Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath for the Mutual Newsreel News

Téderal Security Administrator Oscar n. and E Tull accord as to the importance of providing a Federal progres of scholarship assistaíco to needy and qualified collego studente. We believe this because studies shon that out of every thousend children finishing the fifth grade together, 900 have the chility to go through high school: yet, only 403 do so. Out of that simo thousand finishing the fifth grede, 320 have the ability to go through college: only TO do so, Thus, every year, the Retion is failing to train 55 per cont of those who ought to finish high school and 76 per cent of those who could profit from college. This vaste of humman resources is found in all pesto of the country. Studies made in Minnesota, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Now York, Pednsylvania, and Utah, covering both farm and city mall and large high schools, State-wide studies or those in concen C spèted areas, all produce substantially the asso results. There is an old vies that all really able students will make it some way or other, that the "Phi Beta Kappa type" will always manage to get to and through college. That is a myth! Some do get through. But among the highly gifted graduating from high school, as these studies shos, there are at least as many who never get to college as there are those who do. We propose therefore a Fedegal appropriation of some such amount as $300,000,000 annually for scholarships to be alletted By Earl James MeGrath, U. 8, Commissioner of idugation, office Mutual of Broadcasting System for 28, 1949 Education, Federal Security