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whatever kind of a job they want to do.  I think that the training we talk about can be given not only in the public schools but on and off the reservations and in a number of places, if we really get our thinking caps on and go to work together to meet that need.  It will take some time of course and involves the question of placement, working with employers and with a lot of other people, using our imaginations in trying to find a way to get the job done.  I suspect that in the months ahead, in view of the situation that is likely to develop as regards manpower throughout the country, we ought to be pushing our efforts to provide opportunities for a lot of young people who may want jobs in industry while there is a big expansion under way.  There is, of course the same need for a minimum standard of health and sanitation on the reservations as anywhere else.  It goes with the problems of education, resources and the other things.

Now I want to spend a little time talking about the Bureau of Indian Affairs itself, as to some of the things that I hope we can do to better the services to you people.  I have already said that I feel that the Bureau is a good organization.  One of the problems we have is caused by the fact that we are so busy doing the everyday business that we do not have opportunity to do what I call an operation planning job in regard to many, many areas by working in those areas, whether it is on a reservation basis, a state basis, or a national basis.  I think that is one of the lacks within our organization.  Most of the people in Washington are so busy reviewing documents coming in from the field--some of them have been there a long time, I understand--that they haven't much time for that.  But the planning should not be done in Washington.  It's got to be done right out here where you people live.  We do need some people in the areas and in Washington to help in that kind of program operation, to review plans that come in to be sure that we understand them and to assist in eliminating some of the bottlenecks, once the plans are made, by trying to get the kind of action the plans call for.  That is one of the spots where we feel we have been weak in the past.  I do not blame anyone for that.  I am simply saying that this is a situation that exists and I hope we can find ways to remedy it.  We can put a few people on the job to do nothing else except that phase of the work with the operations folks, working with the tribes, with the key organizations, and with governmental agencies to eliminate some of the bottlenecks and give the kind of service that we ought to give.

I have already said that we ought to greatly expand the opportunities that can be provided by an adequate training and placement program.  I don't know how much aid we are going to get on that but we will do our best to provide the service for those who want it, if we can get the cooperation of Congress.  Now, I haven't had the time as yet, in the little more than three months I have been in office, to know all of the problems that exist.  I have heard about a good many of them during the last two or three weeks, and I heard about some of them before I can to the field.

I have heard a good deal of discussion since I came to the office about the organization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.  I have heard some criticism of area offices, the most of which, I might say, is ill-founded, if we 

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