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Show Some di5rmlty has been experienced in obtaining advane information as to the dates of the fairs each gear. This information should be promptly furnished the office as soon as the dates for the fair have 'been 6xed. Reports of fairs should include unmounted photographs of exhibits, if avail-able, with any nevspaper ,comments. nn important feature of your fair should be the baby show, as instructed 'In Circular No. 1043. With the hearty support and cooperition of superintendents. and employees ' , even the splendid results of last year should be surpassed this year: Following the success of the first extensive Indian exhibit at the Oklahoma State Fair, in 1914, similar exhibits were shownlast fall at State fairs in Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, - Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Texas. The Indian exhibits proved a most attractive feature of each fair. At some of the fairs the Indian exhibits were entered in direct com-petition with the products of white farmers, and were awarded first prizes At other fairs the Indians were only allowed to compete with each other, but strong efforts are being made to have all the Indian exhibits entered in open competition, placing the Indian farmer on the same basis as his white neighbor. This will furnish a stronger incentive for success and friendly competition. Indians . were participants at a greater number of county fairs than ever be-fore and with good results. We have reason to believe that the number of Indian fairs and the number participating in county and State fairs in 1916 will be much greater than on any previous year. INDIVIDUAL INDIAN MONEYS. There is no single feature of Indian administratian presenting a more difficult problem for solution than the manner in which indi- - vidual Indian money should be handled. . It is a problem because in tbis we are dealing with individual lives rather than a race, and, if we succeed, wholesale methods must be abandoned and the needs of each individual considered. The goal of our endeavor, through a proper use of individual In-dian money, may be said to be: 1. TO assist every Indian to the establishment of a permanent and substantial home built upn land to which the individual whose money is being expended may expect to obtain a fee-simple title. 2. To acquire iddependence of thought and action and a sturdy self-reliance looking to eventual self-support, substantial progress and permanent prosperity. 3. And at last to emerge triumphant from tribal relations into those of indi-vidual citizenship with a full bowledge of all its rights, privileges, ang respon-sibilities which accompany it. It is a pleasure to be able to see that within even so short a time as three years there has been a marked increase in the number of |