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Show 22 COMMISSIONEB INDIAN AFFAIRS. Commencing immediately, I wish word to go down the line from the Indian 1 Office in ,Washington to the agencies, and from the agency throughout e\.ery res ervation and on to ench allotment, that every Indian Service farmer shall give ' his time to actual farming, and that under no circnmstances shall he continue. as so generally has been done, making the office work the tirst consideration and the promoting of the farm work of the Indians secondary. Thme things must be reversed. Congress, the taxpaying public, and the Indians have a right to expect full return for every dollar appropriated and such permanent industrial advance ment of the Indians each year as will justify the maintenance of the force of farmers and stockmen now employed and give promise that eventually they may no longer he required. Nor am I satistied with the fact as I am now convinced that the superin-tendents, generally speaking, spend altogether too much time in the office at-tending to duties which properly belong to clerks, when the superintendent, to accomplish the best results, should be out in the field among the Indlans look-ing into their home comforts, after health conditions, and in close contact with them, giving Personal attention to their farming, stock raising, and other rela-fitionships that they may be encouraged to do for themselves the things that they can not have done for them for an indefinite period of time. Hereafter the superintendent, in place of devoting three-fourths or more of his time to omce duties, shall devote a very large part of his time among the I Indians on the reservation. I do riot anticipate that the carrying out of these directions will bring about any appreciable congestion of the so-called "paper work" of the office. I beliere the greater portion of the office work will be found to tit in with the fleld work so that it will be done in connection therewith and without hindrance ta it. Reservation employees should know the Indians and know them well; under-stand their condition and substantially aid them in their forward march toward self-support apd equipment for citizenship. It is extremely difficult to obtain the services of properly qualified men for farmers at the comparatively small salaries paid, and limited funds available will not permit of the employment of a su5cient number to get the best results. In fact, I believe that one of the greatest needs of t h e Indian Service is an adequate force of prop-erly qualified farmer?, t o instruct the Indians in agricultural opera-tions. We need men npt only with a technical and practical knowl-edge of farming, in all its varied phases, but with certain personal qualities even more essential to success, such as a real interest in the Indians' welfare and a desire to help them all they can; in other words, men imbued with the real "missionary spirit," who can in-spire the Indians with the ambition to make the most of their oppor-tunities in order to become self-supporting, independent citizens. In this connection the following extract from report of Supt. Thackerg, of the Pima School, dated March 31,1914, will no doubt be of special interest: I have recently beeu able to stir up a aplendid interest on the part of our more progressive Indians in the settlement of a new district on the reserratton, recently suppiled with an irrigation system by the irrigation branch of our service. The interest of this progressive element of the tribe has been such |