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[[Image of two children and Native American man]] [[Captioned: [[F]]rom which dangled a Sioux scalp to listen to the visitor's story of his exploit. Above, Mary Warren, daughter of [[the]] first manager of the Astor fur station at La Pointe, who lived with the Wheelers]] [[Start of 'first column from left to third column from left' section]] [[In]] the ring that encircled him. As he [[w]]atched us, we moved closer to him [[u]]ntil finally one of us was close enough [[t]]o let an arrow fly. Hold firm, strong, brown hands, Look straight eagle eye, Pull on the good cord, And the arrow let fly. "the est of us would then rush in, [[s]]ending arrows toward him and about [[o]]ne time in three, we would get the [[b]]ird. [[Large font]] "I [[/large font]]n A pasture on father's place in Odanah was a tall totem post. [[F]]ather was careful to preserve this post and the land about it just as it was, for it was the place where the In- dians were accustomed to set up the conjuror's lodge. The spruce trees there were not cut and even the under- brush was preserved. Every once in a while the Indians put up the lodge. "They used a cabinet, just as the spir- itualistic medium does. I have seen the poles to one of these lodges, frozen into the ground, shake and ring bells as a medicine man worked his incan- tations. The band of Indians camped nearby would come, one by one, to hold communications with their dead. "Sometimes there would be a Sioux scalp with its long braids placed on top of the totem pole, and there would be dances that circled about it. At such times we boys would be certain to go down to the pasture and join the band. I can hear the rhythmic pound- ing of the drum today. Suddenly it would cease and into the circle would leap the man who had taken the scalp. "'I am about to relate an adventure, he would begin, speaking slowly and acting out every sentence. 'This ad- venture happened up the current of the Minnesota river, where it makes the great bend.' "We understood by this that he was speaking of Granite Falls. "'So high hung the sun,' he con- tinued, raising his arm expressively, 'when I started on this particular ad- venture that I am about to relate. At the end of the 10 days did I reach the great bend, and...' the speaker was becom- ing excited as he enacted his story. "'In the following morning as i ran through the grass, crouching low on the other side of the river, suddenly upsprung a strange Indian. He was Sioux.' The speaker now acted not only his own movements but those of his ad- versary. [[End of 'first column from left to third column from left' section]] [[Start of 'first column from right' section]] 1 Warren, a girl of 11, came to live with us. She was a daughter of Ly- man Warren who was instrumental in persuading the American board to send the first missionary to Madeleine is- land and was the first manager of the Astor company at La Pointe. Before his death Mr. Warren asked father to take Mary. "The Warrens, Lyman and Truman, were Berkshire Hills boys who came to Madeleine island in 1810. They mar- ied daughters of Michel Cadotte, the last of the old French fur traders. The grandfather of the Cadotte girls was White Crane, a famous way chief- tan. Thus Mary Warren, be inheritance, was connected with every phase of Madeleine island history and life. She was sent to an Ohio college, and be- came a missionary to the Indians at Odanah Red Cliff, Wis., and at Red Lake, Leech Lake and White Earth, Minn., where she died only three years ago. "Father carried on an unremitting warfare against those who were per- petually trying to take the Indians's land from him. Very soon after the Bad River reservation was established, a group of politicians tried to get hold of the pine on the 'school sections'-- sections 16 and 36 in every township. "This land is specifically reserved for the support of schools. It was said that these sections did not belong to the Indians at all. The case was car- ried to the supreme court for the In- dians. That court decided that on reservations there was no such thing as 'school lands,' that every inch of the reservation belonged to the Indians. "In 1859 came father's trip to Wash- ington to save the Court Orailles reser- vation from the Indian ring, when he traveled 350 miles on snow shoes through a blizzard to catch a train at Sparta. He was none too early either, for when he arrived in Washington the bill had been advanced to the third reading. "Father asked for and obtained an interview with President Buchanan, with the result that the bill was wiped off the map. His trip saved the reserva- tion for the Indians but lost him his life. In two months he had lost the use of the right lung. He was never well again." _____ [To Be Concluded in The Journal Magazine Next Sunday] [[End of 'first column from right' section]] [[Large, bold heading]] [[D]]reams' of Scientists Now Realities [[/large, bold heading]] [[Start of 'lower first column from left to third column from left' section]] Flower in His Mouth." The British Broadcasting Co. transmitted the scenes to its regular subscribers. George Claude, in a tropical labor- tory at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, succeeded in changing the thermal energy of sea water into electrical energy and in maintain- ing enough current to light 40 500- watt bulbs and keep them burning. Claude utilized the principle of warm water vaporizing to steam when placed in a vacuum. The steam turns a tur- bine. The result is power from the sea. The thermal energy now going to waste, he says, might be harnessed to such undertakings as cooling the tropics or irrigating the Sahara. [[Large font]] S [[[/Large font]]EEKING a method to economize power loss in transmission, the British government subsidized a Rus- sian scientist, Dr. Peter Kapitza. In a $75,000 laboratory at Cambridge un- iversity Dr. Kapitza is discharging powerful electrical pulsations through metals frozen to the temperature of liquid hydrogen, which is below that of liquid air. From these experiments Dr. Kapitza hopes to find a way to eliminate tge loss of power in submarine cables and [[Image of a man]] [[Captioned: Dr. Arthur H. Compton]] land wires. If he learned to educe the resistance of metals only 5 per cent he will have performed a great service. A notable contribution to atomic structure was made by Dr. Arthur H. Compton, who succeeded in obtaining X-ray patterns of the atom. The old idea of an atom like a miniature solar system-- in which the electron revolves around a proton nucleus-- is false. In Dr. Compton's new definition we are shown that an atom is spherical in shape, the size of the spheres varying with different elements. The electron surrounds the nucleus like a nebular haze. He likens the electron to a cloud of rain drops, diffused through the sphere of the atom." Compton's essential contribution was to find out where the electrons are in the atom--and his answer is "anywhere." In a elated realm of atomic physics Sir Arthur Eddington undertook to es- timate the world's reserve power. Sub- atomic energy, the most concentrated power known, is released when matter is heated to 40,000,000 degrees. He sug- gests that we learn to tap the sub- atomic energy from the things about us.An ordinary drop of water, for in- stance, should be made to furnish 200 horsepower for a year. [[Large font]] A [[/Large font]]WAY from theory, and looking to- ward practical invention, the last year saw the production of a 500,000- volt X-ray machine. By dividing a ca- thode tube into sections a three-sec- tion cathode ray tube was developed to produce 900,000 volts. This multi-sec- tional system presages the develop- ment of cathode tubes whose voltage will go up into millions. The General Electric Co. perfected and placed in various hospitals in an ar- tificial fever producing machine whose benefits to medicine are legion. It in- duced a temperature of 106 degrees without discomfort to suffering pa- tients. uch artificial temperatures speed up the body processes so that they provide immunity against infec- tions . Is it possible to feel warm in a room whose temperature is close to zero? Yes. If you conceal condenser plates in the walls and allow them to radiate an oscillating current, the invisible rays will heat the body but not the air space. This is a further application of the "fever" machine. it will enable us to have body warmth and fresh air at the same time. [[End of 'lower first column from left to third column from left' section]] 4 Sunday, February 1, 1931
