New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1918, Page 7

“INDIAN WARRIORS 'WITH GEN. PERSHING Six Thousand Rushed fo Colors When War Broke Out Washington, D. C.. Sept. 27.—Six ~'thousand American Indians, volun- teering for service in modern W fare, are now with General Persh- Ing’s army in France. Most of them have been assigned scout duty—a which arouses latent instincts in this pioneer American race, and re- “alls to the young warrior ancestral s of tribal battles story of the I with the Expeditionary IPorces is to the query What is partment doing in this - that department is affairs—homestead ion propects, Indian onal parks, pensions and aid about ire not sens: neer, for 20 v a a geologist for the Depart- e Interior. Today he is merican officers and sol- | to dig trenches so they ! properly. He is locating ritable places for dugouts. and danger of He is just one of the scientists who have o war in this most scientific of When hostilities broke the Interior Department rajsed no armies and built no ships. Tts functions were different It merely set to work to pnobilize the resources of the coun- try to meet shortages in war mater- ials, to invent hetter gas masks, to send its zeologists and map-makers to BEurope, and to stand behind the man behind the gun. Not until peace and reconstruction brings an inventory of the nation's resources’ can there he written the full story of this department’s war- time activities. Homesteads Protected Early in the war a hardy Western miner cntered the office of Secretary Lane and said he wanted.to “igo to. war. He cxplained however, that if he went v he could not hold his mining claims, and some ‘“‘slacker” wmight jump his claim while he was the front. The case was typical r of miners nd home- of whom wrote. the In- Department:. "I expect President will need some of us, and we dom’t want to be cansidered slow 'in- coming forward. ,Y6u tell him we are with him. But say to him some other chap can grab our homestead claims if we go to war. Now this isn't fair. A man o t to have a place to come back if he gets a chance to come back. %o we hope vou will get Congress to let things stand pat, just as they are, until we come home again. We don’t ask you to give us anything: only just a chance to keep what we have got." V The administration had lttle trou- ble in convincing Congress that homesteaders and claim holders, who volunteer for duty ‘over there” should have residence, improvements and payment liabilities waived while he is in the service. The status of - ploneers is preserved while they way at war. is is but an index of the way the Interior Department has fitted con- ditions of pence inte conditions of war; how its topographers, who are s ng and platting the Jand for rican troops in France to the miner and homesteaders bear- ing a rifle, the Interior Department's great outdoor family will play a vi- t41 part on the battlefronts of de- mocracy and freedom. A Georgia capitalist and manufac- turer asked Secretary Lane for war work just something useful without pay or titles “Why don’t you see that the pyrite talnes in your own section of the country are developed. We need py- tor the war,” said Mr. Lane that man is an altrulstic py- and production stead- ily increases Turned to War's Account. “More than any other government branch, perhaps, the work of the In- terior Department is linked both to the demands of war and the national r#cessities of the first few years of peace. From its Indian wards to the “Americanization” movement, headed | by Secret Franklin K. Lane, prac- t activity and bureau of Department have been The chem- become war- lands An inten- { 1ign has been and lateral tila acreage. Beds of pot- ash pyrites, suiphur, manganeso and other war metals and minerals have been 'ped to meet the demand of the ho he General Land O(-i slogical Survey and the f Mines, co-operating with | ral Staff, have gathered sta- made surveys of mineral lands, nitrate supplies and other sub- stances necessary for the successful conduct of the war. While the War and Navy Departments have supplied men for fighting on sea and land, the Ihterior Department, guardian of the domestic resources, has ation how to mobilize the ts and become independ- ont of foreign supply. | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMB LAZARUS CO. In The Square. On the Square 164 Main Street, New Britain. 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