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C. E CONVENTION | OPENED BY PARADE 10,000 March in San Fran- cisco as Christian Organ- ization Convenes. By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.—To the | strains of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” 10,000 young people organized today to | participate in a spectacular display of the spirit that has brought them from all parts of the world to attend the Golden Jubilee Convention of the Inter- | national Society of Christian Endeavor. | . With half a dozen bands, an honor flags and cos- cffers the single mass display of the convention, which lasts the entire wesk. The youth of China was the subject of an address at the session last night Dr. C. Y. Cheng, moderator of the United Church of Christ in China. “As lol as young people in such rumbers,” he said, “have this interest in religion there is no danger to the future of religion here, in China or here else. In the Nanking government there is scarcely a man over 40. Most of them are of the student group, and zome are hardly more than boys. At this time there are more Christians in this Nanking government than we have ever had before.” POLICE HOLDING THREE IN PRICE WAR BOMBING | Racketeers' Attempt to Enter Bir- mingham Seen in Two i Blasts. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. July 14—Three men were held for questioning by po- lice today in connection with the bomb- ing of the Pure Milk Co. plant last Friday night, which police belicve was the work of racketeers in attempting to break in here Two of the men. who gave their names as Byron Phillips and Reed War- ren, were arrested at Argo. In their possession officers said they found a small coupe bearing an Tllinois license. The third man. Eldridge McCord, former city fireman, was arrested Sat- urday night. Police said he was the driver of an automobile mounted Wwith machine guns which stopped at & ga- | Tage shortly after the bombing. An undertaker reported he had warned to increase his ambulance charge, FILM ACTRESS SPEEDS T0 MOTHER'S BEDSIDE Mrs. Margaret Talmadge Is Rest- ing After Major Operation—Nor- ma En Route From Honolulu. By the Assoclated Press. LOS_ANGELES, July 14.—Mrs. Mar- garet Talmadge was resting today after a major operation while her daughter, Norma Talmadge, motion picture actress, was speeding here by steamer from Honolulu. The operation was ordered by Dr. Maurice Kahn yesterday after Mrs. Talmadge’s condition, grave for several days, became worse unexpectedly. It had been hoped to postpone it until Miss Talmadge arrives tomorrow. Mrs. Talmadge also is the mother of Constance and Natalie Talmadge. Constance, wife of Townsend Netcher of Chicago, is in Rome. Py — Veterans Sail Tomorrow. Potomac Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold its annual boat ride on the Potomac River tomorrow evening, it was announced today. The party will leave the wharf at 8:45 o'clock on the City of Washington. The Veterans' Overseas Band, Drum and Bugle Corps have been invited as guests, and will Tender selections during the trip. ‘Talking pictures in English and Bpanish are being shown in Panama. Indians Ask TROQ! BY THOMAS R. HENRY. N. B. HEWITT of the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution N/ ¢ has been requested by the sur- viving members of the Grand Council ot the Six Nations of the Iroquois to come to their reservation in Canada this Fall and teach them the forgotten principles by which their an- cestors maintained for approximately 400 years one of the most remarkable governments the world has known. The Washington sclentist is the one man living who- understands these prin- ciples, from which, he believes, the central idea of the American Constitu- tion may unconsciously have been de- rived, and which preceded by centuries the closely related ideas of the League of Nations. Council Deposed. ‘The Grand Council of the Six Nations finally was deposed from actual au- thority by the Canadian government six years ago, when it beceme obvious that the members had almost completely for- gotten the ancient laws. The members reccgnize that their only hope of estab- lishing themselves once more as a semi- independent people is to sit at the feet of Mr. Hewitt, who has devoted practi- cally a lifetime to recovering the prin- ciples of the old establishment and the traditions back of them. Very little of the material ever has been published. Science Aid IS SEEK FORGOTTEN PRINCIPLES OF NATION FOUNDER. B. HEWITT. watha. He was a cannibal, thrown out of his tribe for his excesses, and dwelt alone in & hut in the forest, brooding. Became Disciple. 1t all goes back, Mr. Hewitt says, to a strange figure, & sort of wilderness Messiah, whom he believes to have been one of the supreme figures to have arisen in the Western world, deservedly | ranking beside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Much of the miraculous and the symbolic has gathered through the centuries about the name of thi man—Dekanawida—but Mr. Hewitt's re- searches have convinced him that he actually existed-and was the author of the ethical and legal system attributed to him. Language Barrler Overcome. But the facts about him can be learned only by sifting oral tradition among the surviving Indians and over- coming with the skill of the linguist the language barrier. Mr. Hewitt has just | returned from the Iroquois reservation | with confirmation of one fact upon | which he has worked unsuccessfully for | many years—that, according to the | original Iroquois tradition, uninfluenced by any later Christian teachings, Deka- | nawida was of virgin birth. The frame- | work of the league of which he was the founder practically necessitated some | belief of this sort, but it had disap- peared in the development of language. The confusion grew out of a slight | change in the pronunciation of his mother’s name, changing it to “Wildcat “Doubly New Face,” a name symboliz- ing the purity of young womanhood. The fact the name of Dekanawida is | known only to a few specialists, Mr. | Hewitt points out, is partly the fault of | the poet Longfellow. When the young | “Messiah” came out of Canada into the | forests of the present New York State | one of the first converts to his strange | new gospel of brotherhood among men and nations was an outcast brother of the chief of the Onondega tribe, Hayen- | Top off wi;li' Hayenwatha, Mr. Hewitt is convinced, also was a flesh and blood character, | although, like his master, he has had | much symbolism attached to him. After his conversion he became the St. Paul | of the movement, second to Dekanawida alone. His name was a rather common- place one among the Indians, meaning The Sifter.” By a vcoincidence the nondega name for the source of life, similar to the Christian concept of God, was Teharonhiawagon. The first American ethnologist to go among the Iroquois had a very imper- fect knowledge of the language. He was told of both Dekanawida and | Hayenwatha, but only the latter stuck |in his memory, because of the name'’s | vague resemblance in sound to that of | the Deity. He judged that the two were the sam Learns of Nanabozho. Later this ethnologist went among the Chippewa Indians of the Great Lakes region, firmly convinced that the Indian name for the Creator was Hayenwathas Here he learned a great many legends about the spirit Nanabozho, the Chip- pewa deity. These were somewhat more colorful than the Iroquois legends. He substituted the name Hiawatha for Nanabozho and published the “Hiawatha legends.” ‘These fell into the hands of the poet been | Woman” from_the original meaning of | Longfellow. He wrote the poem Which Elec. F ansi Telephone Your Order! % MUDDIMAN §. 911 G St. Nat'l 0140-2622 .; Rose Roof One place where you can ill afford to econo- mize is on the roof. There's where you want the very best that materials and experienced skill can combine—and when you get our estimate, that’s what it'll be for—THE BEST IN ROOFING. Along with it goes a years. But Rose roofs guarantee for a term of really last a “life-time.” That’s why they are cheapest. New work or repair work —the best work always. RoseE BROTHERS CoMPany; INcC. Rosslyn, Va. The »: Address New West 2112 at some time or other is forced upon every school child. But the hero the poem had nothing to do with the actual Hiawatha, who was & human be- ing, living almost within historic times. His master, Dekana dropped out of the picture entirely, and was in danger of being forgotten when Mr. Hewitt his memory. . ‘Together the two = established the League of the Iroquois, one of the most successful attempts ever made to bring about permanent peace on earth. Its central idea was that of federated tribes, which, Mr. Hewitt believes, crept into the codes of the English colonies in con- tact with the Iroquois and then became the basic idea of the Constitution. Not Religious Teacher. Dekanawida, Mr. Hewitt says, was not essentially a religious teacher or the founder of a religious system. He left the old nature personifications of the Iroquois as he found them, but intro- duced & code of tribal and 'sonal ethics which formed the of a system of government which persisted until 1924. But as the man himself be- came an in ict memory some of the attributes of the gods were delegated to him and his words, passed by mouth from generation to generation, were given symbolic meanings. * His farewell address was interpreted to mean that he would return to his people in their hour of need. ‘The eventual failure of the system, Mr. Hewitt believes, was due altogether to the fact that there was no written language by which the ideas of Dekana- wida could be passed on. They came to the younger Indians entirely from the memory of the elders. Thus slight changes in pronunciation made great differences, and the doctrines were more or less altered in response to the chang- ing times, until eventually little that Dekanawida actually had taught was remembered. 1In spite of this, M. Hewitt points out, the system of the wilderness Messiah remained in effect longer than any other government in the Western world. ‘The Canadian government, Mr. Hewitt points out, realized it could not improve on the code and the system, and when the organic act relating to the govern- ment of the Canadian Indians was adopted the Grand Council was told that none of its provisions would be applied to them unless they so desired. But younger members of the tribe began demanding some of the benefits of this act, which could not in justice be denied them. The result was that finally the whole situation became so confused that it became ne: to discontinue the league and place the Iroquois on the same basis as other Canadian Indians. Week-End % | s tBees principies of Dexsnawida and a were trying to govern without es- tablished ]l". mih crmm e CERMAK POLITENESS ENDS IN BEER SEIZURE Courteous Chicago Policeman Aids Men With Stalled Truck and Finds 20 Barrels. By the Assoclated Press. 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