Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-16 | Page 19 | Tribe Believes America Lives Upside Down

TRIBE IRIBE BEliEVES liVES I UPSIDE DOWN Foundation Official Official Hoover cial ial Finds Primitive Folk I I Who Think New World w Ei s ss s in m n Eternal Night I S S OW March 16 By y A A. A T. T r.- r. I so eo primitive that It believes live on the bottom of ot the world and are therefore In darkness dark darl ness has been found In tho the mount moun- moun t lain aln villages of o the by lr F. F A A. Golder Colder of the tho Hoover foundation rhese These people Dr Golder Colder said upon pon his return here think that f tA Americans do their plowing while lw upside down with oxen to whose horns candles are tied Be- Be ieving that the tho world is table aped with themselves on Its top they feel that the Americans are In Indeed indeed In- In deed unfortunate because they are Compelled to live In eternal night iVr Dr DJ Golder Colder said that in many villages delegations greeted him as asa asaman a man a-man man from the world below Some anxious to know how Amerl- Amerl ns managed to get set about One old gray Isray gray beard beart sorely perplexed by what seemed an unsolvable riddle finally came to the conclusion cOI that Inasmuch aa as Americans are a won- won people they have undoubtedly undoubted undoubted- ly taken a lesson from th the fly and learned to walk upside down do They thought I arrived ed by way ofa of ot ota ofa a hole in the ground the ladder to which Is kept by the czar of ot Moscow Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow Dr Golder Colder asserted These people still sUll make fire tire with flint and steel and use stone hammers hammers hammers ham ham- mers and shepherds shepherd's pipes Justice Justices Is s administered through trial by ordeal The men who are of re remarkable remarkable remarkable re- re physique go about armed to the teeth for they are feudists The families live in stone huts buts Inthe in inthe inthe the practically moun moun- Although the tho people are Moslems Moslems Mos Mos- MosI I l lems ms the women are not veiled and ana I because of the present shortage of or cotton cloth their only clothing consists of simple sheepskin coats They nearly overwhelmed me with hospitality Dr Golder Colder said appointing as my special guard a one-eyed one bandit pandit who had thirty thirty- five notches In his war club He would not let me out of his sight As a a. result of Dr Golder's visit Into this unfrequented region th the American relief administration has hassent hassent hassent sent rations for children to the villages where starvation starvation starvation star star- Is general William Driscoll has gone to to take tako charge of the operations