THE NEW NATIVE
Live For Something.
VOl. 1. No. 6. Hydaburg Alaska, Friday, April, 11, 1919. $1.50 a year
, Hugo’s Dream Come True
MUST MEET WAR BILLS j
WITH LOAN-GOV. LYNCH
1o tlie Citizens of the
Twelfth Federal Reserve District:
The Fifth “Victory” Liberty
Loan is in sight. Let us thank Cod
that it is not just the Fifth Loan.
Victory means the end of the war.
the cud of loans, the dawn of peace
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JAMES K. LYNCH
Governor, 12th Federal Reserve District
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Citizenship
Is Great
Need
EXCERPTS FROM VAR
IOUS SPEECHES AT
THE FAIR.
"Where are we going as a race ?
What shall we leave behind? What
do we want most? These are big
questions that every native must an
swer before he can progress intelli
gently,"said Mr. Marsden of Metla
katla.
His answer to the first question
was to set a high mark: "Effective
Citizenship” and press tirelessly tc
ward that mark.
Second, we must leave behind and
cut loose from any force that bears
down or impedes our forward step.
We must leave behind stealing,lying,
witchcraft totemism, medioine fake s
in short all the old custpates and
practices that have held us to the
oaet
| Third, What we most want is
i "Knowing how." knowledge that will
make us good citizens.
"The object of school is to fit the!
child for participation in community!
life.” said Mr. Merritt, principal at
Metlakatla. The only way to approxi
mate the 100 per cent school, is, for
for the parents to back up the teach
ers in getting all children of school
age to attend. It is the teacher’s part
to give all he can.”
"Conservation of food means that
we should make use of the vast quan
tity of food right about Us. Instead
of opening canifed meats. Let us use
clams, crabs, salmon, etc. of which
Alaska has an abundance” said Mr
Marsden.
The New Native hopes that many
rntives will give their houses a coat
of paint when the sunshines. Also
overhaul the boats and shine them
up, both inside and out The New
Native thinks that grey, white and
green are becoming colors for the hull
of the boat Grey and white are best
for the bouses. It will show them off
to passers-by.
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ami prosperity. It means that the j
market price of government bonds j
will soon stabilize at par or better, i
It also means that commercial, agri- j
cultural, and industrial affairs will 1
stabilize, and that the Hub-inspired i
clamor will cease.
We were advised that the war
would last throu'h 1919, probably j
through 1920, so we were prepared ;
for that; to have done less would
have been suicide. W7e prepared to j
crush the Hun on bis own ground, |
and he prudently <juit. It cost us j
some money but it saved the lives of j
half a million of our men. Was
money ever hotter spent!
Now we have hills to pay. prom- j
ises to make good, our men to bring j
home. This will take from five to 1
six billion dollars. Let us get ready
and. raise it. A big ‘ask, but the I
last, and therefore easy. All to
gether, shoulder to shoulder, and
the loan goes over!
The ‘•Ninety-first” is the Pacific
Coast Division; remember their
achievement, and honor ourselves
by living up to it.
James K. Lynch,
Governor. Federal Reserve Hank of i
San Francisco; Chairman. Lib
erty Loan General Executive -
Hoard, Twelfth Federal Reserve |
District.
WHY WE
FIGHT?
Because We Don't Under
stand One Another
Says Nr. Hansome
Speaking of" Effects of the War Upon
the Natives of Alaska,"Marius T.
Hansome of H ydaburg, among other
things, 6aid: ” War has killed many
people, on the battlefield from
w ounds, at heme from grief. War has
also death blow to many illusions
ard oid-fashicned ideas, it has shown
us the need of shaking off the old
skin. We must cfient ourselves, take
cur bearings. We must establish de
finite tnd-pcint towaid which ali
humanity can strive. Too long have
we teen self-satisfied and reluctant
to change and improvement,but now
we must either adjust our lives to
Great Change or fall by the wayside.
"we are what we are by virtue of
association with other men. Inter
communication results in progress.
It helps us to understand one another
Why do we fight? Simply because,
we do net understand one another’s
aims and ambitions. Failing to under
stand. we cannot exercise the spirit
of sympathy and universal compas
sion.”
The war has taught us the inter
dependence of all men. CoIof or creed
matters nol; we are all fellow mortals
we must do to heings below us as we
would be done by beings above us.
We are our brothers keeper.
The war has linked us closer to
thepurpose of democratic institutions.
The liberal interest which natives
have shown in subscribing to the Li
berty Loans, Red Cross, Y.M.C.A.
drives, and other patriotic endeavor,
has given them closer contact with
civic responsibility.
we have further learned, that only
thecause is lost that we forsake.
And we should thank God that strug
gle is the savior of the universe. This
is not a time when we can look back
drift and lean on the oars, on the
contrary, the great change calls for
men and women of high ideals and
the backbone to see them through.
Like the salmon struggling over
rapids and falls to reach the spawn,
ing grounds, so we must get into the
stream undaunted and pull upwards
Those who don’t care to Improve,
who float arouad in the eddies of
HUGO’S
PEACE
VISION
A nay will come when you,
France-you, Russia-you,-Italy-you,
England-you, Germany-all of you
Nations- shall, without losing your
distinctive qualities and your glori
ous individuality, blend in a higher
unity and form a fraternity. '" -
A day will come when war wit!
! seem absurd.
j A day will come when bulletsand
| bombs shall be replaced by- ballots
i by the universal suffrage of the peo
| pie, by the sacred arbitrament of a
! great sovereign senate, which shall be
; >o Europe w hat the parliament is to
I England, what the diet is to Germany,
! what the legislative assembly is to
France.
"A day will come when a cannon
ball will be exhibited in our museums
as an instrument of torture is now,
and when men shall marvel that
such things could be. A day will
come when shall be seen those two
immense groups, the United States
of America and United States of
Europe, in face of each other, exten
ing hand to hand over the ocean, ex
changing their products, their com
merce their industry,their arts, their
genius-clearing the earth, colonixing
deserts and ameliorating creation,
under the eye of the Creator.”
life will be swallowed up
by the rising t'de of progress.
We should al$p have gleaned this
big fact: principles tower far above
interest. That there is something
more worth while struggling for than
mere wealth, namely, the supremacy
of social justice. Every native should
align himself with the forces that
will bring us nearer the goal of uni
versal brotherhood. Let the past te
dead. It has no promise, no hope. The
past is written in blood and tears.
Says Emerson: ’’Tomorrow, tomor
row is far too dear, to waste a moment
on the irreparable yesterdays." Let
us write across the horizon in the
blue of the szy: Peace, Justice, Hu
manity. Shall we keep our eyes on
that goal? Then,
Look forward not back,
_,L?pk. up- not down.
Look auUnot in.
Lend a hand.