Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-18
WORK FOR INDIANS REWARDED
Commissioner Valentine Says Bureau
Has Aided Effectively.
RED MAN LEARNING TO WORK
BecominE HOrny-Hnndcd Toiier,
where Previously He Eyadrd
Appearance of Labor-Fnrm
Lessons and Results.

WASHINGTON. Jan l1.-In attempting
20 put Uncle Sans Indian wards on
Helf-sustaiuing basis the bureau Of Indian
affairs during the fiscal year ended June
30. 1910 bent every effort TO bring about
that end. according to the annual report
Of Commissioner Robert O.. Valentine to
the secretary Of the interior. made public
today. Through the efforts Of its cduca-
ticnal farming and employment branches
the bureau has been well rewarded in It's
efforts to make the Indian competent
citizen Of the United states.
Wonderful progress was made during the
year covered by the report in teaching the
Indians how to work their own lands. says
the commissioner speaking on the farm
ing problem. Commissioner Valentine says:
The Indian service realizes that instruc-
ton I'm farming is an essential basic part
Of It's present educational policy and IS,
= therefore, making use Of every possible re-
source in order to promote farming among
the Indians"
During the year a number Of expert farm
ers were employed to teach the Indian the
art of agriculture. Declaring that the agri-
cultural fair has been convincingly proved
a means Of stimulating interest in farm
ing among tho Indians by its success among
the Crows, Commissioner Valentine con
tinues:
The fair promises healthy rivalry among
Indians and furnishes a rational basis for
meeting together, which ought eventually
to take the place of the indiscriminate
gatherings OF Indians. which are usually
productive OF considerable harm"
DawninE Of New Day.
Reporting that two large railway sys-
TENS have offered to provide opportunities
for school boys who are learning trades
or who are mechanically inclined, the com
missioner says that the systematic con
Meeting of the industrial education of the
schools with the real work OF the world
will mean the dawning Of new day In
Indian education, aad. from the human
side. the bridging over OF that critica
period i'm boys life when he leaves schoo
and starts to work is a service Of far
reaching Importance sympathetic direo
ton during those two or three critica
years" the commissioner goes on to say
will mean the economic and moral saliva
tion OF many boys and young men,
In declaring that the health work OF tn,
bureau Is not merely TO care for and cure
those who are sick nor the reduction o.
= the death rate, but rather to increase tn,
vitality of the Indian race and to establish
for It a new standard of physical well
being" the commissioner says that on
of the principal features of the attack 4
IAN intensive attack upon the two disease
that most seriously menace the health o
the ADMINISTRATIONS and tuberculosis
Reducing Use of Liquor.
As a result of the increased appropria
ton for the suppression of the liquor traf
fio, the report says. unusually "extensiv
operations were conducted covering praC
tically every state of the union in whic
Indians reside" During the year" tn
commissioner says. 1857 new cases wer
placed on the dockets, 1867 arrests wer
made. 77 indictments secured, and 1Of