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Show REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS '9 help their home folks to establish and maintitin such standards The task 'is a large one and will require cooperation by every available organization. The Junior Red Cross and the American Child Health Association are already at work with the school force. The Red Cross has been at work arn~ng'~reservatiocnom muniti.es, par-ticularly along health lines, and, just no?v its representakves are making plans to-give demonstrations during,the next few pears in the interest of home improvement. They have decided to place trained home-economics teachers and trained nurses in certain dis: tricts and to develop there a program of home improvement which it is hoped will extend its influence amou neighboring Indians. Their eRorts, contributed in harmony wig the plans and best thought of the office, should be successful in bringing about a dis-tinct advance in the matter of better home conditions, to which Indian students may return with the hope of maintaining to some extent the ideals and standar* which have been taught them in the schools. E ~ COFT BD JUSTED OOMPENSATION FOR EMP~.O~S.-Unquestion-ably the increase of salaries under reclassification has had much to do with a marked improvement in the personnel of the service. Many who were inclined to drift along, taking roads of least resist-ance, discouraged because of low salaries, insufficient to enable them to live decently and respectably, have taken new courage and are now rendering good service. The standard of ?fficiency has been raised materially because of increased compensation, and this has made it ossible to make a materlal reduction in the numberpf em2 l oyees. guring the year 634 positions throughout the service were ropped, but the increased schooI facilities provided m the Southwest made necessary the establishment of 190 new positions, making a net reduc-tion of 344 positions, fepresenting an annual expen+ture for salar~es of $284,851. In addition, positions in the Washington office were discontinued carrying a total expenditure fol: salaries of $19,810. READINQCI RCLE WEEK.-In accordance wlth past practice, all school employees, were required to readcertai? books wKich were selected because adapted to aid teachers m thelr study of subjects chosen for special consideration durlng the-year. The Personality of the Teacher, by Charles McKenny,.was selected for the purpose of promoting greater individual efficiency. Health Education in Rural Schools, by J. Mace Andress, was used in connection with the health program for the ear Instructors were enyvraged to read pther books of special vayue h relation to ,their indiv~duanle eds. THE Som~w~s~. -Througthh e generos~tyo f Congress m provid-ing funds for construction purposes in the Southwest, increased capacity has been provided for as many children as it has been pos-sible to enroll, and with the completion of pro~ectsn ow under way, including the conversion of Fort Wingate Military Post into a school to be known as the Charles H. Burke School, with a capacity, when coinpleted, for 750 children, the building period is rapidly nearing an end. It will be necessary to enlarge more of the Pueblo and Hopi da schools and possibly to construct a few new day schools among t .I ose tribes as well as to provide funds to construct some buildings at schools already in operation to balance them, but cer-tainly the end of new construction and enlargement is in sight. |