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mobiles. He will ask Congress to APP
propriate $4,000 which will be used
almost exclusively for connecting idle
Indians with jobs. The next step Is to
change their educational program so as
to teach them things which will enable
them to earn their living-in effect.
vocational training. Better health will
surely follow when malnutrition result
ing from poverty Is eliminated, he be-
lieves. In short, he is striking at the
cause instead of applying an ointment
to the sore.
The policy is to get the Indian chill
dren educated at public schools instead
of being segregated into Indian schools.
DR.. Wilbur has found a very general
willingness to cooperate on the part
Of local authorities. Gradually he hopes
to get away from the old Indian res
ervation" idea altogether. There is no
reason, he believes. why 100000 Mexi-
can Indians should swarm over the
border to take up work among the
whites while more than 100 900 of the
350, 900 Indians now in this country
and In this very region-are not only
idle, but in want.
Prominent Feature Of Campaign.
But overshadowing everything else in
widespread appeal and promise for flu
ture benefit is the campaign which
President Hoover and Dr. Wilbur have
inaugurated for child welfare. Incl
dentally, this is a problem which is
more vital to the President than any
other.
II need not urge upon you" he told
the conference he and DR.. Wilbur
called, 1.-The fundamental Importance of
this undertaking. The greatest asset of
q race is its children, whose bodily
such as to prepare them to receive the
heritage which each generation must
bequeath to the next. BY the safeguard
of health and protection of childhood.
we further contribute to that equality
of opportunity which is the unique basis
of American civilization
At the very outset, however. President
Hoover and DR.. Wilbur warned that
they were completely out of sympathy
with the idea of nationally controlled
education. There is to be no Federal
department of education If Mr.. Hoover
can prevent It, DR.. Wilbur is just as
strongly against this proposal.
He feels that there Is distinct mem
ace in the Capitalization in the National
Government of any large educational
scheme with extensive financial re-
sources available. Power by the Fed
eral Government to mold and standard
ize and crystalline education would be
more damaging to local government, 10
cal aspiration and self-respect, he has
said, than the financial assistance would
be worth.
$4,000 Donation Starts Movement.
A gift of $4,000 by a philanthropist
who wishes his name to remain I'M
known to the public made possible the
starting of the child welfare movement
without the necessity OF an appeal to
Congress for funds. The President at
once notified DR.. Wilbur that he was to
be chairman of the committee which
should make a study of this subject
The plan was then mapped out. the
conference called and subcommittee
| were appointed and directed to report
back in time for the full committee to
| present its findings in 18 months. The
| last acceptance on this committee
! which consists of outstanding figures
in the various lines Of work which the
President and DR.. Wilbur thought would
! provide the necessary breadth of back
! grounds. points of view and expert
) knowledge. was received three days be-
fore this was written.
| Already the agenda of the subcom-
mittees has been mapped out. The
growth and development of children
will be studied by a group headed by
DR.. Kenneth D. Blackfan of Boston
Prenatal and maternal care, medical
service for children, milk production
/ and control, communicable disease con-
troll and public health organization. all
of these subjects so vital TO child health
will be studied by the subcommittee
headed by Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cum
ming.
The education and training of the
child will be the topic of another sub
committee headed by F. J. Kelly, Phi. D.
of Moscow, Idaho. This group will
study problems of family and parent
educa' ion, the pre-scfcol child, the
school child, vocational guidance and
child labor, recreation and physical
education.
Will Make Study Of Handicaps.
Problems presented by the handicap
ped child will be studied by still an
other subcommittee headed by c. c.
Carstens of New York. The State and
local organizations for the handicapped
will be examined and efforts will be
made to find ways of bringing help to
physically mentally dependency and so
cially handicapped and delinquent chill
dren.
Thus another great humanitarian
movem, mt is now going forward under
the direction of Secretary Wilbur
Dr. Wilbur was not long in discover
ing the power of Office holding clique;
in the Federal Government. One of thu
first moves he made in the direction OF
eliminating duplication and overlapping
was with respect to the national parks
A small SECTION of these-the battlefield
parke--instead Of being administered b.
the Interior Department, as are thu