The Chemawa American, December 05, 1928, Page 4, Image 4

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T H E CH EM A W A AM ERICAN
FAMOUS AM ERICAN IN D IA N S
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’ H e bad m o re fa rè s than he could1 cafe for. He
studied during the day and spent the evening driving
most of the town of Topeka about in hi« dusty/; old
conveyance behind creatures ready for the boneyard.
H e made money, purchased the"outfit for himself and
made more money. A nd ali the while h isr studies
were progressing ra p id ly ,. A t the. age qf twenjty-one
he was adtnitted to thè bar. But it -was not until some
m onths later th at he fouhd he could ¡give up hacking
and make enough money at law.
T he next step from the law was, in .th e direction of
politics. He has kept step successfully from prosecut­
ing attorney for, his’county to the Kansas le g isla tu re ,
on to the halls of Congress and then to a SenatOrship.
A nd now he is the choice of th e nation for vièe-Presi-
deht.
blundered-in, its dealings?* Politics has played its
demoralizing -part, A t times differences ..of. religion
have complicated the problem i. .Bootlegging criminals
have stfrrebtiti-oUisly vended bdòzè'on the-reservations.
Dishonest white men .have-tried to,sw indle Indian's’.'
; T hat i^ th e black side of the picture. But thé shield
Ë âs'abti^htèi ¿idei ‘ ‘T hé corisistèüï puf bo’sp of congress
and the administration is to giyç thç Indian a square
deal. H^blé men and \y,pmep are peryipg them as,edn-
cators, friends .,apd xoun-selprsj,,"; Updoubtedly, /the
Indian has a better; present than- he -enjoyed 50 .years
ago, or even a decade ago, and his future, uponw bìch
óncé séeìnedi-written, the dark-w©rds,r. “ demoralization,
diseasè and destruction,’-Enow .gives h ig h prom ise of
prdgress and ultim ate;grandeur.
JUDGE J. M. P H IL L IP S
| W e are making a reprint of an article which appeared
in T he Alaskan, - published .at P etersburg,-A laska:
W e . are alwaysv pleaded it© noté th e achievements of
our-prom inent Indian people;and itvrfis nadplèasure: itd
give space-tòian article on Judge Phillips, which«,i how­
LO, THE POOR IN D IA N I
ever ,( seems, all too,brief, as,followsi ,,
From the Spokane Spokesman-Review
‘ W as, elected, |q a W ashington Superior, C o iïrt,,
Superintendent O, H . Eipps, formerly in charge of James
M. Phillip^, .of.yAheraeen. W e .glófy in his
the Indian agency af.Eapwai» Idaho, b u t pow super­ election. “ Jim 4 ’
, GAr li,$le,^tending, law school
inten d en t of the large Chemawa Indian School near at Dickinson .College in 19 0 / jr h e n j we were in oiir
Salem, O re., returned' to the Eewièton region-thin teens. H e played,on thé,C^rlisleLteam pnder ‘Pop”
w eek to tell the coinPiercial' club of th at ci W interesting W arner,when ^Varner almos-t. defeated ‘H arvard w ith
e hidden ball trick; l a t e r w i t h the North­
facts about the Indian problem th at are -deserving of th
western rJIniversity,< G raduating from the laycscjipcu
national* consideration.*, ' Superintendènt Ljppfe isr con­ he went to Aberdeen, W ashington,/and practicedlaiy
vinced th at “ the only ^solution of the Indian problemi there.
H e served as commisioner of the court and
is; a slow o n e.” * Yet “ the Indians have shoxyppfp- also as mayor for several- terms. This -year Me steps
gress—as much as could reasonably be expected under Up to the Superior Court b e n c h .1 f“ jitìi*” ùs a Cher­
th e circum stances.” A t Chemawa they are trying -A okee : from South Carolina and Mrs.- “ Jim ” from
W isconsin. -
new plan, upon which Mr. Hipps bafe’es high èxpéèfà”
HONOR ROLL
tions. H e thus explains it:
O ur definition of an honor student J -is, one whose
“ W e are trying w h a tw e call an ‘ou tin g ’ sysfemf?,'
grades Average, atleast- 9.0 percent, w ith no grade be­
th e putting of the younger Indians out into good home
low 30 percent, and whose deportm ent is .satisfactory to
surroundings. They are brought from thè reservations all under whose supervision the student may come.
and taught home economics, physiéa!culture, athletics, Below is a ’l ist of students whose grades and deportment
music and other lines, and they, are, put into high-class for tjie,m onth entitle them to a place op, the honor
hopies, sent to public .schools, -and grow; up under roll:
£ J 2th Gracie I
good surroundings. A ny home woman who has one
Archie Demmert, John Frenier and Russell H ayw ard.
of these girls is called an ‘outing’ mother. W e find
11th C/ipde
th a t the .plan is working well. T his last'season H as­
Cecile P.epion, Hazel W eil, Aaron Sookum and "‘Joe
kell In stitute was requested to send eight, girls to a Matte. ,
10th Gri/ade/,."
woman in charge of a summer hotel in the Black H ills
E llaC ontw ay, Clyde Cooley, Deo Cpponware, F rank
of South Dakota, and they gave such satisfaction that
Johnson, Clarence Orton, Fred Sandberg and Charles
now they don’t w ant any but Indian girls at th at hotel. Wishart.
W e thus get them out into the World to find their own
' 9th Grade
. Agnes.Scott, W illiam Cadotte and Benjamin P iku-
way. ’ ’
There will be re,ady public agreement w ith Super­ tarik .,,
8th Grade /
intendent Hipps’ conclusion th at “ we owe it to the
‘Heota Plasteur, E dna W esley and Robert Thom as.
Indian race to give them a fair tria l.” W e bave not
7th Grade
always done that. Too often the Indians have been
Bessie Scott, Alice Bachman, Caroline Duncan, Ben­
misunderstood and underrated. The government has jam in Bear, Philip G orr and Esiah Galeshoff.