Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 30

HOUSE OF LORDS SEEKS OLD POWER [Both Had THE EVENIN CUBAN VOODOOISTIC RITES RESEMBLE U. S. CEREMONIES Africa, Investigations of Cults Have Common Origin in Jungles of Demands Reform Limiting Members and Providing for Peers’ Election. By the Associated Press. | HAVANA, January 15.—Mystic Voo- doo rites practiced in many parts of the United States have been linked by By the Associated Press. ¢ 15.~The Hous recent investigation with the cult of LONDON, January 15.—The House of | Tecent investigation Lords “is demanding a reform which| " Gomparative analysis of African sac- would limit its membership and pro- | rificfal customs has furnished unusual vide for certain peers to be elected. cvidence that both had a common s ¥ | origin in the Kongo jungles and that It seems likely that the country will | U838 10 the, BonEo, Jungss and that eventually adopt some sprt of plan like | tinent by the importation of slaves from this, since it is widely asserted that the | Cuba and Haitl. present constitution of the British-up-| _"Obeah,” a mild form of Voodooism, per house renders it not only impotent is practiced in Cuba and the British | | West Indies with virtually identic cere- | but inefficient. There are many who| monies. Negroes who come to labor in | would like to see it on a par with the United States Scnate. Others would Cuban sugar cane fields have brought | | to this Svanish-speaking island not | ¢ like to see it abolished altogether, ! : L | The high priests and priestesses of Would Limit Members. | hoge cuits have shown great powers of ‘This situation is recognized by the resistance to the suppressive measures | only the obeah, but also the far more | | terrible and sanguinary rite of Nanigo. Disclosed. His principal market in the United States was New Orleans, and this fact is now being used to explain the par- ticularly close similarity between the Voodooism of Cuba and that of the lower Mississippl Valley. Old Superstition Recalled. There is a tradition that Lafitte's entourage included several African “conjur doctors.” The successors of these doctors today have considerable knowledge of herbs and the curative properties of plant juices. In general they are employed to effect cures, but with other herbs the doctor-priests are said to be able to cause temporary or permanent loss of memory to their enemies. This belief appears substantiated by the recent dis- covery by United States Marines in Haiti of a colony of negroes. dazed or hypnotized, working under their task masters on a plantation. | Scurvy May Be More Com-| House of Lords itself, and there have | °f the police. been frequent attempts to increase its power and authority, and on each oc- casion this has becn blocked by the House of Commons and the govern-| ment. The latest move on the part of the | House of Lords was to vote by 52 to 8| that “it is desirable that early steps should be taken to limit the number of member: the House of Lords and to make provision for an elective repre- sentation or nomination as would in- sure to each political party a fair posi- tion in the House of Lords.” Theoretically Parliament is divided in three parts—the King, the House of Commons, and the House of Lords— and the assent of each component is required before an act of Parliament can become a law, with certain excep- tions. Actually the House of Commons makes -the laws, because the King sup- | ports its decisions - and the Commons control the Lords with the threat of creating any number of peers needed to pass a bill through the House of Lords should the upper house prove recalci- trant. Was One Council Originally. ‘When Edward I called his great coun- cil in 1295 all the different classes of people summoned to attend met as a single assembly, but in less than 100 years the body had divided itself into two houses. In one house sat the peers, spiritual and temporal; in the other sat the representative knights of the shires and representatives of towns- men. As it now stands, the English House of Lords, consisting almost en- tirely of hereditary peers, is most unique among upper houses of the world. All other similar chambers have a membership that is almost wholly elective, except in the Spanish and Italian senates, in which a few heredi- tary nobles sit with the nominated or elected senators. et N MOUNTAIN CHILDREN GAINING ADVANTAGES Accept Offer of Education and Overcome Habits Which Re- tarded Development. CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (#)— ‘Youngsters in the mountain regions no longer are given tobacco to chew and their vocabu iries have become purged of naughty words through the work of club women of Tennessee. Mrs. Clarence S. Steward, chairman of the Margaret Henry endowment | fund of the Tennessee Federation ‘of ‘Women'’s Clubs, reports also that the calico wrapper, once the ‘sole garb of the mountain woman, has given way to smodern hats and dresses which ‘women make with their own- hands. In 1928, when Margaret Henry be- gan the mountain division work, she found—no schools, ple without ed- .ucation walking miles to have their letters read. deformities among chil-" dren in nearly every home, sickness rampant, food cooked in one pot for several families over a gypsy fire. Mrs. Steward’s report for 1928 shows an eight months’ school term with 100 per cent daily attendance, crude but clean homes, mothers and fathers reading and answering letters, disease under control, grammar school aver- ' STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, SURGEON URGES ATTENTION T DIET mon Than Supposed, Bal- timore Man Claims. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md. January 15— Scurvy may be a much more common disease than has been supposed, Dr. George Walker, Baltimore surgeon and research worker, is convinced after a study of the eating habits of 750 Mary- | land families. 5 His dietary investigation, undertaken | to find out what families in all walks | of life actually seat and how their food | selections compare with their needs, disclosed an almost universal deficiency | of vitamin C. | Since absence of this vitamin from the diet is known to cau: seurvy, | take on animal or reptile form. This recalls the African “leopard” supersti- | tion where a certain clan was credited | with power to turn themselves into | eating of proper amounts of potatoes Ghastly Forms Eliminated. Cuba has dealt severely with Voo dooism, and it is belleved that its more ghastly forms have been eliminated. It was largely in connection with the government’s campaign against Obeah- ism and Nanigoism that measures were adopted curtailing the immigration of illiterate workers from Haiti and Ja- maica. Cuba has been particularly concerned because Voodooism here takes on a criminal aspect entirely exclusive of the possibility of human sacrifice. In Oriente province, which lies nearest Haiti, the Voodoo priests of that island wield large powers. In other parts of the island Nanigoism is dominant among the negroes who take their re- ligion in this form. Nanigoism is a combination of devil worship and gang spirit. 1Its priests promise occult powers to lawbreakers, and members of this cult are pledged to render all possible protection and assistance to each other. As far as can be learned, the symbol- ism of the cults is very similar. All in- clude the sacrifice of roosters, black cats, goats and other animals. Cuban police records show cases where the perpetrators of murder in connection with Voodooism have been brought to Justice, but it is claimed that this type of sacrifice has been eradicated. Havana newspapers - continue to chronicle cases of Nanigo outrages committed against those who have in- curred the enmity of the gangsters. It has been found that there is always some one willing to carry out the priests’ orders, because a Nanigo neo- phyte fails of membership unless he has one capital crime to his credit. At Nanigo funerals a black rooster is slaughtered in the home of the de- ceased. The fowl is then presented to some neighboring non-Nanigo family as a warning. One of the strangest superstitions in the Haitian cult is that a certain bone in a black cat's body will confer invisi- bility to its possessor. The rite takes place in the presence of three witnesses and the cat is thrust into hot water. It is related by Voodooists that super-nat- ural manifestations, such as thunder and lightning, are an accompaniment of his process. In the early years of the nineteenth century Jean Lafitte, famous pirate of the Spanish Main, frequently brought slaves to Cuba and the United States. 75¢ & Until 7:30 Always & most appetizing dinner. y meals as th al you will er Cafe the place to dine. Hot Rolls, Excellent Coffee and a Variety of Desserts F.’A. COOKE, Manager Phone North 1420 Desirable Apartments Reasonably Priced ages some of the highest made in the State. Portner Apts. 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Miss Quinlan's Assistant will be glad to diag- nose your skin, hair and eyes, and tell you how you may make them younger and lovelier da; day. iy 7 which first becomes evident in the mouth, he has advanced a theory that many common diseases of the mouth, gums, teeth and upper intestines are in reality the same thing in a mild form. helped by general consumption of | greater quantities of raw foods and the and tomatoes, the only foods in which vitamin C is not practically destroyed by cooking. Scurvy itself is a disease of the capil- receive their nourishment. It usually | attacks soldiers, sailors and explorers in remote places where well balanced | rations are not accessible. toes are the usual remedy. 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