Show s RED MEN NEED HELP Thoso on Gila Reserve in a Pitiful Condition Washington June 22Thci Commls sioner of Indian Affairs said today that no application had been made to him to permit the Pima and Papago Indians on the Gila reservation Ariz to leave thc reservation for the purpose pur-pose of working in vineyards In California Cali-fornia Ho said these Indians arc In a pitiful piti-ful condition as their crops had failed and would continue to prove unprofitable unprofit-able owing to their water supply being cut off by white settlers S While no permission would be granted grant-ed If such an application was received the Commissioner said there was no law to prevent the Indians from leaving leav-ing the reservation There was however how-ever some danger that they would forfeit for-feit ihclr right to 30000 appropriated by Congress for their relief which w1ll become avc kblc on July 1st The Commissioner is of tIme opinion that the Indians would be l benefited toa greater extent by receiving this money than by working in the vfne I yardi |