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LITERACY BILL-NO HOPE
Still holding its position on the
House Calendar at the beginning
of the present year, the White Li
teracy measure for Alaska voters
stands a fair chance of passage in
the lower House this session of
Congress. The chance of passage
by the Senate, however, seems to
be negligible.
Such is the plaint of “Piggy” in
the Eleven ounce paper. The liter
acy complex still is the bug-a-bear
of these fine law abiding gentlemen
and they are urging that the people
of the Territory get busy and de
mand the passage of said bill.
The past election means naught
to these defenders of the ballot of
Alaska. What matters it if the
majority of the voters in the Terri
toiy refused to endorse the Troy
propoganda and the “independent”
platform which included the pass
age of a “fair” (?) literacy law.
The Alaskan urges the enactment
of a literacy law. When the mat
ter was before the last legislature
tho Empire declared itself for the
Nw York literacy law. This being
the newest- and most stringent law
of the kind. It requires that a new
voter must qualify before a Board
of Control and pass an examination
equivalent to the eighth grade or
present evidence of having passed
the eight grade of the common
s 'bools. No ifs or ands about it
and no jokers. The law being ap
plicable to Indian, White or Black
man. Control of qualifications lay
not in the hands of partizan elec
tion judges.
The Empire urged the passage of
a law similar to this. But when
they learned that the law was not
to be tampered with by election
judges they about faced and urged
the passage of the bill set forth by
the Alaska Packer’s Assoaciation,
nee Senator Dimond, “lame duck”
since the last election.
Why should the Alaska Packers
through their attorney ask for a
law they know would not be per
mitted in New York or in Maine the
homo State of Representative White
sponsor of the bill in Congress?
The Empire may hem and haw, but
there is no denying the fact that
they have lost the confidence of
the electorate of Alaska and in or
der to gain prestige they play on
rassion of race prejudice. Con
temptible Americanism that needs
no further description.
The passage of such an unfair
lawr is impossible in the Senate.
The “gag” rule does not prevail in
the Senate and the nefarious
scheme of political trough feeders
as Mister Troy of the Customs Of
ioe at Juneau and Stroller White
‘'Territorial Publicity Man” each
at $5,000. per annum formerly.
NORTH DAKOTA HAS
REDUCES ILLITERACY
The Bureau of Education an
nounced recetnly that the State of
North Dakota has reduced illiteracy
from 9,9 38 four years ago to 2,9 35,
according to a report from the
State’s Department of Public In
struction.
This remarkable record was ac
complished through a campaign in
adult education conducted through
this period with the result that il
literacy in the State was refuced to
two-tenths of one percent of the en
tire population.
The report shows that there are
absolutely no illiterates in one
county in North Dakota and that
17 out of 53 counties have less
than 10 illiterates each. Other fig
ures given in the report reveal
the fact that about half the illiter
ates in this State were Indians
found on reservations, which added
difficulties to the task as many of
these Red Men weer over 60 years
of age and able to speak only their
native tongue.
Besides the public school afficials, i
who conducted night cshools for
the education of adult illiterates,
fraternal organisations and Parent
Teacher Associations in every coun
ty cooperated in the campaign to
eliminate illiteracy in North Dako
ta. The report states that the re
duction was affected with only an.
appropriation of $4,000 from the*
last State Legislature to pay half
the salary of teachers at the evep
iug schools.
HEALTH EDUCATION
Last fall when dedicating the
Stadium at Haskell Institute, Law
rence, Kansas, Secretary Work said
in part:
In a book recently published, the
author said, “The curing of disease
is necessary; the prevention of ill
ness is good sense; the cultivation
of health is statesmanship.” No
wiser statement was ever made and
it is fortunate that the educated In
dians have appreciated the prin
ciple involved therein.
That health education has been
neglected in the past has been prov
ed by the following statements: Ev
ery year, more than 500,000 citi
zens of the United States are slain
by germs and millions of others are
on beds of sickness and pain >,by
germ diseases that are preventatybl.
About 75 percent or 16,000,000 of
the 22,000,000 school children in
the United States have physical de
fects which are pottntially or ac
tually detrimental to health.
The military droft statistics
showed 56 defects to every 100
men, 21 percent of those econo
mically available for military ser
vice were found to be physically un
fit to perform any type of military
service either at home or abroad.
The foreoing statistics strongly sup
port the statement that “cultiva
tion of health is statesmanship.
LAYS DOWN
SOURDOUGH PHILOSOPHER : >
’William Sulzer is called the Phil
osopher of Greenwich Village—and
’s a real Philosopher to those who
know him best—especially to the
people in Greenwich Village wheer
Mr. Sulzer has lived nearly all his
life.
Recently a reprter of the New
York World asked Mr. Sulzer to
gife him ten rules of life—'from a
philosophical viewpoint—and Mr.
Su’zei promptly gave the newspaper
man the following rules:
1. Live an diet live.
2. Be honest in all thingsj.
?. Doi’t worry; don’t hurry.
4. Get married, and stay mar
ried.
5. Read xtiuch; think more;
talk little.
6. Tell the truth regardless of
consequences.
7. Get rid of fear; of prejudice;
and of stfpetstition.
8. Have a purpose; keep work
ing; be constructive.
9. Have few friends,and fewer
tenaciusly.
10. Strive for success. Make
progress. RemembeT a quitter nev
er wins, and a winner never quits.
These rules of life by, one of the
vea lmen and thinkers of our time,
arc- worthy of careful perusal and
consideration.
Who can formulate a better set
of philosophical principles.
WOULD INVESTIGATE
. INDIAN BUREAU
Senator Copeland of New York
recentyl introduced a resolution in
the Senate calling for an investiga
tion of the management and activi-1
ties of the Bureau of Indian At- j
fairs in the Department of the In-1
terior. j
The Indian Bureau has long been j
a milestone banging on the neck
of the Indian in the States and has
been the agency most responsible
foi the lack of progress and educa
tion of those people. It is high
time that Congress decided to make !
a thorough investigation and clean
out some of the “barnacles’ and
‘ moss-backs”.
PACKING INDUSTRY HAS
DONE WELL
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The Alaska PacKer’s Association
shows a profit of $548,483 for the
year just ended as againsl a deficit
of $175,026 last year, the good
showing being attributed to the ex
ceptionally favorable markets.
Unfortunately these results have
tittle influence on the industrial
life of the Territory in that it is
all foreign business and. does not
agect the distribution of any appre
siaple amount of money in wages to
persons resident in the Territory.
With such good profits emantating
from an Alaskan industry it would
appear that there was incentive for
those packers residing at a dis
tance to contrifute Something to the
TeritWy in the form of permanent
employes instead of importing all
! their help, and .often times failing
| to show discrimination in the class
of people brought to Alaska an
nually. The salmon industry can
he made a great mutual benefit
both the investing capital and the
Territory by a spirit of considera
tion and co-operation, and many,
of the contentious irritants now
prevalent would dissolve under the
influence of mutual understanding.
The resident packer takes into con
sideration not only preservation of
the supply of fish but ^he construct
ive principle of confining its tanor
to permanent residents of Alaska.
--Seward Gateway.
“SIX NATIONS” IN COURT
Is the American Indian^ a foreign
er or not, is a question that is
n«. w before the United States Dis
trict Court at Philadelphia when an
application for habeas corpus was
filed in the case of Paul Biablo, an
Troqouis of the Caughnawaga re
servation, Canada.
' As in other known Indian cases,
while the fight centers around BI
aWo, the whole “Six Nations” are
involved* so that each member of
-trie tribe has been taxed to raise a
fund to carry the case to the United
biales Supreme Court.
Biablo is charged with entering the
United States without vise. He is
a; structural steel worker and he
h£d been earning $70. a week the
government contended that he was
liable to become a public charge,.”
Counsel for defense raises the
question, ‘Can a treaty be voided
or repealed, by implication, by a
new law?’ Under previous treaty
with Canada these Indians have
been permitted to migrate back and
forth between the two countries at
will. By the War of 1812 this was
abolished but again, restored in
by treaty of Ghent. Since which
time there has been no question
raised until 19*24. The decision in
this case will be of vital import to
the Metlakatla people who are in
termarried and interrelated with
the Canadian Metlakatlans.
AKKEKTED for wipes death
Pick Hoogendern is being held
at Nome on a murder charge in
connection with the death of his
It was stated that Hoogendorn’s
Wife died from the after affects of
child birth. Defendant is a miner
in an isolated section of the north j
Country where medical service was '
i Unavailable. On nine previous oc- j
cacions he successfully cared for!
| uin wife but on this occasion the j
Condition of the wife became so |
1 serious that he communicated with j
Welch by wire for advict from a j
doctor. He implicitly followed in
structions but to no avail.
The loss of the wife would seem
more than punishment wijthout
t referring a charge of murder. It
would be safe to say that had the
i
poor man desired the death of his
wife he would have found other
means to get rid of her.
SHAKING THE DUST*OF
THE FIRST CITY
The campaign against the re
st noted district of Ketchikan con- j
tinu.es and a chek-up on departing I
citizens of Ketchikan show that at i
least seven against whom action ;
had been started, had left town.
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AMERICA FIRST arrives in Pe
tersburg Friday morning, leaving
for Juneau via Kake and way ports
about noon.
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HEALTH RESORT
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day and up
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2229
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