Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1951 Page: 2 of 4
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HONEY GROVE SIGNAI^CITIZEN October 26, 1951
HONEY GROVE SIGNAL-CITIZEN
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G. K. FLADGER, Manager
HARRY L. THOMPSON, Editor
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Honey Grove,
Texas, under act of March 3, 1879.
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By GEORGE S. BENSON
Ptuldcnt—}(a rding Mltft
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BUREAUCRACY AND
THE INDIAN
At a time when so many
Americans are being charm-
ed by visions of a Federal
welfare state which promises
to remove the vicissitudes of
life and set up a guaranteed
standard of good health ade-
quate education, economic
welfare and security for all,
it would be wise for us to
take a good look at how well
the American Indians, who
have lived for a century in
such a welfare state, have
fared.
For 126 years the Federal
governmient’s Bureau of Ind-
ian Affairs has been the be-
nevolent guardian of most of
our Indian citizens. No Indian
under the paternal wing of
this “Great White Father”
in Washington has had to
worry about food, shelter or
old age security, regardless
of whether he’s been ener-
getic or lazy, well-behaved or
unruly. The government has
provided education too—or,
rather, it guaranteed to do
so.
Two Lessons
Many Indians have declined
to enter Reservations or oth-
erwise submit to government
paternalism. I have seen
numbers of them in Okla-
homa who have made their
own prosperity and security
and are splendid, independ-
ent citizens. But the facts
about the several hundred
thousand Indians under gov-
ernment guardianship pro-
vide two lessons which all
free citizens, should learn and
learn well:
1. While wards of a po-
litically-managed bereaucracy
our Indian citizens have be-
come a stagnate, if not ac-
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tually a disappearing race.
Their once magnifice n t
pride, native resourcefulness
and unmatchable self-reli-
ance has withered. Depend-
ency has stunted their vapa-
bility. They are the only mi-
nority group in America that
has failed to make great
strides of progress in the
last half century. They are
also the only racial group
whose members have been
wards of welfare state.
2. On the basis of the 126-
year record of the Indian Bu-
reau. political bureaucracy
has utterly failed as a care-
taker of human hopes. The
Bureau’s oft-repeated claim
of “taking care of the In-
dians” becomes a shameful
mockery when all the facts
are known.
Sickness and Squalor
Here are some results of
the government’s “taking
care of the Indians”—as re-
ported by the Marquette
League for Catholic Indian
Missions:
Health, education and wel-
fare standards of the Nava-
jos (one of the Tribes under
government guardianshi p )
have been running steadily
downhill for 83 years. The
one-room hogans (homes) of
the Navajos are windowless,
unsanitary, uncomfortab 1 e,
over-crowded, and the entire
family sleeps, eats, and lives
on the dirt floor! Due to the
neglect of the government,
tuberculosis and infant mor-
tality have reached what is
believed to be the highest
rate in the continental Unit-
ed States. The Navajos are
among the sickest people in
the nation, with the least
amount of medical service,
in spite of the tact they are
wards of the government.
Seventy-five per cent of
the Navajo Tribe is illiterate
as compared to Negro illiter-
acy of 16.1 per cent, foreign-
born white illiteracy of 9.9
per cent, and native white
illiteracy of 1.5 per cent.
A disgracefully lop-sided
amount of the Indian Bu-
reau’s annual budget of ap-
proximately $40,000,00 goes
for administration salaries-—
to keep the politically faith-
ful on jobs. Inefficiency, cor-
ruption and political juris-
dictional strife have been
trademarks of <the Indian
Bureau.
Pit of Darkness
The Rev. Bernard A. Cul-
len, of the Marquette League,
one of the best informed au-
thorities on the plight of
these wards of our govern-
ment, says: “We have driven
the Indian into an abysmal
pit of darkness and misery
and the very least we can do
is lower the ladder of oppor-
tunity to help to climb into
the sunlight and know again
the pride that was once his.”
Freedom of opportunity
for the Indian and the unfet-
tered chance to redevelop his
self-reliance and pride—
these are the best gifts with-
in the province of our nation,
not more bureaucratic pater-
nalism. The Indian is not in-
herently a sceond-class citi-
zen. If reborn into independ-
ence, he could do equally
well for himself as the mil-
lions of immigrants have
done who came to America
penniless and illiterate. _ But
with the continued political
guardianship of a Federal
bureau taking away all of
their natural instincts and
characteristics the American
Indian would become, as
would any other branch of
the human race, mere creat-
ures—with final extinction
probable.
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Been Examined
A colored woman was ask-
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raved.
“No, suh,” she replied.
“But I done been ultra-vio-
lated.”
Iowa Doctor Tells
Of Successful Eye
Cataract Removal
CHICAGO—An operation for one
type of congenital cataract, which
has proved successful in 17 out of
18 cases of children with impaired
eyesight, was described here to-
day by Dr. Otis R. Wolfe, chief
of the department of ophthalmology
at Deaconess Hospital, Marshall-
town, Iowa.
Dr. Wolfe spoke at a clinical ses-
sion held as part of the 16th annual
assembly of the United States and
Canadian chapters of the Interna-
tional College of Surgeons. He pre-
sented several patients he had
operated on, showing the sight
restoration and general social and
economic rehabilitation resulting
from it. The clinic was held in the
Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Hospital.
Cataract is basically a condition
in which the lens of the eyeball is
clouded, which interferes with vi-
sion by preventing the passage of
light rays. It is usually found in
older persons, but occasionally
children are born with it. There are
several types of cataract. The
treatment is to remove the lens en-
tirely, substituting glasses.
Dr. Wolfe’s cases involved a
congenital displacement as well as
clouding of the lens. The catarac-
tous lens in these patients is broken
loose from its suspending muscles
and displaced into the back part
of the eyeball. It has been cus-
tomary to wait until the lens hard-
ens later in life before operating
to restore vision to such children.
Using a technique slightly differ-
ent from standard cataract opera-
tions, Dr. Wolfe believes in operat-
ing at once, and his report showed
that, even though the lens is soft,
it is absorbed and disappears al-
most entirely in these children, per-
mitting them, with properly fitted
glasses, to follow a normal life im-
mediately. Special eye training
after the operation is essential.
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ticket window reading:
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here.”
The sign drew only comment
until recently when a tall
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Psychologist Would Deport
fBossy’ Parents to Russia
Hopalong Cassidy is in danger of
losing his popularity crown to one
of the nation’s leading child psy-
chologists.
He is Dr. Martin L. Reymert, Ph.
D., who has had the courage to
come right out and say that too-
busy parents belong in Soviet Rus-
sia or Hitler’s Germany.
The heroic gentleman writes, in
the September issue of “Your
Child’s World,” monthly child
guidance magazine.
“Blind obedience to parental au-
thority has no place in our demo-
cratic way of life where the child
is supposed to grow into a respon-
sible citizen who is able to think
for himself, to act for himself, and
to live successfully with others.”
He regrets that even today, some
parents think of discipline as just
that and declares “Parents who are
over-domineering toward their chil-
dren are apt to squelch all personal
initiative and make them totally in-
effectual members of our society.”
As Director of the famed Moose-
heart Laboratory for Child Re-
search at Mooseheart, Illinois, Dr.
Reymert has had the opportunity
to observe hundreds of children and
to study their reactions at first
hand.
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This is the century-old submarine
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^YOU delight in taking her
oown a notch by occasionally
saying something about
’“people our age?”
The morning after a party
where the hostess splurged
a little, do you telephone sev-
eral women who were guests
to laugh at how the hostess
was trying to impress every-
one?
If you have a feeling that
a friend is trying to hide
something, do you insist on
dragging it out into the
open, figuring you won’t let
her get by with that ?
lif a woman you don’t par-
ticularly care for starts put-
ting on weight, do you men-
tion it to her?
If a woman makes a re-
mark to you that you inter-
pret as cattiness, do you try
to top it so you can say with
satisfaction: “I put her in
her place?”
If your husband mentions
that another woman seems
to run her house well, do you
point out that she can afford
be able since she can afford
help, or because she makes
her family toe the mark or
remark that she doesn’t do
anything but keep house?
. If a woman gives you an
opening to rake another
woman over the coals, do
you settle back to really do a
job on her, enjoying every
minute of it?
If you answer “yes” to all
those questions, your catti-
ness quotient is so high your
charm is undoubtedly slip-
ping.
But if your answers are all
“no” you’re almost too good
to be true—and still be a
woman.—By Ruth Millett.
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