Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-08

How fitting it is that, in the first
presidential election following the en-
reimbursement of all American Indians
they will have an opportunity to vote
for an Indian for Vice President! 1t
is true that the law making all Indians
American citizens was adopted in June,
l924-some months prior to the preSl-
dental election four years ago-but II
was SO new then that it is not likely
that many of its beneficiarieS were able
to function under it, Next Novemb9r ,
every brave and every squaw will be
expected to vote for Big Chief Charles
Curtis the only Indian that ever ran
for so high an office. Senator Curtis
has always shown pride in the fact that
he is descended from Indians, and that
his early life was spent in the tribe.
with his parents and grandparents.
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There is not in the English language
a bit of poetry so obsolete in it's picture
as that of Pope in reference to the
Indians of America. Check it up:
10, the poor Indian; whose untutored
mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in
the wind;
His soul proud science never taught
to stray
Far as the solar walk or Milky Way
THE poor Indian" sports the most
costly limousine in Oklahoma and has
the United States Treasury as his bank
of deposit with Government bureau
as his business manager He counts his
unnlylI INCOME hy tho thn1cof1Hc nf dol
lars. He is the only citizen who, like
Uncle Sam himself, is sometimes en-
barrassed by his surplus
Whose untutored mind is joke to
fellow graduates of our institutions of
learning. while every little papoose is
assured of a course in boarding
school, together with technical train
ing in farming or almost any of the
trades. and the girl papooSeS are
taught dressmaking and housekeeping
Just what whites term domestic
science" Yes, and they "dance-and
sing-and laugh. ha, hal" just like the
giddy youths who require so much
rouge and lipStick to emulate their nat
ural Indian red.
"Untutored mind" That may apply
to some 10000 out of reach of the In
dian schools, but Congress should en-
large the appropriations just little
more.
Indian schools. supported by the Fed
eral Government. contain 81 ,438 STU
of the reservations and
tribes, while there remain 12,19l chill
dren not yet provided with schools,
The boarding schools not located in the
have more than 10000 pu-'
pills. not counting the mission day and
boarding schools (not Government sup
ported, which have $50 pupils. Con-
gress annually apprOpriates Sl2,OOOO00
for the benefit of Indians, and out OF
that appropriation half is used for the
education of Indian whose
minds" otherwise would de-
yelop like any other ignoramuses--even
in cities of the first class. Indian board
ing schools boast that they are run on
half the cost per capital required by
white institutions of similar character,
vet they furnish food. clothing, trans
Dortation, medical and dental service
and vocational training. Even day
schools give all pupils midday meal
and it is balanced ration
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Ills soul proud science never taught to
stray
Far rs tIlG SOltiF Walk Vi MILKY way.
Well science has nothing ON the In
dian in that for, of all the struggling
about in the dark. no class of people
have stumbled worse than have the
ultra-scientiSts, if they may be judged
by the disputes as to our souls, carried
on in British scientific circles. Last
year the president of the What-you-
call-it Science Association proved by
The Einstcin theory or the law of CRAWL
tation that there is no soul and never
has been: "a soul is scientific impos-
sibility," so corporations which every
body knows are SoulleSS. are just as
Diuus Us any of us. Then, too that old
fellow who apoStrophized his soul
Soul, take thine ease. thou hast much
goods laid up"-was talking 10 what
never existed.
One of the great inventors Of Ameri-
"A recently undertook To weigh soul
the dying body OF Il man just
before and just after the soul had left
L. to see II there was any difference i'll
he weight ~ there was none shown in |
nor in troy measure. there
ore, no soul existS!" Great is science