The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-10-28

| lHallou Ol men anu NcupoilS VI We
structlon. and by such hideous brutal
ity that no past age of savagery has
equaled them, the peoples of the earth
are now striving to form a League OF
Natiogs for the expressed purpose or
abOlshing 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
on the North American continent there
was formed a permanent league OF
five tribes of Indians for the purpose
of stopping for all time the shedding
of human blood by violence and OF es-
tabishing lasting peace among all
known men by means Of a constiiu'
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 Smthson-
! 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 Mohawks, the Onandagas,
the Oneidas, the Cayugas and the
Senecas, five Iroquos tribes dwelling
in the central and eastern regions Of
what is today the state OF New York.
The founders of this league, 1t is
pointed out. had never heard of Chris
/ tianity, and vet, to quote Mr. Hewitt
they proposed for themselves and for
their posterity the great task of grad
ualy bringing under this form of gov
eminent all the known tribes of men,
not as subject peoples but as confed-
crates" To quote the ethnologist
again;
ut is thus seen 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-tiye
years afterward these tribes. Mr.. Hew-
lit says, thus united. were surrounded
by number of powerful and hostile
tribes nearly all of which were cog
nate with them in speech
MIR. Hewitt says that the dominant
motive for tho establishment of the
league for the five Il0quois nations
was The impellng necessity to stop
the shedding of blood b. violence
through the making and ratiiy'ng 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
mining experiment station of the
! United States bureau of mines at
Rollo Mo, with central office At
st. Louis. to consider problems in
the metalurgy of lead and zinc, and
one at Tuscaloosa, Ala, with central
office at Birmingham, to assist the
mining industry of the South, espe-
cially in by-product coke and iron
problems, there have been completed
Is 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 agri-
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
cial success, Metallurgical problems
which will add to the general welfare
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 instIu-
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
increase IN the production of radium
In Colorado and also in such metals
as molybdenm and tungsten has teen
| due, some mining men claim, TO the
work Of these stations. They, 1t Is
said we're factors in winning the war
through the development Of ore dep0s-
/ 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
definite cooperative agreements with
40 mining and metallurgical concerns,
universities and state organizations for
the solution of industrial problef~s
which will add to the prosperity ana
greatness of American mineral indus