The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1929, Page 10

THE BISMAR By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Aug. 24.—‘Work for the Indians!” is the keynote of the program which Secretary of the In- terior Ray Lyman Wilbur is working out for the rehabilitation of the 350,- 000 red men on the governments’ 200 reservations. “We want to get them the reservations,” Wilbur says. Res vations are the worst kind of places for them and they ought to have a chance to share in American pros- Perity.” The next session of Congress prob- ably will receive requests from the Indian bureau for authorization and appropriations for an Indian empl« ™ent agency, which will be the fo most item in plans now under formu- lation by Wilbur and Indian Commis- sioner Charles J. Rhoads. He Hasn't Much Chance Wilbur and Rhoads arc the theory that the Ind opportunity for productive effort is largely responsible for his many troubles. Health conditions on the reservations, which have long been a public scandal, are now traced to under-nourishment brought about by the Indian's inability to feed himself. Baby death rates and tuberculosi: death rates have been four or f times as high among the Indians ‘among white populations, and tra oma has for years been a racial scourge. The custom has been to attribute this to the non-resistance of Congressional committees have gone | to the reservations to investigate, seen the terrible conditions for themselves and returned to yell for more doctors, nurses and -hospitais. But Wilbur believes he has gotten to the root of the trouble when he cites under-nourishment as the great evil of the Indians. | The Institute for Government Re search, after its exhaustive study, Ported that 90 per cent of the reser- jonce had a great deal of tuberculosis ltime they were small children until i WE'LL MAVE A FINE DINNER To NIGHT , TILDA — » AND DON'T FORGET ‘SHE FINGER BOWLS = DION'T HEY USE HEM WHERE You LAST worRKED ? and half a million Mexicans have 1 imported for work in the last 10 that, with the tens of thou- Is Of these jobs could have been over by Indians. The Indians e ed as good workers, clever with hands, tools and machines. The interior secretary's theory, of course, is a frightful commentary on the intelligence and competence of ious administrators of Indian af- It is a tacit admission that the ¢ politicians who have land- ed Interior Department and Indian bureau jobs in the past have let their situation go from bad to worse while s suffered and died. nment disclaims responsi- for feeding its Indian wards. been many years since they rationed. Reservation superin- tendents are still supposed to ration destitute and decrepit men and wom- en, but that hasn't affected the gen- condition of under-nourishment. William Atherton Du Puy of the Interior Department, a lifelong stu- dent of the Indians, tells your corre- spondent of an instance where the “Work for Indians” theory has al- ready demonstrated was out on the Sa 3 ona recently talking to Hugh Patton, a full-blooded Prima Indian who keeps a store there. More Work—Less Sickness Du Puy knew that these Indians TAME YOUR HAND oFF!! | LETS SEE WHETHER ITS LEADS OR and trachoma and he asked Patton why these diseases had mostly disap- peared. “The Pimas used to be very poor,” he quotes Patton as replying. “They were stranded here with no chance to make a decent living. From the they grew old they rarely had all they wanted to eat. They were unable to throw off disease, so weak were their in recent years they have way and earning money. y have been working especially JO = MRS. GUMP = THEY ALWAYS WASHED “WEIR NANDS BEFORE THEY SAT DOWN = I Say ITs EADS " HAVE YOU ORDERED ‘THE ICE CREAM ? 18 Your SALAD DRESSING DE * AND BE SURE ‘To PUT PLENTY OF NUTS IN SHE CAKE — ru. CRACK NO MORE NUYS vo DAY= MY JAW _NURTS NOW AS THOUGH YD BEEN HIT A ONCLE HaRRyLL BE SURPRISED \NHEN WE BREAK THE AeWS To WIM= NE DOESNT ExPEcr OS T SAV WELL ‘60 r vation Indians were under-nourished.|in the cotton fields of Salt River Wilbur says they have lacked food| Valley. They have had plenty of ‘because they have lacked jobs. On! money to bi food and they have the reservations they are isolated and!been well nourished. So they have absolutely idle, with no chance to’ thrown off the diseases they used to earn any money. So they sit and/have and got well. The young ones starve and die. Meanwhile, the bh not contracted disease. They southwestern country calls for aor te a quite healthy people.” GOING PLACESF AND {FL TURNED (T OFF IT WAS AFTER T CALLED MRS.TYTE AND ASKED HER TO TAKE CARE OF OUR MAIL-THEN T-NO SiR, TDIDN'T TURN IT OFF. OH, DEAR! NOW IT'LL BE RUNNING ALL THE TIME WE'RE GONE N\ WELL, THINK! LLOCKED THE WINDOWS, THINK OF EXACTLY ] LKNOW,AND PULLED WHAT YOU DID ‘THE BLINDS. THEN 1 BEFORE ~ou WENT TO THE DESK AND LEFT THE HOUSE / WROTE A NOTE To THE MILKMAN TO STOP THE MILK. LET'S SEE, WELL, \F 1 JUST KNEW FOR SURE WHETHER T LEFT IT TURNED ON OR OFF, ONE OR THE OTHER, L COULD GO TO SLEEP BUT AS SOON AS T CLOSE eit, you stop (_GABBING * ABOUT THAT (CE-BOX? 1 PAY ON MY LIST OF THE BILLS, SO THINGS TO DO. OH, WELL, THERE'S NO USE FRETTING OVER THAT. INFERNAL. (CE CHEST TLL SEEING THINGS Port Huron, Mich., Aug. 24.—After 20 years, it’s rather difficult to under stand how alleys and barns and cellars and garrets and fences cast their particular magic over boyhood T've come, within the past few weeks, to have a tremendous respect for the child imagination. in a new and narrow won find enchanted lands in everything To be sure, an alley was not an alley when I was a lad. It was a thoroughfare filled with elegant hid- ing places when you were playing any of the hide-and-seek games. Also 11 removed you from the reality of the main streets, with their voices of searching parents. And there were barns to hide in, and be- hind, when you wanted to roil a corn- silk cigaret. ** * Nor was a back yard a back yard, except when the grass needed cuttir or the carpets needed beating. The carpets, however, offered some com- | Pensation for one's effort could be converted into tents at nightfall and one could play “camping out.” ‘They Garrets were filled with old clothes for “dressing up” games and old trunks and grips that were far less mysterious than they appeared. Still | they yielded faded magazines that could be pored over for hours on rainy days. And they were thrice de- sirable since parents generally de- manded to know why you “went up there and got all dirty.” Barn lofts ‘were simply grand places to pore over Dick and Nick Carter. After 20 years, I regret to say, the barn seemed singularly like a thou- sand barns I have seen. And I could more or less understand why my mother plead with me to “stay out of that dirty alley.” grown-ups | and their traffic. It was far from the | | The school house was still there—a little one-storied, one-reomed affair. It had the shape and manner of all the little red school houses of the world. It’s hue happened to be a dusty gray. I did not need to in- quire to learn that Mrs. Coyle must. be dead. But “Miss Bessie” was still upon the earth. The school house had ceased to be such in the accepted term. They taught stenography and shorthand there now—crafts that. were mysterious and far-away when the little gray school house had been “our school.” xo ® Motion picture palaces have taken the place of the old opera house, where we climbed countless stairs to | the gallery, with dimes clutched in small palms—climbed them almost, as ‘oon as the napkins had been tucked in their rings, so that we could get seats along the front rail. But before we went, there was a hurried huddle in the barn while we sneaked out a few choice numbers of the latest | yellow-back. | Once, trying to emulate some of our older and rougher fellows in the igger heaven” set, two of us essayed to chew tobacco. And cared little thereafter whether or not a perform- ance was held. x oe ok But, after all—boy or man—it's the | home town. Still. I come away after 20 years with the impression that the “old; | home town” and the swimming hole ; and the sand lot are gorgeous places to visit in reverie of a winter night when the wood is crackling in the erate. For then you can conjure up the boy who was without actually | looking upon the barns, the alleys and | the garrets, | GILBERT SWAN. | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘YOUR CHILDREN & Clse Roberts Barn CPG by NRA Servicatne There are two reasons why chi dren should learn the idea of “mus' in hel in the home, besides the ethical one of character training. To begin with, home to children means world. To end up with, the sooner we get used to the idea, the better, that must work in some way or paother for his existence. Better for [ LITTLE JOE i Ween rennc Resp. ‘ethics Vou 1 children to get accustomed to it when| they are little. i As for home being his world,! jit is actually that, until he is old| enough to enlarge his sphere by school and other outside interests. |. Even then, it is around home that jhe weaves most of his experiences. There Are “Musts” And so, in spite of the compan- jionship and friendship between par- ents and children, or rather, because of it, there should be the under- standing on the part of every child that certain things are expected of him that he “must” do. First of all, children must-learn that part of their duty is to be punc- tual; that if they have to be dragged out of bed, dragged to meals, spur- red on errands,.and coaxed to get at lessons, they are decidedly being wrenches in the household machinery and causing needless trouble for their busy mothers. 3 They should learn that they “must” snap out of it and be on time. This is being a help in sort of way, but a necer one. Even the littlest ones Music lessons “must” be practiced perfection all at/at a certain hour without threats. everything else, pert Some day they |2, hesitate to put the ‘state seal on i (Abe gi Rag id aco shou! hung shoes and coats 'p LL, IE \ KEEP ON TRANELIN' LIKE U'VE BEEN DOIN’, BE UP WITH THE ESKIMOS SOOM — GUESS 1" HERE FER “TH, NIGHT — AND THERE ISN'T A THING IN IT \\ € ‘So “THEN EAT caNDLes UP. || OX GosH, t NORTH HUH? WELL, I'LL: JUST PRACTICE UP A BIT— THEN ('LL READ A WHILE, @N!, TURN . TROT THE MORE LTHINK ABOUT IT—SAY, 1 BELIEVE 1 TURNED THAT THING OFF AFTER ALL WHOLE “THING - KINDA (MM, MY EXES T KEEP GOING BACK AND TRYING TO RECALL EXACTLY WHAT T DID BEFORE WE LEFT AND THINKING WHAT 1 COULD HAVE SOUGHT WITH THE MONEY ‘THAT THING WILL EAT OP WELL, KIN “a BEAT THIS? | CAN'T = READ; NOW — {ATE Pee wc if. Y iy Wp aay Sa Sz a Z, Vee Gj hy yet lyyyp