dared to be the cause of the
breaking down of law and order.
Father the charge should be
that the moral decay of officials
has so depraved their minds and
resistance that they cannot re
sist the pressure of those who
benefit financially from this new
American industry.
Rights of Libet ty
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A well-known man was in the
bootlegging business, in the
States and part of the time in
Alaska. When officials interfer
ed with his operations there was
a hue and cry that personal lib
erty had been encroached upon
and that too much of it was be
ing done. Therefore the Volstead
law should be repealed.
From time immemorial sex re
lations have been a problem that
society has tried to meet. Cer
tain restricted areas have usually
been set apart by habitues and
winked at by officials for the pli
ance of this barter in hum a i
flesh all laws to the contrary
notwithstanding.
A man recently airested fci
illegal cohabitation raised no cry
of deprivation of personal liberty
guaranteed him under the laws
of the land; nor an his friends
Right or wrong, that practice is
general and the attendant evils
are great. Mi'. Recent Arrest is
languishing in jail as is his para
mour. Deprived by law of his
persdnal liberty there is no hue
nor cry of personal rights being
taken from him.
Wherein does the violation of
personal liberty arise in thelaws
of social morals and social
drinking?
Gird Your Lo;ns
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Prepare for a real battle in the
general elections next November
In the 1928 elections, former
Senator Hunt of Ketchikan, with
considerable anger over his not
receiving the support of the
Liberals, turned coat after a life
time of being a Republican and
voted and supported the Demo
cratic ticket defeating Paul and
Olts.
. .Mr. Gardner, present nominee,
after being defeated in the Re
publican primary, threw his sup
port to the Democrats.
In the present primaries Rust
gard, even before the campaigns
had gotten under way, began his
vituperations against Steel, de
liberately misrepresenting the le
gal residential status of this
man who has meant more to the
Territory than a half dozen oth
ers.
.. From current reports now go
tog the rounds,, George B. Grigs
by has a better than 50-50 break
to be elected as Delegate to
Congress, in event Wickersham is
defeated. Men who voted for
Rustgard have openly declared
they have no intention to vote
for him this fall. There will be
a fine chance for the sporting
politician to place bets either
way before the first week of No
vember.
Political Observations
United States Commissioner C.
Clausen and Fred Nelson of
Standard Oil fame, were Rust
gard’s prime ministers in Peters
burg during the primaries.
The Democratic vote in Peters
burg increased 33 and 1-3 per
cent over the primaries of 1928.
Four Democratic ballots were
cast.
Bob Ketchison in a neighborly
way took a good Republican vot
er to the Scow Bay precinct and
when he returned to town found
the polls closed. Otherwise the
Democratic vote would have in
creased fifty per cent this year.
Petersburg showed the politi
cians of Juneau that the politic
al schemes of the plunderbund
was an insult to the intelligence
of every right thinking voter in
this town.
Parable of the Puppy
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Humanity’s Progress Must Be
Guided by a Kindly Intelligence
Not by Blows
On a grassy back-lot by a low
board fence, two children were
playing with a puppy. Stagger
ing on his newly-discovered legs,
the puppy attempted to climb
the fence, seeking thrills in the
great outside world.
Each time the puppy tried to
climb over the fence the children
laughingly pulled him back.
“Stay with us and play, Gin
ger,” pleaded the children.
A dour-faced woman in the
next lot looked on disapproving
ly. The next time the puppy’s
pathetic little face appeared
above the fence she hit out at it
with a red hand, knocking the
inimal back into its own yard.
“That’ll learn yuh!” she rasp
ed, and went into her house,
Jamming the screen door.
The children’s indignation
-lared. They gathered the pup
py to them and excused its con
duct.
“He just doesn’t know any bet
ter,” they said. “He didn\know
he was doing wrong ”
The puppy, we think, repre
sents humanity The children,
playing with it, are Father Time
md Mother Nature, kindly
guardians of a frail world.
Humanity makes mistakes—
and there are those who are
ready and eager to set it right
with a clip on the ear or punch
en the jaw. These, we think,
are like the dour-faced woman
who hit the puppy.
Humanity in its world is like
the puppy playing on the green
aack-lot—knowing little, under
standing less. Under the patient
hands of Father Time and Moth
er Nature it will grow, thru the
eenturies, to intelligent matur
ity.
Cruelly used by ignorant., sel
ish dictators, made by force to
ubey laws it does not understand,
it will become eventually like a
mistreated puppy—a mean, vi
cious hound that is a menace to
itself and to everyone else.
SALVATION IN WORK
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From Oregonian, Portland, Ore.
When the Indians themselves
discover that their economic
and social salvation lies only in
work, there is hope of readjust
ing the red man to the conditions
of a modern society may be on
the way to early solution. An
obstacle to earlier settlement of
the relations between white and
red has been reluctance of the
latter to stop relying on the du
bious paternalism of a none too
efficient bureaucracy.
But it is a mistake to lay most
i of the blame at the door of the
j Indian. He has done better than
| most of his critics know, if the
j disadvantages under which he
jhas labored be considered. Where
! as the old rationing system tend
I ed to pauperize, and the kind of
j education was unsuitable to
i practical needs, the Indian was
j barred by circumstances he
could not control from initiating
measures for his own relief. Per
haps the largest single obstacle
to progress has been the notion,
cherished until very recently,
that no northern Indian could
prosper except as a farmer or a
stockraiser. Now that it has
been revealed that the race pos
sesses aptitude for a variety of
trades, especially mechanics, the
field has immeasurablly broad
ened. The truth probably is
that the Indian’s future lies in
the same direction as that of his
white fellow citizens. With re
cognition of this patent fact will
come extinction of the reserva
tion system, development of In
dian education under state aus
pices and as rapidly as it can be
done humanely withdrawal of
government pecuniary support.
THE ALASKA SITUATION—
PAST AND PRESENT
A couple of years ago at Yak- j
Utat, Mr. Charles W. Hawkes
worth, superintendent of the Bu
reau of Education in Southeast
ern Alaska asked those people
Why is it that Japan has made
such a wonderful progress in
its position as a world power
when Western civilization did
not get to them much sooner
than it did to the Alaska Indian?
An old man, unlettered, untutor
ed arose and answered: “Ever
since the United States brought
schools to us, it has limited our
education to the fourth grade
with old books discarded from
other schools and a teaching
force more interested in drawing
salaries and in their social life.
But that with the growth and
demands of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood the system had
been bettered till more children
could advance even into the high
school grades. And now with
the system improved progress
of the people would be even more
noticeable.
Comparative Teachers
At one of the recent conven
tions one of the Native teachers
presented a resolution asking
that no teacher, in the Bureau
system, be employed who did
not hold a territorial teachers’
certificate. This would have
barred almost immediately a
number of Native teachers. Mr.
Hawkesworth pleaded that the
convention make an exception of
this class of teachers as he as
serted there were several very
cupuDie ones on the force. The
exception was made. During the
discussion one speaker declared
chat "75 per cent of the teachers
employed oy me Bureau were
j without teachers’ certificate and
could not qualify under the ter
litoriai school laws to teach in
the territorial schools.” Later in
private, Mr. Hawkesworth chal
lenged that statement and said
that "only 25 per cent could not
qualify, under the territorial
news.” No senool board in any
part of Alaska will admit such a
lack of qualification in its teach
ing force. Bad enough that the
various boards have problems all
| their own in securing capable
I teachers and holding them.
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Housing conditions
With veiy few exceptions, the
school buildings under the Bu
reau of Education are of the old
type, crosslighted buildings, not
in the best of upkeep. One year
the Hydaburg City Council con
demned their schoolhouse, but
considerable time elapsed before
it was even made safe for use;
the Sitka City Council condemn
ed ihe Sitka school as “unsafe,
! unsanitary and a fire-trap,” yet
j was several years before a
■ modern building was put in;
| lor several years the Bureau
‘rented a dilapidated shack in
i^ngoon for a schoolhouse and
though there was the direst
: need of a decent building, it was
j several years before they secured
one. There are other towns at
;the present moment that havej
schoolhouses that would be a
| disgrace to any community. The
i fault is not altogether at the
icet of the Bureau as it is very
| patent to the observer that this1
government has millions for bat- 1
tleships while the entire educa
tional system must limp along
on skimpy appropriations.
Outline of Study
Up till three years ago, this
educational system had no out-'
line of study or course of helpful!
aids for the teacher. The Ter-!
i itorial Course of Study was sent
to the teaching force and with- |
out a single system of books to j
coincide with the Outline. When!
this fact wras brought to the at-1
tentiOn of Mr. Wagner, Chief of j
Bureau operations for Alaska, he I
promised such a course. Wheth
er this has been done or not we
cannot say at this time.
The system of books used were
a medley of antiquated ideas of
former pedagogies. The system
i« being improved slowly but
surely as the Brotherhood spurs
the Bureau to much greater ef
forts. Did the citizens of the
Territory have to resort to this
educational system we venture '
the assertion that they would!
send their children elsewhere for
an educational opportunity. Yet
there are those who do not
agree that the Brotherhood is
justified in demanding an equal
educational opportunity for In
dian children with that of other
citizens, while admitting that
most of the Indian children
stand more in need of such an
opportunity coming, ofttimes
from illiterate homes. Compare
the standard system of books of
the Territorial schools with the
antiquated system of the Bu
reau. generally; the building; the
teachers. After being given a
taste of the food of education is
it to be wondered that they de
mand the best?
JOSEPH O. RUDE
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