Statement by Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor
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OCR Page 1 of 9STATEMENT*
by
Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education,
Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C.
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
I am Earl J. McGrath, Commissioner of Education. I am pleased to respond
to the request of this Subcommittee to appear today to discuss the inadequacy
of the. allotments of steel and other basic construction materials for edu-
cational purposes under the Controlled Materials Plan of the Defense Production
Administration
I want, at the start of this statement, to recognize the difficult
problem confronting the National Production Authority and the Defense
Production Administration, I do not presume to sit in judgment upon the
decisions made by the NPA-DPA with respect to the equity of the allocations
made. I can speak - and do - with reference to the inadequacy of the allotments
made for education construction purposes.
I do this as Commissioner of Education, having been given certain
responsibilities to safeguard the essential interests of the Nation in respect
to its schools, colleges, and libraries during this period of international
crisis. And I would be derelict in my duty if I did not make every possible
effort to safeguard these interests.
For the purpose of the record I should like to sketch briefly something
of the background of this matter. As you know the Federal Security Adminis-
trator is the official claimant before the Defense Production Administration
for all matters relating to school and hospital construction and for supplies
and equipment for health, education and welfare. In turn, the Administrator
has delegated to the Office of Education the claimant functions in respect
to schools, colleges, and libraries:
At the outset and prior to the institution of a controlled materials
program, these functions were purely advisory. Our immediate task was to
prepare for the DPA a comprehensive statement of program requirements in the
entire field of education for the calendar years 1951 and 1952. This survey
was to serve as the basis for determining the amounts of steel and other
critical materials to be allotted for education purposes under the proposed
Controlled Materials Plan.
It was not until May 3, 1951, that the NPA began to issue permits for
the commencement of construction. However, na permit was required on a project
* Before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor,
October 16, 1951. Published in Higher Education, Vol. VIII, No. 6, November
15,
1951,
pp. 61-66.
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