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Problem of Indian Administration

1. Public school systems providing education from the nursery school and kindergarten through large well equipped universities.

2. Departments of public health developing from institutions for the control of disease to constructive organizations for prevention of disease. Among their functions may be mentioned activities looking to immunization for the prevention of disease; instructive visiting nursing and home care of the sick; the establishment of prenatal, infant, and pre-school clinics; medical inspection of school children with intelligent follow-up work so as to secure corrections in the field of dentistry and also defects of eye, ear, nose, and throat; corrective and educational work for crippled children; the establishment of such hospitals, sanatoria, and special clinics as may be needed to provide adequate care in childbirth, tuberculosis, venereal disease, and other special cases.

3. Departments of public welfare doing constructive work for the dependent, neglected, defective, and delinquent, and for the poor and the aged.

4. A socialized court system working in close cooperation with departments of public welfare providing special handling of cases involving children and domestic relations and furnishing probation officers for constructive work with persons who have been before the courts; and emphasis on reform in penal institutions.

5. Agricultural departments supplying to the rural population both county agricultural demonstration agents and home demonstration agents.

6. Public employment agencies to disseminate information concerning industrial opportunities in various localities, to bring together the man and the job and at times to help the man get the necessary training for the job, to make job analyses, and to encourage the establishment of vestibule schools in various industries.

Services such as these will have to be rendered to the Indians by agencies not of their own creation and not fully supported by their own contributions. No evidence warrants a conclusion that at any time in the near future the number of Indians requiring constructive social service will be so far reduced that there will be no Indian problem and no call upon public treasuries or private benevolence for Indian aid. The practical question to be faced at present is what agency or agencies shall supply the constructive developmental

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