NEW CIVIL SERVICE EXAM
FOR TEACHERS IN ALASKA
INDIAN SERVICE SCHOOLS
WASHINGTON, D. C. —Until
recently, it would have been pos
sible for a 23 or 24-year-old girl
who had never lived anywhere
except in a modern apartment
building where she turned on the
iheat, pushed a button for light,
and telephoned to the store for
groceries, and who had taught
only white city children an es
tablished curriculum, to pass bril
liantly a Civil Service examina
tion for an Indian Service teach
ing job.
Subsequently, she might find
herself living in a cottage 60
miles from the nearest town and
40 miles from medical help via
dirt roads, stoking a wood stove
for heat, cleaning oil lamps, and
teaching a varied group of In
dian children who understood
little English and little of the
white ways and whose main con
cern, outside of school hours, was
(helping their parents to get
enough to eat from inadequate
land.
Now a new Civil Service exam
ination for teaching jobs in In
dian community and boarding
(schools has recently been announ
| ced and applications are being
, rated at the Civil Service Com
mission. Through these examina
tions the Indian Service is seeing
to it that its teachers shall have
conventional educational quali
fications, but will also be rated
for human qualities, for rural ex
perience and understanding, and
for initiative, ingenuity and forti
tude under almost frontier condi
tions.
This new examination is not
based upon written performance,
but upon education, and upon the
extent and quality of the appli
cants’ experience and fitness for
the job. Applicants who pass the
other phases of the examination
3re notified and an oral examina
tion is then provided to further
insure adaptability to Indian Ser
vice conditions.
In the announcement of the ex
amination, the opjectives of the
Indian Service educational sys
tem are clearly stated, the need
for development of community
leadership on the part of the
teacher pointed out, and the de
mands of life far from urban con
veniences emphasized.
“Most of these schools are lo
cated in isolated rural areas with
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meager droughts, and improper
farm practices,” says the arm urn
cement. “They are often at some
distance from the nearest white
community, and in some sections
where the Indians themselves do
not live in villages the schools
are somewhat remote from hu
man habitation.
“In the northern reservations
and in Alaska, some schools are
cut off for months at a time from
travel communication. Ability,
therefore, to adjust to association
with a limited number of people
in such isolated situations is es
sental to success in one of these
positions.”
The requirements made of ap
plicants include college training
(or for certain posts, comparable
music or art training) and spec
ialization in a given field, among
them agriculture, rural merchan
dising, and adult education; plus
two years of successful fulltime
teaching experience. Applicants
must be under forty and in good
health.
The Indian Service regards its
education job not merely as teach
ing what is in books, but as
helping young Indian people to
understand their resources and
the most modern methods of dev
eloping them. In this type of
work Indian Office experience
has shown that the teacher with
rural background can be the most
effective.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 UP) —
Swollen tides stirred by ocean
storms burled giant ground
swells against the west coast
causing extensive damage to
southern California. Several
houses were washed out to sea,
and scores of others were batter
ed and ruined. It seriously dam
aged and undermined and flood
ed streets and many store floors
are under water.
Fifteen persons were injured
on the liner Lurline as it left
San Francisco enroute to Hono
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down as fifty foot waves slamm
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