Show INDIANS IN UNITED STATES How the Red M Man n Is Turning De Defeat eat Into Triumph Triumph Increasing Increasing Attendance Attend Attend- Attendance ance Shown at Schools I No longer can ft It be said that the only good Indian Is a dead clead Indian That statement born of ignorance of the real character of f th the Indian isnow Isnow is isnow now definitely eliminated from the lI lift t of epigrams by a report of f the census bureau on the present In Indian lan population population population tion In the United States While the report shows a much lower lower low low- er rate of growth for forc forthe the Indian population population population lation than for the white an I increasing hig ing mixture of white bl blood od an and end decreasing decreasing decreasing de de- creasing vitality of full full blood blood Indians indicating a tendency to disappear altogether altogether al al- together it also shows Increasing attendance attendance at at- at school and decreasing il illiteracy Il 11 literacy an increase In the percentage percent percent- self and decrease decrease decrease de de- age of the supporting self a crease In the number of reservation Indians While the report shows that there were Indians Indians in the United States States- exclusive of Alaska in 1910 an increase of or 7 per cent over the number reported In 1890 there are there are about Indians in this I country at the present time Among Among them are are to be found manufacturers bankers U United States officials mechanical mechanical me me- h engineers locomotive t engineers engineers engi ngI- tel telegraph graph oper operators tol actors artists clergymen college professors physicians physician hy surgeons surgeons and lawyers The Tho Indian h has turned defeat Into H He h has s played l the e game game according t to the the rules rules' laid down by civilization and has haa won won |