Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1929 — Page 20

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SCIEN.ISTS ASK I PROTECTION OF (INDIAN MOUNDS Prehistoric Monuments Are t In Danger of Being Destroyed. By Sriener Frrvirr WASHINGTON. May 10. The preservation of irreplaceable earth monuments built by Indians in middle western America long before the white man came will be urged at an archeological conference called for May 18 at St_ Louis under the sponsorship of the National Research council. Plows, steam shovels and souvenir dealers are destroying forever tne tombs and buried records of an ancient civilization that built pyramids that rival those of ancient Egypt Dr. Knight Dunlap, chairman of the division of anthropology and psychology, declared today. “Once the states and local communities of the Mississippi valley realize the value of these valuable heritages from the past they are sure to take steps to properly protect them,” Dr. Dunlap said. Conference Opens May 18 Governor Henry S. Caulfield of Missouri will open the May 18 conference and among the many speakers there will be Dr. William Cooper. United States commissioner of education, and Dr. M. W. Stirling, chief of the United States bureau of American ethnology. Many wild theories have been advanced to account for the mound builders. They have been described as a lost race; as one of the Ten Tribes of Israel; as descendants of early Scandinavian or Welsh invaders; as a colbny from the Maya civilization in Central. America, or even as Egyptians, Chinese, or peoples from the “Lost Atlantis.’’ Today the scientists agree that they were American Indians, but this cord of the development of an American civilization, built by the American Indians on American soil, through a long period of time. Mounds Being Destroyed “Our scientists are making rapid progress in this study of the lives of the prehistoric inhabitants of America, but they need all the materials they can get,” Dr. Dunlap said. “Stiil the work of destroying the mounds and other remains of our predecessors goes merrily on. “Farmers plow the mounds down to make simple the tilling of their fields. Tourists dig into them in the hope of getting arrowheads. Some have even been blown up with dynamite. Dealers in souvenirs exploit them indiscriminately. In one ccimty of Illinois there are 655 mounds, and all but fifty have been looted. The contents have, been scattered and valuable historical "documents” have been forever lost. AGED INDIAN SAVES LIFE OF WHITE MAN Lies Down on Tracks to Gvard Broken Rail. By United Press SOPERTON, Wis., May 10.—A tale of the striking loyalty of an Indian was brought into this small lumber community recently by a railway section foreman. Tom McAllan, the foreman, was through with his day's work and was bound for camp, he related, when, from the platform of the gasoline car on which he was riding, he espied the body of a man prone on the rails. As the gasoline car draw nearer, Jake Waubejay, a Patawatomi Indian. 75 years old, arose from the track and motioned frantically towards the car. McAllan found the old Indian was guarding a broken rail he accidentally had stumbled upon. Waubejay had resorted to ancient“ear to the ground" tactics to warn him of the approach of a train because his eyes were virtually sightless. HITCHING POST GONE Boston Relic of Days of Old Dobbin is Removed. Bn United - BOSTON. May 10.—Local newspapers published stories recently about a hitching post in front of 11 Worcester Square, South End. They described the post as the last landmark in Boston reminiscent of the days when Dobbin was in flower. Antiquarians soon appeared for a glimpse of the famous post, and not a few of them rang Catherine Arnold's nearby doorbell to ask questions about its history. Annoyed by the visitors, the woman appealed to the public works commissioner, who ordered the post removed. BOND LIQUOR IN U. S. Fear Bootleggers Will Smuggle Booze Into Canada. B’J United fri " GREAT FALLS. Mont.. May 10.— “Bottled in bond Canadian" liquor coming from the southern part of Montana to border points has led federal officers to believe that it wont be long before Montana moonshiners will start smuggling liquor into Canada, irstead of sneaking it over here from that country. Such a contingency, they point out, would cause border patrols to keep a lookoot in both directions, north and south, to prevent liquor traffic. 2-YEAR-OLD TESTIFIES I'oungest Witness in U. S. Appears in Disturbance Case. By United Press BUTTE. Mont., May 10 —To keep youngest , witness ever used in a local police court was a 2-year-old boy, Robert Clifford, who exhibited a long cut in his face as evidence that a defendant in a disturbance case broke the glass in the front door of Mrs. Clifford's home. The youngster incurred the cut from flying glass. <

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IMMIGRANT BAN INCREASES U. S. TRAVEL ABROAD Renovated Steerage Room Is Now Used by Vacationists. By Times Pveeinl NEW YORK. May 10 —The rigidly restrictive immigration law which became effective in 1924 has w’orked out in one surprising way unforeseen by its framers. It not only has checked the flow of Europeans into America, but it has also increased by more than 100,000 the annual number of American visitors to Europe. This is the interesting fact brought out by Roger Shaw in the current issue of the Golden Book magazine.

Shaw estimates that more than ! half a million Americans will jourI ney across the Atlantic this year, I more than 300.000 of them making | the trip purely for pleasure, j Fully a third of the 300,000, he I estimates, are persons of small I means—students, teachers, writers, | farmers, salesmen and others, who make the trip in the remodeled and comfortable accommodations once labeled “steerage” and reserved .tor immigrants, but now given over at minimum rates to vacationists. “While immigrants formed the major portion of the passenger lists, the average American, when he was unable to afford a first-class passage, which was high-priced because luxurious, preferred to remain at home,” Shaw says. “But because the quota law' of 1924, restricted immigration traffic to a dribble an important change has taken place. “The steerage, completely renovated and no longer crowded to capacity, is now' given over to those who feel it is better to travel cheaply than not at all, and has found a bull market. “A few hundred young people sailed in the summer of 1924 in the

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