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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
aHESE be parlous times. All
the world has troubles. Of
course Holy Writ tells that
"man la horn unto trouble,
as the sparks fly upward,”
but he seems to be getting
an extra dose right now. In
the United States, the
wealthiest, most prosperous
und most powerful nation of earth, he
Is fussing over politics, 'taxation and
the oil scandal. Even our dependen
cies are not entirely happy. The Phil
ippines are Just crazy over independ
ence. Hawaii and Alaska want state
hood. Porto Rico demands self-govern
ment. Guam Is afraid of earthquakes.
And so on.
American Samoa actually appears to
be the only happy land. And even in
Sainon Uncle Sam Is making our es
teemed fellow-Amertonns take 7,000
doses of neoarsphenamin. Tes, sir;
they’ve an epidemic of yaws and
Uncle Sam Is dosing them good and
plenty. Resides, there’s a good deal
of conjunctivitis, an eye disease caused
by a gram negative dlploeoceus. Other
wise the American Samoan Is very
well, thftnk you, and is as happy as a
clam at high water.
“The Happy Isles” Is a name often
given nowadays to American Samoa,
and It seems well applied. And appar
ently Uncle Siim deserves n lot of
credit for their happiness. On the
other hand, the Americans of Samoa
evidently deserve happiness. It’s one
place where the ‘‘White Man’s Burden”
Is a light load. And the white man's
way of carrying the burden is certain
ly interesting.
The Samoan islands number four
teen and were named Navigators’
islands by Bougainville, who discov
ered th£m in 1708. They are the peaks
of submerged extinct volcanoes. They
ll® about 2,000 miles south of Hawaii.
The three largest are Savall, GOO
square miles; Opolu, 8-10, antj Tutulla,
&4. The latter, with a Jew smaller
adjacent Islands, oonstltjrtes American
Snmon. There Is tropical vegetation
and coral reefs. “Every piospect
pleases and only man Is vile”—and lie's
a pretty good sort, being a Polynesian
(largely as airfare made hlui.
TlicvUnltdil-States gained the harbor
of Pago on Tutulla In 1878 by
treaty for It cowling and naval station,
la 1 Sb'.t an AmOnoan, British and Gcr
tyn ootiCertortJ at Heflin gave Samoa
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of a eitksen of American Samoa. Con
gress ratified the treaty with Great
Britain and Germany by which we
took over Tutulla, but has never pro
vided for its annexation or adminis
tration. President McKinley signed
an executive order placing the islands
under the navy.
Succeeding presidents have acted in
accordance with this opinion by one
of our attorney generals;
Neither the Constitution nor tho laws of
the United States have been extended to
them, an I the only administrative authority
elsting in them Is that derived mediately
or Immediately from the president as com
mander in chief of the army and navy of
the United States.
It is certain, however, that Ameri
can Samoa “Is not foreign, but domes
tic territory,” and that “Samoans are
not ‘citizens of tho United States,’ but
owe allegiance to the flag.”
So for twenty-three years the navy
has governed American Samoa. The
government is vested iq, a naval officer,
customarily with the rank of captain.
The present governor is Capt. Edwin
Taylor Pollock, born in Ohio in 1870,
and with a brilliant record beginning
with the Spanish-American war.
The 1923 annual report of the sur
geon general of the navy. Rear Ad
miral E. R. Stitt, gives a hint of the
many governmental activities of the
navy:
The Snmoan hospital continues to do
splendid work and is gradually gaining the
confidence of the people. To this Institu
tion 481 patients were admitted during the
year, requiring 4.404 days ot treatment. In
the dispensary 0.502 patients received treat
-1 inent. At this hospital a dental clinic for
Samoan people is held twice a week. As
in Guam, a training school for native nurses
is conducted in connection with this hos
pital. Since tlie establishment of tills school
in 191* nineteen native women have been
graduated and fourteen are now under in
struction Ten of the graduate nurses are
employed as visiting nurses in the various
native communities. These nurses admin
ister simple drugs, attend confinement cases,
instruct mothers in care of babies, and see
that those who need treatment are sent to
| the hospital.
The report says that a recent survey
of Samoa revealed 2,. r >oo cases of yaws’,
a type of skin disease, upon which a
campaign was immediately started to
cemdVate it by the administration of
! S Jfesljyerp tw of conjunctivitis, an
! eye prevalent in Sa
uiiiOs 1 . A recent survey
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THE DANIELBVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
I 8,184, anti more than f>oo cases of total
blindness. It is believed that, like
yaws, this disease is spread by flies,
and measures have accordingly been
instituted to control it by early treat
ment of the inflammation and the pre
vention of lly breeding.
Privileged visitors in the islands,
says E. W. Pickard, may still occasion
ally witness some of the interesting
ceremonies of the natives. Among
these Is the Talolo, or food presenta
tion procession, followed by a feast,
given in honor of some distinguished
individual. The parade is led by a
taupo or official village maiden, attired
in a lavalnva of bark cloth and decked
with garlands of flowers. After her
come three “talking men” —a kind of
assistant chief —and then follow all
(lie assembled men, women and chil
dren in their best bib .‘fhd tucker, each
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carrying some article of food, a
chicken, a flsli, a banana, a breadfruit,
or something el§e. The entire perform
ance is carried out In accordance with
strict and ancient rules of etiquette.
Slowly the parade advances, and as It
passes a designated spot each one de
posits his food gift. When all Is done
the procession disbands and all bands
gather around the heap of edibles.
Tlielr solemnity Is discarded, big bowls
of kava are made by the prettiest of
the girls, and the festivities last for
hours.
Frank Bohn, an American publicist,
who has recently made an extensive
tour of the islands of the southern Pa
cific, pays Uncle Sam and the United
States navy a handsome compliment
in an article, “The White Man's Bur
den in American Samoa,” in the Cur
rent History Magazine. He brings out
these points, among others:
“To the navy has fallen the adminis
tration of American Samoa, and so
well Is the task being accomplished
that this small group may well be
called ‘The Happy Isles.’ Here are
to lie found 8,000 sturdy aborigines,
bronzed by the tropic sun and fed by
the superabundant bounty of their
soil. The possession of that soil Is
guaranteed to them forever by the
government of the United States. The
white man’s poisons, Ills opium, alco
hol, patent medicines and commercial
ized drugs are rigidly prohibited. All
medical service Is supplied free. The
export produce of the islands, a thou
sand or more tons of copra per annum,
is sold to the best advantage by gov
ernment monopoly. If anything more
can be done for tliese people, one won
ders what it might be.
“Pago Pago leaves a lasting memory
imprinted upon the mind of the visi
tor. Nowhere else in the tropics are
the towering mountains covered by
more luxuriant or more beautiful vege
tation. The gold-brown bodies of tho
native stevedores are tall, well muscled
and beautiful. The copra Is loaded to
the tuneful music furnished by a na
tive band. Decent women and girls
flock about to sell the native fruits
and flowers. No glance is perverted
by hatred and suspicion. No face
boars the mark of the corrupting dis
eases of the careless Invader. Our
mght thousand Samoans are no longer
a ’white man's burden.’”
Six-Room Dutch Colonial Is
Designed for a Narrow Lot
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Second Floor Plan.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of
this paper. On account of his wide
experience as Editor, Author and
Manufacturer, he is, without doubt,
the highest authority on all these sub
jects. Address all inquiries to William
A. Radford, No. 1527 Prairie avenue,
Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent
stamp for reply.
Some prospective home builders who
o\vniarrow lots are deterred from se
lecting a Dutch Colonial home build
ing design because of the general prac
tice of erecting fche home across the
site. That objection has been met in
the home shown in the accompanying
illustration. Here the owMer has
built his home so that the'longest di
mension of the house coincides with
the longest dimension of the lot, and
the result is apparent. An unusually
attractive home lias been secured by
the simple expedient of placing the
open porch facing the street, and main
taining the central entrance which
characterizes a Colonial home at the
side.
This home is comparatively small.
It contains six rooms and bath on the
first aad second floors, while the di
mensions of the house tire only 24 feet
6 inches by 39 feet. Economical use
of the space is secured, however, as
Hie living room is large, 15 by 23 feet,
while all the other rooms are in pro
portion.
Frame construction has been used
throughout the home. The foundation
walls are of concrete while the re
mainder Is of lumber. The outside
walls are covered with wide clapboard
siding, while the long slope of the roof
and the roof of the former projections
are shingled. The entrance, as in all
Colonial homes, is exactly'in the cen
ter of the house —at the side. The
open porch and balcony, above are
good features of the design. While
the drive to garage is here used aS the
walk from the street to the house, the
door leading from the living room to
the porch might be used as the main
?!dr:.nce door. v
T !:■: living room extends the width
of the house at the front. At the hi
end is an open fireplace with book
cases on either side. Two doors, one
at each end of the room, open onto t
the porch. The side, or main entrance,
door leads into a central hall, to the
right of which is the living room,
connected by a cased opening. To the
left is the dining room, 12 by 15 feet,
while at the back is the kitchen, 10 by
11 feet, with a large pantry adjoining.
Stairs to the second floor run out
of the entrance hall and end in a
central, hall above. A large bedroom,
15 by-20 feet, is over the living room,
while two other bedrooms, one 15 by
10 feet 6 inches, and the other 9 by 15
feet are on the other two corners. Tlie
bath is at the end of the hail
other convenient features are a toilet
at the rear end of the hall downstairs
and one adjoining the large bedroom
upstairs. How these rooms are ar
ranged and their #izes are shown on
the floor plans, which also locate the
electrical outlets and wiring in each
room.
It will be noted that the great num
ber of wide windows make each room
light and cheery. In the living room
there are double windows at each end,
while four windows across the front
admit plenty of light. The same >s
true of the dining room and bedrooms.
The unusual placing of this house
on a narrow lot will appeal to a great
many home builders, especially those
in towns -where building lots are ex
pensive. The plantings the owner has
made around this home and in tlm
lawn and along the drive give a gooc
idea of how attractive a home bu oler
may make his place in a year or so.
Extra Bedroom
The installation of a door bed s
very simple and inexpensive and i • >
mits of an additional sleeping
her which will prove of -considerate
advantage in every home.
Built-In Features
Old-style kitchens can be modern
ized very easily through the installs
tlon of built-in features which are
made to fit every condition.