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Show 8 the President of the Conference appoint an organizing Committee to draft a constitution and by-laws and to report back to the Conference before its adjournment. The constitution, in addition to setting forth the nature of the organization of the Institute, ought to clarify the relation between the Institute and the Pan-American Union, between the Institute and the participating governments, and between the Institute and the learned societies such as the anthropological associations and other groups, cultural and civic, as are interested in the facts of Indian life. Many Production And Distribution Centers Suggested In this paper I have for purposes of simplicity spoken as though there would be for all the countries and for the two continents a one headquarters and office of the proposed clearing house. Actually, I suggest, there could be as many production and distribution centers for the gathering and organizing of data as there are countries, presuming only the existence of an editorial board through which projects would be "cleared." In the case of any project originating from one of these centers, or from a number of them acting in cooperation, any given country could withhold its consent to being included within the scope of the particular project. The results of the project would then be indexed as including, or relevant to, only those countries which have cooperated in the project. While such an hypothetical set-up might from the formal, Institutional standpoint appear to be very loose and indefinite, it is suggested that during an experimental period, at least, it might be the one most reassuring to all of the countries and the one best calculated to enlist the diversified powers and the idiosyncrasies of all of them, and also the safest |