Bisbee daily review., 1911-01-19
TELLS IF EFFORT ID MAKE POOR
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Bureau of Indian Affairs SuO- mits Report for Past
 Fiscal Year

 dian wards on a self-sustaining bas- is, the Bureau of Indian affairs. dur ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, bent every effort 10 bring a. bout that end, according to the an nual report of Commissioner Rob ert c. Valentine to the secretary of the Interior. made public today Through the efforts Of it's educa- tional, farming and employment branches the bureau has been well rewarded in its efforts to make the Indian competent citizen of the United States.
 Wonderful progress was made dur ing the year covered by the report in teaching the Indians how to work their own lands. says the commis- sioner. Speaking on the farming problem, Commissioner Valentine says: The Indian service realizes that instruction in farming is an es- sential basic part of its present edu- cational policy and is, therefore, mak- ing use of every possible resource in order to promote farming among the Indians" During the year a number of expert farmers were en- ployed to teach the Indian the art of agriculture. Declaring that the agricultural fair has been convinc- ingly powed a means of stimulating interest in farming among the h. dians by it's success among the Crows, Commissioner Valentine con tinues.
 'The fair, promotes healthy rivalry among Indians and furnishes a rat ionaI basis for meeting together, which ought eventually to take the place of the indiscriminate gatherings of Indians. which are usually pro ductiye Of considerable harm.
 Reporting that two large railway systems have offered to provide op- portunities for school boys who are learning trades or who are mechani- caIIy inclined. the commissioners says that the systematic connecting of the industriaal education of the schools with the real work of the world will mea nthe dawning of new day in Indian education, and, from the human side, the bringing over of that critical period in a boys life when he leaves school and starts to ~ork, is a service of far reaching importance. Sympathetic direction during those two of three critical years" the commissioners go- es on to say, will mean the econ oHlic and moral salvation of many boys and young men"
 In declaring tbath the health work of the bureau is not merely to care for and cure those who are sicA nor the reduction of the death rate, but rather to increase the vitality of the Indian race and to establish for it a new standard of physical well-being," the commissioner says that enc of the principal features of the attack is An intensive attack upon the two diseases that most ser iously menance the health of the Indians-trachoma and tuberculosis. !"
 As a result of the increased ap- propriat on for the suppression of the liquor traffic, the report says, unusually extensive operations were conducted GOV ering practically every state of the union in which Indiana resides" During the year" the commissioner says, T, ,657 new cases were placed on the dockets. 1,651 arrests were made, TAT indictments secured, and 1,055 convictions obtain ed. Cases against 2SO persons were dismissed and 29 person were ac quilted"
 The commissioner says that tho bureau has been aided in it's enortl in this line by the cooperation of tn
 state officials, and continues:
 sTt is gratifying to find in a few eases that the Indians themselve have passed around petitions
 addressed to the home city or towi councils asking that saloon license be revoked and the places closed.
 Progress" says the commissioner ~is being made in the work of con necting the Indian schools with tn public schools. and the association of Indian children with white chi dren will be definite means Of pro
 .oting the assimilation Of the In
 fms into American life.
 A comprehensive survey Of th conditions of the schools throughou the service was made during las year. reports the commissione-
 Out of school population of abou
 10000 (this does not include th' five civilized tribes). there are il schcol 29,1s5, leaving out of schoo