Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1933, Page 6

DERVISHES HOLD -~ T0.0LD CUSTOMS Religious Sect Continues toj Flourish in Yugoslavia After Ban in Turkey. SKOPLJE, Yugoslavia (#).—The| PDancing Dervishes are not downhearted. ~Suppressed in modern Turkey, and elsewhere referred to as a dying sect, they carry on their strange worship ‘here as though nothing had happened. | Far from admitting that their cult is on the threshold of extinction, the Der- ssnes of Skoplje are preparing placidly &nd methodically for a long future. The sheik of the Skoplje Dervishes is | well along in years; so his son is his understudy, his grendson also practices the ritual and his 4-year-old great- grandson is already in active training for a period of leadership hardly likely to begin before 1973. An observer finally managed to ma- neuver his way into a Dervish dance, but not by asking guides, who prof complete ignorance of what was going | on among the Dervishes. ! In Darkened House. It was one of King Alexander’s gen- @armes who revealed the place of the dance. The narrow, cobbled street was dark. The Dervish tekke (meeting house) it- self was not too brilliantly lighted. But it was plain that what was going on in center of the little hall was a re- us ccremony. Under the yeilow light of some old electric bulbs and a kero- sene lamp about 40 men and boys knelt on goatskin rugs and bent their fore- heads to the floor in prayer. Before them, where the altar might have been in a church, was a niche in which hung knives and swords, and scourages with sharp-pointed handles of steel. Youngest of the worshipers was the old sheik’s great-grandson, black- robed and obédient, I?Jlt with the merry dook of a 4-year-oldh having a grand time. The child followed the ritual closely, watching the other Dervishes out of the corner of one eye, bowing when they bowed, kneeling when they knelt and babbling after them the words of the monotonous chants. Behind wooden balustrades on two sides of the hall sat or stood the spectators, jncluding the women. Faster and Faster. Gradually more muscles were brought into play by the worshipers. Whereas at first they had only knelt on their rugs and meditated or chanted, bowing their heads to the floor, they now formed swaying lines, circling sideways around the hall with arms interlocked, lunging forward and bending backward in unison, uttering a monotonous chant which gradually became louder and faster. Now whirling dervishes, reverently | yotating their weird, wide skirts like inverted lilies, came between the sway- ing lines of men and boys and whirled | arcund, around, around. . . . The swaying lines of bowing, lunging, lurching men moved faster. The chant of many voices became one compelling voice and the tireless lunging and bend- ing of the bodies seemed the writhing | and bending of a composite creature. | Then suddenly there were individuals| agein; men from the lines who came forward toward the niche, where now the venerable bearded shelk stood and distributed the scourges. Each man as he received the scourge bowed his head | the sheik, who smiled evo- and touched his lips to the wor- s hair. ¥renzied Chanting. The men still in the lines, or seated, ting. on the floor, shouted rhythmi- | cally their encouragement as the bearers. of the scourges danced slowly around the hall, twirling the sharp-pointed steel handles gainst their collar-bones. The chanting became frenzied. The steel points glittered: the chains and| studded thongs of the scourges struck | the backs of the worshipers. Again the pace quickened; the points| flashed. One after another of the dervishes thrust the sharp steel through his cheeks. With the steel in his flesh he danced on: then withdrew it and reverently returned the scourge to the sheik. The little 4-year-old Dervish in the black robe toddled across the floor to his great-grandfather and reached en- thusiastically toward a scourge. The| old man smilingly waved him away. The ceremony was Over. DRY REPEAL MACHINERY IS SET UP IN MICHIGAN Bill Calling for Convention April '12 Is Signed by Gov. Com- stock. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich,’ March 11.—Gov.' Comstock tonight signed the Heidkamp bill which cails for a convention April | 10 to act upon national prohibition re-! peal for Michigan, The House today suspended rules and passed the bill, 72 to 8. One delegate will be elécted from each Representative district to the State con- vention under provisions of the bill, and counties having more than one member in the House of Representatives will be entitled to an equal number of delegates. Candidates for the conven-| tion will be nominated in each county! entitled to delegates by a committee composed of the county clerk, prose- cutor and probate judge. EDUCATOR DIES AT 48 Prof. Morrill Was Assistant Pro-| fessor at New York U. STAMFORD, Conn., March 11 ( o | Raleigh D. Morrill, 48, assistant profes- | sor of experimental engineering at New | York University since 1926, died today | of a brain tumor. - Merrill had served as a professor of electrical engineering at Norwich Uni- versity and as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Min- nesota. He was formerly a research| worker on refrigeration at the Popular Bcience Institute. H He was born at Stratford, Vt. and re- | ceived undergraduate degrees at the! 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NEW YORK, March 11—To offset | “advancing chasos” in South Amcrica, the Committee on Co-operation in Latin America urges a continental evangel- istic campaign by Christian groups. The annual report of the organiza- | tion, which represents 30 American | mission societies, charges the coun- tries which send missionaries to South- | ern nations now on the verge of war | have also sent “money, munitions and | military missions.” These latter, it says, often explain “the confidence of an exalted national- means, such as were used formerly, to settle these questions.” | Signed by Dr. R. E. Speer. | The report is signed by Dr. Robert | E. Speer, chairmdn, and Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, executive secretary. Dr. Speer is secretary of the Board | of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. and a former | president of the Federal Council of | Churches. Dr. Inman is an instructor at Columbia and has lectured in Latin | American universities. | “The present economic crisis and | the Communism of Russia are affecting | Latin America in such a way that, if Christians do not undertake any aggresive evangelistic campaign cover- ing the whole continent and including all classes of pecple, very soon it will be too late to chetk the advancing chaos,” they declare. | “The dangers of an anti-religicus movement, as involved in Communism, are not fictiticus,” they asser.. “They are real and pressing.” 0il Concessions Cited. The boundary question between Bolivia and Paraguay became acuts, they say, “only when petroleum conces- sions were made to an American cor- poration and large loans were made by American and British bankers to Belivia. “Large sums were then spent in Eng- land and the United States for bomb- ing planes and other war material, and Gen. Hans Kundt of the German Army was engaged to modernize the war ma- | chine, * * ¢ “Munition makers in the three coun- tries that have furnished Bolivia the means for war are, of course, selling all possible fuel for the flame. “In the same way in Peru and Colom- bia, two other countries where Ameri- | can mission boards maintain schools, hospitals and evangelical work, certain American business interests are backing | the winner, whichever it may be, in the ‘war openly being prepared.” | The report characterizes the political | and economic situation in Argentina, Brazil and Chile as “intensely difficult,” | and in Cuba as “especially dark.” CLOCK STOF;S AT DEATH DUNCAN, Okla, March 11 (#).— When Mrs. Serepa Quinn, 76, was plan- ning a division of her personal effects | she told a daughter who asked for her 48-year-old clock: “You can have it, but it will stop | when I die.” Relatives said today after her death that the. clock did stop, almost on the fatal moment. 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