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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1913)
8 THE CHEMAWA AM ERICAN ent time there is still need for at least 100,000 hospital beds for indi gent consumptives in the advanced stages of the disease who must be segregated if tuberculosis is to be kept from spreading. Another 100,- 000 beds in sanatoria for tuberculosis patients, who are in the early or curable stages of the disease, are needed. In addition to this large bed provision, The National Association affirms that visiting nurses, tuber culosis clinics and open air schools should be established in almost every city and town of the United States. Furthermore, the present campaign contemplates thecontinuous education of practically the entire population of the United States amounting to 90,000,000 people, and the extension of the campaign of organization already in effect to take in every state, city and town of the country. A NOTABLE PLATFORM T IIE S O C IE T Y O F A M E R IC A N I N D I A N S E it resolved bv the society of American Indians, in conferance assembled, at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 2-7, 1912: 1. That we reiterate the petition of our First An nual Conference, asking Congress to pass a law au thorizing the President to name an Indian Code Com mission to codify the laws relative to Indians taxed and not taxed, and to define more exactly the privileges and disabilities of the several classes of Indians in the United States; said Commission to consist of three men, qualified by legal and sociological training as well as by acquaintance with Indian affairs, to study the laws governing and the circumstances affecting the various tribes in the United States, and to report within one year of the passage of such a bill, a codified law determining the status of the Indians of the United States, in ac cordance with existing legislation and the future best interest of these natives. I his request is substantially that contained in House Bill 183,- 34, introduced on January 19. 1912, by Hon. Charles B. Carter at the instance of the Society. 2. That we respectfully urge that the Commissioner of Indian affairs have as his primary object the advancement of the Indian. We ask that he have no concern whatever beyond the limits of strict justice in the interest of surrounding citizens or commercial corporations or seek to promote their claims. We ask that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be a man with whom the uplift and promotion of the Indian shall be first, his last and only concern. Inasmuch as the citizens liv-
