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California situation, and cutting down of the Bureau in California, after many, many years, since the situation was well known to them; and really only because in large part of their budget cuts.

No.10.
Let's not fool ourselves into believing that we are not dealing with a bureaucracy that is the same as any other bureaucracy - they are for what makes it grow, and consciously or unconsciously against anything that cuts it down. It is the old story of vested rights, but this time of office prestige and salary.

No. 11.
The Navaho jurisdiction particularly calls for a Supt. responsible and only responsible to the Commissioner, with no interference on the reservation. If he is to have responsibility, just as surely he should have authority. The two are inseparable in any square deal.

The education system on the Navaho needs reinvestigation. The Navaho people are complaining; and they should not have an education that puts them under disadvantages when they go outside the boundaries. Many of the younger people are going to have to leave the reservation, which will not support even the present population, much less a growing one.

The Navaho should not be operated on the basis of a bare subsistence peasantry. A person should have an opportunity to make at least a decent minimum living on the Navaho, with the hope of bettering his condition. The small and broken up permits now effective certainly do not look in this direction, but in the contrary.

Moreover, the Navaho are entitled to a fair pro-rata of the budget. This should not mean that other places are to be brought below par, but that the Navaho should be brought up to par. Cutting out in other states will release funds for use on the Navaho.

No. 12.
The Commissioner should be appointed at once. There should be no such lapse as there has been for over nine months in having a Commissioner, An Acting Commissioner carries no such authority nor weight as a Commissioner, and one learns in the field and from persons conversant with it, that much damage has already been done by this seemingly inexcusable delay.