ABOARD THE BANDWAGON
OF REBELLION
From The Seattle St ar
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Up in the'northwest corner of
the United States a very fair
sized sort of rebellion seems to
be under way.
The Grand Old Party is out of
hand, off the reservation. It de
mands modification of the dry
law, a fair deal for the west in
tariff-making, denounces Mr.
Hoover’s league court plans, ig
nores its congressional repre
sentative, snubs its senator and
fails to offer the usual Te De
deums of joy over the president.
This sort of thing causes talk
all over the country—but it need
not. Such goings on will become
frequent this summer and next
fall that they will occasion lit
tle comment.
Party leaders, at last have
awakened to the fact that a
great part of the American peo
ple is in rebellion. To save their
skins the leaders now bawl their
loudest and fight desperately tc
get up with the head of the pro
cession.
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THE MENACE OF THE REDS
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The press has made much fuss
over Communistic activities in
the States. Without doubt there
is Communistic activity. But
whatever activity there is will
not sway the multitude of clear
thinking Americans. Such be
liefs become serious only whei
taken seriously. The loud, soap
box harangueing and red flag
waving merely excites the curi
osity of the rank and file. But
the police reflect aspersions up
on itself by their brutal efforts
to disband gatherings of “Com
munists” with larger groups of
curiosity and excitement seekers
and idle labor.
. .The easiest way to rid the
country of Communistic activity
is to destroy fertile ground h*
making a contented, satisfied
citizenry. Insure work that will
finance the needs of ordinary
cultural life and the masses will
be too contented to bother with
any ism foreign to American
government. Let dissatisfaction
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and discontent grow and as hun
ger rules the mind and action of
many of the masses, they will
use any ism as a vehicle for the
expression of their dissatisfac
tion.
..“Communism is about as im
portant as a flea is to a dog—a
bit irritating, but nothing to
have hydrophobia about.”
The liberties of free speech
guaranteed by the foundational
principles of American govern
ment are as much the rights of
Communism or any other ism as
they are the rights of the plun
derbund politicians whose patri
otism is bounded only by the
graft and plunder they can se
cure by their chicanery. The less
one pays to the spouting of such
be they communists or crooked
politicians, the better will the
country be.
Work is the only salvation—it
keeps kids out of mischief—it
keeps men satisfied and out of
trouble.
FACING GRIM FACTS
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The average man uses his
newspaper as an economic bible.1
He “knows only what he sees in i
th papers.” His vision and un
derstanding of present day prob
lems is limited to the matter he
absorbs from his papers. When
he reads that the country is
“prosperous” and so insofar as
he is concerned, unless he is be
ng forced to cinch up on his
jelt, the country is prosperous.
The press for the past several
years has been promising pros
perity—a deferred “full dinner
pail” and the press has discount
ed persistent rumors of serious
unemployment by the repeated
assurances that the business sit
uation was good.
Professor Benjamin M. Squires
in an article in The Christian
Century is authority for the
statement that one industry em
ploying 40,000 hands turned
away 250,000 persons seeking
wark at the gate. That Illinois
industries had five million appli
cations for employment; ten
people seeking every job. This
naturally means that many more
were after the same jobs.
The recent “Communistic” de
monstrations were shown to be
not so much demonstrations by
Communists and other “reds” as
a demonstration of dissatisfied
unemployed. It cannot be de
nied that unemployment has
reached serious proportions and
to continue the propagnda that
is inconsistent with the facts is
merely to discredit the organiza
tions and press which set forth
such views. Tnousands without
means of a decent living does
not bespeak a healthy economic
condition of American industry.
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THE SCHOOL PROBLEM
As more of Alaska’s Indian
youth are brought into direct
contact with other children in
the public schools, the prejudice
v gainst their presence becomes
less marked and the acknowl
edgement that such is the only
solution to the problem made
evident.
. .Secretary of the Interior Wil
bur gives the following statistics
relative to the school attendance
of Indians in the States:
Ending June 30, 1929 there
were 345,356 Indians in the Unit
ed States, exclusive of Alaska.
These had 26,111 children in the
Government schools, 7,188 child
ren in mission maintained schoo
ren in schools maintained by the
various churches and 34,288 chil
dren in public schools maintain
ed at the expense of the various
States—a total of 65,587 Indian
children in school out of an elig
ible list of 83,262.
“This means,” says Samuel H
Thompson, of Great Falls, Mont.,
“that about 50 per cent of Indian
children in all schools are in
public schools; about 9y2 per
cent in mission schools and
about 40 V2 percent in Govern
ment maintained schools. It al
so shows a fraction over 81 per
cent of the entire eligible list of J
Indian children as being in some
school, which is not so bad. * * *
“It is surprising as one travels
over the states where Indian re
servations and Indian schools
are located to observe the friend
’y attitude of public school au
thorities and the public in gen
eral, toward the education of In
dian children along with white
children. In almost every in
stance where there is lack of co
operation on the part of the pub
lic school authorities, it is from
lack of full understanding of
just what the Government ex
pects. Then there does enter in
to the public school situation the
idea of financial support. Several
States where there are many
Indians do not have large finan
cial strength, and in some there
are yet a few unorganized coun
ties. . * The Government pays
an agreed public school tuition
for Indian childrn whose parents
do not pay a property tax to the
State and County. This often
selves the problem.
“From the beginning of time
(to now, personal contact and
direct communication across the
desk have done more to solve
problems, great or small, than
anything else. Many experienc
es have taught us the same in
Indian school work. Rarely has
a personal visit by an official
from the Indian Office to a pub
lic school official failed to bring
about a proper understanding.
“There are many public school
communities where cooperation
is all that could be expected and
one had as well be chosen as
another.. * * *
“It is not too much to expect
all Indian children eventually toj
be educated in the public schools
of the country and thus bring
about a citizenship amalgama
tion of the two races in a way
that will be a happy advance
ment of all concerned.”—The
Indian Leader, Haskell Institute,
Kansas.
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A SLIP IN MORALS
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Is juvenile crime on the in
crease? Are our jails being filled
with the youth of the country,
the young men who constitute
the bulwark of our future citi
zenship? These are questions
that Norbert Lyons, staff mem
ber of the grand council, Nation
al Order of De Molay, Kansas
City is investigating. His find
ing are perturbing to say the
least.
. .“It may be stated at the out
set that conditions were found
to be far from good. Authorita
tive facts and figures plainly in
dicate that the moral status of
'our youth has deteriorated in re
sent years. Men and women who
have studied the problem are
agreed that the situation consti
tutes a grave menace to the fu
turme moral integrity of the na
tion.
Solution of the juvenile crime
problem is receiving the earnest
attention of public officials, so
cial agencies, churches, scien
tists and public-spirited civic
leaders everywhere. On one
principle all are agreed, that the
problem can be attacked most
effectively thru the youth of the
nation by molding the characters
of the young people during the
impressionable ages before them
\each their majority. Jails and
reformatories have their uses,
but they have little effect in the
formation of social habits once
these habits have been directed
into criminal channels.
“Recently a careful study was
made of the careers of 510 men
who left the Massachusetts Re
formatory, one of the best in the
country, during 1911-1922—the
first time an investigation of this
nature has been conducted on
such a large and thorough scale.
The findings show that of this
group of prison graduates, as it
were, 80 per cent were not re
formed 5 to 15 years after being
discharged from the institution.
“Other statistics were secured
from this important group of
case studies. It was found that
95 per cent of the youths studied
had bad associates prior to sen
tence to the reformatory. The
term “bad associates” is defined
as including “street corner loaf
ers, poolroom habitues, youths
who rarely or never work, but
live by their wits, habitual drink
ers, professional gamblers.” More
over, only 81 per cent, or about
16 per cent, had belonged to any
: social club or organization for
i the constructive use of leisure.
“Katherine Lenroot of the
Children’s Bureau, Department
of Labor, Washington, D C.,
in a recent study of juvenile de
linquency, finds that whereas
in 1890 there were 143 juvenile
delinquents 10 to 17 years of age
for every 100,000 of population,
in 1923 the ratio had increased
to 154 per 100,000 of population.
In 1893 the number of delin
quents between 10 and 20 years
'of age was 100 per 100,000 while
in 1923, it was 125 per 100,000.
“The New York State Crime
lists convictions in courts of re
cord by age groups. It finds that
in 1925, 1926 and 1927 approxi
mately one-fourth of the con
victions were prisoners between
15 and 21. This was the largest
'group and was followed by the
group aged between 30 and 40,
| followed by a group ranging
from 21 to 25. Forty-six per cent
of convictions were of youths be
tween the ages of 15 and 25.
Lieutenant-Governor Fitts of
California declared in an address
that “the whole crime problem
is a ‘kid’ problem. Ten years
ago 34 was the average age of a
criminal; last year, it was 22; and
the most recent report of the
board of prison directors shows
that it is now 21 years. In three
and one-half years 22 men were
hanged from Los Angeles Coun
ty and their average age when
hanged was 21 years 9 months.
Study of various commissions
detailed to study these condi
tions indicate an appaling trend
downward- in age throughout
the nation. Which must eventu
ally have a direct effect upon the
destiny of the United States.
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ZEAL OF NEW CONVERTS
Increased smoking among the
women folk is more than a fad
in this day and age. Perhaps it
is due to the intensive advertis
ing of tobacconists. Anyhow in
vestigation indicates that co-eds
in the University of Washing
ton spend more money for cig
arettes than the men. It is said
that there is no zeal like that of
a new convert.
ENTITLED TO WINGS
The editor who can please ev
eryone is not suited for this
earth, but is entitled to wings.
Human nature is so constituted
that some of our readers would
like to have us feed them on
scandal; some would like to have
us tell the unvarnished truth
about them while others would
Mil us if we did. It is a comfort
ing thought to the editor to
know that the Lord Himself did
not please everyone while on the
earth. We labor hard to enter
tain and please our subscribers,
but that we should occasionally
fail is to be expected; but you
will alway f*od us ready to be
forgiven.—The Ovid, Colorado,
Record. .
SHAKE FISTS AT EACH OTHER
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In a heated argument which
apparently was about to develop
in a battle royal between Sen
ators Vandenberg, Republican of
Michigan and Senator Hawes,
Democrat of Missouri, Senator
Harris of Nebraska prevented
the men from coming to blows.
Don’t forget Poppy Day!
DEMOCRATS ASSAIL HOOVER
* OPTOMISM
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President Hoover’s continued
assurances tItrt the effects of
the stock market crash would
rapidly disappear have not been
justified, and the country is los
ing confidence in administration
predictions, Senator Robinson,
minority leader declared last
Friday thru the Democratic na
tional committee.
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LEISURE AND EDUCATION
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Thirty-ono per cent more
adults went fo school last year
han the year before, according
to the United States Bureau of
Education.. The Bureau believes
that the increased attendance in
'adult schools is due largely to
the fact that people have more
leisure now.
The number of grown persons
enrolled for class work in the
12-month period ending July 1
was 260,000. In the previous year
200,000 were registered.
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