Show I I WILEY ON HOOSIERS He Marks Southern Indiana the Genius Region T TRACES ACES DESCENT OF PEOPLE Derived From Southern Appalachians Whose Race of Mountaineers He Calls Last Remnant of the Undefiled in Country J 1 By GEORGE CLINTON Washington Dr Dr Harvey W. W Wiley VIley who recently resigned as the governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's chief chemist was born Ju in In In- r. r idiana The doctor is very int Interested rested tin do all nil Hoosiers but he is a little hard perhaps on native Indianans who I were born in the northern half hal of th the state tate He puts them In a genius class below that of ot the Hoosiers who were born nearer the Ohio river Dr Wiley WHey has prod produced need a map of In In- dinna iana on which he Illustrates some of or his Ills views with respect to l Intellectuality Intellectual Intellectual- it ity in the state About where the old national road crosses crosses' from east cast west he ho has drawn a red line and the across territory lying south of or this thIs' line he has written in bold letters the word ord Genius Across the north half of r the be state appears the words Near Geniuses As a concession to two of ot othIs his friends he has Indicated Indicated what might be called a lane extending nor no northward ward from the genius be belt t so as asto asto astol to tol elude Kin Hubbard better known as Abe Abe Martin and George Ade Of OJ Fine Mountain Stock Dr Wiley exhibited this map of his own making the first time at a meeting meet meet- lug ing of the Indiana Society of Washy Wash Washington Wash Wash- y ington this wee week He used it lit as a basis basis ba ba- sis for a most Interesting talk tau which he gave on the people of southern Indiana In- In diana as he knew them thirty fort forty and fifty years ago He pointed out s the southern half haIr of the state was was sets settled settled set set- tied almost exclusively by mountaineers mountain mountain- eels from the Carolinas V Virginia and Tennessee The men and women he said were weVe perfect specimens of phy- phy p leal Ical development He Ie traced to this a steel many of the great men Indiana has bas turned out 6 out t. t T The e Indiana genius began to appear appeal he said when this tine fine mountain stock began to mix with the people from flom the east ast and north z- z The mountain regions of Virginia North Korth Carolina South Carolina and andr r Tennessee Doctor Wiley said are still the homes of the rugged people of the type that sett 4 S U era ern Indiana and from which which Indiana geniuses have asserted u th tt ese moon moun- i he Carolinas Virginia and andre andre Iid I r re mis misunderstood n y r most I hey are not degenerates rates O On the contrary the they a aman a. a man specimens to be I try today and and probably bb til nf They have their peculia to i their environment e- e err own family and ot oP the of he heh h 1 they belong is the the first first taught them T They are wriest lOnest and ana all df ply ly l regious re- re d oJ 1 r According t to Docto Doctor Wiley there are great possibilities In th th race a ace oC e of moun moun- He r referred to it as thelast thelast the last re remnant of the undefiled In this country and pointed out that if in some way education and culture could be brought to these people results 24 that would almost startle the world would be produced Dr Wiley said that while no one f would attempt to defend the shooting J down Gown of or ora a judge and other co court rt officials om daIs by a gang of these mountaineers in fn southern Virginia near the North Carolina line lne It was only fair fall to the themen men who who participated in that crime 4 to say that they are not degenerates and andare are not bad citizens in the com corn non mon sense of the fhe term We Ve of southern south south- r F. F Bern ern rn Indiana birth may not like to ad- ad nit it he said but hut the men who yr r did that shooting in southern Virginia t. t r rare are of the stock which from we sprung In taking the law Pinto Into their own hands l in defense of their clan they were ere only living Jiving up to a principle that had be been n instilled into them and their for forefathers rathers Our Apache Wards I Secretary of at V War r Stimson in response to a request from Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress has told the 11 makers law mal w-mal ers all ab about ut the Apache prisoners of war who are now now on the tho Fort Sill suf Oklahoma reservation There are of or the prisoners ners and 18 of the number are borne on on the morning reports as as' 1 scouts coutS Thirty of the Indians are known to fo have bave been engaged in hoef hostilities hose hoe f against the the United States or orto J. J to have committed acts of or violation I ag against white citizens Six of the I braves now held in check In Oklahoma Okla- Okla Tioma homa were on the war warpath path with withY r Y Geronimo and and surrendered with that great chief in 1880 1 J The secretary in his bis report gives the names of ot the six Indians who r were vero known t to have been on the war warpath path with Geronimo After each name there is an annotation to t tell U of at the health and the conduct of the pris pris- on goner oner r. r It might be Ile e noted that hat they are I all tall set down a as being of ot fair tar report except one whose name Is Is' Christian and nd he apparently now has had a I change of heart and Is reported as having been very good for tor about a 1 J i year Their Status Explained The judge advocate general of the t army adds adds' a memo memorandum rand urn to th the secretary sec see Of wars war's report He says 1 The The b bend band nd of Apa Apache he Indians who who were established the Indian on reservation reservation reser reser- at Fort Port 1894 Sill had bad be been n engaged for many years prior to 1886 1885 In acts 10 of hostility against the of ot the United United States Slates These acts v r terminated d by their surrender iR 4 v Lr 1 r v. v s J A. A rv r- r v c to to tho the military authorities near Fort I I i Bowie Ariz in September 1886 With a n view to their protection they were sent to San Antonio Texas where they they remained for tor a time until some permanent arrangement could be made for their care card and tion They were finally located at Fort Marion Fla where they remained remained re reo re- re for or a number of ot years As Fort Marion Marlon was vms found to be an unsuitable unsuitable unsuitable un un- un- un suitable place they tey were subsequently removed to Mount Vernon barracks Ala As the climate at Fort Marlon Marion and Mount Vernon barracks was was quite different from that to which they had been accustomed in San Antonio Arizona and northern Mexico disease from which the they had theretofore theretofore thereto thereto- theretofore fore been immune crept in among them them and upon and 3 upon full cons consideration of the situation by the secretary of war they were permanently established on the Fort Sill Military reservation In 1894 As these Indians had been engaged in the commission of hostile acts for fora a number of years they were reg regarded regard regard- rd- rd ed at their surrender as occupying the tho status of prisoners of ot war and were subsisted and maintained as such As the hostilities In which they had taken taleen part ha have vo long ceased to exist their temporary status as prisoners prisoners pris pris- of war terminated and they have since been r regarded as a band of dependent Indians held in custody of the United States and under the special prot protection and control of ot th the war department This status as to some of its essential incidents continues continues con con- to exist War Over Inscription In the midst of at all the debates and on the tariff and appropriate bills and all the tho tu tu- mutt and shouting o ol of politics Washington Wash wasu- I ington Is finding time to have some excitement excitement excitement ex ex- over a matter of interrogation tion tion- m marks and exclamation points The burning issue is how the Inscription Inscription inscription tion on the John Jaul Jones statue to tobe tobe tobe be erected in Potomac park parle shall be punctuated The c controversy Is over the celebrated celebrated cele cele- reply of Jones to the inquiry of the if II he was ready to sur sur- render It will be recalled that the theBon theBon theBon Bon Homme Richard Ichard was an nn I worthy worth old Indian Indan merchantman Indian m merchantman when she she was assigned to Jones by the French government government and her equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment was so outclassed by that of th the that hat the only cha chance ce of the American commander was to fight at close range So demoralized were affairs on the Bon Homme Richard that an under-officer under lost his head and released released released re re- re- re leased a l score or so of British prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- who ran to tear down the colors colors col col- ors and might have embarrassed the American commander still more had hadnot hadnot hadnot not Lieutenant Dale set tl them ii at the pumps to save thelt lives Ilves Many of his ps guns had been s f fenced the entire entire en en- tire Ure sides of hi were shot shoto lii o f S 1 L. L the e was afire when J Jones o es was as d b by Captain Pearson with the demand Do you der Question or Exclamation 1 In his own account of the battle Jones states that his reply was something something something some some- thing to this effect I do not but I Intend to make you OU surrender Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Llen- ten tenant nt Dale who a also so wrote an account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of ot the battle ascribed to Jones the more spirited reply Surrender I have Just begun to fight It Is over this world-famous world phrase that the second battle rages The contestants contestants contestants con con- do not hesitate to substitute the words of ot Dale for forr those of Jones for the phrase Is more striking but In Inthe Inthe Inthe the opinion of the c critics the writer of the inscription on proposes to weaken the retort by means of second rate punctuation Ignoring the peculiar punch and force of the exclamation point as compared with the quotation mark he proposes that Jones' Jones reply Yankee-like Yankee begin with a question and then he would fire a second rhetorical barrel by exploding an exclamation exclamation exclamation ex ex- point at the end of the sen sen- tence Thus Thu waving aside the historical accuracy of the Jones Jone's quotation it would stand thus Surrender I have only begun to fight Instead of thus Surrender I have only begun to tofi fi fight ht Not Not very much to be sure on which to start a a feud yet et on the other hand enough to make things hum a little When hen one one has has nothing else to do Old Doctor Johnson tore toie open the literary heavens leavens of his time for less things than nian this and even even should the tile contest end disastrously for somebody the flow would be of tears rather than of ot blood Majority for Question Mark The exclamation point agitators have ha put up their case to the authorities authorities authorities ties In charge and have been gravely informed that that- they do not win The question marks appears to have ama a ma majority of oC the delegates and there Is no evidence to show that their convention convention convention con con- was was not regularly called under the approved rules of ot the national committee The case can can hardly be betaken betaken taken up to congress for what congress congress congress con con- gress does not know about punctuation punctuation tion must be supplied by th the proofreaders proof readers of ot the government printing of of- fice Neither can the navy department tako take a hand for It has bas a John Paul Jones me memorial or al of its own and one trouble at a time Is enough Speaking of at the Jones memorial al at Annapolis by bY bYthe the way the inscription to be attached to that has been selected select select- ed by a master 0 of the art It avoids any competition in language by confining contin ing lug itself to a single virile phrase which in a line gives s Jones the pioneer pioneer plo pio pio- pio n neer Cr place among American naval heroes and at al the same time exalts him to the Ii highest ranks It Is this He Hems v as lh th first to give to our navy the traditions of heroism and vic vic- tory r. r F I l T |