he was when the
lights were put out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
New Beliefs
Gladly Added

The belief in the spirit fight is aS
strong as ever at Point Barrow after
more than ten years % Christianity, as
the belief in witchcraft was in England.
after more than ten centuries Of Chris
tianity
At one time made short stay az
Point Atkinson, where a village Oh
Christianized Esquimau had gathered
around the wintering place Of p
.whaler, the North Star. The shipN
master, Captain Matthew Anderson, and
l talked much with young EsquimauI
who had lived long in the house oa
the Church of England missionary
Mr.. Fry, and who was considered pyI
the rest of the Esquimaus TO be an snA
thority on the doctrines of the Church.
l asked him whether he believed MI
countrymen were able TO fly to tnsl
noon, or from one village TO anotneI)
magically. He said, and there wen
half dozen other people in the hou"
at the time who agreed with him, tas'
the fact of many people being able 20
fly to the moon was a matter Of con-
mon knowledge, just as their aoi'"
to walk on snowshoes or to snare pta.'
migan was matter of common know
edge. We asked the boy to spech'|
some of the people who could do th's!
and he named among others AluaiuAl
at whose house l would sleep on my
way west the first day after leaVinsl
Captain Anderson's place. Dc a'saI
specified a young man whom | kneSl
we'll, named Kublualuk, who had io"s|
been in the employ Of the mounted p0'
lice at Herschel Island. 4
Alualuk, he said, had unfortunately
embraced Christianity and had s'heY
then ceased to fly. but Kublualnh' La
thought, had not yet been conver'eo
and would still have his old powers
There were others who could do IL TOO
some of them right in the village Dc
side US; but he thought that perhaps
mono of them would fly even II asked
them to, because they now understood
that to employ familiar spirits II
wicked and that q man cannot employ
them without endangering his pres
poets OF salvation.
Copyright 1912. by vnh3slmur stcfans'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

Ting down; now I am down on the
floor; now you may open your eyes and
light the lamps" The lamps are
lighted, and 10! there sits the shaman
exactly where he was when the lights
were put out three-quarters of an
hour before.
Some one now unties the .shaman
and he relates to an attentive audience
his adventures on the spirit flight. He
went to the moon and approached the
house of the man in the moon. He did
not dare to enter, but waited outs de
until the man in the moons wife came
out, saw him and invited him in. Short
ly after the man in the moon himself
came home from caribou hunt, bring
ing with him a backload of meat and
number of marrow bones. A meal
was prepared Of caribou meat, and
after that the three Of them cracked
marrow bones until the broken bones
lay In large heap on the floor.
The man in the moon said that last
year the caribou hunt had not been
very good in the moon, but this year
1T was much better; the caribou in the
moon this year were fatter than usual.
which was no doubt due to the fact
that the summer had been cool and
there had not been very many mos
quitoes.
The man in the moons wife also
joined in the conversation, saying that
they had already secured an abundance
of skins for clothing for the coming
winter, and that as for sinew with
which to sew they had enough already
for two years. She inquired for the
shaman's wife, whether his little boy
had begun yet to kill ptarmigan.
whether the people in the shaman's
village carefully kept all the taboos
and who it was that had broken some,
for she knew from the vapor arising
from the village that something was
amiss.
The shaman had answered her cues
tons to the best of his ability. He re-
GREETED that certain young woman
had been very careless in sewing Carl
bou skin soon after the killing of
white whales, and various other things
of this sort the shaman was compelled
reluctantly to tell, for he was a truth
full man and must speak out, although
he was ashamed Of his fellow country
men and would gladly have been able to
conceal the facts from the moon
people.
Time Is not measured the same way
IN the moon upon earth, the shaman
tells, and really he had been in the
moon long time, although on earth
it seemed but a short while that he
was away. He had fingered, Toasted
and talked, but finally his visit was
at an end, and he started OFF, promis-
ing the man in the moon to visit him
again next year.
When the shaman's narrative is
over a general discussion takes place,
in which both mon and women Join,
and finally when tho crowd gets tired
and sleepy they dispense to their own
homes.
This that we have described ia not
one Of tho most wonderful miracles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

but merely the commonest one and the
best attested. Some miracles, such as
the walking on water, are of rare oc-
currence, and only few people have
seen them. Raising people from the
dead IS also rare thing. But every
man and woman you meet can attest
the genuineness of the spirit fight.
for they have all been present when
1T was done Besides that, such things
are a matter of common knowledge
among the people. You might as we'll
try to convince an Englishman that
balloon flights have never been taken
in the British Isles as attempt to per
suade an Esquimau that spirit flights
have never occurred in the Mackenzie
delta.
One day when I was explaining to
my Esquimau that there were noun
tains on the moon and going into de-
tails of the moons physical charac-
teristics the account I gave did not
coincide with the opinion held by nv
Esqulmau listeners, and they asked me
how l knew these things were so.
l explained that we had telescopes
as long as the masts of ships and that
through them we could see the things
on the moons surface. "But had anv
white man ever been to the moon ."
was asked, and when l replied that
no one ever had, they said tt At while
they did not have any telescopes as
long as ships masts, yet they did have
men, and truthful men, too, that had
been to the moon, walked about there
and seen everything and they had come
back and told them about it. With all
Difference to the ingenuity of white
men, they thought that under the cir
cuin stances the Esquimaus ought to be
better informed than the white men
as to the facts regarding the moon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

the minds Of the Esquimau such be.
liefs as we have described you would find
Gas have found upon occason) that
you would succeed no better than did
Mark Twain's Yankee in his crusade
against Merlin. But if you concern
yourself not with the unteaching of old
beliefs, but with the teaching Of nsE
ones, you will find an easy path before
you. The Esquimaus already believe
many mutually contradictory things,
and they will continue believing then
while they gladly accept and d,voutly
believe everything you teach ta,m
They will, as the Christianized Arctic
Esquimaus are in fact doing, continue
believing all they used to bslisvs and
will believe ali the new things On VI
of that.