Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1927, Page 34

84 STRATON DEFENDS HEALING BY FAITH New York Fundamentalist Replies to Attacks on Doc- trine He Advocates. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 11.=Faith healing service conducted by Rev. John Roach Straton, militant funda- mentalist pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, faced fire from two sides to- day—f{rom the City Health Depart- ment and from the pastor's arch foe, & leading atheist, Unflinching in his stand_ that his healing services are of a divine na- ture, Di on struck back at Dr. Louis 1. Harris, health commissioner, who threatened prosecution if he heard the pastor was treating any one with communicable diseases, and Charles Smith, president of the Amer- ican Assoclation for the Advance- ment of Atheism, who demanded Dr. Straton’s arrest for practicing medi- cine without a license. Straton’s Statement. “If Dr. Harris had been on earth at the time of Jesus and the apostles,” Dr. Straton declared, “I suppose he uld have tried to stop their divine k" As to atheists,” Dr. Straton as- serted when he heard Smith had writ- ten District Attorney Banton de- manding his arrest, “their request to prosecute me for violation of the medical practices act is a joke. Iam not making warfare on the doctors.” Dr. Straton's reply included an in- wvitation to the health commissioner to attend next Sunday evening’s services at the Calvary Church. Dr. Straton and his assistants have been anointing afflicted persons with oil, praying over them and exhorting them to believe themselves cured. Some have professed to be cured. Dr. Harris Explains Position, Dr. Harris said his opposition to the healing by faith services was not 80 much an attack on the right of persons to hope for cure by prayer, as it was a fear that persons suffer- ing from some curable illness would neglect proper medical treatment. Smith, who is at present being sued in court by Dr. Straton on charges of sending the minister sensuous and blasphemous matter, wrote to the district attorney that “Christlan Science and chiropractors have been prosecuted by your office for under- taking to heal diseased persons” without having a license. The district attorney said he had never prosecuted any Christian Scientist and knew of mo law against any of Dr. Straton’s practices. GILES PLANS HOP-OFF. British Aviator to Leave Satur- day for New Zealand. SAN FRANCISCO, November 11 (). —Capt. Frederick Giles, British avi- ator, said yesterday he planned to hop off next Saturday from Mills Field, south San Francisco, for New Zealand. Giles made this announcement after completing a gasoline consumption test with his Hess Bluebird biplane ‘Wanda. He previously had intended Zot to start until Monday. His route to New Zealand calls for tops at the Hawalian Islands, the Sa- Mmoan Islands, Fiji Islands and Aus- ‘tralia. The tests yesterday showed the ‘Wanda used about 10 gallons of gaso- line an hour. His first hop will be 2,400 miles, to the flying fleld near Honolulu. Aocused Man Found Insane. PORTLAND, Ore., November 11 (P).—Willlam Nash, arrested here re- cently when letters were found in his possession indicating a plot to Im- port germs to spread leprosy and an- thrax, was found insane yesterday and ordered committed to the State Hospital. Introduce Magic of the nomadic Indians of Northeastern Canada was studied this Summer by Dr. John M. Cooper, pro- fessor of anthropology at Catholic University, in a 1,000-mile canoe trip through the desolate tundra region along the Albany River and the shores of James Bay. Dr. Cooper has brought back to Washington numerous articles used by the aborigines in their magic rites, besides original material regarding the methods of divination which they practice, The country, he says, is very sparse- ly populated and the people live en- tirély by hunting and ping, de- pending on the Hudson Bay Co. pos! for their trade. Each family has i exclusive hunting and trapping area, which may be from 250 to 300 square miles in extent and is looked upon as its exclusive property. Among the magic rites reported by Dr. Cooper {s that of “scapulimancy The breastbone of a grouse or shoul- der blade of a rabbit is held over an open fire. As it dries brown spots ap- pear. The Indians interpret these spots as representations of certain animals, like the beaver or carihou. Whichever one appears on the bone will be the one to hunt. Fear of Cannibal Shown. Sometimes the brown spots appear somewhat in the configuration of a man. This means bad luck and that the Witago, a cannibal being who is supposed to lurk in the woods, is lay- ing in wait for them. This fear of a cannibal, Dr. Cooper believes, has a real basis in the history of the race. In old times starvation was not un- common and individuals sometimes were driven to kill and eat their fel- lows. This, he believes, probably made them outcasts from the tribe and forced them to wander alone in the wilderness. But the eating of human flesh is likely to create a neurosis in the mind of the eater so that he will eat it again if he has a chance. Thus, Dr. Cooper thinks, the Witago legend had at some time a definite basis in fact. Another curious custom which he found this Summer was that of “serying”, a magic rite somewhat similar to crystal gazing as practiced n more civilized society. The prac- tice was first reported approximately 300 years ago in the Jesuit Relations reports and has not been observed since before this Summer. Dr. Cooper found it quite prevalent among these people. It con.'sts simply of covering the head with a blanket so as to be in total darkness and then looking into a bowl of water, a mirror, a piece of polished tin or a pearly clam shell. The image of unknown enemies will arnear on the surface, the Indians say. He believes that they often really see =omething and that the phenomenon {s. very similar to the images which appear in a crystal. The reasons behind the phonomenon are still very obscure. Traverse Desolate Region. Dr. Cooper and his guides started from Lake 8t. Joseph, near the source of the Albany River, and continued 500 miles down the Albany through a desolate, treeless region to James Bay. Then they paddled their canoes along part of the James Bay coast- line. The coastal shelf extends out- ward for ‘about § miles. At high tide the water is about 3 feet deep, 8o that a boat can be handled perfectly. When the tide goes out there is only about a foot of water and the party is trapped several miles off shore with the necessity of wad- ing to land. Dr. Cooper and his guides several times were caught in this way. The people, he said, belonged to the Obijway and Swamp Cree tribes. He found one sub-tribe not hitherto re- ported, the Barren Ground Crees, whose chief source of food is the cari- bou and who have the typical cul- ture of the caribou hunters further to the west THE EVEmG STAR, WASHINGTON, V. €., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927, NOMADIC ABORIGINES STUDIED IN CANADA BY ANTHROPOLIGIST Articles Used in Magic by Indians Brought Back by Catholic U. Professor After Trip Through Desolate Region. While the culture of these nomadic Indians is low, Dr. Cooper said, they are people of high intelligence and he mentioned as proof of this the ex- pedient by wh a_fisherman re- covered an Ir‘oa. used in_cutting holes through t ice, which he drep- ped accidently to the bottom of a lake. Pick Ingeniously Recovered. The water, entirely frozen over, was 30 or 40 feet deep. The man need- ed the pick—a metal tip on a pole about 6 feet long, very badly. He figured that it might have stuck up- right in the bottom. So he prepared a weighted cord and near the bottom attached another cord at right angles to it. To this second cord he tied a live fish. Then he dropped the con- trivance through the ice. He figured that the fish would swim around in circles, winding the cord to which it was attached around the other cord. He thought there was a chance that 7“Skifiny*’_W;||_|§~|] Gain Weight New YEAST and IRON builds up weight and strength First treatment gives results —or no money pounds of “stayput lesh and the vitalizing strength that onl, IRONIZED " YEAST can give. Thousands of gtlned” their “gormal ‘weight i TRONIZES TERST. 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This, Dr. Cooper be. lleves, is a remarkable example of native ingenuity applied to & practical problem. Nearly all the natives, he said, are literate, _although there are few schools. Knowledge of simple reading and writing has been passed down in the families since the first coming of the missionaries. —_—— At & height of a mile and a halt in the air. the coolest time of the 24 hours Is in the day rather than at|Wells, the novelist, has written a let- ter, the Westminster Gazette's cor-|to vote for the Liberals. night, WELLS SEES TORIES HEADING FOR WAR anvelm Backs Liberal Candidate to Check Drift “Toward Armament.” By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 11.—H. respondent at Southend-on-Sea, says, in support of Dougall Meston, Liberal candidate opposing the Countess of Iveagh, Conservative. Mr. Wells is quoted as saying in his letter: “The Baldwin government is head- ing straight for war. 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