The Alaskan., 1931-01-23

competence be shown. How can any teacher take any group of normal children and after more than twelve years of effort still be unable to show a single child able to make the sixth grade?
 Only such a system as is man. i:.uls ted by incompetent, worn cut, antiquated, and ilIy-prepar- ,:o teachers as comprises the h. dian Bureau, can such results be shown. We can point to u,;ucation of alien illiteratns that took mont IS to asSimjlate ,%llerican eGrr ion and ideals; tine system at i resent il Alaska can point with pride at the re- suits of their work which is more generally Succ'' ful thpn t. , system in the states
 Un-Ame' .an System
 We cannot but challenge the Americanism of any system of education which aggregates and sets aside and apart any race Of people is wrong. This is an exclusive privilege" if privilege it may be called which should receive the protest of every or ganization and Chamber oc Commerce in Alaska, by every church and by every publication in Alaska. Every Chamber of Commerce in Alaska should dis cuss the Americanism of any bu- reau school-the segregation of potential citizens to perpetuate bureaucratic machine
 Education of all citizens of all states and territories is an Obli- gation of the state and not the function of the federal govern ment. The condition in the fol- lowing paragraph has never been charged against any school syS- tenn other than the Indian Bu- reau system:
 Representative Kelly: MT. Chairman, the Indian Bureau system is a wastrel, proflgate | eyond description. It wastes every year millions of dollars collected from American tax Ipayers and millions more ab- ctracted from the possessions of the Indians themselves. It wastes still other millions which would accrue from this untaXed Indian wealth once it was Americaniz- | ed. It wastes the Self-reSpect of race and the possibilities of a iproud people. It wastes the con fdence of the Indians by setting up decoys that lead them to their doom. It wastes their la bor by setting them to futile tasks which have no value in American civilization. It wastes
 their youth in segregated schools which perpetuate tribal ism. It wastes their maturity by keeping them in wigwams and tepee and making them aliens in the land of their fathers. It Iwastes money and manhood, character and citizenship, and conserves only idleness and ig- (norance and vice.
 In this day of conservation, 1t is time to stop this waste. In thi~ day when overburdened tax payers are praying for economy, it is time to save money whose expenditure works injury to the American Indian and the Amer ican public alike"
 Are the Alaska Chambers of Commerce opposed to the spe- cial and exclusive privileges be- i ing granted the Indian? Under the Indian Bureau more of these exclusive" privileges will be given the Indian-more reserva- tions and the citizens of Alaska will have no choice in the mat ter. Then if the Chambers of Commerce would be consistent they would not only oppose the special reservation orders but they would move heaven and earth to keep the pernicious In dian Bureau out of Alaska and they would demand that the Alaska legislature make appro- pria iatiOnS to nroyida for the edu-