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...watercolors were copies of sacred "sand paintings" made by the Navajo Indians. Other races paint in sand (notably the Australian aborigines), but none ever raised the ancient art to such heights...
Shocked at the discovery that the Navajo Indians face starvation and even death this winter (TIME, Nov. 3), the nation suddenly began sending them relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
This fall, reporters for the Denver Post, the Phoenix Arizona Republic and other newspapers in Navajo territory found that many Navajos were faced with starvation this winter unless something were done for them. Writers for various U.S. magazines like Harper's found the same thing-as did TIME'S Beshoar when he again visited the reservation to confirm the facts for TIME'S Nov. 3 story...
...many of you undoubtedly know from reading your newspapers and TIME, one result of this effort by the U.S. press to tell its readers about the Navajos' plight has been a cascade of letters to Congress and the White House. Significantly enough, several Congressional committees have now visited the Navajo reservation. Another result, of course, has been the multitude of contributions from all over the U.S. for Navajo relief. In case there could be any doubt of their necessity, a letter we have received from the justly famed American Friends Service Committee speaks for the accuracy of the press...
...this instance, however, Congressman Ben F. Jensen, Navajo advocate and chairman of the House subcommittee on Interior Department appropriations, stated the case for the U.S. press when he said: "I shall be forever grateful for this publishing of the facts. It makes the job of getting something done in the Congress easier when people know the facts...