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V HAT AN EDUCATOR THINKS
OF FEDERAL PATERNALISM
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Prof. ,T. C. Nelson, principal of the
Salem High Schools speaking of the
paternalistic system of ••-•k atioi.
foisted upon the Indian o: a lettei
to a former pupil, said:
‘I miss the Chomawa pupils here
since the school has introduced a
ful! high school course. '1 i 1 won
dor sometimes if this cau- ;i pater
nal supervision which <■»::* govern
n tilt is exercising over the I'hemawa
pupils is really preparing ihom for
lif.» as well as when they .‘ me here
and lied to hold their own on equal
terms with the oth« r rat e If you
hijet never been thrown into direct
contact with our people and found
that you could command their r«
spect and good-'* ill, you " 'aid have
he n more timid about issertin»
yourself as you are now d -ing. I am
afraid sometimes that we me killing
our Indians with kindne-s ”
We do not know the brand o
graduates that Cliemawa High
Srht.ol is turning out todav as com
pi red to the finished product of Sa
lem High and other High School-'.
No" can we grade the graduates o'
the Haskell School in Kansas, neve •
having met any of them. Judging
from entrance conditions of thei"
graduates in other schools we won' 1
sav that they are not on par with
the public school system whew
every one is on his toes, putting
foith his best effort at all times o‘
be left behind.
Due can learn to swim only bj
swimming; to acquire speed only b
travelly in speedy company; to
speak a foreign language by livin
in tlie atmosphere of that language
The same is true of Indian eduea
turn—English is most quickly learn
ed where the language is universal
and where the curriculae is workei
out to its highest oegree of profi
e' hi in rural districts great effort *
limited to one teacher for eiglr
cieiicy.
The parent of Petersburg or an'
ether town would not for a moment
think of having their teaching force:
Fruited to one teached for eigh
grades, ' ?f the school populati n',
were in p’. ri- • that of Am
Federal Durban Sen '-Is . •■> not
recognized the! !hi« system is oth
er than obsolete in city centers and
even inrural disricts great effort it
made to have the schools , graded
with teaching force in proportion to
scnool population. W ork is so stand
ardized that the pupils new mak<
progress in proportion to the efFi
ciency of the schools.
The un-American system of edu
caring the several Indian races may
be blamed upon the ethnologists, bu
ri.tucrats and others who hope to
dotive monetary interest from the
svstem which holds these people in
ignorance. No other race coming
to the shores of America are com
polled to live unto themselves, and
by themselves and for themselves
Rather every race coming to the
land of libei * y are urged and invite
ed to leave behind them all idea of
foroin connections. It is time that
Americans treated the Indian as
human beings and invite him to be
an American and not to remain for
ever an Indian-American.
LOOK AT YOUR NICKEL
Right at the nose of the Indian
chief pictured on one side of the
nickel is the word “LIBERTY.”
A thing to iook at, hope for but not
for him to have. Always in front j
of him but never his—the same lib
erty given the foreign horn without !
reservation is the Indian’s only by j
virtue of h's willingness to go to *
court for It.
GIFTS AND CIGARETTES
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A gift of $132 from the Alaska
Native Rrotherhood made it possild
for us to have the hoys’ old dormi
tory renovated and some book
shelves built in. With a new con
f'deum rug and pretty draperies,
iht room is very attractive and tii«
little girls have a much needed and
much appreciated living room. This
gilt comes as a personal gift, to ho
tw d for something not included ii.
j t lit* budget.
\Ve have organized a Loyal Tern
perance Legion and it is interesting
’o note the children’s efforts to im
part the knowledge they have ac
quired to the village children. Our
bright mischievous Archie told how
“We are going to make a good boy
of Chauncy. You know, he smokes
cigarettes, and any boy is a fool
when he smokes after he knows
what it will do to him.”—Haines
House, Alaska—printed in ‘‘Wo
men and Missions, New York.
Recognizing the importance o.'
character development and having
a soft spot in their hearts for the
motherless and fatherless, the Bro
therhood each year at their conven
n >n pass the collection plate on the
mt day of the convention. No
str'ngs to the gift save that it shall
bo for he benefit of the orphan chil
ln n in the Haines Home. This is
one phase of the Brotherhood work
that the Alaska press makes no men
tvm of. It is not advertised by the
Brotherhood, nor would mention oF
it be made now but for the reprint
from the r agazine published by th
Presbyterian Board of National Mis
dons.
FIRM PREVENTION WEEK
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Through out the entire country
-^ire Prevention Week will be ob
served for the next seven days. The
,veek has been designated officially
' v [’resident Coolidge for education
al activities to reduce preventabl
.oss by fire. The second week in
October is always chosen as Fire
Prevention Week because it mark
the anniversary of the great Chicag
-re of 1871.
\ comprehensive program has
been arranged for local participa
tion. Emphasis will be laid on th.
fact that most fires can be eliminated
and that a vast majority of those
which do start can be controlled
with p minimum of loss if precaut
ionary measures arc- taken before
hand.
Past- year the total fire loss of the
nation was approximately $47 8,000.
000 as compared with $560,000,000
hi 1026 and thus far this year there
has been a further decrease as com
pared with the corresponding period
of 19 27. The National Fire Waste
Council and the Insurance Depart
ment of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, which are joint
ly conducting a nation-wide fire pre
vontion program, believe that thru
continued coordinated effort further
progress can be made. America’s
f;ro losses are still far in excess of
those sustained by European conn
trms and a let-up in activity at this
time would undouptedly make the
margin of difference even greater.
In a statement concerning the acti
vities to be carried on during Fire
Prevention Week, the Chamber if
Commerce of the United States says:
“Through the observence of Fire
Prevention Week, every community
has an unusual opportunity to bene
fit itself and he country as a whole. (
if he fire waste of the country is to j
y‘. further reduced, each community ^
irrist make its contribution, as the j
;r,ial losses of the nation are the |
iggregate of losses sustained in j
;\ery city, town and village in the j
entire country.
‘There is no selfish interest in the
hr-* pre\ tuition movement. its goal
is the conservation of life and pro
perty from needless destruction. The
p ogram for the coming week can be
made highly successful if every man.
woman and child will but follow the
simple suggestions which will b
emphasized.”
EXIST BECAUSE OF l’OJJCE.
It has been proved here (Wash
ington) as in Chicago that neither
racketeering nor big scale bootleg
ghig can exist without the conni t
anc" of the police. The police force
of Chicago apparently has bee a
turned over to the underworld. That
of 1 hiladelphia is so honeycombed
with crookery that the city has been
f'r years, according to the grain
jv.-v, the pivot of Ihe rum trade:
shipping “booze” to New York and
even to Chicago.
George W Elliott, former Direct
or of Public Safety, received “Christ
mas gifts” from the head of th •
bootleg ring: and one Philadelphia
policeman with a salary of $r>0. a
week, banked $S,400 in 14 weeks.
Pilly Sunday has been asked to
bold a revival, and see if be cannot
-tit up Philadelphia to a sense of
civic decency. Pity some one did
n't think to try that when the Vare
machine was stuffing baJUotboxes
!two years ago!
In both Philadelphia and Chica
go, the alliance between politicians
and racketeers has been close. Tin
grand jury in Philadelphia promise
more- data on this point.
Rome one should push the inquirv
a step farther, and learn the con
no.-fion between racketeering an
big business, especially the utilitv
business. In Chicaga, for example,
the racketeers are always on the
side which is being financed by Tn
sull.—LABOR, Washington, D. C.
. SLAPJACKS WITHOUT EGOR . .
Wei', Mr. Editor, I’m writing to -,e
if you can’t help me out in a lift' ■
matter what has come up. You see.
mv stomach has went back on me
lately and the doc says there's a
whole lot of things I can’t eat. an l
one of them is eggs. So that lets
/out the ham-and for breakfasL
wh’ch I used to lean on pretty
heavy, and the wife asked me what
JI would like to have in place of ’em
“Flapjacks,” I savs.
“You mean griddle cakes,” sh •
sn s.
"Call ’em anything you want,” I
save, “only the right name is flap
jacks.”
So she went and looked in the
cookbook for to see how to make
them and then she come back. “You
oci.’t have no flap jacks,” she says.
“Why”? I says.
“Because they got eggs in them.-’
she says. “Look.”
So I looked, and sure enough
they has eggs in them. All except
buckwheat cakes, but I wouldn’t
give a nickel for a buckwheat cake.
So we ain’t had no flapjacks yet.
and to hear my wife talk you would
think she was doing me a favor.
Now, Mr. Editor, you can’t fool
me that easy. I know you can
have flapjacks without eggs, because
when I was in the army we had
them, and if they would have found
a egg within fifty miles of where w-j j
wa° they would of sent it home
for a souvenir. Specially I remem
heT* one time, the day after the arm
istice, when we was sent up to clean
up a P. C. about ten mile north of
the Molleville Farm. We wasn’*
no sooner there when Corpl. Friebel.
what had charge of the detail, he
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come to me and let on he couldn’t ;
haidly do nothing for thinking about i
flapjacks.
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“I just got flapjacks on my mind,”
ho says, “it’s driving me crazy.”
“Well,” I says, “let’s make our
sc-lf some flapjacks.
“What with” he says. They ain’t
give us nothing but corn willie and
hardtack and instant coffee.”
“Listen,” I says, “Ycu let me off
this here shovel work and I’ll rustle
the flapjacks ”
So he says O. K. with him, and
all the others says O. K. with them,
and T went out with a gunnysack
and told them Mess Sergeants in the
Infantries that we didn’t have noth
k.liU t'cl Clu.0 O' U. i. (.1 li. .V
us up? So about five of them fell
for it, and what 1 fining back was a
su -k of flour and some bacon for tr
grease the griddle, and some salt
and ,sugar a nd baking powder, and
maybe some beans to kind of help 1
out. And not no eggs at all. If 1
would have asked them Mess Ser
geants for a egg they would have
pasted me. And Corpr. 'Friebel he
made the Hap jacks and they was fine
excepting only we made the install*
e
■ofiee so strong we felt we was full
of hop, and when them doughboy®
commence shooting the signal am
munition that night for to cele
brate the war was over, we didn’t
know was them rockets in the ai»*
or in our heads.
Now, Mr Editor, what I want
is that you print, this, and then may
be some of them old buddies what
was cooks in the war will tell how
to make flapjacks without eggs. Be
cause I moan I feel just like Corpi
Friebel, I’m hungry and 1 want flap
jacks.
EX PRIVATE 79th DIVISION ..
New York.
Pernaps pome sourdough artisr
can fiolp out doughboy and sen 1
him a recipe for the kind the old
prosper for used to flop in the hills
Vi^n hen fruit was as scarce as ra
ven’s eggs.
John D. Rockerfeller made his
fidiar raising turkeys when a boy of
oven. He made his fortune raising
he price on gasoline.
Uniorluuateiy, those who have
the power to make us happiest can
also make us the most miserable.
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The last census shows that there |
were 4,431,905 people in the United
States unable to read or write. The
figures were only for those over tc n
years ot age.
BRING HIM TO PETURSBIRG
“lie specialize in home killing—ad
in a' Minnesota paper.
II MRN NBEDKB TO FRRI) PYTH
ON.—i^sliville Citizen. Now. now.
our population is only 1500 hut we
i could jparo a few.
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Phone 55
For Your
FRUIT
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VEGETABLES
Modern Grocery
The Men's Shop
In the NEW location in the
Bank Building. Ready to serve
its patrons with the latest ha
berdashery, caps, shirts, neck
wear - Hose, sweaters and ev
erything new and up-to-date.
We also call for and deliv
er yov cleaning and pressing.
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is tke -Human
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controlling
fiealth and
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BLADDER
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ILIMBS—
Chiropractic
releases
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PovJer
Within
THE BOTTOM IS WHERE YOU
START I P
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There is always one consolation
about reaching the depths—you can
go down no further, and if you trav
el at all, must travel up. This is
particularly true about your health
i'- you have failed to obtain relief for
a chronic trouble.
You have tried other methods—
did you ever try removing the cause
of your trouble? Most dis-ease m
due to spinal irritation of motor
m rves which serve every organ of
toe body. Chiropractic adjustments
remove this irritation.
Tty my Chiropractic health meth
od I correct clis-eases of the eyes
e^rs, nose, throa't, lungs, heart,
stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels and
lower organs.
LEON ENSCH, D. C.
Palmer Graduate 1014
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T’ev. W. J. Maakestad, Pastor,
Sunday School at 10:30
Morning worship: 11:30,
Subject: The Offense.”
Ton are cordially invited.
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Host Quality Goods
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Fresh Doughnuts, i up Cakes, oo i
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j tersburg Friday morning, leaving
I or Juneau via Kake and way pun >
about noon.
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