Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — The Indian's Idea. [ARTICLE]

The Indian's Idea.

John Batt a full-blood Cherokee Indian of Cherokee county, Okla, being drawn in the draft of selected men, was sent to Camp Travis, Tex, for training. After he had been in camp for several days, he was haled before the adjutant for falling to salute an officer, arid the following explanation for his default: .. “Me live at Welling. When me meet man there maybeso speak to him one time. No speak any more to same man all day. Down here me salute it every time me pass it man.”—Everybody's Magazine