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er position. The telling of the tree has
its own ritual. Three times the EVOLVES"
strike at the tree, avoiding it; only at
the fourth stroke do they hit it. There
is the due ceremony of digging the hole
to receive the tree. It must be free
from dirt. The tree must not be per-
mitted to fall. An accident means bad
fortune. The crotch of the tree holds
the nest of the Thunder Bird. The
whistles of the dancers are made Of the
upper bone of the golden war" eagles
wing. The note stimulates the scream
of the eagle.
Poles radiating toward the center
pole from north, east, south and west
and intermediate directions must not
rest upon it. They Intervene above
it. This is a point many casual OBJ
servers miss.
Formerly the Sun dances lasted fou1
days and nights. Without respite the
dancers dance and whistle, facing the
pole. Their faces are painted, and each
varying design represents the way the
lodge pole looks to the dancer. A:
fatigue increases and cataleptic o.
hypnotic states intervene, the design!
change. Time is i%neXorably modify.
ing this ancient ceremony. The las,
Sun dance consumed only three days
The tradition lasts, but the vital sig.
%nificance of the dance is gone.
On the last day, in conclusion of the
Sun dance, an Indian in character O
the buffalo comes walking across the
prairie. He carries a staff split in foul
sections, representing the four winds
He pranes, walks peculiarly, looks queer
and the children are frightened. HI
enters the lodge, is given a pipe, which
he smokes. He sits down facing west
his back to the pole. He rises, walks
around, and begins to dance. Sud.
denly he stops and addresses the dane.
ers in the sign language. He tells then
that he is glad to see them dancing
tells them not to rest, to keep it up
Having performed this office he goe:
out, and all the little children no long.
er pantomiming fear, follow him like
veritable pied piper. Presents are dis
tributed, and the Sun dance is over.
DR.. Linderman questions whether HI
shall ever attend another Sun dance
indeed, whether another will be held
The dance has become a pageant, {
show, the shell of an old observance
once instinct with life.
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AS an example Of misinformation

AS an example of misinformatiOn
that comes glibly to misinformed lips,
DR.. Linderman cited a statement that
no Indian woman vas ever known to
pledge a Sun dance or to whistle in
one. The reverse is true. The Black
feet legend of the Sun dance is that a
chief, Scar Face, manned as his name
suggests, loved a beautiful Indian maid
en- who refused to marry him because
of his disfigurment. She persuaded
him to go to the Sun for healing. He
went; and the Sun told him that for his
healing the maiden must marry him,
and must pledge the Sun a dance.
When her people were sick, when her
warriors were wounded, she must build
the Sun a medicine lodge and pledge
the Sun a dance, that her people might
become well and the warrior be healed.
This is the legendary origin of the Sun
dance, and to this day the dance is
customarily pledged by a woman.
DR.. Linderman's Interpretation of the
term "F1athead" is that it refers to the
flat country at the head of the lake,
and by mistaken Interpretation was ap-
piled to certain Indians. This is his
opinion, not offered as susceptible of
proof.
The Sun dance wa a dance of the
Plains Indians. The Crees and Chip
pewas who observe this dance most
religiouSly are not Plains Indians; but
when they drove the Blackfeet from the
Slave lake region, they took over the
Sun dance as "big medicine" and have
become the most faithful o%bservants of
this ceremony. Not once, to his know
ledge, since the Riel rebellion have they
failed to hold their annual dance, and
many Of these dances DR.. Linderman
has attended. He is an honored guest
among the Indians he has befriended,
and some years ago he and his party
were given an old buffalo-skin lodge,
the only one then In existence. The IN
dians notify him of their approaching
Sun dance, and delegate someone to
go to bring him to their encampment.
The dance is usually held in June, near
the summer solstice. Tradition has it
that the dance must be held when the
quaking asp leaf is as big as a mouse's
ear, and again, when the June berry is
ripe. There is a contradiction here,
n more of those things pertaining to
the ceremony which a white man does
nj 1ully understand.
Last June DR.. Linderman's escort ar
rived in the middle of the night, and he
arose at once to accompany them. They
reached camp at the old Fort ASSN
niboine military reservation at 5 p. m.
At night it presented a wierd and
beautiful sight under the moonlight.
With the circling lodges of the reserva-
ton Indians were perhaps $50 tents
of the visiting Indians from across the
Canadian line. A shooting star swept
across the camp, so close they could
hear its hiss.
The ritual Of the Sun dance is ex-
acting. The scouts or wolves" who
bring in the pole for the medicine lodge
must be socially right. Their search
must consume q specified time, the tree
selected must be a quaking asp Of def
mite characteristics, standing In prop
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OCC11 Vic Vi
famous old blanket chiefs. He has re-
corded what he has learned in a doz-
en- books. After observing the Indian
sympathetically and shrewdly all these
years, he concludes that no white man
will ever or car ever fully understand
Indian psychology. One can watch at
tentively and record faithfully what he
sees; but the inner meaning Of Indian
ceremonial, its origin, symbolism and
tradition will remain a sealed book.
DR.. Linderman has a fury Of contempt
for those authorities" who take a trip
to Glacier park, see a few half-breeds
from the train window, and 60 home to
inform the world about "the Indian"
The term Indian" is as inclusive as
the word Caucasian" and that covers
everything from old Romans to young
radicals.
If an observer like DR.. Linderman
who has watched the vanished print
tive Indian for the last half century,
confesses himself baffled by certain
elements of Indian life, what chance
Is there for newcomers to learn any,
thing or impart anything about the old
order which is already gone? A new
field has opened, however, with the
New Deal, which gives back to the In
dian part of that of which he has been
robbed and a degree OF Self-determ1n-
alton. It may not be a tranquil field
OF a pretty one. There will be a ire
mendous struggle for political power
and dominance among the mixed
bloods when the Indian begins his
drive for power, and developments will
be intense and interesting. DR.. Under
-o~ r>Ni~%e 0,,t khic fio1I IN tho xy0,,rror
writer's, and willingly leaves it to them
older culture.
For the first time, at the recent Writ
ers' conference, DR.. Linderman pre-
that Indians did not make the stone ar
America and Europe. ell pointed out
that no warrior, no Indian of his long
acquaintance had ever professed know
ledge Of the making Of stone arrow
heads or had seen them used. This
refers not to the tiny bird arrowheads,
which are a different matter, but to the
arrows used for big game. On the cont
rary, bone arrowheads were in uni
versal use from the earliest memory of
even the Oldest Indians. Question an
old Indian about the stone arrowheads,
and he invariably attributes them to
'The Little People," This is the ex-
PLANTATION given by the old blanket In
dian. The modern young half -blood is
different; he is apt at telling anything
the listener wants to hear. DR.. Lin
derman believes Indian picture writ
ing, too, dates from the period of the
stone arrowheads. He has seen picture
writing that no Indian could read or
would attempt to interpret. Question
ed, the Indians answer is again, 1.-The
Little People,"
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duction c~oordinating office of the Bill
ings district.
The average cost of the dams
amounted to approximately 81, 100, COM
plete with riprap and fence, while tho
average spring development cost
amounted to approximately 5000, tho
report showed. On that basis, the IN
tire investment for the water conserva-
ton development on the IA reserva-
tons cost approximately $958,20C Ast
year.
1t was indicated in the report that
should the IECW program continue,
future plans should include q survey
of the water Of each reser-
walton and prospecting for UNDER
ground supplies. With the exception
of supervision, practically all Of tho
construction work On the projects wa
done by Indian laborers.
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By GRACE STONE COATES

Author Of ''Black Cherries," "Portulacas In
the Wheat" and Mead and Mangel Wurzel."
One Of the headliners at each an
nual conference of writer's at Mis-
soula for the past four years has
been DR.. Frank Bird Linderman,
Montana author and authority on the
Plains Indians. He comes down from
his spacious lodge at Goose bay, Flat
head lake, and holds his crowded
classr0oms fascinated with his fund
of annecdote and Indian lore.
Reporters admit they can't "get" DR.
Linderman on paper. HE can keep {
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room 1ull q people
roaring by the hour"
said a newspaper
a "but if a run
Of mill reporter
tried to take his talk
it would fall flat. It's
what Linderman puts
into his talk besides
ds-no reporter
can get that into
print" DR.. Under
man has d the
Indian at first hand
for so years. He came
to the Fla h e a d
country when he was
a boy, and practically
alone, too; and has
n
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OLD-TIME PRINTER PASSES

William L.. Jaeckel, At, died at tho
Daily hospital at Hamilton recently fol-
lowing an illness of two weeks caused
by heart ailment complications. A nA-
tive of Anaconda, Jacket came to
Hamilton two years ago from Butte.
where he was a printer for 26 years.
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PAIR KILL 322 b b

PAIR KILL 322 RABBITS
There were 1922 rabbits killed in q
five-hour hunt by Otis Pewitt and Joe
Dionne at the Pewitt and Hensen
ranches near Landusky. 1t took 80
seconds a rabbit to skin them.
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boys! GzTS! . Join the Dizzy Dean Winners

name and address, to Grape Nuts, Battle Creek, Mich,
for your membership insignia and free copy of the club
manual-'Win with Dizzy Dean'-andl list of other
vsauable free prisea.
And stsrt building up your energy by eating
0Cspe-Nus. Il has q winning aavor all its own-c1isp,
nnt1a1e, dsaic;ous. rs economical, too. Two table
spooofas, with whole milk o. cream, provide more
varied nourishment than many . hearty meal 4
Ds0duet a 9anan6l y0odA. -
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The Washington Times
Duckbin Honor Roll

The washington Times distributes $2S in prizes to and
women bowrs the washington rolling the highest nd
vidual regulation FOULLNE competition each
week from Monday to Saturday through April.
There prizes each for Five dollars
VIII be paid to the and rolling the highest
each week. highest
five highest in each group
OnS to the obvious superiority of certain leagues
tempt equitable distribution of weekly prizes ia
to limit prizes to three each league (sxept of
and each bouuler per upeek
HIEHECT I I
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Bowling Tonight

NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE
Avenue Grill VS.. Sholls Cafe, King Pin
VS.. Washington Times Book of Wash
ington VS.. Lucky Strike, Fountain Hams
VS.. Heurich Brewers, at Lucky Strike.
NAVY YARD LEAGUE-Miscl vs..
T. 2, Sight VS.. c. & R.. Sight VS..
Bd. Mt. ., Torp T. VS.. Bd Mt. l,
Sight VS.. Miscl I. West VS.. Physic Lab.
B. NJ. VS.. Tool. Erecting VS.. Mine Lab,
DR.. Room VS.. Supply, Lucky Strike.
TAKOMA LEAGUE-scal Construction
VS.. Takoma P. O., Col. Wall Paper vs..
Timing Co, at Takoma.
INTERIOR DEPT. LEAGUE-Land
VS.. EngraverS. Secretaries vs. Supply,
Indians VS.. Construction, Administra-
tive vs.; Paints, Engineers vs. Buildings.
PUBLIC WORKS LADIES' LEAGUE
Investigation VS.. Legal. Inspection VS..
Economy & Statistics, Finance VS.. Mails
& Files, Housing VS.. Accounts
PATENT OFFICE LEAGUE-Howe VS..
De Forest, Fulton VS.. Bell. Franklin VS..
Mccormick, Remsen VS.. Edison. Morse
VS.. Wright Eastman VS.. Marconi, Whit
ney vS. Steinmetz-At Rendezvous.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE LEAGUE
Inquiry VS.. Informal Cases, Service VS..
statistics, Traffic VS.. Valuation. Mails
CHEVROLET LEAGUE-Addison VS..
c. VS.. Justine -NicholSon. G. E. 1. C. VS..
Barry-Pate. R. L. Taylor VS.. Ourisman-
At Columbia.
DISTRICT EXCHANGE FINAN e
LEAGUE-One W. Five, Two VS.. Four,
Three VS.. Six, at Rosslyn.
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and knowledge of the contestant
are required, and there's been
plenty of it since the contest
opened a week or 10 days ago.
Great Picture
The film has been given a thor
ough showing since last Friday at
various high school auditoriums
in the city. All who have seen it
have stamped it as the best base
ball picture they've ever seen, also
a picture where plenty of inside
baseball can be learned.
When the winners of the con
tests are announced their tickets
will be sent to the addresses they
included with their letters. So
all those entering the contest
these last two days, be sure tc
write plainly in order that there
might be no mix-up in addresses.
The Washington times., 1935-03-08

First, two days remain to send
in letters with answers to the
three baseball questions inclosed.
Second, the deadline for these
letters is tomorrow at midnight.
Third, your contest editor plans
to make every effort to announce
the winners of the contest by
Monday.
If he finds it impossible to
make this announcement, it will
be due to the avalanche of letters
he must wade through to select
and consider the winners. If this
is the case, the announcements
will come as early in the week
as possible.
Get Letters In
Between now and midnight to-
morrow, all fans interested in
baseball are urged to see the
sound picture, PLAY Ball." then
sit down and write the Play Ball
Editor, Sports Department, Wash
ington Times, the answers to the
following questions, all Of which
are treated in the movie:
l. Which of the batters shown
in the film reveal the smooth
est form in their swing?
2. When is the proper time
to put on squeeze play?
3. With which foot is it cor.
rect to slide into a bag?
The contestant sending in the
best trio of answers to these ques-
tions will earn season ticket to
all games played at Griffith Sta
dium during the coming campaign.
For the next five most skillful an
swers, two tickets for the opening
game between the Griffmen and
Philadelphia AS at Griffith Sta
dium, April 16, will be awarded,
while for the next 10 best answers,
one ticket for the same game will
be earned. In case Of ties, indenti-
cal awards will be made.
The contest is based on the base
ball film, "Play Ball" The skill
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ARCADIA GIRLS
MEET OR|OLE
BOWLERS

In a special intercity bowling
match scheduled for tomorrow
night at s o'clock at Arcadia
alleys, Arcadia Girls will be
matched against Recreation Girls,
of Baltimore.
The Recreation lineup will in
clude Margaret Holiday, singles
champion, and Lotta Janowitz,
doubles champion of the National
Bowling Congress.
Followers of the Department
Store League are witnessing one
of the city'S hottest battles for
league leadership.
The two leading store teams
met in a headon battle last
night with the Second-place
Kann's outfit defeating the lead
ing Hecht Company team in
two games. This victory places
Kann'S one game out Of first
place.
Wallack Rolls 135
Bob Wallach (Kann's) with a
135-game and Hy Baker Gans-
burgh's) with a 379-set accounted
for individual honors. LanSburghS
619-game and 1,689-set were high
team scores.
The Occidental Restaurant team
is making a strong bid for the
championship of the District
League, with only five weeks to
go they are leading the league
by six games. The RestauranterS
took three games from George
town last night. Center Market
went into a tie for second place
by taking two games from
Temple.
Tony Santini became Wash
ington's first Singles League
champion when he defeated Nor.
man Schroth at Temple alleys,
last night. Second place and
other priced positions will be con-
cluded next week.
Bill Krauss holds second place
with 38 wins and 16 losses; Jerry
Cowden third with "a and 20;
Weidman fourth with % and II
and MegaW fifth with % and 20.
BECK SHINES
With Beck leading the way 10
points, the S. E. Flashes defeated
Kendall quintet, 80 to %.
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tied, particularly IN the case OF
the coach.
The school is the new Wood.
row Wilson High School out
Chevy Chase way which will open
its doors next September. The
selection of coach, or a direc-
tor of athletics is-well, that's
the biggest problem.
Many names are up for con-
sideration. Most prominently
mentioned is Burt Coggins, at
present the coach of the Central
High School football team.
Boom COggins
Coggins is being doomed for
the post because of his recent
successful work as an athletic
director at Central. At woodrow
Wilson he would handle all
sports. He would do this until
the student body was built up to
a point where an assistant would
be needed.
Today, Coggins had nothing to
say on the subject, other than he
would consider the Shl1t II ScnooI
officials so desired it.
Tech Trackmen Leave
Coach Hap Hardell takes his
Tech High track team to Chapel
Hill, N. c., today to compete in
the indoor track and field games
there. After this meet, Hardell
states his team will do no more
indoor work. Instead, it'll mark
time for the warmer weather
ahead in order to practice out.
doors for the Penn Relays.
Those to compete for the Man
ual Trainers at Chapel Hill in.
clude George Began, Paul Lynch,
Corbin Thompson and Frank
Haske, in the sprints; Leo Wall
and Monroe Emmerich, in the hur.
dies; Harry March and Justin Nc
Kenna, high jump; Leroy Green
and Joe Mcmahon, in the 1000
yard event, and George Began,
Monroe Emmerich, Byron Hay
den, Leroy Green and Everett Eel
linger, in the relay.
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PICKUPS AND PUTOUTS

town U. track coach, will be
referee for the Southern Con-
ference championships in Chapel
Hill, N. c., tomorrow night.
Local professional boxing
needs a Slugger like old Billy
West, the fans having sOured
on the laddieS who trip the
light fantastic. . Jack TullOch
and Jimmy COlOsanto were
being warmly congratulated by
The Times sports staff bowling
team. after Tulloch rolled off
the alley counting on a double
header strike in the final box
and COloSantO cut through for
a deuce on a spare and wound
up with a six. that generOs-
ity (?) permitted The Times
team to take the first block by
three pins.
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NOSES
OUT B|SONS

Lincoln University Lions came
to town last night and hung up
their fourth staight basketball
victory over Howard BisonS, 80
to 81.
Henderson, Durant and Ballard
led the visitors attack while Willie
Wynne, Jones, Williams and Nc,
Arthur were outstanding for
Howard.
Tonight in the Howard gym
the Miner Teachers College five
will play the strong Alpha Phi
Alpha team. The Teachers have
lost one contest this season while
the fraternal tossers have not
been defeated.
The Washington times., 1935-03-08
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Bum" Enright, local basket
ball official, will handle the
play-off series between LOyOla
College and Mt. st. Mary's for
the Maryland State College
basketball championship, with
the opening game billed to-
night in Baltimore. the dance
for the Chevy Chase GrayS
baseball team in the Kensing-
ton ArmOry on March 22
brings back memories of their
old manager, Jack McAuliffe,
killed in line of duty as a
policeman several years ago. ..
Bill DOwding, former George
town U. trackSter, is now SELL
ing cemetery plots, since real
estate has touched a low ebb
.. Jimmy Mulligan, George
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SCHOOL SOCCER
Win To BLOW

Blow School soccerists are today
in the lead for the elementary
school soccer championship. The
advantage is only one game but
it's an advantage the Blow booters
hope to maintain until the series
is over.
This lead was gained yesterday
when Park View was defeated, 2 to
/. It was the second game of the
series the first last week having
ended in a IL tie.
Colandreo, Upthegrove, Bolts
and Stasulli were the stars for
Blow.
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COGGNS MENTIONED FOR NEW WOODROW WILSON HIGH POST
ATTRACTING HARRIS EYE

NOBODY had heard much
of Frank Peticolas, Albany
pitcher, before the Griffmen
hit tn cir Biloxi (Miss.)
training camp about 10 days
ago. But now he is the apple
Of Manager Bucky Harris
eye he's attracted tn at
much attention. If he makes
good, President Clark Gcif-
filth will purchase him from
Owner Joe Cambria.
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BY FRANK BUCK" U'NEILL
BILOXI, Miss, March 8.
Johnny Kerr, who will serve in
his usual capacity as first base
coach, had a long conference
with Bucky Harris this morning
on signs and signals to be used
on the lines this year.
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Maryland Dinner
To Honor Boxers

The local alumni chapter of
the University of Maryland will
honor the schools boxing team
at a banquet Tuesday at Sholl's
Cafe at 8 p. m. Reservations
can be made by phoning Ted
Van Doren, president of the
local chapter, West 1922, or Well
stood White, National 1898.
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KERR CONFERS
WITH HARRIS
On SIGNALS
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL

BY FRANK BUCK" ONE1LL
BILOXI, Miss, March 8.
Johnny Kerr, who will serve in
his usual capacity as first base
coach, had a long conference
with Bucky Harris this morning
on signs and signals to be used
on the lines this year.
This is the morning Of the
fourth day. The evening of the
third day and the morning of
the third day dragged slowly into
the past with a slanting rain del
uging the countryside. The land
is slowly disappearing under the
waters and it won't be long be-
fore another Noah will be called
upon to build his ship 800 cubits
long with so cubits beam. This
might be big enough to give the
beleagured Griffmen chance to
do some worthwhile practice.
The Ark would be welcome to us
all. We could sail away from
this desperately dull tank town
to a brighter, better cline, re-
membering with joy at our de-
iverance one of the worst eat
ing places in the South. And
if you know ball players you
know how well they love their
food.
No wonder Freddie Sington
drove in all those runs in the
International League. He is
broad enough across the shoulders
to shove over a building, and
has terrific power in his wrists
and forearms. If Sington can
possibly develop more OF a wrist
flick at the finish of his. swing
he is bound to become a far bet
ter hitter than he's been up to
the present.
Old timers around camp are
wondering if Archie Scrivener
isn't little too green to be
considered as a possibility for
the team. The boy flashed well
in the first week, and is easily
one of the pitching stylists of
the camp. For all of his style,
however, he lacks control, or so
it would seem, and wildness
causes the downfall Of more
pitchers than rival hits.
Nick Altrock seems to think that
the outstanding recruit Of the
camp is sgd Cohen. Not only is
Sgd a good pitcher, but he Is a
shifty young man around first
base and in a pinch can go into
the outfield. He hits well, too.
Diggs is the other pitcher whom
Altrock thinks has chance OF
making the grade. ''We have a
fine lot of youngsters, Nick said
this morning. "But they're young
tiers and just that. They would
have to be turned over the minor
league club for a while no matter
what happens. OF course that can
be handled, but Diggs looks as If
he's ready"
The pitchers are loud in their
lamentS because of the lack Of
work and the hitters are below
ing about lack of batting prac-
tice. Bucky Harris sneers at the
whole picture and tells the boys
about what a great place Florida
is for conditioning ball clubs, and
that, Amigosh Mic, is the positive