Warpaint

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 157, 26 June 1942, Page 7

Warpaint

By

WHIM-WHAM

{General MacArthur was made chief of all the American Indians in ceremonies on the top of a cliff in the upper dells of the Wisconsin river. The honour was bestowed by the Winnebago chief, Yellow Thunder, who placed a feather war bonnet on a life-size photogtaph of General MacArthur, declaring: red men will fight beside their white brothers in the cause of freedom." -Cable news item.] S? they made the brave MacArthur Chief of all the Tribes of Red Men. All the Braves and S bled, All the Hunters and the Headmen, Troquois and Sioux and Others Far too numerous to mentionEvery Totem represented Made Pan-Redskin that Convention. Every Wigwam in Wisconsin For the Purpose was collected, And with and Poles and Feathers At the Riverside erected. Then the t Chief Yellow Thunder, *Mid the Din of Whoops and Cheering, Brought a Photo of MacArthur, Lit Portrait of MacArthur, Set it up beside the Clearin Crowned it with a Feather Bonnet, Indian Feather Bonnet, Ww the Braves and Squaws assembled All admiring wg hy coho So I like to on it hap I who have my simple full Of the Kind of Indian Legend Printed in the Penny DreadfulThough the Red Man, far more likely, Paleface as to Dress and Manners, Made his Gesture much as we would, =. ? om with eee and Banners! eep my pleasant FancyWhen our Foes have met Defeat, Oh Then to think of Chief MacArthur, Honorary Chief MacArthur Pes and feathered Chief MacArthur, to reward his Red Men wih of Hirohito!