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opo dl asi 4 s co boulb 2 V N r ry JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN fuell 1111 bl be parlous t imes all the world orld has troubles of 0 course holy writ tells that man Is to born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward but he seems to be getting an extra dose right now in the united states the wealthiest most prosperous ind and most powerful nation of earth he Is fussing over politics taxation and the oil scandal een ewa our de cles are not entirely happy the phil are just crazy over In depend ence hawaii and alaska want statehood porto iloco demands self govern ment guam Is afraid of earthquakes and so on american samoa actually appears to be the only happy land and even in samoa uncle sam Is making our es teemed fellow americans take doses of yes yea sir air an epidemic of yaws and uncle sam Is dosing them good and plenty besides there theres a good deal of conjunctivitis an eye disease caused by a gram grain negative other wise the american samoan Is very n well ell thank you and Is as a happy as a clam at high water the happy isles Is a name often given nowadays to american samoa an and d it seems well applied and apparently uncle sam deserves a it lot of credit for their happiness on the other hand the americans of ot samoa evidently deserve happiness ite its one place where the white mans burden Is a light load and the white mans way ay of carrying carry lag the burden Is certainly interesting the samoan islands number four teen and were named navigators islands by bougainville bougainvillea Bou gainville who dincov ered them in IM 1708 they are the peaks of submerged extinct volcanoes they lie about 0 2000 miles south of hawaii the three largest are savall OW square miles and tutuila Tu tulla 54 the latter with n few smaller adjacent island islands constitutes american samoa there Is I 1 tropical te vegetation elation eta tion and coral ree reef flit aery T ery prospect please ot and only man Is alle a and hes bes it pretty good sort being a polynesian largely as no nature made him the united states gained trained the harbor of pago pago on tutuila in 1878 by treaty for a coaling and naval station in n lka an tin american Brit british loth and german conference at berlin gave samoa the status of 0 neutral territory with nith native laws WAS and customs in 1809 the king kingship thIp ans no abolished and great britain and germany ceded tutuila to the united antes great britain with ith from the island during the war new zealand took possession of german samoa samon and now govern ern it under mandate of the league of Natio nations not it lt would poulo a philadelphia law ver to dete determine milne the political status ak U ral I 1 or a 11 V it 0 1 1 14 of a citizen of american samoa con gress rati ratified fled the treaty with great britain and germany by which we took over oer fu tu tulla but haa has never nener provided tor its annexation or administration president mckinley signed an executive order placing the islands under the navy succeeding presidents have acted in accordance with this opinion by one of our attorney generals neither the tb constitution nor the lawi laws of the united state hv have been li tended to them iad and the th only administrative authority in to them li in that derived meol attly lately or from th ki as corn mander in chief achl of 0 the th my and nd navy ot of the tb united it ts Is certain however hoever that ameri can samoa Is not foreign but domestic territory and that samoans are not citizens of the united states but owe allegiance to the flag so for twenty three years the navy has governed american samoa the government Is vested in a naval officer customarily with the rank of captain the present governor Is capt edian taylor pollock born in ohio in 1870 and alth ath a brilliant record beginning with the spanish american war the 1023 annual report of he the sur geon general of the navy rear bear ad mirat R stitt gives glies a hint of the many goern governmental mental activities of the navy th the samoan hospital continues to do ap bendid work and nd I 1 Is gradually radu illy gaining th the fidena of th the kropi V to to abi this ina t ito alon tin on lit it patients wc were admitted dmit ted during the h yr year t 1464 day days 0 of in 10 th the ry I 1 if 01 patients received treat meal at ihli this hospital a dental glinca W or samoan people li in hold twice a wk week at As la il training echo school 0 I 1 for or native curses li conducted la is connection ion with thi this boo bo 1 it a L bine BID the tb establish mn 1 of 0 this abl school la im UK isle nineteen native women hv have ba been graduated and fourteen our tB are r now under in st tn ton of 0 the th graduate nurses nun are ir employed as ft nurses ID in th barlou native communities these nor nam adain later simple druc drugs attend confinement err instruct mothers rooth tr la in car of 0 babies a nd ad as that those who ftc treatment are ar bt at to the th hospital the report aya says that n recent survey of samoa revealed UW IM cases of i awe a type of ekin skin disease upon which a campaign was immediately marled started to io erad eradicate lesto it by the administration of A severe type of conjunctivitis nn an eye disease Is very prevalent in samoa say says the report A recent survey revealed cases la in a population of carrying some article of food a ch chicken lelen a fish a banana a breadfruit I 1 or something else the entire perform ance once Is carried out in accordance with strict and ancient rules of etiquette the parade advances and as it passes a designated spot each one deposits his food gift 1 hen all Is done the procession disband disbands and all I 1 anda ands gather around the heap of edibles their solemnity solem nit Is discarded big bowls bois of kava kata are made by the prettiest of the girls and the lacot for hours frank bohn an american publicist who has recently made an extensive tour of the islands of the southern in pa cefic pays uncle sam and the united states navy a handsome compliment in an article I 1 the white mans blans bur den in american samoa in the current history magazine he ile brings out these points among others to the navy has fallen the ad administration of american samoa and so well ell Is the task being accomplished that this small group may well ell be called the happy isles here are to be found sturdy aborigines bronzed by the tropic sun and fed b by the superabundant bounty of their coil soil the possession of that soil la Is guaranteed to them forever by the government of the united states the n white bite mane mans poisons his opium alcohol patent medicines cines and commercial iced drugs are rigidly prohibited all medical service Is supplied free the export produce of the islands a thousand or more tons of copra per annum Is sold to the best advantage by government monopoly it if anything more ran can be done for these people one wonders what hat it might be iago pago leaves a lasting memory imprinted upon the mind of the visitor nowhere else in the tropics are he the lowering Id mountains covered by more luxuriant or more orle beautiful vegetation the gold brown bodies of the as native tive stevedores edores are tall well muscled and beautiful the copra li Is loaded to the tuneful music furnished by a native band decent women omen and girls flock dock about to sell bell the native e fruits and flowers flo iem jo no glance Is perverted p erver ted by hatred and suspicion no face bears the mark of the corrupting dl diseases of the careless invader our eight thousand samoans ab atis no longet louge a white A bite mans nun a burden 0 |
