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CANADIAN INDIAN PROSPERED
DURING THE LAST SIXTY YEApFrom Roaming the Prairies 1.: Has Bc ore Farmer and
Rancher --Government ° F R a:' iy in te-jere ; With
His Felson: 1 Lii'o ty
Dy Duncan Catnebell Scott, Deputy. Stper,nl • nd nt-Gtner•ul of Indian Affairs
Ottawa—The native race of the Con- d ' awes' teo it vita rclurned to it
tinent is a eoaas:tant source of intereett Cie r:: mete i i ti tet r.bt-•,ted, no
and, moreover, et reenara:ee. A. noted dcubt bringing bo 's is rc r uedssirab:e
anthx'opolcgtst Ict•e:y wrote "that it euow-•edge tical •eepealenee,
may be ,donated if thea is'anyette're , But this mingling' with the outside
in ell the lendenuorinai individual who world was sae s u,> s::sareble then a
lass net aecltiir+e•:i"w•ome interest in tho strict confinement within boundaries
lndkn's his. .y" 'Dna he claims the w'itt have been, even had such con-
dndlen as "one of our greatest cultural fine:,:ent been lieeseiilgc*, We can n•ow
coz.,..,:z." Apart teem this ecientifio'in- see the rtieelts in the oldsr provinces
tenet theca exists the philanthropic of each on interplay of forcers and
effort, the: effort to preservethe ra•ee, tem:e•nd:es.' We findanative popula-
te evil re, to Clrr tetianize and to re t'oe l.o a •certain •degree intimate with
duce all the native originality to the the usagee -of civilized• life. The roil-
lnortnal type bgf citizenship. Tliis vidu•sa Indian is either maintaining
eftort, iu all its forms, is opposed to himself and his family away from his
the aboriginal culture. ' tribal reserve by mercantile or Indus-
'f'o tens of civilizing. a native race trial pursuits, or living upon the rot
has never been taper up by any na> serve 'and obtaining his subsistence
tion. as a ocnurcious duty. The contact
made the nese inevitable, the sense
cs duty was an after product. As the
tageat,nent of the Indian by Canada
shows atone unique features, the Dia-
mond 1ubiiee of the Doq}i,•inion gives
an oppec•:-tun1JLy for retrospect and for
a glance into the future. One of the
prominent features of the Canadian
system had its origin in the assumir-
tion by the Dominion at Confederation
of all legislative control over Indians,
Indian lands and. affairs;
Uniformity of Treatment
The provinces have no jurisdiction
This provi::lon of the British North
America Act assures uniformity of
treatment. Again, Parlta.m•nt has pro-
vided the legal definition cf an Indian;
dement in the mala gine alone gives
the individual legal standing as an
Indian. This d•efinition has greatly
simplified the Wan. problem; true, it
has created a 'clue of haltfbreads ole- I
Pendent on the provinces, but it has II
enabled the Dominion to deal with!
its warns without legal complications.
Thole two features of the Camilleri
Th,lian sy •tarn based en the recognized
Indian title to the scil, which tnnet he
seerendetcd before the Crown is con-
sidered to have full pctsae•selon, are the
fo•.:nazt:cr:s of our police.
. N•o foot of Canada has been obtain -
by •conquest cif the Indian, and from
ocean to csoan the aim; nistration is
carried on upon the same broad prince-.
phis. The reservation system makes
it pessib'ge to ccnc•entrate civilising ef-
fort. It was intended to• insure the
continuation of the tribal life and the
4ife of. the individual asg an Indian, and
as weal to render posadbbe a continu-
ous and conaisbent administrative
policy directed toward`vilization.
If there had been strict 'confinement
to reserve limits, the eystem would
have had many objectionable fea-
tures, but neither offteials nor Indians
uon_idered the reserves as more than
a "pied de terra." The Indians wan
from the sail. The social condition
of the reserve Indiana doos not differ
materially from the social conditions
of those who have separated them-
selves from the tribal relationship.
Intermarriage with white persons has
affected both classes and has prevent-
ed the evi15• of marriage in .closely re-
lated family groups.•
Influenced by Education
I One great advantage of the reserve
system is the ease with which the
people may lie reached and influenced
by education. The unique feature of
I the Canadian system is the union of
church and state; very few schools
exist whioh we not denominational.
This. joint association has grown cut
of early misj,onary effort and the state
has the advantage of zealous co-opera-
tion; due acknowledgment must be
made of this assistance in 'appraising
the measure of success our system has
attained.
Education Expensive
Some idea of the deve'-ppment of
the school system may be formed by a
comparison of the increase of annual
cgxl•-ndituro from $2.600 to $1,950,000
in 60 years. The latter figure provided
for the maintenance •ef 76 residential
'schools- and 254 day schools. Sixty
'cars ago the established schools were
maintained by the few Indians inter-
ested and, by special funded, money,
but year by Sear a larger and larger
share in the educational campaign was
agaeumed by the Government as the
duty of the state became clear.
Under protection which is unob-
trusive and which rarely interferes
with sers•onal liberty, and aided by
educative influences both in the field
and dlasaroom, the Indian has since
Confederation progressed and widened
• his outlook. In the new provinces he
has become a farmer and rancher; in
the older provinces he has entered
more fully into the civic life. In many
regions he is depended upon as the
•chief source of labor.
Squealed, of Course.
Captain—"Well, what did that road
hog do when you pinched hint?"
Cop—"Squealed, of course."
Rush When • Others Relax
An alert salesman remarked the
other day that he doges best on very
rainy days. He finds that he then
has less comsetition. It is easier to
get in to see prospects and customers,
And often they are less rutlhed. Not
a low salesmen., he states, move
around very little during rain storms.
They prefer to get together in a hotel
parlor or bedroom and have a good
time. In many lines Summer
traditionally the dull season. Many
en organization then relaxes ,its sales
efforts on the lazy assumption of
"W'hat's• tho use?"
That way les, notprogress, but re-
trogression. Instead of suCeumbing to
lnegrita, why not taste advantage of
slaekened competition and go after
business with redoubled energy? The
tortoise won because the hare fell
eslieep. Many business• hazes have the
)ambit of napping during; July and
Angust.—(Editoriai in Forbes Maga-
zine.)
You never hear the bee complain,
Or hear it weep or wail;
But if it wish it can unfold
A very painful tail.
A young business man, after eight
. gears of absence, alighted at the sta
tion of the town of his birth. There
was, despite his expectations, no one
one the plettorm whoirt he knew. No
one, Discourdgod, he sought out tho
station master, a friend stnce boy.
hood. To him at toast lie would be
, welcome, and ho was about to extend
a hearty greeting when the Other
spoke first, "Iloilo, George," he 'said.
' "Gehl' away"l
Rickard Needs Dempsey
Comeback
Tex Rickard is banking on the cul-
mination of his long and wearisome
build-up in tide heavyweight division
to make up for the bad start which the
outdoor boring season in New York
has had. Th,e crowds have not been at
all comfortable so far, and there are
all the signs of a decidedly off year.
Rickard is banking heavily on a Jack
Dempsey comeback, and then a couple
of months later, a ohampionship bout
between Tunney and the winner of
the Dempsey -Sharkey bout. It doesn't
taken sen an expert predictor like
11Sm. Rickard to see the logic of all that,
because Dempsey, next to Tunney him-
self, is the biggest drawing eard in
boxing. FIe has the color—even more
so than the champion who dethroned
him laset year at Philadelphia. But
if the predictions should, by any
'oh•anoe, go wrong, the outdoor season
has every prospect of ending up in the
red, whioh would be unfortunate, in-
deedt—"Pa.tches."
The Bonne Entente
Quebec Soleil (Lib)—People only
liko one another when they get to
know each other, and they only get to
know each -other well by meeting
each other. We had a proof of this
very recently during the trip of close
on 400 French-Canadians to Ontario
and the United States with the Union
of Municipalities of the Province of
Quebec At Toronto, St. Catharines
and Hamilton these 400 delegates
were received with courtesy, cordial-
ity and generosity at each town's ex-
pense. At Toronto the Lieutenant-
overnor and the Prime Minister of
Ontario were the first to shake them',
by the hand.: In the second town a
hundred motor cars and many citi-
zens were at the disposal of the tra-
velers to visit one of thomost mar-
velous districts) of the country. At
Hamilton the sante elate, the Zama -af-
fability, This is the bonne en-
tente moro than all the speeehes and
ell the articles in the newspapers
Real Enforcement
The agents found about seventy-five
gallons of moonshine in the barrel,
which was of a fifty -gallon capacity.—
Witco/islet Raper.
I•te--"t hope youwill pardon my
daneing oh your feet—I'm a little out
et practice.'' She—"I caret nailed your
danding on diem. It's the coxttintlal
jumping on and off that aggravates
• ,,,...:a+,adi:: x seat son
?I^gPMi':
GOVERNOR-GENEReen AND PREMIER
I'.iecount Wi:aingdon an•ct Premier 'I{ing at the Ottawa Broadcast
Wornen's and Men's 'Univer-
sities
London Daily Chronicle • (Lib.)—
Oxford has gone farther than Cam,
bridge, in England, and Yale and Har-
vard, in America. She has given de-
grees to her women students, and fulI
membership, and admitted them to all
Professorships, Readerships, and Uni-
versity Teacherships. Up to• now she
has gone the whole way --reserving
nothing, and we believe grudged noth-
ing. But now the grudging begins.
There aro those who are asking,
Where is all this to stop? 'Is it not
possible that the women may soon
equal, or even exceed the men in
numbers, and Oxford cease to be a
"man's University?" The keenest
feminist must surely agree that this
is no question of "women's rights."
Women have no more natural and in-
defeasible right in Oxford than men
have in Somerville or Girton. In so
far as no existing privilege is in-
fringed, the question is not' one of
right, but of expediency. Does Ox-
ford stand to gain" or lose by ceasing
to be predominantly a "roan's Uni-
versity?"
Standardization
London Evening Standard (Ind.
Cons.))—The statement that ..Mr,
Chamberlain, the hero of the flight,
from New York into Germany, is in
appearance and manners more °Eng-
lish than American provokes a num-
ber of reflections... , There is now
nothing strange in the fact that an
individual American should look like
an Englishman, though perhaps it
would be more correct to say that he
looks like the "standard man" of our
modern culture. The "standard man,"
of similar appearance and habits, is
spread out in ever-increasing numbers
over two continents, between Berlin
and SanFrancisco. It is only when he
opens his mouth that it is possible to
tell that he still remains a nationality
of his own,
"It's queer," said Uncle Eben, "dat
so many men wif doubts on religion
and science is so terrible credulous
'bout a hors race tip." look.
The Victim
London Times (Ind.)—The co-oper-
ator will wear an uneasy yoke with
the Socialist. In the Socialist soheme
of things, as set out in the plans. for
the ordering of the future State, the
Co-operative movement.. will sink to
the level of a Government agency
without independence or initiatgice. • 1`t
wills
,parry out the orders of a Govern-
ent D artment unless—and this is
' the .Socialist alternative—it ds super-
seded, in whale or in part, by a Gov-
ernrmgemt monopoly in 'retail as well
as in wholesale trading. Iii either
event the Coaoperative movement
would lose the vital characteristic
which. is inherent in, and inelleparable
from, its voluntary character,
No Help.
Mrs. Brown—"Have you any help
now, Mrs. Jones?"
Mrs. J.=-"No—just a servant girl,
Mrs. Brown."
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Reflected Glory
A letter comes in from a farmer in
Hohokus, New Jersey, which says that
she is the fellow that furnished the
hams that made the hamsandwiches,
which Charles Lindbergh ate .on his
way to Paris. The farmer says that
his home has become a "shrine" and
that people from far and wide are ar-
riving in droves and whittling away
his trent fence and apple trees for
souvenirs. He believes that his
notoriety may bring him a lucrative
motion -picture contract.—The Out -
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OND OF EMPIRE F'JR
Establishment of Inter -Imperial Diplomatic Machinery to
Enable Dominions to Keep in Touch With One
Another Advocated
Chicago—The P,ritIsh Empire has
developed Into, anassoeiatigon of free
mations unrated by bonds, that will not
readily be broken, Joplin W. Defoe, fedis
tor of the Manitoba Free Press and
representative of the Canadian Det.
partment. of Public I•n2•criniation at the
Paris Peace Conference, declared in
an address before an institution of
politics being ogondri•eted at the 'Culver-
ray of Chicago by the Norman Wait
Harris Memorial Foundation.
With wish British nation fully self
governing. with no central and dirrect-
ing government and with practically
nomaolrinemy fee' ratpdd consultation,
th4s group of doarinions poslsesises-.s.
caipacigty for oo-operation tthet arises+
from a leiwship of race and ideas,
Mr. Defoe declared. The oomnnon-
weaith, he said, lea morals unit, and
tbls is an assurance that it will be a
pm4itioal unit and a diplomatic unit
cgs well when large issdes affecting all
its nations arise.MVIr. Defoe declared
that there is an immediate need for
the teveation of inter -imperial diploma-
tic machinery by which. the dosnlnions
can be kept in constant touch with
one another. ' At present, he said,
there is no provision for the speedy
interchange of views 'between the gov-
ermmentss.
Allegiance for King
In Canada, as in South Africa, Mr.
Dafce declared, the Governor-General
has ceased to be a British agent,
charged with the duty of keeping his
Government informed of happenings
in the Dominion where he represents
the King. Ira iu eorclaareo with the neve
trend in policy, c.onnanunioatilows wil
Paste trent sloreIriian •ggovexntnents .to
I,oardon; rad this for eteheel,aws xipgpoiettl
agents of diplennati'o g nrtte from owe'
nation to eniccthlor, he said. ' •
"Given the f•+:cilitiett for peotrept in-'
teechange of opinion end issentett MALI
ii•osltion of intended aetiolr, we eau
trust t+ho laalittetrl 5:3•gaei•tyr of the ;aeo•r
pDas conn n-ia,ed tro wort ,out zt steet•etm'
i by wheel they will oo-op'erat ifs inet-;
tars of ,coannnon iateseett wane Ioaviany,
one another alone,' wbeee matters of
only logcial interest are affected," Mir.'
Defoe arid, "Thane axe many Iropeul
of concerted acticm tliat are still far
in: the future, One of these is the
dreamt' of free trade within the 7Jzn-
Dere and a common tarig against the,
I•world. Trade .between the various
dominions is encouraged at present
by preference; but there is a pood
deal sof unreality about the ooncaasious
given by 4n• British nation to another.
Whenever the peotectibinlst view of
tariff prevails --and it is predominant'
et the moment in all the British Do-
minions—there is a:. steady tendency
to retain the preference in form but,
to break It in spirit; that is, to make
the preferential nate itself highly pro=
tective."
The great achievement of the 1926
Imperial tnferegnce, Mr. Deets' eaid,)
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was that it recognized the cannon
allegiance to one king and that It not
cepted the theory that the dominion.
pariiraments are -not subject to .eater•
nal control.
SAVE THE CHILD
We are Fishing on the Wrong
Side of the Boat • -
By Jack Miner
It has been proven, that if a man
writes an article stating what he
knows about'crows, he will get lots of
people interested. I believe the share
'could be said if ole wrote his •experi-
eanatr int raising calves! or growing
tobacoo. My lather (the best man.
who ever lived) comp•elledg me to split
rails to make a recreation 'ground for
our pigs. But now, let usl banish ail
such Insignificant aid
o issues frown
OUT minds `for a while men think of
earth's future hope.—tour young ntan-
b' ood; these whom Dodi �crea.ted in IIis
own image after His own likeness and
gave them dominion over all these
lower creatures.
Not so very bong ago I noticed an
article in the press stating "that ail
ditches must be railed or filled, in to
prote,ot the motcrris4." Phis I am
strongly in Savor of, but what about
our country ohildren on their way to
and tram the little red schoolhouse?
Have they been consiidemed at all? I
am co,meelledt to say "Nlo.'1 I don't be-
lieve limey have.
Just recently my boy drove me to
Windsor, a distance of 'twenty-six
miller, and I counted eighty lve school
children dodging their way to school
along our cement highway and, to me,
it looked pitifully wicked:. One Lit-
tle fellow ,actually fell into the ditch
in his effort to escape: these dodging
gas burners that came upon him from
east and west. To our people cf
Canada, yet me frankly say, I w, u 0
sooner see a bunch of -our Chinn en usaseeeseeetseemeaseertiesaaeseaseatesenesaessise
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Dead Airman's Plane Totally Wrecked
VIEWS OF JOHNSON% PLANE AFTER CRASH
Above are two views qf, tile wreck -Charles A. Lindbergh and the acci-which darted across the field, sue -
age of Lieut Thaddeus Johnson's air -dent was due to it being struck by therounded the debris and prevented
plane after tato fatal crash cni Satur-Diane behind chtrint landing raiari.oeuv-sottvenir'`hunters from seizing pore
day at tta
y CJ �'a. I..etlt. JaiYnaali $ len shattered `lrtaclrilte
nineties. A dbtaclrxa�ent of mounted poiicettons of the sh e
formed one of the eecort to Col •
tar
ing the railroad track for a school
path than to see them on our 'auto-
mobile highways whore their• rights
have never been cnneederea. And, if
'we were fishing on the right side of
the boat, I am sure they would have
first consideration, for what will Can-
ada profit if we gain the wholle world
and lose :tlle rising generation of our
boyhood and girlhood? Yes, you may
bre riding in your big IlMeentine with
your 'own dealing boy at the wheel
when you meet or Imes this 'zeta
neglected, long-haired, baishful little
fellow with his dinted little dinner
pail in leis hand an a bunch of Band
ged-down books under his arm, Yet,
you have no proof that your bey will
be a greater assets to Canada than.
he will bo. Remember, the biggest
men this world ever knew were born
bare footed,
In speaking of Queen Victoria, my
father once said to me, "Jack df you
had known her, you are a man that
would have dearly loved her. God
bless her." He said: "I well remem-
ber the day she was crowned," and
then he went on to say that one day
she was passing a bunch of under-
privileged: children. She stopped and
seoke to them and .some of the royalty
chastised bier for doing so, but father
staid the dear soul wrung cher hands as
lee replied., "I like to speak to them
all, for We don't know who the com-
ing amen are."
Now please don't underobancl me to
say that all country s•ohool children
are unestr••prlv:'•eI,e,d. No, no, no! But
I do say that in building our gat -me -
there -quick highways that the safety
of our ,.clacc1 chi—Ian—en : ta•s not been
oc•naldered and the paths they did
lave, in the ma ority of corse:, have
been d•ssl:oysd and no proviso made
for them whatever. Persena'ly I
don't like to hear :v pian •cesnp•'-a n no:
Ices he has a carefully thought out
1:an of Improvement and, first of x11,
let us :.'top and consider the ailment cf
material it talons to build a lligdawkry
from sixteen :o twenty feet wine and
eight' inches thick. Then let us con-
sider the insignificcnt amount of
practically the' cense material it will
take to build a sch:ocl chillre•n's pater
two feet wide and four inches thick
six feat„ or xttcre fiogm the ror:Ging-
traf:c, with a nice 'piece .of green sod
separating the two. Please figure it
i ruts out and ask youreedf if this really
I to t n eaeravagant a,aggest_cn when five
I I :- cent. of the mteria1 used for the
enty foot road will build our little
lived ,cnes, a path in the safety zone.
Again let rno ask, have We became so
,
I penny true and, round. faalish as to
allow our hearts to be 'completely
crowded out and silly speedy recren-
1 tion scare the foundation -of our futil• e
I laorge into the .gu•tten•?
In .closing I have this request .of
the readers.. If thrcugh persenal ob-
serva.nco ogr experknto eau have rea-
sons to believe that what I have out-
S:n•ed above is true and we are fish
ing on the wrong side of the boat,`wiid
ycu please help us cast our Dela to
the right by having •a elese up heart
to i.sart talk with pour government
rearet11ltativ,5g? Pf 1:lase:ale, take him
fee a Calve whale he .can ;los, ,far him-
self. At the same time, teat each of us
do our bit for "how 'can. 1 go op, to
may Faidrr if th.e.lad be not with me?"
Not Far Enough.
Isabelle—"Don't you love driving
on a beautiful night lilte this?"
Bob—"Yeah, but I thought I'd wait
until eve got further out into the coma
try."
Rel
1$
was suggested that his eggs were not
fresh,"I toll you, sir," he said, em-
phaticttily,. "nay son brought thein
front the country only yesterday."
"Which country?" the customer
asked.
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