The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1957-05-02
National Guardian Reports On
The Silent Chief

Once upon time the land of Penagon- on-the- Poo
mac there chief Eye-sen-hower affectonatey
;alled Eye-Like-Ike
Many moons before he had been fearless warrior.
Once led the GeeEyeJoes the channel to
saut the flank Adoph the Ayan and to prevent
him from enslavng DISCRIMINATING all the nonAyan tribes
Back from the wars, wherever Eye-Lke-Ike went he
declared that henceforh must live brothers He was
cheered and honored Even when party rendered him
the Republican Party he chose call it the Peace Party
with the Republican elders and they passed the
oipe from to another.
"Ike" said elder between puffs you have proved
Yourself action Now you must test your proves
with words.
81 know many Words said Eye-Lke-Ike. every night
/ read myself to sleep with stories of the west.
"You shall master words of the east for they
powerful as the rising sum-, murmured a smiling sage
II know prases, too for when ruled Columbia
on the Heights officiated the sheepskn giving
monies
ivy League" interrupted paunchy elder "You must
grid your lons for the Big League You will have need of
magic words prepared for you by keenes minds Of our
tribe refere, of to the Madison Men.
1T is decreed by the stars? asked Eye-like-Ike.
at is indeed" answered the eldest elder You to be
chosen Grief of ali tfetrites of the U-rTrTvd
pass the pipe around to seal the agreement
Eye-Like-Ike understood why the gods brought him
into this snoke-fied room, and he fell silent
So it came pass after the first frost that Eye-kelke
moved into the White Wigwa. Every day he spoke the
Madison Mems words councils and the prairies while
receiving visiting chiefs and while driving the little ball
over the green meadows He echoed their explanations OF
too much maize little wampu too much giveaway
and little takehome, of too many omahawks and too
few epees.
There dreamy days when Eye-Lke-lke forgot or
did not care what the Madison Men had told him. and his
heart raced faster his tongue Then that all the
tribes listened loved him. for he Numbered against
and pleaded for peace among Even the noun
tans when he denounced tribes the sea for
fomentng hatred and bloodshed.
Now among the people of the United States there was
tribe which had been prosecuted for long
as Adoph the Aryan believed Though this tribe had
been freed slavery hundred years they had been
waiting for the rights they had been promised they would
ACQUIRE gradually gradually had to not
fwe-canhep- the longsuering tribe quietly insisted
the time ride their horses Craze their cattle vote
for the council their epees and provide for their
pooses like all the other tribes.
In many villages the response to this softspoken but
firm request of violence Some lighter
skinned rbesmen sneaked into their neghbors village when
the moon was they set fire to the tepee of the
murdered.
The vctmized tribe remembered how Eye-LikeIke had
led his warriors against Adolph the Ayan They recalled
how geously he condemned the mistreatment Of
tribe by another in foreign lands After ALL they
tribe of the United States of which he Chief So they
sent him smoke signal of distress urging him to visit the
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