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creation of a position of senior statistician in the Indian Service, with a salary of $5200 to $6000 and an aggregate lump sum appropriation of at least $20,000 available for the employment of clerical assistants and for the purchase of statistical equipment. The duties and qualifications of the statistician and the need for his employment are discussed in detail on pages 170 to 182 of this report.

Strengthening of Personnel in Immediate Contact with the Indians. The establishment of the Division of Planning and Development is the first outstanding need of the Indian Service. The second is the enormous strengthening of the personnel in immediate contact with the Indians. The Indian Service, because of low salaries and low appropriations, has been attempting to conduct its activities with a personnel inadequate in number and as a rule not possessed of the qualifications requisite for the efficient performance of their duties. Little progress can be expected until this situation has been remedied. Later in this summary, sections will be presented regarding each large group of activities, and under each of them will be included at least a paragraph on personnel. The needs for particular classes of personnel will not, therefore, be discussed here. Certain things which must be done to secure a stronger field personnel are, however, common to all lines of activity and they can best be treated generally.

Adequate Salaries. Salaries in the Indian Service, especially the field service, must at least be fairly comparable with those paid by other branches of the government service. If there is to be any difference, those in the Indian Service should be the higher because of the isolation, the high expense of maintaining and educating a family in a remote community, and the difficulty of work with a primitive people. Entrance salaries should be not only sufficiently high to attract a reasonable number of properly qualified applicants, but a fairly liberal scale for salary advancement should be adopted to reward efficiency and to hold competent employees. A high turnover among the field employees of the Indian Service will jeopardize the success of any program however well designed.

Better Living and Working Conditions. Persons with high qualifications cannot be expected to enter and remain in the Indian Service unless a material improvement is made in living and working conditions. The government must appreciate that at best the conditions will be hard, especially for employees with families.