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BLOOD LANGUAGE RULE
VEADS TO ABSURDITY
If you remember the geometry
you rUjdu-d j\ high school, you
may recall a gtunt which went
under the high-#oundi ng t.'.le of
"reduztio ad ab-v, -dum ”
The dea wag that f you had a
theory to test arid suspected that
there war. something wrong with
it, you seW-ted the d zziest ex
ample you could trunk of and
' arried it to M logical conclu
sion. Then, when you had a thor
»/ugh i y cockeyed situation on
your band*, you proved that the
theory itself was phony. You did
thif by reducing t to absurd
ity—“reduct;o ad absurdum.”
For a long time now the theory
that remote t.e* of ancestry and
language should determine a peo
pie's government has been wide*;
iy held It le-ri to much map-mak
.rig at the Versailles conference,
end more recently it gave Herr
Hitler a fine excuse for pushing
hi* drive to the east.
Now the Italians have picked
it up, looking tziward expansion
m the direction of Tunisia and
Corsica, and it begins to look as
if the old high school process ofj
/eductio ad absurdum had set in.
It may be quite true that the
bulk of the Tunisians and Cor
sicana are either of Italian an
cestry or speak with a pronounc-!
*-d Italian accent. But if that
moan* that those territories
should immediately go under the
Italian bag, then Uncle Sam him
self is sitting on a lot of subject
peopUjp who are under the wrong
flag.
By that theory the Dutch
wight to reclaim a good part of
Pennsylvania, and Spain should
take over large portions of Ari
zona and New Mexico, Sweden
would get a large area in Min
i,t -,ota and the Dakotas, and by
right of discovery and settlement
should bo entitled to New Jer
sey, The French would have a
t e pee table claim bi N';w Or
leans, arirl Italy could lay claim
ti a good bit of land along Long
blind Sound. Poland could re
slum many city blocks in Chi
' ago and Germany could assert
title to mucri of St. Louis and
Cincinnati. NV*' York City would
be split about 30 ways, consider
able territory in the west would
go back to the Indians, and Jap
an would get Hawaii
AJi of tfc .s pretty absurd, of
eiurv- Yet it foil' ws quite log
ically, once you accept the pre
mize that remote ties of blood
and language are a]l-.rnportani.
And f logical adherence to that
theory leads to absurdity in this
country the same thing is true
elsewhere
The plain fact is that this
blood-and-language business has
been overworked to an amazing
degree. There are far more im
portant considerations to be ap
plied in determining national
boundaries, and it is high time
the fact was realized.
There have been so many mi
grations and so much shifting
and intermingling of peoples that
the mop can never be unscramb
led and peace can never be at
tained on a blood-and-language
basis. As long as that is the ac
cepted shibboleth there will be
wars and rumors of wars. The
world’s hope for peace depends
on recognition of the fact that
some saner and more practical
means of determining who shall |
rule must be found.
Dr. W. A. Rystrom
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APPROPRIATIONS FOR
NATIVES OF .ALASKA
BEFORE COMMITTEE
Testifying on February 35 be-j
fore the subcommittee of the
Comm, t tee on appropria
tions which was co ns. der.r.g
. terns for the work of the Office
of Indian Affairs in Alaska in
the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1939 Dr W W Beatty, Director
of the Division of Education,
Office of Indian Affairs; Claude
M Hirst. General Super.n'ord
er, t. Office of Indian Affairs in
Alaska; and Delegate Dimond
stood shoulder to shoulder in sup
port of the items in the Interior
Department appropriation bill
for the support, education, and
medical service for the natives of
Alaska.
$210,000 has been set up and
approved by the Bur's a of the
Budget for Indian hospitals and
lion among the natives to $50,000
over that provided last year The
estimate for medical relief is in
amount of $440,000, an increase
of $32,000 over that of last year.
The item set up for education of
the natives of Alaska is $951,380,
as compared with $825,000 last
year.
In his statement Delegate Di
mond made an especially strong
plea to the committee to increase
the amount for relief of destitu
tion among he natives to $50,000.
The committee also gave sym
pathetic attention to the request
of Mr. Hirst and Delegate Di
mond for a vocational school for
the natives of northwestern Al
aska, where, without any change
in geographical or climatic en
vironment they could be helped
in learning to be self-sufficient
through development of native
Eskimo industries. Request was
also made for funds for replace
ment of existing school buildings
that the badly depreciated, part
icularly at Kotzebue, Haines, and
Kake.
Emphasizing that his request
for increased funds for the nat
ives of ALaska was in entire har
mony with appropriations made
for the Indians in the States, the
Delegate gave the Committee fig
ures showing that on the average
the appropriation for operation
and maintenance of a one-room
school is $350 per year more in
the States than it is in Alaska,
and that the larger schools in
the classification are on a similar |
ratio. He said that if Alaska nat
ive schools were to have tne
same treatment financially as
!
those in :fce Stales, the .:rn for
education of the natives in the
Terr.Very would be increased by
*&a.ioo, *
When asked by a member cf
the committee what Federal ap
propriation items set up for var
ious functions in the States
should be reduced to provide the
add.tKmal funds he desired for
Alaska, the Delegate, with an at
titude that Solomon might have
used, har.ded the doubler-edged
sword back to the committee
with the statement, •‘The ques
tion you asked me is equivalent
to asking me to be the judge at
a baby show, and I respectfully
decline.” ,
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