Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1919 — PLAN RELIGIOUS WAR ON INDIANS [ARTICLE]

PLAN RELIGIOUS WAR ON INDIANS

EPISCOPAL CHURCH NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN TO EXTEND GOOD INFLUENCE. Extension of church work among American Indians has been announced as one of the features of the work of the nation-wide campaign of the Episcopal church. Surveys of the dioceses of Duluth and Fond du Lac, submitted in connection plans for the campaign, have revealed some interesting data on the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota and the Oneida Indians of Wiscousin, both m the work already under way and in plans for its extension. The Duluth survey, submitted by Bishop James Low Morrison, requests $26,000 for educational work among the Chippewas. It is proposed to establish an Indian Ihdustrial school at White Earth at a cost of >14,000. As the diocese owns the buildings it will be necessary merely to equip them with school apparatus and dormitory furnishings. A white clergyman and an Indian catechist are required, as well as a fund of $14,000 for running expenses. For the Cass Lake School for Indian Girls the sum of >6,000 is asked of the nation-wide campaign for the three years. Aid is asked toward paying salaries of the eight Indian clergymen. For the Oneldas In Fond du Lac diocese $26,000 is asked. This permits remodeling of the Indian high school at Hobart, Wis., which the government has abandoned, as well as paying for teachers and other expenses. The school property has reverted to the Oneldas. Leaders of the tribe asked Bishop R. W. Weller to apply to the nation-wide campaign for funds with which to continue the education work. Many of the Indian youths were soldiers who learned the value of better education In the war. A comprehensive plan for remodeling the plant and continuing the work was submitted in the campaign survey.

a new neiu xor American music machines is now ,open, is shown by jl report from Valencia, Spain, that the player piano has met with a favorable reception in that market, and those chiefly in use are of American make, so that there is a growing demand there for music rolls. Musical instruments used there have in the past been chiefly of French manufacture, and this is especially true of phonograph! and similar iDStnWuita.