The Tomahawk., 1917-12-27
IN co N PETENT!

ton in the following terms: in
competent, is relative term, de
noting a want of the. requisite
qualifications for performing {
given act, SERVICE" etc.
During the past two years OF
more officials and employees of the
Indian bureau, including Indian
agencies, have permitted them
selves to indulge, with event satiri-
cal gusto, to brand large number
of people, full and mixed blood In
dams. with the above censurable
title. This has been most mani
testify evidenced in cases where
members of the reservation had
become beneficiary to certain sums
of mouey, derived from sales of
land, tribal funds or otherwise,
and where the money was to be
paid through the sluggish and
tOrtuous channels of the Indian
department; and the gravity of in
competency being gagged, general
ly, by the amount to be paid the
recipient. And how some wealthy
red men and women have escaped
the forlorn doom of the poor house
is something marvellous. Certain it
is that it was not because having
money to their credit they had
plenty to spend at any one time.
This disdainful discrimination
against people who manage to
live comfortably along self-sup-
porting lines, in the pursuit of
industrious vocations, and who are
permitted to receive, on an aver
age, SIS per capita annually, this
from a big tribal fund to their
credit in the United States Tress.
j s"E, s.JLF aE ~.
dIalrFand who are assessed sg'th.a
burden Of $3.50, 900 to 5000, 600 an
nually, and this mainly to defray
the expenses Of big, fat salaries of
host of officials and employees is,
to say the least, becoming exceed
ingly unpleasant, burdensome and
damnable. The practice is the
more contemplate since the no.
torious fact prevails that the most
incompetent agency subordinate,
be they men or women, are, to all
outward appearances, permitted to
enjoy delightful immunity against
dismissal, and this through rules
and regulations'' of the Indian
bureau and insured by the c'inch
and barrage fire of that mounmen-
til political camoufiage, civil ser
vice. .-~
| Within the past few years
charges have been perferred
against several employees of this
reservation, some of them out of
the mere subordinate classes, on
various charges, but such charges
have, invariably, been partially in
vestigated and their disposition
| terminated at the silk gloved hands
of the white wash squad and the
accused employe given a slight
reprimand and permitted to rest
secu re: on the job while the Indians
|continue to foot the bills -
Recently developments of a de
plorable nature in connection with
the management of the govern
meut boarding school heating plant,
especially that portion which heats
the boys dormitory have come to
light which manifestly betray a
most deplorable lack OF efficiency
and executive ability on the gener-
al administration of the govern
ment Indian school service of this
agency. About the 10Th Of De-
cember the weather, which had
heretofore prevailed fair and uIod-
crate, suddenly turned very cold.
This sudden termination IF pleas
ant weather must have caught the
Indian 10 .rd1ng school manageme.
mapping" for Oh the morning in
question it was discovered that the
| greater portion of the piping and
radiator system of the boys dormi-
tory was practically wrecked,