New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-10-29

struction, and by such hideous brutal
ity that no past g of savagery has
equaled them, the peoples of the earth
are now striving to form a League OF
Nations for the expressed purpose of
abolishing the causes Of war and TO
establish a lasting peace among all
men.
$50 Of more than passing interest Is
the fact that in the Sixteenth century
Of the North American continent there
was formed a permanent league OF
Eve tribes Of Indians for the purpose
Of stopping for all time the shedding
of human blood by violence and of es-
tablishing lasting peace among all
known men by means Of a constitu-
tional form of government based on
peace, justice, righteousness and pow
er, or authority"
These paragraphs, as quoted, appear
In the annual report of the Smithson-
ian institution. They were written
by ]. n. b. Hewitt of the bureau of
American ~ethnolOgy, and are the
opening paragraphs of a contribution
to the report by Mr.. Hewitt on "A
Constitutional League of Peace In
the Stone Age of America"
Was to Include All Known Tribes.
The founders of this stone age
league of peace, Mr.. Hewitt says,
were the AIOhawks. the Onandagas,
the Oneidas, the Cayugas and the
Senecas, five ~Iroquois tribes dwelling
in the central and eastern regions of
what is today the state of New York.
The founders Of this league, Ii Is
pointed out, had never heard of Chris
tianity, and yet, to quote Mr.. Hewitt
"they proposed for themselves and for
their posterlty the great task of grad
ually bringing under this form of gov
eminent all the known tribes of men,
not as subject peoples but as confed-
crates" To quote the ~ethnologlst
again:
st Is thus sec that the mental
grasp and outlook of these prophet
statesmen and stateswomen of the
Iroquois looked out beyond the limits
of tribal boundaries to a vast sister
hood and brotherhood of all the tribes
of men dwelling in harmony and hap
piness. This indeed was a notable
vision for the stone age of America"
This stone age league worked. 1t
bound the IrOquOian tribes together
until they were broken up by white
men. At the period Of the formation
of the league for about seventy-five
years afterward these tribes, Mr.. Hew-
lit says, thus united, were surrounded
by n number of powerful and hostile
tribes nearly all of which were cog
nate with them In speech.
Mr.. Hewitt says that the dominant
motive for the establishment of the
league for the five Iroquols nations
"was the impelling necessity to stop
the shedding Of blood by violence
through the making and ratifying of
universal peace by all the known
tribes of men, to safeguard human life
and health and welfare"
Mining Experiment Stations.
With the recent establishment of
n mining experiment station Of the
United States bureau Of mines at
Rollo. Mo-, with central office at
st. Louis, to consider problems In
the metallurgy of lead and zinc, and
one at Tuscaloosa, Ala, with central
office Mt Birmingham, to assist the
mining industry of the South, espe-
cially In by-product coke and iron
problems, there have been completed
10 mining experiment stations author
lied by congress at the last session to
aid the mining industry and to CO.
operate with the industry In the devel-
opment of the nations mineral re-
sources.
These stations, designed to do for
the mining industry what the agrl-
cultural experiment stations do for
farming. ere specializing on co-opera-
ton with the mineral industries pc
culiar TO their territory, taking up the
difficult problems encountered In the
treatment of complex or low-grade
ores. and assisting mining companies
In bringing their products through the
twilight zone of science into CONNER
clal success Metallurgical problems
of the industry and the public are
also considered. The bureau of mines
refuses cooperation only when the
benefits derived will accrue to some
one individual or some single concern.
More Rare Metals Produced.
The claim has already been made
that these stations, especially in west
ern metal mining, have been instru-
mental in greatly increasing the pro-
ductiOn of rare and precious metals,
which of course has resulted in the
employment of more men. A notable
IN the production of radlum
in Colorado and also in such metals
as molybdenum and tungsten has teen
due, some mining men claim, TO the
work of these stations. They, II is
said, were factors in winning the war
through the development of ore depos-
its of metals which were used for war
purposes.
This work of aiding the mineral in
dustry is continuing and the bureau,
through its several stations, now has
cooperative agreements with
mining and metallurgical concerns,
universities and state organizations for
the solution of industrial problems
will add to the prosperity and
of American mineral indus
tries. The work Of these stations has
,een growing so increasingly impor-
and so much business is now
being carried on with them by the
industry that the stations have been
-eclassifed and given definite names,
so that there will be a better under
standing of the work performed and a