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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH EH f tfr 't'-V- r Colorful Seminoles Cling To Ancient Tribal Customs J Tbe By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. much influence on the life and habVNl) Service. 1616 Eye Stuct.N.W.. its and customs of the Seminole Washington, 1). C. in (T his is tht first of two articles on of this short span as have the weight economic conditions the deprest he effect of postwar conditions on the s sion followed by the high demand nost misunderstood of American the Seminole Indians, with Mr. for labor during prewar and war d Baukhage reporting from periods. observation.) For more than three quarters of Somewhere North of the Ever-'lade- a century no Seminole has owned -- Thetsun is setting over flat land, his possessions were limited :tretches of making a to a few cattle and hogs running eathered silhouette of cabbage wild in the swamps, and to what personal property he could store unalms on the far der the palmetto roof of his open-face- d lorizon, dropping hut in the Everglades. Today i tint of lilac there are three reservations. Wiimong the water lliam Boehmer, Indian agent at lyacinth in the Brighton, saw that venture rise jond at my feet from its inception. He tells me evvhere lazy, hump & ery family on that reservation owns ihouldered Brah-na- n a car and one family boasts five. cattle cool A hundred and fifty thousand dimes, contributed in the 1946 March of INSTRUMENT OF MERCY Radios are common as are elechemselves. Rig-- d for the fully equipped mobile emergency unit, three views of which are shown above. In addiDimes, paid tric flashlights and kerosene lanwhite cranes tion to moving emergency patients, the unit serves as a training center and auxiliary hospital facility when terns, some knives and forks and itand undisneeded. The unit proved its worth during the severe epidemic last summer. other practical gadgets and a lot turbed by us of store food and canned goods. Vbove, great However, there has been no change lawks wheel and, in housing styles. Before the origiis we pass, a nal deal was closed in 1938, one of jevy of snipe Baukhage the Seminole leaders first made 'ises like black ind white confetti tossed in the air sure that living habits should not be interfered with. He was quoted as ly a giant hand. Back at the turn of the road that saying: Indians must live in air and suneads to the attractive headquarters milding of the Brighton Seminole shine. Must dress as their fathers ndian reservation, smoke curls up dress. But additional opportunity for emrom beneath a fire of logs in a WNU Features. islmetto thatched cooking "chikee ployment has brought about a deanswers to many puzzling questions With latest reports compiled by National Foundation for still obscured, d one of the Seminole camps. Here sire for an education. As nearly as there is one sure ive three generations of a single I could learn, education to the Sem- Infantile Paralysis indicating that the year 1946 witnessed the thing about polio and that is that inole means learning to speak Eng- most severe epidemic of polio in the history of the foundation, it will strike. amily group yet a fairly large nent of the entire Seminole nation, lish and perhaps to read and write concerted effort is being centered on the 1947 March of Dimes No Group Immune. or there are only 625 of them In it. Because the Seminoles are nat- which its name, it can strike 15. on the nation Despite opened throughout January ill Florida. urally intelligent, it is no trick for and has struck persons of all age The national the in foundation,' spearhead organization Like most tourists when I first them to learn if they want to. But groups, although the age group five ame to Florida, I was startled to the labor demand likewise has in- - ceaseless war against the great crippler, is directing agency to nine appears to be most susceptfor of the annual March Dimes campaign. The drive will be ible. Boys seem to be slightly more neet face to face these women in j terfered with the process. When the heir gayly colored skirts, their high, j family gets a special job picking concluded January 30. susceptible than girls, and there is tead collars, their astounding hair j tomatoes the children go along and Heavy expenditures resulting 6 no evidence to show that any one Iress; the men, less gayly clad but pick. too. There are no penalties from the nationwide 1946 epidemic Adhering to its policy of leaving race is more immune to its ravhave dipped deeply into the foundahalf of all funds collected during ages than till with their gay kerchiefs and being absent from school, any other. With the shortage of teachers of tions funds, directors assert in urg- - the March of Dimes with its local owboy hats; the solemn children, is important at this stage, What eplicas of their mothers in their every kind It is unlikely that the j 1118 generous support for the 1947 county chapters, the foundatiqp left the report says, is that a doctor be solicitation to provide means for more than eight million dollars with consulted as soon as the disease is coping with any emergency in the these chapters during January, and sometimes the future. The March of Dimes, they 1946. Up to November 1, more than suspected resemble symptoms so closely add, is the only method employed 360 of these chapters had entirely those of a common cold that no by the foundation to raise money depleted their shares of this fund chances should be taken. Early to finance its many activities. and had to call upon the foundation and may for help. This help reached the sum diagnosis death hospitalization Fatalities Decline. or permanent cripprevent of more than four million dollars. Figures compiled by the foundapling, the report stresses, and the tion disclose that in 1946 there were early services of a competent mediResearch. Emphasize more than 24,000 cases of infantile cal man are absolutely essential. Besides local supplying chapters paralysis, with fatalities running In discussing the future, the rewith emergency funds the foundabetween 5 and 10 per cent. In the port expresses confidence that the tion used its of share of March year 1916, before the foundation was Dimes collections in furthering a cause and a prevention of the efread organized, the greatest polio epicrippler will be found. In the meandemic in history was recorded. That concentrated and widespread protime, it is pointed out, the public of research into causes and gram fear 27,363 cases were reported by has every assurance that March of possible cures of the malady, and 28 states, fatalities running as high in Dimes funds, distributed by local theradoctors, trailing physical as 25 per .cent. in their territories, have epidemiologists and other chapters The sharp decrease in fatalities is pists, made the best available possible front line soldiers in the war attributed in part to the persistent care and purchased the most A considerable polio. educational program waged since against equipment regardless of amount also was spent on public the foundation was started in 1938, and during 1946 more cost, so that any foreseeable exieducation, which brought about better diagthan six million pieces of literature gency can be met. nosis and early hospitalization. At Aid is Assured. on the disease were distributed the same time improved therapeufree. During the last fiscal year Behind the local chapters stands tic methods were credited with prenearly two million dollars was ex- the national foundation, carrying on vention of many cases of permanent its program of public education and pended for research activities. crippling. research, apd ready to send aid to The foundation emphasizes Hardest hit during 1946, acany county which may deplete its no victim that of polio, regardcording to foundation figures, funds through unusual epidemic of less creed or age, race, color, was the Mississippi valley region, conditions. need go without the best availwhere Minnesota headed the list The work will go on, the founda4 able care through lack of of heavily hit states with a total tion promises. Funds collected dur4 funds. of 2,813 cases. However, Floring the 1947 March of Dimes will ida on the east coast and CaliSeminoles cluster around chikee in native costumes deep in Infantile paralysis, the statement replenish exhausted treasuries so fornia on the west coast, also Everglades. points out, is among the most un- that when the 1947 polio season rolls were seriously affected, and othpredictable of diseases. No one around sometime in the late jright, flowing garments shopping supply ever will quite reach the spring er widely scattered regions knows when or where it will strike and through the summer the na- it the Five and Ten! demand even on the part of the busy were bard hit as well. but until research finally finds the tion will be ready! It is hard to believe that these Seminoles. The school in the Evertayly clad yet modest folk, so glades is closed at present. Undoubtthat only three (so far as edly when conditions change and RELIEF FROM CAMPUS GRIND know) enlisted in World War II the Seminole again is confronted ind none were drafted, once defeatwith job competition the govern'd the United States forces in three ment will be called upon to furnish vars stretching from the time of the White Mans learning in larger he Revolution until almost the end doses and with fewer interruptions. Coe CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. f the last century. In any case neither prosperity nor college students in the future will The average college, he insisted, Further relief from the campus By then, with their Chief Osceola education has as yet caused the be given time to think! is cursed by "entirely too much also is assured Coe students. grind ricked into capture while at a peace Seminole to complain about his A day off now and then will be teaching and too little learning. Administrators hope eventually to A few modem lurley, all but 150 of the Seminoles housing situation. "Its about time we gave our stu- give them a weeks ranted so students can study, talk vacation from .ere dead or had yielded to mass houses built on one reservation were to their teachers or just sit and dents a chance to sit back and think classes when it counts the most-ri- ght leportation to the West. But the 150 left unoccupied, except for one think through some of their acaabout what theyre told, he added. before final exams. lever gave in. Because of that fact porch. There is nothing wrong with demic and social was it problems, he tradition has grown that they a Seminole chikee. A chikee really announced by Byron Hollingshead, ire still at war with the United ought to be translated room in- young president of the local college. itates. stead of house, since there are as members will stick Faculty It is true that no formal peace many separate chikees as required around the campus for informal ever was for have each family. They are of two signed they reaty EAST LANSING, MICH. Latest cause they are sick, injured or have tad no chief since Osceola died in different types, one or cooking and conferences, preferably over a cup device introduced by Michigan taken of coffee in the grill, and to provide police drugs; Hollingshead one but the Seminoles have for aptivity state police in an attempt to curb with a foolproof sleeping and living. They said. method of provLibrary and reference rooms ull citizenship. However, they made consist of a thick palm-fa- n roof with will remain highway accidents is an "intoxi-mete- r, ing intoxication. The will be open. day heir first formal and voluntary "eaves an on roadside supported The intoximeter, enclosed in lelected well in advance by the faca nove toward reconciliation and chemical test for drunk drivers. poles and rafters. There are no small cardboard cylinder, executive and committee the ulty in 1938. A group of Sem permits walls in the living hut but there is All in can the state will a police officer to make an patrol a platform a couple feet off the student council. nole leaders, meeting with Amer-cabe equipped with the d test for intoxication now that modern Averring officials in the Everglades, then ground and usually a bunk-lik- e subject right device by accordto later check by a technician isked the government for schools, bench which can be used for the education defeats its own purpose, ing to Capt. Caesar J. Scavadara, The motorist or pedestrian head of the state police traffic dilospitals and better horses and women as a work table, as well as the young educator declared: in an accident or giy :attle. for sleeping. Its impossible to get an educat- vision. mg signs of intoxication blows ud a A two-folmodern was The device has a program immediately colleges These dwellings are airy all right ion in the pursmall rubber balloon attached to the Irawn up and entered into with good and would be make the it To eliminate colleges impospose: miscarriages device, the officer clocking the time damp during a long vill on both sides, but it is a ques-iorainstorm if it were noi sible by rushing the student through of justice resulting when persons required for a red fluid in whether this step has had as for supplementary ie curriculum. are charged with drunk driving be tube to become tarpaulin. colorless. cits-en- first-han- s: saw-gras- ... CEASECESS WAR High Polio Toll Gives Impetus To March of Dimes Campaign ) fr 1 te 1 College Students Given 'Time To Think' 1 newly-develope- mid-Marc- be-lau- d n Barbs . . . Every time 1 go to Florida I wish . had studied palmistry so I could dentify the trees. It's hard enough o distinguish a pepper tree from a tenator even if you are familiar with he bark of both. Being in the dog house may be in embarrassment but it's better han a park bench. And with all its leas it isnt as overcrowded as some ipartments. Now Eat Food Of White Man What the White Man calls progress has done more to affect the eating habits of the Seminole than our cultural activities have affected his viewpoint. Draining and lumbering in the Everglades have sharply reduced food sources dried creeks and ponds, cutting timber and for- est fires have killed off wildlife. But the accessibility of the grocery store has tended to make up with bakers bread, beef, coffee, sugar, syrup and canned fruits. Longer Life Pays Cash Dividends CHICAGO. Mans The advance is credited by n to modem medicine, better quest for long life is paying dividends in cash, according to food and improved housing. Trank G. Dickinson, economist and In 1900, Dickinson points out, the statistician for American Medical average man of 20, earning $1,250 association. annually, could have valued his lifeIn contrast to the heydey of the time earnings at $27,400. In 1940 he Roman Empire, when anyone 35 could place a value of $29,900 on jr 40 was considered "old," life ex- his prospective earnings. pectancy in the United States has Prospective earnings for a man 0 jumped from 49 in 1900 to 65 in of 35 increased from $25,000 to 1946. during the same period. never-endin- g Dick-inso- $26,-20- I Huge Plastic Buffalo Planned as Memorial CODY WYO. - As a memorial to Buffalo Bill, a mammoth buffalo one day may be erecteS atop Cedar mountain here. Lawrence Tenny Stevens Sculptor 2MU;Wbu,M on sayse Undi.I the mountain memory of the famed scout. fide the body will be an lunch room, curio shop and peXpi a cocktail lounge, the sculptor adds! Broadway Express: The Broadway Lights: Add things I never heard of in my sinful life: Bandsman Tex Beneke (ending a tour of the Southeast with his Glenn Miller crew) returned several hundred bux to the promoters (of a swing event) with this explanation: We didnt draw too well for you; He must be quite a feller. sorry. . . . His Ighness and her Grace (her what?) manage to have news photos taken of all their sudden charity work. Its that build-u- p campaign to remove the odor of a 1938 photo showing the Dook giving the Nazi salute in Berlin, when those soand-so- s were winning. Too late, Bub. A newsprint industry may start No money in Alaska soon. around? You should see it thrown away at a Florida dice house. . . , Have you seen the Grand Central stations first two white Red Caps? ... ... leased, is th, illustrating , of the best is Governs aggrieved to Marks left She j appro; obliquely-- bu V1us. Final suppose it is for your A.D guests in tin Not at Lifes Little Jokes: The Hotel Winecoff (Atlanta) was booked to capacity that awful night. Many of the folks who couldnt get room there were sent to hoon tels around the corner Luckie street! Sallies in Our Alley: The largest studio audience isnt in Hwood or here, but in Nashville, Tenn., where Grand Ole Opry entices 5,000 people every Saturday night. . . . Emily Posts book of etiquette (according to all bookshops at military posts) is reported Best Seller No. 3. Sold more than 90,000 copies last year. It was published in 1921. . . . Polan Banks (not so long ago) had a mag piece titled: The Presiwhich was like dents Daughter, what happened to Margaret in New York recently. It was about the mythical daughter of a president eluding her guards to keep a date with a colyumist . . . Juliet Lowell, author of Dear Sir or Madam (clickerature) will do a piece on war humor for the Encyc Brit. . . . John La Cerdas new book on Japan unThe Conder MacArthur is out. queror Comes to Tea, published by Rutgers Univ. Press. Todays short story (conrtesy street theater marThe Playboy of the quees): Western World. . . . The Fatal Weakness. . . . Born YesterWest 45th i hiandly, "jj don't dont mind, matter rhen aterlsl, are'--1 iome. can 1 hose r the bo, ay als it ma, WHEN I a punk util upset, hot tike Dr.Cil to qnicldj all t nerdi, dupper mi sjnl M. CHUNK; eUutmw Pepsin to a NAHTPoeW Makes tioniinpraoy Borepk dne take. teined So toto in Sjito look if MSISTMK write staff that vholws tion. Even hi there fre ere CAUTION: Dm inspirati who m sailor, . . . Annie Get Your . . . Life with Father. . Heheheh. day. Gun. . . si lOminal icting The Late that regular Watch: Didjez know uirglary insurance play, a policies will not insure against loss by theft by a kin living with the insured? If yez want an elephant instead of a new car, the price is now $7,000. . . . Newest whim of the gels who dunno what to do with their money: A lipstick brush made of gold genuine sable hair with handle. . . . Ham Fisher just got to Florida. A doyty trick considering he left Joe Palooka snowed-i- n up in the mts. . . . Insiders hear Happy Chandler will scold Durocher in public via a display "of power between them. . . . The citys next headache will come when the snow shovelers demand higher wages or else. . . . Whirlaway soon will be a grandpap-py- . . . . Zillionaire Jock Whitney is said not to be interested in the film business anymore. Poor Jock, he cant afford to make any more munyee. ailor su ... New York Novelette: Wheb Russel Crouse double-checke- d the Washington data for the hit State of the Union, he show, phoned his friend, Tom Stokes, whose news coverage of the cap Ital is When the show was ready Cronse offered Stokes a one per cent interest in its chances to show his ap predation. . . . Stokes said thanks, no. . . . Mrs. Stokes, however, asked Crouse if she could invest $756 in it . . . Sure, said Crouse. . . . Well, State of the Union never has an empty pew and cinema rights sold for a mere $780,000. Blg-Time- y. ... It happened the other night in a midtown restaurant on 7th avenue in the 400 block. A man and a woman were waiting for dinner when she suddenly fell forward. . . . The man grabbed his hat and coat end started to go but was stopped. "You can't leave her that way, he was told by the manager. A doctor in the place pronounced her dead. . . . The escort looked both startled and annoyed and again started to leave. The manager, a waiter and a patron held him back. . . . He wouldnt respond at first but finally admitted he didnt know her name. . . . Hed met her 10 minutes before! a This ich is Si or she son for ost wea old am long p: i they wi ke real on the acket, i isignia in thlf ? it more high o whichk tost-- dim! Metsiei US ... ... Quotation Marksmanship: Jack Smith: He's caught in a sheternal triangle. . . . Mark Nelson: They used to say two things were certain Death and Taxes but now its John Lewis and strikes. . . . Dorothy Parker: His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. . . . Marilyn K. Johnson: She nagged him into another womans life. . . . S. Maugham: The tragedy of love isn't death or separation. The tragedy of love is indifference. . . . J. Thurber: While he was not dumber than an ox, he was not any smarter. tsf tioa mUJ tr Jr'S Fash i |