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who knows thoroughly farm demonstration work, another who can tie the schools into the program, and a third who can visualize the relation of the women to the enterprise. Some legal questions will doubtless arise, relating to water rights or to the possibilities of re-allotting certain families whose present allotments may not be within the area to be irrigated or of cancelling allotments where the present allottee cannot possibly make beneficial use of the water. A lawyer may have to be assigned to give some aid in the project, and others may prove necessary. The Commissioner should be as free to organize the project as is necessary without being hampered by previously established lines of authority and without committing himself as to what he will do in another assignment.
In such a Division of Planning and Development it may happen that a member of the staff may have simultaneously two or more assignments. In one he may be a subordinate with a minor assignment, in another he may be the responsible directing head. His position in each assignment will depend on the nature and needs of the particular project.
Although the Commissioner of Indian Affairs should be the official head of the Division, it does not by any means follow that he personally must do the detailed work of planning and organizing each project. Again to resort to a specific illustration, it is generally recognized that the present uniform standardized course of study for Indian schools has outlived its usefulness. The whole subject must be gone into again from the bottom up. The Commissioner might well consult the chief administrative man in charge of schools and the strongest specialist in his Division of Planning and Development in the field of school curriculum and ask them to prepare for him a plan for the organization of this project of radical changes to make the course of study fit the needs of the particular Indians who are being provided with schools. After consultation with them and after administrative review of their recommendations, he would issue substantially their plan for the conduct of the project.
Positions in the Division. The positions in the Division should be of two types, temporary and permanent. Temporary positions should provide opportunity for the retention for projects of special importance of specialists from other organizations. In some in-