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...147th year, the U.S. made good its annual treaty obligations to Indian tribes of the Six Nations. In Salamanca, N.Y., Indian Agent Charles H. Berry started distribution of $4,500 in cash and calico to 5,085 Senecas, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Cayugas and Oneidas. (The Mohawks never signed the treaty, get nothing.) New York tribesmen always take their share in calico. This year they find themselves shortchanged. Thanks to inflation, they get only three yards of calico apiece, instead of the five yards each got last year...
Spiked last week were two alibis for not going to church. At Goldsboro, N. C., where his flock pleaded shabby clothes, a Negro preacher set one Sunday a month when he and the menfolk will come in overalls, the women in calico. At Sturgis, Mich., where laggards pleaded lack of transportation, the Church of the Nazarene bought...
...outsiders, Jehovah's Witnesses are without doubt the most irritating of U. S. sects. They clatter about the country in jalopies, often a couple to a car, the man in overalls, the woman in calico. They ring doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies...
...conspicuous sight in Japanese streets nowadays are crowds of housewives in khaki smocks or calico aprons-uniforms of the Women's Patriotic Society (750,000 members) and of the Women's Organization for National Defence (4,500,000 members). Their activities include Banzai parties for departing soldiers, visiting military hospitals to "comfort" the wounded, taking part in anti-British rallies...
...with such picturesque partners as Absolute Jones, Greasy Oscar, Springtime, hunting with the Piegan Indians, getting mixed up in an Indian war. It is cowboys-&-Indians romance plus a heroine. But Author Boyd's cowboys, Indians, adventures, "cussing ladies," homesteaders, plains and hills are as real as oldtime calico, make the Wild West almost as gripping for grownups as it once was in the dime novels of one's youth...