WASHINGTON REPORT
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DAVID N. HENDERSON
Legislation that
paper headlines is only a small
part of that which is considered
toy the Congress, and recent charg
es by the press that Congress has
been “dragging Ms feet” thus far
in this session are not borne out
toy the record. The House has al
ready passed a total of 24 bills
covering every phase of govern
mental activity.
Of these, those of particular in
terest to people in the Third Dis
trict include: HR 5000—the Mil
itary Construction yhieh includes
appropriations for construction at
the Bases within our District; HR
4806 authorizing temporary grants
to unemployed workers; HR 4806
authorizing temporary grants to
the States for aid to dependent
children of unemployed workers;
HR 3095 increasing the Federal
Minimum Wage from $1.00 to 1.15
apd increasing the coverage; S-l
providing for Federal Aid to de
pressed areas; HR 4588* providing
for dividend payments to eligible
holders of National Service life
Insurance Policies and HR 856 per
mitting conversion or exchange of
such policies; HR 848 providing
for a permanent program of voca
tional rehabilitation for veterans
of World War 11 and the Korean
Conflict with service - connected
disabilities; HR 4510 — the Feed
Grain Bill designed to reduce the
feed grain surplus be encourag
ing farmers to reduce acreage; and
HR 1822 increasing the si^e and
availability of individual farm
loans. .
In addition to the 24 bills passed,
6 others have been reported out
by the various committees to
which they were assigned and are
awaiting action on the Floor when
the Congress reconvenes, after the
'Easter Holidays; and all commit
tees are bard, at work holding
hearings on other bills which are
being reported out daily.
SENATOR JORDAN
REPORTS
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WASTONGfroNr—There is a pro
ject now being carried on in North
-Carolina which offers a good exam
ple of what can be done in the way
of foreign aid without the United
States getting the reputation of
frying to buy friendship.
A group of about 14 farm leaders
from Nigeria abd Ghana are in
.North Carolina making an exten
sive- study of our State’s agri
cultural -extension service. They
will spend about three months in
North Carolina getting firsthand
knowledge of our farms and farm
ers as well as how our county
agents and others work with farm
ers.
While' in our State they will
work out of A. and T. College in
Greensboro under the direction of
J. W. Jeffries, who for many years
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was Assistant Director of the North
Carolina Agricultural Extension
Service.
In my opinion, what these people
will learn and he able to carry
back to their people in the way of
knowledge about how to produce
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Coe of the reasons I have been
critical in the past at same at the
ways in which 'vf have conducted
our foreign aid program is the
fact that too much emphasis has
been put * on the notioh that we
could win friends by what amounts
to making gifts, of the fruits of
our productivity. For example, we
have distributed many tractors
and other farm implements in Na
tions where the farmers them
selves did not know how to use
them or appreciate the benefits
they could bring. Whether we like
it or not, the people of the un
derdeveloped nations of foe world
must have a desire to help them
selves before we can be of any
real help to them. Before a farm
er in Nigeria or Ghana can ap
preciate a tractor he gets from
the United States, he must have
a desire to improve his produc
tivity,
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During the time they were in
Washington Visiting the agricul
tural research center at BeltsviDe
and other agencies of our govern
ment, I bad foe opportunity to
talk with foe group which is now
in North Carolina.
For many years, cocoa beans
have been foe major money crop
in Nigeria. I learned from the
group that while their farmers are
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ducinsr sufficient food to provide
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population. The rainfall, the cli
mate, and the soil are such in Ni
geria and Ghana thata wide range
of craps pan be grown without dif
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During the next few months, the
farm leaden from these Nations
who are visiting the United States
win get a8 much information as
possible about how sW produce
crops that can be adapted to their
countries. They will take this in
formation, home with them and
teach fheir own people what they
have learned.
In my way of thinking, this is
the kind of foreign aid that gets
the kind of results the Free World
needs.
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