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Show PALE. UTAH EMERY COTTNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE SUGGESTIONS It's a Privilege to Live In mal BRIGHAM CITY In 1928. there were 694 carloads of peaches from Utah to FOj CHRISTMAS UTAH shipped points. Tlliri.. CHIIC News Notes f GJve Hi, outside Utah, this year, has cars of cauliflower, 174 out shipped 108 cars of cabbage and 96 cars of mixed vegetables. " MURRAY LE HI Clear, dry weather, favorable for sugar beet harvesting, but leaving farm soils too dry for plowin ing in most places, prevailed Utah the past week, it was shown by the weekly weather summary, released recently by J. Cecil Alter, federal meteorologist. At a meeting of It was commissioners, the county decided to appropriate $750 to the Ogden livestock show, the amount to be payable in January. 1930. The resignation of J. D. Burnett, deputy sheriff, was presented by Commissioner A. R. Cook upon the request of Mr. Burnett and accepted. FARMINGTO N The Brigham Utah-Idah- o City sugar factory of the down closed company Sugar recently, after a campaign of twenty-sidays' operation, in which approximately 34,000 tons of beets were converted into sugar. The run, while short, was successful and, according to Superintendent A. C. Pearson, no serious accidents occurred during the campaign. BRIGHAM aar.scorr talking to eAPr.SWVmnSa t. I CITY x loiy-suuiiirT- Hc If he Is a man of flaj taste here is something to give him for Chrfstmas-- J magazine and newspaper signed by that master America 1 ius whose modernistic tomJ are creating such a sensationT gift sections. The Diana motif picture is one of the maate which is attracting the attend connoisseurs. Other unique and, acteristic conceptions Include fc the sea .gull motif best kaon,, such intriguing articles In bnj bronze such as dnnmt. msa ecus, cnuuiesucKs ana so on. to & Nonbreakable Toyi SPRINGVILLE Poultrymen of Springville are projecting an egg grading plant here, according to announcement by local authorities. The proposition was laid before officials of the Utah Poultry association some time ago, and following an investigation it was found that a larger egg production was necessary here to make a plant pay. U-- V- V' -- i Henry mi By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE Indian sign language, whUii is rapidly becoming a lost art Indiana pass as the away, Is to be preserved for future generations if congress passes a bill Introduced recently Leavltt of by Representative Montana, chairman of the Indian affairs committee In the house. The bill asks for an appropriation to make a permanent record of this language aud Representative Leavltt has suggested that MaJ. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, retired, who has been a student of the Indian sign language since his graduation from West Point In 1876 and who is one of the few white meu who ever mastered Its Intricacies, Is the one man llv Ing today who Is best fitted to handle this work. The Indian sign language Is unique among methods of communication between human beings dumb The white man has Invented a deaf-an- d alplmbet of more or less arbitrary sort which is practicable for the communication of Ideas but which must be learned by Intellectual application and by a recollection of certain shapes of the fingers which mean letters and thus spell out words But that was not the red man's way. He thought In plctographs just as he wrote In pictographs and each of his signs was a whole word or a dis tlnct sentence or a complete thought It was old Jim Baker, the famous trapper, fur trader and guide, who once said : "An Injun wil' tell a long story in four grunts and the rest with his fingers." And that expresses It about as well as the statement by the bureau of American Ethnology experts that "A Sioux or a Blackfoot from the Upper Missouri has no difficulty in communicating with a visiting Kiowa or Comanche from the Texas border on any subject from the negotiating of a treaty to the recital of a mythic story or the telling of a hunting incident." An Interesting example of the efficiency of the sign language is related by General Scott In his book "Some Memories of a Soldier." published recently by the Century company. When Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces was being carried down the Missouri to Bismarck, N. D., as a prisoner of war after his surrender in the Bear Taws inoun tains in Montana in 1877. a crowd of more than 1,500 Indians gathered to see such a famous chief Joseph addressed them In the sign language and. recounting the whole story of his people's wrongs be made his metning clear to all these people, who spoke eight different languages Nez Perces Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Arikara, Mandan, Gros Ventre and English. Even more Interesting was the Incident which took place in 1925 in which General Scott himself figured. At the Old Fori Union celebration in Montana In that year there was a big gathering of Indians which General Scott addressed, using the sign language. Thirteen different tribes were represented in his audience and every member of every tribe understood everything he said! General Scott's name among the Indians is (The Man Who Talks With His Rands or Sign Talker). It was given to hira by Big Wolf, a Cheyenne chief. In 1S00 when Scoti was sent among the Cheyennes in Montana to fiulet the ghost dance excitement there. But his proficiency in the sign language dates back further than that Soon after his graduation from West Point he was assigned to the Ninth cavalry old-tim- e "Mole-Te-Qu-O- f iy International hut obtained a transfer to the Seventh, which had been all but wiped out in the Battle of the Little Big Horn at about the time of his graduation. With the Seventh he served in the remainder of the Sioux campaign In 1S76-7and then in the Nez Perces war In 1S77. Early In his career on the plains Scott recognized that one way to solve the Indian problem was to try to get the Indian point of view and in order to do that he had to learn to speak their language. Obviously it would be a lifetime Job to learn the tongues of nil the tribes. But the intertribal language, the sign language, offered a short cut and he set himself to learn that. He was fortunate in gaining the friendship of a remarkable of the Kiowas, who became the Indian, "guide, philosopher and friend of the young cavalry lieutenant and also his instructor in the intricacies of the sign language. Both and Scott were fighting men but they were also both peacemakers and they worked together in bringing about a better understanding between the two races. In fact, General Scott is better known for his diplomatic victories which settled many troubles with the Indians, than he Is as the greatest white exponent of the sign language. But it was his knowledge of the sign language which helped him in winning those victories. An example of that Is shown in his Interview with Red Cloud, the great chief of the Oglnla Sioux. General Scott tells about It as follows: Going: up to Red Cloud's village on White Clay Creek, I noticed ugly aisns. Red Cloud was gMd to have Ave thousand young men, many recently from the hostile village, and I could see that they were In a very ugly mood. I could feei trouble In the air. There was no Interpreter with the command, when one was needed most, nor any Indian scouU. When the head of the column stopped at Red Cloud's lodge, they sent back in the column tor ... me. . . . Red Cloud was In a must urly mood. There he stood In the presence of eleven troops of cavalry and boldly asked: "What do you come looking foi here? My young nien dnn't want you here. If you come here looking for a fight my young men w 11 If you don't want to right, you gv light you. home." It was a good deal of responsibility to throw on a young man. 1 not only had to act as Interpreter, and extricate the commanding officer from the tense situation, but must still preserve his dignity. Fortunately I succeeded. We went a day's march away (o camp, and I was sent back to live In Red Cloud's lodge for few days to keep tab on what he was doing. Indians are always hospitality itself, and he madt me welcome In his lodge, I stayed there three nights, watching. Red Cloud was an excellent sign talker, but he made his gestures differently from anyone I had ever seen before or since. While each was perfectly distinct, they were all made within the compass of a circle a foot In diameter, whereas the are usually made in the compass of a circle two and a half feet in diameter. We talked about everything under the sun, but he would not give me and any clew to what made him so to what was actuating his young men. The remarkable thing young officer knew that back something because in a diameter of a foot open gestures within a about this is that the Red Cloud was holding his sign talk swung only instead of In the large, circle two and one-half feet in diameter. Knowing that, he was able to get at the heart of the matter, "smooth down" the irnte chief and perhaps saved many lives, both white and red, through his intimate knowledge of the sign language. Of the origin and development of the sign lan guage General Scott says: Whenever persons of alien speech encounter others with whom they cannot communicate they first endeavor to make themselves understood by raising the voice. When this proves inadequate, they stage a little drama or pantomime by gestures that will serve to put their Idea Into the minds of others by the Imitation of acts or qualities. Jf this pantomime proves apt and easily understood in the two alien groups it would be used again on meeting other groups, the signs acting and reacting on each other for ages; the fittest only surviving until the language had spread and become stabilized over all the plains, the habitat of the buffalo, long before the arrival of Europeans on this continent. The sign language obeys all the general laws of linguistic science, save those of sound. It appeals to the same human brain through the eye rather than through the ear. It is therefore aklu to al. human tongues and has its own place In tliohier-arch- y of all the languages of the human race. The Indian seizes the most salient qualities to give an object a name and you will be surprised at the aptness and skill with which they pick out these qualities. The law of the sign language is to give a name that belongs to something and to nothing else. Of some of the commoner symbols In the sign language, James Mooney of the bureau of American ethnology, writing in the "Handbook of American Indians," says: The signs In every case are founded on Bome tangible or symbolic characteristic, although by abbreviation or "wearing down," as in a spoken language, the resemblance has frequently been obscured and conventionalized. Thus the sign for man Is made by throwing out the hand, back outward, with index finger extended upward, apparently having reference to rn old root word in many Indian languages which defines man as an erect animal. Woman is Indicated by a sweeping downward movement of the hand at the side of the head, with fingers extended toward the hair to denote long flowing hair or the combing of flowing A white man Is locks. distinguished as the hat wearer, either by drawing the index finger across the forehead 01 by clasping the forehead with outstretched thumb and Index finger. For Indian the speaker rubs the back of his left hand or perhaps hl cheek with the palm of the right to Indicate a person whose skin Is of the same color. The sign having obtained this conventional meaning may be used equally by a white man to convey the same idea. A tepee Is shown by bringing both Index fingers together like an Inverted V to Indicate th onnioi shape and the crossing of the poles. An ordinary house would oe distinguished by addine th for white man. The buffalo, and In littr . cow, Is Indicated by crooking the Index fingers at the side of the head to resemble a horn. A dog Is indicated by drawing the hand, with first and second fingtrs spread apart, across in front of the e body, typifying the travois dragged by the animal when used as a beast of burden Eating and drinking are Indicated by easily Intelligible. Sleeping is Indicated bysigns Inclining the head to one side, with the open palm held lufct below, typifying the recumbent attitude of repose As days, or rather nights, are counted by the same sign may mean a day when used "sleeps" in connection with enumeration, Indicated by the motion in me same way cum ,j in inimaita oy a imgem. sniverlng movement of the iiHiiLiiru nsnui in ironi or the body and as Indians couni years Dy winters or "cold' seasons. it bib linn's uiisu a year in anoiner context Tk. i upright and turned upon the wrist with flniter j apart and extended Indicates the question sign and a somewhat similar but slower gesture means vacillation, I. e. "may be." Reduced to action the question "How old are your becomes (1) point finger at subject: you-(I- ) cold sign: winter or year; (J) counting slgn ' number; (4) question sign: how mnv i pert can go through the whole movement In about the time required to put the spoken question, with ., Can De understood by an Indian of any language from Canada to Texas. oUII,o bic ueaumujiy symbolic. Thus fa tigue Is shown by a downward and outward sween of the two hands in front of the body, index fingers extended, giving a gesture picture of utter collapse. Bad Is Indicated by a motion throwing away; truth by signs for straight talk and false hood by the talk sign with another o differs directions, i. . "talking two waye." i old-tim- .....60 LOGAN Apple growers of Cache county have shipped forty-tw- o carloads of their product to the Los Angeles market this fall, for which they received an average of $40 per ton, according to Agricultural Inspector Harry C. Parker. This shipment is an increase of four carloads over the amount of apples sent to Los Angeles by Cache county last year. OGDEN The Utah livestock Judging team won first place in the swine division of the Future Farmer contests held in conjunction with the royal livestock show at Kansas City, according to dispatches. Allen Taylor of Ogden was fourth high individual, and Jay Winkle-ma-n of Mt. Pleasant was one of the twenty-fivboys of the country who was awarded the degree of "American Farmer." Jf - any I All dressed up in Its best tucker" this amusing little Jii on its way to say "Merry drists to some . fortunate youngster. breakable toys are the tall ii jutcunc nvit not to turn 10 qbce, there are stuffed giraffes, and other cunningly devised to Intrigue the heart of the chili ILIVUCIUIOUV Happens efefl e PRICE One car of honey has been shipped from Price this year by producers in Duchesne and Uintah counties to centers in the east The shipment included both cone and extracted honey and was considered to be of excellent quality. It is expected that shipping of alfalfa seed will commence soon. In 1928 between 1,500,000 and pounds of this product was marketed through the offices of the Price Commission company.. SALT LAKE The toll of human life taken by fires on the national forests in the disastrous fire season of this year Includes fourteen employes of the forest service, U. S. department of agriculture. The forest service does not know how many deaths there have been of persons not on the employment rolls, but It is known that a number of people not on these rolls lost their lives on account of the fires in the forests. LOGAN According to Harry C. Parker, state and federal agricultural inspector, Cache potato growers are having one of the best seasons for many years in marketing their crops. Two dollars and fifteen cents per hundred is the amount netted by the grower on a carload of spuds shipped under consignment to Los Angeles. The Multi-Drap- e Necklaca Vim cimiiiii fide vou In necklaces," W is the latest effects. CoIWWM Jewelry for holiday giving 1 U dainty types which feature festoons as you see in tie R composed each of as many more strands of tiny laWl beads. In white or in lovWJS tints or In vivid hues. The 13 m to the left Is one of the new mtu trmH which Is SO VOpW"! now. aultl-drap- e Quilted Bath Mati potatoes were shipped recently by Lean ond of Lewiston. Mr. Parker stated that the potato market was strong this year, due to a shortage, which is bushels short of the r average. 120,000,-000-bush- five-yea- OGDEN A fisherman's Pamphlet entitled "The Whiteflsh. Grayling, Trout, and Salmon of tho Intermountaln Region," by S. B. Locke, Forest Examiner of the U. Service. Ogden, Utah, has fJustForest been published as Bureau of Fisheries Document 1062. It contains a key for identifying fish, ogether with illustrations and a detailed description of the species. This pamphlet can be secured free "P0n recul8itl to the nut Forester at Ogden, Utah, or to local forest officers. -- ?7l Sure to Intrigue the woffljl appreciates dainty bfltn ,- pS lngs are colorful reaowith cu" quilted bath-mat- s of made are nlcjp(j,)j They ' padding In . white or paisTrie owes. or enders, plnka florals of colorful percale " on ready to sew, whicn e "made-lt-myse- lf lng to give for too Christmas! |