efficient as Germany with the idea of militarism left out we shall be truly great as a nation but if we do not we must and will suffer the consequences,

I would say, therefore, society depends upon the activity of the farmer and the brains he uses in his work, that the national economic welfare depends upon the products of the farm and their proper distribution and that both national welfare and the whole fabric of society in the United States is becoming more and more dependent upon the science of agriculture and the results of scientific research along the line of efficient, intensive methods in the neglected industry of agriculture in all its varied activities.

The weighing of pupils, coming as it does once a month, takes a considerable amount of time and it is thought that no school in the Indian Service weighs its pupils more quickly than Phoenix.

The method used is for each teacher to march her class to the library and record the weight on form 5-245 as each pupil is weighed by the principal. On February 29 the weighing of 570 pupils took just 102.5 minutes. This is an average of 5.56 pupils per minute and took the pupils out of the schoolrooms by classes but 4.88 minutes. The old method used some time The old method used some time ago, whereby the one weighing also did the recording, took more than twice as long and so detracted from the interest and work accomplished by the pupils and teachers on the dreaded weighing day, whereas now there seems to be no appreciable break in the class room work.

Another Record

While we are on the subject of records it might be well to mention a record made in one of our industrial departments last Saturday afternoon when the NATIVE AMERICAN print shop boys sprang a surprise with a base ball extra of the CAMPUS, the school paper published alternately with the NATIVE AMERICAN and devoted to local news.

The Phoenix Indian School baseball team was playing Phoenix high school and during the progress of the game the score was being put into type and when the last man was out the CAMPUS appeared with a full score of the game, the spectators receiving the papers before they got away from the campus.

The Arizona Republican commented on the stunt as follows:

QUICK WORK-Making records that almost equal those laid down by the big metropolitan dailies, the Indian school paper, the “Campus," yesterday put on a piece of journalism new to this part of the state. The high school and the Indian school met in a ball game on the Indian school diamond. Immediately after the game, a story of the clash was rushed to the school com

posing room and set into type. Before spectators of the game could get to the cars, copies of the paper were being sold, with a complete story and box score.

Baby Week

The Children's Bureau at Washington, D. C., has issued a recent circular calling attention to the holding of a nation-wide baby week campaign from March 4 to 11. The purpose outlined follows: "Is primarily educational; it is two-fold: first, to give the parents of a community an opportunity of learning the facts with resecond, to bring home to every one in a gard to the care of their babies; and community the importance of the babies, the facts relating to the babies of that especial community, and the need of permanent work for their welfare." Information and suggestions will be sent to any one who will write Chief, Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C.

Campus Notes

Three poultry houses have been completed and 150 of the 300 hens authorized have been purchased for the East Farm.

Superintendent Brown is attending the regular monthly meeting of the day school teachers at Saltriver today.

Miss Hattie M. Lombard has been appointed teacher to succeed Mrs. Elliott and will report for duty about March 15. She is now teaching in Hampton Institute.

Mr. and Mrs. Percival entertained at dinner Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Goodman and Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Elliot of Phoenix and Miss Anna Ridenour of Tempe.

William T. Moore, a graduate of Phoenix Indian School in the class of 1915, has been appointed to an assistant's position at the Fort Yuma, Arizona, school and left for there on Monday.

There will be a civil service examination on March 22 for teacher of domestic art at the Phoenix Indian School. For particulars address the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.

J. H. Kirkland, formerly principal at Toreva day school in the Moqui country and now a resident of Phoenix, was a visitor at the school this week and made a tour of the industrial departments.

Mr. Tom W. Hines, representing the live stock department of the Indian Office, was an interested visitor on Friday of this week. Mr. Hines recently visited the San Carlos reservation and was enroute to Sacaton.

Mrs. John Dodson. formerly Myra Valenzuela, was the guest of Mrs. Eisenhower at the club Sunday. Mrs. Dodson was called down from Whiteriver on account of the illness of her niece, Gladys Chaleco, and has been visiting relatives in Phoenix and Lehi.

Mrs. Mollie Schurz, a former pupil of the Phoenix Indian School and a member of the Mothers' club formed among the women of the Pima reservation last year by Mrs. J. C. Norton of Phoenix, attended the sessions of the Mothers' clubs congress in the city last week. The Sacaton club was organizd with ten members. Mrs Schurz was accompanied by another representative of the Pima women's organization.

Two marriages have recently occurred among the outing pupils. On December 19 at San Xavier mission Lupa Aragon of San Xavier was married to Luke Preston of Blackwater. January 15 was the date of the wedding of Vassalia Pablo and Juna Jose Gonsalez, both of Tucson.

Mrs. Percival gave the second of her series of "at homes" on Washington's Birthday from 3 to 5. Both decorations and refreshments were emblematic of the day. The hostess was assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Loyd Elliot of Phoenix. Invited were Mesdames Standage, Gilham, Owsley, Armstrong, McLaughlin, Posey, Howard, Venne, Eisenhower, Moon and Bunnell, and Misses Clausen, Thompson, Mahaney, Harrigan, White, Phelps, Garton, Gould, Adams, Hendrix, Escher, Rice, Muller, Mayham, Shannon and McElroy.

Employees' Meetings

At the weekly meeting of the industrial employees, Saturday, February 19, Mr. Krebs presented a syllabus of "Exterior Painting" and "Interior Painting,” two books that are being used in the course of study for painter boys. In an open discussion many good points were brought out relative to painting and teaching the painter's trade. W. B. A.

At the meeting February 19 of the matrons' group matters pertaining to the new course of study were discussed, especial stress being laid on the care and training of children. At the meeting on February 12 the care of the hair and nails, economy in use of time, money and supplies and the duties of a hostess were subjects discussed. A. J. R.

The employees in the agricultural department. of the school held their second Saturday afternoon meeting at Farmer Waite's house where topics of farm instruction and grading of Indian pupils in the industrial subjects were discussed. The week previous Superintendent Brown organized Messrs. Wade, Waite, Williams, Lester Pfeifer, Cook and Bunnell into a group meeting Saturdays for farming betterment and garden instruction. M. E. W.

A Valuable Exchange

One of our most valued exchanges is Hoards' Dairyman, published at Fort Atkinison, Wisconsin. It is read by the superintendent, the dairyman and, it is trusted, will soon be appreciated by a number of older boys. The subscription price is $1.00 per year.

Entered at Phoenix, Arizona, as Second Class Mail Matter

JNO. B. BROWN, Superintendent.

An Illustrated Fortnightly Magazine, Devoted to Indian Education and Printed by Indian Student-Apprentices at the United States Indian Training School, Phoenix, Arizona, under direction of E. W. Lawrence, Instructor of Printing.

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Table Talk

DO WE WISH in every way possible to promote harmony in our respective schools and the happiness of our fellow workers? Most of us do, and the two above propositions are very closely tied together. An unhappy worker is not an efficient worker, even with material things, and when our chief work is with that variable complex element, the Human, the necessity for the radiation of cheerfulness is even more urgent. Be it known that the cheerfulness of that other one is just as important as our own in the general scheme of things and our own best day's work may be done by getting another into harmonious working order.

In institutional life one of the most effective means of securing harmony and individual cheerfulness is a well-conducted boarding club and one of the finest things about such a club is the practice which in some places prevails of treating one another as though they were company. When we have company we scintillate. We bring to our tables the latest good stories that we have read. We discuss the European war, the ball game, the latest fashions, Mark Twain's jumping frog story, college and schoolday reminiscences. We commend the cooking even though we

as to its being just up to the standard set by mother or by our favorite hostlery. We laugh at the jokes, quips and narratives, even though some of them have dropped from the spreading chestnut tree, because we know we soon are to bring out and put through their paces our own stories which are not so young as they used to be. When we have company we are glad for a time to be not teachers or farmers or mechanics, but just men and

women.

In our childhood days we were sometimes, in fits of ill-nature, required to face a looking glass and invariably the frown gave way to a smile without great delay. There were no phonographs in those days but it is a "hundred to one shot" that could the voice and language which accompanied the facial expressions have been "canned" as is now possible, and reproduced for the child, the tones and sentiments would have shown a corresponding amelioration. The best regulated family table is one where each member brings his best offering in the way of smiles, good nature, anecdote or news item and where criticism is reserved for a business session or family council. We have known tables at Indian school clubs where this practice prevailed and where a small fine was imposed upon any one who talked shop or criticised a fellow employee. At another table the ancient Roman sign of mercy, given by any member of the group, was effective. In the arena, as most of us have read, the spectators at the gladiatorial contests turned their thumbs down when the populace desired the victor to spare the

life of the victim. There are many ways of reminding ourselves of the beautiful better way. The Golden Rule, if it should become an ever-present living exortation, would do the business most effectively. On those rare occasions when we have the absent one at our mercy may we not learn to pause an instant before making the fatal verbal thrust and at that psychological moment will not some sympathetic soul give the signal-"Thumbs down!"

Fire Drills

DRILL as though it were a real fire. Practice anything as though it were real. Feel as though if we were a minute late

we were to lose a thousand dollars or a human life. Know where you are going and go hard. Take it seriously. Hurry! Use it for fire or fire drills only. This means me. It means me no Fire Apparatus matter how badly I need the pail, the ax, the ladder, or the hose. It means never use it for anything but fire and "never" means at no time however short. It means that your intending to return it soon does not explain.

That these suggestions are not unnecessarily arbitrary nor unusual be it known that they are in force all over the world where a fire department has any efficiency.

Do not loaf about or lean up against the fire station. You might see something bright and want it. When the gong sounds the fire boys will need all the apparatus.

When the Band Plays

THERE are some things that ought to be said to ourselves and to others in connection with the salutation of the flag. It is the custom here for the employees and others on the grounds when the flag is to be raised or lowered, to follow the

military regulation which requires that soldiers uncover and stand at attention. Boys in the school battalion are required to show this respect to the colors and we wish that there might be no exceptions on the part of employees. Even visitors passing through the grounds, if we could only have them understand and sympathize with the custom, might pay us a graceful compliment by falling into line.

Sorghum

THE DISCUSSION of sorghum should not be hastily passed over nor confined to grain sorghums or other provender for the proper propagation of pigs. The word sorghum carries us back to the days of our youth when Uncle Billy Walker with his wooden mill propelled by a one-eyed mule, squeezed the juice from the "cane"

stalks and "biled down" the effluent in a home-made evaporator. Sorghum was the "spread" applied to the slices of bread carried for luncheon by pioneer children all over the new countries of a generation since when attending district schools and before the jams and sauces were provided by the growth of fruits or the advent of railroads with their canned products.

In "grasshopper time," when coffee was three pounds for a dollar, and no dollar available, it was a mixture of wheat bran and sorghum molasses that served as a substitute which was the progenitor of Postum Cereal. Sorghum is the only really fit sweetening for Boston baked beans or for the coloration and sacharization of gingerbread.

We join heartily in the desire to improve the "grain sorghums" but cannot refrain from reminding our readers that boyhood will be a dreary period in the life of the race when we think of sorghum only as food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.

All About Indians

The open season for graduates and graduating essays is upon us. This is the season in which the prospective graduate selects the subject he knows least about and writes a polite request for some one else to write the essay and thanks him in advance.

The latest is from a young student in California who is to write on "Arizona Indians" and who wants to know all about it. We pause long enough to suggest than an essay on California Indians would be of greater value. There are 15,000 Indians in California and the California public needs education and the sympathy that comes with it as concerns. Indians, even as does Arizona as to her native population. We enjoy writing about the Arizona Indians but the student ordinarily would derive more benefit from a theme upon which he had himself wrought and thought.

The Recent Navajo Difficulty

THE KILLING of the Navajo, Taddatin, occurred on January 26, 1916, somewhat over a day's drive north of Tuba and near the Utah line. There had been two previous attempts to arrest Taddatin. The first attempt was by D. M. Robertson, agency farmer, and Mr. Reed, a temporary employee. At this time the prisoner was taken as far as the Kai-beBeto store toward Tuba but at this place in some way escaped from the men who had him in custody. The second attempt was made by Ashley Wilson and Edward Nash, temporary employees, and an interpreter named Butler. At this time Taddatin plead illness and the men left, promising to return and bring a physician in order to ascertain if the illness was of so serious a nature as to make the trip to Tuba impracticable.

The third effort at arrest was by Superintendent Runke and Dr. Wilson starting in a hack, preceded by Messrs. Rob

ertson, Wilson and Nash on horseback, all starting from Tuba on the morning of January 25. The three men did not locate the man until about 10:30 a. m. of the 26th when the killing took place. Reports by Indians and by the men attempting the arrest are conflicting. The three men state that Taddatin resisted arrest, having a gun he attempted to discharge, and there is no dispute as to his having had the gun. He was an excepSupertionally large and strong man. intendent Runke and the doctor had not reached the home of Taddatin and were not witness to the homicide.

The trouble originated over Taddatin's former refusal to place his girl in school although this had been done before the killing. The three men involved are under arrest but released on bond. The older Navajo men have successfully counseled moderation and the Indians have agreed to leave the matter to the courts.

First Monument to an Indian

The following historical fact is contributed by Dr. Mckinley, special physician, from Keams Canon, Arizona:

The first monument erected to an American Indian was placed on the old market house at Camden, South Carolina. It is a gilded iron statue of King Haiglar, erected in the year 1826 and executed by the great French artist J. B. Mathieu.

If some reader of the NATIVE AMERICAN is familiar with the history of King Haiglar and will send in a short sketch of same we will print it in the columns of our publication.

Band at St. John's Mission

A band is being organized among the pupils at the St. John's mission school at Gila Crossing, Arizona, under the instruction of Joseph Sneed, a graduate of the Phoenix Indian School. Joseph played in the band while in school here and was one of the school's football stars.