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TE CHARLOTTE NEWS, GHARLOTTE, N. -C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1, 1921.
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AMERICA ONE OF
WORLDJLEADERS
Centennial Celebration of
Founding of University of
Virginia Starts.
Charlottesville, Va.. June 1. America
is one of the nations in the vanguard
of civilization as regards learning and
discoveries. Jules J- Jusserand, the
French ambassador, declared today in
responding to addresses of welcome of
welcome at the formal opening of the
exercises incident to the centennial xele
bration of the founding of the Univer
sity of Virginia.
"America's universities, laboratories,
libraries, scientific periodicals are the
envy of more than one foreign nation,"
said the ambassador. "She not only re
ceives professors from abroad, but sends
some of her own, who are received with
open arms open ears.
"An even more telling proof that the
problem is solved and that America
has come into her own in the matter
of learning is the high appreciation
in which are held in every country JtKe
medals, prizes or other tokens of ap
preciation she may choose to - bestovf.
These tokens sometimes are the.- sign
not only of her appreciation of. merit,
but of her inborn warmheartedness jand
generosity. The other day, .having
heard that the discoverer of radiurtf pos
essed no radium, she presented a . gram
of the substance to Madame Curie, the
presentation being made at the -White
House by the chief of state in a speech
which went to the heart not only of the
illustrious lady, but to the whole of
France."
Visitors here for the centennial were
welcomed to the University by Governor
Davis, of Virginia, and Dr. Edwin E.
Alderman, president of the university.
Besides Ambassador Jusserand, those
making responses were Dr. A. Law
rence Bowell. president of Harvard Uni
versity; Dr. Julian A. Chandler of "Will
iam and Mary College, and Dr. Albert
Ross Hill, president of the University
of Misouri. After these exercises, the
alumni of the University paid honor to
their war dead. A plague upon which
are written the names of eighty sons
of the University who lost their lives
in the World war, was unveiled. The
ulaque is on the south front of the
which was inscribed the names of liv
ing and dead officers who fought in the
historic rotunda, beside a tablet upon
war between the states.
Captain Alfred Dickinson Barksdale
presented the plaque, which was unveil
ed by two little girls, Miss Bobbie Con
rad, daughter of Captain Robert Young
Conrad, who was killed in action near
Verdun, and Miss Sallie Merrick Kite,
daughter of Sergeant Charles Clement
Kite, who was killed in action near
Chateau-Thierry. John Stewart Bryan,
rector of the university, accepted the
plaque, and M. Gabriel Honotaux, com
mander of the French Legion of Honor,
paid tribute to the American dead.
RAMAPORANGERS
GARBEDIN RAGS
Man, Wife and Four. Chil
dren DiscjFeed In N.
Y. Hills In Bad Shape
(Written by MARGERY REX for Inter
national News Service.)
New York, June 1. In the Ramane
Range, barely thirty miles from New
York City, dwell the "Hill people."
.They of the hills are a distinct race.
Not black, nor white, nor yet red,
but an admixture of all three are the
mountaineers so near to cities, but so
far from civilization.
As remote from the amenities of
modern life as though on a plateau in
Thibet, these hill folks come, to public
notice only when one of them crosses
the path of a city dweller.
Such an event came to pass when
Mrs.. William A. Servin, wife of ex
Assemblyman Servin, was taking a walk
through the hills near Pearl River, N.
Y., with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. For
bes. Climbing up a remote mountain
ous path they beheld human beings
whose like they had never seen pre
viously four children so wretchedly
clad and so encrusted with dirt as to
seem scarcely human; a shack that
might ave housed primtive peoples.
WHY MAN HID IN MOUNTAINS
The truant officer of Pearl River was
notified. He took action. And thus
the story came out- concerning the
strange family called Thompson, ;
According to the authorities. of Pearl
River, this group is not to be classed
with the "Jackson Whites," those moun
taineers of mixed blood. It is claim
ed for-the Thompsons that they are
pure white, in this respect different
from the clan inhabiting the Ramapos.
Nevertheless they resemble in ap
pearance and mode of life that race
whose existence is as weird as an old
myth.
Thompson has no first name for his
children if ever they had such he can
not remember them. We may suppose
when he wished to speak one of them
he called out "Say" to whichever oie
happened to be looking at him. He
could not recall his own first name
and recollected only that after getting
into some trouble in Rockland County
he had escaped to shelter in the moun
tains. His motive for seeking seclusion on
the heights is the same as that of the
antecedents of the "Jackson Whites,"
if stories about their origin are to be
believed.
ARISTOCRATIC NAMES HANDED
DOWN
Ancestors of the race were Dutch,
Indians and negroes. To Houvenkopf
Mountain came the slaves of the early
Dutch, a seceding tribe of Indians and
slaves who fled from the South in the
days before slavery was abolished.
Old aristocratic names such as Van
Dunk, De Grote and De Fries fami
lies now evinct have been handed down
by the early settlers of the Ramapos
who established squatter claims upon
the land where they erected cabins and
hovels as their feudal halls.
Another tradition has it that sections
of the Hessian army fleeing from the
Cintinentals and deserters from the
English army in-1776 hid upon these
hills and there remained part fore
bears of the "Jackson Whites" of to
day. - .
Some day that "Jackson Whites" ori
ginally was "blacks and whites"; others
claim that Jackson White were names
of negroes who settled there.
No laws and no creeds govern these
hill dwellers either - in the Ramapos
or in other isolated spots ' '
Yet they are said to be a peaceful,
gentle and thrifty people;, only at great
intervals - does a feud or murder break
the solemn quiet of their sequestered
lives. They are untrained, but not un
intelligent, yet among the "Jacksons"
there are many phases of mental' and
physical degeneracy due to 'continual
intermarriage.
EYE PUT OUT BY POKER
But it is doubtful if any enlighten
ing influences ever shone upon the
lives of the Thompsons. When found
by investigators after the report made
by Mrs. " Servin, the head of the fam-,
ily came out, a fourteen-inch curved
knife swinging from a cord attached
to his overalls. He. has -but one eye,
the other having , been . shot out, or,
according to -rumors, put opt by Thomp
son's father with. a. hot poker in order
to -instill . into his., son respect for par
ental advice.'- -V ;- -
The four children of the' wild family
wore' qufeer garments, of sizes origi
nally designed . for their , elders... .They
were rounded vup by their father to
have pictures taken, upon which the
photographers inquired for the'ir moth.
er Thompson stoutly declared' "she
didn't count," but was finally prevailed
upon r to - bring her - forth from their
cabin lair. A towel was wrapped about
her head. She wore a dress about six
sizes "too large for her and carelessly
pinned, up for convenience. She seem
ed dull, listless,, indifferent to life.
The cabin's interior was filled with
pieces of wood and piles of litter. There
were no beds visible; only wooden soap
boxes for seats, .wooden pie plates to
substitute for. chinaware, and empty
tin-, cans for cups..
Efforts to civilize the Thompsons are
being . made by the.- Red . Cross and '. by
individual women . of the .Pearl River
region.
BEAUTY IS HARMONY.
' There can be 'ho' . harmony, and
therefore no beauty, iri 'a home in
which the wife" and 'mother is cross
and irritable and dull-spirited. Often
as not, disease is at the bottom of
such a condition.
Let the woman who is always tired
and who suffers from low spirits and
mysterious aches and pains, only try
Lydia E. Pinkham's . Vegetable Com
pound. She will then ' see that the
beauty and harmony will be restored
to her home with the return of her
health and good spirits.
KOLTCHAKOTED
FORHIUEm
Anti-Bolshevist Said To
Wreak Vengeance On
Women Chiefly.
By NEWTON C. PARKE
International News Service Staff
Correspondent. ;
Paris, June 1. Women sympathizers
with' the Bolshevik cause received
shocking treatment , at the hands oft
Admiral Koltchak's army , and other
troops sent against the Reds, accord
ing to an article published by the
French Communist naper, l'Humanite.'
Anastasia Schaschmina, the "mother,
of the Bolshevik movement," met a
particularly - horrible death, says l'Hu
manite. It was in - her home that the
Communist movement was started
in the year 1911, and under the Czarist
regime one of her "sons was banished
to Siberia and another son and daugh
ter imprisoned. ;
When Czecho-Slovak ; troops entered
Russia to campaign against the Bol
sheviks, every member of the Schasr
chmina family was arrested and two
more sons condemned to death, acr.
cording to the French newspaper
Anastasia was released, but after
wards rearrested and taken before a
tribunal for . examination. . -
She was first whipped until she
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- in an effort " -
secrets of the Bolshevik 0 trs
After .spending some t ?rgani2?
she was dragged before , a hoWi
bunal, l'Humanite saj S Tn JP".
riDiy Deaten because she rai te
give jiy information. ThU Use tt
ered with blood, she was no ' sti11 en?
field, placed beside one of 2
ed sons and shot to death , COtl(W
braced him. eath as she J
SUICIDES CALLED MARTlRg
Eudokia Kowaltsch.uk Wa
"martyr to the cause of CorLan
reports l'Humanite. She bPmUlW
secret association of Reds i d t( a
of Novo-Niolaievsk. In iVs" l,he v
arrested by the White Guard.8
fused to defend herself or Sh
luiiiianuu vYiien- Drought w "Jin
She was lashed with a w.. Con.
one was iasnea with a Tim wurt
until her clothes were cut 7y
body. Then, still unconscious m
carried into a dark, humid .t' fhias
she regained consoinner,- .e- W
. nuinia cave
she regained conspim,n. clve-
herself tn ' she W
The invasion of Koltchnb s
into -Siberia was the signal for ninrces
of crimes against women m
charges. Some were hung 'at Vmanit
est lamppost or shot down at u near
of their homes. Others werV .nt1
to horrible tortures. BUbKet4
CLERK OF COURTAThiEf,
Albany, Ga., June 1. g 4 w ,
clerk of the superior court' of 't cs
ty, was arrested and brought tn.?
last night on a charge of comN
the operations of an alleged ,,7 ty
theft ring. gca autmobiie
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