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What About Our Taxes?

noticeable which
preaching white heat definite the part Of candidate
providing wha reduction
taxation
Indianapolis discose that in the last
million dollars causing disbursement approximately eight million dol
merely corporation
tremendous than million dollars
against for street improvements
a government of
city inhabitants constitute the
that residents Indianapolis expected to their
government
upon public utilities
companies. citizens
Of these utilities The public utilities
classified operating by the public service commission and
to provide pay
Indianapolis Railway asking greater
in approximately
indianapolis recently obtained In
The Citizens Company pleads
unlikely the telephone
method charging increased taxes directly
the o Indianapolis
1t is apparent that at
pocketbooks property the u
tiles collected enable the
city administration to meet increased expenditures
which property and property renters
object without in many instances realizing the
government their objections lie
In Indianapolis nevertheless at
landlords in their high
rents They pay additional which the
his order to take Of constantly
increasing
years nkering with tie
politicians high valuations do not
necessarily hgher-taxes.
better For the valuations
Indianapolis higher level before than the
approximately that existed before
Not single mayor method
by which hopes
opposed the that
profeses loyalty the Nation
problem day. only
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A LdUdGbLe Purpose


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appointment
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party primaries.
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attribute to the of Mr. Thomas
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pointing the
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against Johnson And in of these the
they corruption in the primaries
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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-30
THE FEST INAUGURATION.

Q. Please give some details Of Wash
ingtOn's Inauguration. G. K.
A. General Washington desired a quiet
entry into New York, but his progress
was one continuous ovation, accompanied
with the ringing of bells and firing Of
cannon. A civil and military escort from
the frontier of Pennsylvania, with Gov
ernor Mihlin at the head, met him at his
public entrance into Philadelphia At the
point OF embarkation to cross the Della
ware River, women had erected q trium-
phal arch. At Elizabeth Point, a delega-
ton Of both houses of Congress met him
in splendid barge. Governor Clinton
had provided carriages for his arrival In
New York, but Washington preferred 20
walk to the Capitol The ceremonies
commenced at a. m. April 80, 1879, with
services in all the churches. Afterward
General Washington rode in q coach OF
state to the Senate chamber, where he
was conducted to the chair Of John
Adams. The oath of Office was admins
tered on balcony, in front Of the Sem
ate chamber, in full view Of the street,
the balcony containing only q table and
a Bible. The General wore a dark brown
suit Of American make. a dress sword,
white silk stockings and silver shoe buck.
les. For a few moments he was overcome
by emotion. The oath was administered
by the chancellor of the State of New
York. The Inauguration address was de-
livered in the Senate chamber and after
wards to the whole assemblage In front
Of St Paul's Church.
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came they are dumb. A study of their
legends gives one a large collection Of
fanciful tales of impossible happenings
and without any links by which these
legends can be connected with known
historical facts Of other peoples.
Certainly the old time Maoris never
handed down to their sons any record Of
the tribes of hundreds Of years ago. They
had no signs or symbol characters like
the American Indians which made his
tory. That their memory was short is
indicated by the fact that when Capt
James Cook visited them in 1869 the
Maoris had no knowledge Of the fact that
127 years before Abel Tasman had been
there and had had a battle with the
natives through his inability to under
stand that they were not enemies.
CASE OF MUTUAL
MISUNDERSTANDING.
Badly frightened as the Maoris were
by the appearance Of these strange white
men, their chief sent q herald to an
nounce that he would visit the strangers
aboard their ships. But Tasman and his
Dutch crew misunderstood and when the
chief SET out from shore with several
canoes Of warriors as an escort Tasman
sent boat to warn his second ship
against treachery. The boat collidod
with one Of the canoes and at once the
Maoris, believing they were attacked, be-
gan to fight, killing four Dutchmen. Tas-
man at once fired a broadside into the
canoes and left with his ships.
Tasman's account of what little he saw
Of the Maoris, although he and his men
did not set foot ashore in New Zealand
described them as so blood thirsty and
war-like that the far-away islands which
now made up New Zealand were Stunned
by white adventures for more than a
century. When Cook came he was not
so easily daunted as had been Tasman
and, despite the fact that at first the
Maoris were quite inhospitable toward
him. he remained for six months, sailed
around the islands and went ashore with
out any more than one real clash right
after he first landed.
Cook was different from the ordinary
explorer, for he treated the natives with
Kindness and Justice and finally won
their regard. He never was able to go
far inland because of the constant wars
between the various Maori tribes, but
from those tribes with which he was In
close touch we get the first authentic
record Of these interesting people.
The Maori of old belonged to a
brown race. Although all of them sprang
from the same source they never yielded
to tho leadership of any of their own
number. Tribes, were formed by close
blood relationship and each tribe was
governed by itself. Today the same con-
dltion exists. There are a score of prin-
cipal tribes and each of them is divided
into minor tribes between which there
still exists bad blood which was insti-
gated by some outrage hundreds Of years
ago and for which the cause may be IN
| known now. The old Maori was fond
Of tribal meetings at which all questions
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supreme Only a handful Of these
old natives remain
A chief In ceremonial costume Is
shown at the top right. He has lived
many years, but is active and rugged
and il "a good type of the Maori of
old Tall, strglght-limbed and proud,
the Maori WAS first and last u war
riOr. Now the old MaOris are fond
of shaking hands with white stran-
gers and are more affabIe than the
younger men Of the tribes.
B0ttOm-In the circle on the left is
shown an old-time chief whose tat
tood face tells story of war and
great achiev ements La his youthful
days. Each line has Il significance
to those who can read It. 1t is said
Maori ehiertain who once went to Eng
land warned an artist who was paint
ing his picture TO be sure To get
every line in. as they were record
of his personal history and deeds of
daring. Only those OF extreme youth
or lack of courage did not have tat
tOed faces Atty years ago.
To the right and slightly above
picture of the old-time chief. Mr..
BOyce Is shown standing in the en-
trance to one of the pas which were
the old-time forts OF the Maoris ia
war times. The gates were barely
wide enough TO admit one person al a
time and were Ornamented with
typical Maori wood carvings. In
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carving the Maori would start at one
figures In detail as he went along.
He did not lay out a design before
hand, but carried it in his head, yet
when the work was completed both
sides were found to be as nearly
identical as if they had been Laid out
with calipers.
Continuing to the right Is view of
Lake ROtorua on a placid morning
and beneath it Is shown the boiling
pools of Tikitere in the heart of
MaOrilaad- Lake Rotorua is in the
thermal region of New Zealand and
the town Of ROtOruR is conducted by
the government as a resort where
the III may go to receive the benefits
of waters of innumerable kinds. Two
miles from RotOrua are the Arawa.
described by Mr.. BOyce as the largest
and most interesting of the Maori
tribes.
The figure at the right of the view
of Lake RotOrua shows a Maori cos
tune made of closely woven New
Zealand flax and the feathers of
gaudy coIored birds with ornaments
fashioned out of granite and green
stone. The MaOris in the long war
periods in their fortresses developed
great skin in the fashioning of wOn-
derful weapons, capes, coats and
kits.
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Top reading from Ieft--Maori girls
at play before civilization reached the
the country. The tree shown in the
picture wns bent over the bank of -
lake near RotDrua- From its tip were
suspended ropes woven from native
fax. The girls used these as swings
until they became tired when they
dropped OF in the water. The tree
Is gone. but natives SIAN point out
the stump.
Girls illustrating the old Maori
sRlutation, rubbing noses. Kissing
was unknown until the advent OF the
white man. "Pena EOe'' is the Maori
Cree,dng. meaning "hello'' or that's
you" and l. familiar to visitors. as
the girls are not formal In the matter
of requiring an introduction.
A Maori belle of other days. Tat
tooed lips and chius are seen now
only on the faees of very old women
for the younger generation has
changed IL ideas OF beauty. The
girl in the picture wears a greensboro
good luck piece suspended about her
neck Today the new greensboro,
tiki" IL Is called, ls made In Switzer-
land and sent to New Zealand TO be
sold to tourists as genuine Maori
work.
Next Is an old timer who has many
"a story TO tell Of the days when the
Maori and PalSeha (,vhite mani were
lighting to see which would become
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The government encourages New
ZeaIanders to see their own country.
could hardly believe it when / was ad-
vised that for about SEQ / could buy
ticket covering all the New Zealand
railroad over 5000 miles and ride on
the ticket for six weeks. There was
no limit to the use of it. You could
travel day and night and repeat trips as
often as you liked. The result is that
all New Zealanders become well &C
quainted with their own country which,
taking the North and South Islands to-
gether is about 1,oOO miles long. The
area is twice the size of the state OF
Illinois. Here you find every variety Of
scenery mountains, valleys, plains, ferns
and pines and everything we have in
Yellowstone National Park with the
Mammoth cave Of Kentucky thrown in.
man born in New Zealand who has
used his holiday rTcKet," good for every
spot in his country, would find nothing
new in travelling the world over. 1 see
no use of him leaving his own country
for new sights. The government, in adj
dition to selling this ticket runs
tourist bureau and looks after every de-
tail Of travel without charge for the
service.
To me Rotorua and its principal at
fractions were not thrilling or awe
inspiring for 1 have seen Yellowstone
Park, and it is by far the grandest or
the two. But nowhere in the world have
l seen another people just like the
Maoris and at Whakarewarera called
Whaka for short, two miles from
Roturua, found the Arawa, the, largest
and most interesting of the twenty
principal tribes Of Maoris now in ex-
istence.
Where the Maori came from originally
no man knows. They themselves have a
we'll preserved legend that tells of a great
tribe hundreds Of years ago which be-
came weary of continual battling with
enemies and, inspired by the dream Of
a medicine man, set out in a feet of war
canoes and after many weeks of plow-
ing the Pacific Ocean, landed on the
rocky coasts of what now Is northern
New Zealand and found ready to hand
a veritable Paradise not inhabited by
man. But the spot from which they
came has never been located definitely.
Learned scientists have found what
they consider ample proof that the Ma
oris came from Hawaii. Others pick out
Tahiti or Tonga as the original home,
while equally learned men profess to
have discovered in our own United States
carvings and utensils which indicate that
at some far distant time the Maoris
rOamed the North American continent
Certainly they are Polyneslans in every
way and are associated by blood some
where in the past with the natives of
some Of the South Sea Islands.
The Maori today is able to trace bach
his family line for many generations of
twenty five years each, some of them be-
ing able to repeat, parrot-like, the names
OF their ancestors for as many as forty
or fifty generations. But when It comes
to concrete facts as to their origin and
history befora the xKhita man or uakaha.
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tapu, certain food was tapu, certain
articles were tapu. The tapu was SO
effective that even the natives them
selves were ever and eternally -infr1ng-
ing upon it and being punished accord
ing TO the severity of the offensive or the
greatness of the tapu. So strong was
the belief that harm would befall those
who violated tapu that cases have been
known where a Maori. although in per-
feet health when he ate of food that
was tapu-say the Ieavings from q
chiefs meal-wouId die in great agony
within a few hours after learning of bis
Offense.
You now have read Of the Maori oE
other days as I have learned about him
from those who knew him best. Next I
shall tell you OF the Maori of today as
l have seen him and know him.
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the custom of muru-in reality nothing
but the plundering of those who were
guilty of some breach Of tribal law or
etiquette Quite often the law of muru
was taken advantage Of In that the en-
forcers pillaged all of the offending per-
sons belongings for something that by
no reasoning could have been his fault
Muru was in effect our own law of dam
ages, except that the persons who be-
lieved them elves offended-it might DO q
full tri. fixed the amount of DANA ges
and then proceeded to collect it after in
forming the victim Of their coming.
For instance, suppose that man had
accidentally killed a boy Of a tribe As
soon as the boys relatives learned of 1t
they would march in a body to the home
of the offender. One of their number
would announce his intention of killing
the man and the two would engage in
battle TO all intents and purposes deadly
in character. The first scratch, however,
would be sufficient to end the duel and
then the mob would ransack the house
Of their victim. and cart away everything
he owned. At the same time they would
help themselves to food which he, warned
in advance, would have ready for them
while he sat quietly by and cbatted pleas
antly with the avengers. VI course the
next day he might have his chance to
pillags some Of them and get back some
Of his stuff and some that was the prop
erty of the others.
MIGHT BE ENFORECED
FOR ALMOST ANYTHING.
Muru might be enforced for almost
anything. II a mans wife eloped his
rival might be the victim OF muru for
doing it and then muru be enforced
against the husband because he hadn't
watched his wife well enough to prevent
her clipping. A person against whom
muru was worked, however. always felt
honored and the greater the mob that
robbed him the more he felt pleased.
Today most of the articles which in
those days were valuable ara so COM
mon that muru seldom is resorted to.
The second custom, or law, now
about extinct is that Of tapu. To the
white man it was a bit Of nonsense. 10
the Maori IL was a serious matter. 10
have a thing tapu was, in brief, to cast
a spell over it which made it sacred
and prevented others from touching 1t.
Thus a chief, his belongings and his
family were tapu and none might touch
him or them. Certain grounds were
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)TORUA, New Zealand-We are in the heart of Maori
land, and having made the trip by rail from Auck-
land to Rotorua site of the boiling sulphur springs
I no longer wonder why the Maori pronounced
Mowrie) fought desperately against the white
1t was to for himself and his descendants
the wonderful lands with which nature has endowed
New Zealand. On the eight-hour Journey from Auck
land a panorama of fertile fields, well laid out
farms and neat wellkept homes and barns is fol-
lowed by a succession of bush-covered mountains and
great forests whose underground reaches to the very
edges of the rails themselves.
Rotorua the place to which the tourists always
are urged to come, is not so much in itself 1t is
operated by the government as a bathhouse and san
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-30
HOOP SNAKE DESCRIBED.

Q. Is there such a thing as q hoop
snake? ANXIOUS,
A. There Is q small, harmless snake
known as hoop snake. which is found
in the South Atlantic States. It is blue
black above, marked with three red
lines, and flesh -colored below with black
spots. It spends most of the time be
meath the ground, burrow1ng deep Into
the soil. There is a superstition that
this snake takes its tail In its mouth and
rolls like a hoop.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-30
THE LOCUST FAMILY.

Q. Is a grasshopper a locust? Z. v.
A The term locust may be used In ra-
ferring to any grasshopper. hut in COM
mon usage It is meant to specify those
species which have migratory habits.
These often travel in vast swarma, de-
stroying the vegetation.
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Maori lived there were no extremes Of
heat or cold that made it necessary for
him to have any more .han bare shelter,
and rugs or blankets made out of hemp.
First and last, he was n warrior, and
when there was no fighting to be done,
time hung heavily on his hands.
AS a fighter the old time Maori was
relentless and cruel Unlike our Amer
lean Indian, he was not treacherous or
inclined to strike in the dark When
he went out TO kill an enemy he wanted
that enemy to know who had done the
killing. lie worked himself and his foe
up to lighting pitch by long-winded ora
tory and hurting of insults which no
self respecting Maori could stand very
long. particularly as the insults referred
to family matters, which is touchy
spot He delighted in making grotesque
faces and sticking out his tongue as
far as it would go, largely as matter
Of dcfying his enemy to come and cut
out that tongue.
No sympathy for q wounded enemy or
one who was incapable Of fighting back
stirred the Maori breast Having
dewned his foe, he would coolly brain
the wounded man and, If possible, cut
off his head and bear it back to his
WHARF, or village, perched upon the point
of a spear.
1t is hard to associate the child-like,
fun-Ioving Maori you meet today with
tho cannibal Of no longer ago than sixty
years 1t is generally accepted that the
Maori did not eat his victims because
he craved flesh, but because being eaten
was considered the browning insult of
all and even today to point out that the
forefather Of the person you are ad
dressing was eaten after a battle is a
lighting word. and unless you can prove
it the consequences are likely to be that
you will be deprived Of all possessions
which will be turned over to the insulted
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TERRIBLE TALES OF
CANNIRAL ORGIES.


Terrible tales are told Of the wild
orgies of cannlballsm which followed GER
tain famous battles. 1t was not at all
unusual for the women to follow up the
warriors and, once the battle was Joined,
to light the fires under the boiling pots
and have the water hot for the slain
foe. After one celebrated raid tho victors
carried off to their own village 300 kits
of human flesh which had been boiled
in their own fat against day Of famine.
Maori women were forbidden to eat hui
man flesh and were ostracized when they
did so.
The Maorrs sense Of humor is keenly
developed and in the days when wars
were raging, quite often what was in
tended as q serious fray turned out to
be a farce because Of some Unexpectedly
humorous twist against it. Near Rotorua
one of these incidents occurred. A few
Maori warriors had been besieged in
fortress by an overwhelming force of
the enemy. Seeing that it was inevitable
that they were going to be eaten, the
chief called his warriors together and,
while the enemy did a war dance out
side, suggested that as long as they
were going to die they might as well
have some fun out of 1t. So, to the
amazement Of the besiegers, the door Of
the pa opened and outNmarched the be-
leaguered tribe, with faces highly solemn
but bearing aloft in place OF weapons
stone pots and pans and other domestic
utensils, which suggested to the enemy
that they were providing their own cof-
fins. 1t so struck the funny bone of the
opposing chief that he called off the in
tended massacre and instead those who
m IN m 70
embraced each other In friendship. =
Two ancient customs of the Maori
xssich now have passed into the discard,
in their day probably the Ikpst ef-
1--WE means Of checking GRIM ever
IA1&rinatad Nv rnracra raca AA&a rrna
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rHn Man wAs HANarn

Q. Is 1t proper to say THE man was
hanged" or "The man was hungS"
P. L O.
A When referring to the death PEN
atty, the preferred form Of the past tense
is hanged"
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Ill receive
kinds fishing
which it.
scenery boiling
nnnlsn upeths
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LENGTH OF NEW YORK SUBWAY.

Q. How many miles of subway ana
IL" tracks are there In New York City,
T. 7. s.
A There are over coo miles of subway
and al" tracks in New York City.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-18
METROPOLITAN.
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PoIG Negr iH ~FcHdeitd.
AT CrandaIIs Metropolitan Thea
ter the foremost Offering this week
will be Pola Negri's most recently
released starring vehicle, Ven
delta" to which will be added
9ast and Furious" a new two
reel comedy with Al ST. John.
VENDETTA" affords Pola Negri her
hBst opportunity to appear before
the American public in the role Of
st- beautiful young woman of the
present day. In Vendetta" this
brilliant Mariana Paoli, a beauty
Of Corsica. swears to avenSe the
death Of her brother, killed in
a pistol duel with a young officer.
Her quest for the man who brought
grief to her home leads to Alexan-
dria, Egypt, where she falls des-
,erately in love with a poor pa
dent who is known merely by a
number. Marianna's dearest com
panion meets her betrothed and
Mariana learns that her own lover
IS her friends brother. Then is it
divulged that Mariana has fallen
in love with the very officer against
whom she has sworn the Corsican
blood oath Of Vendetta"
The program will include a
PriZma natural color study, the
Fsthe News. the Literary Digests
Topics of the Day" and special
musical features.