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    "ocrText": "- 9 -\nFederal assistance is indispensable. There is no better way for\nus to guarantee our own future security and our freedom, &S well\nas theirs, than to help those States which are financially unable\nto provide adequate education for all. For neither freedom nor\nsecurity can bei assured except under an educated electorate.\nTake a second instance: housing. Here again, security means\nfreedom and freedom means security. Bad housing--slums--mean bad\nsenitation, followed by disease and death. A spot map of any\nAmerican city shows that the highest incidence of disease like\ntuberculosis is precisely in the same blocks as substandard housing.\nAnd in those same areas, juvenile delinquency is higher, the crime\nrate is greater; and plain, simple human misery is thicker. Bad\nhousing means poor homes; and the freedom of any family to be a\nfamily is closely coupled with the security of a good house.\nBut millions of families cannot afford either to rent or\nto buy good houses. And private capital cannot provide the needed\nhousing for the low-income families. Security for them cannot come\nuntil they are free to live in a good house, which can only be\nprovided through government action. \"Nelfare housing\" for the\nlower-income families means their freedom and security. And it\nalso means the freedom and security of all others as well. The\nreduction of disease and crine, and the brightening of life for\nall our citizenry are real dividends on our investment in slum\nclearance and low-cost subsidized housing. Louisville may, of\ncourse, have no alums. But within earshot of the debates on Capitol"
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