Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1921 — Page 6

JmYtana Slimes ! INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . j(Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offloeg {x fw York, Boston. Payne. Burns X SmitKJnc. WHAT has become of the man who Insisted that the Goodrich regime was seeking to reduce, not increase taxes! HAVE any arrangements been made to supply Carl Bernauer with his customary drug while he is in Jail awaiting a second trial? What About Our Taxes? Most noticeable for its absence in the city campaign which is now approaching white heat is a definite program on the part of any candidate for providing what the people of Indianapolis most wish —a reduction in the municipal expenses that are paid by the taxation of property. Investigation of the finances of Indianapolis discloses that in the last year the "operating expenses" cf the city were increased more than two million dollars, causing a disbursement of approximately eight million dollars merely for the normal maintenance of the corporation. In addition to this tremendous sum, more than two million dollars was assessed against property owners for street improvements. Ten million dollars a year is a tidy sum to pay for the government of a city of 350,000 inhabitants, but It does not, by any means, constitute the 1 whole sum that residents of Indianapolis are expected to put up for their government. Taxes that fall upon public utilities, such as the gas, water and street car companies, are collected by an indirect method from the citizens of the city who are patrons of these utilities. The taxes of public utilities are classified as operating expenses by the public service commission and rates are established to provide revenue sufficient to pay them. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company is now asking greater revenue in order that it may take care of taxes amounting to approximately $250,000 a year. The Indianapolis Water Company recently obtained increases in rates for the same purpose. The Citizens Gas Company pleads for more revenue to meet taxes, and while the two light companies have not yet been heard from, it is not unlikely that they and the telephone • company will seek some method of charging increased taxes directly to the citizens of Indianapolis. It is apparent that at least a million dollars will be taken from the pocketbooks of property owners of Indianapolis in order to permit the utilities to meet the increased taxes which are to be collected to enable the city administration to meet Increased expenditures. This is the vicious circle to which property owners and property renters object without, in many instances, realizing against what phase of the government their objections lie. • Those who do not own property In Indianapolis are nevertheless affected by the high tax rates. They pay the landlord's taxes In their high rents. They pay the merchant’s taxes In the additional price which the merchant must charge for his wares in order to take care of a constantly increasing overhead. For the last four years or more the State has been tinkering with the tax laws and politicians have been assuring us that high valuations do not necessarily mean higher *taxes. Experience has taught us better. For no sooner were the valuations of Indianapolis property fixed at a higher level than ever before than the tax rates were moved fback to approximately the level that existed before valuations were increased. Not a single candidate for mayor of Indianapolis has outlined a method by which he hopes to reduce taxation. All have, in general terms, declared themselves opposed to high taxes, in much the same manner that a candidate profeses loyalty to the Nation. It is unfortunate that there is not a more general realization of the problem of the day, not only among the candidates, but also among the voters.

Why Secrecy? We do not care vdTy much for the society of the man who has no consideration for dogs. There seems to be something missing in the make-up of the individual who has no sympathy for the dumb animals who have proved themselves such faithful companions of men, such loyal and constant friends. And we question very seriously whether we would care to risk human life under the knife of a surgeon #ho harbors no compassion for a helpless puppy that is ready at all times to yield up its life even for no better purpose than that man can see the throbbing of its heart. For that reason, we confess that we cannot understand the attitude of the surgeons under whose directions dogs undergo fearful operations at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The medical profession has advanced to a point where operations of any kind can be conducted painlessly, where convalescence can be obtained without suffering, where even the mental condition of a patient may be controlled. One would think that since a large measure of these great boons to humanity are attributed by surgeons to the assistance given them by the multitude of dumb animals that have given up their lives in the advancement of science, the surgeon would feel that he owes to his brute ally all the consideration that he can give it There is a right way and a wrong way of conducting the experimental and instructive surgery that goes on in the medical school. If it is conducted the right way there is no reason in the world why an open door policy should not be maintained. There is no reason why the world should not know what goes on behind the closed doors of the surgery. If it is not conducted the right way, there is every reason In the world why the publio should know it, and knowing, force a cessation of the methods employed. Secrecy has no other purpose, in connection with the operating on dogs at a medical school than to cloak the methods with which these operations are conducted. Only h mistaken idea of the public concern closes the doors on public representation and observation. Not one valid reason can be advanced for secrecy in the dog surgery of the Indiana Medical School. Hundreds of doubts of sincerity and propriety are raised by this secrecy. Can Indiana University afford to ignore the destruction of confidence in its instructors when such destruction is wholly unrtecesary? A Laudable Purpose Whatever opinion may be held of the method he lias adopted, no honest man can find fault with the purpose of the suggestion by Ed J. Robison of the appointment of a committee of seventy-five citizens to work for a clean city primary. , Heretofore, time and time again, the expresed will of the public has been defeated in party primaries. It wa3 so when Taft was proclaimed the unanimous choice of the Seventh district over Theodore Roosevelt in the most corrupt primaries ever held in Indianapolis. It was so when Samuel Lewis Shank was deprived of a nomination corruptly given to Charles W. Jewett. It was so when Hiram Johnson was defeated by primary manipulation in favor of Leonard Wood. For years past the crowd that controls the primary boards has been the sucessful crowd at the primaries and the stories of corruption that have been told, corroborated and are susceptible of legal proof are a crying shame in this community. We have no desire to attribute to the supporters of Mr. Thomas C. Howe any inclination to debauch the coming primaries in his favor, but we cannot refrain from pointing out that the ardent supporters of Mr. Howe are the same persons who supported Taft against Roosevelt, Jewett against Shank and Wood against Johnson. And in each of these races the men they supported won by corruption in the primaries. Mr. Robison charges that hVs efforts to insure a clean primary are received in a "noncommittal manner” by the backers of Mr. Howe. If this is true it is a mistake. Sooner or later the people of Indianapolis will have a clean primary and will elect their choice to public office. The course of those who would Impose their will on the community by fair means or foul is almost run. This primary may not see the end of their effort, but the end is in sight And no man is big enough to become mayor of Indianapolis who Is not ready to do aR in his power to Insure that the selection of a mayor be not debauched by the eleotlon crooks who have heretofore in upsetting the expressed will of the electorate.

\\ * r V I L -Jy s'-mbim and know \\ QUESTIONS AND U fcffliXircC' '..*?*• J • T<n> rcadinr fran left—Maori rlrl • enpr-me. Only a handful of these • carving the Maori would start at one _ > <:'if ;* v ' at play before civil laatlon reached the old native* remain. corner of the timber and out out the .ANSWERS "SwisSff ' ■ the conntry. The tree shown In the A chief In ceremonial costume Is figures In detail an he went alone, i iHrtiiTe win bent over the bank of a allowu at the top richt. lie ban llTed lie did not lay out a design before- ' i ■. >£■>•;- lake m-or K"tr ua. from it* tip were many yearn, but In active and ruKgrd hand, hnt nu-rled it in Id ft head, yet (An/ reader can get the anawer t< \ •// suspended rope# wav r n from native and i a cood type of the Maori of when the work wan completed both VviSH Vii°v ifvira HwrXoS V : '-v4r f / fl*. Tl, girls used these an s win at old. Tall, straight-limbed and proud, widen were found to be at uWly B 1 REAI’ KREUtKIU J HABRIV ,V / until they became tired when they the Maori tv a* first and Inst a war- Identical a* If they had been laid out DIRECTOR. WASHINGTON D. C ] dropped off In the water. The tree rlor. Now the old Maori* are fond with calipers. This offer applies atrictly to informs V r % '7/ U gone. but native* *UI point out Os shaking hand* with white stran- Continuing to the right Is a view of tion The bureau cannot give advlet * *44 t // Uie stamp. ger* and are more affable than the _ . _ , ... . “ legal, medical and financial mat \ ■W.lk-’*;., .> * ..// „ tK . ***** am .t flu triia. *•*•" on * Wvff ' / / V l , !, 1 * th ® ,d MaH yonanr mrta of the t* • and beneath It In shown the boiling domestic troubles, nor to undertaki \\\ ‘ ; §pyr?* ' t>' 44 ■ '// salutation, rubbing none*. Kissing ltolto*n-a the cirele on the loft t. , ot Tlhlter# In the heart of exhaustive research on any subject \\\ // "*• unknown until the advent of the lu>wn an old-tuue chief wboee tat- .. a * „ Hotorua 1* In the Write your questions plainly ldi Vv ► r k e * ■// While man. “Temt RW I* the Maori toed fare teUs a atory es war sad Maorllana l*ake Kotorms la In tno l)rlpflr Give full name and addret. *. *.. “ sreesdiuc, meaning ••heUo” or “that's great achievement. In hi* youthful thermal region of -ew Zea and a oud enclose 2 cents In stamps for re N4&. .A >'■ -- , f you" and l* familiar to vUHors, as day.. Each line me a slgnl.lcamf the tow* of U conducted by turn postage. All replies are sen ffv''the girls are not fomoU In the matter to tS.o.e who can read It. It I. sold a * * ..'‘TTbeneflU inquirer.) \ ISI :• . of nvinirinc an lntro.luctlon. SUort chlefWn ho once to Eng- 'of Innumerable kind*. Two THTS FIRST IXATOntATTON. ~ ~L*£ i£r£fz XIS fiTJTSIS S'S-S„’*-,rS j—e- -5. tzx 0 n~w ew ~~ faua.. \ only on the face, of wry old we.nen every Un. In. a, they w.re a record , wf **“>*'* inauguration. G. K for .voniißcr leix'nitiun btut of hid personal history ami dff4s of J^ n ni 11 1 A. General W&shingtoo dtßlr6<] &qU cl a nc*d 1 of The j djtrine. Only tho® of extreme youth lr entry Into New York, but his nroflT<

By W. D. BOYCE. EOTORUA, New Zealand —We are in the heart of Maoriland, and having made tne trip by rail from Auckland to Rotorua, site of the boiling sulphur springs, I no longer wonder why the Maori (pronounced Mowrie) fought so desperately against the white man. It was to save for himself and his descendants the wonderful lands with which nature has endowed New Zealand. On the eight-hour Journey from Auckland a vast panorama of fertile fields, well laid out farms and neat, well-kept homes and barns Is foljdfcgfs, lowed by a sucesslon of busli-covered mountains and great forests whose undergrowth reaches to the very edges of the rails themselves. Rotorua, the place to which the tourists always are urged to come. Is not so much in Itself. It is XijjayViaMl mmm operated by the government as a bathhouse and sanatorium town, where the ill may come to receive the benefits of waters of innumerable kinds, or where the sportsmen may find fishing in Lake Rotorua and the smaller streams which run into it, and where the tourist in search of scenery or the weird Bights of geysers, boiling water springs or hot mud pools may get his fill.

The government encourages Zealanders to see tlt-eir own country. 1 could hardly believe It when I was advised that for about SOO I could buy a ticket covering all the New Zealand railroad over 3,000 miles and ride on the ticket for six weeks. There was no limit to tha use of it. You could travel day and night and repeat trips as often as you liked. The result is that all New Zealanders become well acquainted with their own country which, taking the North and South Islands together is about 1,000 miles long. The area Is twice the size of the state of Illinois. Here you find every variety of scenery mountains, valleys, plains, ferns and pines and ©veryintug we have In Yellowstone National Park with the Mammoth cave of Kentucky thrown in. A man born in New Zealand who has used his “holiday ticket,” good for every spot In his country, would find nothing new In traveling the world OTer. I see no use of him leaving his own country for new sights. The government. In addition to selling this ticket runs a tourist bureau and looks after every detail of travel without charge for the service. To mo Rotorua and It* principal attractions were not thrilling or aweinspiring for 1 have seen Yellowstone Park, and It is by far the grandest M the two. But nowhere in the world have I seen another people Just like tho Maoris 'and at Whakarewgrera called Wliaka for short, two fillies from ltoturua, 1 found tho Aruwu, the, largest and most Interesting qf the twenty principal tribes of Maoris now In existence. Where the Maori came from originally no man knows. They themselves have U well-preserved legend that tells of a great tribe hundreds of years ago which became weary of continual battling with enemies and, inspired by the dream of a medicine man, sqt out In a fleet of war canoes and after many weeks of plowing the Pacific Ocean, landed on the rocky coasts of what now Is northern New Zealand and found ready to hand a veritable Paradise not Inhabited by man. But the spot from which they came has never been located definitely. Learned scientists have found what they consider ample proof that the Maoris came from Hawaii. Others pick out Tahiti or Tonga as the original home, while equally learned men profess to have discovered in our own United States carvings and utensils which indicate that at some far distant time the Maoris roamed the North American continent. Certainly they are Polynesians in every way and aro associated by blood somewhere in the past with the natives of some of the South Sea Islands. The Maori today is able to trace back his family line for many generations of twenty-five years each, some of them being able to repeat, parrot-like, the names of their ancestors for as many as forty or fifty generations. But when It comes to concrete facts as to their origin and history before the white man, or pakeha.

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came, they arc dumb. A study of tlietr legends gives one a largo collection of fanciful tales of impossible happenings and without any links by which these legends cun bo connected with known historical facts of other peoples. Certainly tho old time Maoris never handed down to their sons any record of the tribes of hundreds of years ago. They had no signs or symbol characters like the American Indians which mads history. That their memory was short is indicated by the fact that when Capt. .Tnrnes Cook visited them In 1709 tho Maoris had no knowledge of the fact that 127 years before Abel Tasman had been there and had had a battle with the natives, through his inability to understand that they wore not enemies. CASH OF Mt TtAI, MISCNHERBTANDINO. Badly frightened as the Maoris were by the appearance of these strange white men, tlieir chief sent a herald to announce that he would visit tha strangers aboard their ships. But Tasman and ilia Dutch crow misunderstood and when the chief sec out from shore with several canoes of warriors as an escort Tasman sent a boat to warn his second ship against treachery. The boat coilldod with ono of the canoes and at once the Maoris, believing they wore attacked, began to fight, killing four Dutchmen. Tusraun at onco fired a broadside Into the canoes and left with his ship*. Tasman's account of what little he saw of the Maoris, although he and his men did not set foot ashore In New Zealand, described them as so blood-thirsty and war-lika that the far-away Islands which now made up New Zealand were shunned by white adventurers for more than a century. When Cook came he was not so easily daunted as had bean Tasman and, despite tho fact that at first the Maoris were quite Inhospitable toward him, he remained for six months, sailed around the islands and w-ent ashore without any more than one real clash right after he first landed. Cook was different from the ordinary explorer, for he treated the natives with kindness and Justice and finally won their regard. He never was able to go far Inland because of the constant wars between the various Maori tribes, but from those tribes with which he was In close touch wo get the first authentic record of these Interesting people. The Maori of old belonged to a straight-limbed, haughty and war-like brown race. Although all of them sprang from the same source they never yielded to tho leadership of any of their own Dumber. Tribes, were formed by close blood relationship and each tribe was governed by itself. Today the same condition exists. There are a score of principal tribes and each of them Is divided into minor tribes between which there still exists bad blood which was Instigated by some outrage hundreds of years ago and for which the cause may be unknown now. The old Maori was fond of tribal meetings at which all questions

Top reading from left—Maori girl* at play before civilization reached the the country. The tree shown lit the picture wr. beivt over the bank of a lake near Rotorua. Frotn It. tip were anipwulcd rope, woven from native liax. The girl, n.ed these as swing, unfit they became tired when they dropped off In the water. The tree 1. gone, but native, still point out tlie stump. Girl* Illustrating the old Maori salutation, rubbing nose*. Kissing wive unknown until the advent of the while man. “Tena Koe- la the Maori greesung, meaning “hello’* or “that - , you” and Is familiar to rlstlors, ua the girls are not fomuU In the matter of miuiring an introduction, A Mri belle of other days. Tattooed Up* and chins are seen now only on Ihe face* of very old women for the younger generation haa changed I'js ideas of be"*ity. The girl in Ihe picture wears a greenstone good lurk piece suspended about her neck. Today the new greenstone, “tiki,** it Is called, Is made in Hwltzrrlund and sent to Now Zealand to be •old to tourist, a. genuine Maori u ork. Nevti 1* an old timer who lias many a story to tell of the day. when the Maori and I’akeha (white man) were fighting to see which would become

affecting the tribe were discussed and ■ decided, woman having an equal voice i with the men. The same conditions are the basis of the tribe self-government | today with modifications caused by the coming of the white man. TRIVIAL INCIDENTS CAUSE OF WAR. So strong was the 111 feeling between tribe* that for a time the villages were deserted and the tribes lived in a constant state of war, or preparedness for %var, inside their pas, or fortifications, from which they issued only In force. Trivial incidents often led to long and bitter warfare. For Instance, the burning of a war canoe of the Arawa tribe by a force of Waikato, who apparently were inspired only by a fueling of deviltry, led to a war which gradually involved almost every tribe on one sldo or the other until all of Maoriland was engaged in the game of bloodshed and kept it up for generations. There were periods of peace and then periods of wars between tribes. Finally the white man came and, as white men generally have been inclined to do the world over, rode roughshod ever the natives, violated their tapu, or sacred things, and brought an war between whites and Maori, which ended only when friendly Maoris helped the whites In such numbers thnt the others were subdued. Alone, It is doubtful if the white man at that time could have hold his own against the shrewd Maori in the battles in the forests and mountains but. aided by other equally as shrewd Maoris, the end was inevitable. It is believed by those who have made close study of the subject that the Maori's infinite patience was born during those long war periods inside their fortresses, it was in thoso days that they developed the art of fancy and intricate wood carring which is the admiration of visitors from all over the world. Not daring to go outside, tho men turned their attention to carving to keep them busy. Tho Mauris wore able through skill and patience to fashion wonderful weapons and ornaments out of granite and tho Iron-like greenstone and tho women perfected the art of taking rough New Zealand flax and from it and the feathers of gaudy colored birds making close woven capes and coats and kilts. Whore the savages of other races daubed or painted their faces with colored mud for war, the Maori, who had proved his courage, was permitted to have tattooed upon his face, limbs or his body scroll work and lines of the most fantastic designs, ench of which meant some event in his own life or that of his ancestors. Tattooing is at best a slow and painful process, and what some of those warriors of long ago must have endured is painful to contemplate. Woman tattooed their lips and chin, which made them look like a man with a mustache and chin whiskers, a custom which still exists to a small degree. THE MAORI MAN SKILLED IN WAR. The Maori man was not an adept at making things which had no connection with war, for mostly he was a lighter. His fishhooks were big, clumsy things of shell, with barbed points. He didn’t need any gardening Implements, for the women did all the work. He didn’t have to devise any weapons for killing big game, for there were no four-footed creatures, except native rals, until after Cook came and supplied pigs from which the island later was stocked. Birds he trapped by ingenious methods. Tho sun was obacured at times by millions of wild pigeons, some of which are still left. He didn’t have to build fires, for the boiling springs were at hand when he didn’t prefer to eat his food. raw. There is no characteristic pottery or vessels of metal in Maoriland. Their homes were simple huts of thatched, straw, for wlmra tho

mjrsms. Only a handful of these old natives remain. A chief in ceremonial costume is shown at the top right. lie bos lived many years, bnt Is active and rugged and is a good type of the Maori of old. Tall, straight-limbed and proud, the Maori was first and last a warrior. Now tile old Maoris are fond of shaking hands with white stranger. arid are more affable than the younger men of the tribes. Rot tom —4n the circle on th# left i shown an old-time chief whoso tatties! tana tell* a story of war and great achievement. In his youthful days. Each tine lias a significance to t/liose who can read It. It Is said a Maori chieftain who once wont to England warned an artist who was painting his picture to be sure to get every line in. as they were a record of li:s personal history and deeds of daring. Only those of extreme youth or luck of courage did nob have tattoed faces fifty years ago. To the right and slightly above picture of tlie old-time chief, Mr. Boyce l shown standing In the entrance to one of the pas which were the old-time forts of tlie Maoris in war times. The gates were barely wide enough to admit one person at a time and were ornamented with t.vpicul Maori wood carving.. In

Maori lived there were no extremes of heat or cold that made tt necessary for him to have any more than bare shelter, and rugs or blankets made out of hemp. First and last, he was a warrior, and when there was no fighting to be done, time buns’ heavily on his bands. Asa fighter the old time Maori was relentless and cruel. Unlike our American Indian, he was not treacherous or inclined to strike in the dark. When he went out to kill an enemy he wanted that enemy to know who had done the killing. He worked himself and his foe up to flghling pitch by long-winded oratory and hurling of insults which no self-respecting -M&orl could stand very long, particularly as the Insults referred to family matters, which is a touchy spot. He delighted in making grotesque faces and sticking out his tongue as far as it would go, largely as a matter of defying his enemy to come and cut out that tongue. No sympathy for a wounded enemy or one who was Incapable of fighting back stirred the Maori breast. Haring downed his foe. he would coolly brain the wounded man and, If possible, cut off his head and bear it back to bis whare, or village, perched upon the point of a spear. It is hard to associate the chlld-llko, fun-loving Maori you meet today with tho cannibal of no longer ago than sixty years. It is generally accepted that the Maori did not eat his victims because he craved flesh, but because being eaten was considered the crowning insult of all and even today to point out that the forefather of tho person you are addressing was eaten after a battle Is a fighting word, and unless you can prove it the consequences are likely to be that you will be deprived of all possessions which will be turned over to the insulted one. TERRIBLE TALES OF CANNIBAL ORGIES. Terrible tales are told of the wild ergies of cannibalism which followed certain famous battles. It was not at all unusual for the women to follow up the warriors and, once the battle was Joined, to light tho fires under the boiling pots ond have the water hot for the slain foe. After one celebrated raid tho victors i carried off to their own village 300 kits of human flesh which had been boiled in their own fat against a day of famine. Maori women were forbidden to eat human flesh and were ostracized when they did so. The Maori’s sense of humor is keenly developed and in the days when wars were raging, quite often whut was intended as a serious fray turned out to be a farce because of some unexpectedly humorous twist against it. Near’Rotorua one of these Incidents occurred. A few Maori warriors had been besieged In a fortress by an overwhelming force of the enemy. Seeing that it was inevitable thnt they were going to bo eaten, the chief called his warriors together and, while the enemy did a war dance outside, suggested that as long as they were going to die they might as well have some fun out of it So, to tha amazement of the besiegers, the door of the pa opened and outMnarclied the beleaguered tribe, with faces highly solemn but bearing aloft in place of weapons stone pots and pans and other domestic utensils, which suggested to the enemy that they were providing their own coffins. It so struck the funny bone of the opposing chief’ that he called off the intended massacre and instead those who had been foes but a few moments before embraced each other in friendship. ■ Two ancient customs of the Maori, odUch now have passed into the fliscard, in their day probably the ifcst esJMgivo means of checking crinjO ever Mflnated by a savage raca. mL was

carving the Maori would start at one corner of the timber and cut out the figures In detail as he went along. Me did not lay out a design beforehand, bnt carried it in his head, yet when the work was completed both sides were found to be a. nearly Identical as if they had been laid out with cuUperg. Continuing to the right is a view of Lake Rotorua on a placid morning and beneath It is shown the boiling pools of Tikitere In the heart of Muorlland. Lake Rotorua is in the thermal region of New Zealand and the to nm of Kot-orua is conducted by the government as a resort where the 111 may go to receive the beneflls of waters of innumerable kinds. Two miles from Rotorua axe tlie Arawa. described by Mr. Royce as the large-t and most interesting of the Maori tribes. The figure at the right of the view of Lake Rotorua shows a Maori costume made of closely woven New Zealand Ha* and tlie feathers of gaudy colorful birds with ornaments fashioned oat of granite and greenstone. The Maoris in the long war periods In their fortresses developed great skill In the fashioning of wronderful weapons, capes, coats and kilts.

the custom of inuru—ln reality nothing but the plundering of those who were guilty of some breach of tribal law or etiquette. Quite often the law of muru was taken advantage of in that the enforcers pillaged all of the offending person's belongings for something that by no reasoning could have been his fault. Muru was in effect our own law of damages, except, that the persons who believed them elves offended —it might boa full tri. -fixed the amount of damages and then proceeded to collect it after informing the victim of tpelr coming. For instance, suppose that a man had accidentally killed a boy of a tribe. As soon as the boy's relatives learned of it they would march in a body to the home of the offender. One of their number would announce his intention of killing the man and the two would engage in a battle to all intents and purposes deadly in character. The first scratch, however, would be sufficient to end the duel and then the mob would ransack the house of their victim, and cart away everythin* he owned. At the same time they would help themselves to food which he, warned in advance, would have ready for them while he sat quietly by and chatted pleasantly with the avengers. Os course the next day he might have his chance to pilldge some of them and get back some of his stuff and some that was the property of the others. MIGHT BE ENFORECED FOR ALMOST ANYTHING. Muru might be enforced for almost anything. If a- man's wife eloped his rival might be the victim of muru for doing it and then muru be enforced against the husband because he hadn't watched his wife well enough to prevent her eloping. A person against whom inuru was worked, however, always felt honored and tho greater the mob that robbed him the more he felt pleased. Today most of the articles which la those days were valuable ar- so common thut muru seldom Is resorted to. The second custom, or law, now about extinct is that of tapn. To the white man. it was a bit of nonsense. To the Maori it was a serious matter. To have a thing tapu was, iu brief, to cast a spell over It which made It sacred and prevented others from touching It. Thus a chief, his belongings and his family were tapu and none might touch him or them. Certain grounds were

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tapn, certain food was tapn, certain articles were tapu. The tapu was so effective that even the natives themselves were ever and eternally Infringing upon it and being punished according to the severity of the offensive or the greatue.-s of the tapu. So strong was the belief that harm would befaJl those who violuted tapu that cases hare been known where a Maori, although In perfect health when he ate of food that was tapu— lay the leavings from a chiefs meal—would die in great agony within a few hours after learning of big of/enge. 1 You now hare read of the Maori efother days as I have learned about him from those who knew him best. Next I shall tell you of the Maori of today as I Lave seen him and know him. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (An/ reader can get the answer to any question by writing THE INDIANA DAILY TIMES INFORMATION HI REAL, FREDERIC J. MASKIN', DIRECTOR. WASHINGTON, D. O. This offer applies strictly to information The bureau cannot give advice ou legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your questions plainly end briefly. Give full name and addrese and enclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer.) THE FIRST INAUGURATION. Q. Please give some detail* of Washington's inauguration. G. K. A. General Washington desired a quiet entry into New York, but his progres# wag one continuous ovation, accompanied with the ringing of bells and firing of cannon. A civil and military escort from the frontier of Pennsylvania, with Governor Mifflin at the head, met him at bis public entrance Into Philadelphia. At the point of embarkation to cross the Delaware River, women had erected a triumphal arch. At Elisabeth Point, a delegation of both houses of Congress met him In a splendid barge. Governor Clinton bad provided carriages for his arrival in New Y'ork, but Washington preferred to walk to the Capitol. The ceremonies commenced at 9 a. m. April 30, 1789, with services In all the churches. Afterward General Washington rode in a coach of state to the Senate chamber, where he was conducted to the chair of John Adams. The oath of office was administered on a balcony, in front of the Senate chamber, in full view of tho street, the balcony containing only a table and a Bible. The General wore a dark brown snl-t of American make, a dress sword, white silk stockings and silver shoe buckles. For a few moments he was overcome by emotion. The oath was administered by the chancellor of the State of New York. The Inauguration address was delivered lu the Senate chamber and afterwards to the whole assemblage in front of St. Paul's Church. THE MAN WAS HANGED. Q. Is It proper to say “The man was hanged'* or “The man was hung?” p. u a. A. When referring to the death penalty, the preferred form of the past tenss Is "hanged.” LENGTH OT NEW TORE SUDWAT, Q. How many miles of cubway find “L” tracks arc there In New York City? T. T. S. A. There are over COO miles of subway and “L” tracks In New York City. HOOF SNAKE DESCRIBED. Q. Is there such a thing as a hoop snake? ANXIOUS. A. There Is a small, harmless snake known as a hoop snake, which Is found in the South Atlantic States. It is bineblack above, marked with three red lines, and flesh-colored below with black spots. It spends most of the time be neath the ground, burrowing deep Into the soil. There Is a superstition that this snake takes Us tall in Its mouth and rolls like a hoop. THE LOCUST FAMILY. Q. Is a grasshopper a locust? R. Y. A. The term locust may be used In referring to any grasshopper, but In common usage It Is meant to specify those species which have migratory habUa. These often travel in vast swarms, destroying the vegetation.