The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, May 25, 1922, Image 2
RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF Religion Soul of Indian Life Every Proposed All-India Move ment Has Broken on Rock of Religious Antagonism. FORGE IN EVERYDAY AFFAIRS Tanoled Threads of Numerous Re- llglono Are Entwined With Every Fiber of India's Life Templo Grounds Public Forum. Washington. "India and lior prob loiim and movements cannot bo under stood unless something Is known of the tangled threads of numerous re Unions that are entwined with every liber of her life," says a bulletin Is sued from the Wellington headquar ters of the National Olographic so ciety. "Religious antagonism has here tofore been the rock upon which every proposed nil-India movement has broken up," continues the bulletin, "al though the recently Imprisoned lender, tiaudhl, has been able, In a measure, to enlist followers from somo of the most divergent of India's 'Jarring creeds.' "Religion Is the soul of Indian life, the splec In an otherwise unendurable existence. To the Hindu, Mohamme dan or Sikh, religion is by no means nominal but Is an actual force n everyday affairs. Religious festivals mark tho changes of the year. The temple grounds are tho meeting plnces of tho people and the forums of pub lic opinion. ''Asceticism Is both subjectively and ! objectively attractive and holy men fbound from the Himalayas, beloved y Klin's guru, to the tropical sea be uldo which Dravldlan temples raise their gopurams and Christian churches how their spires. "Prnlllllkl t iwtu!itn to nnllrvtrm iima1 kith more profitable results by charla . twiMiuij umii m; 1.1 t' llllll tOUli tans and Impostors than In India. So great a virtue Is charity that the very mountebank is considered a public benefactor. The Moslem mendicant often lends real dignity to tho dlgnl lied word 'fakir.' Rut many 'holy men' are more faker than fakir. Religion a Coat of Many Colors. "Nowhere else have men, through religion, so detached themselves from tho passions and frivolities of worldly life. Nowhere has religion so seasoned unmitigated tnibery. Nowhere has re ligion been the cloak for more blatant beggary and disgusting deception. No where Is religion u more potent po litical factor. "More than two-thirds of the peo ple of India are Hindus. Modern Hin duism grew out of Rrahmauism, and Is still called by that nnme. The enrller belief was In one omnipotent but Impersonal Relug, whoso personal manifestations wero Rrahma, tho cre ator; Vishnu, the preserver; and Siva, the destroyer and reproducer. Rrnhma has few followers. Vishnu Is wor shiped by millions, upon whose fore heads Is painted a de,vlco called the nainnm consisting of a vertical red lino Inside a U-shaped tlguro In white clay. Rut the favorite god of many Hindus Is Siva. "When Ruddha pained followers In India, the Rrahmlus accepted Ruddha as the ninth Incarnation of Vishnu and by this compromise they so emascu lated the gentle faith of the Ruddhlsts that they drove Ruddhlsm Into Ceylon, Rurma and the Far East, so that the religion of the Hindu Modified by the teachings of Ruddhn, pervades India from Renares to Conjeeveram and from Kutiihnkcfliiiii to Allahabad. "When 'he various Mohammedan conquerors poured In over tho north ern passes they brought their religion with .hern, so that India has more Mohammedans than Turkey ever ruled and the assemblage of 'the faithful' In the great mosiue of Delhi forms ono of the larueut congregations of tho In French Colonial Exposition ii A tJfi ft h iD rirttii'wri A view of the recently completed French West African building and the Indo-Chinese temple, part of tho French Colonial exposition soon to opeu Its doors In Marseilles. - followers of Mohammed to bo found anywhere. Sikhs an Offshoot. "Tho Sikhs broke away from the orthodox Hindu faith under the lead ership of Nanak, who wiib born In the Punjab, near Amrltsar, the capital city of the Sikhs, in MOD. Sikh means disciple and theso schismatics once worshiped their gurus, or teachers, but Inter transferred their devotion to the Qranth, or holy book, which proclaims their faith and principles. Tho Sikhs abolished caste, that curse and bless ing of Hindu society, and their mili tant nrdor has given them n standing out of all proportion to their mem bership of 3,000,000. "India has nearly 4,000,000 Chris tians, mostly found In Madras prcsl dency and on the Travancore coast. "From Peshawar to Capo Comorln, India contains many Anlmlsts among the hill tribes and nborlglnnl races and even the Ruddhlsts of Rurma hold to Borne Animistic beliefs, whose Influ ence Is felt throughout tho land. "Two of the most Interesting but numerically unimportant religious groups are the Jains and the Parsls. Tlio Jains form a monastic group rather than n religion, agree with tho Hindus In many principles, ascribe a soul to every animal however small nnd seek to secure relenso from tho bonds of transmigration. According to their belief, only the monks can at tain Nirvana. Their homes for de crepit animals ore world famous. "The Parsls are descendants of tho lire worshipers who were expelled from the region of Raku on tho Cas pian sea by the Mohammedan con quests. These peoplo dominate the business life of Rombay. Probe Secrets of Ocean Depths Explorers May Find New Field of Endeavor in the Un known Sea Bottom. U. S. NAVY PERFECTS DEVICE Instrument Will Measure Depths of Water by Sound Waves Instead of Tedious Process of Low ering Sounding Lines. Washington. Explorers and geog raphers who have been sighing for ifcw lands to conquer may find their best Held of endeavor, paradoxically, In the sea. Now that tho United States navy has perfected it device for measuring the depths of water by sound waves without going through the tedious process of lowering sound ing lines It should be possible to add greatly to the relatively little wo know about tho under-water por tion of tho earth. Tho Importance of this little explored region Is brought out In the following bulletin Issued from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society: "When It Is realized that nearly three-fourths of the surface of tho globe consists of water It Is rather remarkable how little we know of the vast surface of the solid sphere which lies under this screen of liquid. The greater portions of our continents are mapped even to the smallest details, and our harbors and the shallow wa ters closely oft' shore are fairly well charted; but once the edges of the continual shelves are passed tho features of the sea bottom are rep resented only by u few somewhat "WILD MAN" IS ARRESTED t'te&.W Aj&xrtd The "wild man," who claims he is Roy IIccox, was arrested by the Rucks county (Pennsylvania) authorities as n suspect for tho murder of n constn bio committed 22 years ago. The mnn says he Is a member of tho church that Is opposed to shaving, hence tho long beard. He seems to be a man of education, while the mountaineer accused of the crime more than a score of years ago could only speak broken English, and was quite- with out education. Asleep, Dies In Flooded Creek. Clinton, Iowa. Rert Root, an aged resident, drowned here In a small creek, Its waters swollen by the back water from the Mississippi river. It Is believed that he walked Into the creel while sleep-walking. vague contour lines laid down be tween rather Infrequent points of soundings. Not Sure of Greatest Depth. "We know without doubt that tho highest point on the earth la the peak of Mount Everest which extends above sea level for 21),O0U feet or 88 feet less than 0 miles. On the other hand wo can only spenk of tho deep est abyss 'yet discovered, for one great pit, hidden In the depths of tho ocean, has scarcely established its title to first place In recent years when It has been surpassed by a deeper ono; nnd It can hnrdly bo be lieved that the deepest of all has yet been discovered. "School children were taught n few yenrs ago that tho deepest depression In the earth's surfnee was nenr the FIJI islands nnd that It was 80,133 feet deep. Since then 'the deepest hole on earth' has been successively Kermndec deep, northeast of New Zealand, 30,030 feet; Nero deep, southeast of Guam, 31,010 feet; and the present holder of tho record, Phil ippine deep, east of the Philippine Islands, .T,0S0 feet. This greatest known depth therefore lies six miles nnd 409 feet below tho surface of tho sea. "The greatest range vertically of the earth's surface Is between tho bottom of Philippine deep and tho top of Mount Everest, n distance of approximately 11.0 miles. This seems a tremendous distance until It Is com pared with tho diameter of the eartli which, near the latitudes of theso great physical features, Is apjwoxi mntely 8,000 miles. On a globe with a diameter of eight Inches, Instead of 8,000 miles, this maximum range of depressions and heights would be rep resented by n scratch little more than a hundredth of an Inch deep. Tho smallest division on n household ruler Is one-sixteenth of an Inch. Tho scratch would ho less thnn a fifth of such a division In depth. On a bil liard ball one could hnrdly scratch lightly enough with n pin to represent the grent Philippine deep, and a few grains of talcum powder would stand for Mount Everest. The smoothest orange that grows hns much greater Irregularities on Its skin 'in propor tion to Its size than those given to tho earth by Its peaks and valleys. Subordinate to Oceans. "Ono who studies tho earth comes to realize that, In n sense, the con tinents are subordinate to tho great ocean basins. Tho totnl volumo of theso depressions below sea level la many times greater than the volumo of tho lnnd thnt rises above tho sea. If tho entire land surfneo wero lev eled down an ocean nearly two miles deep would sweep over every square foot of tho surface of tlio globe. Tho condition of tho continents might at lli;st glance bo considered precarious, but dry land hns formed a consider ahlo part of tho surface of tho earth for millions of years and will prob ably romnln for a long time to como. It has been estimated that less thnn four cubic miles of solid material is carried Into tho sen by water nnnunl ly. At this rate, leaving out of con sideration upheavals and subsidences duo to tho earthquakes and other causes, It would require more thnn 0,000,000 years for all tho present land to be washed Into tho sea." NEBRASKA NEWS IN CONCISE FORM State Occurrences of Importance Boiled to a Few Lines for Quick Perusal. Work hns begun on the Dlx city tvater system. Craig will celebrate July -Ith on an elaborate scale. Nearly .'too persons were converged at the revival Just closed at Falrhury. A lire or unknown origin destroyed the farmers Union elevator at Elk Creek. Mrs. Nancy Onrloch Is dead at Rladen, at the age of 100 years and three months. Arrangements have been completed for a chautauqua In Wymoro July 30 to August 3. Falrhury will begin at once tho con strue! Ion of n large amount of paving and sewerage. Properly damage from (he wind storm In the Lexington Uelnlty will reach above $100,000. Perry L. Shields has been appointed postmaster at Walton, to replace E. It. I.lndorinnn, resigned. Randolph has Installed a new electric lire siren to displace the old and lunijcquale tire hell. Pressley Glenn, a Hebron boy, was seriously Injured when be dived from a high bank Into t he river. Mrs. Eva McClelland, of Reaver City, was elected grand matron of the O. E. S. at Its recent session at Omaha. Arrangements have been completed by the Fremont Commercial club for n series of concerts during t:n summer A new school building, to cost .$70. 000, Is being erected at Ohlowa. Tnr latest equipment will be installed. The North Platte graduation class year consists of ferty-nlno students, the largest In the local school's history. Holdrege has won the undisputed baseball championship of southwestern Nebraska by defeating Orleans high, 1". to 0. The small son or Mr. and Mr. E. A. I'Irnle of Wolert was badly hurt when he was accidentally knocked down and run oor by a truck. About !)() acres of pasture land was burned over In the Ansley neighbor hood, the result or a picnic camp lire getting beyond control. The (5-year-old son or Mr. and Mr. Iloofllng, of Wymote, while phiylim. roll and broke his right arm and (Its located it at the elbow. .Miss Amy Stevens, superintendent or the state home for dependent children, at Lincoln, bus tendered her resigna tion to the state board of control. Plans 'have been perfected for the new Country club building at Aurora, and the contract will be let soon. The new grounds lie Just east of the city. A shortage of qualified teachers ox Ists In all departments In Nebraska, according to E. II. Ilosiain, secretary of the Nebraska Teachers.' association. Edwin Walter, said to be the first male white child born In Otoe county, Is dead at his home at McCook. He had spent his entire life In NebrasKa. The school district or Tllden In Mad ison and Antelope counties voted bonds or $0,000 to erect a fchool house. There were 278 votes for nnd IP. I against. t Permits for biiild'ng In Grand Island, numbering thirty-one and nggrogatlni: an estimated volume of $82,130, were Is sued by the city clerk during the monh of April. The superintendent or public schools at Fremont has Issued an order for bidding girl students over twelve years old from rolling their stockings and having their knees exposed. The little four year old daughter of Homer Horn was burned to death In a lire which destroyed a barn on the Horn farm, four miles from Fullcrton. A younger child escaped. An unoccupied brick house at Ne braska City owned by Calvin Chapman was badly damaged by lire. Evidence of Incendiarism, tlretnen snld, was found In nearly every room. The records In the otllce of the coun ty treasurer or Jefferson county show that SS0.000 was collected In the first ten days of May. This is an Increase over the same ten days in 1021. Fire Chief Whiteside r Ren trice sustained a broken rib and severe bruises when he fell thru a (loot- while lighting u lire that partially destroyed the home of Mrs. Anna l.eiiz. Mrs. Jean Whitney or Norfolk, daughter of the late Isaac Powers, once attorney general of Nebraska and it member or the constitutional conven tion or 1870, will file as a republican candidate for state representative trnm the Norfolk district. The seventh annual spelling contest of the Richardson county schools was held at Falls City with an attendances of over seven hundred. One hundred llfly contestants were present from over the county. Fruit prospects In Washington coun ty are the most promising In years, ac cording to orchnrdlsf. Pavement of the Lincoln hlghwoy from the Douglas county line to Fre mont this summer Is a probability. Efforts are being made at present to "put across" the project. Omaha Is to have a new .$100,000 hospital for Its colored population. Articles of incorporation have ben filed for the association which has un dertaken the erection. The past year was the heaviest la the history of the State Children's Home society, the organization Hav ing given care, aid and attention to 1,010 children x during that period, as against 701 last year. Corn Is up In many fields In Dodge county. Conditions have been Ideal for spring growing. Rev. K. M. Johnson of R'thany, for several years traveling evangelist fcr the Christian church, has accepted a pastorate at Fremont. Reatrlce will construct n tourist camp at Chautauqua park In thnt placo that It Is claimed will equal any sim ilar grounds In the state. Ronds for .$.'0,000 to continue paving at North Platte carried at special election 3 o , and several more of the residence streets will now be paved. Falls City will observe Memorial day by dedicating one or the parks to tho memory or the local boyr who paid the supreme sacrifice during the war. Vera I, 8 year old, son or Mr. ami Mrs. Lloyd Thomas of Chester, Is dead as the result of a wound from a 32 caliber revolver, received while romp ing with some playmates. According to announcement from state headquarters, the American legion has requested the privilege of caring for the graves of both enured ernto and union soldiers, beginning Willi the coming Memorial day. Mistakes In Identity made by ban-dlt-vlctlms and police resulted In the slaying or Patrick J. Lavelle, pioneer resident and candidate for sheriff, and shooting of Police Olllcer George Stev ens during a running gun battle at Om aha. The Cooper Mill and Light company at Humboldt was completely destroy eil when fire broke out In the coal inn. The loss, It Is estimated, will exceed .$.r0,000. The blaze Is believed to bav0 been caused by spontaneous combus tion. A consignment of tr, bead of Here ford cattle was taken to the South Omaha market by Ira S. Rice of Con cord, who received the top price of tho lay, S.."0 a hundred, for cattle of their weight, which was an average of l,:'4l pounds. Representative farmers from all parts of the stale, under the direction of the Nebraska farm bureau federa tion, have organized a wool pool to be immediately put Into" effect to handle the 1022 wool crop produced In this state. Lester Smith of York. Neb., won tho state high school oratorical contest a! Seotts- P. luffs, with the oration, "Spartacus to the Gladiators." Don Campbell or Stanford won second place, his oration being "Regains to the Romans." The farmers' national grain dealers association, In convention at Oinatia, refused to accept the sales plan of tho U. S. grain growers, Inc., but author ized their executive hoard to continue conferences on the subject with tlio grain growers. The diamond Jubilee celebration of the German Lutherans of Johnson and adjoining counties, held In Tecuinseh last week, was largely attended. Tt was a celebration of the establishment of the Missouri synod. Many churclus were represented. The termination of fifty years . service by Mrs. Martha Mi'lbnurn .old est living resident of the Elm Creek community, was celebrated at thu Methodist church with a banquet fol lowed by a reception in the auditor ium of the church. Injuries of Raymond Conner, world war veteran, who fell from a telephono pole at Reatrlce some mouths ago, resulted In paralyzing him from tho waist down. He will be crippled for life, according to a professional opinion of one of the attaches or a hospital at Rochester, Minn. II. C. McKenzle or New York, tac expert or the America Farm Rureau federation, has agreed to come to tlio state during the summer to make a study of tax matters, according to an nouncement made by the Nebraska Farm Rureau federation. Kearney has started a war to ex terminate rats. The chamber r com merce has put a premium or ten cents on every rat tall brought In and as a side line live mice are fixed as the equal or one rat. Special prizes are also awarded for the record catches during the drive. As a precaution against a fuel ram Ine Nebraska public utility companies have laid In more than .$3,000,000 worth of storage coal and fuel oil. Standing orders for all coal that is available at market prices are being taken by 1ho electric and gas companies. This in formation Is gathered from u survey made by the Nebraska Committee on Public Utility Information, which nl-o reports that but one utility In stnt, the Fairmont municipal plant, has hocn forced to cut out service to patrons on account of the coal strike. Seven-three dairy herds In Nebraska, with a total of 1,-I2. animals, and Oil herds of beef cnttle, with a total of 3,107 nnlmnls, have been accredited thus far this year, according to a re port made by the secretary of the state department of agriculture. Of the dairy herds, O.'jI are listed as purebred and 471 grade, while 2r33 animals In the beef class are quoted as purebred and r,rl grade. John Trnuernlcht, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Trnuernlcht of Reatrlce, was quite seriously Injured when the motor cycle he was driving collided with i Ford. Sparks from finger nails created !.? friction with clothing In n centrifugal wringer, ignited gns fumes nrsing from a cleaning anil pressing machine nnd caused a lire with a loss estimated at .$r,.r)00 In a Lincoln cleanng establish ment .7. II. Dickenson, a Pawnee county farmer, Is the owner of a hen, which disappointed'!!! the dream of a family of her own, Is now contentedly caring forn litter of little pigs. The contract for the new .$22"00 Christian church at Aurora has been let. The basement has been built and In use for ten years. "ON EASY STREET" Women "Farmerettes" Mako Money in Western Canada. Many Are Taking Advantago of tht Opportunity Offered by the Fer tile Land and Fine Climate. In many pnrts of Western Cnnnd lire to be found women owning and running farms for themselves, and what Is more, making them pay. May Hozlett, an English girl, who lived on a farm in the Touchwood hills, in Sas katchewan, for the pnst four years, looking after her stock nnd cultivating her land, Is one of thest. The farm was originally her brother's homestead, at which time Miss Ilnzlett was a stenographer. Her brother was killed while fighting with the Canadian forces at Vlmy Ridge. Neighbors advised Miss Ilazlett to sell the farm, but alio decided that she was tired of the "eternal pounding" nnd beenme n farm erette. Mrs. Mary J. Rlackburn. a pioneer woman farmer of Alberta, has Just added 100 acres to her farm nenr Hnrdlsty. Coming from Eastern Can ada, Mrs. Rlackburn homestended a quarter section In 1002. She hnd two Holsteln heifers, a bull, nnd 817 in cash. She lived In a tent the first Bummer nnd In n sod shack In the winter. Her first crop put her, as he tells the story, "on Easy street.'' In ten yenrs she had a herd of 00 pure-bred Holsteln cnttle and was np Drntlng a prosperous dairy. A fine residence has supplanted tho sod hut. "I milked my cows, rnlsed my cattle, cut hay and stacked It all by myself," said Mrs. Rlackburn. "I started on bare prairie with no money, and mado good. I worked hard, but the experi ence was wonderful." ' It has generally been conceded thnt farming Is n man's Job. It hns lotiff been considered thnt a woman's plnca an the farm was In the house, with a few attendant duties, looking after tho chickens and the gnrden. Rut times Bic changing. Demonstrative of the present femi nine Initiative, there are two young ladles farming extensively nnd wltU cood profit too, In Western Canada. Some years ago a family located a 1C0 ncre farm In the Oak Lake district, Manitoba. Later the father died, leav ing his two daughters and aged wife a mortgaged quarter section. Instead of selling the effects nnd moving to town to take employment, the girls decided to work the plnce. While the mother looked nftcr the household duties the daughters did the farm work. They did the plowing, hnr rowlng, seeding, haying, harvesting, stocking, feeding nnd other farm oper ations. Except nt threshing time, the getting out of wood, the help of mnn was never sought. Instend of a 100 acre place, with seven horses nnd ten tattle, which they started with, they have a 1,120-itcre farm, twenty-five bend of heavy horses and nearly a hun dred bend of cattle, mostly pure-breds. Their fnrm buildings, equipment nnd Tell-lcept fields would be objects oC pride to the owners In nny country. Their accomplishment hns not only been profitable hut pleasant, and they, hnve enjoyed every home advantnge. They are two entertaining nnd bright girls, nnd have all the feminine charm of womanhood. Their manlike occupa tion has not given them a masculine character or appearance, as some oC the older generations might Imnglne. Their gallant struggle for success signifies- the truth In the oft-repented maxim of "Western Canada. "A little assistance and the soil, with Its natur al richness and God's sunshine will soon pay for the land Itself." If you wish to learn more of what Western Canada can do, write for a copy of "Canada West" which will be mailed to you free by your nearest Canadian government agent. Adver tisement. If you love your friend you will laugh at his Joke whether it Is funny or not. Why She Changed: "I have always used the cheaper baking powders, supposing them just as good as Royal but I invested . in a can of Royal Baking Powder and now find all my bak ing so much improv ed that I will use no other kind." MUsC.L.B. ROYAL Baking Powder Absolutely Pare Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste Snd for Nw Royal Cook Book It ' FREE. Royal Baldn Pow-derCol26WilUamSt,NwYork i- -k! 4