The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-25

Press).-W. T. Lopp, superintendent of the bureau of education in charge of the native schools in Alaska, who has just returned from Washington, eays the Alaska factional dispute and attacks on government bureau by certain Alaska papers have added to- the difficulties of the department whose duty it was to appear before congressional committees asking for funds for the work.
 Superintendent Lopp went to Wash fngton in December to assist in ob- takning appropriations for Indian edu- cation and the reindeer industry While in Washington an Alaska paper was received there containing an editorial charging that the bureau was employing teachers with Bolshe- wiki tendencies. While the attack was not taken seriously, Superinten- dent Lopp said it did not help him F ill his work, and he left Washington without knowing what the attitude of Ihe senate finance committee would be on the appropriations asked.
 He mentioned that the house con- nittee had recommended an increase to $50,000 for educational purposes, making the total for the department in Alaska $3O0,O0O, of which $1O,OOO is for the reindeer industry, and $90,000 for medical relief, the same Bs last year. No provision is made for the reftting of the training ship Boxer, which has been turned over to the department by the navy for use of the department in handling it's supplies.
 The senate committee was asked for $53,000 for repairs to the boat, and Superintendent Lopp said he got assurance from Senator Jones of Washington and Senator Frances E. Warren, chairman of the senate com mittee, that they would assist the bureau.
 Charles w. Hawkesworth, superin- tendent of the bureau of education in southeastern Alaska, in state ment concerning his announcement that the bureau hopes eventually to eliminate the federal schools where territorial and Nelson schools are in operation, said:
 The bureau of education has been misunderstood in the territory, par ticularly among the members of the Alaska natives It has been accused of wishing to segregate the native of the whites The contrary is the case, and from now on the policy ot the bureau will be to eliminate the bureau schools where other means of education exist. We do not ex- pect assimilation to be a matter of few months or years, but in time there will be no more bureau schools in Alaska where there are other schools.
 We expect some opposition among the white people to this program, but the fact remains that as long as the native is a citizen and taxpayer, his children can attend the schools Of the territory if they come from san itary homes"
 Lester D. Henderson, commissioner of education for Alaska, says the abolishment of the bureau schools is not timely, declaring the elimination of the native school in any commun- ity does not mean that the doors of the public school will be thrown open to receive all the native chil- dren. He said three things stand in the way of unified scheme of edu- cation in Alaska: First, the economic status and hereditary tendencies of the native, which renders it difficult for him to conform to the standard of the territorial schools in regular ity and punctuality of attendance second, inability of the average na- tive to conform to the rules of home