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the AMERICAN PLEDGE
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A great many in Alaska in genera!
do not know the pledge of alleg
iance. For their benefit we publish
it here. r
WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO
THE FLAG, (our flag) AND TO
THE COUNTRY FOR WHICH IT
STANDS; ONE NATION. INDIVISI
BLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUS
TICE FOR ALL.”
FOR ALL BUT THE INDIAN.
LO, THOSE POOR INDIANS
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i omparatively few persons real
ly” that to-day the majority of the
surviving Indians are being; appal
lingly treated.. In no other civiliz
ed country in the world is an intel
1*M nt, well-behaved people kept in
su. h complete subjugation of pe>
s< n and property as are some 225,
O'.'0 Indians in the United States un
dei a disgraceful departmental des
potism which deliberately degrades
H em to a state of virtual peonage
— .1. A. EREAR, Congressman from
\\ isconsin, in Plain Talk.
A PERTINENT QUESTION
1 lie above brief biography of Sen
a lor Curtis brings forth a pertinent
question: Had Curtis been barred
Co n the public schools and compell
ed to attend reservation schools
maintained by the federal govern
ment would he have become the na
tional figure he is today?
The disadvantage of governmental
paternalism, educational or in any
ther manner has been emphasizeo
by Indian educators for many years.
No race was ever won without a
considerable effort; no records
broken except in keen competition.
In Indian education, we ask the In
dian youth to compete with himse’C
m a line that is foreign to him—for
eign by environment and previous
condition. He is set apart and
made to feel that he is “different’
and he must take centuries, or at
loi«t several generations to step in
to the same educational system as
other races.
Reservations have been set aside
for him, school systems also and ev
ei y effort is made to keep him an
entity as a race. Segregation tendr
to keep tribal habit, custom, ideals
and ambitions which the “American
molting pot” tries to eradicate when
immigrants come to our shores. In
stead of holding them in racial en
tities the year made to forget old
country ideas and languages. The
public school is the universal vehicle
which carries out the idea. The
country is better for it.
Contrary to all spirit of the found
ers of our country, we continue to
segregate the Indian, on reservations
and in schools and yet demand as
much of him in spite of his environ
ment as of other races.
The future of a potential citizen
is at stake. To force him into en
vironment not conducive to the most
rapid progress is a hurt not only to
th( individual but to the country.
WHAT POLKS SAY
Federal Judge Frank H. Kerrigan
ir* a Seattle paper is quoted as say
ing: “It is a less serious violation
of the prohibition law to sell light
w*ne than to sell hard liquor.”
Following the idea through then
bonded liquor gets through the mesh
we begin to understand why so many
are arrested in Alaska for selling
moonshine while dispensers of bond
ed goods seem unmolested. Sure,
moonshine is the worse liquor and
therefore a greater violation.
That is moonshine and bologny.
OUR NEXT VICE PRESIDENT
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Political indications in national
party affairs at this time point to
the election of Herbert Hoover for
President and Senator Charles Cur
tis. for Vice President.
7 he Kansas City JOURNAL-POST
commenting upon the record of Sen
ator Curtis said recently:
‘ There is no more beloved mem
ber cf the Congress. There is no
man who knows and understand
better all sections of the republic,
and is more sympathetic with their
problems. There is no living man
who knows more abotut the laws
and why they have worke dthan
Senator Curtis. There has been no
other person who for so long a time
has looked with serene, unclouded
Widen at the problems of the nation.
“In length and efficiency and de
pendability of his service, he is easi
ly first. There is no blot on his re
cord and no flaw inhisconduct.”
Says the Atchison Daily Globe, “Tt
v.as a good nomination, the best the
Republicans could possibly have
made inproviding a running mate
for Hoover.”
A special article in the Wichita
Cagle says: “Curtis will supply
whatever deficiencies might be laid
to the door of Hoover, whose main
handicap, many believe, is his lack
of political training.”
From Oklahoma comes the state
ment that “The nomination ct
Charles Curtis as Vice President
may have a decided effect on tlm
electoral vote of Oklahoma. Ever
since he went to Congress, the peo
pV of Indian Territory and Okla
homa have looked upon him as pe
culiarly their representative.” The
Incian vote in those sections have
not been heavy but according to th
an me writer “Charles Curtis has In
dian blood. He is the first candi
d°te on a national ticket to boasr
descent from the aborigines. And
the Indians all know about him and
respect him. They will be eager to
vole for him.”
Fenator Curtis was born an a re
servation with only the advantages
or disadvantages of a reservation.
H^s grandmother appreciating the
va.ne of an education urged Charles
when, twelve years of age to return
to relatives on his father’s side. He
entered the public not “public”
S 'bools, trudged five miles to high
school and was graduated. Jockey
ed for a while, drove a hack and
while driving hack studied law.
A.'ier admission to the bar he was
elected district attorney and was a
g od one. Entering Congress he has
been a very efficient legislator for
a good many years.
The Wichita Beacon, summing up
hi.s nomination for vice president
said: “By virtue of his forty years
experience in public life, Senator
Curtis is eminently fitted for a place
on the ticket. His knowledge of
public affairs is as wide as that of
any other man in America. He knows
Congress as few know it. His ac
quaintance is nation-wide, and the
tremendous vote given horn at Kan
sas City is evidence of the friendship
republicans from every section of
tin- country have for him.
‘ The nomination of Hoover and
Curtis is the best job a Republican
national convention has done in
many years.”
333,083 crimes were reported in
Mew York, while in London 15,662
ivere reported the same year.
WHAT ALASKA NEEDS
The Mormon elders who recently
passed through Petersburg left
long interview with the Seward Gate
vvay which is of more Ilian passing
interest. We quote a very impor
tant paragraph from the interview
in view of the more than passing in
terest in the children of Alaska.
the article published was titled
“Native Crop of Children Great
Need.” Whether the crop is of In
diiin or Caucausian extraction makes
not one whit of difference. Children
are anchors, which hold those af
flicted with wanderlust, in one com
munity, more or less.
“We find a great dearth of child
ren in Alaska1. Family life is one of
• he great needs. There are too main
men in Alaska neglecting the respon
sibility of family life. Home and t'am
ii\ are the only sources of perman
ency and greatness for any country.
This has been sadly neglected in
Alaska. But for the neglect there
would he today thousands of young
m m and women, horn and reared in
Alaska fighting her battles and sol
ving her problems who would mak
her the greatest of commonwealths
whicii she is destined to become ”
A e sat in retrospection one night
recently while a friend discoursed on
the subject of Alaska, its needs and
its future. He was mighty pessemis
tic about it too. lie viewed the sal
mon situation as it is really under
stood by Alaskans who face the pr< -
Idem fairly and with the thought of
the future and he said “The salmon
is gone.” fie talked of the halibiB
industry and said “I did not think
that the international commission
would be so frank in its admissions
that it is but a matter of a few years
when we will have no more halibu.
ir Alaska.” Then lie went mining
and said: “The old miner and pros
pector used to get enough of a grub
stake from the fisheries that with i
little- help from the storekeepers h?
could go into the hills and prospect
tor the filthy lucre.” That day is
gone and any mining developement
we have in this end o:f Alaska will
he mostly happenstance.” He saw
no future. Nor do we.
S< nator Simmons, senior senator
.f-’oni South Carolina refuses to sup
I port A1 Smith for president. Re
minds us of the late Rev. John H. |
I oyd, of the First Presbyterian
Church of Portland, He too was a
South Carolinian and during the
Wiison-Hughes contest he said: “I
was born a southern democrat an 1
I always voted the democratic tick
et until I came west. It has; goteu
so decayed that I refuse to vote that
ticket. But when I go to the polls
and call for a Republican ballot, I
pP'< h my nose with my thumb and
forefinger to get away from the j
stench of that party.” In other j
words, to him while the Republican j
Par>y was rotten, the Democratic!
Party was worse. Senator Simmons |
will sit on his front porch while the
“captains and the tumulst shout.” ;
FLY-BY-NIGHTS
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Something like 27.000 white, yel
low and black residents in Alaska
when the last census was taken and
some 26,000 “Indian,” or “Native” ■
as some preferred to he called. In ■
our past few decades of life in Alas- <
kr we figure that a few hundred i1
thousand whites, etc., have come in- J
to Alaska and returned to the States J
leaving Ihn population smaller than ‘
three decades ago. There1 is a rea- *
son: *
Alaska is a land of opportunity. «
a quick grubstake to a small fortune <
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or life of ease. People come to Alas
4
ka with the one idea only—get that
quick stake and go outside where it 1
can be spent to easier advantage. ;
Permanency is no object-hut a small
proportion of those coming in to \
Alaska build their homes with the '
object of staying. They are fly-by- «
nights- they twittgr and flitter and «
away they go. The “oldtimers and j
sourdoughs” stay and make the <|
jo untry worth while for other <
oatches of southern butterflies. j 4
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A LETTER FROM CHINA
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. Shanghai, China, July 27, 1J>2K
I'd it or The Alaskan:
Petersburg, Alaska
Enclosed [ send you a tiger. Chl
i>*re spec! of four tigers—the yel
low and black tiger, the black tiger,
the white tiger and the money god
of-'wealth. The w’hite tiger is a sign
o;‘ bad luck so is never seen in pic
lures. From childhood the Chinese
‘>ai- l ho tiger. He is made* a buga
ooo to frighten children. If naughty
they are told the “Lao-hu” (tiger)
will catch them. So “tiger” is an
ever present fear to the little Chinee
not only , but it remains to old age,
rather as an evil spirit than as a tig
ger. As one goes along the roadi
he sees paper tigers pasted over the
door, that the evil spirits, seeing the
tir r will flee away to a tigerless
house. Chinese have great faith
in Mger bones, claws and sinews as
medicine. Since the tiger is so
strong, medicine made of him must
make one strong. Travelling medi
cine men with tiger skins stretched
on poles as sign-boards rarely wait
long for purchasers of their wares
On the tiger sent rides Chang
Tao-ling, the first Taoist Pope in
Cluna. He is said to have been born
°n 'lien Moh San (Heavenly-eye
Mountain) in A. 1). 35. I have been
on inis mountain when out itinerat
ii g and slept in one of the temples
< hang was asked to be an official;
b’.; ie chose to meditate in silence
and cultivate virtue. He went to
o.vell in China’s Western Hills where
lie was shown, by a book given him
lTum above, how to find the elixir of
liie and from other ancient books
h< \v to ascend to heaven, how to
fly, and how to walk among the stars.
\\ ith such and other magic powers
h * could fight demons, divide moun
tains and seas, rule the winds and
'thunder and send demons running
w;,h fright or bring spirits cowering
b fore him. Being the head of the
Caoists and being in possession of
ike elixir of life and of talismans for
tl e cure of all diseases, not only is
i’o highly respected; but he has en
abled the Taoist priests to gain
great wealth by the sale of such
things to The people and they them
selves to be sought out as great I
healers. . |
Charms with Chang Tad-ling’s seal
a-, purchased by rich and poor for
goodly sums and are pasted up in
t!:e homes or are carried about on
H eir persons. You can see these
cl arms and seals above Chang’s
head. You will see, too, that he is
dressed in fine, figured garments.
In ' is right hand is his gavel of j
authority and in his left hand he has
a cup of the elixir of everlasting life
The tiger on which he rides is cru h
mg.with its paws the five poisonous
creatures that represent all cre.i
fares that injure health. If you look
car: fully you can make out a snake
toad, centipede, lizard and a spider
Tne little tiger behind has in i!
n oath Chang’s own magic swodr.
Chang is pasted up in the home on
the “Double 5th”—5th Moon—June
P2 this year. He’s supposed to re
press tlie poisonous creatures so as
to ward off calamity and sickness,
especially during the hot, trying
months of Summer. On the Doubl
Fifth the children are dressed in
cheap, tiger-like suits of clothes, al
so to keep off disease-causing evil
spirits which wish to harm children
hut are afraid of tigers. The chil
Ten are also decorated with charms
around their necks and arms and
ha-e tiger stripes of yellow paint
on their faces.
Chang Tao-ling is also called the
“Heavenly Teacher,” “Chang tin
Angel,” “Chief of t! • Wizards.'
‘Tne ideal Man,” etc. I suppose 50
millions of him, such as 1 enclose,
art pasted up and worshipped each
year. The headquarters of his do
ccndants and of the Taoists ha,
been on the Dragon-tiger Mountain I
in lviangsi Province since A. D i
1000. From this place come inil
be sold to credulous people all or
lions of charms, talismans, etc., to
er Chida. So you see how deeply
steeped in superstition the Chinos
are and how much they need the
Precious Gospel of our Lord and Sa
viour Jesus Christ. With best wish
es and kindest regards.
l ours in Christ’s glad service.
(Rev.) H. G. C. HADDOCK
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