Show INDIANS S CANNOT TALK WHEN HEM THEY THEY'RE SMIliNG I I By lOy The Tel am S Special News New Iee CARLISLE Pa Dec 23 That That entire entire entire en en- tire tribes of Indians in l Ie Mexico ico carry carryon on long conversations by means of whistling is asserted by Harold T. T Mapes min mining ng engineer who was for twelve years in Mexico but who now I liv lives s in Carlisle Mapes declares the I Indians have a whistling language and andare andare andare I are abl able to express their thoughts perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- by its ita use He says it Is not nota a series of signs or calls signifying danger love fear peace war etc but a regular language by which the most dangerous shades of thought may maybe maybe maybe be expressed Like people In other parts of the world the Mexican Indians occasionally occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally whistle for their dinners only they are able to explain by their whistle exactly what kind of a dinner dinner dinner din din- ner they want either a simple meal of tortillas and frijoles or a more elaborate elaborate elaborate i orate feast of ot enchiladas and mole guajalote with cerveza or vino Mapes says he understands that the I whistling language has been handed down from generation to generation from the time of the and Aztecs Az tees and that Indian lovers can put puta a world of tenderness and passion into their whistled declarations of love or stir their fellows to heroic deeds by the fierceness with which they whistle a call to arms arms' arms Mexico is the only place where he found the whistling language Mapes says and he lie has ha's traveled all over Latin LaUn America and has been with Indiana Indians Indians In In- diana from Alaska to Patagonia A whistling language has been used from time immemorial by the Swiss mountaineers and Neapolitan sailors converse frequently by means of whis whis- thug Convicts in the big Jail in Naples converse freely by means of whistling and there is apparently no limit to their whistling vocabulary |