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Show INDIAN EMPLOYMENT. As in years past, adult Indians and pupils of the New Mexico schools spent the summer in the Arkansas Valley of Colorado and Kansas, working for ranchers and in the beet fields. This is re-munerative labor under invigorating climatic conditions. An employment office established at Tempe, Ariz., places Indians on highways, in mines, cotton fields, and on any work available, while a fleet of trucks is maintained to transport them to the work, at a minimum of expense. Families are em loyed to a great extent, in the cotton fields. and the Cotton Growers' Association p!rcom es housing for workers Inquiry made last year for the purpose of ascertajning the, pro-portion of Indian school students who after completing the e~ghth grade have been successful in industrial or other occupations shows that in 762 cases of incomplete returns 85 per cent are *elf-.;npnort-ing, 8 arc more prosperous, in that they are accumulating property and are progressive beyond their ordinary needs, an? that only 7 per cent are unsatisfactory because of shiftless hablts or fallure to make their own way without assistance. Photographs accom-panying reports of these conditions disclose in scores ?f instances modern cottages, well-kept and attractive home surroundmgs. and an interest in live stock, poultrv, and gardening equal. and often superior, to average country life among the whites. I t is believed that more complete data would not be less favorable, and that the returned student class as a whole are instifying the expenditure of public funds provided for their education. FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. Because of extensive repairs to the Mekusukey Academy, one less tribal school of the Five Civilized Tribes was in operation last year, but the combined enrollment was practically equal to that of the preceding year. Enrollment of Indian children in the public schools was 15.385 as compared with 13,898 of the previous year. The attendance of those children in nonreservation schools was also increased, and mas unusually good in contract and denominational schools. Health conditions were not so favorable, trachoma and tubercu-losis fnrnishing the obstinate diseases that call for better hospital facilities and additional field matrons. An. appropriation for emergency cases mould be very helpful and, mlght include a reim-bursahle provision effect~vew hen the beneficiary has funds that can be applied in repayment. There has been a not~ceabled ecrease in the use of intoxicants, ex-cept in the rougher portions of the State where it IS difficult to lo-cate stills, the princ~palt rouble now belng to prevent the sale of Choctaw beer and .pa tent medicines containing a large percentage of alcohol. A decided improvement was manifested in general farming. both as to increased crop production and the raising of more and betfer live stoclr. That the restricted Indians are able to compete w ~ t h their white neighbors in farm crops was evidenced by the large num- |