The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-11

Continued from page 10 responsive to the needs of the field through simplified procedures and direction by trained people who know the Service conditions.
 Coordination Is Keynote
 Coordination and cooperation is the keynote of the new system. For instance, the new Assistant to the Commissioner on Human Relations will be directly responsible to the Commissioner for the coordination of the divisions of Health, Edu- cation, and Agricultural Extension and Industry His office will serve as the coordinating center for all reports and correspondence affecting the human program Of the Indian Office He will be re- sponsible for the cooperation of the three divisions, and will call ire quent conferences between the di- rectors and their assistants. All personnel problems and policies of the field activities will be worked out by him, and he will be re- sponsible for conducting recruit ing program for all types of posi- tions. The directors are to keep actively in touch with the field and are to make trips to the field as often as it is found necessary in order to maintain the efficient working of their divisions. They are to aid the Assistant to the Commissioner in the selection of new employees, and are to recom- mend to him any change needed for the continuance of high standard of work
 Guardianship
 The Assistant to the Commis- sioner on Property will be directly responsible for all activities deal ing with the guardianship of In- dian property, tribal and individ- ual, Land, Irrigation, and For estry. He will keep all the ac- tivities of his group in harmony with the plans and projects of the branches of the Indian Service which affect the human side.
 Since MT. Rhoads and MT. Scat tergood first started to map out constructive program for the betterment of the Indian Service they have gradually taken on new people, technically trained in their lines of work, who now form the complete corps of directors and as- sistant directors.
 Dr. w. Carson Ryan, jr., former ly Professor of K d u ion al Swarthmore College, is Director ot Education. He was appointed las; August, and now will have full authority over the educational ac- tivities of the Indian Service. Un- der Doctor Ryan, Miss Mary Stew art. formerly of the Department o1 Labor, is Assistant Director of Ed ucation.
 Director of Health
 Dr. M. c. Guthrie is Director of Health. He was detailed to the Indian Service in 1926 by tht United States Public Health Service and was formerly Executive Officer in the Surgeon Generals Office.
 The Director of Agricultural Ex- tension and Industry is A. c. Cool ey, who joined the Indian Servic- in February of last year. Previous ly he had been in charge of Dem onstration on Federal Reclamation Projects for the United States De partment of Agriculture.
 An experienced social executive Robert T. Lansdale, formerly Ex I ecutive Secretary of the Council o Social Agencies of Montclair, Nev Jersey, and member of the staf of the New York School of Socia Work, is the Acting Assistant t the Commissioner for the abov group. MT Lansdale is anothe who joined the Office of Indial Affairs last year and has been fielt representative and personnel of ficer.
 The Assistant to the Commis sioner on Property has not as ye been appointed.
 Irrigation Direction Director of Irrigation is Ma William s. Post, who is the mos recent of the newcomers to tn Indian Service. Major Post wa appointed on January 20 of thi year and is well known in the fiel of hydraulic engineering in tn Doo;fio Cooc Ctotoc Ha mac o1cf