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OGDEN WILL ROGERS SAYS-- WOMEN IN FEW I know is Just what I ' reaid ' — —— — la the papers or what I run into as I prowl hither and thither Wel a week or so ago prowled thither and ran Into the awfullest mess of snakes you ever saw All my life I hat© heard of the Hopl snake dance out in Arizona Well people and writers are such liars that I dident know but what they waa loading us about this snake thing So I grabbed up my two boys who had done a bit of snake reading and we lit out for the wilds of Arizona It took place at a place ed Hotivilla French and the imitating Americana are not the first to use the word villa The Indians called It that even before it was fashion: able This town is near the oldest town that Is known on this Continent and that is Arobl That is lust a few miles away and goes back hundreds of years This new village jtvas formed by an old chief who iinoved away from the old one because he was trying to get the children away from the Government sehoolx But the school followed him up and Fraternities are right on his heels I tell you its awful hard to stay civilized in this country nowadays This old fellow thought he could do it with his people but NO the Misand the School Teacher and sionary the Bootlegger was right after him so his young is just as liable to the grow up as big a heathen-a- s other 110 million with which he has to associate he did have a lot Some of these old blue racers go Into the crowd of great customs and some wonderful old ideas But the Fords seeing what was going on in front got bit or not If they did they and the radio nailed him and now of him than if he hadent been dident let on he is as unreliable as his White there There is one man behind each brothers They "go out in the desert days snake dancer who don't have a SACRED SNAKE DANCE before and catch these snakes Then snake He looks like he is there to They sure do hang onto this old on the day of the dance they bring attract the snake's attention in case custom of the sacred snake dance them into the dancing place a kind he might want to bite He himself You will hear Americana say "Oh of a square between houses on each is not near enough to be bit So it is just a commercial thing now" side The actual that the I guess he directs the snake where Well I dont know where they get white people leave tospace them is about to bite the other fellow Each the idea I dont know who makes 30 by fifty feet There is a little dancer must have danced with as any money out of it The fellow like a shock of corn or a many as 10 snakes that runs the trading Post there thing tepee made of green bows and There was about 20 taking part sold the boys and I jome canned bushes and Into that an old Indian the whole dance At the finish 3 J J takes a couple of gunny sacks full iey grab up all the snakes and and oh yes Jim (thats the youngei of snakes He stays in there and m to the four corners of the com- and rougher element) he had about hands em out to the dancers as ass going over the hill and a half gallon of canned chill beans they go by Each dancer carries tlte snakes loose If the white turn peo- and most of the other Yokels be- one snake around for three cirie keen on lntrfpHrur wftVi th side us brought what they eat so cles then he puts it down just Xince I think they will turn em the Commercial 'end of it as far as 1 turns it loose and it makes for the ftose in their automobiles could Bee was about J180J As Jim crowd and there is three Indians ill take the snakes to the That four finished off with a whole can of that do nothing but catch the ones 'f of the earth corners peaches and I called it a day by that are turned loose and they let S These men train for this dance mopping up on some canned green 'em get almost to the crowd before and they fast for days and then gages which I hadent seen since the grabbing them and of all the hol- they drink some kind of a bite preold Oolagah Indian Territory days lering and screaming some of these ventive that makes them very 111 The Indians could have very easily old blue racers go into the crowd afterwards is to and that supposed have sold seats to the dance on the so fast they are out among the discharge any poison then they tops of their houses for there must people before the catcher can get have a big feast like our athletes have been 25 hundred em had during their stay in Amsterwhite people there But there was GETS ANOTHER SNAKE dam It is a very impressive thing nothing that cost you a thing outThere is nothing of the make beThen dancer the little this goes2by side of some soda pop and vanilla tepee and gets another snake He lieve or show angle to it It is the ice cream that had been hauled in takes it (generally a rattle dramatic greatest specspake the hundred and ten miles by some and some big ones) in his hands tacle in this countryreligious All the Inwhite men in a truck the Indians if and they all go the same dians are very courteous and obligthey ever get to see the dance them- plan - He puts' through snake's the neck ing While the whites are our usselves will have to have it some about four or five inches back of ual arrogant butt-in- s It makes times when the white folks dont its head into his mouth and then a great spectacle for there is hunknow its to be held as they woUld he takes his two hands and holds dreds of the Navajoes Indians there just move in on the roofs of the lit- the body of the snake kinder out They are the tall lanky horsemen tle low houses like the Hopis live straight He handles it exactly type that live out with their stock in and the Indians would all be like a axaphone His hands are all the time an dnot in at fixed squatted there with his lit- on the snake in the very same po- all The Hopis all live villages in ogether tle brood to see the dance and the sition) as one's hands on a saxa-phon- towns The dance is to get rain tourists would just move in front only its the neck and not and before the last snake was carof him in such numbers that he the actual head that Is in the essed why it began to rain I just dident have any more chanee of mouthnow we couldent tell if any thought suppose our dances were and Parking Backing Prove Bugaboos of Drivers By NEA Service HARTFOrD Conn—Women are behnd the wheel in only five per cent of the autfomoblle accidents in the country according to a survey Just completd here The percentage is based dn a study made by the Travelers (Insurance company here into several thousand claims covering 80 states The most part of ariving ror women according to the survey is parking for one out of every five women involved in auto accidents struck a parked car BANE OF WOMEN Intersections! also are the bane of women fpr bne out of every five of the low five per cent grot into a scrape at crossings Such mishaps the insurance company believes may have occurred from a misun derstanding as! to what constitutes the right of way Anotner inugaboo for women drivers is drying' into or out of their garages for backing out of One out of every 11 driveways women involved in auto accidents had this Itefti figainst her Loss of control is another cause of accident bfut turning around prove to be even a harder task for women One lout of every 13 of the unlucky five per dent - comes in this field ! 1 CAUSE FEW ACCIDENTS In Washington D C recently It made as an appeal to the idivine for eomethlngi and they got what they deserved1 the varsity drag would be fallow ed by an earth- quake and th e Charleston by maby a famine (Copyright 11928 McNaught Sy pdibate Inc) TWO CJAItS TO FAMILY ! 1 1 1 SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 9 R FIGURES SAY CAES LIVE LONGER AUTO MISHAPS All About the Old Snake Dance All STANDARD-EXAMINE- California claims distinction of leading all othjer states in ownership of automobiles with approxi mately two cars to each family Yet the averagd - increase in car ownership for California last year was slightly less than that for the entire country j By NEA Service WASHINGTON — If your automobile has gone to the scrap heap before it has reached its eighth year you haven't got the best out of it The reason la that the- average life of the modern motor car is eight and a quarter years according to figures compiled bythe American Hoad Builders assoclation Less than 2000000 cars or jaoout 4xi per cent tered In th United to the scrap heap last year At this rate t would take eight and a quarter years to replace all cars on the roads today LIGHT SUIT IS FOUND SAFER DIAMONDS VANISH Dark Clothing Hard to See By Drivers ST NAZAITlTn! TTranrxJ—' A U Two million dollars' worth of m A j j M was found that 85 per cent of the auto drivers aremeni but that this group is responsibly for 91 per cent of the auto accidents In San Francisco where 20 per cent of the drivers are- women it is found they are responsible for only 8 per cent of the accidents But the insurance company con eludes that women as a rule are not in the custom of driving dur ing me noura oi greatest traiiic when there' is greatest liability for accident and that they do not drive as many miles each year on the average as do men e isJVPr hl&Uu $fr$'$iKJ- - Yi'MfS j j j ' ' Yt S a 'y th central prison of Sofia 43 prisoners condemned to death are jpinning their faith to the repugnance of King Boris toward capital punishment for commutation of their sentences In all probability! King Boris will before long exercise the right given him under the constitution of Bulgaria to commute their sentences to life imprisonmerit Among them ia Proudkhine former prefect of police finder the agrarian government of Stamboulis-k- i who was slated for execution several years ago for having organized an attempt on pthe lives ) of members of the opposition while they were holding a meeting in a cmema house which Claimed many victims King Boris shows a great reluctance to sign death warrants and since no executions c£n take place without his approval he thereby exercises an Indirect veto on caoi- tal punishment in this country j j i— VETS ACHIEVE NOTE AS M KING AGAINST SOFIA — fAP)— In V j K - DEATH VERDICT : monds that were supposed to have oeen on board the Belgian steam- er Elisabethville torpedoed off the British coast lri 1917 are!now definitely reported as "missing" The Italian divers who have sue-- " Cessfully explored the captain's strong box and the safes in the postal room announce 4nat they have given upjajl hope Of finding the precious cargo These diamonds were always an alluring mystery: No on4 could be quite sure that they wej-- in th hulk of the Elisabethville or not A temporary captain loaded them iboard In the Belgian (jongo and aid he turned them over to the ship's regular captain at Bordeaux At that time the diamonds were in the postal safes' The regular captain the only man who really Knew where the diamonds were1 stored went-- down j with his ship t The Italian company which has tried to salvage this precious cargo will pay all rtts pxpenses with (the salvage of 10 tons of ivbry which also wu aboard jth© Elisabethville - A WORTH $2000000 These dbmmies set up on the road In front of the U 8 Bureau d In Washington show the contrast between and dark cltithlng at nijjht from the driver's point of view tionai safeguard to pedestrians freBy NEA Service WASHINGTON— If you would quenting streets or ligh way after ) of the illrfatftd ped- night escape the Due to an optical Illusion a man estrian hit by an automobile wear dressed in white appears to b4 of clothing This is the expert advice of the massive proportions compared to automotive section of the U S Bu- one garbed in a darkrcolored suit To a corresponding degree light-colorreau of Standards automobiles if we are to The warning comes as the result of a series ofe automobile headlight accept the results of these governtests in whlcjh dummies of children ment tests are visible to an appreand grownups served as objects iri ciably greater dergee than cars inai peaesirjans painted in dark hues aemonBirating light-colorThese tests of course were conwearing clothing at night are less apt to be struck by ducted by the Bureau of Standards an automobile having inadequate at night In other ways the conditions of automobile driving at lighting facilities The make-believ- e persons or night were faithfully simulated dummies employed in these expert- - The dummies appeared so realmenta were dressed ' in eutits of istic as likely to be mistaken for varying colqrs Invariably dum- real human beings if seen beside a mies dressed: in white could be seen road at night twice as easily as those clothed In Headlights adequate to the needs dark garb— thus offering an addi- - of autopooblle drivers is a problem of Standard light-colore- lt light-colore- 4 dj ed ed P'S LONDON— aB)HoraUo Alger with hi stories) lof success despite oostacies would have been the best possible press agent for two members of parliament who have begun their work for the coming general election One is Captain- - Ian Fraser one of the most noted members of parliament who is blind The other lr Major J B Cohen a cripple as the result of the World" war who goes to the house of commons In a wheel chair and struggles to his Beat with the aid of two sticks j J i I CLEAR THE ROADS I Every wintee the etate of New York has a battle keeping its road open To keep Jnter-cit- y and interstate traffic moving it must keep 15000 miles of highway clear ©f i snow and ice M engaging the Attention of Uncle Sam and this personal equation of suggesting additional safeguards for pedestrians Is but a "detour from the main project of this automotive engineering research i I so-call- ed 11 is Buick the !ei new JOT'S J-r- ju'W 'iL "I" ' ii ii ei You shift gears in a Graham-Paig- e equipped with four speeds forward (Two High Speeds) exactly as you do with a standard three speed transmission You have nothing new to learn— ex-cept tne tine new pertormance tnis zm Five chassis — sixes and ei ranging from $860 to S2485 illustrated is Model 629 five-passe- Car n- er sedan with transmission standard gear shift) $1985 All prices f o b Detroit 4-sp- eed 'A transmission provides We invite vou to drive one 6 '!! 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