Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1929, Page 22

DYPSIES T GATHER 10 ASSERT RIGHTS, Conclave Called in Black Hills to Find Means to Stop Per- secution of Rovers. f§ B+ Consolidated Pre RAPID CITY, 8. Dak., June 15.—The despised and downtrodden gypsy, legiti- fate prey for every tin-starred village fnarshal in the Jand, at last seems likely to eall & rising of the dusky clans and Rssert his rights. For too long, gypsy Kings and Queens | mav. their people have not been strongly enough banded together to obtain cer: tain rights and a certain measure of re spect, and this lack of organization must Be abolished at once. So this month the Black Hills, in Western South Dakota. | are the scene of the largest conclave of gypsies ever witnessed in this country. ‘The flashing-eyed brown-skinned men, women and children are pouring into | the hills by the hundreds, and every day brings frésh motor caravans of the wanderers. It ‘is expected the congress | will require between two and three weeks to finish the bisiness before it. So for days the glimmer of campfires | under the pines will be reflected by the 1t skies, just as the glimmer of other y campfires for centuries has been cted by the skies over practically evi country on the globe. from dreamy Andalusia to the forests of India. And never believe that the Gypsies are flocking into this region in dilapi- Bated wagons, as in other days they once traveled. Hundreds of them are coming in high-priced, shining motor cars, though there are some who drive only the ubiquitous fiivver ih various stages of senility. A romantic paradox is offered when the doors of a fine automobile open and there alights from the modern econveyance women and children in the multi-colored vol- yminous and innumerable skirts that Gypsy women and ehildren have worn through the ages. e men are not as well dressed ax one might expect.| Judging by the appearanoce of their| ears. They alight to stretch their legs encased in baggy-kneed trousers, many of them with gay sashes about the waist, and nearly all'the slouch hat so to the Gypsy. Some, both men nd women, have Tings in their noses| d_ears, and rings glitter on many a nder dark finger. Also, some of | le men as well as the women wear| their hair long and dress it with numerous gay ornaments. “We have grown tired of the un- fust persecution we have been subject-| *d to,” sald the spokesman for one group. “In many a city and village our ears do not come to a halt before some officious tin star or brass buttons leaps on a running board and orders us to; keep right on going. What other »en is so treated? Are ‘we not e titled to dwell in peace until it eertain we have broken laws? “'Yes, yes; I know that there are/ e .among. us who are lawbreakers. | ére: are . also . lawbreakers -among Tome owners. Is it not so? TLet me tell you that we Gypsies get the blame for doing things which fulk not. Gypsies, | but plain tramps. with no Gypsy blood in them, do. Nowadays every carfull| of ragged, down-at-the-heels people lre‘ called Gypsies. “We Gypsies all have trades and| professions by which we get a living —a living in the mode we like. But it is not a lawless living, with few excep- tions. We do not steal children. Have i:: ever heard of a case where it has n proved that a Gypsy stole a child? | Of coure not. Your kidnapers inals of another race. * So breakers, bank bandits, rum ru ‘moonshiners, car thieves and poli- THE - SUNDAY STAR. Back row, left to right: William Hannan, Aeneas Collins and Lee F. Dante; front row, left to right, Mary Smith, Patrice Rice and Mary Collifiower, chairmen of the various eommittees planning Cathelic Students’ Mission Crasade conven- tion here this week. —Star Staff Photo. 'RETIRING CHAPLAIN ; MEETING TO A1D DRIVE. 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