CONVENTION PROGRAM
Alaska Native Brotherhood in
Annual Convention at
Hoonah, Alaska, 1924
PROGRAM OF THE
Sunday, November 9, 1924
Religious services at Presbyterian
church.
The first session of each day shall
be held at 10 o’clock a. m.; the sec
ond at 2 p. m.; the third at 8 p. m.,
unless otherwise announced.
Monday, November 10, 1924
First Session
1. Invocation.
2. Reading of Minutes of Previous
Convention.
3. Reports of Standing Committees.
4. Announcements.
Second Session
1. Invocation.
2. Appointment of Convention Com
mittees.
3. “For the Good of the Order.”
Third Session
1. Address of Welcome by Presi
dent of Hoonah Camp.
2. Social Reception of Delegates and
Friends.
3. Hoonah Sisterhood in charge of
evening.
Tuesday, November 11, 1924
First Session
1. Invocation.
2. Reports of Delegates
3. General Business.
Second Session
1. Invocation.
2. Inspirational Talk from Rev.
Richard Decker, of Juneau.
3. Open Forum.
Third Session
1. Invocation.
2. Louis F. Paul.
“What Has the A. N. B. Done to
Justify Its Existence?”
3. Open Forum.
Wednesday, November 12, 1924
First Session
1. Invocation.
2. General Business.
Second Session
1. Invocation.
2. Reports of Committees.
3. General Business.
Third Session
1. Invocation.
2. Fisheries Regulations and Prob
lems. William L. Paul. “Are vve
getting anywhere in our struggle
for existence against the menace
of the fish trap interest? Have
the Alaska Advisory Fish Board
and the Bureau of Fisheries com
bined political forces with the
fish trap and cannery interests
to destroy the resident seiners ?
What is the true meaning of the
closing of Lynn Canal ?
Thursday, November 13, 1924
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First Session
1. Invocation.
2. Reports of Committees.
8. General Business.
Second Session
1. Invocation.
2. The Ideals of Brotherhood—Rev.
H. E. Bush, of Ketchikan.
3. Open Forum—Has the A. N. B.
Attained These Ideals ?
Third Session
1. Invocation.
2. Our Need of Education—Mr.
Peter Simpson, Sitka.
3. Open Forum—Including a report
from each camp in answer to
this question—Are you doing
your part in co-operating and
supporting your schools ?
Friday, November 14, 1924
First Session
1. Invocation.
. Reports of Committees.
. General Business.
Second Session
1. Invocation.
2. Why is citizenship important to
you ? Is it true that you vote
according to the orders of one
man ?
Speakers—Ralph Young, Frank
Mercer, William H. Lewis.
3. Open Forum.
Third Session
1. Invocation.
2. Health Problems — Charles W.
Hawkesworth.
3. Do your old people and orphans
have a right to receive the same
help from the Territory that the
white race receive? Why are they
excluded ?
4. Open Forum.
Saturday, November 15, 1924
First Session
1. Invocation.
2. Reports of Committees.
3. General Business.
Second Session
1. Invocation.
2. Election of Officers.
3. Swearing in of Officers.
4. Talks from New Officers.
5. Announcements.
Third Session
1. In charge Convention Social
Committee.
Sunday, November 16, 1924
1. In charge Rev. George Beck.
“For I, thy God, am a jealous
God, visiting the sins of the fa
thers on their children to the
third and fourth generation of
them that hate me, but showing
mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my com
mandments.’’
Our platform:
1. Competent Christian citizenship.
2. Every Indian educated.
3. Every Indian in business.
4. Every Indian to vote and able to
give his reasons for his vote.
5. That I shall leave Alaska not
weaker than I found it, but bet
ter and stronger.
FROM PERRY M. HERN
To the Voters of the First Division:
I deem it necessary for all patri
otic American citizens to exercise
their right of franchise at the polls
on Nov. 4th and to know exactly
what each contestant for public of
fice has in mind when seeking such
service. I am not a professional pol
itician nor in fact a politician at all,
but I hope to possess honor and
courage enough (if elected) to in
sist on enacting such legislation that
will be of the most benefit to the
most people.
I am unalterably opposed to pri
vate monopoly of the territorial re
sources and for private interests
only to be represented at our legis
lature. Men who are employed, fi
nanced and dictated to by the large
companies, seek such public service
for selfish motives and for the in
terests of their employers, to legis
late only for their employers in the
territory with the promise that if
we must be patient and wait till
their prosperity leaks down upon
us, has ceased to be a virtue.
Prosperity commences at the bot
tom and not at the top and unless
we extend the same favors to the
small investors and small industries
we can not expect a rapid growth
to our population nor the develop
ment of the resources of the Terri
tory.
In this campaign as in all others
men who seek office for personal
gain evade the real issues and in
ject propaganda unrelated to the
most vital issues. If the Native
citizens of the First Division are
as illiterate as we are led to be
lieve, who is responsible for this
condition ? Is it not a fact that the
source from which this propaganda
comes has had charge of the Terri
tory’s affairs for a number of years ?
Why not have a public school sys
tem second to none and compulsory
school laws. Judging the personel
of the Republican candidates, if it
were the illiterate native vote that
decided the choice, the oldest resi
dents and critics comment could only
be “They used most excellent judg
ment.” I will at all times stand
and without reservation against any
discrimination between races, classes
or creeds and will insist for the
right of every American citizen to
exercise his or her full constitution
al rights.
If Alaska, with its vast area anil
unlimited resources, is ever to be
come the home of American citizens,
we must be represented by men
whose homes are in the Territory,
whose heart and soul are for the in
terests of all her citizens and make
it possible for thousands more;
men who place honor and honesty
above dollars and cents. Such men
you will find in your Republican
candidates. They deserve your sup
port. PERRY M. HERN.