Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1935, Page 22

B—6 « THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 17, 1935—PA RT ONE. SIOUX SUE U.§. ASKINGSTB OO0 llliteracy of Elder Tribesmen Blamed on Alleged Bro- ken Faith. Recollections of the old Powder River road to Montana in the days of the gold rush, of covered wagons beset by Red Cloud and his warriors, | and of the Indian War of 1878, that included the Custer massacre, Wert unfolded in the Court of Claims yes terday. A claim of $18,000,000 was entered against the United States Government by the Sioux tribe of In- dians. This claim is the outgrowth of a brief filed some time ago on behalf of the Sioux. The evidence is on file in the Court of Claims, the case is closed and on the record the big chiefs from the Rosebud Indian Res- ervation, from Standing Rock, Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River, Crow Creek and the Santee—reservations in the Dakotas and Montana—claim Uncle Sam failed to furnish educational facilities promised by the treaty made at Laramie in 1868 Previous to that time white men were trekking to the West in search of gold in Montana. the hunting grounds of the Indians. The Indians retaliated. fight ensued. In return for the priv- ilege of unmolested overland pa ge, the Indians accepted certain gestures made by the United States Govern- ment. The Government, as established in previous cas failed to satisfy the Indians. Indians Want New Deal. Now come the warriors of the Sioux —not one of them over 65 years of age—calling for a new deal. They are Justin Black Eagle, Paul Bull Eagle, Ernest Two Runs and Tom Muskrat. Not one of them can speak, read or write a word of English, which forms the basis of their com- plaint. They claim that had Uncle Sam established the schools he set out to furnish in the Indian terri- tories of the Dakotas, Wyoming and They disturbed | Fight after | ,’-F ather Baker, Now 93, Carries On as | Orphans’ Partner [Head of $25,000,000 | Group of Institutions Noted for His Charities. By the Associated Press. LACKAWANNA, N. Y., February 16. —Fatber Baker, who has given al- most 60 years of his life to orphans jand the poor and the helpless gen- | erally, today celebrated his 93d birth- | | day at work. The vencrable priest—Right Rev. DRY SPRING SEEN INWEATHER DATA Drought Menace Hinted by Bureau If 11-Month Cycle Repeats. By the Associated Press A strong hint that the Midwest, baked dry last year, may expect a Bureau. | Msgr. Nelson H. Baker, vicar general | of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo— | thas made “Father Baker” a by-word | lin thousands of homes, many non- | | Catholic. by his work. To his $25.- | {000,000 Our Lady of Victory institu- | I tions he founded here come thousands | of pilgrims every vear. | As a young priest he came to one of the poorest parishes in this neigh- borhood shortly after his ordination, in 1876. Since then he has been a partner in childhoed to thousands of | orphans. Whenever Lackawanna has felt the pinch of hard times, the hungry fell in line at “Father Baker's,” assured of a meal, no matter what their faith. | Our Lady of Victory basilica, one | [o( the most magnificent in the world, | | has a dome second only to that of the | National Capitol at Washington. The | basilica is entirely of marble. —_— Scouts to Tour Greece. Anxious to see the land of the new Duchess of Kent, Boy Scouts of Kent, England, will tour Greece next Easter. Community Chest The Community Chest reports that its afliliated organizations aid, in some manner, more than one- | fourth of the entire population of | Washington during the year. This 1 s one of a series of stories to ap- | pear in The Star each Sunday, showing typical ezamples of the | ‘aid given. Only the names are | fictitious. | | | | | “I just can't stand it any longer. | ‘The bureau said it had discovered an 11-month weather cycle which, if it runs true to form, means a warm and dry late Spring for the Midwest this year. Phrasing its announcement care- fully, the bureau made no mention of drought, but it pointed out that much of the Great Plains is still dry enough to make Spring rains very important in insuring good crops. “Late Spring will be warm and dry in the Midwest this year if May con- forms to its usual practice of bring- ing high temperatures 11 months after an abnormally hot June,” the Weather Bureau said. Last June was far above normal in temperature in the Missouri and up- per Mississippi Valleys, averaging as much as 8 to 10 degrees above normal for the entire month in some sec- tions. From the Central Plains eastward there is now sufficient moisture to give crops a good start, the Weather Bureau reported, but the plains area from North Dakota and Montana southward is still lacking in moisture reserves to a considerable degree. Dollars in Action pointed out that the husband had done his best while he had a job and that even now he was working on the relief rolls rather than merely ac- cepting charity. She finally brought out the girl's story. “The young wife had become dis- couraged. Friends she had known before her marriage were still going to movies—still dancing. They urged her to join them. She had gone a few times with other girls and there ‘Montana, all of them now would be|If it weren't ‘or the babies, I'd light | had been a man who was attracted able to enjoy the pleasures of read- ing by the fireside. No schools were provided for the Bioux when these men were of school age—and not enough schools are yet provided for all their son: sons, their daughters and daughters. So the old chiefs clair The Sioux Indians in their brief claim that there were sor 5.600 or more Sioux children who were ready and willing to receive the blessings of education but who never got it under the terms of the treaty. Now, the old chiefs add up the sum that would have been spent by Uncle Sam in this philanthropic work an it to approximate $18.000.000. are coming to Washington home of the Great White Father—to collect. Attorneys for the Sioux are Ralph H. Case, attorney of record end Kingman Brewster, J. S. Y. Ivins, C. C. Calhoun, attorneys in fact. Case Knows Indians. Maj. Case, a World War veteran, and a past commander of the National Press Club Post, No. 20, the American Legion, has lived among the Sisux Indians and is said to know more about them than any man in Wash- ington. He recently returned from the many reservations whose tribes- men ere involved in the current suit. In recalling the events leading up to the present suit, Maj. Case said yesterday: “In the year the Civil War began, | 1861, gold in fabulous quantities was discovered in the territory of Mon- tana. A great tide of immigrants moving along the valley of the Platte River went to the Black Hills and into the placer-mining district Montana. This route. following the Powder River, was known as the Powder River road. The Sioux re- sisted this invasion of their hunting ground. The result the Red Cloud War of 1865-67. “Red Cloud was the great chief of the Ogalala. He and his chiefs com- manded the fighting strength of other Teton bands. To combat them the United States sent military detach- ments along the Powder River road and fortified it by the erection of Forts Kearney, Reno and Smith—in the present States of Wyoming and | Montana. Indians’ Terms Agreed. “To secure peace in the Sioux country, the Government started negotiations with the Indians at old Fort Laramie, in the Wyoming Terri- tory—and the treaty under which the present suit is filed was drawn up there in 1868—after the peace com- mission had assembled from Wash- ington. It brought about the end of the Red Cloud War. demand made by the Indians.” After that, according to Maj. Case. *“the Government apparently regarded | the educational provisions of the treaty of 1868 as self-operating”—and let it go at that. “The failure of the Government to observe the Sioux treaty of 1868 is the cause of the high illiteracy among the Sioux Indians,” Maj. Case says. 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That | crowded things a bit, but we managed to get along “Then the man I was working for went broke. | job, but still T didn't worry. always worked and I felt sure that I | could get another job. I never knew | until then how many men, with bet- ter educations than I have, were hunt- |ing work. i | “Our money went and finally I had | to apply for help. They gave me & | |little work at the emergency relief, | enough to buy food, at least, for our | family. Then Mabel's mother died | and we had to borrow some money to | help pay for her funeral. Wife Grows Negligent. | “can't say that I blame Mabel, but the strain began to tell on her and she began to neglect our little home and the babics. When I mentioned these tiungs to ner she told me that she was still young, liked a good e and that if I coulan’t make e money for (the things she wanted there were oihers who could. 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Popularity of the course prompted university officials to re- new it. - EPRESENTATIVE JENNINGS RANDOLPH of West Virginia, chairman of the House District Crime Committee will be the speaker on the American University Crime Forum, at 1901 F street, next Fri- day night at 8:30. American Uni- versity musi cal organizetions pre- sented joint con- cert at Eldbroate ary 14, under the direction of James McLain, director of music at the university. The Women's Glee Club, the Men's Glee Club and the American University Chorus Rep. Randolph. | the program. HE annual undergraduate essay contest at the” Catholic Unive sity was announced last week by the student council, sponsors of the event. For the first time the com- petition will be open to students in |all classes and departments of the university. It will include topics in | English, philosophy, science, engineer- ing and law. Essay entrants must be placed before March 15. “Student Life in Germany” will be the theme of an open gathering Thursday, February 21, at 8:15 p.m. in the music building auditorium at Catholic University, conducted as one ing held throughout the country. Dr. { Goetz Briefs of Germany. fessor at Catholic {the guest speaker. E: ibe provided by a German quartet. ‘XJU TER LIPPMANN. well-known | urnalist and hor, will | liver e re the Wi convocation of Washington University next Friday night. wh | the university will recognize the co | tribution of the press to education | Honorary degrees will be conferred | upon a group of representative news- paper writers. The convocation will take place at {8 pm. in Constitution Hall. Some | 150 students will be graduated at this nterest;ng Student and Facu’ty were the organizations appearing on | of a series of German Club events be- | Institutions. | time. President Cloyd H. Marvin will )prrslde and will confer the degrees. | On Thursday afternoon preceding the convocation President Marvin | will entertain at a reception at the | Washington Club in honor of the | graduates and their phrents. ' Many graduates of the School of Medicine of the George Washingtor the opportunity to come in touch' ‘wuh recent developments in medicine |at the third annual post-graduate | clinic to be held Saturday, Febru- ary 23. | Dr. Charles Stanley White, profes- sor of surgery in the university, is chairman of the clinic. Members of the medical staffs of George Wash- ington and Garfield Hospitals will take part in the discussions and dem- onstrations. A visiting debate team from the University of Puerto Rico will meet George Washington University man debaters Thursday evening at the uni- versity. Church | Thursday, Febru- | IGHT college seniors and juniors comprise Georgetown University newly appointed intercollegiate | debating team. The appointments were made by Rev. John J. Toohey, S. J., chancellor of the Philodemic So- ciety, the oldest students’ debating | society in the United States, and di- rector of intercollegiate debating at Georgetown. An announcement of the debating schedule will be made later. The White Debating Society at the college will debate a team from Ford- ham University, New York City, Maurch 23 Officials Georgetown Law School will at- tend a testi- monial dinner in Providence, R. L, | tomorrow night | in honcr of two of the law school's promi- | nent alumni who have been ap- pointed to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, Chief Justice Edmund W. Fiynn, * and Associate Justice Frances B. Con- don, '16. Dr. Coleman Nevils, S. J of Georgetown, wiil be the Dean George I is E. Lucey, S Law School, and D: istant dean of J. J. Toohey, J he auspic Rhode Island CAMERON BECK, director of the New York Stock Exchange In- | stitute, will deliver the principal address at the midyear commence- | ment of Strayer College Thursday, | March 7. The exercises will be hel as usual in the ball room of the May- flower Hotel. Members of the graduating] class will meet within a week or 10 days to elect class officers for the exer- cises, and the college registrar at that time will designate the valedictorian and salutatorian on the basis of scho- lastic ratings so the program may .be completed Sigma Eta Sigma, Strayer honor | soclety, will meet Friday to elect new | members who will be chosen from | those “who have distinguished them- selves with an unusually high scho- lastic average.” 'HE thirty-ninth annual banquet of Washington College of Law was held last night in the main ball room of the Mayflower Hotel. About 400 were present to hear Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Caro- lina, guest of honor and principal speaker. . Other guests at the speakers’ table were: Dr. Edwin C. Dutton, president of the Board of Trustees, and Mrs. Dutton; Mrs. Bessie Parker Bruegge- | man, Judge Mary O'Toole, Miss Kath- arine R. Pike, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Laskey, Justice and Mrs. F. Dickin- son Letts, Justice and Mrs. Jesse C. Adkins, Miss Catherine L. Vaux, pre: dent of the Alumni Association, Keith G. Misegades, president of the Patent Alumni Association; Repre- sentative and Mrs. Jennings Randolph, (and Representative and Mrs. Elmer | J. Ryan. ISEASES which children of the ages of 2 to 6 years are most liable to contract will be dis- | cussed by Dr. Paul Eanet in his lec- ture, “Medical Aspects of Children of Nursery and Kindergarten Ages,” to be given at 8:30 p.m. next Thu day, at the Kalorama Day School. How best to avoid these diseases. the value of immunization and how to build resistance in young children will be covered during Dr. Eanet's talk. * Parents, educators and others in- terested in young children are invited to attend as guests of the Kalorama Day School and the Child Adjustment Center, a new departure of the school handling the problems of children. STERILIZATION LOSES LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. February 16 (#).—Proposed sterilization of the in- | sane and habitual criminals in Arkan- sas has met with defeat at the hands of the House of Representativgs after the Senate passed a measure for that purpose. By a vote of 64 to 29. the House turned down Senator Clyde Ellis plan despite arguments of supporte he sterilization mea ould. evel Iv. reduce the Is and ins Opponents of the persons bill said do not desir seases a law Enroll for classes now forming in FRENCH Famous Berlitz_ Conversational Method Berlitz School of Languages 1113 Conn. Av N NORATORION LAW RULING SSOUBHT Right to Buy Property at | Less Than Debt Raised in Supreme Court. | By the Associated Press ‘The Supreme Court was urged yes- terday to rule on the validity of the Prazier-Lemke law, virtually forced through in the closing hours of the !last Congress to help mortgage- harassed farmers. The act has been a subject of dis-| pute since its passage. President Roosevelt in signing it said it prob- | ably would need amendment. Four Federal district courts and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have de- clared it constitutional. Two other district courts have ruled it invalid If attempts to scale a farmer's debts down to a figure which would enable him to pay fail, the law pro- vides for a five-year moratorium. The property may not be foreclosed during that period if the owner pays a “rea- sonable rental.” The act also enables the fagmer to obtain full title to his property by the payment of its ap- praised value, regardless of the amount stipulated in the mortgage at the end of the five-year stay period New Question at Issue. In upholding Minnesota’s mora- torium law, the high court gave its approval to similar procedure rental payments over a two-year riod, but the question of discharg: the mortgage at less than value was not involved Both debtor and creditor in the case brought to court yesterday ioined ir sking for review and expeditious ac- Apparently. they expected on | | for 1ace tion. OPENING Feb GRECG EDITORI Tivoli T 14th STREET | March 4 an order stipulating the case | would be heard, and that it would be | set for argument during the week of March 11. In this particular case, the Louis- ville Joint Stock Land Bank held a | $9,000 mortgage on the farm of Wil- liam W. Radford, sr. He applied for | the protection of the Frazier-Lemke |law and obtained, in district court (and Circuit Court of Appeals, ap- proval of A fiv i ear stay of all proceedings | against him for foreclosure; the right during that period to remain in pos- session of the farm upon the payment of $325 a year rental, and the right at any time during the five years to purchase the mortgaged property at | its appraised value. Appraisers set | this figure at $4,425. | The Frazier-Lemke measure, with only lukewarm White House support, but already passed by the House, was scheduled for oblivion by Senate lead- ers as the close of the last session approached. However, agarian and liberal ele- ments in both parties joined in a filibuster against legislation consid- ered vital by the administration. They asserted they would allow the admin- istration measures to pass only if the farm bill and the then pending rail- way pension bill got through also They won The measure reached the White House, among some uncertainty as to whether President Roosevelt would sign it. He did, but issued simul- taneously a statement saying he did not subscribe to the fear that in- surance companies and other mort- gage holders would suffer by evasion of debt payments under the bill. “Healthiest Boy” Dies. SEDALIA, Mo.. February 16 (P).— Little Billy Lyle Needy was the cham- in the boy health contest at i State Fair here last vear h brain fever, he d'ed last at the home of his parents, Mr. nd Mrs. C. W. Needy. He was nearl ars of age NTT [PLEASANT STHOOL /or | SECRE AIRIES NEW CLASSES ruary 18 SHORTHAND AL COURSES heater Building /#ND PARK ROAD Telephone, COlumbia 3000 THE EVENING STAR. Washington. D. C. I enclose $1 for an autographed copy of the AMERICAN TODAY. by Fre new book. 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