Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 20

| TWO DEAD, ATHENS | STRIKEIS ENDED * Firing by Soldiers During Dis- ' { orders Declared Due to DR. STIRLING BRINGS STRANGE Negrito Pygmies Are Found by Explorer in Nassau Mountains. First White Men to Reach RELICS FROM PRIMITIVE RACE they finally found refuge, thousands of years ago, in the Nassau mount- ains, 16,000 feet high in places, which lay beyond the lake plain. X White Men Unknown. In the valleys of these mountains they were left in peace. There was no object for the Papuans to follow. The mountain foothills rising from the plain are almost impassable. Rarely through the generations that followed some Papuan might pene- trate to their fastnesses. No white man ever came until Mr. Stirling and his assoclates pressed over the swamps and foothills with the machinery of the world which to these simple peo- native attaches were killed. But the expedition pushed on. Friendly to Visiters. But the negritoes themselves, wheu they finally were found, did not prove an unfriendly race. They were puzzied and scared by this strange influx from beyond the horizen, but they offered no_resistance. The expedition collected hundreds of articles and mado numerous notes, which will be studied at leisure. The pressure of time, of course, prevented the sclentists from gaining very intimate understanding of the pygmy language and thus learning the secrets of the people. ized, but is based on a crude patrl-]syeuna and lined with stones. archal system, descent being through the father. Bullding: Huts of rough slabs thatched with grass. Agriculture: ~ This represents the greatest advance of the Negritoes and is astonishingly well developed. 'The natives make big clearings with their stone hatchets on the almost perpen- dicular mountain sides and raise con- siderable crops of sweet white po- tatoes, taro roots, sugar cane and bananas. Potatoes form a very con- siderable part of their diet, and be- cause of this use of predominantly starchy food the people are not well developed. The men, in particular, In this the meats and vegetables are laid. Then hot stones, wrapped in leaves, are scattered among the various arti- cles and the whole is covered over so worn through the nostrils, both hori- zontal and vertical, and tobacco b their personal belongings in bark fiber decorated with pi; bird claws and other relics chase. of Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issusd to the NOVILLE MAY JOIN BYRD. Reported Third Member of New York-Paris Flight. NEW YORK, March 11 (®.—Lieut G. O. Noville is to be the third mem ber of the crew in the attempted 3,600 mile Wanamaker New York-to-Parls flight to be made by Comdr. Richard Byrd and Pilot Floyd Bennett next Summer, the Fvening Post sald yes terday Noville was fuel enginee: and second in command on the Byrd polar_expedition last vear, although as with the commander only Bennett w | Misunderstanding. ple must have seemed exceedingly grotesque and supernatural. In their isolation they developed their own civilization with hardly any influence from outside. They solved the problems of life and death in their own way--ignorant of the religions, the mechanisms and the gocial order of the rest of the human They barely knew, in fact, outside their mountains there existed animal organisms rather similar to them- selve This is what makes them so interesting to the ethnologist ' live today In the stone age to the period pased through | 10,000 years ago by the an of the present whit have big stomachs. The very dawn of domesticated animals is llustrated in these villages. The country ahounds |, in wild hogs. The natives, to protect their clearings, have to build hos proof fences. Some of these wild hogs have been captured and bred -1 tivity. The other domestic the dog, used f dog evidently s companion of me: most primitive socle Money: Cowrie shells constitute the only currency. These are found only on the seacoast and are extremely rare in the pygmy country. The few in the pe on of this primitive people have been obtained in their rare meet ings with Papuans who have ventured into the mountains. These apparent are a universal medium of exchange, Fireless Cooker Found. The pygmies have developed some mechanisms of their own. For exam- ple, Dr. Sterling found a form of fir less cooker in operation among th There are no cooking utensils. In- stead_a_depression is_made_in_the BERENS LUNCH 626 E St. NW. > Fooa. ™ Low Prices Here, in general, is the plcture brought back by Mr. Sterling of the stone age culture, the way people lived in the early days of the human race: Government: There is no established government. The pygmies live in small village groups, each village being inhabited by close blood rela- tives. There apparently are now ablished no ruler, but gen individual of superior wisdom noked up to for guidance. Each village is an entity in itself. The negrito ave not reached the stage of tribal or state | organization. Different village groups | sometimes fight desperately. Crime Is Unknown. Within the villages the tically no crime and no pu The people are not at the stage of culture where ¢ starts. There is nal property s huts and but apparently the idea of coveting another man's goods has not been evolved, so there is no on the actual hop to the North Pol following > <. Baker and Vila G. Wagn Kk K v and Vil N and bac v uish of Cape Giraradeas and Bavth O Retz of ‘Minneapais The fli Vanderbily Hurris ‘and Cora . donuthan. | (rae, M0t John D, jaan: | time in June Md i | bt Md.. and : | Eight dukes, four marquises a: nine earls of Great Britain b turned themselves into private cor Country Find Living at Stone Age Era. Mo.. is expected to start som By tho Associated Press. ATHENS, Greege, general shopkeepers gave rise to disorders yeste 11.—The which lay Relay timore M ‘'he offices of the Burcau of Eth o 901 55 08 at the National Museum this| sh with hundreds of | which represent the e brought to . Stirling, who e | | | 1 and | ther Dykstra, wounded, was ¢ Ay h i -, The shopkeepers convinced that the government was favorable to their demand ing to do W tagation and govern ment had previo announced that those not reopeni their shops today would be cxeluded from the benefit of the existing moratorium fixing rentals, thus leaving them unprotected against any exorbitant demands by the land lorgs. Yesterday's incident, in which soldiers fired upon a crowd of demon- strators carrying banners in Uni wversity s ot, is believed to have been | due to misunderstanding of an order given by the commanding officer. The order is said to have been for the firemen to use their hose on the erowd and not for the soldiers to fire, An inquiry is under way. The authorities suspect Communists ©of intervention. 20 KILLED IN FLOODS. International Rail Line in Argen- tina Is Cut. NOS AIRES, March st 20 lives have been lost as a vince of Juy spatches re- They Washington by represented_the nian Institu tion on a Dutch-American expedition into the au Mountains of New Guinea—one of the last inhabited co ners of the world to open its doors to explorers from civilized lands | 1t required an exceptional effort to penetrate to these isolated valleys of the world's largest island, where dwell in primitive simplicity a race of pvg: mies who are real babes in the wood among the human family. Mr. Stir ling and his associates finally reached their objective with a semi-military expedition in which a force of 400 men were engaged. including 70 na- tive soldiers, hundreds of servants and burden nd 15 white men. Negritoes in Africa. the dawn of the hu- man el 100,000 years ago, Africa 3 negrito main there. They ferent people fr rent simils about cestors Planes Blaze Tr: Various attempts have been made in the past to penetrate the moun- tains. None of them succeeded. There was an almost impassable country inhabited by savage tribes to be traversed. The roads into the interior werg wild mountain stream Head hunters, poisonous arrows, tropical diseases haunted the routes, The country was unconquerable and unapproachable until the airplane was utilized. It required man's greatest advance in transportation to reach the most primitive culture left in the world. The Sterling party set up their ba: | camp at the foot of the Van X Mountains. Then they flew over thi range and the interior swamp plain | languages with very little superfic to lay out a route for the main body | similarity. The study of the various of the expedition through the passes rdn is expected fo vield some of the and along the rivers to the 1 [ most valuable scientific results of the Mountains. | expedition, since it will shed light on The swamp plain densely | the development of spoken language | habited by a fierce and inhospitable | among men and possibly allow the ex. boat load erts to trace the wanderings of the e is prac- ishment brains, poorly fitted for competition with other races. They overflowed the Indian Ocean region and parts of the Paci But superior races came, driving them away from their new homes into inaccessible pockets of the world. Now there are isolated groups of them living in the Philippines, the Andaman Islands, Borneo and Su- matra. Those who had spread to New north of Australia amd the in ‘the world, were ; the Papuans. First they retreated from the 90-mile-deep coastal plain_ini low Van Ness Mountains. rom there, th plain, a vast swampy region which covers the greatest part of Dutch New Guinea. the Papuans follo and . & J. SLOANE 709.711.713 TWELFTH ST. N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. “The House With the Green Shutters” : A form of animism some- to that of most primitive | people, but with its own mythology The spirits of the dead inhabit various natural objects and animals. Due to the difficulties of the language it w not learn much of t | details Language: unique. Different Est. o Quality OU’LL BE GLAD Y YOU SAVED YOUR MONEY! When Your “Opportunity” omes FEDERAL-AMERICAN apparently of them still r s are a wholly dif n the negroes—the only resemblance being in color These negritoes overflowed to the east and north. They probabl had come into contact with p y superior races in Africa which made their exodus to new lands necessar: physically _inferior i ell developed .. 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