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The Alaskan., 1931-01-23
BUREAU OF EDUCATION
 VERSUS INDIAN BUREAU

Read the following statement by Representative Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania and then weep:
 Has Congress not appropri- ated the money for Indian Schools? Since 1887, the date of the Dawes Act, S115, 100000 have been appropriated for schools for Indians. The commissioners report states that the Govern ment has school buildings on the various reservations valued now at $15,660,375. That means that : money enough to provide a $40,- GOO school building for every 200 children has been furnished by Congress- The report, however, states that the money has been spent to build 2,450 schools. That means a school building for every thirty-three Indian children. x x It keeps the chill dren on the reservations amid all the obstacles imposed by such conditions. It keeps them from learning the ways of outside life in American civilization, and holds them fast to outworn tra- ditions and outgrown customs. IL makes necessary more en- rloyees. The payroll of the In dian School System last year amounted to $1,727,000. In the past ten years we have spent over $500 for the education of every Indian child in the United States The enrolment of pupils in mission school on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota is evidence in point. There are eighty eight Indian pupils en- rolled and it takes $125, approxi- mately out of tribal funds, to maintain each child a year. There are children on the list who entered the school eight years ago, and who had sixty months schooling, before being enrolled there, and who are still in the third grade. Not a single child is above the sixth grade t,ne of the few sixth-grade pu- pjls was enrolled ten years ago, with sixty-siX months previous schooling.
 "The American Government has expended a sufficient sum to give every Indian child a high
The Alaskan., 1931-01-23
WE ASK YOU TO BE
 CONSISTENT

When the Indians of Ketchi- kan had presented in Congress a bill to grant them title to tidal properties, the Juneau Empire came out in opposition because it meant the granting of an lex elusive privilege"
 The Chamber of Commerce are resoluting back and forth in pro- test against the twenty-five miles square of lands reserved for the use of Indians in the h. terior of Alaska. They base their opposition to this reserva- tion on the grounds that it is the granting of an exclusive privilege.
 Last year the Juneau Empire along with it's political jumping jacks opposed the Indian Land Suit and Bill proposed by the Alaska Native Brotherhood which suit was for compensa- tion for lands. timber rights fishery rights and other rights taken from the Indian without due process of law. Opposition to this was on the ground that it would be the recognition of ar exclusive privilege"
 Indian Bureau an Exclusive
 Privilege
 Now education of the Indian through the Bureau of Educa- ton or the Indian Bureau is ar exclusive privilege? When the Indian asks for the abolition o1 either department in the dis charge of it's Alaska duties, the same Chambers of Commerce the same political machine, the same publications raise theil voices in mighty protest against letting Indian children into white schools" Consistency is a jewel but too many of oul Alaska friends-so-called-d ( not have any jewels.
The Alaskan., 1931-01-23
CAPITAL IN ALASKA

Already the newspapers that run Alaska are telling the new legislators mot to scare capital away" in editorials that sing
The Alaskan., 1931-01-23

school education. The money has been expended, but the chil- dren have not had the educa- tion. Therefore they are doomed to be incompetent, and because of that condition the guardian ship of the Indian Bureau must be continued"
 Our very first lesson in the education of the American In dian-be he of the States or Alaska-WaS ITO Civilize the 1 Indian, Get him into Civiliza- tion; To keep him Civilized, Let lhim Stay" Those were the words of the late General Richard Henry Pratt for fifty-four years educator and friend of the h. dian. After all the Indian is just human-with the same reac- tionS as any other race. There l is no biological difference-no difference in brain capacity, in physical strength, in desires and ambition. That has been demonstrated long since. The entire difference has been in environment.
 i We bring to the shores of the United States each year hordes Of illiterates and others-We in vite them to our shoreS-or did, and give them every opportuni- ty to become assimilated with the American body polite. In fact, the average American be- comes rather peeved when an ialien refuses to become natura- liZed. But the average American refuses to allow the same rules to govern in the assimilation of the Indian. He must be kept on a reservation. He must have his own system of education. He must have his own agents to oversee and care for his cOmpe- 'tence. He must have a Bureau with a system that is judge, prosecuting attorney, attorney for defense, jury and guardian tall in one-With the same force iof employees A system un- American and which the Ameri- ,can Government will not toler- late nor permit to be foisted upon any other race of people coming to our shores. It even threw loverboard as useless and as an leconomic waste the Freeman's
 Board a similar agency tC "help and protect the Negro Trace" But it maintains it's In
 dian Bureau for the Indian.
 | The Bureau of Education
 1 So long as the Territory o1
 Alaska dodges it's responsibility of educating it's Indian citizen
 ry, and so long as it throws that
 responsibility upon the Feder- sl Government, let that func-
 ton remain within the sphere o1
 of the activities of the Bureau o1
 Education. This Bureau has
 been following along the line Of self-help, independence fo1 the Alaska Indian. The function Of this Bureau has been solely Ieducational-and that is as ii should be-so long as the legis- lators and other citizens ot ] Alaska dodge and evade their responsibility to undertake the education of the Alaska Indian
 along with it's other citizenry
 and aliens within it's borders.
 l The cost of educating the h. dian in Alaska under the Bureau
 of Education is cheap as com pared to the educational cost of Indians in the states under the
 Indian Bureau. The results of
 the efforts in Alaska have been
 proven to be of greater beneft
 to the Territory than the system
 of reservating and segregatino snd perpetuating tribal Ian guage, habits and customs. Ur to 1921 educational advantage beyond the fourth grade in the Alaska public" schools operated lby the Bureau of Education fo1 the Indians, hardly existed. The system today has schools equiD-
The Alaskan., 1931-01-23

the refrain We need capital"
 These papers insist that Alas ka must have capital.
 They do not seem to care whether Alaska has any people or not. In fact, we have 50 far surrendered to the demands of capital that our population is steadily shrinking.
The Alaskan., 1931-01-23

Direction is more essential than speed.
The Alaskan., 1931-01-23

Cease worrying about two things: those that you can help and those that you can't.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07

motoring for % miles, heard his en-
CINE clark, and lifting up the hood,
found there a fox terror pup.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
KEEP THE EYESIGHT TO
A RIPE OLD AGE" ADVISED
Weekly Educational Article by
DIR. J. Fred Andeae.

The person who wishes to keep his
or her functions to ripe old age must
avoid excuses of every description
and must endeavor to employ the
higher faculties of the mind some
what more theoretically than is now
always customary. A time comes to
everyone when the physical powers
begin to decay and then, unless the
brain is kept active and recipient,
there is nothing left to live for and
the person persishes. We say that
one dies of govt, or of overeating or
of heart disease, or of kidney disease
or of the failure of the particular or
gan which was the first to exhibit
symptoms of the approaching end. In
reality, they die of stupidity, arti-
ficially produced by the neglect of the
talents with which they were en-
dowed.
That which is true of the organism
as a whole is true Of the eyes and
they are best treated by an amount of
systematic, sensible and regular use
which preserves the tone of their mus
cles and regularity Of their blood sup
ply. The keenness of sight is in a
great degree dependent upon the
mental attention habitually paid to
visual impressions. Idleness of the
eyes, if we may use that expression,
is in every way hurtful to them and
proper and varied employment is en-
inently conducive to their preserva-
ton in beauty and efficiency. Reg
ular and periodic attention to eye de-
feet is necessary if the greatest eff
ficiency in seeing is desired.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07

mess callers in Oakland last Saturday
]. E. Bowser is among the i'll in our
community. We all hope for a speedy
recovery.
Mrs. A. M. Frazee recently made a
business trip to pittsburgh.
Cecil Frazee has returned to his
home here from a visit with relatives
in Pittsburgh and vicinity.
Wallace Bowser, of near Oakland
visited his father, ]. E. Bowser, re.
Gently.
Alex. Grove and family, of Friends.
vile, spent Sunday at Mr.. and Mrs
j. T. Groves at this place.
Howard Pritts and family, of I'm
iontown, Pa, was weekend visitor
at the home of Martin Friend.
The Baltimore and Ohio train is
running but three times week. The
mail is being carried by a star route
from Confluence to Friendsville.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07

He is Rev. P. B. Fitzwater, D. D.,
the man who prepares the Interna-
tional Sunday School Lesson which
appears regularly in The Republican.
For the International Sunday School
Lesson, based upon the Bible, the
"'best seller" of all books in history,
appears in more newspapers than any
other single newspaper feature that
has ever been printed, and is read by
more American newspaper readers
than any other feature. More than
that, as the name international i'm
plies, these lessons are printed in
other languages and used in all parts
of the world as aids to the study Of
the Bible.
Doctor Fitzwater, who is one of
the foremost Bible students in the
country, and whose name is known
to millions through his exposition of
the Bible in these Sunday School les
sons, is native of West Virginia,
where he was born in 1871. After be-
ing graduated from Bridgewater Col
1ege in Virginia, he continued in spec
ial studies in that institution for more
than a year, then became a teacher
and principal in the public schools. In
1898 he became student at the
Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.
Next he entered the Xenia Theologi-
cal Seminary and after being gradu-
ated in 1905, became dean of the Bible
department of Manchester College in
Indiana.
Doctor Fitzwater continued at Man
chester until 1911. In the meantime he
was ordained into the ministry and
Muskingum College conferred the de-
gree of DID. upon him in 1909. After
taking postgraduate work in Prince
ton Theological Seminary, he returned
to the Moody Bible Institute as a
member of the faculty, where he has
been since 1918. He was dean Of the
evening school of the institute from
1928 to 1926 and dean of both day
and evening schools from 1926 to 1929.
Since the latter year he has been di-
rector of the general course, at the
institute.
Doctor Fitzwater is the author of
several books of Bible study, including
Goods Code of Morals" and "The
Church and Modern Problems" and it
has been noted that his writings
clearly reflect the wisdom of the
broad student, combined with the af-
liability of the Christian man. Altho
affiliated with the Presbyterian church
he is heartily nterdenominational in
his views.
Great authority and ability are COM
bined in the preparation of these les
sons, and the publisher of The Repub-
lican feels confndent that he could
give his readers no more worthwhile
feature than this one, which provides
the basis for discussion Of the weekly
Sunday school lesson among the peo-
pie of Garrett county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
STATE OF MARYLAND
STATE ROADS COMMISSION
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

SEALED PROPOSALS for building
one section of State Highway as fol.
lows: -
Garrett County, Contract No. G-5O-64
One section of State Highway
along the Bittinger-Grantsville road
from a point 2.56 miles South Of
Grantsville to Grantsville, a dis.
lance of 2.56 miles (Macadam),
will be received by the State Roads
Commission at its offices, Federal Re.
serve Bank Building, Calvert and Lex
ington Streets, Baltimore, Maryland
until IL M. on the 18th day of May
1881, at which time and place they
will be publicly opened and read.
Bids must be made upon the blank
proposal form which, with specifca-
tions and plans will be furnished by
the Commission upon application and
cash payment of $1.O0, as hereafter
no charges will be permitted.
No bids will be received unless &C
companied by a certified check for the
sum of Five Hundred ($500) Dollars,
payable to the State Roads Commits
sion.
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to give bond and comply with
the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, respecting contracts.
The Commission reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
BY ORDER of the State Roads
Commission this 18th day of April,
1881.
G. CLINTON UHL, Chairman.
L. H. STEUART, Secretary. lip
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
NEW GERMANY

Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Otto and Mrs.
Forest Beachy attended the funeral
of Roy Kamp at Accident on Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Alcie Jenkins, who spent the
winter months at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Leonard Wampler, Cresap-
town, has returned to her home here
Elijah Winters, Cresaptown, visited
relatives and friends in this commun.
ity on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Grove and Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Broadwater, Anvil
ton, were guests on Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. burst.
Mrs. P. J. Stephens and Mrs. James
Stephens and family motored to AID
Olson Sunday where they visited rela.
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Wample1
spent the weekend at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Wampler.
Mr.. Willie Warwick and family Wis.
tied at the home of Mrs. Olin War
nick, Jennings, recently.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
Beyond the County

From Rome the Italian Air Minis
ter announces that the sale of stamps
to collectors financed the late group
air flight to Brazil, 100000, and pro-
vided surplus for future flights.
At Washington, word has been re-
ceived that Chinese bandits who are
holding captive Rev. B. N. Nelson,
American Missionary, having hereto
fore demanded for tennis balls, golf
balls and other sporting goods, now
promise his release for thirty cans of
gasoline.
In Georgia the sheriff of county
being absent on business, his 21-year
old son, thinking it was good time,
got drunk; when his father got home
he took the young man into a room
and administered a good spanking.
In Baltimore man accosted a sail
or on the street and sold him a bottle
containing alleged liquor Fright off
the boat, which on being sampled
was found to be colored water. The
bootlegger was arrested, but as yet
no charge has been found to fit the
case.
At Washington, the U. S. Treas
urer's diary statement showed that as
Of April 80, the government had col
lected $2,790,935,111 and has spent
$3,558,9O6,240, leaving a deficit of
over 100000, for the first ten
months of the year.
At Reno, New, where only six
weeks residence is required in divorce
matters, on the first day, suit was
filed every two minutes of the work
ing day.
At Miami, Fla, Mrs. Abbie Overton,
SO, once member of Abraham Lin
coins household as a companion of
Mrs. Lincoln, died May 2.
Near Chestertown, Nd, for rescu-
ing Rayfield Reed, aged 10, from
drowning, James T. Anthony III, aged
II, has been awarded hero medal by
the Carnegie Foundation.
George F. Baker, aged 81, for many
years a leading financier, at the time
of his death rated the third richest
man in the United States, died a few
days ago at his home in New York.
At Ottawa, ILL.,, Mrs. Margaret
Burk, SO, the mother of 8 children, has
been elected county highway commits
sioner, to fill the unexpired term of
her husband, the first woman of rec
ord to hold a similar position.
At Washington, Dick Douglas, a
Georgetown college student, who
spent his sixteenth birthday as Boy
Scout hunting lions in the heart of
Africa, plans to spend his nineteenth
birthday this summer camping in the
crater Of an Alascan volcano.
At Cleveland, Ralph Thurber, she'll
shocked World War veteran was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
GLADES

S. D., Brenneman and son, Ernest,
were shopping in Grantsville Thurs
day. 49,.
Mr.. Daugherty was calling on S. c..
Beachy Thursday.
Freeda Beachy spent a week with
relatives and returned to Springs, Pa,
on Saturday.
Quite a few of the Glades people
attended the sale of Arthur Resi- at
Carmel Saturday.
James Knox and daughters, Verna
and Gladys, and Oma Kelso were Wis
iting at the home of Jonas Knox Sun
day.
William Glotfelty was shopping in
Oakland Saturday.
Mrs. Alfred Ringer and son Ray,
and Mrs. R. E. Alexander and Mrs.
Mahlon Bender were visiting at the
home of Joseph Ash Sunday after
noon. D..
Mrs. Clarence Orendorf and daugh-
ter Freeda were visiting at the home
of Solomon Orendorf Sunday night.
Mahlon Bender made a business trip
to Accident Monday.
D. L. Bethel and son, Mrs. Solomon
Orendorf and Mrs. Clarence Orendorf
were shopping in Oakland Monday.
Mr.. Samuel Handwerk, lockwood,
Pa, is visiting his daughter, Mrs.
Mahlon Bender.
Herman Opel was shopping in Oak
land Monday.
Those at the William Glotfelty
home Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. Car
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
DEER PARK
Church News.

Those accredited with perfect at
tendance in Mrs. E. E. Sollars Sun.
day school class in the M. E. church
during the month of April include
Genevieve Hinebaugh, Corline George
and Elizabeth Wagner. New mem
bers during April were Pauline Kim
nell, Velma Comp and Helen Woods
Rev. j. B. Rupert delivered a Moth
er's Day sermon in the M. E. church
here on Sunday evening. There will
be preaching service here this Sun
day.
Prayer meeting is on Wednesday
evening. All invited to attend.
Personal Mention
Miss Frances Thrasher, of Frost
burg, spent the weekend here with
her home folks.
Mrs. A. c. George recently had as
guests Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Bittinger
and sons, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul George
and children and Mrs. A. E. Holt
schneider and children.
Mrs. F. N. Refs and daughter Miss
Pleasant Refs and Mr.. and Mrs. L. H.
Rodeheaver and son Glenn were Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. 1. M. Lips
comb at Pierce, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Wright, Bloom
ington, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Tasker on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul George, Of Bob
town, Pa, and Mr.. John Holtschneider
visited in Cresaptown, Md, day or
two ago, where Mrs. Holtschneider is
quite ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Thrasher and
daughter, of Bridgeport, Ohio, visited
in this community on Sunday. =
Mr.. Joseph Taylor, of New Ken
sington, Pa, visited Mr.. and Mis-. F.
N. Refs on Monday.
Mrs. E. S. Bittinger and son are
spending a week here with the for
mer's mother. 70
Mr.. and Mrs. Burns Flanagan an
nounce the birth of son.
June Grove, No. SO, of the Wood
men of the World, will hold its
monthly meeting at the lodge hall on
Thursday, May IA. At this meeting
Miss Anna Thrasher, delegate of the
local grove to the w. o. w. conven-
ton, which was recently held in Wash
ington, D. c., will give a report of the
convention.
Group No. 1 of the Flower Garden
Club will meet Friday, May 8, at
400 for their regular monthly meet
ing.
Mrs. Jennie Freeland, who has been
visiting relatives at Gormania, West
Va, during the winter months, has
returned to her home here.
Mrs. Ellen Friend and daughter
Ida Belle, who have been visiting rel
atives at Crellin, returned home on
Tuesday.
Miss Bessie Keyes, Barton, is Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Wilson.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
PAID LOCAL NOTICES

FOR SALE-Two hot plates; one
stroller. Call 161, or at 10 Oak St.,
Observation-Disclosures 11-3t.
WANTED-Girl to clerk in Oak
land Model Bakery. Apply Henry
Lauer, Oakland, Md.-Advertisemerf
12-3t. &
FOR SALE-1OOO Leghorn Cocker
els, three weeks old for 5 cents each.
Call or write at once to w. E. Spoer-
lein, Oakland Advertisement 11-3t.
FOR SALE-Turkey Eggs at
$3.50 per dozen. Apply to Hurley U.
Miller, Oakland, Md.-Advertisement
lott.
G. H. WILLIAMS, Plumbing and
Heating. Phone 138-W, State Road,
Observation-Disclosures 8-8t*
MULCH PAPE RFOR GARDENS
Keeps down weeds and retains the
moisture as nothing else will do. In
rolls at The Republican office.
PROPERTY FOR SALE OR RENT
Very desirable location. Inquire or
address K, the Republican Office
Adv. 31-tf.
FOR SALE OR RENTS room
house; gas and water; two lots. Mrs.
Margaret Turney, Liberty St., Oak
land, Observation-Disclosures 10-3*
FOR RENT-A six-room house;
gas and electricity; garden. Apply
to VIM. Kildow, phone 219-W, Oakland
Advertisement 7-6t*
FOR SALE-Two fine pedigreed
male calves. Better improve your
stock, which will be worth much more.
Silas c. Beachy, Accident, Md.-Ad-
vertisement 8-8t.
HARDY VARIETIES OF PINES
and SPRUCES for ornamental and
windbreak planting. $1.OO each at
nursery in Loeb Lynn. E. R. O'Don-
nell, Oakland, Md.-Advertisement SO
FOR SALE-Good dapple gray
horse, 8 years old; weight about 1900
pounds.-William H. Friend, west Of
Friendsville, Md, near Noah Frazee's
Observation-Disclosures 5-tf.
FOR SALE-Baby chicks, R. C.
Rhode Island Reds, Matched electri-
cally. April Matched, rs, $3.50; so,
$500; 100, $500. Diana Weber, Oak
land, Md.-Advertisement 5-tf.
POLLED ANGUS LIVE STOCK
FOR SALE 5-yr. old cow with g.
mo. old calf by side; 2 two-year old
Heifers; 1 steer, years old. One
mixed breed year old cow, fresh
March 20; 5-year old cow fresh Mar.
1; 2 yearlings. D. F. Cooper, Cor
mania, w. Va.-Advertisement 9-3t*
FARM FOR SALE AT SACRI-
FICE PRICE-Contains 256 acres; 40
acres in cultivation. Fairly good
dwelling, barn and other outbuildings;
orchard of good fruit trees; mile and
a half from State road. Price, $1,000,
terms to suit. FRED. A. THAYER,
Attorney, Oakland, Md.-Advertise-
ment 12-1t.
CHIROPRACTIC-The new wa-i
to heal. Feel run down, weak, ill
Try Chiropractic. Thousands of PEI :.
pie all over the world have been ben
Gifted by this comparatively new
scientific method of treatment. Why
not you? There is no mystery, no
voodoism about chiropractic. Come
and investigate for yourself. In Office
every day. Nally Building, next
door to A. & P. DR.. A. F. Kimmell.
51-3t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-07
ORDER NISI.
Sara H. HAYES VS.. Idle T. Hav

Sara H. Hayes VS.. Idle T. Hayes
No. 1926 Equity. In the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, Maryland.
ORDERED, This 9Th day of May, 1881, by
the Circuit Court for Garrett County, Mary
land. sitting in Equity, that the sales made
and reported in the above cause by Sara H.
Hayes, Committee, be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 9Th day of June, 1881: pro-
vided a copy of this order be published in
some newspaper published in Garrett County
once week for three successive weeks be-
for the 30th day of May, 1881.
The report states the amount of sales to
So, $4,000 E. 2. TOWER, Clerk.
True copy-Test: E. 2. TOWER, Clerk