The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-01-19
MUCH WORK
IS BEING DONE
FOR INDIANS
Along the Lines Of Placing
Them on self-Sustain-
ing Basis.
R EP OR T SUBMITTED
By Commissioners Valentine, to
the Secretary of the
Interior.
R EP oRT SUBMITTED
BY Commissioner Valentine, to
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I'm attempting to put Uncle sam.
Indian wards on \ selr-sustainine
basis, the Bureau OF indian Affa.rs
during the fiscal year ended June
so. 1910, bent every effort to brin.
about that end, according to the an.
nual report of Commissioner Robert
G. Valentine to the secretary of the
interior. Through the efforts Of Its
educational. farming and employ.
ment branches the bureau has beer
well rewarded5in its efforts to make
the Indian a competent citizen OF
the United States.
Wonderful progress was made dur,
ing the year covered by the report
in teaching the Indians how to work
their own lands. says the commits
sioner. Speaking on the farming
problem, Commissioner Valentine
says The Indian service realizes
that instruction in farming is an es.
sential basic part of its present ed.
Iucational policy and is, therefore
making use of every possible re.
SQUIRE in order to promote farming
among Indians" During the yeaj
number OF expert farmers were
employed to teach the Indian the arr
of agriculture. Declaring that the
agricultural fair has been convinc.
ingly proved a means OF stimulating
interest In farming among the IN.
dams by its success among the
Grows, Commissioner Valentine CON
tnues. The fair:Pronotes healthy
rivalry among thei.Indians and fur,
nishes a rational basis for meeting
together. which ought eventually to
take the place ,of. the indissrlmihate
gatherings of 1nsIians, which e5Sre
usually productive of great harm. "
Reporting that two large railway
systems have offered 10 provide OPP
irortunlties for school boys who are
learning trades or who are mechan-
ically inclined, the commissioner
says that "the systematic connect
ing OF the industrial education OF
the schools with the real work of the
world will mean the dawning of n
new day IN Indian education, and,
from the human side the bridging
ever OF that critical period in boys
life when he leaves school and starts
to work, is a service Of far-reaching
importance. Sympathetic direction
during those two or three critical
years" the commissioner goes on TO
say, will mean the economic and
moral salvation of many boys and
young men"
In declaring that the health work
OF the bureau is not merely to care
for and cure those who are sick nor
the reduction of the death rate, but
rather to increase the vitality OF
the Indian race and to establish for
it a new standard OF physical we'll
being" the commissioner says that
one Of the principal features Of the
attack is AN intensive attack upon
the two diseases that most seriously
lmenace the health # the Indians
\ trachoma. and tuberculosis.
AS a result of the increased APP
preparation for the suppression OF
the liquor traffic, the report says,
/ unusually extensive operations
wre conducted covering practically
every state in the Union in which
Indians reside. During the year,
the commissioner says. 4 ,657 new
cases weer placed on the dockets,
i 1857 arrests were made, 747 indict-
ments secured, and 1885 convictions
obtained Cases against ESQ per-
sons were dismissed and 90 persons
were acquitted"
i The commissioner says that the
bureau has been aided in its efforts
in this line by the cooperation OF
the state officials. and continues:
ut is gratifying to find in a few
cases that the Indians themselves
have circulated petitions addressed
10 the home city or town councils
asking that saloon licenses he re.
voked and the places closed"
I Progress. says the commissioner
is being made in the work OF con
Meeting the Indian schools with tn;
public schools, and the association
OF Indian children with white chill
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