| Show ste ith x 0 r A I 1 A Z ka 1 1 4 ns 1 C A N 4 5 kl V K tse Ts ak e m ar p t 6 A A 4 mya r larbi M m A 1144 N z p P ak Q ea Z I 1 aa 4 Z I 1 t C 0 0 ila ay aa department 0 Z 7 P 6 a I 1 governs gaven I 1 j 7 Conie nied people A W V jn Z south jeaa f at 1 fly JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HE bo be parlous times all AH the world has troubles of course holy writ tells that man Is born unto trouble us as the sparks uy fly upward but lie ho seems to be getting an extra dose right now in tho the united states the wealthiest most prosperous and most powerful nation of earth lio lie Is fussing over politics taxation und ond the oil scandal even our dependencies tire not entirely happy the philippines fire just crazy over independence hawaii and alaska want statehood porto rico 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 esteemed fell fellow americans take doses closes of yes sir an epidemic of yaws and uncle sam Is dosing them good and plenty besides theres a good deal of conjunctivitis an eye jill disease sease caused by a gram negative otherwise the american samoan Is very well thank you and Is as happy as a clam at high water the happy isles la Is a name often given nowadays days to american samon samoa and it seems seema well applied and apparently uncle sam deserves a lot of credit jor for their happiness on the other hand the americans of samoa evidently deserve happiness its one place where the white mans burden Is a light load and the white mans way of carrying the burden Is certainly interesting the samoan islands number fourteen and were nam named ed navigators islands by bougainvillea bougainville Bou gainville who discovered them in 1768 1708 they are the peaks of submerged extinct vole volcanoes agoes they lie ho about 2000 miles south of hawaii the three largest are savall square runes miles and tutuila Tu tulla 54 tho the latter with a few smaller adjacent islands constitutes american samoa there Is tropical vegetation and coral reefs every prospect pleases and only man Is vile and hes it a pretty good sort be being ing it a polynesian largely as nature made him the united states gained the harbor of pago pago on tutuila in 1878 vy by treaty for a coaling and naval stat station loh in 1889 an american british and german conference at berlin gave samoa the status of neutral territory with native laws n and nd customs in 1899 tho the king kingship stilli was abolished and great britain and Gerin germany affy ceded tutuila to the united states great britain withdrawing from the islands during the world war new zealand took ook possession of german samoa and now governs it under mandate of the league of nations it would puzzle it ft philadelphia lawyer to determine the political stitt and wore than linn COO cases of b I 1 I 1 n 1 I n ea s it Is believed that like yaws this thin dis clase is IB spread by files and measures have accordingly been instituted to control it by early trout treat of elio llio nud and tim ire of lly privileged visitors in the islands lalni ula says I E 1 NV Pl plenard ekard inny still occasion islon illy ally witness sonio of the interesting or of the alio it li tives among these ts ta the or food presentation followed full owed hy by 11 fealt given lit in lionor honor of some distinguished individual the particle la Is led by a or official village maiden attired in it of bar bark cloth und mid ducked decked with garlands of flowers after tier ollie three talk ing nien men 11 kill kind or of cliplef and then follow till nil the assembled women and dill dren lit in their best bit bah and cach p V i i N T V i M K ai T N 1 N esy t S daggi daw gi SW i B f efm y K sin fiak M tt ti kli u A sl 4 m 3 fal as E eba 1 j waff of a citizen of american samoa congress ratified rati fled the treaty with great britain and germany by which wo we took over tutuila but has never provided for its annexation or ad administration mints tra tion president 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 constitution nor the laws lawn of the united states have been extended to them and the only administrative auth authority brity slating in thorn thom to la that derived mediately or immediately from the president an aa commander in chief or of the army and navy oi of the united fi fixates tates it Is certain however that american samoa Is not foreign but domestic territory and that samoans Sa Sail moans loans lire are not citizens of tho the united states but owe allegiance to the hag alaj so for twenty three years the navy has haa governed american samoa the government Is vested in a naval officer customarily with the rank of captain tho the present governor la Is capt edwin taylor pollock born in ohio in 1870 and with a brilliant record beginning with 1 I th the spanish american war the 1923 annual report of the surgeon general of the navy ilear admiral E it 11 stitt gives a hint of the many governmental activities of the navy the samoan hoor hospital ital continues continued to do splendid work and la is gradually gaining the confidence of ct the people to this in 8 titu tion patients were admitted during duijn 1 the year requiring days ot of treatment in the dispensary patients received treatment at this hospital a dental clinco to or samoan ban ioan people Is in held twice a week As in guam a training B hool tor for native nurse la in conducted in with this hospital since the establishment of 0 this school in 1914 nineteen native women have been graduated graduate and fourteen are now under ani in tea of 0 the graduate nurses ari ar employed as ai visiting nurses in the various native communities these nurses administer simple drugs attend confinement cases instruct mothers la in care ot of babies and see that taco who need treatment are sent seat to the hospital the report says that a recent survey of samoa revealed 2000 2500 cases of yaws a type of akin ain disease upon which a 4 campaign was immediately started to eradicate it by tho he administration of A severe type of conjunctivitis an eye disease Is very pie prevalent valent in sa mott moh says the report A recent survey revealed cases in a population of carrying some article of food a chicken a n fisli a banana a breadfruit or something else tho the entire performance it is carried out in accordance with strict and ancient rules of etiquette slowly the parado parade advances and as aa it passes a designated spot each cadi one deposits ills his food gift when all to Is dono done the procession disbands and all lianda lands gather around the heap of edibles their solemnity Is discarded big bowls of kava aro are made by the prettiest ot of tho girls girl s and the festivities last tor for hours frank bolin bohn an american publicist who lins has recently made arf an extensive tour of the islands of the southern PUYS pays uncle sam and the united states navy a handsome compliment in an article tho the white mans blans hurden in american samoa in tho the current history magazino magazine lie he brings out these points among others i to the navy lias tits fallen the adminta of american samoa and so well Is the task tash being accomplished that this small group may well nell be ba called the happy isles hero here are to bo be found sturdy aborigines bronzed by the tropic and fed feaby by the superabundant bounty of their soil the possession of that soil to la guaranteed to them forever by the gove government rement of the united states tho the mans poisons his opium alcohol patent medicines and commercial iced dru drugs s tire aro rigidly prohibited all rit medical edica service Is supplied free the export produce of the wands islands a thousand or more tons of copra per annum Is sold to the host bes k advantage by government monopoly if anything more can be done for these people ono one wonders what it might be pago pago leaves a n lasting memory imprinted upon the alie mind of the visitor nowhere else in ahk tropics ore are the towering mountains covered by y more luxuriant or more beautiful vegetation the goldbrown gold brown bodies of the native stevedores are tall well muscled and beautiful the copra is 16 loaded eded to the tuneful music furnished by a native band decent women and girls flock about to sell the native i fruits and flowers fl owera no glance is perverted e by t atred and suspicion no face bears beara the mark of the corrupting diseases Is i of the ho careless barele ss invade invader aar our eight thousand samoans Samoan sare aru 4 nolo no longer fig er a white mans burden burdea 1 0 o |
