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Show 40 COMMISSIONER OF INDIBN AZFAIRS. , . . Opportunities for work have been greatly extended this year by the changed basis of work. A large building has been rented and equipped to accommodate 80 Indians who may find work during the entire year at Rocky Ford. This arraniement is intended to meet the industrial needs of Indian .youths past school age who have spent the best part of their lives in school endeavoring to gain an education yet who have gone through only the fourth and fifth grades. Such boys will h d lucra-tive employment at Rocky Ford during the winter and, indeed; all the year around. - About 350 boys and young men of Indian blood are employed for , the season 1916 in the beet fields and on ranches working fo? the - agriculturists in the vicinity of Rocky Ford. On the Klamath, Fort Peck, Fort Belknap, and Flathead irriga-tion projects work is plentiful for-Indians. On the pay roll of the irrigation service at Klamath the Indians received $1,414.75, whites $1,083.96, -at one payment. Indians also received a considerable amount for hay, grain, logs, lumber, and wood bought from them. ' .Indian employees are of the faculty in every Indian school, but the Navajo school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., leads all the rest in having the m~jorityo f its employees, including its superintendent,-of Indian - blood.. This year several Indian girls have &n added to the. ranks of Indian Service employees ss graduate nurses. . Fifty-four schools and agencies have reported returned student organizations, with names of officers and places of meeting, covering a diversity of aims and activities. On some reservations feturned students seem to feel a compelling inner urge to become active par-ticipants in general welfare work. Indians and their white neighbors mingle freely in churches, . lodges, schools, and clubs in some communities, hnd it has been thought by a few that the formation of returned student organiza-tions would act as a deterrent to the progress of the Indian. Inone district all the returned students of the neighborhood are in the band. Another organization meets on Sundays, when the International Sunday school lessons form the basis-of the talk given. One super-intendent reports his organization to be a potent factor in the com- , munity life. EXHIBITION INDIANS. The employment of Indians for exhibition purposes by Wild West and other shows has been discouraged. Participation in these re-vivals of frontier life and primitive customs is neither ,educative nor conducive to the formation of habits of-industry and thrift: While such participation is not absolutely prohibited, it is discouraged, and |