The Alaska daily empire., 1918-07-10
SPORTS


 Americans are in the war to the limit.
 Enlisting in the military services and the Red Cross with an enthus, iasm unsurpassed by their white brethren and pouring out their treas ure freely by subscriptions to the Liberty loans, the Indians are doing their share with a fine courage which gives one more illustration of the incapacity of the German mind for computing the bond between rae es when engaged in a fight for free dom.
 Subscriptions by Indians to the Liberty Loans have totalled nearly $13,0O0000, according to figures com piled by Cato Sells. Commissioner cent subscription of about $40 for all Indians in the United States. Adults and minors have been about equilly represented among the sub scribers.
 The number of Indians in the mill tary services probably is more than 5000 MT. Sells is having prepared complete record of their partici patton in the great war. About g.. 200 of the total have been indexed and classified, showing 1900 in the Army, 300 in the Navy and 100 in other military work. Their willing ness to bear their share of the hard ships and dangers of military life is evidenced by the fact that 1,600 of those classified volunteered for ser vice, while 600 were drafted-prob- ably greater percentage of volun- teers than can be shown by any other of the numerous races repre- sented in the United States. As soldier the Indian makes good with a rush. Indian schools, with an attendance. of 30,000 annual ly. have military drill, almost with out exception and to preliminary training in military life, the young Tndan soldier adds additionally fine physique One Indian school has a service flag with 150 stars, all but 15 representing volunteer enlist
 ments. Another school has flag
 with 175 stars.
 While the young braves are over
 seas fighting an enemy whose cruel ty is more refined and deadly than the uncivilized Indians ever practic- ed, the grizzled old warriors of oth- CT days, men who remember when the American West was only emerg | ing from wilderness and the white | man still was regarded as a foe. remain on the reservations, smoking the pipe of peace with their white
 neighbors ard preaching the doctrine of patriotism to their. people. Sons md gradsons of Chiefs John Grass. i Joseph, John Call and other Indian | leaders are in the United States Ar my
 Indian women, likewise, are dOinP | their share by aiding in Red Cross | work Although a complete yoca' .ional course of four years in nurs- | ing is of comparative recent intro l 1uction in the larger schools of the
 reservation. six young women have
 been accepted for. hospital service | abroad and others are being pre- | pared for similar work Indian ,chool papers carry attractive adver. | tisements for the Red Cross. One
 reservation boasts of Red Cross 1 banner in every home. Saturday af ternoans are devoted by the women 1 to sewing for Army hospitals and | the boys give up. their, holidays to
 gathering spaghnum moss in. the
 bogs and marshes for use iR surgi
 cal pads and ambulance pillows. Separate units for Indians have
 not been organized by the Army be;
 cause of the desire to have them rub ! elbows with fellow citizens and be- cone better acquainted. r.
 "Wonderful and spontaneous fide'- ity to the highest welfare of the na- ton" is the way Commissioner | Sells describes the response of the l Indian to his country's need.
 q hail this growing manifesto ton in Indian life as a sure basis for the strong and trustworthy ci.i-
 zenrhip to which our efforts are di-
 rected." a