THE NEW NATIVE
Live For Something.
VOL 1. No. 5. Hydaburg Alaska, Friday, March, 28, 1919. $1.50 a year
NATIVE FAIR PROCEEDINGS
CHIEF LOFP
GAVE OPEN
ING ADDRESS
“Intelligent, constructive com
parison of ideas result in develop
ment, progress and happiness, said
W.T. Lopp. Chief of the Alaska Di
vision of the Bureau of Education.
Why did your people stand still
for centuries? Because like the whites
who several centuries ago, were sat
isfied with the ways of their forbears.
They did things in the same old way
year after year. They did not care to
improve. Their old time gatherings
were simply to repay social debts
gorge themselves with food and
drink, but neglected sadly the de
velopment of the mind. The race
stagnated. Stagnation is death.
A ClOwa OI UUS nuuiu
many thousands of dollars in food
and blankets without resulting in
any permanent improvement.
Think cf the great Industrial,
educational, moral, civic and spiritu
al change that will come from the
program which we are now begin
ning. •
The history of progress is the
history of invention. The superior in
ventive genius of< the whites has
made them the leading race in the
world. What the whites have done,
you can do. The means tothisde
velopment lies in education. And
when the separate units meet like
this convention and you compare
ideas, you will improve and finally
earn your right to participate in the
continuous development of the
worlds resources, be they what tbej
may.
THE PRIDE
GAS BOAT
, t. ...
Mr. Walter Frame is the owner of
the gas boat Pride. She was built by
Jimmy Edenso at a co3t of $2,700
She ha* 20 horse power standard en
gine. Her speed average seven mile:
' an hour. Last summer she fished a
j round Barinof Island. She stated t<
: fish in July and quit in August Tht
i captain Walter Frans engineer Ho
I ward Frank. The crew Walter Frank,
I Howard Frank, John Beattie, Jimmv
| Wallace, and Charlie Scott. The sum
] mer's catch: Kohos 1500, Sockeyt
i 500, Dog Salmon 5000, Hump-back
11600, and 1 King Salmon.
i .....
Let no one be discouraged by
j-opposition. Progress is made only in
opposition to someone else Someone
is always discommoded by a new
ideas. If your idea is good, it will
eventually prevail.
This Fa r will promote brother
hood and destory tribal jealousies.
In time you will all learn to discrim
iminate between important and un
important viilage contest and finally
you will place little or no importance
on. the victory or defeat of your
matched oaskethall game. You will
leant to be true sportsmen.
These annual gathering will af
ford anopportunity for you to take
an inventory of your advancement
individually and collectively. Your
particular weakness will become ap
parent and their correction empha
sized, which will ultimately make for
a deserving place alongside of your
white brother.
I. ~~—:
A RESOLUTION
OF THANKS
Whereas the town and people of
Klawoek through their Mayer and
Council.through their Government
school and Teachers,espeeia: ly thiu,
Prof.and Mrs.Hibb.,and through
t ieir otherorganizations such as the
pastor and members of the Presbyte
rian Church,the officer in charge and
members of the Salvation Army,the
the members of the Klawoek brother
boot’,the Klawocx Brass Band and
the other organizations have so
kindly w< loomed us to their homes
and provided for our daily wants all
thing the time of our conferences of
the school fair; and
Whereas this school fair lias been
brot about and encourag by the
Alaska Division of the United States
Bureau of Education.and in many
way: through its SuperinCente it: a d
CHEERFUL
APPLAUSE
TOSULZER
DELEGATE ELECT
SULZER APPEALED
FOR MORE SPOKEN
ENGLISH
“If all the congressmen could be
present at this convention and see
the progress you people have made
during the past decade or two, they
would never qttestion your right to
full and complete citizenship ’, said
Sulzer, friend of the Natives.
Courts discount the testimony of
Natives of the native tongue, henct
he continued, you must get a mas
tery of ordinary English.
He commend the natives on the
fact that they were gradually out
growing the idea of relying on the
government entirely for help. Pro
gressive natives who can do things
for themselves can be found in every
village. The government stands al
ways willing to help along with ex
pert information to anyone taking the
trouble to ask, he said.
“ Economic laws have ordained
that a people must either adjust them
selves to changed conditions or go
under with the rising tide of progrea8
the field officers,made this School
Fair very instructive, interesting and
sucessful; and
whereas, the friend of the Natives
of Alaska, the Hon, Chas, A, Sulzer,
Delegate-Elect to the next Congress
of the United State, has so well pre
sented the cause and need of an en
lightened and educated life as applied
to the natives of Alasxa, under the
American Flag, in the conferenc of
the School Fair:
Be it therefore resolved that we
extend to these friends and brethren
our most healthy and sincere thanks
and we wish for them all the success
and blessings of this life.
Edward Marsden Metlakatla
Ralph Young Sitla
George Haldane Hydaburg
Chas S Newton Hake
Committee on Resolutions
DE WITTE OF KAKE
IS GENIAL JUDGE
t ■ — I
Judge De Witte said:
’’Guard against getting a swell
head. I know some native boys who
went down to Chemawa and upon re
turning couldn’t find a hat bige
aough to fit their inflated cranium.
\nd more, they never made a contri
bution to our welfare. Parents should
let their “Kids” attend our school and
not Keep them out to saw wood. It
cost us nothing to have our children
educated, so let us grasp the opportu
nity/^
which in these days goes Cast apace.
The quicker you sense the changes
in our industrial life, the better you
will hold your own.”
World’* Big Quecuo.-i.
What: of tomorrow, is the world ques
tion of today,
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