OPEN AID FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ACTIVITY ADVOCATED BY MAX LERNER

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• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
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adult basic education program felt by
p,N)ple all over the country is the decision
of the teachers in. the Crockett Inde-
I,endent School District, Crockett, Hous-
inn County, Tex., to continue to serve
without pay rather than see their pro-
gram ended because no more money was
available.
The current program began in Sep-
tember 1966. When the district applied
to the Texas Education Agency for funds
for the second session they were in-
formed that Federal money had run out
and no more money, either Federal or
State, was available. It was then that a
majority of the teachers volunteered to
serve without pay.
This strong belief in the program is
cymptoinatic of the way people feel
about the program all over the country.
Congress answer to this nationwide en-
thusiasm should be to provide an addi-
tional $10 million in supplemental funds
to keep the adult basic education pro-
gram operating the rest of fiscal year
1067. Congress should not say to the
teachers of the country: "either work
without pay or terminate your pro-
grams."
I congratulate the teachers in the
Crockett adult basic education program
for their selfless dedication.
I ask unanimous consent that an
article from the Houston County Courier
of February 16 be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
ADULT BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS VOL-
UNTEER SERVICES WITHOUT PAY
A majority of the teachers in the Adult
Thule Education program have assured that
there will be no lapse in the classes by offer-
ing to continue to teach without pay.
The current Adult Basic Education Pro-
gram will complete the first session on Feb.
.9. An application has been sent to the
Texas Education Agency for continuing
funds, but notification has been received that
tho federal funds are exhausted and no ad-
ditional funds are available to finance an
additional term.
The adult classes will continue, however,
duo to the unselfishness and community
spirit of the - teachers. A majority of the
teachers, when informed that their salaries
for these services would end Feb. 23, decided
to continue their classes on a voluntary basis
for the remainder of this year.
Beginning July 1, there will be additional
funds to carry on the program for next year.
All of the people of Houston County can
feel justly proud of these teachers for devot-
ing their time and efforts, and sometimes
money out of their own pockets, to the con-
tinuntlon of the adult classes.
Most persons felt that the teachers were
teaching primarily for the salary, but now
that they will be teaching without pay, every-
fine should realize that a teacher is in the
teaching profession for more than just the
salary.
Listed are the teachers of the Adult Basic
Education classes, and the ones marked with
nn asterisk have been teaching without pay
since Sept. 6, 1966:
'Vivian Lovelady, 'Evora Dorn, 'Delta
Rhepherd, 'Mrs. Billie B. Lamb, 'Lula Dailey,
'Alma Mathis, 'Sabra D. Berry, 'Octavia S.
Williams,
Mary Murphy, Mittte Mae Wiley, Annie B?
Fitted, Vernon Grant, Eugene Dix, Beatrice
Murphy, T. J. Shepherd, Addle M. Ware.
Lucille M. King, Pauline Davis, Connie
Jones, John Davis, Nellie Williams, Jerry Bill
Wootbright, Helen Jackson, Glenn Cross.
Robbie D. Cotton, Kathryn Sanders, Vir-
ginta Garner, Norma Dell Monk, Annie Mae
Sapp, R.Ithie Mae Jackson, Rosena H,
Murphy.
H. D. Glasple, Lucy M. Houston, John
Pruitt, 1l a bet Ledgrum, Emma Pearl Todd,
Archie: Mac Garrett, Jo Ella Scott.
FOOD OUTPUT PER PERSON DID
NOT INCREASE IN UNDERDEVEL-
OPED NATIONS DURING 1966-
UNITED STATES SHOULD MAKE
MAXIMUM EFFORT TO AID THESE
NATIONS IN SOLVING THEIR POP-
ULATION PROBLEMS
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President,
the January 1967 issue of. Agricultural
Situation, published by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, reports that 1966
saw the world's developed areas make
further gains in agricultural production
per person while the less developed re-
gions had to settle for no better than
the year before.
Agricultural output during the past dec-
ade has actually gone up faster in the less
developed areas than in the rest of the
world---
The report says-
but the benefits have been canceled out by
a corresponding rapid growth in population.
In the face of this continuing situa-
tion, it is to be hoped by all who are con-
cerned about the desperate race being
run in the underdeveloped nations be-
tween population growth and food sup-
ply, that the U.S. State Department and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture will
devote maximum effort to aiding these
lands in dealing with this enormous
problem.
Congress last year was most definite
,in its intent that these agencies step
up their activity. New, explicit author-
ity to render assistance, at a country's
request, was given in both the foreign aid
bill and the food-for-peace bill.
The information contained in this Ag-
riculture Department report reminds us
again of the seriousness of the problem
and of the massive effort which must be.
made in order to deal with it effectively.
I ask unanimous consent that an ex-
cerpt from the January 1967 issue of
Agricultural Situation be printed at this
point in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the excerpt
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
As In recent past years, 1968 saw the
world's developed areas make further gains
in agricultural production per person while
the less developed regions had to settle for
no better than the year before.
A per capita production gain to 110 (1957-
59=100) from 106 for the year before for the
developed areas contrasted with a level of
a bill to authorize the Secretary of HEW
to make grants to bidividunis broadly
representative of American acuctents for
the purpose of attending international
youth conferences. Mather than some
secret grant, as In the case of the CIA,
we would publicly make grants.
Last week Max Lerner wrote a very
thoughtful column in which be argued
that the right way to make it or Bible for
American students to attend these con-
ferences is "to get or appropriate money
for these international students activities
quite openly." I ask unanimous consent
that Mr. Lerner's article as published in
the Wednesday, February 22 Washington
Evening Star be published at this point
in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
[From the Washington I'vening Star. Feb. 22,
19671
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ACTIVITY DUE OPEN
Am
(By Max Lerner)
There has been a lot of stupidly on the
part of the Washington people, under Eisen-
hower, Kennedy and Johnson, in getting the
student movement tied in with the Central
Intelligence Agency, and a lot of hypocrisy
on the part of some of the more bitter critics
who gain cheap and easy victories flaying the
CIA and the students equally.
The government people saw a problem but
settled for a terribly wrong solution of it.
Some of the critics, bath within Congress
and outside, offer no aoolution, and perhaps
see no problem.
The problem Is there. and it has teen there
sharply since the beginning of the 19b05,
when the Communist camp mace its shift of
strategy in the political war. While main-
taining their old litany about factory workers
and peasants as the true revolutionary ma-
terial, the Communist leaders began to put
their real reliance on the intellectuals as
their fulcrum of revolution. They saw that
in such a struggle the .veapons tipped with
flame are the Ideas, anal so they put their
energies into training, persuading, seducing,
converting the carriers of ideas.
For the Communists it made sen.e. They
were veterans of the ideological wars, and
had been attending international Conferences
for generations. They knew all the dodges,
they had a powerful mystique that attracted
the young-and they had the machinery of
complete secrecy.
-What America had were two groups of ac-
tivist students. Both had generosity and
idealism as they looked at the world. But
they had different angles of vision. There
were those who identified romantically with
revolutions and-without themseltes want-
ing to be Communists-felt that tie future
lay with the revolutionary left. hut there
were also those who identified atro:agly with
democracy, but who felt frustrated because
they could not find in it an adequn?:e armory
of weapons with which to meet the Commu-
nists on their chosen ground of political
warfare.
101 for the second straight year for the less That, however you might cut it was the
developed areas due to their faster rising sharp edge of the problem. But the question
populations, for America was: How do you send knowl-
Agricultural output during the past des- edgeable students to all the youth confer-
ade has actually gone up fester in the less ences and youth congresses that trice Soviet
developed areas than in the rest of the world. camp knew so well to mount? How do you
But the benefits have been canceled out by pay their way without Iaaving them open to
a corresponding rapid growth in populatio the charge of being stcoges of the govern-
ent that subsidized them?
OPEN AID FOR INTERNATIONAL of subsidizing student organizatiani, secretly
STUDENT ACTIVITY ADVOCATED by the CIA, was an idiot one.
BY MAX LERNER I have heard two lines of defense of it.
MI', YfsRBOROUGH. Mr. President. One is pragmatic:. "It worked, didn't it?"
(the Allen Dulles deferisis, yresumat)y). The
on February 15, 1967, I introduced S. 981, other is one of bruised Linocence: "We were
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sure we could count on everyone's patriotism
and sense of responsibility not to reveal It."
The answer to the bruised ones is that the
notions of what is patriotic and responsible
will differ. At some point someone is bound
to be in on the secret who gets religion and
Js driven to confess all. The wondrous thing
is not that the secret was broken but that it
took so long to break. As for the pragmatic
line about its "working," my answer is that
it worked for a while, yea, but only a narrow
vision would believe that the manipulation
paid off. When the lid blew off, it blew dis-
astrously, and neither the government nor
the student movements-which will be so
vulnerable abroad now-will be able to make
up for the damage In prestige for some time.
It "worked"? Only if you say that, given
the end, the quality of the means makes
little importance. But one of the things that
a democracy prides itself on is that it does
care about means. And covert means in this
case were wrong means. And did it "work"
for the young men who must now be counted
as Its victims, because they were forced into
a corroding secrecy and must now face the
judgment of a hostile world? Did it finally
"work" for all the young people who were
not in the secret at all, who now find that
unwittingly they were along used all the
time?
I don't intend this against the CIA as such.
Intelligence agencies are normal and neces-
sary In an absurd world, and the United
States may be the only major country in the
world that keeps lambasting its intelligence
services constantly. All I am saying is that
the CIA should stick to its knitting, which
doesn't include subterranean support or
manipulation of student movements, not
even under the spur of the competitive war-
fare of ideas.' We have tried the wrong way.
Why not try a right way for a change?
And the right way? It is to get or appro-
priate money for these international stu-
dents activities quite openly. The money.
itself may be government money (Why not?
We spend it for far less important things) or
else mixed government and foundation
money. America has a powerful weapon, in
the foundation, which no other nation has
to the same extent, Why not use it? But
however the money gets furnished, it should
be administered non-governmentally and
openly. It will make things harder for the
students, at least for a while, but not nearly
as hard as they have been made by the
blunders of covert manipulation.
vide adequate resources and services in
our schools, hospitals, research institutes,
and health centers.
The President's proposals are based
on careful study and sound research.
In education, the President requests
programs to help State and local agen-
cies evaluate their own educational pro-
grams; he asks for an expansion of
our National Teacher Corps programs;
and recommends bold initiatives in the
neg:lecked fields of vocational .training,
educational television, adult education,
and in the development of computers in
education.
These programs are responsive to def-
inite needs in our educational establish-
ment. They will help us to continue the
progress we have achieved in recent
years. All of these programs, in my
judgment, will have long-range benefits
that may well determine the vitality and
capacity of American education for years
to come.
In the field of health, the President
is asking that we continue to build on
the accomplishments of the past several
years. He recommends expanded sup-
port for cancer and biomedical research
and for our health manpower resources.
He requests improvement of the com-
munity mental health program and
studies to improve and strengthen
health protection for our industrial
workforce. He recommends that we ini-
tiate a new program to help the deaf
and blind; that we expand our neighbor-
hood health centers for the poor; and
that we extend medicare coverage to
seriously disabled Americans under 65.
These, and other of the President's
health proposals, are fundamental to. the
security and welfare we seek for the
American people.
As a member of the Subcommittee on
Education of the Committee -on Labor
and Public Welfare I have aided in the
support of all educational and public
health legislation of this Nation in the
past 9 years, beginning with the Na-
tiollal. Defense Education Act of 1958,
~I which I had the privilege of cospon-
soring'. AND HEALTH I believe that President Johnson has
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President, forwarded to us a reasonable blueprint
the Senate today has received a message for progress in these vital fields that we
on education and health from the Presi- can well afford. In addition I feel sure
dent of the United States, that many of my colleagues have sound
I wish to commend this message to health and education proposals which
my colleagues as a document that is should receive favorable consideration
compassionate and imaginative, reason- by Congress.
able and responsive in meeting our ob- I urge my colleagues in the Senate
ligations to the health and welfare of to support progress recommended in this
the American people. message and help us to continue the
President Johnson has rightly noted progress that will make America in the
that these programs are fundamental 1960's the most enlightened and humane
to our most coveted aspirations for in- society the world has ever known.
dividual fulfillment, and represent an
investment in our most previous natural
resource: our people.
No American President has accom-
plished more to advance the quality of
education and health services available
to our people than has President John-
son. The 89th Congress can be truly
called "the Education Congress" for the
amount of historic legislation it passed
in this field.
And yet, our vibrant, . growing Nation
demands that still more be done to pro-
POSTAL AUTOMATION AND
MODERNIZATION
Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. President, the
distinguished Assistant Postmaster Gen-
eral for Research and Engineering, Dr.
Leo S. Packer, recently addressed the
Oklahoma Advertising Club on the vital-
ly important topic of postal automation
and modernization.
Dr. Packer has brought new skill and
leadership to the Post Office Department
and I am very hopvkul that the Depart-
ment's program for modernization will
progress rapidly to improve our national
mail service.
I ask unanimous Consent that there be
inserted in the REC? RV at thi;, point two
articles from the Oklahoma Journal and
the Oklahoma City'llmes concerning Dr.
Packer's address and the subject which
he discussed.
There being no objection, the articles
were ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
[From the Oklahoma City Times, Feb. 1,
10(ll
RESEARCH CHIEF Looics To FUTOaL MAIL PROn-
LEMS- SORRY, AVN L' MINNIL, BUT POST
Ors'ics TRIFs
If Aunt Minnie's I Ltest letter arrived six
days late at the wrong address. Dr. Leo S.
Packer is sorry about that.
An assistant U. postreaster General
heading the new Bureau of Research and
Epgineering, he knows it's important to
solve day by day breakdowns in the massive
postal system.
But he Is more concerned with bigger prob.
lems looming in later years if the postal de-
partment doesn't develop "a management
and control structure as progressive and
adaptable to change as any modern indus-
try.'
Dr. Packer was in Oklahoma City Wednes-
day to speak at an Advertising Club "Direct
Mail Day" luncheon.
In an interview, be described his hopes
for building a postal operation meeting 20th
century needs,
The enthusiastic engineering PhD said
realization of "the deed to look ahead" Is
just dawning.
"We have been much too preoccupied with
the problems of today, serious as they are,"
he said.
"We must look aher,d and anticipate tech-
nical developments, :,o that we won't con-
tinue to just be in a passive and defensive
position of trying to meet problems as they
come up."
Dr. Packer is pions-ring, as the, first presi-
dential appointee to take the special assist-
antship when the olti office of research was
beefed up to bureau status list August.
He brings industrial know how from
Bausch & Lomb, wher' he was wi it the space
and defense division, and from Xerox Corp.,
where he was responsible for spe(ialized gov-
ernment research and development con-
tracts.
Dr. Packer said the first task is assembling
a trained corps to tackle postal urdiating
from all directions.
Key areas haven't .:Lad staff specialists in
the past, including human-facto,s engineer-
ing, communications engineerinz. research.
era on mechanical systems reliability, and
operations research.
"We have to start from acrat_h in these
important areas," he said. He predicted im-
pact of the new studies won't be felt for five
to 10 years.
"You can't just sot. 'Lo and kbehold, here
Is our brand new postal system'. It will take
time, and effort, and money from congress."
he said.
Dr. Packer is optimistic about the bureau's
budget fate when coaegress takes a look at
it next month. He hopes to gain almost a
50 percent increase in research and develop-
ment funds.
That would provide a number et new posi-
tions for a staff now numbering more than
500.
He is sure the road to better, fa iter, cheap.
er mail service methods is open, but he
doesn't claim traveling the rest will be a
one-man job.
"We're a long way from industrial stand-
ards, and I don't ezpeot to do it by myself,"
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