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Show THE SPAMS!! FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH SOME TIMELY SUGGESTIONS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS What to Giro Him BRIGHAM CITY lo S9SB. thar ot peuihvt were CM carload shipped from Utah to outside points, MURRAY Utah, this year, bts shipped out 171 cars of cauliflower, 108 cars of cabbage and 9 cars of Billed vegetables. I LEHI Clear, dry weather, favor-abl-e for sugar beet harvesting, but leaving farm soils too dry for plowing In most places, prevailed Id Utah tho past week. It was show a by tho weekly weather nummary, released recently by J. Cecil Alter, federal meteorologist. At a meeting ot It was decided to spproprbtlo $750 to tbo Ogden livestock show, the amount to bo payable In January, 1930. The resignation ot J. O. Burnett, deputy sheriff, was presented by Commissioner A. IL Cook upon tbo request of Mr. Burnett and accepted. FARMINGTON the county commlasloners. BRIGHAM CITY The Brigham City sugar factory of the Utah-Idah- o Sugar company closed down recently, after a campaign of twenty-sidays' operation. In which approximately 31,000 tons of beets were converted into sugar. The run, while short, was successful and, according to Superintendent A. C. rearson, no serious accidents occurred during the campaign. If he Is n man of discriminating taste here Is soiumhlng worthwhile Christ nuts n brass to give him fr magazine and newspaper holder, designed by that master American genius whose modernistic conception are creating such a sensation In art gift sections. The IHnna motif In the picture Is one of the masterpieces which Is attracting the attention of connoisseurs. Other unique and characteristic conceptions Include lamps, the sea gull motif best known, also such Intriguing articles In brass or bronze snch as doorstops, smoklof sets, candlesticks and so on. Nonbrcakable Toys SPRINGVILLE Poultryrocn of Eprlngvllle 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. 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. fimryKifa i-sz-s-o or mzKiowa's By ELMO SCOTT WATSON f'lK Indian sign language, wliun Is rapidly becoming a lust art aa the old time Indians pass away. Is to be preserved for future generations If congress - w passes a bill Introduced recently ML Leavitt of a by Representative Montana, cbnlrnmn of the Indian affairs committee In tlie bouse. The bill asks for an appropriation to make a permanent record of this language and Representative Leavitt lius suggested that MnJ. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, retired, who has been a student of the Indian sign language since his graduation from West 1olnt In 1876 and who 14 one of the few white men 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 uulque among methods of communication between human beings dumb The white man has Invented a deaf-analphabet 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 certuln shapes of the fingers which mean letters and thus spell out words But that was not the red mans way. He thought In plctographs Just as he wrote in plctographs 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 wll tell a long story in four grunts and the rest with his fingers." And that expresses It about as as the statement by the bureau of American Ethnology experts that "A Sioux or a Blackfoot from the Upper Missouri has no difficulty in communi eating 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 hh 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 Paws moun 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 peoples wrongs he made his meaning 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 Fort 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 Scotts name among the Indians 1 p (The Man Who Talks With His Bands or Sign Talker). It was given to him by Big Wolf, a Cheyenne chief, in 18!X) v hen Scott was sent among the Cheyennes in Montana to quiet the ghost dance excitement there, lint 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 d hut obtained a transfer to the Seventh, wlih-- 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 1S7C-7and then In the Nez Perces wai In 1877. Early in his career on the plains Scott recog nlzed that one way to solve the Indian problem was to try to get the Indian point of view and In order to do tliut 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 thaL He was fortunate In gaining the friendship of a remarkable of the Klowas, 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 lnnguage. But it was his knowledge of the sign lnnguage which helped him In winning those victories. An example of that is shown In his interview with Red Cloud, the great chief of the Oglala Sioux. General Scott tells about It as follows: 7 Going op to Red Cloud' village on White Clv Creek, I noticed ugly signs. lied Cloud was sptd to have five thousand young men, many recen! from the hostile village, and I could see that they were In a very ugly m'ood. I could feei trouble in the air. There was no Interpreter with the command, when one was needed most, nor any Indian scouts When the head of the column stopped at Red Cloud's lodge, they sent back in the column for ... me. . Red Cloud was In a most surly mood. There he stood in the presence of eleven troops of cavalry and boldly asked: "What do you come locking for here? My young n.en don't want you here. If you come here looking for a tight my young men w If you don't want to fight, you g.. tight you. 11 home. It was a good deal of responsibility to throw on a young man. 1 not only hod to act as Interpreter, and extricate the commanding olllcer from the tense situation, but must still preserve his dignity Fortunately I succeeded. We went a days march away to camp, and 1 was sent back to live In Red Cloud s lodge for s few days to keep tab on what he was doing In dians are always hospitality itself, and he made I stayed there three me welcome In his lodge. nights, watching. Red Cloud was an excellent sign talker, but he made his gestures differently from anyone I had While each was perever seen before or since fectly distinct, they were all made within the compass of a circle a foot in diameter, whereas they 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 ine and any clew to what made him so to what was actuating his young men. The remarkable thing about this is that the young officer knew that Red Cloud was holding back something because his sign talk Bwnng only In a diameter of a foot Instead of In the large, f open gestures within a circle two and one-hal- feet In diameter. Knotting that, he was able to get at the heart of the matter, mnooih down the Irate chief and perhaps saved many Uvea, both white and red, through Ills Intimate knowledge of the sign language. Of the origin and development of the sign language General Scott says: Whenever person of alien speech encounter others with whom they cannot communicate they first endeavor to make themselves understood by OGDEN When this proves inadequate, The Utah livestock raising the voles they stage a little drama or pantomime by gesjudging team won first place In the tures that will serve to put their idea Into the swine division of the Future Farmminds of others by the Imitation of acts or qualities. If this pantomime proves npt and easily uner contests held in conjunction with derstood in the two alien groups It woulJ be used the royal livestock show at Kansas again on meeting other groups, the signs acting City, according to dispatches. Aland reacting on each other for ages; the fittest len Taylor of Ogden was fourth only surviving until the language had spread and become stabilized over all the plains, the habitat individual, and Jay Winkle-ma- n high of the buffalo, long before the arrival of Europeans ot Mt. Pleasant was one of on this continent. The sign language obey all the general laws of the twenty-fiv- e boys of the country linguistic science, save those of sound. It appeals who was awarded the degree of to the same human brain through the eye rather American Farmer. than through the ear. It Is therefore akin to at. human tongues and has its own place In the hierPRICE One car of honey has archy of all the languages of the human race. been shipped from Price this year The Indian seizes the most salient qualities to give an object a name and you will be surprised by producers in Duchesne and Uinat the aptness and skill with which they pick out tah counties to centers in the east. The law of the sign language is these qualities The shipment included both cone to g ve a name that belongs to something and to nothing else. and extracted honey and was conOf some of the commoner symbols In the sign sidered to be of excellent quality. language, James Mooney of the bureau of AmerIt Is expected that shipping ot ican ethnology, writing In the Handbook of alfalfa seed will commence soon. American Indians, says: In 1928 between 1,500,000 and The signs In every case are founded on some pounds of this product was tangible or symbolic characteristic, although by marketed through the offices of abbreviation or "wearing down," as In a spoken the Price Commission company. language, the resemblance has frequently been ob scured and conventionalized. Thus the sign for SALT LAKE The toll of human man is made bv throwing out the Sand, bark outlife taken by fires on the national ward, with Index finger extended upward, apparently having reference to rn old root word In many forests in the disastrous fire season Indian languages which defines man as an erect of this year Includes fourteen emanimal. Woman is indicated by a sweeping downward movement of the hand at the side of the ployes of the forest service, U. S. head, with fingers extended toward the hair to deThe department of agriculture. note long flowing hair or the combing of flowing forest service does not know how locks A white man is distinguished as the hat wearer, either by drawing the index finger across many deaths there have been of the forehead or by clasping the forehead with outpersons not on the employment index For Indian the stretched thumb and finger but it Is known that a numroll3, or hand back his left of rubs the perhaps speaker his cheek with the palm of the right to Indicate a ber of people not on these rolls person whose skin is of the same color. The sign lost their lives on account of the meaning mav having obtained this conventional fires in the forests. be used equally by a white man to convey the All dressed np In Its best bib and tucker this amusing little duck is on its way to say Merry Christmas to some fortunate youngster. toys are the call of tha modernistic Juvenile world. If fancy happens not to turn to ducks, then there are stuffed giraffes, elephants and other cunningly devised creatures to intrigue the heurt of the child. Non-breakn- Multi-Drap- e Necklaces -- same Idea. A tepee is shown by bringing both Index fingers together like an inverted V to indicate the conical shape and the crossing of the poles. An ordinary house would be distinguished by adding the sign for white man. The buffalo, and tn later days a cow, is Indicated by crooking the Index fingers at the side of the head to resemble a horn. A dog i indicated by drawing the hand, with first and sec- - j ond fingtrs spread apart, across In front of the travels dragged by body, typifying the old-tithe animal when used as a beast of burden. are Indicated by signs easEating and drinking ily intelligible. Sleeping is indicated by inclining the head to one side, with the open palm held Just below typifying the recumbent attitude of repose As days, or rather nights, are counted by "sleeps. the ume sign may mean a day when used in connection with enumeration, Indicated by the motiun In the same wav of counting upon the fingers. cold is Indicated by a shivering movement of tha clenched hands in front of the body and as Indians count years by winters or "cold" seasons. It signifies also a year in another context The hand upright and turned upon the wrist with fingers 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 finger at subject' you. you" becomes (1) point (2) cold sign: winter or year; (3) counting sign: number. (4) question sign: how many? An expert can go through the whole movement In about the time required to put the spoken question, with the advantage that he can be understood by an Indian of any language from Canada to Texas. Some signs are beautifully symbolic. Thus, fatigue is shown by a downward and outward sweep ot the two hands in front of the body, index fingers extended, giving a gesture picture of utter Bad is indicated by a motion throwing collapse. away; truth by signs for straight talk and falsehood by the talk sign with another for different , directions, t. . "talking two ways." 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 If anyone should ask you whats the latest in necklaces, tell them effects. Collections of Jewelry for holiday giving abound In dainty types which feature a trio of festoons as you see In the picture composed each of as many as eight or more strands of tiny satiny seed beads, in white or In lovely pastel tints or In vivid hues. The necklace te the left Is one of the new twisted rope types which is so vogulsh Just now. multi-drap- e Quilted Bath Mats carload of spuds shipped under consignment to Los Angeles. The 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 r bushels short of the average. 120,000,-000-bush- five-yea- OGDEN A fishermans pamphlet entitled The Whiteflsh. Grayling, Trout, and Salmon of the Intermountain Region, by S. B. Locke, Forest Examiner of the U. S. Forest Service, Ogden, Utah, has just been published as Bureau of Fisheries Document 1062. It contains a key for identifying fish, together with illustrations and a detailed description of the species. This pamphlet can be secured free of charge upon requisition to the District Forester at Ogden, Utah, or to local fo: esl officers. Sure to Intrigue the woman who appreciates dainty bathroom furnishings are colorful quilted bath-mat- s with cushion tops. They are made of machine-quilte- d padding in white or pale greens, lavenders, pinks or blues. The applique florals of colorful percale are basted on ready to sew, which gives them the touch. Charming to give for Christmas ! ready-to-appliq- made-it-niyse- |