December 5, 1963 (36 pages)

A FAIR EDUCATIONAL JOB We Americans are learning the hard way that education is a‘never-ending process. From the day one of us first opens his eyes on this world to that when he last closes them, he is being educated. But too many of us still think of education as something which ought to be confined to the formative years of childhood and youth. How much this restricted view needs to be expanded was well expressed at the meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee on; Fairs Allocation and Classification recently held in San Francisco. Prominent educators, experienced in fair matters, told the committee that education is the primary function of all California fairs, including the 71 maintained by districts and counties, but that they should be helped to broaden this function for the benefit of all residents. The committee wasreminded that the fairs have more than proved their efficiency in agricultural education. Our California agriculture has grown until it is a $3 billion giant, which tops the nation in physical volume and dollar value. Yet this success has been achieved in the face of a persistent decline in the number of farm workers and the acreage devoted to crops or livestock. One expert. in vocational education told the meeting, "Nowhere in the world is there an agricultural industry more productive -aiid nowhere in the world is there a system of Fairs as we have in our State. " He pointed out that the job of meeting the demands for ever greater skill in all lines is a tough one, and that if we do not do it properly, our whole economy will falter. "As educational institutions, our Fairs should join in a sustained effort to contribute to other occupations the steady, constructive learnings that have been so beneficial to agriculture, " he continued. : The educators were unanimous in cautioning that needed expansion of fair educational functions in the fields of industry, business and science should not be provided at the expense of agricultural training. To do so would threaten our farm pre-eminence, they warned, Instead, it was recommended that fairs make it a primary function to carry the full story of agriculture to urban centers, to tell city-dwellers how dependent they are on its well-being, and how much it benefits everybody. , The committee received a preliminary staff report on efforts to enlist greater business and industrial participation in the educational functions of fairs. Much interest isevident, andthere is apparently a considerable wealth of informational material which could be made avail. The Nugget. . /Page 15 . December 5, 1963. Page 15. able, but many practical problems are foreseen, which > must be carefully worked out. The advisability of setting up a statewide committee of business leaders to spearhead a suitable program was suggested. Fair spokesmen said that some individual fairs had met with some success in attracting industrial exhibits of an educational type, but it was agreed that a strong, effective statewide: program is probably necessary to benefit even just the larger fairs. State Senator-elect Paul J. Lunardi WASHINGTON CALLINGJOHNSON FACES CHALLENGE UNPARALLELED IN SCOPE WASHINGTON---If President Johnson faces a challenge almost unparalleled in scope he also has an opportunity such as few men in our history have been given. That opportunity is to convert the shock, horror and humiliation of the events of the past two weeks into a swift, constructive forward movement. The nation in a ! Here T sit! THE Rock . \ INVINCIBLE! IMHOVABLE . IN WULNERABLE TO TIME! TIME DOES NOT AFFECT ME! IMpeRvioug! HATS HE !! THE focK/! / + state of shame and shock over this unspeakable blow is surely ready to accept a powerful initiative. — The stagnant, foot-dragging Congress has been an exLl BAMA L DER qi pression of the frustration and bafflement in the country. MENT AL HE ALTH ADV ANCE It has seemed impossible to bring about any resolution of : the deep and embittering divisions. President Kennedy had become reconciled, outwardly at least, to postponing the key pieces of his legislative program -the tax cut andthe civil rights bill. This is all that remained of a bold and comprehensive series of proposals the youngest President ever to serve inthe office had advanced, beginning with his first State of the Union message. Atthe last press conference he held Kennedy spoke of an "18-month delivery” forthe two pieces of legislation which were imperative before the start of the Presidential campaign. But there was no assurance in view of the sitdown strike of Southern committee chairmen and the certainty of a filibuster conducted with all the resourcetions. : ; ; fulness of such an implacable enemy as Senator Richard In 1955 the Congress passed legislation authorizing a Russell of Georgia that action could come by March or long-range study of the problem of mental health care April. by the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health President Johnson in his years as majority leader was a, composed of 36 organizations, including the American — master of the legislative process. The protege and close Medical Association, the American Legion and the ally of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, he knew as well American,Psychiatric Association. The Commission reas anyone in this century how Congress worked and how Port "Action for Mental Health, released in 1961 after and why it failedtowork. While his methods were somesix years of comprehensive study, represented the first times rough and he often left bruised feelings in his dramatic attack on the custodial philosophy which had wake, he got results. held almost unbroken sway since the establishment of the That is his great advantage at a critical moment in the first public mental hospital in 1773, The Joint Commisnation's history. , Already there is talk in Congress that S'0° report recognized the economic and humanitarian since the two major pieces of legislation are stalled in bankruptcy of custodial institutions for the mentally ill committee it mightbe well to get on with neglected and mentally retarded and called for a new approach housekeeping such as the long-delayed appropriation based upon treating these people in the heart of the combills for most of the government departments and then ™UNIY. go home. Before Kennedy's assassination Congress had President Kennedy endorsed the revolutionary new ap~ been scheduled to stay until December 20 and break up proachto mental illness and mental retardation in a stirfor Christmas recess. ring message to Congress on February 6, 1963. The logic of the situation may dictate an interval in ee need a new type of health facility, one nae which the new President pulls together the many tangled will return mental health care to the mainst ee amo threads of the incredibly difficult task he has inherited. American medicine and at, the same time upgrace teh But the danger is that such an interval will efface the tal health services.Located in the patient's own enmemory of what the country has just been through. The vironment and community, the pneet would make pospartisan passions, for the moment stilled, will revive sible a better understanding of his needs, a more cordial and the same fractious pieces frozen into the old imatmosphere for his recovery and a continuum of treatmobility, ment. This immobility was .in part concealed from the world Underthe aegis of planning: grant monies. voted to the by the vigor, the outward confidence, the high style and States last year by the Congress and recommended for a good humor of the late President. Those aware in other second year by the President in his fiscal 1964 budget, capitals, however, of the heavy responsibility America the States are currently engaged in comprehensive studies carries have long been disturbed and uneasy at the prosleading to long-range plans spelling out the kinds of pect of an unresolved dilemma carried into a Presidencenters they regard as particularly suited to their indivitial campaign stretching out for a full year. dual needs, Absorbed as we are in our own concerns, our own poliWhen these plans have been submitted, the Depart ~tical entanglements, it ishard for most Americans to rement of Health, Education, and Welfare is authorized to alize how closely everything that happens here is followed and analyzed, The shock of the President's assassination, climaxed by the fantastic lawlessness of the murder in the police station of the accused assassin, has been very great. Twenty-four hours after Kennedy's death was flashed to the world this reporter spent an hour and a half in a telephone link with London, Paris and : Hamburg, Germany, discussing the late President and the ---Senator Lister Hill (D., Ala.) new President with informed observers in each country, both journalists and high-ranking political figures. LETTER TO THE EDITOR The questions to the American participant came thick and fast. Who is this man Lyndon Johnson? Will he alter To The Editor: Thank you so much for your wonderful help and pubthe foreign policy of President Kennedy? Is this a crushing blow to American liberalism? Will the fact that the licity for our hospital fall festival. It is greatly appreciated, OnOctober 31, 1963, President Kennedy signed a bill ‘that bestows the great gift of hope upon the 1,500,000 Americans who now receive treatment in institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded and for the additional millions who cannot obtain such treatment now because of shortages of psychiatric facilities. The passage ofthe Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act and the signing of it into law mark the beginning of a truly historic break with the outdated philosophy of mental health care which isolated these forgotten people in huge custodial instituranging from 45 percent to 75 percent depending upon economic status--over a four-year period for the construction of community centers for the mentally ill and the mentally retarded and over a five-year period for the construction of universally-associated facilities for the retarded. accused assassin was a Marxist.touch off a new and more virulent extremism of the right wing? A new and more dangerous test in Soviet-American relations? The words President Johnson speaks to the nation and the world can supply many answers, But deeds, andim mediate deeds, will speak louder than words. (Copyright 1963) 1 ---Marquis Childs Sincerely, Lucile Stanley Rough & Ready Here we S/7/! PEBBLES! . . VINCI BLE /! / nei ue $ ae oe igs rd ae gat . 5s ‘ ¥ ‘"9@ gS: os ¥ en Sf provide matching grants~-on a variable formula basis ' General Chairman

A FAIR EDUCATIONAL JOB We Americans are learning the hard way that education is a‘never-ending process. From the day one of us first opens his eyes on this world to that when he last closes them, he is being educated. But too many of us still think of education as something which ought to be confined to the formative years of childhood and youth. How much this restricted view needs to be expanded was well expressed at the meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee on; Fairs Allocation and Classification recently held in San Francisco. Prominent educators, experienced in fair matters, told the committee that education is the primary function of all California fairs, including the 71 maintained by districts and counties, but that they should be helped to broaden this function for the benefit of all residents. The committee wasreminded that the fairs have more than proved their efficiency in agricultural education. Our California agriculture has grown until it is a $3 billion giant, which tops the nation in physical volume and dollar value. Yet this success has been achieved in the face of a persistent decline in the number of farm workers and the acreage devoted to crops or livestock. One expert. in vocational education told the meeting, "Nowhere in the world is there an agricultural industry more productive -aiid nowhere in the world is there a system of Fairs as we have in our State. " He pointed out that the job of meeting the demands for ever greater skill in all lines is a tough one, and that if we do not do it properly, our whole economy will falter. "As educational institutions, our Fairs should join in a sustained effort to contribute to other occupations the steady, constructive learnings that have been so beneficial to agriculture, " he continued. : The educators were unanimous in cautioning that needed expansion of fair educational functions in the fields of industry, business and science should not be provided at the expense of agricultural training. To do so would threaten our farm pre-eminence, they warned, Instead, it was recommended that fairs make it a primary function to carry the full story of agriculture to urban centers, to tell city-dwellers how dependent they are on its well-being, and how much it benefits everybody. , The committee received a preliminary staff report on efforts to enlist greater business and industrial participation in the educational functions of fairs. Much interest isevident, andthere is apparently a considerable wealth of informational material which could be made avail. The Nugget. . /Page 15 . December 5, 1963. Page 15. able, but many practical problems are foreseen, which > must be carefully worked out. The advisability of setting up a statewide committee of business leaders to spearhead a suitable program was suggested. Fair spokesmen said that some individual fairs had met with some success in attracting industrial exhibits of an educational type, but it was agreed that a strong, effective statewide: program is probably necessary to benefit even just the larger fairs. State Senator-elect Paul J. Lunardi WASHINGTON CALLINGJOHNSON FACES CHALLENGE UNPARALLELED IN SCOPE WASHINGTON---If President Johnson faces a challenge almost unparalleled in scope he also has an opportunity such as few men in our history have been given. That opportunity is to convert the shock, horror and humiliation of the events of the past two weeks into a swift, constructive forward movement. The nation in a ! Here T sit! THE Rock . \ INVINCIBLE! IMHOVABLE . IN WULNERABLE TO TIME! TIME DOES NOT AFFECT ME! IMpeRvioug! HATS HE !! THE focK/! / + state of shame and shock over this unspeakable blow is surely ready to accept a powerful initiative. — The stagnant, foot-dragging Congress has been an exLl BAMA L DER qi pression of the frustration and bafflement in the country. MENT AL HE ALTH ADV ANCE It has seemed impossible to bring about any resolution of : the deep and embittering divisions. President Kennedy had become reconciled, outwardly at least, to postponing the key pieces of his legislative program -the tax cut andthe civil rights bill. This is all that remained of a bold and comprehensive series of proposals the youngest President ever to serve inthe office had advanced, beginning with his first State of the Union message. Atthe last press conference he held Kennedy spoke of an "18-month delivery” forthe two pieces of legislation

which were imperative before the start of the Presidential campaign. But there was no assurance in view of the sitdown strike of Southern committee chairmen and the certainty of a filibuster conducted with all the resourcetions. : ; ; fulness of such an implacable enemy as Senator Richard In 1955 the Congress passed legislation authorizing a Russell of Georgia that action could come by March or long-range study of the problem of mental health care April. by the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health President Johnson in his years as majority leader was a, composed of 36 organizations, including the American — master of the legislative process. The protege and close Medical Association, the American Legion and the ally of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, he knew as well American,Psychiatric Association. The Commission reas anyone in this century how Congress worked and how Port "Action for Mental Health, released in 1961 after and why it failedtowork. While his methods were somesix years of comprehensive study, represented the first times rough and he often left bruised feelings in his dramatic attack on the custodial philosophy which had wake, he got results. held almost unbroken sway since the establishment of the That is his great advantage at a critical moment in the first public mental hospital in 1773, The Joint Commisnation's history. , Already there is talk in Congress that S'0° report recognized the economic and humanitarian since the two major pieces of legislation are stalled in bankruptcy of custodial institutions for the mentally ill committee it mightbe well to get on with neglected and mentally retarded and called for a new approach housekeeping such as the long-delayed appropriation based upon treating these people in the heart of the combills for most of the government departments and then ™UNIY. go home. Before Kennedy's assassination Congress had President Kennedy endorsed the revolutionary new ap~ been scheduled to stay until December 20 and break up proachto mental illness and mental retardation in a stirfor Christmas recess. ring message to Congress on February 6, 1963. The logic of the situation may dictate an interval in ee need a new type of health facility, one nae which the new President pulls together the many tangled will return mental health care to the mainst ee amo threads of the incredibly difficult task he has inherited. American medicine and at, the same time upgrace teh But the danger is that such an interval will efface the tal health services..Located in the patient's own enmemory of what the country has just been through. The vironment and community, the pneet would make pospartisan passions, for the moment stilled, will revive sible a better understanding of his needs, a more cordial and the same fractious pieces frozen into the old imatmosphere for his recovery and a continuum of treatmobility, ment. This immobility was .in part concealed from the world Underthe aegis of planning: grant monies. voted to the by the vigor, the outward confidence, the high style and States last year by the Congress and recommended for a good humor of the late President. Those aware in other second year by the President in his fiscal 1964 budget, capitals, however, of the heavy responsibility America the States are currently engaged in comprehensive studies carries have long been disturbed and uneasy at the prosleading to long-range plans spelling out the kinds of pect of an unresolved dilemma carried into a Presidencenters they regard as particularly suited to their indivitial campaign stretching out for a full year. dual needs, Absorbed as we are in our own concerns, our own poliWhen these plans have been submitted, the Depart ~tical entanglements, it ishard for most Americans to rement of Health, Education, and Welfare is authorized to alize how closely everything that happens here is followed and analyzed, The shock of the President's assassination, climaxed by the fantastic lawlessness of the murder in the police station of the accused assassin, has been very great. Twenty-four hours after Kennedy's death was flashed to the world this reporter spent an hour and a half in a telephone link with London, Paris and : Hamburg, Germany, discussing the late President and the ---Senator Lister Hill (D., Ala.) new President with informed observers in each country, both journalists and high-ranking political figures. LETTER TO THE EDITOR The questions to the American participant came thick and fast. Who is this man Lyndon Johnson? Will he alter To The Editor: Thank you so much for your wonderful help and pubthe foreign policy of President Kennedy? Is this a crushing blow to American liberalism? Will the fact that the licity for our hospital fall festival. It is greatly appreciated, OnOctober 31, 1963, President Kennedy signed a bill ‘that bestows the great gift of hope upon the 1,500,000 Americans who now receive treatment in institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded and for the additional millions who cannot obtain such treatment now because of shortages of psychiatric facilities. The passage ofthe Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act and the signing of it into law mark the beginning of a truly historic break with the outdated philosophy of mental health care which isolated these forgotten people in huge custodial instituranging from 45 percent to 75 percent depending upon economic status--over a four-year period for the construction of community centers for the mentally ill and the mentally retarded and over a five-year period for the construction of universally-associated facilities for the retarded. accused assassin was a Marxist.touch off a new and more virulent extremism of the right wing? A new and more dangerous test in Soviet-American relations? The words President Johnson speaks to the nation and the world can supply many answers, But deeds, andim mediate deeds, will speak louder than words. (Copyright 1963) 1 ---Marquis Childs Sincerely, Lucile Stanley Rough & Ready Here we S/7/! PEBBLES! . . VINCI BLE /! / nei ue $ ae oe igs rd ae gat . 5s ‘ ¥ ‘"9@ gS: os ¥ en Sf provide matching grants~-on a variable formula basis ' General Chairman