The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-20
|ND|ANSSPEAK
At BANQUET TO
. EX-M|NUTE men
Guests in latterner Home at
Dinner for Members of 1915
Military Detail.

Soldiers in uniforms OF buff and
blue, representing the Continentals.
first American fighting men. COM
mingled with Indians In bright COL
ored bonnets and blankets. types Of
the original Americana. at the ban
quet board at the country home OF
Capt. Peter Latterner, Washington
business man. Clarendon, Va. The
supper was given in honor of Major
K. T. PAUL. the march king" of New
York, here on business connected with
the arms conference; Col. M. A. Win.
ter and the other members of the de-
tail of Washington Minute Men. who
in the fall of 1915 made a tour of the
countries of Europe, and while In
Germany were the special guests OF
the now deposed kaiser and his gov
eminent.
Other guests were the Indians
Crows, Kio*as and Sioux-headed by
Chief Plenty Coos. who came to WASH
ington to do honor to the unknown
soldier, and, incidentally, to give the
foreigners attending the arms confer
ence closeup of Uncle Sans noted
redmen.
Prior to the function at Clarendon.
Capt. Fred II. Kramer entertained
Major PAUL and the surviving men,
bers of the European detail at a BAN
quet in his home. 1903 Macomb street,
Cleveland Park. Those who went
overseas to represent the first Ameri-
can soldiers before the outbreak of
the world war and who answered roll
call at Captain Kramer's function
were: Col. M. A. Winter, Major e. T.
PAUL. Captain Kramer. Capt. j. J.
Costinett. Capt. e. w. Thayer. Capt.
Victor ]. Evans, Capt. j. s. M. Zim-
hermann and Capt Peter Latterner.
Two members of the detail were alb
sent-Capt. w. II. Wunder. deceased,
and Capt. Adolph GUIDE, who is III.
Officers present who were not on the
European tour were W. Fl. Shir-Cliff,
Major Sterling Kerr, general secretary
Of the Scottish Rite Masons: Walter
A. Brown. former grand master OF
Masons and ex-president of the Board
of Trade.
Indian Guests Speak.
Features of the function were a Law.
ish display of flowers and the rendi-
ton on the piano by Major PAUL of
some OF the famous marches composed
by him.
Patriotic speeches by the Indian
guests at the Latterner banquet
brought applause. Colonel Winter
presided, and when he made his speech
of welcome there came a reminder Ct
the confusion of tongues at the Tower
OF Babel. Representatives of the three
tribes present speak different Ian
guages and each chief had an inter
prefer. Sentence by sentence Colonel
winters talk was translated by .he
interpreters In unison in the cultural
tones OF the red men and the result
was weird, indeed. punctuated by
many basso profundi "ughs." The
Crows were congratulated by Colonel
Winter because they had never borne
arms against the whites. He spoke
Of the large number of American In
dams who served in the world war,
and explained they were all voluri-
teers, as being wards Of the Govern
ment they were not subject to the
draft
''The unknown soldier recently
buried at Arlington may have been
an Indian, who knows?" the colonel
declared. THE losses among our In
dian heroes were terrific. They never
hesitated in going over the top and
charging over no mans land into the
very jaws of death"
Talk by Plenty Coos.
The chiefs all made reply to the
speeches of the whites. Plenty Coos
related interesting "reminiscences of
the Custer massacre, and said the
Crows will always be found loyal TO
this Government and ready to respond
to any call, although all good Indians
are praying to the Great Spirit for
peace forevermore. Concluding, he
raised his arms and said:
MY wigwam is always open to my
good white friends"