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Arizona republican., 1918-06-02

Dr. Philander P. Claxton of the United States bureau of education has stated that he believes that no group of persons in the United States has such opportunity and power for service of the highest and best type as have the woman repre- sented by the general federation of women's clubs. Says Dr. Claxton:
 Club women with their keen intel ligence, strong emotions, high ideals, wide influence and power of CO., operation should be able to accom- plish any task they resolutely and consistently set their minds to. Their possibilities are increased by the fact that large numbers of them have had the finest training and many of them
Arizona republican., 1918-06-02

Do not waIt till tomorrow-phone that WANT AID. to The Republican and dispose of, or get what you want.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-02

are possessed of sufficient wealth to
 enable them to give their time to altruistic work without having their attention distracted by having to provide the means for their own
Arizona republican., 1918-06-02

The Business Girls club will hold it's last meeting for the season Tues day. June II, when officers for the ensuing year will be elected. The meeting will be held on the grounds of the Y home on Second and Van Buren streets. The club was enter : tained on Tuesday evening by the Y. w. c. A. board. the gathering be- ing held at the home of Mrs. s. D. Futile. Games and other features made the social event one of pleas ure to the club girl guests.
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18
Mee-qwaitch, Thanks
AWfu||y.

! In behalf of the General Council,
Minnesota Chlppewas, THE ToMA-
HAWK, which has been established
by the said Council as "the official
organ of the Minnesota Chlppe
was," desires to respectfully ex
tend its grateful and unstinted
to the municipality
and populace generally Of the pro-
gress,ve City of the Pines, Bemid
j, for the very gracious welcome
and Freedom of the city" so gen.
erously accorded the members of
the said Council and during the
session just closed. We should be
ungrateful did We omit to extend
q big share of our grateful thanks
to mine host G. G. Lyckan, of the
Hotel Markham, for gracious and
generous hospitality rendered, like
wise toe warm, genial courtesy,
the make you feel at home'' kind,
and which makes one feel that this
good old world is 4 fit place to live
in after all, even for an injun.
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18

-sH.- - o. } -- p ~
The biggest sensation for some
time 10 newspaper circles was tue
arrest last week Of DR.. E. A.
Rumely, editor and owner OF the
New York Evening Mail, on the
charge Of falsifying his reports to
the government IS to the owner
ship Of his concern. It is charged
that he vas furnished more than a
million dollars BY German agents
in 1915 SO that he might get con-
troll of the paper. He Was held
under bonds Of $10Q e0o. this Kas 9
later reduced 70 $35, ,00o, whichhe
was trying to obtain at last re.
ports. The New York Evening
Mail made much ado about A. 9.
Townley and his Non partisan
League, and upon the occasion o.
Townley's visit to,New York, the
Mail gave him much space IN both
its news and editorial columns.
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18
.,.5o Per YEAR II ADVANCE

An Indian by the name OF
Coffeg, servile henchman of the
Indian bureau, believed he had
grounds to break up the convention
in session here this week. A little
cold water, however, settled the
Cofey grounds. -Bemidji Sentinel
Brother Marcum We are inclined
to believe that you over estimated
the nature of the sediment
..'settled. > We incline to the be-
lief that it was more III the nature
. of postl lmort)um' proposition and
of q very unsavory and ill-smelling
kind at that. Requiescat in peace.
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18
Unity Of Purpose Through
Publicity.

Some time ago we picked up a
copy of Golfers Weekly upon the
cover of which was q quotation
from Wythe Williams article.
Emblazoned there in large type
was this Injunction: This is a
citizens war and if the citizens are
not kept posted on what the army
is doing, the stagnation will get
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18

worse and worse until the war IS
indefinitely prolonged, if not lost. "
Shall we dare translate this into
terms of an injunction to Congress
regarding Indian affairs9 Will it
be proper for us to say: This In
dian business is a struggle for
citizenship, and If the potential
citizens are not kept posted on
what the Indian Bureau and the
Government service armies are
doing, the stagnation of Indian
intellect, sensibility aud will, will
get worse and worse, until the
struggle for citizenship is indefi-
nitely prolonged,-if not forever
deferred2"
If the Indian Department is to
be democracized it must cut ont its
secrecy and let the Indians, the
people vital!y concerned, know
exactly what it is doing and why.
More than this it must actually
ask for cooperation and get it
spontaneously because of a real
incentive which it reveals.
Cooperation will not be secured
for autocrats, save by their hire
lings and slaves. Under demo
cratic system it will come because
the hoped for reward is seen
ahead. There will be q sharing of
responsibility and a real acquire
ment of experience. The Indians
will cooperate when they are posi-
tive of the Departments absolute
fairness. To get this cooperation
there must be . disposition on the
part of the Indian Department not
only to give the public the facts
but to give the Indians a real part
in the struggle for the goal. BY
this is meant an independent part
and not hand leading. II never
knew how, tofind my way around
New York as long as my father
CONTINUED on 9Th. Page.)
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18

Cato Sells, u. s. Indian Com
missioner, got very much fused
up recently when some OF the
congressman wanted the handling
at Indian matters in Minnesota in.
yestigated. Mr.. Sells apparently
takes the attitude that ne is some
despot and believes in the dictum
that ''the king can do no wrong. ;"
The trouble with Mr.. Sells seems
10 be that he is already saturated
with the paternal system OF caring
for Uncle Sans SO called wards.
and he resents very much anyone
differing with his idea Of doing
things. Mr.. Sells needs to be set
in his place BY someone, even
though that may be President
Wilson. Detroit Record.
Right you are, brother Bene-
81
boot, 'ssome dcspQt" is proper and
fitting for the present supervisory
head Of the Indian bureau who
seems insistent that its pernicious
policy Of ''domipance and segre.
aation'' shall prevail among the
Mignesota Chippewas and this
decidedly contrary to the initial
precepts Of the Constitution like
wise seriously Oppressive and de.
,moralizing to the progressive in
terests of the Chippewas generally.
And g much may be said Of Mr..
Cato Sells autocratic henchman
presiding at the White Earth
agency. Yes. it is high time thai
some Of the Indian bureau megaE
omaniacs be set in their proper
place by some one, even thougf
that may be President Wilson,
or other qualified s.,urce for tha'
matter as long - they are set il
place" or put cut Of place and ths
sooner this IS done the better.
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18
the IoMAnAWk.
Official Organ Of the Minnesota
Chippewas.
Gus \. BEAullEU, -, Fouadel'
Edited y THE 1ouAHAwk PUB. co, .
White Earth Agency, Minnesota.

En:ered at the Postof11ce at White
Earth, Mimi, as mail matter OF the
second class. .-.. D., -
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18
COUNCIL At BEMIDJI 4
BIG SUCCESS.
Effort Is Made To Hold Two.

Effort Is Made To Hold Two.
The question of equal suffrage
came up before the Minnesota In
dian Council at Bemidji last week,
when an attempt was made to seat
three women to take the place of
the White Earth ''bolters." After
several arguments vote was taken
and all but two delegates voted in
favor of seating the women, who
we're Mrs. E. j. Warren, Miss
Stella Warren and Miss Ella
BeauIieu, of White Earth. -:
Accusing the Indian bureau of
employing unfit and Incompetent
men who handled the Indian bust
ness without regard to personal
affairs of the Indians, and that the
Indians had suffered on account Of
such incompetency, a resolution
calling, upon the great-hearted
American people, through Con-
gress, for the early and total abol-
ishment> of the Indian bureau, so
far as it pertains to the Chippewa
Indians of Minnesota, was pre-
sented. s..~-~ ...-:--. ~....
Another resolution asking that
all adult citizens of less than full
blood be given their property, both
lands and money, free from inter
ference By administrative officers,
and that competent full-bloods be
given the same legal right. and
that the property Of incompetents
and minors be turned over 70
properly appointed legal guardi-
ans was also presented.
& The aboihhment Of unnecessary
day and riding schools, also un
necessary outposts, was recon-
meuded in q resolution calling for
economy ID the administration OF
Indian affairs. Resolutions re
garding the care Of sick and Grip
pied Indians were also presented.
THE Tomabawk" believed to be
only paper in the United States
representing an Indian organiza-
ton, was accepted as the official
organ of the Minnesota Chippe'
vas. It is published at White
Earth. Rec,tinR innumerable al
legged injustices against the Chip
pewa Indians of Minnesota, the
Legislative Committee of the Gen
eral Council, devoted much time
to explaining progress made II
recovering Indian claims amount
| ing to millions of dollars.
Bemijji was the scene of ex
fceptional Indian activities all week
and when and the convention @
the Minnesota Chippewa Counci
opened Tuesday morning, Their
we're about $50 Indians in the city
OF that number, 12O we're regula'
delegates to the Chippewa Council
and the others, under the direction
of James / Cofey, of the Fond
tdu Lac reservation, near Bal
Club, Mimi, started . "rump'
Iconventien at the Eiko theatre
The convention Of the regula
Council was held 1t the city hail
The delegates to the regula
| lCouncil we're seated Tuesday, ant
! toward evening tie regular busi
| ness matters of the Council wer
taken up, John g. Morrison. Jr.
of Red Lake, president OF th
|Council, presiding. Atthe ''rump
convention, Cofey was in chsrg
| and devoted the entirc afternoon
Tuesday to = speech to the dele
laates. The ''rump'' convention
vent into an evening session, bu
but broke up at 2.o'clock Wednea
day morning, and the delegate
returned to their homes, apprant
lly having accomplished nothing.
When the delegstes were beiD
seated ct the regular council. sev
erai Of the men duly elected b
vA&h -
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18

II
other delegates elected men to take
their places and they will be out
their expense money and other
compensation. 1t is said that
jealousy on the part of C"tfey was
responsible for the split in the
convention. The regular officers
of the Chippewa Council claimed
that the Indians attending the
convention under Coffey we're not
duly elected by the Chippewas of
Minnesota, and that therefore they
will not be entitled to compensa-
ton or expense money. H.. 1T.
The reservations represented At
the Council were: Red Lake, Nett
Lake, White Earth, Cass Lake.
Grand Portage, White Oak Point,
Leech Lake, Fond du Lac and
Mile Laos. ..-... =. -. Z
Among the important business
matters to come before the Council
was the. report Of the Legislative
Committee, which for several
months has been at Washington
attending to the affairs of the
Minnesota Chippewas and seeking
to secure legislation for the benefit
of the Iudians of this state.
The Minnesota Chippewas are
the \ only Indians in the entire
United States who are working
through an organization for the
betterment of conditions of their
tribe, and their progress is being
watched with q great deal of in
terest by the other. Indians of the
nation. Ifthe Minnesota lodians
are successful in securing the
money claimed to be due them, i
may mean that other tribes
throughout the United States will
take up their various grievances
with the government in . similar
manner. The Legislative Com
mittee made it's report to the
Council on Wednesday. =.
The committee reported that
claims for money claimed to be
due for timber and lands sold by
the Chippewas under the treaty OF
1889, amounting to $25, 900, 900,
and claims under other treaties
have been made. The Indians a.
lege that under the treaty they
we're to receive . thousand feet
for white pine and $l.25 an acre
for agricultural land, and that the
shrewd white men classified thous-
ands OF acres of timber land as
agricultural, obtaining free rs
much Is 1000, 900 feet of timber
on a single section.
The committee reported the in
PRODUCTION of bill fot a jurisdic'
tional sct, authorizing the Chip.
pewas to present claims before the
court of claims of the United
States for damages sustained on
account of unful6lIed treaties.
They also reported that they had
demanded an investigation OF the
Indian bureau, regarding the
affairs of the Chippewas of Mime
sofa, and reported that they had
brought chlrges of fraudulent ex.
penditures Of Chippewa funds
aginst that department..
\ Members of Congress reported
i -
/ to be vigorously supporting the
investigation are Congressman
Charles D. Carter, Of Oklahoma
Clarence B. Miller, Harold Knut
son, Franklin X. Ellsworth anc
/ Halvor Steenerson. of Minnesota
| lCon2resswoman Janette Rankin
lot Montana. Senator Frank B
Kellogg, of Minnesota, Is also
strong supporter. The member
Of the Chippewa Legislative Com
mittee are: John w. Carl, B. L
j Fairbanks, Frank D. Beaulieu
4 Henry Warren and Frank Broker
of White Earth; n. j. Head, o
The Tomahawk., 1918-07-18

Read The ToxAHAwk, 50 issuesl
N.50.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
He,cers Of Wood, Carriers Of Water,
Bearers of Children, Are All
One to the Hun

propaganda a generation hence
would certainly make hcadway
among a people in whose veins
flowed Teuton lust and Teuton
thirst for brutality. The reaction
has been against their own women.
1t is no secret that morality, as we
know it, has almost ceased to eXis..,
in Germany. The mission of women
in life is to bear children That is
their only mission. 1t matters not
who fathers them, provided only
each offspring comes into the world
with Hun brutality branded on it's
soul. To strike down the natural
defences of woman, to tear from her
the veil of modesty which God gave
her, to reduce her to the status of
the she-wolf and make her wholly
and utterly vehicle for the propa-
cation of the race is an avoWed Hun
purpose. That is his view of his
own women, and Heaven only
knows into what depths of degrada-
ton he would drive the womanhood
of the rest of Europe were victory
to perch on his shoulder
1t is because the government has
from the beginning grasped the i'm
portance of maintaining every
where the social standing of women
that it has put into effect practices
for their protection such as no 9TH
cr nation ever even contemplated.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

mood, and now she is captain of a bas
lctball team, to the delight of her poilu
husband.
Two governments have asked the y.
W. Z. A. to manage recreations for girls
and women who arc doing war work.
The United States, through the Ord
nance Department, has requested work.
ers and recreation programmes in each
OF the twenty-five munition cantonlncntg
opened by the government last summer;
III the more than hundred "cost plus"
plants taken over by the War Depart
mcnt; and in the barracks which the GOV
crnmcnt is building in Washington. ID.
e., for girls who are in the Offices of the
War Department. Besides these places
and the industrial centres where such
recreation work is already in progress.
the y. ". c. A. has established girls
club work with recreation programmes
IN all communities which are adjacent to
camps and stations where men in the
service are moblized
In France the Ministry of War asked
the American Y. ". c. 4. for workers
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
THE following statements are quot
ed from the ''Health Manual of
New York Citvv nllhlished hv

ed from the "Health Manual of
New York City" published by
the Public Health Section of the Council
of Organizations for War Service at 4
East Thrty-ninth Street.
The labor law (Article 6, Sections 20
and II, and Article II, Section 1917
prohibits children under fourteen from
working. Exceptions are made in the
case of newsboys and stage children
(see page 27).
Children over IA may leave school
and go to work if in possession of en-
ployment certificates which are obtained
from the Board of Health, providing the
following conditions are conformed to:
The child must apply with parent or
guardian at the local Board of Health
and present:
t) Statutory proof of age, j. e., birth
certificate, baptismal certificate or pass
port. Failing these, other documentary
proof of age satisfactory to the board.
II no age proof can be produced a physi-
cal examination by two physicians is the
last resort
t2) II between IA and 10 wears of
age, certificate of graduation from the
elementary school; if between / 5 and l6.
school record signed by the principal
certifying to the completion of the sixth
grade by the applicant In either case
a statement by the principal that the ap-
pllcant has attended school regularly for
at least 1870 days during the preceding
twelve months.
CD He must pass a reading test. and
IS required to undergo a thorough physi
cal examination to determine his or her
physical fitness for employment )
Once working papers are secured, the
child may work in any line of employ
ment not specifically prohibited by Sec
ton SO OF the labor law This section.
although the list Of prohibited occupa-
tons seems extensive, as a matter Of
fact falls far below the laws of MANY
other states, and concerns chiefly the
use of minors at power machines New
Jersey has. perhaps. the most compre-
hensive prohibtive list, and is the only
state forbdding children to work under
conditions involving eye-strain.
The number of hours that children
between IA and l6 can work is limited
to eight hours a day, six days week.
and they may not work before s d. m. and
after p. m. in factories, nor before a
m. and after p. m. in mercantile estab-
hshments. There is no regulation of
working hours of boys over 16, except
those employed in factories. Boys under
u employed as messengers for tele-
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

L<ENENER thought tha I should
laugh again
4 French munition worker,
dressed, as arc the majority Of the girls
at the Foyer, in trousers soaked and
stained With oil, rippled into another
Til Of infectious laughter
1t was only a plate twirling on the
floor that had aroused the spirit of fun
IN the roonful Of French girls, mature
women and srandmothcrs. Most of
them were refugees. Many had not
heard from their families since the first
months of the war All were worn from
four years of hardship and anxiety, and
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
w omen
Spiritual Depredations Are the Most
Hideous of Atrocities-and
Endure for Generations

embittered by them until too late.
There is something more than
pathos in that scene of French girl
in her teens facing a Gallo jury on
the charge Of murder The Hun had
overridden her. It was his prog
eny that she was forced to bring
into the world And looking at the
offspring the great horror of it
burst upon her simple mind. What
blood was in it's veins? Might she
live to see it in another generation
yielding to Hun arguments, betray
ing France, running the women of
tomorrow even as it's father had
ruined her? In her anger she killed
it. And proudly she stood before
the tribunal Of justice, even as Char
lotte Corday had stood, waiting for
the verdict. Is there ''higher law"
as was invoked when in the letter
of the written law Southern states
men found excuse to justify seces-
sion? a ''higher law" which would
pardon even murder in such cir
cumstances The jury evidently
thought so, but the jury could
merely free the woman. It could
not give her back ''the immediate
jewel of her soul"
1t Means
Spiritual Murder
That French girl typified woman
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

Army have thrown their energies and
resources into a great united effort to
raise funds which shall provide our men
and women fighters with cheer and com.
fort. During the week Of November IL
these organizations hope to raise Sl70,-
100000 in united war work campaign.
and every human being in this country
Who is back Of those who have given up
the comforts of home to go into the hell
of No Mans Land or of a munitions
plant, every man or woman who goes
home at night to demi-tasse and a
cushioned chair, who sees through the
peace notes and abdication rumors sent
out by Germany, can help to clear OBJ
structions from the road to Berlin BY
personally backing that S170,50O 900.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

hood the world over What one Him
did to her the Hun in the aggreoate
is striving to do to the universal
woman. He wants to beat her dow,
he wants to bind her mentally and
physically, he wants to reduce he.
to the status she held among the
Massagettae or now holds amonn
the Hottentots. And in this at
tempted wholesale spiritual assass;
nation God alone is the jury, and a
human verdict can be given onlv hv
force of arms. Every woman who
thinks at ali knows instinctively in
her heart what those tens Of thou-
sands of American boys in France
are fighting for, so far as she is
concerned. Few women doubted
the necessity for war or ever CUES
tlOn tne righteousness OF 1t. There
are female pacifsts only because
ignorance, like politics. makes
strange bedfellows.
For the Hun has assaulted wom-
anhood as womanhood, be has
attacked matrimony and wife
hood; and we are fighting to beat
back this campaign of degra~
dation just as much as we are
fighting to protect French terri
tory or rescue Belgium from the
desolation into which it has been
plunged.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

whipping the Hun? But, then, Napo-
Icon would have said, "What has girl
to do with whipping the Hump
A polu, whose wife and daughter
work in one of the munitions factories,
recently put it this way: you women
who have come from America to stand
behind our women will never know how
much of our success in fighting is due to
your work. When our women at home
are not only looked out for, but have
good times, we fight with a good heart.
It's when they are downhea1ted and
discouraged that we flag. You sharpen
our very weapons"
Play is not only a recognized weapon
tol winning the war, but it is also used
as means for bringing girls into con-
tact with each other and teaching them
to lose and win with pluck A Chinese
and an American basketball team were
playing each other in d Y. w. c. A. field
in Shanghai. The Chinese girls suffered
a bad defeat, but carried off their dis
appointment without the quiver of lip.
Later, however, one Of the Chinese team
was found huddled in corner, because
it had been her play that had lost the
day. TO her it was a disgrace deeper
than any American girl could ever have
felt for a lost game. Chinese girls are
only beginning to face the world in COM
petition
In most parts of the world WHERE
American recreation directors go they
find play for grown-ups a new idea un-
less other Americans have preceded
them
When a Russian secretary began q
gymnasium class in Petrograd last year
she was surprised when the girls liter
ally doubled themselves up and gave way
TO uncomfortable laughter with every
round or two of the exercise. The mo-
tions were as familiar to her as walk
ing, but to them they were grotesoue be-
cause Of their entire novelty