Glacier County chief., 1940-11-01

known records for radical actlvltles anu
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the
Nathan r. kIargold, Solicitor for the
John Collier, Commissioner OF Indian
DR.. Willard w. Beatty, Director Inc
walter ". Woehlke, Assistant to Cor
Allan G. Harper, Field Representativ
and many others who no longer are
While Americans were walking the
streets searching for work in 1885 and
1886, the following were appointed TO
offices:
DR.. Eshref Shevly, Director, In
dian Soils Conservation, salary, $4,000,
a Turkish citizen whom Commissioner
John Collier persuaded to take out
his first citizenship papers SO ne
could be appointed to this position
Rene d'Harnoncourt, Director, In
dian Arts and Crafts Commission,
citizen of Austria who had taken out
his first papers when appointed to
the office and who came here from
Mexico where he had been working
in Indian Arts and Crafts.
Education:
Destroyed the existing program of
Indian education In the Government
schools: instituted the most crack-pot
combination of Russian Mexican COM
munism and progressive" education
that could be designed-an expert
ment, according to DR.. Beatty, to ed
ucate Indian children ''in the art Of
living, which fails completely to fit
pupils for entry into institutions Of
higher learning, which substitutes In
dian music, Indian language, Indian
arts and crafts for the usual courses
in such subjects; which encourages
pupils of high school age to marry and
live on the campus of boarding schools,
which has babies of from five to nine
years living in cottages and performing
all the manual labor OF housekeeping
and farming, learning arithmetic by
keeping breeding chart for the
pony" and English by discussions OF
such subjects, which starts social
science" classes in the kindergarten
and which actively promotes the ideals
Of "collectivism" and planned econo-
my. The Commissioner approved as
highly desirable" the use Of New
Russia's Primer" in one school and
stated to Committee of Congress
that he considered the Mexican school
system almost the most perfect In
the world" Spent public funds to send
teachers and Superintendent to at
tend national conferences of the Pro-
gressive Education Association and to
Mexico; prepared a huge exhibit of
the progressive education" of the In
dian Bureau which was shown in
Chicago and later taken to Patzcuaro,
Mexico, at public expense, for the In
ter-American Conference on Indian
Affairs, part Of the Good Neigh
Dor" program), where one Bureau en-
ployee. Miss Aida Bowler, Superin-
tendent-at-large, was located from
January, 1910. through the conference
which was held in April for which
Congress appropriated $1,000 in special
funds for the State Department and
Indian tribal funds were used to trans
port some Indians. Under this "pro-
gresstve" -Mexican-Russian commune
ist program Of education Sunday
School classes in Government board
ing schools were discouraged; Christian
missionaries were forbidden to ask any
child attending such schools to ac-
cept the teachings of Jesus; Indian
pupils were locked in their rooms to
prevent them from joining a Christian
Church Of their own choosing: disres-
pect Tor home and church were en-
couraged by relaxing all disciplinary
measures and matchmaking the theo-
ries Of humaniSn into the minds of
little children in the most approved
Communist manner.