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guarantee local children at least some basic education. But the fact of
the matter is that it is totally unreasonable to expect that these
communities can handle the problem themselves.
For example, in April I visited the Mad River Township adjacent to
Dayton, Ohio, and ethere found a most able and energetic group of school
administrators and teachers. Yet many children in that community simply
cannot receive the type of education the community wants, the type we as
a people have agreed they should have. There was one classroom large
enough under normal circumstances to accommodate forty children, in which
68 children were receiving instruction from one teacher. Another classroom--
a makeshift reconstruction of a barracks from the last war--accommodated two
classes of approximately 40 students running simultaneously, one in the back
of the room and one in the front. One classroom in a building constructed
in the early 1870's was heated by the same old pot-bellied stove so common
in the 19th century. These conditions and others such as half-day sessions
are growing in practically every State.
With the acceleration of the mobilization effort and the establish-
ment of new Federal installations, the situation in the communities already
affected, and in others where no Federal activities now exist, will soon
be far worse than it is today. No one can say exactly how much financial
assistance would be needed if all present and prospective communities
affected by Federal activities received adequate help, but the total would
be about a half billion dollars. And if all these funds were available,
the school construction problem in the United States would hardly be touched.
For conditions equally disturbing exist outside the Federally affected areas.
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