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Now, there is one other thing, while we are on this matter of delegations and responsibilities: we are going to write our delegations in such a way that everyone will know pretty clearly what his job is. It will take a little time. When that is done, there will be no excuse for buck-passing. The next thing that I hope we can accomplish at the reservation level, is to find ways and means to distinguish between what the job of the Tribal Council or the Business Committee is, and what the job of the Superintendent is, and make that pretty clear so there will be no excuse for buck-passing at that level. I say that in all kindness because I don't think we should do the business you Indian folks ought to have our responsibilities clear and understood by everybody, at the reservation level and at all other levels. 

Now, I am getting pretty well along to the end of my notes, but I have one or two other things to say. I think a great deal of progress has been made, in spite of the criticisms made during the past several years. I see a number of important things that have started in the past fifteen or twenty years, in the direction of types of services, including the providing of public schools on a public school basis, in many of the states. That is real progress. I feel that we should go ahead on that to see that everyone who wants education can get it. Much progress has been made in many areas in the recapture of Indian lands for the use of Indians as farmers and cattlemen. It has been pulled out of leases from other people who have had the land and a lot of young Indian folks have begun to be pretty good cattlemen and farmers. I have seen some of them on my way across on this trip and I am perfectly delighted at the progress that has been made in some areas. It has not been fast enough and has not gone far enough. I hope we can speed it up.

A good deal of progress has been made in providing health services, in spite of all that I hear about it. I think a good start has been made in the direction of good programming, and it is not happening just because you have a new Commissioner. We are going to reap the rewards from things started in the past, in the next few years to come. I believe we need a much stronger public relations and information program than we now have. I don't know how we are going to secure it, but if everybody rolls up his sleeves and goes to work, we can get the job done, both as tothe work of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and as to the problems of the Indians. When you don't have an adequate program, some people get a distorted picture of the problem. I am amazed and surprised how a few of my friends (I use them as an example) know anything about your problems except what they get from an occasional article about the Navajo. I am not disparaging the Navajo; it is simply a spotlighted subject. They read a little about it and know nothing of the overall problem. Since I became Commissioner many people have asked me whether Indians can come and go off the reservations. That shows how little some people do know. We are going to work with you to get a better understanding by the American public of your needs. 

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