Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-11-02

'EDMESlAY, .NOYEWBER ~,
Miss Iarence Minis Visits Gov.
srilSsse sent Indian School.
Deaf ertiser: s. f
For 70 thsse many weeks / have
lbeen 9oking forward to writing this
artticl stis bscause / have been antici;
pathng ths very rare privilege of Wis
lifting ghilicco Indian School, one
of The the tgests Indian schools in the
UNITED States, with student body Of
800, there to witness a spirited
footsbaA game between the Indian
lstfootba u eleven" and the team Of
the sniversity Preparatory School.
yesterday as though / were
living ard acting a dramatic story,
leaving onkawa i'm the first chapter
and in each successive paragraph ex-
Ipsrienciing enough,to to furnish memo
tr.iisess the rest. : of a dull lifetime,
were 1T ecessary to be dull. but lam
d srover and for such as I, un-
Ieexpectsd Joys and thrills turn sud
denly onnd acorners and startle me
with witt their trahgeness.
have al adyentures because I ex-
pect them; they always ccmeito ipeo-
pie who are in a receptive state Of
/ GhiIiceo is a co-educationa school,
situated I'll! ithes country about four
miles sonth of the Kansas border
line. Here are students who. have
come feom North and South Caro-
Ina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Kansas Oklahoma and other states.
In other and differentSs states have
met aolored people from South Car
olina and feltta spirit of conrad deship,
but il seems impossible to have any
feel Sc mutual state love with In
idians, not because I,dislike them, but
rather because ! have never seen a
native South Carolina Indian. / have
sesn them in the far west and middle
west, but not at home. That is ever
thu way IL
,Sfs5T he school is under the supervi-
sion Of the United States govern
.nigSis ils ahd Uncle Sam has made this
93pfa ris region blossom like a rose"
with me buildings for these stu
dents giving them their schooling.
aud free.
boys of the ootballlii
team we're sssafs !ls 5t
very tail, except one who must have
been six feet. IS.
i know you are Immediately Won
dering what soft of game the In
dians playedsand whether or not they
were victorious. They swept the u.
P. s. team off its feet and carried the
victory for Chilicco at score OF 26
to 6. wish you could have seen them
rum They were as fleet of foot as
young elk, and as 1.-the and strong.
On falling, they rose up again with
the elasticity of savage vigor and
started again, playing with marvel
lous cleverness and endurance. The
Tonkawa football coach said this
was the finest team the U. P.S. had
played this year.
One reason for their excellence is
the splendid physical fitness in which
they are kept. The dorpitories are on
the campus and the boys keep regu-
lar hours, eat wholesome food, have
regular work to do and are forbidden
to smoke, and these rules are observ-
ed with military precision. Thus ply
sical fitness tells when they are in a
contest on the gridHiron.
Between quarters the Indian band
played, having an Indian director.
The. music was excellent, and one
would; not have known from the play
ing that. the performers were not Of Of
the white race. 95.
The Indiansis not red, but brown.
He derived the name cred man" from
the red war paint which deceived the
first whites into thinking that this
was the natural color;of the skin.
D / think there is a great similarity
between the Indian and the. .Mongo.
liam, more especially the Japanese.
Some Of the students had decidedly
slanting eyes. ! am more and more
Of the opinion that the theory is
right which says that the early an
cestors Of the American Indian cross
-, In c. ,tro,rbt froro lSi.