New Britain herald., 1929-12-02
WILBUR OUTLINES
 APARTMENT WORK
Some Bureau Divisions Increase
 Work, He Says

GSNln2t on. Dec. v. Hi-Slcp- ping from the halls of Stamford university into the cabinet. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, famed diagnostician and educator. has informed his old friend President Hoover. that q "changin@ emphasis" is the need of the big and busy Interior Depart mcnt.
 some of the great bureaus of the department he said in his annual report today have ovcrtakcn the peak of their administrative load. while others have large tasks ahead for eomplvtion. Emphasis, therefore. he reasoned. should he transferred from those whose duties are on inc decrease to those showing con stantly increasing fields of activity
 Cites Two on Decrease
 The pension bureau and the gen. clal land office were cited as two bureaus the duties of which are on the decrease. The geological survey, the bureau of reclamation. the na- tional park service and the office Of education. were listed hy the former university president as tho branches of his department called upon to carry out q huge expansion pro- gram planned in the reorganization O, in. department
 The Indian service. troublesome gol over a hundred years, was pre- sentcd in the following paragraph: "Onc activity, that of the Indian service, has before it q definite and unique goal-thut of working itself out of a job. Its program calls for a 1 large economic saving to the coun- : try by increasing present cXpcndi- 1 lures to enable the Indian popula- | ton eventually to become sclf-sup- pOrtinE,"
 Administration of the public do- main Dr. Wilbur reported to be Of prime importance with great en- l phasis needed on the necessity of ! conservation.
 Water Needed In West
 Prom Nebraska west, water, and water alone. is the key to our fu- l turc." he said, "HomcstcHd think ing must be replaced with water shed thinking,"
 The difficulty Of understanding 1 and controlling problems growing cut of tho administration of the public domain has caused the ap- ] pCnlmont Of commission to study , the possibility and feasibility of transferring public lands 10 the pub land states. This commission is now studying this question. involving more than I9o.O00,0oo acres Of pub | lie lands.
 Secretary Wilbur desires 10 sec the government participation and i when reclamation projects have 1 lccn completed. The community af- fcctod, he said, snould administer the completed work, This policy, he ] added. will be effective as far as possible in the construction and ad- ministration of the reclamation hlrcau's greatest undertaking. Boul- der dam.
 Dr. Wilbur doplorcd the present methods of obtaining oil from the ground, charaCterizing it as waste full overproduction of q fast dWin- ding resource" Efforts of the de- p&rtment and federal oil Conserva- tion board 10 bring about an oil conservation program were pointed out with satisfaction and with the statement that the "prcscnt conscr- vation policy will be continued" | Ro,J.s lnnynr ,,, niJ
 The presidents move to stop prospecting for oil on the public do- main was supported on the grounds that until the present day of waste full production is over the po- tential supply of oil in the public domain must be safcguardcd."
 Plans for the reorganization of the office of education have been completed, Dr. Wilbur reported, and are now in the process of execution. This office should be a research or sanitation, he said, rather than an administrative agency. An educator himself Dr. Wilbur saw no place in the federal government for q de- p&rtnrnt of education. maintaining that local government in education is the keystone of proper training for citizenship by universal public education.