The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
Programs Are Out for Sec ond Big Annual Fair to Held by Natives
 There.
SOME JUNEAU SPEAKERS
District Supt. Charles w. HaWkeSWorth and Mrs. HaWkeSWorth Expect
 to Attend.

If Signs of the times may be relied upon, all Native trails III Southeastern Alaska will lead to lily daburg during the first week Tn March. Programs are out for the second big annual fair, March to 8, inclusive, at which time indoor feasts and outdoor sports will occu- py the attention of several hundred Native people. Metlakatla-H -Hydaburg Klawock School Fair the program reads, but Chas. w. Hawkesworth, who has just made the rounds or his division, is authority for the as- surance that thirteen school districts will compete for blue-ribbon honors. The MetIakatla basketball team,
 some nine gentlemenly young Indian
 students whose unavailing efforts to wrest championship honors from our own splendid high school boys is still fresh in the memory of Jul neau's lovers of clean sport. are billed for several games of basket ball at the fair.
 There is to be a track meet that includes tugs of war, pole vault1ng. broad and high jumping one-hundred yard dashes and half-mile races, which means insense enthusiasm for hose hardy enough to witness con .ests in the open. Educational tests
 n arithmetic, spelling, oratory, the
 discussion of serious problems per
 taining to the future conduct of
 business affairs, and a grand exhibit of school work will furnish profita-
 ole entertainment for all.
 Inasmuch as there is no age limit
 n government schools in Alaska
 he youngest youngsters are included )n the program. A baby contest is o be one of the special features Of he fair Every child under the age of one year may be entered and prizes are offered for the best cared for child. Therein lies useful esson to Native motherhood.
 Meanwhile the dads and grandads will be busy considering other phas es of the fair. Civic pride, patriot ism, Alaska's importance in the great world war, the "Hooonah plan ,f medical service, a synopsis ol
 which appeared recently in the col
 lmns of this paper, and Red Cross activities among the Natives, are tc )e special features of the indoor meetings.
 Publicity is a great space de ,troyer," says MT. Hawkesworth Let the people of one isolated sec ion know what the people of anoth er section are doing; give them ar opportunity of discussing their lead ng problems, show them the handi york that speaks for itself, and you ind that not only is interest awak ened and effort stimulated, but each delegate or visitor has something tC give for the good of the majority as we'll as something to take back home or the good of his own community Anyone familiar with the annual reindeer fairs held in the far north lUoWo tHS llutH Ol tIio oooOi eioh William T. Lopp, chief of the Alaska livsion of the United State Bureau If Education, has tried out the policy with lasting benefits to each com nunity reached Distance is, of course, the greatest obstacle to these
 3et-together meetings in the North md West but here in Southeastern Alaska where the Natives own mod ern power boats and are accustomed
 0 travelling about, there is better
 show for success. Cooperation
 through competition is the keynote
 If MT. Hawkesworth's efforts to
 standardize the educational work in
 lis district, and this annaul fair is a quickening touch to old and young
 alike But the Natives themselves Ire not the only ones who will profit by attendance at the fair; some twenty teachers in the Alaska School Service are expected to be in attendance, experienced Alaskans to lead in discussion and give the benefits of their experimentation, and those young in the Native work to compare what they see with edu- catiOnal exhibits outside of Alaska. Thus the annual fair takes on the importance of a Teachers Institute, from which each one will return to his field work with new zest and courage. Prominent among the speak CTS are two men well known ln Juneau, Mir. w. G. Beattie, former district superintendent of Native Schools in the Southeast. now sta toned at Metlakatla, and Rev. Ed ward Marsden. Mir. J. P. Wells, for merly a county superintendent or schools in Oregon and now in charge of the Hydaburg work; Mir. c. E. Hibbs, who erected the Hydaburg school and is now in charge Of the government work at Klawock. and MT. George Haldane. Native, who for the past several years has served the community of Hydaburg as may or, councilman and sstore director. will also be heard in addresses and discussion. District Superintendent