The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1930-05 - 1930-06

              The Word Carrier
OF
SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
VOLUME  LIX
HELPING THE   BIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG
NUMBER 3
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
May-Julie, 1930
FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR
iWttmral   Swital
May 21, 1930
Part i—First Year
1 The Merry Bobolink, (duet)      Krogmann
Walter Leigh, Elmer Crosley
2 March of the Boy Scouts, -      -    Schaefer
Noah Jumpingelk
3 Last Hope, (simplified) -     -     Gottschalk
Joseph Hamilton
4 Cheerfulness, Rowe
Christine Dupree
part  II
5 March of the Flowers, -      -      -     Harker
Amy Smith
6 King of the Road, - Morrison
Daniel Schirmer
T Melody in F,    -     -      -      -     Rubenstein
Kuby Brown
8 Dance of the Sunflowers. -     -     -   Story
Imogene Baker
9 Tyrolene Melody, - Meyers
Lorene Bedlightning
1A  J Waltz in A Minor, -      -      -    -   Greig
10 t To a Wild Rose, -     -     -    McDowell
Mary Wright
PART   III
11 Colombine Delahaye
Ella Antoine
12 Flower Dreams -     - Espen
Florine Garvie
13 Rapsodie Mignonne      -      -      -    Kolling
Jane Halfred
14 Butterflies     -      -      -      -      -       Gurlitt
Udine Moody
15 Ponpee Valsante, (Waltzing Doll) Poldini
Naomi Johnson
16 Tenderesse Virgil
Arlene Graham
17 Second Mazurka -    -      Godard
Alice McGregor
18 To Spring .-    Grieg
Elizabeth Wright
1Q   fPapillon (Butterfly)      -      -    -     Grieg
iy \ Good Night     .--'--   Nevin
Margaret Wright
Mrs. F. B. Riggs Director of Music
The Indian Service
Charles J. Rhoads. the new Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, and William J. Scattergood,
Assistant Commissioer, left large business
interests to enter public service. They face
a problem that has remained practically without adequate solution for the past 100 years.
Under their direction a start will be made toward its solution.
The fundamental aim of the Indian Service
will be to make the Indian a self-supporting
and self-respecting citizen as rapidly as it can
be brought about. He will be considered
a potential citizen, instead of the ward of
the Government. Leadership, rather than
custody, is the object. Full responsibility
for himself is essential to his success. Indian
stock is of excellent quality and can merge
with that of the Nation. To accomplish these
ends it will be necessary to revise the Indian
educational program along practical lines and
to perfect plans for absorption of the Indian
into the industrial and agricultural life of the
Nation. , The decentralization of the activities
of the bureau will be effected as rapidly as
possible. Problems of health and education
should, as soon as possible, become responsibilities of the various States. Pending that
change, vigorous emphasis will oe placed upon these two factors in seeking Federal appropriations. The Office of Education will be
asked to collaborate in supervision of Indian
education and the health problem should eventually be lodged with the Public Health Service. The new policy can be characterized
briefly as meaning a new deal for the young
Indian and a square deal for the old Indian.
It will have as its objective the placing of the
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INDIAN MISSION SCHOOL
OF THE
American Missionary Association
OF THE
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
IN COOPERATIONwiththe
Presbyterian Board of National Missions
Wednesday.
Thursday,
7: 45 p. m., Musical Becital
2:00-3:00 p. in., School Boom and
Shop Exhibits
3: 00 p. m., Class  Day Program in
the Chapel
7: 45 p. m., Graduation Program
GUnaing Program
May 22, 1930
Chorus—Spring Song,     -    -     Mendelssohn
Prayer—
Announcements—
f Kings of the Road,   O'Hara
Boys' Chorus :<
I Mighty lak' a Rose,      Nevin
Commencement Address—
Rev. Jesse P. Williamson,
Onida, South Dakota
f Indian Dawn, Zamecnih
Chorus : \
Lullaby,
Lieurance
Presentation of Certificates—
Principal F. B. Riggs
Girls' Chorus
Benediction-
f Month of May,   Scarmolin
LAve Maria,
AM
Indian and his property upon a normal basis
and the elimination of the Indian Bureau
within a period of 25 years. In the past the
tendency has been to confuse two distinct
govermental responsibilities, that of wardship
over the Indian's person and wardship over
his property.
The white man, wanting wholesome food,
a comfortable place to live in, opportunities
for education and advancement, has a single
way of getting them. He works for them.
The Indian has often failed to satisfy those
same needs because he has not learned the
way to competence and happiness through
work. Industrial training for yoiing Indians
and adequate mechanism for inducting them
into the industrial life of the Nation is essential. It is an unsound policy to assume as in
the past that their means of livelihood should
necessarily be agriculture. Originally a nomadic race, the Indian, faced by pressure of
white population, went to isolated places or
were forced into them by military power.
These once isolated areas, now surrounded by
white civilization, have remained islands un-
merged with the life about them. They are
reminiscent of a period that is past. The Indian's original status was that of hostages and
prisoners. They have remained an insoluble
and isolated element of the population. There
will be many difficulties and, in some instances, it may not be desirable to bring about a
complete merger between the white and Indian civilization, The Indian culture will be
preserved where it has the means of subsistence and the vigor to survive, as demonstrat-
(Claaa Sag program
May 22, 1930
Piano Solo -     - Jane Halfred
Class History  -      -   ' -    Harry Thompson
Piano Solo - Margaret Wright
Class Prophecy   -     -    Reginald Traversie
Senior Glee Club Boys
Class Will   -       -       -    Reginald Lawson
Class Song Class
Qllaaa Kntl:
Jacob M. Bighorn
C. Hobart Eagle
Lawrence W. Irving
Reginald L. Lawson
Edgar L. McGregor
Harry D. Thompson
Reginald A. Traversie
Leona L. DeCory
Jane Halfred .
Elizabeth H. Wright
Margaret T. Wright
iHoito :
Finished Yet Beginning
QDfurrra:
Reginald Traversie, president
Harry Thompson, vice-president
Jane Halfred, secretary
Reginald Lawson, treasurer
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Rose and Silver
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ed in some areas in the Southwest. As this
modern civilization calls for a higher degree
of mechanical ability, the Indian naturally
skillful with his hands can find a self-supporting place. The problem of making a section
of the population numbering bet'eween 350,000
and 400,000 self supporting can be and will
be solved. The problem has not been solved
before largely because of the lack of resources in the attack upon it. For example, in examining the expenditure of 22 Indian schools
for the fiscal year 1929, it was found that the
average expenditure for clothing per year per
pupil was $22.26, against a minimum requirement of at least $50. As to diet, the average
per pupil per clay, even under the last allowances available, was considerably below the
37.8 cents found to be the minimum requirement by a carefully selected committee of physicians and specialists. The actual figures for
food per pupil per day in these 22 schools was
20 cents, of which 14 cents represented food
purchased and 6 cents represented food produced. Examination of these figures should
indicate one reason why the health of the Indian population is not up to white standards.
BOARD  OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS
The Board of Commissioners is an independent organization dissociated from the Indian Service and acting in an advisory capacity to the President and the Secretary.
Its work has been valuable and enlightening.
A summary of its current activities will be
found in another part of this report- Attention is particularly called to its full report
published separately which contains a valuable review of the entire period of Indian administration.—Report of the Secretary of the
Interior.