WHY THE MAPLE WEARS A

BEADED DRESS1

BY MABEL POWERS (YEHSENNOHWEHS)

Many, many, many moons ago, when the trees were very young, they did not stand still as they do now, but moved and walked about.

It was on one of those days that a Maple Maiden went walking and singing down a trail. Her dress was fresh and green and rustled softly in the wind as she passed. In her hand she carried a wooden bowl. The Maple Maiden was fair and good to look upon.

Now near the trail where the Maple Maiden was passing there stood a young, tall, and handsome White Oak. He saw the Maple Maiden passing, and he called to her.

"What have you in your wooden bowl?" asked the young White Oak.

Oh, some of the sweet water my people furnish for man to drink," replied the maiden.

"Oh, give me of the drink," said the Oak.

The Maple Maiden handed the bowl of sweet water to the Oak, and he drank long and deep. Never had he drank of such water before. It seemed the most refreshing drink he had ever had. When he had finished, he bowed low his thanks to the Maple Maiden.

As he bent his tall proud head to her, some green acorns that fringed the leafy blanket that was wrapped about his shoulders fell to the ground.

He stooped and gathered them into the bowl, then strung them on a string of his shredded bark. When he had done, he threw the string of green acorns about the Maple Maiden's neck.

THE LYNCHING RECORD FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1920

I send you the following information concerning lynchings for the first six months of this year. I find, according to the records kept by the Department of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute, Monroe N. Work in charge, that there have been in the first six months of 1920 12 lynchings. This is 17 less than the number 29 for the first six months of 1919, and 33 less than the number 45 for the first six months of 1918.

All of those lynched were Negroes. Eight of those put to death were charged with the crime of rape.

The States in which lynchings occurred and the number in each State are as follows: Alabama, 2; Florida, 1; Georgia, 2; Kentucky, 1; Kansas, 1; Minnesota, 3; South Carolina, 1; Texas, 1.

R. R. MOTON, Principal.

Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.

Royal Dixon in his charming book "The Human Side of Trees" speaks of the maple as the feminine edition of the oak. I found this little In

dian story bearing out the same idea.

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There are boilers specially devised to meet sudden calls for steam-stations interconnected by a network of wires, so that one can help another-generators built at great cost to carry an overload for hours.

Meanwhile, to report the approach of trouble, the Electric Light Company keeps in constant touch with the weather bureau and maintains its own lookout.

Thus there is ample warning to stir the fires into new life and to bring extra generators and transmission lines into action, so that we may have light when and where and how we want it.

But if the engineers did not make ready before the actual need, a storm would be a time of darkness and fear. The stoppage of business might prove the least of the harm resulting.

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JULY 14, 1920

THE NORTH DAKOTA PRIMARIES

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THE WEEK

THE CONQUEROR OF
YELLOW FEVER

EFEATED in its attempt to cap-A

ture the Republican Party in Minnesota, the Non-Partisan League has been victorious in the State which gave itbirth. In North Dakota the opposition to the League found a candidate in William Langer, a former member of the League, but now convinced of the danger inherent in its programme. Against Langer ran the present Non-Partisan League Governor of North Dakota, Lynn J. Frazier. For several days after the election the returns indicated that Langer was in the lead, but the tardy returns from the rural dis tricts finally placed his opponent on top. The victory of Frazier will undoubtedly affect the results of the National election in North Dakota this coming fall. Republicans had hoped that the nomination of an anti-League ticket would assure the placing of North Dakota safely in the Republican column. Now there is a chance that the Republicans and the Democrats who are opposed to the Non-Partisan League will center their effort upon the election of a Democratic Governor and that this will indirectly be of benefit to the National Democratic ticket.

A Republican leader who remained with the organization in 1912 recently said in the course of a conversation: "If the Progressives are looking for a justification of their movement, they can find it writ large in North and South Dakota. Here are two States, homogeneous in population and environment, divided only by an imaginary political line. But South Dakota has been ander liberal and progressive political management. Therefore it has not sucumbed to the radicalism which has swept ver its northern sister. In North Datota, however, the political machine efused to accept any of the doctrines of he newer politics, so when the break rom the old order came, it came in the orm of a political revolution. South Daota has been saved from the State Soialism of North Dakota because it was anely progressive." Perhaps there is a Perhaps there is a esson in this for Republican politicians ho after 1912 and 1916 still appear to nderestimate the vital force which undery the Progressive movement.

ALMOST

LMOST coincidentally with the news of the death in London on July 4 of Major-General William C. Gorgas there has been published a report of the Rockefeller Foundation as to the war against yellow fever carried on the last two years under the supervision of General Gorgas in parts of Yucatan, Ecuador, and Brazil and on the Afri

can coast. The results have been re

markable, and the effectiveness of the fight is shown by comparative statistics

(C) Clinedinst

MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM C. GORGAS

for instance, in Guayaquil (Ecuador) from January to June in 1919 the record of cases per month fell from eighty-five to

none.

The theory of mosquito infection as the cause of yellow fever was long since proved scientifically beyond dispute. General Gorgas, aided by Dr. Walter Reed and other young doctors and sol diers who risked their lives in the experiments, established the fact beyond question in Cuba. At once that country, formerly a danger-spot of the horrible disease, was freed from its malign attack. More than one of the experimenters lost his life in establishing the theory-and they died as patriotically as if they had

fallen by German bullets. The world knows what followed in Panama; the great Canal could hardly have been constructed before the discovery of General Gorgas-certainly not without terrible. loss. To-day yellow fever has largely lost its terrors; it is not extinct, but in civilized lands with proper sanitary and protective measures it has ceased to be a threat of widespread fatality, such as we had in New Orleans and elsewhere not so very many years ago.

General Gorgas lived to see his service as "the world's physician," the "soldier of humanity," and the "benefactor of mankind" (as he has been variously called) recognized by scientists, statesmen, and, most of all, by his fellowAmericans. He was intensely sincere, a practical man with a patriotic and humane vision, a saver of lives innumerable.

Like yellow fever, typhoid has been dealt with marvelously by modern medical science; a comparison between the comparative immunity from typhoid of our army in the Great War with the terrible losses in the war with Spain is one of the most striking proofs. But typhus and bubonic plague are still seriously dangerous. Typhus is now raging in Serbia and Poland. American doctors and nurses have done much to stay the epidemics, but conditions are still frightful. There could be no finer tribute to General Gorgas's memory than the extension of American aid and relief in these epidemic-stricken lands. As to bubonic plague, spread largely by rats, we have lately received a statement from Surgeon-General Cumming showing that the plague now exists in three of our Southern ports and appears to be epidemic in Vera Cruz. He urges a general campaign for rat extermination. and rat-proofing. We advise all interested to write for information to the Bureau of the Public Health Service at Washington. The Surgeon-General, it should be added, states that there is no cause for alarm or panic, but reason to make conditions such as to forestall possible menace.