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Show 6 .R EP, ORT OF COMMI~S~ONERO..F . JNDIAN AFFAEB . . has resulted each year in the em l o p e n t of many young Indians, though this has been awomplishefwithout organixed and systematic guidance. A committee called by the Secretary very early in the year made this recommendation: As a beginning and part of a comprehensive program of guidance and place-ment, the principal of eaoh Indian school should collect information relatlve to the present employment of its graduates and forward this to the central office. For the future a record of the employment of each graduate in vocational types of work ehould be recorded, and a progressive record kept of the same. Many leads to additional opportunities for the placement of the gradllstes of Indian schools may be obtained in this manner. Thereafter,, attention of school superintendents was called to this recommendation and they were directed to make a study of the= former students for the purpose of detenninmg if they are enga ed in the vocation for which they were trained and also to secure mfor-mation of this character concerning all pupils leaving the schools. The action thus taken, while neither new nor radical, should et be *.step in the development of guidance and placement which, wit% con-slstent attention of the office and cooperation of the field service, should bring to pass in the near future the more de6nite growth and develo~menot f Indian em~lovrnent. ~~ ~ ~ --- A ~" Direction was issued to school superintendents to. give full atten-tion to the matter of a suitable and sutlicient diet for school children. avoiding an possible deficiency, md to sup ly funds so far as avail: able to the &theranee of this end. In checfing over the cost of food for subsistence of Indian children is the Government boarding schools during the year, it has been found that this cost averaged 20 cents per pupil per day, of wxch 14 cents represented expenditure from the support funds of the schools, and 6 cents the value of f6od produced at the school. Durin the year emphasis was again diiected to the inadequacy of the foofration and a committee was appointed to con-sider this uestion. The committee, consisting of Dr. M. C. Guthrie, chairman,%r. E. Blanche Sterling, both of the Public Health Service Dr. Frances Rothert, of the Children's Bureau, Department of ~abor: and DT. Edith Hawley, of the Bureau of Home Economics, Depart-ment of Agriculture, after careful study, found that the minimum cost to provide a proper diet for Indian school children would he 40 cents per pu 3. Efforts are being made in connection with the budget for the fisc 3 year 1931 to secure through legislative action appro-priations which will be sufficient to meet these requirements. Emphasis upon child welfare has been embodied in a direction that there be periodic$ examinations by physician or nurse, record kept and treatment given where indicated. This has been su plemented by a caution to not overcrowd the schools to an extent etrimental .to the health of the children. i Attention of the schools was also invited to the value of the use of local material in teaching, as Indian arts and life, Indian history, Indian geo aphy, and matters of Indian daily experience. A%hough already embraced within prior plans, attention has agak been called to the importance of perfecting the teaching of gardening and poultry raisin in the schools. There is not at % and at this time definite data regar ade averages of pupils in the Indian schools. So far a9s t et h see ravglec-e fas secured information, it appears that the Indian children in the Government schoo? are, on an average, about 2 years older than |