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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 25 WORK OF THE APPOINTMENTS SECTION. Table 12 gives the names and number of positions authorized for the Indian Service, together with the range of salaries therefor. It should be borne in mind that very few employees are receiving the maximum salaries, and that the average pay is much nearer the minimum. That all its various employees must be educators has been kept in mind constantly in providing the personnel for the Indian Service. For a number of years most of the positions have been in the classified service. The executive classification order of October 9, 1908, had the effect of classifying substantially all the positions which had remained unclassified up to that date, so that now only a very few positions of minor or special character are excepted from the requirements of the civil-service rules. A constantly higher grade of employees are becoming available through civil-service examinations. I hope this will be e~peciauy true with reference to the positions of farmer and additional farmer. I should like to scat-ter through our service graduates of the agricultural colleges of which the Western States are justly proud. WORK OF THE PEDAGOGIC SECTION. - SCHOOLROOM METHODS AND EQUIPMENT. The methods employed by the Indian school-teachers, the equip-ment of their schoolrooms, and the text-books used should all be of the very highest order. Pupils trained under these circumstances and with these helps may readily transfer to white schools and there acquit themselves creditably. In order that this can be accomplished at all times and at all placee, no Indian school, in equipment and methods of instruction, can have a standard of attainment less com-plete or less modern than that of the very best schools of the State. In order to bring about a closer relationship between the two school systems, it may be necessary to resrrange, slightly, the present course of study, in order to make that in each school conform closely to that adopted by the schools of the State in which the Indian school is situated. This, however, is not to be done by sacrificing the indus-trial work. Indian teachers not only owe it to themselves to aspire to a closer relationship with that larger body of educators, but they also owe it to their pupils who may properly be expected in the future, for obvious, laudable reasons, to seek transfers to state schools. The present list of text-books for use in the Indian schools has proved to be a very creditable one. That it may be made to embrace the best text-boob published, suitable for. the Indian Service, addi-tions to it will be made from time to time. The inclusion of a text- |