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...Squaw...
...Indian woman, grandmother of Vice President Curtis, is a "squaw'' (TIME, June 15, p. 13, col. 3). By the same reasoning, if any, aren't Irishmen "Micks'" and Frenchmen "Frogs"? All these terms spring from tne noble tradition of Anglo-Saxon superiority and are equally worthy of perpetuation. Is TIME deliberately slighting the "Chinks" and the "Wops...
...TIME may be justified in exalting Indian womanhood above all other, in delicately complimenting the nation's Vice President by calling his grandmother a "squaw." The "nigger wenches" of America may have no reason to feel hurt that TIME should call them merely "Negro women.'' TIME, as usual, is doubtless right: honor where honor...
...distinction: "Chink," "Mick." "Wop." "Dago," "Nigger." and "wench" are words invented by Anglo-Saxons for derisive application to non-Anglo-Saxons. But Anglo-Saxons learned from Indians to call Indian women "squaws." Squaw is the Narragansett (and Algonquin) Indian word meaning "a female" just as sannnp means a male Indian, a brave. TIME will continue using "squaw." with no derision intended or conveyed...
Vice President Curtis likes presiding over the Senate. The grandson of an Indian squaw, the onetime jockey-boy enjoys the social prestige that goes with his position, the public salutes, the dinners out. He would, if he could, keep the job he now has. But, more important, he would keep a job, a fact which amply explains his present uncertainty of mind...