January, 1923 
Joy Survey made in 1914-16. This Survey showed 
every small cabin, ranch, or field within Indian bounda¬ 
ries ; giving to each claim such dimensions as the claim¬ 
ant chose to define verbally. The Joy Survey was made 
for the purpose of determining the exact status of condi¬ 
tions as they existed and not for the purpose of proving 
title to the lands in dispute. 
The United States Government has since 1830 main¬ 
tained a Bureau of Indian Afifairs for the express pur¬ 
pose of handling such disputes between the Indian and 
the whiteman, but the Bursum Bill would take this 
matter out of their hands and place it under the juris¬ 
diction of the federal courts. It would in fact make a 
clean sweep of all disputed land and transfer it to the 
whitemen, taking whatever verbal claim they might 
put forth as pritna facie evidence of possession. 
The Bursum Bill was framed by Secretary Fall and 
introduced by Senator Bursum of New Mexico. Secre¬ 
tary Fall wrote to the Senate Committee that the bill 
was an administrative measure and the Bureau of Indian 
Afifairs has beeit hoodwinked into endorsing the bill 
which would remove the only reason for the existence 
of such a bureau. Aside from the inconsistency in¬ 
volved, the danger to the Pueblo is eminent. It would 
mean the end of internal harmony in their tribal life. 
For three centuries Spanish, Mexican and American rule 
has striven to preserve self-government among the Pu¬ 
eblos. Each Pueblo governor today treasures the sil¬ 
ver-topped cane presented by Abraham Lincoln to his 
Is; predecessor in office in token of the final and complete 
ratification of the Pueblo land grants and of their right 
to self-government. 
If this bill should become law, it would mean the 
absolute destruction of the Pueblo, as it explicitly states 
that they shall have only as much water for their fields 
as they possess at the present moment, and no more. 
That means very little, as whitemen living near them 
have gradually encroached upon their water rights until 
at the present time the Indians have not enough water 
to insure the most meager of crops that barely keep 
them from starving; and this year due to an unusual 
drought, their ditches are so dry that they have not 
raised enough sustenance for a single family. 
It would seem that the present state of affairs has 
been brought about and the Bursum Bill made possible 
because of a lack of policy on the part of the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs and the Department of Justice. Be¬ 
cause of political or private greed do we propose to 
wipe out a race of eight thousand Pueblo Indians 
which is a survival of an archaic world—artists in cere¬ 
monial dances, in music, in poetry, in pottery, in weav¬ 
ing and in many fine arts—that we, as a nation, pay 
homage to? If not write to your Senator today and 
tell him that you oppose the Bursum Bill. Senate 3855. 
NINETEEN TWENTY-THREE 
T HE year juts passed has been one of remarkable 
activity among those fond of the outdoor life of 
forest and stream. Among other things it haS 
witnessed a longer outdoor season than usual, showing 
that our people are realizing that outdoor life is not 
now a sort of summer resort or picnic affair. 
In the vicinity of the cities, holidays in early spring 
found parties tramping the hills and woods, garbed in 
comfortable old clothes, carrying packs containing ma¬ 
terials for the mid-day lunch beside a tiny campfire. 
Late autumn saw more of these abroad where in other 
years none were seen. Young and old, men and women, 
composed these parties. And the summer witnessed 
such activity afield and afloat and by motor as has never 
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before been known. The time is passing when our peo¬ 
ple can say they are unfamiliar with their own suburbs 
save in occasional views through car windows. For 
years the steady concentration of our best young people 
in the large cities has been the subject of adverse com¬ 
ment by educators, lecturers, writers. Today it cannot 
be denied that the movement toward the country is the 
logical result of a revulsion against too close confine¬ 
ment within brick walls girt about by paved streets. 
THAT MILAN PISTOL MATCH 
D URING the summer of ’21 we got together an elev¬ 
enth-hour rifle team, hastily equipped a few 
Springfields with heavy barrels and target sights, 
went over to France and gave Switzerland the first 
defeat she has sustained for almost twenty years. The 
Swiss claimed that our victory was entirely due to our 
“highly-specialized equipment,” a most ridiculous alibi, 
and everyone knew they would come to the next inter¬ 
national match loaded for bear. 
Last August thirty of our best riflemen met on the 
Marine Corps Range at Quantico, Va., and held the 
stiffest tryout in the history of American marksman¬ 
ship ; demanded the very best in men, rifles and am¬ 
munition, and got it; a perfect demonstration of “Pre¬ 
paredness.” And we won the World Championship— 
by a very narrow margin. U. S. 5,132, Switzerland 5,120, 
a lead of exactly 12 points. We also won the Interna¬ 
tional Individual; Stokes, U. S., 1,067; Lynhard, Swit¬ 
zerland, 1,065; a margin of only 2 points. The Swiss 
lost because they shot as individuals, not as a team, and 
their star performer got all tangled up in a sling and 
thus lost just enough points to permit our boys to win. 
Our Pistol Team consisted of Dr. I. R. Calkins, 
Major J. A. Considine, U. S. A., Karl T. Frederick, Al¬ 
fred P. Lane, J. S. Palmore and Paul A. Raymond, and 
the official announcement of their departure on August 
30th contained this significant paragraph: 
“Dr. R. H. Sayre, who is the dean of the pistol shoot¬ 
ing game in the U. S., made all arrangements to handle 
a real snappy tryout at the Marine Corps Range at 
Ouantico, Va. When the morning of the tryout arrived 
all Dr. Sayre had to show for his trouble were not quite 
enough shooters on hand to make a team and a fistful 
of telegrams and letters of regret sent him by promi¬ 
nent shooters who for one reason or another could not 
attend. In other words any pistol shot able to make 480 
or better, judging from his record, who showed up at 
the tryout, would have received one first-class trip to 
Milan, Italy, free of charge.” 
On September 17th the Swiss and the Italians shoved 
our pistol team down into third place, and since then 
not a single report of the International Pistol Shoot has 
been published in this country. If our team had come 
home, kicked open the front door and frankly admitted 
their defeat that is all there would have been to it, but 
instead they sneaked up the back stairs between mid¬ 
night and morning and since then have been acting as 
though they never heard of such a thing as an interna¬ 
tional pistol shoot; a most regrettable display of poor 
sportsmanship. 
There have been quite a few international shooting 
matches held during the past fifty years and we Ameri¬ 
cans have consistently won more than our share of the 
laurels: did it with all three weapons—rifle, pistol and 
shotgun. And the plain, unattractive truth forces any 
reasonable man to admit that an occasional defeat is 
good for us, because we are continually telling the world 
that we can beat anyone, at any game, any place, and 
at any time. 
