Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1934 — Page 7
MARCH 17, 1934
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun MIAMI. Fla . March 17.—1 imagine it would be a rather silly thing for me to try to write a column about the sea. And so 111 try. Florida itself :s a gigantic ocean liner breasting the gulf and the Atlantic When the great winds come the sea la'hes at these sandpits and coral reefs, which serve as a sort of D deck to the architectural ingenuity of man. Life in this state, under any condi-
tions, is at best amphibian. And in saying this I mean no disrespect to Floridians. I suppose there are Floridians, but not around Miami, which has been taken over by the Yankees and folk from the middle west. From H. G. Wells I have learned that the most important step in the evolutionary process occurred upon that afternoon when one of our lizard uncles crawled up through the breakers and found himself a long white beach upon which to sun himself. “This is not so hard to take,” said the lizard to himself, and with those words there sounded from the very dim future the noise of the riveting machine
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and the drill and the locomotive. Life had left the bed and board of the primeval ocean and was headed inland. an Contact With Ocean Vital NATURALISTS may say that the lizard was a leader to whom we all owe thanks for skyscrapers ajid national highways and detour signs. I think he was a fool to come up. Or. at the very worst, he should have staked his claim upon the sand and said. “Thus far will I go. no farther.” It seems to me that mankind tails off terribly when it loses its contacts with the sea's white horses. I am not of the Viking strain. I have known moments when I wished that the boat beneath my feet would quit its didoes. But in common with all mankind I can look at the ocean in its might, majesty and power and know once again a famished and fighting humility. I have not the courage of Canute. When waves break at my feet I give ground and murmur: “I beg your pardon. Mr. Atlantic. I didn't mean to crowd you.” More than any religious ritual the sight of the sea under moon or sun or stars moves me to resolutions of higher ideals and a damn sight more activity. When that old ocean pours at my feet its pigments of purple, green and blue, I wonder what I have done to deserve a front-row seat at any such opulent performance. a n tt Florida’s Glory in Its Hind I USED to sit back of the barn in Hunting Ridge, Conn . and paint amateur Vermillion seascapes. Friends and neighbors would shake skeptical heads and say. “There never was a sea like that.” And they were utterly mistaken. I can see it through my window. There is any sort of sea you choose to imagine. I’ve nothing against mountains, but not very much for them. “There is the Jungfrau," says the man in the party who knows all the ropes, and 1 look at it with a certain admiration. He was quite right. There it is. And it's been there quite a while. It was the Jungfrau yesterday, and it will be so tomorrow’. Hannibal and I saw the same Alps, even though he sat on an elephant s back and I was in a second-class compartment. But I do not know the precise aspect of the Pacific when Balboa broke through to the sea. Nor can any man tell now whether Lief Ericson rode this way on a steel gray or a bright green sea when he dared the breakers of the long beaches of Vineland. The mountain is a show girl who runs th" gamut of emotions from A to B. The sea is Sarah Bernhardt. I know that Florida has an interior. but the state's glory is its rind. 33 3 Life hut a Dancing Mouse \roU can build-in fact, they have built—some of the worst Neo-Moorish architecture ever known along this east coast, and yet bv turning your back upon the turrets and the minarets you find breathcatching beauty. Miami and Palm Beach <the only cities of the Sandpit which I know) are ugly as sin. In Palm Beach in particular wealth has done more to clutter up the ground with vlugar edifices than in any known spot in all the world. But you can't lick the ocean. Like Jack Dempsey in his palmy days—the sea keeps surging in and punching with both fists. Dig your foundations deep and rear your buildings high, and in the long run the ocean will get your rivets, your brick and mortar and lime. I never have had any very practical plan to go native. I like the mannerisms and the modern plumbing of man when he comes down to rim of the Atlantic and bids the sea behave itself But. just the same, in the long run I'm betting on the ocean. Florida is the finest floating hotel upon which I have ever booked a passage, and I love its deck sports. But in the end we must all crawl back under the green-and-white coverlet with that old uncle of ours—the liberal lizard. Life is a dancing mouse, and where it begins you can be pretty sure is where it's going to finish. (Copyright. 1934. bv The Times)
Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISH BE IN
IF there is one thing for which you can credit the passing and unlamented depression, it is possibly the lower rate of deaths from accidents, particularly accidents from motor cars. There were 9,000 fewer deaths from accidents in 1932 than in 1931. and the lowest total was reached since that recorded in 1924. Today the number of deaths from motor vehicles is greater than that of suicides and homicides combined. The four most common types of accidental deaths are those from motor vehicles, falls, drowning and burns. The percentages vary, with the highest rate from motor vehicles during the late fall and winter months, and the lowest rate in June and July. Obviously, the difficulties of driving in winter weather are associated largely with the increased accident rate. a a a THE decrease in death rates from motor vehicle accidents during 1932 was. no doubt, due to the withdrawal of a considerable number of cars from traffic because of the depression. The proportion of such deaths to population and gasoline consumption varies with different states. For instance. North Dakota had the lowest number of accidents on the basis of its population and also the lowest on the basis of its gasoline consumption. Mississippi had a low rate on the basis of population. but a very high rate on the basis of gasoline consumption. Minnesota had a very high rate on the basis of population, but a low rate on the basis of gasoline consumption. Foreign countries are not compared easily to the United States in relationship to motor vehicle accidents. because there is a greater number of motor cars in this country. a a a IT is interesting to note that 44 per cent of the victims of motor accidents were pedestrians per cent were motorists. In the city areas the pedestrians made up 65 per cent of those injured and the motorists 35 per cent. In rural districts the pedestrians made up 32 per cent and the motorists 68 per cent. The figures show definitely that in those places where there is a law demanding a driver's license there is a tendency for the number of motor car accidents to drop. There seems to be also an increasing carelessness by motorists in relationship to inhaling carbon monoxide gas from the exhaust. There were only 123 deaths from this cause in 1924, but the number rose to 487 in 1931.
"THE LIFE OF OUR LORD"
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CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH < PART ONE) THAT you may know what the People meant when they said “Crucify him!” I must tell you that in those times, which were cruel times indeed (let us thank God and Jesus Christ that they are past!) it was the custom to kill people who were sentenced to Death, by nailing them alive on a great wooden cross, planted upright in the ground, and leaving them there exposed to the sun and wind and day and night, until they died of pain and thirst. It was the custom too, to make them walk to the place of execution, carrying the cross piece of wood to which their hands were to be afterwards nailed; that their shame and suffering might be the greater. Bearing his cross upon his shoulder, like the commonest and most wicked criminal, our blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ, surrounded by the persecuting crowd, went out to Jerusalem to a place called in the Hebrew language. Golgotha; that is, the place of a scull. And being come to a hill called Mount Calvary, they hammered cruel nails through his hands and feet and nailed him on the Cross, between two other crosses, on each of which, a common thief was nailed in agony. Over His head, they fastened the writing “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews”—in three languages; in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. Meantime, a guard of four soldiers, sitting on the ground, divided His clothes 'which they had taken off) into four parcels for themselves, and cast lots for His coat, and sat there, gambling and talking, while He suffered. They offered him vinegar to drink, mixed with gall; and wine, mixed with myrrh; but he took none. And the wicked people who passed that way. mocked him. and said, “If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross.” The Chief Priests also mocked him, and said “He came to save Sinners. Let him save himself!” One of the thieves, too, railed at him in his torture, and said, “If Thou be Christ, save thyself and us.” But the other Thief, who was penitent, said “Lord! Remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom!” And Jesus answered, “Today, thou shalt be with me in Paradise”
None were there, to take pity on Him, but one disciple and four women. God blessed those women for their true and tender hearts! They were, the mother of Jesus, his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene who had twice dried his feet upon her hair. The disciple was he whom Jesus loved—John, who had leaned upon his breast and asked him which was the Betrayer. When Jesus-saw them standing at the foot of the Cross, He said to his mother that John w r ould be her son, to comfort her when He was dead; and from that hour John was as a son to her, and loved her. 33 3 A T about the sixth hour, a deep and terrible darkness came over all the land, and lasted until the ninth hour, when Jesus cried out, with a loud voice, “My God, My God. why has Thou forsaken me!” The soldiers, hearing him dipped a sponge in some vinegar, that was standing there, and fastening it to a long reed, put it up to His Mouth. When he had received it. He said, “It is finished!”. And crying, “Father! Into thy hands, I commend my spirit!”— died. Thene there was a dreadful earthquake; and the great wall of the Temple cracked; and the rocks were rent asunder. The guard, terrified at sights, said to each other, “Surely this
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RAY HENDERSON, press representative of Katherine Cornell. who comes to English's for three days, beginning Thursday night, March 29, left my desk after giving me some information which will change slightly the plans of the actress. Because it requires more than six hours to place the production of “Romeo and Juliet” in the theater, it will be impossible for the star to appear as Juliet in this city. Instead, Miss Cornell will open in her greatest success, “The Barretts of Wimpole Street.” This play will be repeated on Friday night and Saturday matinee. On Saturday night “Candida” will be given. During Holy week English's is used every noon for religious services and for three hours on Good Friday. This will please many people because two performances of “The Barretts” will not be enough to accommodate those who want to see Miss Cornell in this play. From a box office standpoint, the change will be for the advantage of the company and the theater. Miss Cornell is anxious to present all three plays in Indianapolis but it is impassible for the reasons I have stated,” Mr. Henderson said. “The Barretts of Wimpole Street" is the historic romance of England's great poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. With its scene in Miss Barrett’s sitting room in Wimpole street, London, nearly ninety years ago, the play follows closely the actual events which began with the meetof the two writers and ended with their elopement to Italy. Miss Cornell has acted Elizabeth Barrett over six hundred times in the United States. a a a “/CANDIDA” first was played by Miss Cornell before she became a star in “The Green Hat.” Forty years after it was written ‘"Candida" was regarded by many critics as one of Shaw's best
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w r as the Son of God!”—And the People who had been watching the cross from a distance (among whom were many women) smote upon their breasts, and w T ent, fearfully and sadly, home. The next day, being the Sabbath, the Jews were anxious that the Bodies should be taken down at once, and made that request to Pilate. Therefore some soldiers came, and broke the legs of the two criminals to kill them; but coming to Jesus, and finding Him already dead, they only pierced his side with a spear. From the wound, there came out, blood and water. 33 3 THERE was a good man named Joseph of Arimathea, a Jewish city—who believed in Christ, and going to Pilate privately (for fear of the Jews- begged that he might have the body. Piiate consenting, he and one Nicodemus, rolled it in linen and spices—it was the custom of the Jews to prepare bodies for burial in that way —and buried it in anew tomb or sepulchre, which had been cut out of a rock in a garden near to the place of Crucifixion, and where no one had ever yet been buried. They then rolled a great stone to the mouth of the sepulchre, and left Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting there, watching it.
comedies. The free-htinking, handsome parson, Morell, his sympathetic, understanding wife. Candida, and the rebellious young poet, Marchbanks, forms tte triangle which Shaw untangles in his own fashion. Miss Cornell produces the plaj r in the period in which it was written. The setting and costumes for “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” were designed by Jo Meilziner. Those for “Candida” were designed by Woodman Thompson. Miss Cornell made her first success, not in her own country, but in England, where she acted Jo in “Little Women.” For five years she acted in stock and in touring companies, unable to get an opportunity in New York, but after her London appearance she became the over-night sensation on Broadway in “A Bill of Divorcement.” Among the plays in which she has been seen are ’"Will Shakespeare,” “Candida,” “The Green Hat,” “The Letter,” “The Age of Innocence.” “Dishonored Lady,” "The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” “Lucreece,” “Alien Corn” and “Romea ond Juliet.” Assisting Miss Cornell are Charles Waldron, Orson Welles, Brenda Forbes, John Hoysradt, Helen Walpole, Pamela Simpson, David Glassford, A. P. Kaye, Francis Moran, George Macready, Margot Stevenson, Charles Brokaw, Reynolds Evans, Irving Morrow. Lathrop Mitchell, Robert Champlain and Flush. 9 0 0 MRS. ARNOLD SPENCER, who for twenty-five years has been organist at the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, will present a program of Hebrew music at the Washington Street Presbyterian church tomorrow night. Besides giving a discussion on the principles of Hebrew music, Mrs. Spencer will sing a number of selections illustrating this religious music. Bromley* house, pupil of Fred N°well Morris, writes from Shanghai that he has been engaged to sing some of the bass solos in the Bach B Minor mass, to be given by a chorus of two hundred voices. He writes “That's just about the queerest choir you’ve ever seen, Paci. the director talks to us in English and Italian: Shushvlin the assistant, lapses into his native Russian when excited; the accompanist is French and a good part of the chorus is Chinese, yet all in all it sounds pretty good.” Mr. House is master of ceremonies. radio announcer at the Paramount Club in Shanghai. THE Central Avenue M. E. church choir, under the dirction of Mr. John M. White, will sing “Stabat Mater." by Rossini, Tuesday evening. March 27, at 7:45 in the main auditorium of the church. SCIENTECH WILL MEET Club to Hear Talk on Computing Machines Monday. Members of the Scientech Club will hear an address at the luncheon Monday by O. F. Hammer, district manager of Felt and Tarrant Company, computing machine manufacturers, on the subject, "Wheels That Think.”
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The Chief Priests and Pharisees remembering that Jesus Christ had said to his disciples that He would rise from the grave on the third day after His death, ■went to Pilate and prayed that the Sepulchre might be well taken
WHITHER LEAGUE TO MEET OH TUESDAY Fifth Winter Session Will Start With Dinner. Fifth annual winter conference of the City Walther League of Indianapolis will be opened Tuesday with a dinner in St. Paul’s hall, Weghorst and Wright streets. Albert Brethauer, Indiana district president, will be toastmaster. Central theme of the conference will be Christian Leadership. Principal speaker will be the Rev. Lorenz Wunderlich, Calvary Lutheran church. The Rev. W. H. Eifert, Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran church, also will speak. Louis K. Moehlman, league chairman, is heading committees, assisted by Alberta Stuckmeyer, Ruth Armel, Carl Specker and Wilbur Siefker. FRENCH OFFICIAL FOUND Agriculture Chief Hunted in Bank Scandal Tries Suicide. By United Prexx PARIS, March 17.—Emile Blanchard, director of the service of agriculture, sought for complicity in , thp Stavisky banking scandal, was found in a dying condition in Fontainbleau forest today. His throat was cut and he had taken poison. It was the latest in a series of crimes and attempted suicides as the government unravelled the ugly skeins of the career of the suicide banker. Alexandre Stavisky. whose failure led to the fatal Paris riots.
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Jesus Fainting Under the Cross, by Gustave Dore
care of until that day, lest the disciples should steal the Body, and afterwards say to the people that Christ was risen from the dead. Pilate agreeing to this, a guard of soldiers was set over it constantly, and the stone was
DESIRE FOR TRAVEL LEADS TO UNWANTED DUCKING IN CREEK
Cecil Simms, 15, of Vincennes, started out to see the world and wound up getting a ducking in a Hoosier creek. Simms, according to police, hopped a train for Indianapolis. The train stopped at the Eagle creek trestle on the outskirts of the city. Believing he in the city, the youth leaped from the train into Eagle creek, headfirst. He suffered head injuries. He swam ashore. Police took him to city hospital for treatment and then sent him to the county detention home. He is held for Vincennes police along with three companions, Morris Welton, 15; John Grider, 14, and Richard Raybcrn, 13.
DRIVER IS HURT WHEN CAR RUNS INTO DITCH Youth in Critical Condition From Internal Injuries. Lawrence C. Graver, 19, of 234 Harris street, suffered internal injuries early today when the car he was driving was ditched in the 2000 block on High School road. He was taken to city hospital. His condition is critical. Road Contract Awarded R. H. Ellis, Alexandria, Ind., has been awarded a $21,821 state highway commission contract for structure extensions on 4.5 miles on Road 13. from Indianapolis to the Hamilton county line.
By George Clark
sealed up besides. And so it remained, watched and sealed, until ’the third day, which was the first day of the week. (Continued Monday(Copyright for North and South America, 1934, bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.: all rights reserved.i
NRA CHIEF INDORSES HOKE'S CODE PLANS Compliance Director Meets State Leaders Here. Plans for enforcing compliance with the provisions of the national recovery act in Indiana were discussed by Dr. A. J. Altmeyer, assistant national compliance director of the NRA; Fred Hoke, Indiana director of the national emergency council, and Francis Wells, executive assistant in Indiana for the NRA, at a conference in Mr. Hoke’s office Thursday afternoon. Dr. Altmeyer, who is on a tour of inspection of the midwestern states conferring with NRA and national emergency council directors, approved a plan of Mr. Hoke’s by which the four field men of the state board will assist in the work of adjustment of complaints of NRA violations. It was decided that NRA violations in intrastate commerce would be handled in exactly the same manner as interstate violations; that is the case will be investigated and reported to the NRA compliance board in Washington. SUITCASE AND COAT STOLEN FROM AUTO Ft. Wayne Resident Reports Parked Car Theft. Robert Shaw, Ft. Wayne, reported the theft of a suit case valued at S6O and an overcoat worth $25 from his car parked at Forty-third street and Boulevard place. Two Negroes seized the purse of Mrs. Rose Nichols, 422 South Missouri street, at West and Empire streets. It contained $1.50 and a SSO WTist watch. The apartment of Alice Schultz, Apt. 2 of 605 East Maple road, was robbed of jewelry valued at $41.55. Burglars entered the home of Oliver Schroeder, 3557 Watson road, and stole jewelry valued at SBS and an automatic pistol valued at $lO. DR. RICE WILL ADDRESS SOUTHPORT PARENTS Sex Education to Be Topic at Meeting Monday. The Southport High School ParentTeacher Association will hear an address on sex education by Dr. Thurman Rice Monday night at the school. The topic is part of the year’s plan of study of the Southport P-T. A. Regular meetings of the two study groups will be suspended Monday night to permit members to hear Dr. Rice. FARLEY AID IS NAMED Emil Hurja Will Help Democratic Chief Run Party. By United Prexx WASHINGTON, March 17.—Reorganization of the Democratic high command continued today with announcement by National Chairman James A. Farley of the appointment of Emil Hurja as his assistant. Mr. Hurja, administrative assistant to Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes, resigned that post to take the new one. The move gave rise to two speculations—that Mr. Farley intended to continue his chairmanship, leaving Mr. Hurja to carry on patronage matters, or that he planned to resign and give his position to a less experienced politician with Hurja sss tuning the political burden.
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler SENATOR ELMER THOMAS has proposed the establishment of a study class in which the statesmen, who are called upon to appropriate big, coarse sums of money affecting, the future of the country may sit and listen to wisdom on the subject of that puzzling device called the dollar. The senator does not think his colleagues are as well-in-formed as they ought to be on matters which they undertake to decide, which is not surprising considering that personal popularity and the indorsement
of a party organization count more with the citizens in an election than the intelligence or honesty of the candidate. It would be a nice problem, then, to decide which school of wisdom on the subject of money to adopt as the official school because expens have disagreed on that too and one professor remarked a while ago that only a dozen or so men in the entire world really understood what money was all about. But it would be something, anyway, to recognize that a mere certificate of election does not necessarily qualify a neighborhood politician in a big city or a county seat lawyer and orator as an expert in major league economics.
The establishment of the school would be at least a gesture toward the improvement of the breed of statesmen. They puzzled hard and long one day last winter over a formula prepared by Dr. Mordecai Ezekial of the department of agriculture for the control of the birthrate in pigs and finally had to reject a plan which might have had great merit because the doctor’s main idea eluded them in a maze of mathematcal symbols. 33 3 This Is Too Optimistic SENATOR THOMAS’ proposal suggests what an odd thing it is that policemen, letter carriers, and even stokers in government buildings are required to pass written tests of their intellectual fitness foi these jobs and to show in a general way that they are not lunatics, whereas aspirants to the halls of government are carelessly presumed to be men of good intelligence and sound mind. This is a rash and over-optimistic presumption. A crazy policeman can not do very serious harm. About the worst he can do is empty his pistol into a crowd of citizens most of w’hom. to judge by the success of the police in shelling John Dillingers automobile these last few days, would escape injury. The policeman then would be seized by other officers, disarmed, loaded into a wagon, and removed from the force, because the law holds that a policeman must be sane and, in any question of his sanity, must assume the burden of proof. A statesman, on the other hand, has power to make a great nuisance of himself and to work serious harm to the citizens with nut propositions. But he may stand on his dignity and immunitv if any one offers a doubt as to the health of his mind. He is a statesman with a certificate of election and the representative of the qualified voters w’ho chose him at the polls. 33 3 Officers Are Checked IT is not up to his colleagues or any other authority to tell those citizens that they voted wrong because that W’ould be an infringement of their right as citizens which permits them to elect their choice without any review by anybody. I don’t know w’hether Senator Thomas would wish to go so far as to indorse periodic examinations of the statesmen in this respect but I do not see that this would be such an outlandish idea as it might seem at first inspection. The officers of the army and navy are checked up every so often just to make sure and these inspections do not fail to take note of any goofy peculiarities which may have developed since the last time. In fact, most servants of the citizens are required to prove their fitness under some specified standard before they are taken on and the statesmen, whose potential danger to the country if they are not quite bright or not just right, are conspicuous exceptions. It seems a very careless oversight. But I begin to fear that I have overspoken myself. There has been too much talk lately of licensing the press and a proposal to compel the statesmen to prove their fitness might call forth a counter proposal that newspaper columnists should be compelled to prove that they know what they are talking about. The idea makes me nervous. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ
SMITHSONIAN scientists, working in co-operation with officials of the state of Georgia, believe that they have located one of the great cultural centers of America, prior to the coming of the white man. Extensive excavations now under way are believed to have located the ancient capital of the Creek Confederacy. The site consists of a group of mounds at Macon, Ga. It was_ last visited in 1778 by a trader named Bartram, who left the following account of it: “If we are to give credit to the account the Creeks give of themselves, the place is remarkable for being the first town or settlement where they sat down after their immigration from the west, beyond the Mississippi, their original native country. “Having formed for themselves this retreat, and driven off the inhabitants by degrees, they recovered their spirits and again faced their enemies, when they came off victorious in a memorable and decisive battle.” 000 AFTER the battle, according to Bartram’s account, things went better for the Creeks. In time they gradually subdued their enemies and finally formed a confederation of the surrounding tribes. However. Dr. John R. Swanton, Smithsonian authority on the southeastern Indian, sounds a word of caution against accepting Bartram’s store entirely. He says that it is still debatable whether the site now being excavated actually was the Creek capital. He says that prior to 1715 it was the site of a large, sprawling town or collection of villages of the Hitchiti tribe, a subordinate of the Creek confederation. This is all that is known about the site with positiveness. The excavation, which was started as a civil works administration project is under the direction of Dr. Arthur R. Kelly and James A. Ford of the Smithsonian institution. Another Indian mystery upon which Smithsonian scientists are working is the fate of the so-called “fire nation.” Early missionaries and traders among the Huron Indians were told exciting stories of the Mascoutens or “fire people” living to the west. No trace of these people, however, ever has been found. Dr. Truman Michelson. Smithsonian ethnologist, starting with a chance clew found in an old journal of a Frenchman, believes that he has solved the problem of this lost nation which existed in lower Michigan and Illinois up to the beginning of the nineteenth century. 000 DR. MICHELSON points out that the term “fire” represented the wrong translation of what the Hurons were really talking about. The words “prairie” and “fire” sound very much alike in their language and they really were talking about the “prairie people.” The big task, ho vcver, was to decide which of the prairie dwellers of the great Algonquin family were meant. After searching many old records, he decided that there was a Mascouten tribe with which the Hurons had come in contact. It was also established that they had been members of the Illinois Confederacy of Algonquin tribes which had also included the Peoria and Miami Indians and a number of smaller tribes. The mystery of the disappearance of the Mascoutens was then quickly cleared up. In 1769. the great Indian chieftain, Pontiac, had been murdered by a Kaskasia Indian whose tribe was a member of the confederacy. In revenge, the Sauks, Foxes, Kickapoos and Potowatamis got together and attacked the Illinois group, practically wiping them out of epstence in a mighty massacre.
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