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demonstrator may be able to serve them. If response is general, several more will be required. The object should be intensive effort with those who will work so that they will be kept interested and kept at work until their efforts are rewarded. It would be a great mistake to economize by having so few competent demonstrators that their efforts are spread too thin. The aim should be an intensive campaign with those who ate willing. As they make good, others will come in and the demonstrator can give special attention to the new recruits while still maintaining some contact with his successes. Special attention should be devoted to the returned student. The demonstrator and the superintendent should take him in hand immediately upon his return and lay before him a definite program and a definite challenge.
Although reimbursable loans are in disrepute in some jurisdictions, the survey staff is inclined to the belief that the explanation lies in the fact that the local staff available for economic training has been inadequate both in number and in ability. Provision should be made for reimbursable loans and the staff of demonstrators should be sufficient to supervise their application and use.
The tribal herd, as a means of establishing individual Indians in the stock business by selling them on credit the offspring of the herd, is likewise in disrepute, it is believed for similar reasons. Since much of the Indian land is suitable only for grazing, the experiment should be tried again with an adequate personnel.
At some jurisdictions the economic resources are apparently insufficient, even if efficiently used, to support the Indian population according to reasonable standards. In some cases the Indians were given poor lands; in others during the course of years the whites have gained possession of the desirable lands. Nothing permanent is to be achieved by trying to make the Indians wrest a living from lands which will not yield a decent return for the labor expended. Some Indians on more promising land are personally interested in pursuits which cannot be followed on the reservations. The “let down your bucket where you are” policy, wise as it is for certain conditions, cannot therefore be exclusively followed. The Indian Service must seek to find suitable employment off the reservation for Indians who have no real chance there or who desire to seek other employment. In some instances, as in the Navajo