NEWS PROM OUR SERVICE MEN
Gene Cornelius ia home on a 30 day
furlough. He is in the Coast Guard
Lawrence K, Gibson .who is a Navy
Radio Operator at Cold Bay is visi
ting his sister, Mrs, Earl Hecker.
He is Mrs, Hecker's only brother
and ghe has not seen him for 8 yrs.
Firpt Class i'vt. Lawrence Larson
is in Germany according to word
received by his mother. Lawrence
sent his Mother a V-Mail letter,the
first she had received,
Graham Bell has an APO number at
N*w Y^rk City*.Mrs, Dorothy Bell
received w^rd from him dated in*
Mississippi, but his new address
was fr'ijn New York,
Bob Bartlett Communication Cent*
abolish injustices which relate to
A’neri can citizens os that we grieve
1\ r subject peoples of dictator
neti ns a world away and prepare,
out -f.our generosity and abundance)
tc lleviate their suffering.
t is a common saying that the
In 'ans receive more than the whites
in. end 4 f ..less because the federal
government makes special appropria
tions for their education and med
ical carr-. But is it no true these
appropriations have merely served
to lighten a load which otherwise
would have been placed on the terri*
tcriol government? If the Federal
government did not educate nativ
children, the territorial govern
ment would have to according to a
ruling by the territorial attorney
general. And that the special med
ical services we hear so much about
are inadequate and in fact altogether
insufficient is ’amply attested by the
disturbing truth that the native
people of Alaska have 'the highest
tuberculosis rate in the w-rid.
As a race, the natives are not
naturally more lazy of indiffer'ert
to success than->any other race, h nv
£vrr, they hove-been placed, in a com
petitive world.to which they have
not yet become fully accustomed.
They have not had equality of opr >r~
tunity, , Everything- else aside, his
is forcibly demonstrated by the fact
that the average Indian income is so
far below the average white inc me.
From purely selfish motives ■.lone
the white population ought to do
ever;rthing possible'to. augment the
income of the native people*
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necessarily cut. S-tne of the hig’
pe$nts have been copied, Tut an; ne
caA.. read, the rest~at- the .-Oe.ttleo Off-3
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