Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 63

“THE * SUNDAY - STAR, - WASHINGTON, D: -C, JANUARY - 20, - 1024 « EXHIBITS VIEWS. FROM SOUTH SEAS George B; ddle of Prominent Philadelphia and Baltimore Families Creates Sensation in Paris After Living on Islands Since World War. Mystery in Man Who Could Have Succeeded to Partnershr'é in Great Law Office. BY STEPLING HEILIG. PARIS, January 10 YSTERIOUS George Bid- 1" Paris knows as an Am; and sculptor, who back in 1911 and who was {n the wa who hes since been in the south seas, and| who now opens an exhibition full of | uth seas works, which Is a sensa- | i dle simpl paint, in Paris tion among artists. At times it is vaguely mentioned that “he is rélated to the well known Tiddle family of Philadelphia? As a fact, he was born and grew | up in those exclusive circles of Phila- @elphia and Baltin He has con- uections and family friends all over | Paris society. Yet for the opening day exhibition (when many paintess and sculptors move Leaven and earth to attract the fashionables) | trick on society | ail his catalogues. ves and works among | fellow artists, and the event, ot the ! arbazanges galleries, domi- ated by such—come to see, all hang- together (what many had seen parting in his studio), what th American has brought back from the out! a gemeration after the Gauguin, made that quarter of the globe his home and put it on the map (as Frenchmen! claim) p | Yet Biddl the French of his was h on really made remember Gauguin, who Tiad been practically forgotten in Yarls, although Russian and Ger- _3nan collectors still bought Gauguins Even it was imps aise money in France Loy T Jouvre, funds | | le But T Wil | theomi I do not hesistate to say this south £ea pictures are in Paris than those of ch predecessor. The effect of his pictures, all hang- 1z together, i= notable. The beaches himmer in the sunlight; the land- 1l the b with a dellcious flecked coolness. There is an -loping as of palms in a gentle wind. island vision: e of infinitel : and tender color. Here tropieal lands which wot sultry. In blazing dayshine his s and greens melt into decorative mna His yellows maintain their character for miles and miles in the distance. u The FPHE man remains mysteiious was first said, playfully, Canity Fair,” last November, orge Biddle is the most imaginable—q as open ai Gauguin ever was—and readily an- ewers any questions that are put to [ But, somchow, when all the| questions are answered, Yoh seem to less than before. He has in- numerable friends who are devoted to him (1 among the number), but no ene in &ll this large company dares make the claim of really knowing George Biddle.” Here now a detail of it. I— Sterling Heilig—knew George Biddle when he was a child, six years old. 1 do not know him a whit better to- day. True, I have met him only twice in all the years between. Long, long ago, before I was old enough to vote, I was his father's stenographer and a law student in that powerful law office where trusts| were invented, New Jersey corpora- tions discovered, the Reading Rail- road reorganized, the escheats against the Erle Railroad defeated, the Bell- Drawbaugh telephone contest liqui- [ men like Senator It in that open ow te know ne ated, and where George W. Pepper were among the Youthful students of my day George W. Biddle, the grandfather, was the most authoritative and dig- nified fizure at the then famous Phil- delphia bar. His son George wis dy adviser of the Pennsylvania ratlroad. His son Sydney had molded much of our stock exchange and street car law and was a law profes- &or of the university. Sydney mar- vied a sister of John Robinson of Bal- timore, magnate of the Seaboard ruilroad. The social and financial place of all these folks was similarly high. I can hardly tell how we young students made a hero of Sydney Bid- Qle. In looks, dress, physique, grand manner, culture, travel and real yower he was the ideal mixture of al | of | George, the present painter and sculp- | man’s thir | adelphia bar, as his futher was. 1t | Biddle, | was wide—nis artist so sreat gentleman and a great jurist, At the outset of his splendld career he died. He left four sons—Mencuro (named for his grandrather, Robinson Baltimore), today banke: tor; Francls, u lawyer, and Sydney, a doztor in’ Boston. Death smote, cruel and sudden, in the family. 1In a fow short vears the great law office was broken up by the decease in dismaying succession of George, Sydney and old Mr. Bid- dle. There remained the old gentle- son, Arthur, distinguished compler of law precedents, whose own son died gloriously in the war, a hero of the Lafayette Squadrilla. George Biddle, the painter cousin of this ace), served at front as lieutenant on the general Staff of the American First Army Corps, and won promotion to captain in a racketing servi All our early combat divisions passed through the First Corps. After the war h sea (and the e went to the south REGULARLY they ask why George Biddle went the south seas. I should ask, rather, how he had the moral courage < into paint- ing. It is of Lankers, law- vers, judges, officers and doe- tors. George himscl! began ae a lawyer. He is a member of the Phii- or intact. nt comrse, (e family fortune In- answer to & question once, he said: - “I Lad always been good at my studies, but at law my brothers were better than 1" Probably the firt crave came to him from his father, who on his trips to Paris and London was and out studios and dealers’, great fancier of pictures, art objects, bric- a-brac, tapestries and period furni- ture Now see that which superb Syd the father, sought to buy a collector—and his range of as terest by an un- usuak, quirk, craves to produce with his own hands: The son’s classi complete. He put in the years to study law. He was (and is) a law- Nothing prevented him from betng a collector of all kinds of art, because he is as hot for one kind as another. But not other tellows." Here, therefore, is the extraordinary thing. George Biddle is aimost as fine a sculptor as he is a painter. marvelous at tgpestry designing. He exhibits art screens, tables, mar- quetry tablets, etc, that charm everybody. In scuipture he goes, even, to hard woods. (Not one sculptor In a hundred does it!) At this mo- ment he is carving in mahogany that beautiful plece of his already doue in marble, called “Maternlty.” The big block of mahogany is thers upon the pointing stand, harder than marble, but with a graln which, how- ever “fine, risks Teath the chisel strokes. Biddle does, even, his own pointing and the first rough shaping of the figure from the block, which sculptors nowadays regularly leave to the spe- clallst art artisen. Next he will be de- signing stalned glass. Raphael designed costumes, Michael Angelo was coulptor and painter, Leonardo invented wainut ofl. But do not think that Biddle consciously follows in great footsteps. education is ver. IDDLE s a modernist—an ultra- modernist. This is in line with 21l the rest. “The family members are surely all traditionalists. Brought up from a lad on precedent, he squarely refuses precede; in art, while having in his blcod and educa- tion all the old brakes to siow him down to taste and measure. I have asked the Parisian whom I respect the most in these things what he thinks of George Biddle's modernity. “Onca art wes for churches,” an- swers this Parisian. “Now it Is for fine houses. The painter who is original and not a sheep instinctively sees his art where It must hang or stand. Biddle's bright yet tender colors decorate walls with gracetul beauty. So his drawing keeps to decorative lines. “All the lines of his Tahiti house— Toof, sides, shining walk, long border of red flowers and curving sweep of road—are of a jovous symmetry. His THIS PICIURE GIVES SOME IDEA OF THE VERSATILITY .OF GEORGE BIDDLE. HE DESIGNED;’ COLORED: AND' EXECUTED \- [ He is| splintering off be- GEORGE BIDDLE IN HIS STUDIO | MAHOGANY. net drawing and fish-spear recall the balanced desig: old Greek friezes. His tapestry pletures add a very rhythm of colors. “Biddle’s art not photographi he concludes. “He does not open ,\‘lui a window on the south se: but hej passes before your eves impressions of beauty which he fourd there.” | Why did he g0 to the south seas? | Certain modernist writers claim “hat It was Just to get away from art tradition, ‘he war nes brought Biddle d Sl]lu-!l sion,” saye Hunt Diederich, “for it made him realize that the time has come when we can no longer follow in the footprints of European art Unable to find stimulus in aching | Europe, he turned directiy to nature.” But, saprist!! To turn to nature you don't need to turn round the globe to the south seas. This gathers, is what New York as the mystery “We all know why to Tahiti and what got there,” sald the w Vanity Fair, “but the most zealous students | of the art situation have never been sure why rge Blddle went nor whay he back from and we i regar Guuguin went when came Tahiti sp sonality mystery. Nobody Ll why rge went to the sourh ceas, where wrote and painted largeiy in the rly 80's, ten years before Gauguir When he heard of Gauguin's metho of retiring to the wilderness, taking a native mate and going about naked, laic's regarded per- that s as a asks John La New Local BY STEPHEN F. TILLMA | old Corcoran Cadet Corps of ‘Washington, a new organiza- | tion has been formed in the | District. Today the traditions and | high ideals of this famous old cadet | corps relive in the Capital Cadet| Corps. One year ago the 25th of this month | la group of young men, all members of Company A, 121st Engineers of the District of Columbia National Guard, met in the local armory for the pur- pose of organizing a company to carry on the work of the old militia organizations. Sergt. William A. Gormley presided at the first meeting. Fourteen per- sons were present and signed the ap- plication charter. At a following meating Capt. Joseph R. McKey, who commands Company A, was eclected temporary commandant. The selection of a name for the or- genization was no small matter. Aft- er much discussion it was agreed that the organization should perpetuate the name of the past organizations of the National Guard of the District of Columbla, such as the National Ri- fles or the Corcoran Cadet Corps. It was finally decided, however, that while the nmew corps should bear the traditions of the Corcorans, it would take @ new name. Thus began the Capital Cadet Corps of today. Its work has been marked with no great outward show, but rather with unity of opinion and dili- gent efforts toward the things which make for suqcess in an’organization of its kind. Its motto, “Semper Vo- lens et Potens” (always strong and coger), has been faithfully lived up to. - . Commandant McKey having passed the age limit for membership on the aotive 1ist, was retired with the rank of cadet major. First Lieut. Roy W. Keesee was advanced to the grade ox cadet captain and commandant on March 1, 1823, for a torm of ten months. It was due to the personal efforts and devotion of Commandant Keesee that the first company of cadets reached completion on July -1, 1923. 1t is now efficient in both close and extended order drills and ranks from 50 to 100 per cent in attendance for the regular ordered drills of Com- pany A of the National Guard. The drills of the cadet corps are held on the first and third Fridays of the month in the National Guard armory. PDuring the meeting of November 30, 1923, the corps adopted a resolu- tion to begin action for the formation of the second cadet company. While thig work has been started, it must possess one cadet officer and eighteen cadets before it can be recognized for muster as a unit of the Capital Cadet Corps. Election was held .on December to fill the post of commandant for the next term. Commandant Keesee was re-elected commandant for & term of two years from January 1, 1024. The new commandant: {8 well qualified for his-post. - He is a first lieutenant of engineers of the District of Columbia National Guard and Officers™ Reserve Corps, Army ofsthe United States, ‘He is considered one of the most popular of National Guard officers. He served during - the Mexican - border - trouble i | WORK IN HAND OUT OF A SOLID BLOCK OF FINE-GRAINED Old Traditions Survive in PART--S5. INDIANS COMING WITH PETITIONS IN PARIS. HE IS CUTTING THE our Amerfcan La Farge called Gau- guin “Not a wild Frenchman, but a etupid Frenchman.” | EORGE BIDDLE, our other polite, | aloof and characteristically | touch-me-not American, put in time, like John La Farge, in writing. Studying the archalc language from an old native, he translated sdme of Tahitian myhtological epics, as| transcribed by Moorenhout in 1820.] A French version of it was pubiished | by the local Societe d'Etudes Oceani-| ennes and the French government's colonial printing office on occasion of the exhibition of Riddle's works which they go¢ up in the hall of the society at the Museum of Papoete in 1922 They are impressive religious le- gends, “Concerning God the Creator,” “The Birth of Gods and Men,” “The Creation,” “Destruction of the Land” (was this & vague remcmbrance o the sinking of the Lemurian con nent?), und so on, which begins: “Ye basic foundations! Ye rocks! Ye sands!” In his folklore ion of these translations Biddle put In certain of e old love lyrics which the natlves 1 sing moonlight under the cocoanut by the Chinaman's store, and in which, for example, the Polyneslan young man afirms that “Her vol is as harmonious as ery of the wooden nose flute Ab, the women of Tahiti: They are pleasant, H —(runs the translation of the erudite | Philadelphia painter and sculptor). [ i { Cadet Corps | with the 3d District of Columbia In- | 1aaqing writers of America. AKING its inspiration from the | fantry and during te world war with {34 peen done in tie field of Indlan the Navy. He the engineer school Humphreys, Va. also.a graduate of | at Fort A. A. Romance of Tailoring. LEARNED taflor of London re- cently traced the history of tai- loring before the Tailors' Association of that city, and claimed that it was older than the world—*it 18 of Divine origin, poets proclaim it, 3nd philoso- phers assent | Proceeding from the Garden of 'Eden to Egypt, this sartorial philoso- ! pher gave, with some show of being doubtful of the wisdom of doing sop| an account of the $350,000 income a Queen of Egypt drew for pin money. “Not a small allowance,” he com- mented, “and if our wives wanted anything approaching it we should ] have to consider seriously before we left the ranks of the bachelors.” He expressed regret that living in a| world “where moth and rust doth corrupt,” we cannot gaze upon some of the garments made In those days, | but fortunately, he said, some of the |dians a wealth o oldest stone. His next topic was the sumptuary laws. “There is” he said, “abun- dant evidence that in all ages beau- tiful clothing has been very much sought after, and in many ages the rank of the wearer has been indicat- ed by the style of his dress; so that it is no new thing for 2 man or wom- an to endeavor to appear to belong to a better class of soclety than is actually the case, which leads them to spend vast sums on their apparel bevond what they are able to pay. This led to the passing of laws to prevent extravagance in dress and other ways." We are told that they abounded in enclent civilization. So long ago as 450 B. C. they are to be traced, while Solon's “Guide to Grecian Laws” and the history of the Roman censors show that they exercised the most careful supervision of expenditure, not only in the matter of clothing, but in the question of entertainmentsand private expenditure. Sumptuary laws were in great favor in Hngland in the thirteenth century, when a law was passed that “all who did not en- joy a free estate of £100 per annum were prohibited from wearing furs, skins or silk.” Sumptuary laws of England reached thelr climax in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when two watchers or inspectors -were ap- pointed for -every parlsh, armed with sohedules of all persons “assessed to the later subsidy of £20 a year, or who owned 200 pounds in goods and upward, in‘order to see’ that prohibi- tion against all silk trimmings was obeyed.”, . - “Befofe I dismiss the subject,” said the speaker, “I must.not forget a lit- tle story, showing how a nobleman revenged himself on a commgner who copied him. . He learned from his tai- lor that this man had placed an or- der for & suit made:the same in every detail as the next one ordered by himself, whereupon he placed an or- der for one made of the worst mate- rlals, all cut up into shreds, The or- der was duly executed, and the poor commoner was forced to pay for the suit without being able to wear it.” ‘ ) records remain in carved | | has, Sevzntyseven Osag ready in Capital Only A e Men and Women Al- dvance Guard of Those Who Seek Passage of Remedial Legislation by Congress — Preservatio Among Objects—W ant BY CASH ASHER. TRIP to Washington is a mere incident in the lives of the P sevanty-seven Osage Indian ' men and women who arrived in the Capital City a week ago yes- terday from their reservation in north-central Oklahoma, Sated with wealth from ofl and gas, the Osages have come in direct contact with the white man's ecivilization more than| any other of the aboriginal tribes. Their arrival is, however, signifi cant, since they will be followed dur- ing the mnext few months by dele gations from vartous reservations.| All of these are coming to Wash- | ington for one puropse—to secure the passage of remedial legislation. Compared with most of the tribes, the Osages lead n happy life. They have been miraculously raised above | the medioerlty of most Indians. Oil} which spouts fromi their reservation | time being, wrought a great sPormation their mode of living. Even if they fall to ee- cure the leglslaiton they seek, they will not suffer trom lack of the world’s goods. The per capita earn- ings on thelr oil and gas last year amounted to $12,000. The Osages will probably not have| tett Washington before delegations| from the Pima and Navajo reserva- tions come with more serious griev- Loujs Nelson, chief of the Pimas, told the writer not long ago that his people contemplated bom- barding Congress to prevent white ttlars - from infringing on their water rights. Situated in a desert country, the Pima' mnation is in rather sore ances. of Water R;g’:ts Protection of Dances. n buflt up here on our native soil still more ‘curious and gripping truths. ok ¥ % 7THE technique of .Indian pottery has long been of great interest to students. The. designs, with thelr mystic symbolism, have a long his- tory, and when ‘understood appea! to one through their strange simplic- ity and almost photographic graph- icness. Indlan blanket weaving, with its curious. desigms and utilitarian product, s -an interesting study in Itself. It Is well ynderstood that the basketry of the Indlans was carried to further heights many times over than that of any old-world people. A perfectly made Indlan basket s a jewel, and students of art find in the intricacles of the study of basketry a most alluring subject. There are many Indian arts that are almost obsolete, such as the man- ufacture of beautiful beads out of shell, the carving of wood, bone and tvory, the making of twine bags, por- cupine quill work and the lke. And there are Indian music and literature. We know very little about the In- dian literature, except that each tribe BY PERRY ARLY one Saturday afternoon in the fall of 1916 a traveler motored down from shire hills, where he had been jexploring the wilder several days straights, he sald, because the water of the Gila river has been diverted, in a great measure, from thelr lands. This, the chiel contended, was con- trary to the understanding his peo- ple had which gave them priority rights te the waters of the Glla “We do not ask that the “hite sei- tlers be removed from our land, for that would work a hardship on tk sald Chief Nelson. *Nor do we ask financial help from the governm All we ask Is enough water to rals our crops o We can support our far ilies.” A URING past few years has been said and written about the Indian, his culture, arts and at- tainments. With his gradual exter- mination as a distinet race, archoel- ogists and ethnologisis have become interested, and many agencies today are attempting to preserve What réw mains of this ancient and picturesque cople. ane awakening was probably d chiefly to the fact that Burope 1 sending her students here to study the ancient and isolated art of the red mau. Among those who are tak- ing an active part in this salvaging culture are some of the Much the is ot racial music, - while their plcturesque art has been Imitated quite successfully by several artists who are finding tie field a rich one, indeed. No other race has been so isolated as the Indlans. On the island of ‘America they were compietely cut off from old world influence for a span of years which it staggers the humen mind to count. It is'inconceivable to believe that the Indians were stag- nant during that enormous:lapse of time. There is no such thing as stagnatioun in biology or the life of people. Life 1is | erowth, growth is change, and arts and traits are subjéet to infinite varl- ation thhough the ages. consider this variation an improve- ment, an upward evolution, or a de- basement, a downward path—in other words, whether the growth is good or bad—is merely a point of view. Those who scoff at the thought of Indian culture should remember that every race, no matter how low in the human scale, has a culture. Students have found among fhe Ine art, graphic, li erary and musical. Through the ages this has traveled the paths of endless change and infinite variation. Leaders in Indian research work are urging that we send our students to study the strange arts of the In- dians, instead of sending them to France and Germany to follow the old, hackneyed _lines which stifie the mind and beget little originality. Here, as so often, is the axlom prov- ed that the queerest and quaintest 1te nearest at hand. The racording and preservation re- sulting from euch a study will be the least important of all the results ob- tained, {mportant though it will be. The arts of the Indian, which are as American as the curious plants and animals which developed in this country ages before the white man came, have a lure and glamoring which the old-time arts of Eufope have never had, and on them can be ? Whether we | DELEGATION OF- OSAGE-INDIANS and entered the city of {Intanding to pass = quickly through |toward ti® edatern part of Massachu- | setts. | Northampton has « iaunicipal thea- ‘tm——lh» only one in the state. Just as toriet happened along in front of the theater, a crowd was flocking jacross the street to the matinee. The poregrinator euddenly found himself driving hurriedly down the wrong side {of the main thorougifere and somie- | what disrupting the pariy of theater- goers. | The police station happens to Le nex |door to the theater and. unluckily, the chief himself was su ng out front {with a keen cye for any infraction of the social order. His zlance fell upon the passing outfit—a sharp whistle gave |the challenge to halt. Forthwith Mr. | Peregrinator was haled into the station {and placed unden arrest for violation |of traffic regulations. As soon as the | cuiprit's name had been beldly recorded {upon the Llotter, the chief sternly an- {nounced : ‘Court will not convene until Monday rning and you will have to furnish {bail of $100 or remain in jail over Sun- The peregrinator wasehurrying-to reach home because he was “strap- ped”—he could scarcely raise the price of a supper. His overcoat had only a rummage sale value—his de- | crepit motor car was headed for the | junk pile—he carries no wateh when | traveling for pleasure—total assets | were inadequate to meet half the bail demanded. “Whom do you know in ampton™ inquired the ity v had been summoned North- clerk, into the | The wayfarer mentioned Judge Abbott of the probate court, who was found to be seriously ill in bed. Tien he bethought him of his old friend, Clifton Johnson, across the Hock ferry. Mrs. Johnson replied that her husband was away and would not return till the morrow. As a final etraw Le mentioned Lieut. Gov. Coolidge, from twhose office a telephone inquiry brought the reply that he had not returned from Boston. This exhausted the powsibility of local identification. The yawning cell began to loom. “Keep a stiff upper }p exhorted i chief. Along in the gathering gloom of the afternoon the clerk dly telephoned once more for the ifeutenant governor, who, b: good fortune, had just arrived. When Mr. Coolidge heard of the predicament the substance of his answer was: “Bring the victim over to office.” Feeling like one of the felons in Victor Hugo's novels, the peregrin- ator was marched down the main street of Northampton between the chief of police and city clerk, lack- ing only handcuffs to be a regular jailbird. The bailseeker did not realize that such a stern Purlitan as Mr. Coolldge could indulge in laughter, but when the “three musketeers” entered his office he leaned back in his chair and broke into a hearty laugh that would have done justice to a jovial Dutch burgomaster. Then, without any hemming or hawing, he proceeded to write out a llen of $100 on a smaill my the Beri- | Northampton, | AT ‘GONFERENCE - IN .WASHING TO} SIDE, AND. SECRETARY. OF, THE INTERIOR WORK IN CENTER, i BACON RINE AND ROMANLOGA | has a rich trea; itself, with ure house, original in style and poetry and, everything that makes up the artis- | tic expression of a highly specialized | growth - of human speech. Hark to | the vo the Navajo poet: ACoolidge Anecdote GRINATOR. parcel of he satisfied th who muecll relleved | once more u free mar T | ant governér then asked him had money enough to carry him over Sunday When the impecunious con- dition of the wanderer was revealed Mr. Coolidge dug down into his pocket and handed over ample means to pay lali e nses, cluding any fine. Expressing gratiutde, 1 peregrinator think that he was being bailed out of jall b future Presi- dent of the United States. But if one | is going to commit crime, it is well to | have a distinzuished friend at court. | The party “out on bail” spent a de- | lightful Sunday with Clifton John- E author, and climbed Mount Holy where found Abraham Lincoln's signature on the register of the Summit House. Monday morning he guiltily faced the court—ps fine—then speedily cranked up | fitvver and put for home 1 When the adventurer reached home | and a replenished exchequer, he for- warded a check for the loa; | panted by a box of cigars, upon re- ceipt of which Mr. Coolidge sat down and wrote this reply: “Northampton, Decem sperty custodian ~ lieuten- e aid he , 1016 very thoughtf re- he day you were in North- ampton. I regret the kind of hos- pitality you found here, though you { canrot claim they were not willing to | entertain you over Sunday. I hope | the next time you visit here it may be | more agreeay “Cordially yours, “CALVIN COOLIDGE" minder of A Giant Chimney. 'HERE is to be seen at Easton, Pa., at a dry color plant, what Is held to be one of the three loftlest chimneys in the world. It has a height of {75 feet above the top of of its foundation. The plant is situated in Tow valley bounded on two sides by rather | abrupt hills rising to a height of ap- proxim 200 feet of the | colors produced in the plant are made by roasting ores of varfous kinds in | kilns, and gther colors ately Some are obtained | by chemical process and in kiins of various construction | During the process of manufacture |a damp acid gas is given off. The big | chimney, which replaced a small | common brick one practically disin- | tegrated by the action of the geld gases, takes all the gases from the | kilns as well as the boiler gases, and | produces a draft sharp enough to eli- | minate the expense of fans and also discharges the objectionable gases at a height that puts them away from habitations or go dilutes them that they pass unndticed in the atmos- phere. In various parts of the country huge stacks similar in character are being, or have been, erected, as the conditions of any industry or com- munity require. These gigantic chim- neys are usually built in connection | with the smelting and other similar industries, wherever the incidental production of large quantities of gas renders this necessary. If the plant is built in the valley, the stack must be made exceptionally high to lead the fumes above the tops of the sur- rounding hills. 1 il he | | i | TWO OF THE OSAGE TRIBE NOW IN WASHINGFON. a God I walk In & boly p place with d ¥ walk 11 waik ountaia: wandering with a God 1 wals, ty with a God T walx Indian inality Here Indian music. tnality appeals Indfan literature, is th e as bave a weird appeal The Tndian compositions trained ear musical combinations which fore been known, delight thousands through ti work of Cadman, Lieucre and others the same orig us as in that Not even the scal The melodie their ow: Zgest t flights never nd which alread plonee: e all e have ! Wrapped up with the subject dian music that of dance—enticing, unstudied and old a the itself It is the efforts ¢ certain religlous organizations prohibit these dances that will b many Indians to Washington .t winter. The Indians claim that ti dances are religious in nature, an that attempts to suppress the in direct violation of the Constitu- tion, which permits freedom of v shi 5 In t is m 2 the Indiz found many stanch backer: ing Mrs. Mary Austin, Irving Back eller, William Allen White, Frank: Price Knott, millionaira artist o Santa Barbara, Calif., and many or ganization as the Americar Assoclation for the Advancement o Sclence and the General Federatio: of Women's Ciubs. such HE American Association for ti Advancement of Sclence at a r cent meeting passed resolutio: reading as follows “Resolved, That the American sociation f ti Advancement Science, an organization consisting ¢? 11,000 American scientists’and friends of science and edugation, unequivo- cally favors the complgte and ful protection of the Puehlos i all their fundamental land, irrigation and cu tural rights, to the end that they continue to live their own lives in s nearly their own manner as. is pos sible, and with as little-Testriction & 1s consistent with the rights of thei: non-Indlan neighbors." ' During the past year various 1 dlan rights associations have bee engaged in accumulating evidencc' about the Indlans and their problem and these data will be placed beforc Congress, with the idea of working out a safe and sane solution for the enigma, uti consistent witr present-day needs, As a Various ways have becn suggested for rectifying our Indian policy, but » far nothing has been advanc which 1s considered workable. Some thinkers advocate complete cmanci pation of the Indians, othe: believe that such action would be d structive. Shifting the bureau of T dian affairs from the Department of the Interior to Departmer Agriculture b advocated by W Woehlke, editor of Sunset magaz Others think the Indlans should tsolated and laws passed to prev racial jntermarriages. These contend that there is-sufficient dark strain in the American race already, and that the absorption of the Indian popula- tion will, biologlcally speaking, prov harmful So the visit of the Osages i3 ay parently but a ripple compared with what is to come. During the winter many red men will trek into the Capt tal from the far-flung places of the west. If from this activity a new better policy s evolved, Commission er Burke and the Indian office will pleased. At present the comn sioner is following the example of 1 predecessors, doing what he believe Dbest for the government wards. whi and fs- COMMISSIONER BURKE AT LEFT. CHIEF RED EAGLE BY HIS