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pun holders, keep off the tour.
lists and other intruders.
The big green corn dance will
start late in July, as a prelimi-
nary ceremonial workout for
the big trek to Mexico. The
dance will last about two weeks,
and the billing calls for rites
unused except at crucial turns
of tribal history. It is a puritl-
cation ceremony. carried to the
point of exhaustion, with the
Creek nation joining in.
The Wheeler johnson bill.
passed a few years ago, gave the
Indians a great deal Of freedom
in following their old tribal Gus
toms and tribal education, in
rites and handicraftS. This was
a victory for the lean and i'm
passioned John Collier, Commits.
sioner of Indian Affairs, who is
the jealous champion OF what
might be called Indian cultural
autonomy"
But just now, it looks as If
Uncle Sam would be an Indian
giver and jerk back these con-
cessions. Legislation is brewing
to slam the Indian boys and girls
into a routine school system,
process them through the grades,
just like white children, and
pace them into the industrial
and farming lock-Step, as we
know it. Mr.. Collier fights back.
Echoes of the Washington argu-
ment drift out through the sage
brush, exaggerated and dis
torted, no doubt. There is I'M
rest among the tribes as the Sem
mole. start their deal with Presi-
dent Cardenas.
Florida Seminoles, peeking out
Of the Everglades and ducking
back again, have glimpsed the
Southern mass migration of pale
faces, shooting their wampum
on slot machines, dog races and
gin. They don't seem to want
any part of our civilization. On
the heels Of the departing Okla
homa Seminoles will follow white
tribes from the Middle West. In
the depression years, more than
100000 farmers have taken up
the old coVered-Wagon trail.
We, too, have had our
migrations - the Mormons in
1929 and the MennoniteS in
1846, the forty-niners and the
long numbering cavalcadeS of
prairie SchoonerS in the ensuing
decades Man has been trekking
ever since pre-glacial days.
which, many anthropologistS
now believe, was the era when
the Indians came in from China
or India and staged their first
green corn dances.
Climate and food, favorable
or unfavorable, have goaded us
or :ured us. The few survivalS
Of ancient man carry their gods
with them and nurture their
mystic life They want room to
dance. Our dust-bowl migrants
probably don't worry much
about that They couldn't dance
much in a two-room Los Angeles
apartment, anyway.
Copyright 1887. by King Features
Syndicate, Ine.)
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Mr.. Dos PassoS has recently
returned from a trip to Eng
land, France and Spain deeply
disillusioned in the great white
hope of SovietiSm. He came
back to America physically and
spiritually, and has written his
Farewell to Europe!" for the
radical magazine, Common
Sense"
Gan American in 1887 comes
back from Europe with a feel.
ing of happiness" cOnfeSSeS Dos
PaSSOS, "the relief of coming
up out into the sunlight from a
sitting cellar, that some of his
grandfathers must have felt
coming home from Metternich's
Europe after the NapOleOniC
wars, the feeling all the immi-
grants have had when they first
saw the long low coast and the
broad bays of the New World"
Mr.. Dos Passos has rediScov-
cred the American heritage. the
Bill of Rights, the ability Of our
democracy in the past Ito curb
powerful ruling groups" and
the capacity of America to work
out the social problem in her
own way.
Like Norman Thomas and
John Dewey. the gifted and
sensitive Dos PaSsoS has at last
seen the light.
In his travels, he came across
the teeth of the reactionary
Red Dragon which he had for
merly revered as the promise Of
a new day.
In Great Britain, he came to
the following conclusion:
"StaliniSt RuSSia'S monopoly
of the Socialist hopes of the
world has much slowed up the
labor movement at home; the
British workman would rather
be mildly oppressed. by Mr.,
ChamberIain's bluecOated flat
feet than shot without trial, or
more gruesOmely with q trial.
by the Communist party"
In France, he learned this
lesson:
Gas in England, the great d.
lemma that blocks social advance
is that a socialist or a truly
democratic policy can hardly
avoid being a war policy, and
that the only vigorous leader
ship on the Left comes from the
Communist party which is In
turn hOgtied by the internal and
international politics OF the
Kremlin It's hard to see
what the solution can be other
than a civil war deadlfer than
the civil war in SPAIN"
In Spain, where he observed
the Communists as the ruthless
organizers of LoyaliSt victories,
he found:
"That they have brought into
Spain along with their enthu-
Siasm and their munitions, the
secret JeSuitical methods, the
TrOtsky, witch.hunt and all the
intricate and bloody machinery
Of Kremlin policy. The question
which cannot be answered now
Is whether the Communist
Party :. won't turn out to be
only one more, magnificent In
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strument for power, which
means a magnificent instrument
for oppression"
Many of us will feel deeply
with John Dos PassoS in his be-
lated hour Of disillusionment.
After 20 years of the exist
ence OF the Soviet system, it is
at last beginning to drawn upon
our liberal leaders of opinion
that there is nothing left as its
early promises but blood and
treachery It Is welcome dawn.
"Of the hopes that daZZled
the last 20 years." Don PasSOs
writes. "that some political
movement might tend to the
betterment Of the human lot,
little remains above ground but
the tattered slogans of the past.
These old slogans still have
enough magic in them to make
them useful to gang leaders with
q knack for organizing and .
will to power. Out of them is
brewing q partisan fanaticiSm
that equals in savagery that Of
the wars Of religion"
And so Mr.. Dos PaSsos has
come back to that once de-
spised slogan Of liberty-the
liberty which was only the other
day the object Of such ridicule
in his own camp.
His challenge to Stalinism
and the dark forces which it
breeds cannot be repeated too
often:
'Tf there are any Of us left
in America who really want
liberty for ourselves and our
fellows, it's time we started
using our wits. The Atlantic
+ is broad enough to protect us
against air raids, but it can't
protect US against the infec.
tiouS formulas for slavery that
are preparing in Europe on
every side"
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ingS with a .,-I
wry smile and q remark that
he always carried half a dozen
proxies in his pocket.
In other words the members
didn't want to bother ana to!o
him anything he wanted to do
was all right by them.
However, when the District
tax bill came up nine members
showed up. And, he didn't carry
a single proxy. For instance
the tables were turned to such
an extent that on the vote on
the Tydings amendment those
present voted eight to one for
the amendment, Senator King
being the sole vote against it.
But Senator Tydings also had
three proxies in his pocket ana
the recorded vote was II to l.
Quite a drubbing for the
mayor"
REPRESENTA- TIVE ROB-
ERT L. DOUGHTON, chairman
Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, thinks Representative
Hamilton Fish is seeing things
these days, and Representative
Fish thinks Representative
Doughton sleeps in the House.
In q short bit of repartee'
Representative DollphtOn eX.
claimed:
1.-THE gentleman from New
York Is always seeing ghosts
dreaming dreams, and imagln-
ing things"
To which Mr.. Fish responded
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He left hurr1edly, leaving WORD
that the Seminoles would carry
on somehow, that he felt sorry
for the white men and would let
them have some deer meat and
blueberries if things got too
bad.
They are still holdoutS against
our civilization-if that's what
it is. More than 5000 Okla
homa Seminoles warm up their
ancient green corn dance, as a
masS-trek to Mexico, just 100
years after the partial mlgra-
ton of their tribe from Florida.
They still follow the trail Of
tears" as their first historic
march was called. They are the
only aborigines never quite sub
dued by the United States.
Starting in 1915, Uncle Sam
spent $17,000,000 and seven years
in fighting so swamp SeminoleS
in 20 dugouts. The canoe ar
mazda was obliterated time and
again, always reforming. The
Government lost 5000 men and
the Seminoles, 500. Not until
two years ago did they formally
make peace. An agreement was
formed, through Chief Tony
Tommy, at Washington, by
which the tribe was awarded
$1,317,087 as damages for a
treaty violation Of 1856. Last
month, the Supreme Court
scaled the award down to
$10,o99.
Anthropologists say the Ever
glade Indians can't hold out
much longer. They never did
swear allegiance to the Amerl-
can flag. Some Of their leaders
counsel yielding and citizenship,
but every time Seminole young
ster goes to town and takes a
look at our prevailing Setup, he
hurries home and digs in again
perhaps venturing out to PICK
up a few pennies wrestling alll-
gators for tourists, but more de-
termined than ever to remain g.
complete outsider in the white
mans world.
Their Oklahoma cousins are
dickering with President Lazaro
Cardenas of Mexico for the res
toration of land, which they
say was taken from the Next
can branch of their tribe more
than half a century ago.
President Cardenas is of In
dian blood. He understands the
troubles of the Seminoles. He
is said to have given the tribe
tentative assurance that If they
didn't get their old lands back,
they would get some just as
good or better, where they can
put on their dances and chant
to their ancient gods, with
plenty Of room and privacy and
no income taxes. It makes one
feel like joining the migration.
| Il
A lot Of oil derricks, automo
biles, good roads and hot-doe
stands are crowding in on We
woka, the Seminole capital In
Oklahoma. They find it hard
to pick q dancing or rain-con
juring spot with any seclusion
Tribesmen, with pistols In wan
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Wise Words

Set all things in their own
peculiar place. And know that
order is the greatest grace
Dryden.
The difference between per-
severance and obstinacy is that
one often comes from a strong
will, and the other from a strong
won't.-Not credited.
It is when our budding hopes
are nipped beyond recovery by
some rough wind, that we are
the most disposed to picture to
ourselves what flowers they
might have borne II they had
Observation-Disclosures.
Everywhere in life, the tru
question is not what we gain. bu
what we do.-Carlyle.
A man prepared has half Tough
the battle.-CervanteS.
He who discusses Is in the right
he who disputes is in the wronG
De Rulhieres.
Slander meets no regard froH
noble minds; only the base believt
what the base only utter.-1elle1
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MR.. MCCORMACK x Their
activities are extensive and
most obnoxious and poisonous to
American doctrines. The Ger
man-American Bund is the name
of the official Nazi organization
in America. 1t has more than
one hundred branches as well as
thousands of members scattered
throughout the country. It's nl-
ficial organ is the Deutsche
Weckruf und Beobachter (Bay-O-
Baxter. Recently most intern.
perate anti-religious attacks have
occupied its front pages. It's
TRADES against Cardinal Munde-
lein have been shocking. It has
the temerity to urge German
American Catholics to desert the
Catholic Church.
MR.. McCORMACK-You are
correct. He is the evil spirit
who is seeking to harm our in
situations Of government. Dur.
ing the last several years, he
has sent over to this country
numerous professors and pseudo
professors and others to spread
the doctrines of the Nazi move
ment.
The German Embassy. at
Washington, I am informed,
pays certain professors to make
pro-Nazi speeches and to write
pro-Nazi articles.
All manner and kinds of
vicious propagandist articles are
inspired by and paid for by the
German propaganda ministry.
Berlin subsidies numerous
German film theaters showing
Nazi films exclusively.
In 10 American cities we find
well-organized Nazi literature
centers.
MIR. CELLER-Such informa.
ton should take America by the
nape of the neck, as it were, and
make it realize the danger of
allowing, without let or hin,
drance, this vile Nazi propa'
ganda to circulate. At least its
true origin should be made
known.
More than 20 schools for Ger
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It Does Happen Here

America debt gratitude Congress-
Representative John W. McCorack d. Massachusetts,
Representative Emanuel Cr d. of Ne York. telling
country hoW the pro1gon of NdstSm Communism
doctrines are attempting to prosewe American youth
Mr. Mccormack chairman
Investigated these activities Speaking RADIO and Mr.
Cellar told the Uividl Washington believes
north rprinting This the nStaLen third
last uH appear TOMORROW Read them.
MIR. CELLER-Did you examine the activities of the
AV1 American branch of the German National Socialist
Party9
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"The gentleman was asleep
while I was talking"

Wu1AG WOO WeSANAASs
ooh no." said Mr.. DOughtOn.
And Ister-"It is purely without
any foundation whatever. 1t
Just sprang up in the brain OF
the gentleman like q lot Of the
other brainstOrmS he has had"
REPRESENTATIVE HE Re-
BERT S. BIGELOW, Of Ohio,
has become one of the biggest
men in the House as far as
the District tax bill is con-
cerned. And all because he
carries a lot of sentiment In
his bosom.
He proposed a one per cent
tax on District land exempt
ing improvements when the
bill first came up in the House.
to see how far the idea had
progressed since 1t was orig
inally proposed by his best
friend in the House 43 years
ago. It was beaten. He ex-
pected it to be.
But he was surprised, as
everyone else was, to find that
the idea had taken hold and
was written into the bill on
the Senate side.
Such is the reward for one
who holds to his faith.
THERE IS whispering in
the corridors of the Capitol
that the District Tax measure
is going to be one of the big
factors in the filibuster against
the Presidents court plan.
With the Tydings fair-trade
amendment attached to it. it
is a splendid .debatable
measure containing all kinds
of controversial angles and
although in other times it
would probably be accepted IN
the usual casual way in which
the Senate legislates for the
District, this time it will have
to be discussed. Perhaps for
one or two days or weeks.
It leaves things rather I'm.
steady for District officials
worrying over the speed now
necessary to straighten out the
city's finances for the fiscal
year already started.
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in the COM
mittee.
D o W n
through the
years he has
orne the
brunt Of the
W or K. On
m a ny occa-
sion he has
been the only
member pres
ent at a meet
ing or hear
i~~ o~S hn
con d u c t e d
these h e a r.
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Limit the Tax Bill

WY ASHINGTON'S new tax bill, in it's long and
w cbeckered legislative career, has been touched
BY Just about every crackpot tax scheme that varied
assemblage of legislators could devise could read
about.
The Senate District Committee, to which Washing
tonians had turned hopefully after the debace in the
House, overwhelmed its chairman, Senator William H.
King of Utah. and wrote which is about on
a par with that passed by the House.
Everybody has now had chance to give his personal
schemes for taxes run IN the race except the people
who will have to pay the taxes
Thus far in the consideration of the omnibus tax bill
the only proposals that have not been written into the
measure at one time another are those which have
been made by representative groups of the communtys
citizens.
The point has even been reached where now the tax
bill is being used as vehicle to through the egs-
lative mill bill which has nothing whatsoever to do
with Washington and which should be allowed to run
its
There is no telling of course what kind of bill will
eventually pass the Senate, when it will pass.
After that the final version will probably be written
at conference between the Senate and the House
the differences in the bill passed by each body.
It is obvious now as it has been for time that
it will be impossible to get wise and equitable tax
bill through Congress at the present time.
WHAT WE WILL GET WILL BE HODGE
PODGE OF IDEAS AND A SCRAMBLE OF NEW
AND EXPERIMENTAL TAXES.
Under the circumstances it is not too much to ask
Congress to include in the bill which it does pass an
automatic repeal section.
These taxes should be limited in their application to
year and they should be so limited in the bill itself
Given this trial period the defects and faults of the
new tax schemes could be exposed plainly enough
to attract the attention of Congress.
AND IN THE MEANTIME SOME REASONABLE
WAY OF WORKING OUT TAXES FOR THE CITY
COULD BE FOUND, EITHER THROUGH THE APP
POINTMENT OF EXPERTS, OR THROUGH SOME
METHOD OF FINDING OUT WHAT THE PEOPLE
OF THE DISTRICT REALLY WANT.
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Keep This Pledge

Resolred: That it be The sense of this contention
that committee should be appointed By the Congress
of the United States to make study of and to report
on the granting to the residents of the District of
Columbia the right of suffrage. Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia,
June &c 1886
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Farewell to Europe!
BIZ Isaac Don Levine

THIS is John Dos Passos speaking, Americas leading pro-
etarian novelist whose books have sold hundreds OF
thousands of copies in Soviet Russia who hailed by the
American Communist Writers Congress in 1885 the idol
Of front
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The Human Side of the News
Blu EdWin C.. Hill

IN 1926 hurricane swept away the Seminole Indian huts
i in the Florida everglades. Wrinkled old Chief Tony
Tommy went to Miami to about relief He saw that
the naefaces were in trouble.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

VHE District Of Columbia tax bill reported by the Senate
District Committee of the most radical departures
from the regular of things that this committee has seen
for number of years.
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For the first time since he
has been chairman, Senator
William H. King was beaten
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This column aUecomes and requests comments Letters
presenting personal problems may also be SENT An teters
will be handled contdemtiGly and answered promptly
STAMPED addressed envelopes are IncIuded.)
Features syndicate IncO
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He who discusses is in the right.
he who disputes is in the wrong.
De RulhiereS.
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A REAL BUY

IN A FINE ENVIRONMENT
Detached brick home of rooms and 2
Gle: in new house condition. Large lot with
detached garage. Close to schools, shops
and transportation. An outstanding buy in
this fine neighborhood. Now S10,750.
Call col 1857
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YOUNG MEN

16 years old or over. with bicycles for
messenger work Apply Mr. SChryver.
1877 New York Ave. n. W.
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Farms and Land for Sale So

COLORED-BUILDING LOTS
S97 so and up. in Northeast. Easy terms
National 1850 for Appointment.
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Business Opportunities

CAFEAERIA doing $3.50 daily business;
rent, S15O monthly: 6-year lease; price
only $4,000, terms arranged
CAPITAL ADJUSTING & FINANCE co.
zoos H St. N. W. MET. 48l3
RESTAURANT Cwhiskey) near 7th F
SITS N W. Nice for couple or partners:
Price reduced to $500 Terms. Capital
Adjusting & Finance Co. zoos st. n. W.
ROOMING House Oath & Park Rd.D rms,
baths rent. 500 price. ST. 100, terms.
MRS. KEACH zoos H St NET. 1918.
ROOMING house. downtown: 10 rms,
baths rent. S140. includes heat and not
water: income, S351: So 600 terms. MISS
McCOWN. 1908 H St. N. W MET 4Sl3.
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THE KEYSTONE
TTTOMOPTTT CTJTP
TYPIST

Touch system. rapid. knowledge of short
hand. executive office national org. Excel:
lent opportunity. See Miss Day. Personnel
Service 1911 St. n. W.
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SIS 95O-Near 18th and Conn Ave, 4.
story English-type brick 10 rms. bath:
rented good tenant sos mo. ME. 54O0.
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$50 DOWN, SIS MO-, 10 ACRES on good
gravel road IL Il miles D. c. Price S675.
Nat. 1858 or AT. 5205-J.
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WOODBRIDGE. Modern bungalow, under
$4,000. Terms. Moss. District 3121.
10 R. 8 beautifully furnished
rents as apt, $177.50 garages. It's per-
feet Small goldmine. $500 cash, terms.
Don't let this go by. Dist. 5464.
HILLCREST. S. E.. 2s42 Ala. Ave-
story frame 1st COM. cleo. gas, water.
sewer bus; 2.016 SO. ft grid Owner. W.
Landon 4001 Pa. Ave. Ext. S E. Ii. 5765-J
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COLORADO AVE. N. w.

Ideal for physician or lawyer Sepa-
rate entrance to office on 1st floor 8
bedrooms 2 baths, lavatory. large lot.
gear garage Accept any reasonable offer
Call Mr. Dowd. NAT. 2040
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Real Estate
Investment Property

REAR CONN AVE, between Porter and
Ordway Sts Is brick garages; all rented
' JOHN F. DoNoHoE & SONS
314 PENNSYLVANIA AVE S e.
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$6.5O0

Facing Lincoln Park, an attractive bay
window brick. six rooms and bath. hot
water heat. Priced exceptionally low for
a home in this section. Reasonable terms.
JOHN F. DONOHOE & SONS
314 Transatlantic Ave s E
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HAVE a few choice home sites in new
development on the Mount Vernon Boule.
ward. See these before you buy any
place else. Convenient terms. Box F-6S.
Timea- Herald.
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G ST. S. E., sO6, nr. Navy Yd.-Modern
rms. priv. bath. Kelvinator, newly dec.
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KENILWORTH MD.-white section. All
improvements in. Opportunity for build
ers. Apply GREATER BEAVER HEIGHTS
REALTY CORPORATION. 474 K St. N. W,
MET 1888
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1000 r St. N. W. and 1908 New Hamp-
shire. Ave. N. W.. near Wash. Circle
Attractive room and kitchenette. sink,
range, open fireplace. hardwood floors, gas,
lights free: good heat, southern exposure
$3.50 to So weekly. Resident manager
wanted.
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GIRARD ST. n. W, 1854, Apt 2-Nice
unfurn. rm., also furn.. couple or 2
gentlemen pref, reas.
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Real Estate
Houses for Sale IS

COMPLETELY FURNISHED
New 5-room brick bungalow Hyattsville
Hills 81 900 cash. S55 per month. or will
sell unfurnished for cash payment of $500.
Full basement, space in attic for 2 addi-
tional rooms: fireplace. Convenient to bus.
Occupied only 6 months. Owner leaving.
A real pickup for someone. FURNITURE
AT $500. Call Greenwood 0960 or 1885.
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Furnished or Unfurn. Rooms 81

P st. N. WI room
and kit; elec. and gas included: S22 mo.
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Apartments Furnished "a

19th-2 rooms. kitchen. 1st floor, new
home, nicely furnished. Frigidaire, heat,
| gas, elec., cont. h.-w.: adults