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Show 1TW p.iii intinued Kids Always Have A Happy Smite ir ,r - 4 ', v' Page enough, to raise from Preceding extensive of Navajos from the depths nerpetual depression, the ,r e Indian school was Brigham City. Others reserva- being built on the ' ated in e an, problems range whole society. Economically, the Navajo is e the lowest rung of the scale in the United States, nee the war the average wage is been about $400 per family, hile the population of Indians is about 65,-)- 0 i the reservation Navajos, it can not possi-- y adequately provide for more ,an 35,000 unless industrial are developed. This can st take place for many years. to The only course for them illow, then, is to move.thou-md- s off the of the Navajos a mode of life few iservation them are prepared for. The Navajo have not even the need asic thing white people living. His housing is al- - , The Navajos rough their in-m- Navajos Peering Through A Window of a jewelry store in Brigham City. The youngsters are welcome in all Brigham City stores. They are always courteous and considerate in their shopping practices. ... most increditable in this. age. His clothing, bedding, furniture, heating, food, sanitation and in general, a way of life is a travesty on life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Today there are 24,000 children of school age among the Navajos. There are educational facilities for about 7,500. Yet, in the treaty of 1868, the U. S. government agreed to supply a teacher for every 30 children whose parents wished them to attend school. Now the government is on the right road. A bill was recently passed that provided for many millions of dollars for the education of the children, the development of resources, for better roads on the reservation, and, in general, to make the proNavajos a ducing people, rather than wards of the state. Dr. George A. Boyce, superin $ tendent of the Intermountain Indian school, explained the need and advantage of helping the Indians, in an address to the Utah Association of county officials in Salt Lake City recently. In part he said: I know of no greater undeveloped resource (in the region), for that matter, than the human resource. Its human beings that do the school teaching, pump the gaso line into your cars, and buy the eyeglasses, defend you in courts, keep your accounts. ; Those are human resources. More and more we feel the ' need of the human resources. We have a much smaller percentage of people working on farms - every year. They are going into service activities. They make money when they do things for us, and they buy things from us. inter-mountai- n . , ern part of the intermountain region, 65,000 Navajo ; Indians who are producing practically nothing. And you can go on keeping them on a public breadline, letting them get sicker and more expensive to you, or you can have 65,000 producers in the intermountain region who have never produced before, and who have never before been able to buy radios, or buy the wheat you produce up here be65.000 undeveloped human The ings, totally undeveloped. poorest in the United States, as a matter of fact! "I dont have the post-wa- r figures, and its awfully hard to make calculations, the prices change so fast. We dont know what a dollar is worth from day to day. But I do know what it. was before the war, and the average income of the Indians was $80.00 per person per year $1.25 a week. They arent buying radios; they arent buying oranges; theyre not buying eyeglasses. They are not buying anything. There is no group of that size that poor in the United States. And, of course, in that condition, the sickest in the United States It doesnt make sense. If we . could just relocate 7.000 families of Navajos in the intermountain region, and Im sure there will be jobs for them if we teach them to fill them, then the rest that live on the reservation could make at least $1,000 a year and so could those off the reservation . Then they could buy your ! ... , ... the oranges, products wheat, clothes, shoes and In A Picnic Mood If you have the urge to spread a blanket and enjoy a cool mountain breeze at lunch time, or: any time, stop at the Box Elder county park, six miles up You have in the south Box Elder canyon. , BRIGHAM CITY Everything You Desire IS Mai We Telegraph Flowers Anywhere MEMBER -D Florists Telegraph Delivery Right Across The Highway From The Indian School Phone 876 Or Wire Ahead For Reservations Be Sure FLORAL 32 South Main EELYS MOTEL And GIFT Phone 153 On All Main Highways eye- glasses. The Indians are not asking from anything as a hand-ou- t the white man. They are asking just one thing, and that is something you provide for every other race, every other color. ; No matter how poor they are, how sick they are, you provide them a school. And that is all theyre asking for.. IN F-T- the At The South Edge Of Brigham City |