4 20 10383 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/6914b3c02ce64f7f9450482df3756112.pdf c013b3cf2043b6c55e3666d825022446 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. December 1, 1966 SUMMA_·1w REPORT TO T:FIE ?R~SIDEI\i'T BY THE TASK FORCE ONT}~ CITIES ... ., - DJTRODUCTION The Task Force was convened on October 28 to give con sideration to issues and proposals in four areas : centers, (2) homern-mership by the poor, Corporation, and (4) (3) (1) neighborhood Urban Development landlord-tenant relations . GENERAL CONCLUSIONS Neighborhood Centers: A federal inter - agency progr ara should be initiated on a demonstration basis . But t he goal should be to shape the tot al service system of a city, so that it effectively meets needs from the individual's viewpoint and not just to te st out different kinds of "models II as though neighborhood centers a.r e ends in t hemselves r ather than t he delivery ar m of the city's service system. Homeownership by the Poor : trying on a pilot program basis . Is a good i dea and well worth But it is no panacea . It should be made part of a. larger neighborhood i mprovement program. It should make mmership possible outside the slum as well as i n i ·~. Dwellings should be rehabilitated prior to asswnption of mmership . Low interest loans and rent supplements or other subsidies from owners will be necessary . �2. Uroan Developr .ent Corooration : As a means of stimulat ing teci_r1ological and o-che r cost-s aving i nnovations, it is an attr active idea . But it must be done on a large enough sc ale if it is to have any i mpact . A number of risks ar e involved. Fir,. commitments on t he availab ility of low- interest loans and rent supplements must be made . Landlord - ten2.nt relations : The federal government ha s present authority, and can issue additional administr ative regulations , to help tenants by requiring vigorous code enforcement a s a condi tion of federal assistance . In addition, consideration should be given to using welfare payments as lever age to correct serious code violation s by l andlords . s·lmn areas . HlJ1) 1 s aid program for code enforcement should be used in A National I nstitute of Urban Housing Law should be es - tablished . fl :ff ,t " · � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document December 1, 1965 SUMMARY REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT BY THE TASK FORCE ON THe CITIES TNTRODUCTION The Task Force was convened on October 28 to give con- sideration to issues and proposals in four areas: (1) neighborhood centers, (2) homeownership by the poor, (3) Urban Development Corporation, and (4) landlord-tenant relations. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS Neighborhood Centers: A federal inter-agency program should be initisted on a demonstration basis. But the goal should : be to shape the total service system of a city, so that it effectively meets needs from the individual's viewpoint and not just to test out different kinds of "models" as though neighborhood centers are ends in themselves rather than the delivery arm of the city's service system. Homeownership by the Poor: Is a good idea and well worth trying on a pilot program basis. But it is no panacea. It should be made part of a larger neighborhood improvement program. It should make ownership possible outside the slum as well as in is. Dwellings should be rehabilitated prior to assumption of ownership. Low interest loans and rent supplements or other subsidies from owners will be necessary.  Urban Development Corporation: As & means of stimulating ce echnological and other cost-saving innovations, it is an attractive ea. But it must be done on a large enough scale if it is to have ‘a Pu any impact. A number of risks are involved. Firm commitments on the availability of low-interest loans and rent supplements must be made. Landlord-tensent relations: The federal government hes present euthority, and can issue additional administrative regulations, to help tenants by requiring vigorous code enforcement as a condition a ederal assistance. In addition, consideration should be given to Fy or using welfare payments as leverage to correct serious code violations by landlords. HUD's aid program for code enforcement should be used in slum areas. A National Institute of Urban Housing Law should be es- teblished. Oe al wot #  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 23 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/89b4a729c3ed6f666c719cf215fa9fa5.pdf 488d715cbf8134eab71b4fea9871c3ed Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. STATEMENT ON LANDLORD-TENANT RELATIONS For a tenant who is poor and lives in a slum, the balance of power in landlord-tenant relations is an unequal one. The slum dweller's ability to compete in the market place by moving elsewhere is · sharply limited. His ability to -seek legal redress is hampered both by his level of poverty and the lack of an adequate · framework of legal protection. His ability to obtain protection from government is limited by inadequate code enforcement programs and a lack of effective governmental sanctions in dealing with major code violations. Reformation of landlord-tenant law is a state and local government responsibility, but of major importance to the national welfare. The federal government already has substantial authority to help protect the rights of tenants through better code enforcement. The steps ta.ken by the federal government, while indirect, can be of decisive importance. I I I Recommendations: 1. The Task Force therefore recommends: That a National Institute of Urban Housing Law be es- tablished and adequately funded on a long-term basis. The Institute should be em.powered to prepare model statutes, develop briefs, and serve as a clearinghouse of housing law information. ~-- ... __ / / �2. That the administration of HUD' s "Workable Program" which now statutorily calls for an effective program of code enforcement, be strengthened (a) by giving the matter highest possible priority in the · Department, (b) by clarifying regulations and developing specific criteria on what constitutes an effective program, and (c) ~by requiring · uniform statistical reporting to determine comparable rates of municipal performance. 3. That HUD's program of aid for concentrated code enforce- ment (Sec. 117) be revised to allow the use of such funds in hard ·core slum areas to cope with most urgent code violations, or new legislation should be sought to provide a new aid program for urgent repairs and intensified municipal services in such slum areas. 4. That HEW should be directed, either by legislation or administrative action, to require as a condition of continued welfare payments that state and local governments establish a program that: (a) provides a system for the inspection and certification of major code violations and the opportunity for welfare recipients to elect to with- I I hold their rent where justified, (b) allows rent to be placed in escrow for the repair of such violations, and (c) requir~s enactment of appropriate legislation prohibiting summary eviction of such welfare tenants. 5. That all federal departments concerned with property acqui- sition prohibit peyroents for values rep~esented by the amount of code violations. 6. I -- _/ That federal departments dealing with the audit and veri- fication of real estate and mortgage loan assets require certification, for each property concerned, that no official complaints of code violations I are presently pending. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document STATEMENT ON LANDLORD-TENANT RELATIONS For a tenant who is poor and lives in a slum, the balance of power in landlord-tenant relations is an unequal one. The slum dweller's ability to compete in the market place by moving elsewhere is sharply limited. His ability to seek legal redress is hampered both by his level of poverty and the lack of an adequate © framework of legal protection. His ability to obtain protection from government is limited by inadequate code enforcement programs and a lack of effective governmental sanctions in dealing with major code violations. Reformation of landlord-tenant law is a state and local government responsibility, but of sade dumewian se to the national welfare. The federal government already has substantial authority to help protect the rights of tenants through better code enforcement. The steps taken by the federal government, while indirect, can be of decisive importance. Recommendations: The Task Force therefore recommends: 1. That a National Institute of Urban Housing Law be es- tablished and adequately funded on a long-term basis. The Institute should be empowered to prepare model statutes, develop briefs, and serve as a clearinghouse of housing law information. 2. That the administration of HUD's "Workable Program" which now statutorily calls for an effective program of code enforcement, be strengthened (a) by giving the matter highest possible priority in the Department, (b) by clarifying regulations and developing specific criteria on what constitutes an effective program, and (c) by requiring uniform statistical reporting to determine comparable rates of municipal performance. 3. That HUD's program of aid for concentrated code enforce- ment (Sec. 117) be revised to allow the use of such funds in hard ‘core slum areas to cope with most urgent code violations, or new legislation should be sought to provide a new aid program for urgent repairs and in- tensified municipal services in such slum areas. 4. That HEW should be directed, either by legislation or administrative action, to require as a condition of continued welfare payments that state and local governments establish a program that: (a) provides a system for the inspection and certification of major code violations and the opportunity for welfare recipients to elect to with- hold their rent where justified, (b) allows rent to be placed in escrow for the repair of such violations, and (c) requires enactment of appropriate legislation prohibiting summary eviction of such welfare tenants. 5. That all federal departments concerned with property acqui- sition prohibit payments for values represented by the amount of code violations. 6. That federal departments dealing with the audit and veri- fication of real estate and mortgage loan assets require certification, for each property concerned, that no official complaints of code violations are presently pending. # i #  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 22 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/859eb47a183198b3fbbf6bc8b0aa2651.pdf e4392eff2956fcb7f91224930402c91b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. r 15, 1 66 Force Tot At th , direction of P ul Yl of the pr y r, I tt chi • Ch pin on lo - r n i , co y es for co If y _ aibl roul to t l c.re of dt trl utt of lee it to t' _ oth .~ merm>e:r•• � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document November 15, 1966 MEMORANDUM Tor Members of Task Force Frome ArDee Ames At the direction of Paul Ylvisaker, I am attaching a copy of the memo prepared by Mr. Chapin on long-range issues for consideration by the task force. If you would send your memo to this office as soon as possible we will take care of distributing it to the other members.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 21 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/13972b1fd230e66016e2e80a6fd0a16f.pdf c8e4ad8a65f79a0c18444876f70be19d Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. . ___ \ ....._.,... . . l ' THE NEW YORK TIMES, ·.M ONDAY, N OVE':\1:BER 21, 1966. .POPULAT.ION ISSUEIf _ .,. .,~· .\/,·<:.··'.-,·.: -,:-~:'-~ ,,,·-~-~I . ~i-,. ! ; !:· -- ., . ···:.~ '.l ··· PERTURBS H TIRTZ [ J./, -: . •'·· ' · ,._ .~~,, · H 1 .., Dangers F oreseen i ·r,'i "Just as science has made training in ,two \\.;Y~ by_ pro~·id-· ,ri-;/" ~ war t oo dangerous to be left _to ing an across-the-board mcrease I the aenerals, Mr. W irtz said, in medical t raining and by !)roj ;- _ .-_ .-·· · · I' "scie; ce, when it unloc_ks t~e viding a S30-million fund to ·<:- ;:Y;r ,. ·f arcane of thought an~ llfe Will es tablish 60 academic chairs to tf .>.• ·. • ;:_ · • ,-:,. · I either h ave made science t oo s tabilize the college's long-range He Discerns Inadequacies in i j f ,...,, . ·, ·.:.~ . . dangerous t o be left t o th e sci- educational program. ~ '\ !1~~;,;_s,' / : ,~,. _,entists or will have made gov- ' Ee indicat ed that medical Birth Control Discussio1is i . 'fl'::.;J -~ _s;.'t_·,..-·:· F.'t!i ernment t oo danger~us t o be student enrollment would in{_-,_ , }it,-.:,; ;{ ;,;~~ {- · .t;;' left t o the governed.' crease from 96 t o 120 a class, that enrollment for doc torates is E~~s!;~~h~~ll~:lv;~~it~~ would double from 45 to 90 and 1 t hat there would be a substanW il- ; · ·\ . .,% ,f>_}:f--'.:_'_,_, began yes terday a S120-m1l!Jon s e! ;et:~; Jard Wirtz observed critically 'Z.h'f': _: pt /d, development program over a ti2! inc rease in the number of . ' \,\i,,~j:;,,,. . .. • ·  :::-",-i.fa; 1 10-year period to _strengthen_ :nte:n residents and post-docyest erday' tha t the controversia l "'(.lf_,:. and ex tend the me~1cal school toral fellcws trained. question . of birth control had t ...' .·, \_·, .. • . -~'0 progra ms of education a nd reTo pr'.lvide fac ilities for its not been dis cussed openly- :. . . ·. .qf. i..,._Y:: ~ search a nd the development of cxp~.nded enrollment, t he E in"unless -to be der ided"-a t the /r · _;;:·,,,.- , / ' · :,.J ::xtensive facilities. Medical School is planning r_ecentlyth heldh eletchtion catm- f:_ .· · ·"· J ack D. Weiler, chairman of ste::-i ./ E duca~:anal Center . paigns roug out e coun ry. f -·-..1.,, the Medical College's Board of :nr15-story He":~h Sciences on its N oting that some population ;. ,/ ,Overseers, a nnounced that the · -campu.;;. experts· predict there will be f , campaign h ad · started _ wi~h T he build ing would proYide three billion people 01· m ore by t/_ .· preliminary pledges of Sl J-nul- classrooms, lecture nails and t he year 2,000, :Mr. Wirtz added ~ . lion. laboratories, as \\'ell a s other that "t ~ere is ? . ;;:owing aware- i One of t he highlight s of the facilities, including a two -story ness tha t centuries after 1\1:al- I convocation was t he presenta computer center and headquarthus's warning- that t her e may , tion of honorary degrees to four ' t ers for a greatly expanded pronot be fo od to feed so many." l.......... prominent Americans for vari- gram of preventive medicine His r eference to :Malthus reThe New York T i mes ous achievements in their and communit y health. 1 ferred t o Thomas R. Malthu3, VIEWS BIRTH RISE: fields. · Three large middle - income 18th century economist who Secreta ry of Dabor W. WitCited were 1\fr. Wirtz, who apartment houses ,::'.I'. be built was a uthor of the theory that la rd W irtz said birth con- was awarded the degree of on' the campus site to provide_ population t ends to increase docto r of laws ; Cha rles H. Revresidential quarters fo r nurses, fa ster than the f::l:Jd supply, and trol issue s h ould h a ve been son. chairman of the boa rd of h ouse staff, married s tudc:-its, tha t war , disease and famine a re d iscussed m ore openly iii Revlon, I nc., doctor of humane pos t-doct oral fellows and juniur I !'!~ce~=~ry t k ee:' t:w popula- . t i!3 .::.Cl_ccfio-;: · · ca m 1i::i.i~l]s.;_: letters ; Dr. Albert B. Sabin, faculty. · tion in balanc with the food who developed oral polio vacsupply. P opula tion H althus said,, cine, doct or of science, and Dr. mus t be checked by moral reSidney Farber of Ha rvard straint.Medical School, doctor of sciSpeaking at a s pecia l convoence. cation at the Albert Eins tein Dr. Samuel Belki n, president Colle"'e of :Medicine in th e upof , Yeshiva University. who 0 per Bronx, Secreta ry Wi:·tz awarded the degrees, observed used t he birth control qu estion t hat the r ecipients represented as an example of the failure of,· the "creative pa rtnership of in his words, "the majority" to government, science and philanface u p t o t he k:iowledge· thropy in the growth and development of American medical science ~- consta ntly dc·,elop· · education and re earch." ing. . · · · I 'l'he new program. j\fr. Weiler "There is, at least," h e said, sa id, would streng then medical "a rouah equiv:i lent between both th; na ture and the infinite importa nce of t wo pur.,uits: that by the life scienti~( of th e method· of creating life, a nd that by society of how t o con- 1 . o! bi rth.. . J t \::::c:.L l \L' {1 r. 't '/;;,:~lt)( <.· f ·· ·., f. i A ·_·._ .: · t I _.-. )~,!~ · ~~t -:• l I"_ 0 I L L _ f I ~. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document A. _THE. ‘NEW YORK TIMES, “MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 196. ‘POPULATION ISSUE PERTURDS WIRTZ) He Discerns Inadequacies in Birth Control Discussions By IRVING SPIEGEL Secretary of Labor W, Wil- lard Wirtz observed critically yesterday that the controversial question of birth control had not been discussed openly— “unless to be derided"—at the recently held election cam- paigns throughout the country. Noting that some population experts predict there will be three billion people or more by the year 2,000, Mr, Wirtz added that “there is 2. growing aware- ness that centuries after Mal- thus's warning—that there may not be food to feed so many.” His reference to Malthus re- ferred to Thomas R. Malthus, 18th century economist who was author of the theory that population tends to increase faster than the f20d supply, and that war, discase and famine are necezsary to keen the nopula- ths tion in balanc> with the food supply. Population Malthus said, must be checked by moral re- straints i Speaking at a special convo- cation at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the up- per ‘Bronx, Secr etary Wirtz used the birth contro] question as an example of the failure of, in his words, “the majority” to face up to the knowledge science 4s constantly develop- ing. “a rough equivolent between both the nature and the infinite importance of two pursuits: that by the life scientis' of the method of creating life, and ‘that by society of how to con- ol birth.” } CLO aera Se manna pe Oe RE AN UAE it es 4 5 ni The New York Times VIEWS BIRTH RISE: Secretary of Imbor W. Wil- lard Wirtz said birth con- trol issue should have been discussed more openly in lection “There is, at least,” he said, 2 campaigns, - Dangers Foreseen war too dangerous to be left to the generals, Mr. Wirtz said, “science, when it unlocks the arcane of thought and life will either have made science too} dangerous to be left to the sci- entists or will have made gov- ernment too dangerous to be left to the governed.” The Einstein College, which is part of Yeshiva University, began yesterday a $120-million development program over 4 10-year period to strengthen! and extend the medical school programs of education and re- search and the development of oxtensive facilities. Jack D, Weiler, chairman of the Medical College's Board of ‘Overseers, announced that the campaign had started with preliminary pledges of $15-mil- lion, One of the highlights of the convocation was the presenta- tion of honorary degrees to four prominent Americans for vari- ous achievements in their fields. Cited were Mr, Wirtz, who was awarded the degree of doctor of laws; Charles H, Rev- son, chairman of the board of '|Revlon, Inc., doctor of humane letters; Dr. Albert B, Sabin, who developed oral polio vac- cine, doctor of science, and Dr. Sidney Farber of Harvard Medical School, doctor of sci- ence. Dr, Samitel Belkin, president of . Yeshiva University, who awarded the degrees, observed that the recipients represented the “creative partnership of government, science and philan- thropy in the growth and de- velopment of American medical education and research.” The new program, Mr. Weiler said, would strengthen medical “Just as science has made + training in two ways by provid- ing an across-the-board increase in medical training and by pro- viding a $30-million fund to establish 60 academic chairs to stabilize the college's long-range educational program. Ee indicated that medical student enrollment would in- crease from 96 to 120 a class, that enrollment for doctorates would double from 45 to 90 and) that there would be a substan- tial increase in the number of intern residents and post-doc- toral fellcws trained. To provide facilities for its expanded enrollment, the Ein- stc!n Medical School is planning ja 15-story Educational Center, jor Health Sciences on ‘campus. its The building would provide classrooms, lecture halls and laboratories, as well as other facilities, including a two-story computer center and headquar- ‘ters for a greatly expanded pro- gram of preventive medicine and community health. ' Three large middle-income apartment houses vill be built on the campus site to provide. residential quarters for nurses, house staff, married students, post-doctoral fellows and junivr, faculty. ' Le  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 20 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/1ed655212d5f80a2bef4e76065c7710d.pdf 1abb0153214d898ae52f9da1463f7127 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. THE NEW YORK THIES - NOVEMBER 2l, l966 WIDER UREA:-NROLE • • • . • -. :: : ..... . . ~- ... ..., ., • • ',iii • - - -- • • • • . governn'ient · \v"iL~in m etropol_i- .been lagging fa t'. behind both Ag ricu_lture, Robert c. W eaver tan . areas, and innova tions m local and Federal a ctivity." . of .Housing and Urba n De\·eI. · ' rela tions between the · Federal "Yet," it- wen t on, "the s ta.tes opment ; Senators Sam J . Ervin Government, the sta tes and occupy_ :critical position within··fr{in1~ North c a:·olina:· Ka rl E. i . , . ,. . Joe~~ C0!lJm)-_tnities a re . __needed the . American F ederal sys tems lEdmundofS S. ~t\_Dakota,' ~n~ !i . ·· • · , · · · to overcome these obstacl es," a nr! possess ,t he power a nd ·res · . : us_,ie °,,f ll[ci.ine,41 'I · _._;' • ,. ~-. - ·c,.· . ,··· -- ; · it sajd. .- _-_- -· · . ·· . · , . . , . . sou:<:es ~o. s tre~gthen l9cal ca - ~ :P~';- enta t_1\ es , Euoene J. U.S. Report Scores Lao- 1n The r eport was prepared for pac1ties and stimulate greater Fou00n 11ta·no_f NNe,\thYCork ,1. L. _ Hd. ·. . . "' th . . b B J . r r th· t rt i o i or a roma an Facin& ,·Cities'" P(ciblem Fr1e~~;n~~ss~~fat/ pro~116:57, 29 December 2017 (EST) of 143.215.248.55 16:57, 29 December 2017 (EST)!~,f ion '\ 1 · m me ropo 1 a_n Florence P. Dwyer of N ew Jer. 0 .__. · , · . "" · · •• sey; ·and i\fayors Neal S. Bla is1 - - - - -.- ..- .- . . i " . ,, c1L_y . pla nning at Massachusetts . _ Specific Proposals dell of Hon 0 I I H . G Id;. .. · · · , !. t nst1tute. of ·T echnology, . a n_d . . . · u u, e1m~n o WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 issued ' b·y- the House Go\'ern- Many ·of the. comm1ss10n s n~r of St. Peters~ur g , Fla., (AP)-A report issued toni o-ht m ent Ope·rations Committee. spe_cific_ pror.iosals, _s u~h a s st~te Ri~ha rd , C. Lee of N ew H an n, . . '.' Much of the r eport was de- leg1sla t10n t o l!m1t · zoning a n A:tnur A. Na fta lm of Mmby _a House committee predict_- voted to. the need for st a te powers of smaller suburbs and neapol!s. ed_ tha t the F edera l sys t em legislation providing g r eater to limit_ incorpo_ration of s~pa - - - -- might be g ravely weaken_ed ui:i- home rule, m etropolita n plan- ra t e umts w1th11:_ m etro?ohtan less states increased their ro1e nin o- and s tren o- thenin o- of a-en- area s, have been issued m earin so)ving the problems of ;-net- eral·go\'ernmen"'ta l units, a t op- lier reports. ·. . . . ( ropohta n area s.. pos ed to school dis trict s wa ter l\'fembcrs of the comm1ss1on R ·' It said states ha d !ag ged far a nd sewera o-e boa rd s a n~! other include Govs. John N. Dempsey n behind F ederal and ;,;~:11 gov- s in o-le-purpt se o-roups. . jof Connecticut , Nelson A. 2 ernments in dealing wi.h s uch / But it noted° tha t the vas t -Rockefeller of New York, Ca rl c p_r?blems and that, a s a re5Ult. increase in ·Federal program s F . S':.nders o_f Georg ia a nd Rob- ~ cities had bypassed ~ta tes :, ml ,a imed at metropolita n areas ert _E. Smylie of Ida ho ; Secre- JJg one directly to \\ a slrn1g tL·,: · should serve as a basis fo r en- t;i. n es H enry H . Fowler of the ' for h elp. · couraging m etropolita n pla n- Treasury, Orville L. F reeman of .1 .., .~ · ·. "l\I!nimizin g state pa r~iripa - ning for both the centra l city tion m u rban a ffa irs 1~ t:111ta - a nd surrou ndi ng suburbs. mount to r emo\'ing s t~ ce in fl u- "The Cong ress a nd executive ence from a critica l n 11ge ~f agencies should a uthorize a nd domesti c iss ues," th e r epor t encou rag e r esponsible j oint pa r said, adding tha t withou t st.ate ticipa tion in urba n development part icipa tion it is doubtfu l programs b.y local g overnments whether local g overnment can having common p rog ra m objecbe r eorganized t o meet its tives in m et ropo li ta n a reas tha t g rowing r espons ibilities." everla p politica l bounda ries," \Vha t is seen a s a n urgen t the repor t said. need t o re-establish a role for . Willia m G. Colman, th e comthe sta tes is a · p rincipa l theme mission's executive di rector, of the 168-pag e r eport, a prod- said in a st a tement a ccompanyuce of seven yea rs of work by ing the r eport tha t "the soluthe bipar t isa n Commi s,jnu_ on tions to metropolita n problems Inter.£"o\·ernmenta f R 0 l 0 ion~. can be de\·e1oped by the states, notes t a t with metropoli- b y the F edera l Government, or t a n areas g rowing so fa st that by both." some 75 per cen t of the naAl though the . r epor t mil.de it tion·s -popula t ion would live clear that the commission fa. there by 1980, the Governmen t vo·red ·such . developmen t a t a ll would have to pro\·ide man:r of levels, l\Ir . Colman said tha t the services· indivi duals could "the decis ion as to wh ich it will furnish themselves in a p re- be res ts · to a considerable exdomi nan tly rura l economy. t ent wi th the sta te · governBut the repor t a sser ted tha t ments, becaus e it they choose · "poor coordin a tion a nd conflicts not ot a ct , th e m etropoli tan . of interest among governmen ts problem by default, becomes often block effec ti\·e action to la rgely a Federal problem." 1 deal w ith metropolita n prob- The report suggest ed th a t · !ems." . this had a lrea dy ha ppened, a nd "Chan·g es in th e structure of said t::a t " the s ta te rol e ha s' (~U-RG-ED--FOR:STAT-ES r I ·f 'l -- � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document THE NEW YORK TIMES - NOVEMBER 21, 1966 WIDER URBANROLE U.S. Report Scores Lag in ’ Facirig Cities’ Problem / ae se WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (AP)—A report issued tonight by a House ‘committee predict- ed that the Federal system might be gravely weakened un- Jess states increased their role in solving the problems of met- ropolitan areas, | * It said states had tagged far behind Federal and ivcal gov- ernments in dealing wi.n such} But it noted that the vast Rockefeller of New York, Car! problems and that, 4s a result.;increase in Federal programs F. Sanders of Georgia and Rob- cities had bypassed states end/aimed at metropolitan areas ert E. Smylie of Idaho; Secre- to Washingtes should serve as a basis for en-|taries Henry Treasury, Orville L, Freeman of gone directly for help. “Minimizing state participa- tion in urban affairs is tanta- mount to removing stave influ- ence from a critical range of domestic issues," the report said, adding that without state participation it is doubtful whether local government can be reorganized to meet its growing responsibilities.” What is seen as an urgent the states is a principal theme of the 168-page report, a prod- uce of seven years of work by the bipartisan Commission. on Intergovernmental_ Fielations. Tronotes that with metropoli- tan areas growing so fast that tion's population would live “URGED PORSTATES need to re-establish a role for), some 75 per cent of the na-) government within metropoli-| tan areas, and innovations in relations between the ‘Federal Government, the states and local communities are needed to dvercome these otstacles,” sets ee The report was prepared for the commission by Bernard J. Frieden, associate protessor of city planning at Massachusetts Institute, of ‘Technology, , and issued by’ the House Govern-} ment Operations Committee. Much of the report was de- voted to. the need for state legislation providing greater home rule, metropolitan plan- ning and strengthening of gen- jeral governmental units, as op- posed to school districts, water ‘and sewerage boards and other |single-purpose groups, couraging metropolitan plan- ning for both the central] city and surrounding suburbs, “The Congress and executive agencies should authorize and encourage responsible joint par- ticipation in urban development programs by local governments having common program objec- tives in metropolitan areas that everlap political boundaries," the report said. William G. Colman, the com- mission's executive director, said in a statement accompany- ing the report that “the solu- tions to metropolitan problems can be devetoped by the states, (by the Federal Government, o jby both.” : Although the report made it jclear that the commission fa- there by 1980, the Government|vored such development at all would have to provide many of|levels, Mr. Colman said that the services individuals could “the decision as to which it will furnish themselves in a pre-'be rests to a considerable ex- dominantly rural economy. ltent with the state govern- But the report asserted that/ments, because it they choose {poor coordination and conflictsinot ot act, the metropolitan Jof interest among governments|problem by default, becomes often block effective action to|largely a Federal problem." ‘deal with metropolitan prob-| The report suggested that dlems.” this had already happened, and “Changes in the structure of|said tuat “the state role has’ been lagging far behind both! local and Federal activity." “Yet,” it went on, “the states occupy critical position within the American Federal systems and possess the power and -re- sources to strengthen local ca- pacities and stimulate greater cooperation within metropolitan areas.” _ ee . Specific Proposals Many -of the commission's specific proposals, such as state legislation ‘to limit zoning powers of smaller suburbs and to limit incorporation of sepa- rate units within metropolitan areas, have been issued in ear- lier reports. : Members of the commission include Govs. John N. Dempsey of Connecticut, Nelson A. H. Fowler of the rons os Agriculture, Robert C. Weaver of Housing and Urban Deyel- opment; Senators Sam J. Ervin iJr. of’ North Carolina, Karl EB. |Mundt of South Dakota, and Edmund S, Muskie of Maine; Representatives Eugene J8 Keogh of New York, L. H. !Fountain of North Carolina and Florence P. Dwyer of New Jer- sey; and Mayors Neal S. Blais- dell of Honolulu, Herman Gold- ner of St. Petersburg, Fla., Richard C. Lee of New Haven, and Arthur A, Naftalin of Min- neapolis. ly | 1 te ee  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 19 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/bef9b516797393a7a16c8a1312afd590.pdf 95c942af516923f273030e912d4d25d2 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. TH~ NEW YORK 1BIES, SUN'rJAY, NOVEMBER 20, __1966. Lawyers Begin Drive Agai11st Poverty lea-al · profession-the fasioning were U1. e deserving poor and the By SIDXEY E. ZION 0 {' legal remedies to achieve undeserving poor." Speclu to The :Sew York Times human r ights through the ap- "As a practical reality," he CHICAGO, Nov. 19;;--A major plication of imagination schol- continued, "we are still living ~ffort t? .~evelop new_ and arship." . with that today." imaginative legal remed ies to For example, he said that He pointed to states that deny combat _:poverty was started class actions by slum tenants aid to dep endent children because here this weekend by the could succeed eYen in states the moU1.er, whose husband has N.A.A.C.P. Legal Denense and where there was no legislation deserted her, is suspected of Educational Fund, Inc. providing for this right. The having sexual relations with an"\.Ve are mo ving into an era class action, which is a lawsuit other man. of pove_rty Jaw which in some bro_ughl by a nun:be;; of persons Compilation of Cases sense 1s com parable to the actmg t ogether, 1s a descendcivil rights law· of the mid- ant of the 17th century," Pro- A 246-page book, p repared by 1930's," Ja ck Greenberg, direc- fessor Levi said. · Cl_le- Legal Defense Fund, was tor-counsel of the fund, said. Similarly, he suggested, a dis tributed to all the la'_vyers Mr. Greenbern- called on tha tenant could force a landlord t o here. The book, which will be 200 lawyers g~thered at th e rehabilita te an . apartment on expand ed_ ~eriodically, contains University of Chica go Law the basis of "the ancient doc- court decisions, legal essays and School to benefit .from t he trine of abatement of a nui- forms that lawyers can use in Mbes t thinking" on the legal sance." preparing cases. The subj ects aspects of slum housing, we!A Char o-e to Lawyers covered 11:re consumer credit, O fare, consumer fraud, and the • • slum housmg, problems of farm farm and migratory workers. I_n most s~ates, Profes~or 1;:_~~1 and migratory workers, and "Those of us who years ago said, there 1s n_o effec tl\•e leo1"- welfare laws. were concerned solely with lation to reqmre la ndl ord s t o "If we could mobilice the orthodox issues of civil rights," repair ruridown apartments. people h ere," said :Michael he sa id, "have little by little B_u~. he said, by th~ use t ra - :\Ieltsncr, a lawyer for the legal and for a time not fully realiz- d1tional legal d oct1 ines, fa sh- de fens e fund, "there would be ino- lt been dea ino- more and ioncd with skill," the goal can a t remendous exposure of the ·m;re with ques ti on; of poverty be accomplished, _ problems of th e poor to the Ap- : and issues affecting all ·Amer- "The cha:ge" to la\\ y ers in pella te Court and to th e people : icans. our generation. he concluded . of the country." · _ . is t o throw open the door s of H e continu ed: "The trouble · 1-ie\\ Techniques Sought the courtroom where t radition - now is th a t th ere is not a genVirtually all of the lawyers ally w ehave sea r ched fo·r truth era! undcrs ta ndin " as to how h~re for th e week end confe1:ence and eq_u ity, so th a t r ights Ion?. people li\"e in slu nZs, what hap- : on la w a nd poverty are act1\"ely rec ogm Zed can be effectua ted. pens t o the m io- ratory work er, enga ged in r epresenting poor :Mr. Levi is profes sor of urba n th e credit ab ufes that afflic t · persons, either through f ederal- studies a t Chicago. o-he tt o people, anci the way t he ly funded organiza tions such as This morning a welfare law poo r are trea ted in the lower the Office of Economic Oppor - expert, Edwa rd V. Spa rer, crim inal courts." Mr. Greenberg said that the . t~ni_ty or throu gh_ legal a id so- wa rned the. Ia wye:s tha t. there c1eties, or as priva te Iav,ryers was m creas mg resis tance m th e confer ence here was "the first cooperating with the Legal De- co untry t? t~e "bas ic prem ise" of its kind in the country" and fense Fund. that the mdi gent have a nght th a t h e hoped it could be set up . E ssentia lly, t he purpose of th e to assistan ce. on a na tion a l and rco-ional basis · conference is to expose th e Mr. Sparer, \\"l'io is legal ?i- in th e futu re. "' lawyers to new thinking on old r ector of the Center of Social The Leo-aJ Defense Fund is subjects, and to explore various Welfa re ai:id. Pu~lic P olicy at not a pa rt of t he National Asnovel legal techniques tha t Columbia limver si ty, n oted th a t socia ti on fo r the Ad\·ancement mig ht be used on behalf of the some ·welfa re depa rtmen ts an d ·of Colored P eople. It is an in' disadva ntaged._ cou~t_s had recently t a l~e n th e ldcpendcn t, non profit corpora' In the ope ning address yes- pos1_t ion ~hat persons m ight b~ ti on \;,ith its ow11 boa rd, budge t, t erday on ~! um housi ng, Pr_of.jdemed aid _e\·en thou ? h th e) a ncl a staff of a ttorn eys devo ted , Juli an_ ~ o~ the .Umvers1ty 1m et the ehg1bihty requ1 rem cntsl to p rovi ding a ssistan ce in legal of Chicago, sa id: of the law. action. '· · · "In cs ence our task ls as ' "It all s ta rted," he said , "in , an cient - ~nd hon orable as th e th e Eliza betha n days when th ere r ~! I L ,-,--- I r � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document By SIDNEY E, ZION Special to The New York Times CHICAGO, Nov. 19—A major effort to develop “new and imaginative” legal remedies to combat poverty was started here this weekend by the N.A.A.C.P, Legal Denense and Educational Fund, Ine. “We are moving into an era of poverty law which in some sense is comparable to the civil rights law of the mid- 1930's,” Jack Greenberg, direc- tor-counsel of the fund, said. Mr. Greenberg called on the 200 lawyers gathered at the University of Chicago Law School to benefit from the “best thinking” on the legal aspects of slum housing, wel- fare, consumer fraud, and the farm and migratory workers. “Those of us who years ayo were concerned solely with orthodox issues of civil rights,” he said, “have little by little and for a time not fully realiz- | ing it been deaing more and’ ‘leonference “is more with questions of poverty, and issues affecting all “Amer- icans."' New Techniques Sought Virtually all of the lawyers THE NEW YORK liMES, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1966. legal profession—the fasioning of legal remedies to achieve human rights through the ap- plication of imagination schol- arship.” For example, he said that Lawyers Begin Drive Against Poverty were the deserving poor and the undeserving poor.” “As a practical reality,” he continued, “we are still living with that today.” He pointed to states that deny class actions by slum tenantsjaid to dependent children because could succeed even in states where there was no legislation providing for this right. The class action, which is a lawsuit brought by a number of persons acting together, is “a descend- ant of the 17th century,” Pro- fessor Levi said. ; Similarly, he suggested, a tenant could force a landlord to rehabilitate an apartment on the basis of “the ancient doc- trine of abatement of a nui- sance.”” A Charge to Lawyers In most states, Professor Levi said, there is no effective legis- lation to require landlords to repair rundown apartments. But, he said, by the use of tra- ditional legal doctrines, ‘‘fash- ioned with skill,” the goal can be accomplished, “The charge to lawyers in our generation,” he concluded. is to throw open the doors of the courtroom where tradition-! ally w ehave searched for truth! here for the weekend conference! and equity, so that rights long on law and poverty are actively engaged in representing poor! persons, either through federal- ly funded organizations such as the Office of Economic Oppor-| tunity or through legal aid so-| recognized can be effectuated." Mr. Levi is professor of urban studies at Chicago. This morning a welfare law) expert, Edward V. Sparer, warned the lawyers that there cieties, or as private lawyers! was increasing resistance in the ‘cooperating with the Legal De-! ‘fense Fund, Essentially, the purpose of the to expose the} lawyers to new thinking on old subjects, and to explore various|Welfare and Public Policy at! novel legal techniques that! country to the “basic premise" that the indigent have a right to assistance, Mr. Sparer, who is legal di-| rector of the Center of Social) Columbia University, noted that! the mother, whose husband has deserted her, is suspected of having sexual relations with an- other man. Compilation of Cases A 246-page book, prepared by fhe Legal Defense Fund, was distributed to all the lawyers here. The book, which will be expanded periodically, contains court decisions, legal essays and forms that lawyers can use in preparing cases. The subjects covered are consumer credit, slum housing, problems of farm and migratory workers, and welfare laws. “If we could mobilice the people here,” said Michael Meltsner, a lawyer for the legal defense fund, “there would be a tremendous exposure of the problems of the poor to the Ap-|: pellate Court and to the people}, of the country.” He continued: now is that there is not a gen- eral understanding as to how people live in slums, what hap-|: |pens to the migratory worker, the eredit abuses that afflict}: ghetto people, and the way the poor are treated in the lower criminal courts.” Mr. Greenberg said that the conference here was “the first of its kind in the country” and that he hoped it could be set up on a national and regional basis in the future. The Legal Defense Fund is not a part of the National As- sociation for the Advancement = “The trouble!” might be used on behalf of the/some welfare departments and gr Gplored P t is ta disadvantaged. courts had recently taken the | jonencent Deere Sains In the opening address yes-/position that persons might bel ion with its own board, budget, ye -{terday on slum housing, Prof.|denied aid even though they . : : oe Z et Vie oe : Yjand a staff of attorneys devoted ‘ Julian Vest one University met the eligibility requirements t, providing assistance in legal A go, said: of the law. “Tt all started,” he said, Ap faction. “In essence our task fs as jancient and honorable as thelthe Elizabethan days when there  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 18 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/6d4e98cf2abf012f3ff126c638227425.pdf 59cdfaa019619ec8cc995befdee40f34 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. .. THE EVENING STAR . ., Washington, D. C., Saturday, November 19, 1966 CHARLES BARTLETT ,- ·Poverty Program to The available insights indicate that President Johnson bas been . more than slightly surprised and discomfited by the election returns. Predictions are rife within the bureaucracy that he will "bunker up" and play a more cautious lead for the next two years. Johnson has conjectured to associates that they all may have erred in bragging excessively about their legislative triumphs. He balked even before the election of beiug finished with the Great Society because its legislative foundations had been enacted. Such hints of an intention to embark on a new tack of leadership are bolstered by polls, which show that a significant segment of the voters, about 48 percent in one Republican survey, would prefer him to be more conservative. A· much smaller group, 19 percent in the Republican poll, wants a more liberal President. One crucial test of the President's dlrection will be the anti-poverty program, .·. which is certain to founder in the next Congress unless he wraps a strong, protective _arm around it. Johnson applied the Gavin plan to the war against poverty 0t the same time that he rejected it for the war in South Viet Nam. The domestic war bas been a holding operation and · its enclaves are on the verge of being overrun. , Tl-ie · tenbative guidelines on which the Budget Bureau has shaped its hearings foreshadow no significant change in next year's poverty package. The total appropriation will be approximately the same and the Office of Economic Opportunity will not be stripped of any of its progriams, as the Republicans proposed last spring. But this in itself is not enough to save a program so close to being destroyed by its enemies . The poverty warriors have been left almost defenseless by the President's failure to translate the enthusiasm with which he declared war on poverty in 1964 into the funds 1 and support needed to sustain an offensive. Johnson did almost nothing to help Sargent Shriver and. f . bis associates in the past Congress and he may well intend to let them be devoured by the next Congress. The blood will not be on his hands · but he will be rid of a Pandora's box of embarrassments. · The President may have underestimated the implications of his promise to stamp out poverty in 1964. He probably did not realize that he was launching a social revolution that would cause old-line social workers, bureaucrats, mayors, governors, senators, congressmen and the poor themselves to rise up in noisy, intermittent indignation. As an old New Dealer who likes programs that kindle gratitude, Johnson may well be mystified by a welfare program capable of causing so much dissent. The trou bles. arise because Shriver and his cohorts have unflinchingly declared war against all the forces which submerge the poor. Convinced that this was more than a matter of putting federal money in poor men's hands, they have poked their way deep into the subterranean caverns of the social structure, roused all kinds of bats, and raised new questions. Johnson undoubtedly envisioned something more like the Labor Department's Neighborhood 'Youth Corps. which is a simple, almost a leaf-raking type of program that funnels more than onequarler of a billion dollars into kids' pockets withou t teaching them much or raising man~' - -- - ('-. issues. It is a safe, unimagi.na~ tive welfare program and it is. extremely popular with Con: ! • · gress. The war on poverty will settle into this comfortable pattern if Congress abolishes the OEO. The bureaucrats.' know the New Deal techniques well and they will back away from contentions like · the , current one that sandwiches Shriver between the liberals who advocate sterilization and . the Catholics who oppose birth, control. -. George Bernard Shaw wrote_ that "nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done." The kind of allout war that the President declared and Shriver ha~ waged may involve too manr basic changes to be accomplished in a tepid political climate. a\ But P ar.dora's box has been opened . "The rich man thinks of the future," according to an old proverb, "but the poor_ m an thinks of today." Johnson has raised hopes that are unlikely to subside because of a conservative tinge in the election re turns. © 1966 l I I l Ir t . L _ .rI I � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document THE EVENING STAR we Weshington, D. C., Saturday, November 19, 1966 CHARLES BARTLETT Poverty Program to Test Johnson's Intentions: The available insights indicate that President John- son has been .more than slightly surprised and discom- fited by the election returns. Predictions are rife within the bureaucracy that he will “hunker up” and play a more cautious lead for the next two years. Johnson has conjectured to associates that they all may have erred in bragging exces- sively about their legislative triumphs. He talked even before the election of being finished with the Great Society because its legislative founda- tions had been enacted. Such hints of an intention to embark on a new tack of leadership are bolstered by polls, which show that a signif- icant segment of the voters, about 48 percent in one Repub- lican survey, would prefer him to be more conservative. A much smaller group, 19 per- cent in the Republican poll, wants a more liberal Presi- dent. ‘ One crucial test of the President’s direction will be the anti-poverty program, _which is certain to founder in the next Congress unless he wraps a strong, protective arm around it. Johnson ap- plied the Gavin plan to the war against poverty at the same time that he rejected it for the war in South Viet Nam. The domestic war has been a holding operation and ° its enclaves are on the verge of being overrun. The tentative guidelines on which the Budget Bureau has shaped its hearings foresha- dow no significant change in next year’s poverty package. The total appropriation will be approximately the same and the Office of Economic Oppor- - tunity will not be stripped of any of its programs, as the Republicans proposed last spring. But this in itself is not enough to save a program so close to being destroyed by its enemies. The poverty warriors have been left almost defense- less by the President's failure to translate the enthusiasm with which he declared war on poverty in 1964 into the funds and support needed to sustain an offensive. Johnson did almost nothing to help Sargent Shriver and a his associates in the past Congress and he may well intend to let them be devoured by the next Congress. The blood will not be on his hands: but he will be rid of a Pando- ra’s box of embarrassments, The President may have underestimated the implica- tions of his promise to stamp out poverty in 1964. He proba- bly did not realize that he was launching a social revolution that would cause old-line social workers, bureaucrats, mayors, governors, senators, congressmen and the poor themselves to rise up in noisy, intermittent indignation. As an old New Dealer who likes programs that kindle grati- tude, Johnson may well be mystified by a welfare pro- gram capable of causing so much dissent. The troubles. arise because Shriver and his cohorts have unflinchingly declared war against all the forces which submerge the poor. Convinced that this was more than a matter of putting federal money in poor men’s hands, they have poked their way deep into the subterranean caverns of the social struc- ture, roused all kinds of bats, and raised new questions. Johnson undoubtedly envi- sioned something more like the Labor Department’s Neighborhood ‘Youth Corps. which is a simple, almost a leaf-raking type of program that funnels more than one- quarter of a billion dollars inte kids’ pockets without teaching them much or raising man 4 ~~ issues. It is a safe, unimagina- tive welfare program and it is extremely popular with Con-. gress. The war on poverty will settle into this comfortable pattern if Congress abolishes the OEO. The bureaucrats know the New Deal techniques well and they will back away from contentions like the current one that sandwiches Shriver between the liberals who advocate sterilization and . the Catholics who oppose birth, control. George Bernard Shaw wrote that “nothing is ever done in this prepared io kill one another if it is not done.” The kind of all- out war that the President declared and Shriver has waged may involve too many basic changes to be accom- plished in a_ tepid political climate. But Pandora’s box has been opened. ‘The rich man thinks of the future,” according to an old proverb, “but the poor man thinks of today.” Johnson has raised hopes that aré unlikely to subside because of a conservative tinge in the election returns. © 1965 world until men are rr i Se A NE bn.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 17 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/b6c2923e33890e701e1fdd3744bd57e0.pdf 736135ed74e9d0fa0b14451500bf333e Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. THE WASHINGTON POST - NOV. 19, 1966 ·- --- Teachers Seen Using Slunis as Excuse By Henry W. Pierce iwere among more than 2500 , excuse their own failure 1o ·I which is incorrect All the an. p IT '1: S ~UR G H, Nov.. rn Ipersons attending the four- 1jteach the youngsters properly. th~opologi.sts here ha Ye main'. The Nat10n s schools are usmg day American Anthropogical c·t E J tamed trac the culture of povI . 1 es xamp e · erty on e t h b · d 1ower-c 1ass children's "povcr- Association meetin" here. ' , c c P . as een m1sus~ . ty culture" as an excuse for . hSe told about a New York . But perhaps it's our own pomt not educatin" them adequate- ·An th ropologists, who tradi- City teacher in an underprivi- j of view that needs changing." Jy a lead in.'.: social scientist tionally have studied such !edged school district who took . He charged that anthro polo- I charged her; today. things as tribal cultures and her students to the _airport as l?ists a_re "very ~rnch inrnlvedl Dr. Estelle Fuchs, anthro- man's remo te past, have pa.~-t .of a class. proJ~ct. th~,ir own middle-class culpologi;;t at New York's Hunter . . It was the first time those , tures. . I 111 t 1 College and author of the shown . a spurt of i~te_reS children had been out of their · .· controversial "Pickets at the P_O~erty groups w1th 1_n the own neighborhood," she de- ! - - - - - - -- - - ~ ~ Gates," said schools tend to Umted States. A sc~s1qn on clared, adding: i freeze underprivileoed . chil- poverty drew a stand mg-room 1 "They were amazed when . dren into a lower-;lass way crowd here, while sessions on I they got their first glimpse of 1 of life. tribal .customs and on baboon I an escalator. One of them: Washington schools arc a behav10r drew only scattered : asked_ whether it tickled if you 11 prime example of this, she attendance. . Irode 1t. That teacher used the : said. Dr. Fuchs, one of six speak- 1incident to prove her students She also cited schools in Iers ~.n "'!~e Culture of Po\·· 1hadn'~, the intelligence to Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Bos- / rt_y, said _ schools a:e l~ard-1learn . . _I ton and New York. i emng many_ of the c!Jffe1ece_s i Dr. Fuchs called this att1- j t ' between middle-class Amen- tude "typical" among many · . t n· An th ropo 1og1s 1ssen .s , . . ;, cans an d 1ower-c 1ass groups. teachers. But a \\. ahs mgton University "School ad ministrators are . anthropologist, Dr. Charles A. usinN the 'culture of poverty' ' 1'ot Scheduled Valentine, di ~agreed with her. conc~pt to absolve themselves At the end of the session, ·Dr. Va!entme_ charf5cd an- from responsibility," she de- Dr. Valentine, who was not a scheduled s peaker, stood up t)1ropolog1sts with fa1_lurc to clared. live among underprt\'lleged I Teachers, she said, often use and declar ed: . groups as a means of study- Iin such terms as "psycho lo Ni- "It seems to me ther e has ing them. Ically unready" and "~uturally been a common thread run"Anthropologists can sludy Iimpoverished home liie" to j ning through these discussions a South Seas culture and find · · , order, hut they go into Harlem and find nothing but disorder . They study our own slumdwellers with questionnaires and interviews ; they are apparently too afraid lo go and live as on e of them," he as- . sertecl. He -added: "It boils down to this: we are good ,a nthropologists overseas and bad anthro-. pologists at h ome." Dr. Valentine said he intends to "live among the poor" · -as par t ·of a study h e is undertaking n ext year in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn . Four-Day Meeting Dr. Fuchs and Dr. Valentine 0 r ! • Im i , . . I ~ - � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document oe—— - THE WASHINGTON POST - NOV. 19, 1966 Teachers Seen Using Sluins as Excuse By Henry W. Pierce were among more than 2500;excuse their own failure tojwhich is incorrect All the an- PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18|Persons attending the four-jteach the youngsters properly. |thropologists here have main:! The Nation’s schools are usingjday American Anthropogical! cites Example tained trat the culture of pov- lower-class children’s “pover- iati : , erty concept has been misused. ty culture” as an excuse for saSpeatOn MEsUNG. Here hSe told about a New York’ But perhaps it’s our own point not educating them adequate-| “*thropologists, who tradi city teacher in an underprivi-of view that needs changing.” ly, a leading social scientist|tionally have studied such}ledged school district who took; He charged that anthropolo-, charged here today. things as tribal cultures andjher students to the airport as gists are “very much involved pr. Estelle Fuchs, anthro-|man’s remote past, have/Part of a class project. jin their own middle-class cul- pologist at New York’s Hunter “It was the first time those tures. | Collect: and ‘anthor of the [Shown a spurt of interest in] wijdrven had been out of their| controversial “Pickets at the|POverty groups within thejown neighborhood,” she de-. Gates,” said schools tend to|United States. A sessign onjclared, adding: i freeze underprivileged - chil-|POvetty drew a standing-room/= “They were amazed when - Sren’ inte \ay lower alass way |crowd here, while sessions on they got their first glimpse of - of life. tribal customs and on baboon an escalator. One of them’ Washington schools are a,Dehavior drew only scattered’ asked whether it tickled if you! prime example of this, she | attendance. ‘ lrode it. That teacher used the said, Dr. Fuchs, one of six speak- incident to prove her students She also cited schools in,ers on “The Culture of Pov-/hadn't the intelligence to -|Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Bos-| erty,” said’ schools are hard-!Jearn.” | ‘ton and New York. ‘ening many of the differeces) Dr, Fuchs called this atti-, x : ‘between middle-class Ameri-'tude “typical‘’ among man Anthropologist Dissents = ‘aang and lower-class groups. eachage > mt But a Wahsington University; “School administrators are’ .. anthropologist, Dr. Charles A./using the ‘culture of poverty’) Not Scheduled Valentine, disagreed with her./concept to absolve themselves) At the end of the session, | ‘Dr. Valentine charged an-|from responsibility,” she de- Dr. Valentine, who was not a’ thropologists with failure to’ clared. |scheduled speaker, stood up’ live among underprivileged) Teachers, she said, often use| and declared: groups as a means of study-\in such terms as “psychologi-, “It seems to me there has; ing them. F cally unready” and “cuturally been a common thread run-, “Anthropologists can study|jmpoverished home life” to,ning through these discussions. a South Seas culture and find! - - ! order, but they go into Harlem and find nothing but disorder. They study our own slum- dwellers with questionnaires and interviews; they are ap- parently too afraid to go and live as one of them,” he as- serted. ; He added: “It boils down to this: we are good anthropolo- gists overseas and bad anthro. pologists-at home.” Dr. Valentine said he in- tends to “live among the poor” as part of a study he is un- dertaking next year in the Brownsville section of Brook- lyn. t Four-Day Meeting Dr. Fuchs and Dr. Valentine Tet me ee ee ee ne a  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 16 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/f7a06f89a944a53378e5deaa824e37da.pdf 5867d72c511975ba82e9e42b6eb02390 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. .., THE EVENING STAR Washin.gtcin, b: c:; Frldoy/ Novem6rir .i8, 1966 \·• ·=-- ' •\ ' ~' I ' _, ~• ' ~ ~ . : A-3 X .,.c; ."' ,•• - - - - - - - P O I N T OF V I E V I - - - - - - - GOP Bg]res By MARY McGRORY Star Staff Writer Rep. 1\11elvin R. Laird, chairman of the House Republican - Conference, has unveiled the economlirl]L~ 5ra1Q.iQP I ·'s e Union" message, which the _newly revivetrminority party plans to repeat-January. He expounded at length on a federal-state tax2 h,l)~inf-n!an ~ ~ginallv pushed bVTvafter1'ieller. wno ser ved noTFi Tue New r."7cinticr and the Great Society as chairman of the President's Council of Econom"ic Advisers. Congressional Republicans are putting a major effort into their minority declaration this year. With 47 new House ' members and a brilliant array of new faces in the Seriate, they hope their "State of the Union" which was somewhat facetiou_sly received i!i 1966, will be taken seriously in 1957. Laird told the press he thinks the real action in the coming year will be in the House, where the swelling of R epublican ranks means that some of the legislative goals might actually _be accomplished. Jn drafting the "State of the Union," the views of the newly elected governors a·nd legislators will be consulted, but L aird said he hoped the House Republicans "would not get involved in presidential politics." He and House Minority Leader Gerald E . Ford alr eady are involved to some extent, since they ; ·aised the money to fin ance the highly ·successful 30-staet campaign tour of Richard M. Nixon. They sought and received clearaz:ice from Ford's governor, George W. Romney, the leading contender. They said they were working not for the candidacy of Nixon but for the congr essmen whom he was boosting. The drafters of the "State of the Union" paper foresee little difficulty with the domestic proposals. The Republican governors went on record in July 1965 in favor of the taxsharing scheme. But if .Senate Min;rity Leader Everet t M. Dirksen EconoR~uic Plan· opposition were formed during , reserves for himself the right to speak again on foreign the Eisenhower years, when · the then· Senate Minority · policy, as- he did in 1965, the Republicans will find them- Leader Lyndorr B. Johnson · took the position that partisan· selves in difficulties. differences stopped at the , Dirksen pleased neither ha_wks nor doves of his party water's edge. with his previous declaration. The rule was observed, He will again fail the hardexcept in 1954 when Johnson, liners like Nixon and Rep. in concert with several other Ford, who favor increased air Democrats, took exceptio.n to and sea power use and the the Eisenhower policies in soft-liners; like Sen.-elect Viet Nam. Charles H. Percy of Illinois Dirksen initially made a few and Sen.-elect Mark 0. Hat- noises about Viet Nam last field of Oregon, who empha- · year, but refused the _langua ge size negotiation. , provided him by the Joint The Senate minority leader Minority Conference and went is a law unto himself, and all the way with LBJ in his none of the technicians in the portion ot the ·'State of the House leadership can appeal . Union." to him to shape his views to Romney is botll vulnerable theirs. · and defensive on for eign Dirksen's thinl-:ing on loyal policy. He r evealed in his first post-election national television appearance s~mday that he not only has no position but no views he dares express. It is this weakness that may prove to be the opportun ity of 48-year-olcl Sen.-elect P ercy, who proposed the all-Asia peace conference, which he _ insists, despite the presidential trip to i\'Ianila, has never occurred. · Percy makes no secret to fello w Republicans of his feelin g that he is far more informed on quesliohs of war and peace than the governor of Michigan. · He has one other adva ntage over Romn ey. He supported his party's nomi nee in 1964 and Romney did not, a circumstance for which the . Goldwater wing of the par ty has not yet for given him. If P ercy- no matter what . Dirksen s ays in the " State of . the Union" message-forges out. a peace position, then it could mean problems, not only · for Rom ney, but for President J ohnson as ,1·ell in 1968. r � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document THE EVENING STAR Woshington, D: C.; Friday, "November 18, 196 x POINT OF VIEW— 2 huis ey Te GOP Bares Economic Plan By MARY McGRORY Star Staff Writer Rep. Melvin R. Laird, chair- man of the House Republican Conference, has unveiled the rincipal economic provision GOP "Sialeoi-the nion "message, which the newly revived minority party plans to repeat—January. He expounded at length on a federal-state_tax-sharing plan which.cas_originally pushed by Walter Heller, who served both the New Frontier and the Great Society as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Congressional Republicans are putting a major effort into their minority declaration this year, With 47 new House members and a brilliant array of new faces in the Seriate, they hope their “State of the Union” which was somewhat facetiously received in 1966, will be taken seriously in 1957. Laird told the press he thinks the real action in the coming year will be in the House, where the swelling of Republican ranks means that some of the legislative goals might actually be accom- plished. In drafting the “State of the Union,” the views of the newly elected governors and legisla- tors will be consulted, but Laird said he hoped the House Republicans “would not get involved in presidential poli- tics.” He and House Minority Leader Gerald E. Ford al- ready are involved to some extent, since they raised the money to finance the highly | successful 30-staet campaign tour of Richard M. Nixon. They sought and received clearance from Ford's gover- nor, George W. Romney, the leading contender. They said they were working not for the candidacy of Nixon but for the congressmen whom he was boosting. Fe The drafters of the “State of the Union” paper foresee little difficulty with the domestic proposals. The Republican governors went on record in July 1965 in favor of the tax- sharing scheme, |. But if Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen reserves for himself the right to speak again on foreign policy, as. he did in 1965, the Republicans will find them- selves in difficulties. . Dirksen pleased neither hawks nor doves of his party with his previous declaration. He will again fail the hard- liners like Nixon and Rep. Ford, who favor increased air and sea power use and the soft-liners, like Sen.-elect Charles H. Percy of Illinois and Sen.-elect Mark O. Hat- field of Oregon, who empha- size negotiation. The Senate minority leader is a law unto himself, and none of the technicians in the House leadership can appeal to him to shape his views to theirs. Dirksen’s thinking on loyal opposition were formed during ~ the Eisenhower years, when © the then Senate Minority - Leader Lyndon B. Johnson took the position that partisan differences stopped at the water's edge, - The rule was observed, except in 1954 when Johnson, in concert with several other Democrats, took exception to the Eisenhower policies in Viet Nam. : Dirksen initially made a few noises about Viet Nam last year, but refused the language ‘provided him by the Joint Minority Conference and went all the way with LBJ in his portion of the “State of the . Union.” Romney is both vulnerable and defensive on foreign policy, He revealed in his first post-election national televi- sion appearance Sunday that he not only has no position but no views he dares express. It is this weakness that may prove to be the opportunity of 48-year-old Sen.-elect Percy, who proposed the all-Asia peace conference, which he | insists, despite the presiden- tial trip to Manila, has never occurred. \ Percy makes no secret to fellow Republicans of his feeling that he is far more informed on questions of war and peace than the governor of Michigan. He has one other advantage over Romney. He supported his party's nominee in 1964 and Romney did not, a cir- cumstance for which the Goldwater wing of the party has not yet forgiven him. If Percy—no matter what - Dirksen says in the ‘‘State of the Union’ message—forges out. a peace position, then it could mean problems, not only ‘for Romney, but for President Johnson as well in 1968,  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 15 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/85df0b6d5ca4d96d547ad14840448a3b.pdf b3f300a32c9f6c3a52174735d612862d Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. ,~ uHHH uld HUI V0L0 THE NEW YORK TI MES - NOV. 19, 1966 W!DE_SCHOOL PLAN ., I 1/~o,1-a;-4ci(\-, Seeks to Help the Poor by · Making Permanent the Gains of Heaci Start By HAROLD GAL Sp~c lal to The ~ e·1-.· York T!mes WASHINGTON, Nov. 19Sa rge nt Shriver has proposed a broa d program to help unde rprivileged child ren retain the gains th ey make in the Government's H ead Start proj ec t. The direc tor of th e Office of Economic Oppo rtu nity, which admin[sters the program for prekind ergar ten children, warned th a t the p resen t elementary school system was "critically inadequate to mee t the needs of children of pove rty." He . urged educators across the · country to do the following: · l,iProvide one teacher for every 15 children. (]Utilize new sou rces of educational manpov:er, such as teacher aides, "subprofession, als" and volunteers. CjEstablish a program of t utorial assista nce in which older ' students from high schools and college would take part. GEs tablish neighborhood councils and community associations, outside of parent-te ac her groups, Uiat would get paren ts involved i n the activities of every public sc!iool. t;Provide an adequate supply of all necessary supplies, including toys and film s, and make broad use of electronic learnino- : ai ds. "' : c:l l nitiate prog ra ms to "train : "childhood development spe- : cialists who wou ld work exclu- : sively in ea rly primary grades, diagnose obstacles to a child's progress and p!·escribe help by other professions, s uch a s psychologists, sociologists and reading specia li sts. Mr. Shriver put his proposals forward in an addre;;.s yester - 1 day before the opening session i of the · annual meetino- of the ' Great Cities R esearch° Council · at the Pfister Hotel in :Milwa ukee. The sessi on was a ttended bv i top ed ucational officials and I other leaders from . the 1 larg- ~ est cities in the lJnited States. Mr. Shriver spoke from notes, and the official text of his re- I marks was made public in I 1 \\'ashington today. T he Shriver program: which he called Project Keep ::\Ioving, I teacher f or every 15 children; ?>Ir. S-hriver said that puttin<> teacher's aides and other adult; in to the class room could m a.t- e 1 J foZ:. any. failure to achieve a l-ta-1.:> ratio. He urged that the neighbor- · Continued From Pa o-e 1 C 1 7 hood be dr3:wn into the school 0 • ____ ,, , so that cluldren and parents was Inspired by a major study a!ike coul~ feel tha t ed:tcation : made publ ic on Oct. 23. T hat wa~ a basic pa rt of their total study found tha t the education- environme~t. . al adva.,tages gained by a pre- M~. S_hn\·er said th at elecschool child in the h ead start tro1_1ic aids ~ad alrea~y proved program tended , to disappear th en· effectiveness rn Hea d sLx to eight m onths after the Start c_lassrooms.. . child had started h is r eo-ula r He did not say m h is address 0 schooling. whe~e funds for Proj ect Keep The study •was d irected b y l\~?vmg would .come from. A:t . Dr. Max Wolff, senior r esearch ame m t~e Off~ce ?f Econo.mic : sociologist at the Cente t· for Opportumty said m \?ashing- , Urban Educa tion in New York. t.on today that Mr. Shnver belt was sponsored by the F er- heved th.at fund s would be Kauf Graduat e School of Ed- m ade .available ~hro.ugh F ederal : ucation at Yeshiva University and Slate agencies if th ere wa.3 . and supported by fu nds from c:1ough pressure from commun!- , the Office of Economic Op- ti.es throughout the country. . portunity. Pointing to the Wolff study, : Mr. Shriver said that "the . 'One Grade at a Time' readiness and receptivity" that · Mr. Shriver conc~ded tha t his many children "gained in H ead i proposals could not be accom- Start has been crushed by the plished all at once. H e said. broken promises of first grade. 1 howeve r, th a t "any u rb:rn schooi Projec t Keep :Moving, he said, ~ system with imagination and a could stir "a r e\·olution in edu- · r easonable use of r e ·ources cation from preschool through 1 could t ack le the job one grade college." at a time." " Only if we maintain the : H e called Projec t Head Sta rt pace of Hea d Sta rt throu ghout ' "a shor t-t enn experi ence, and a the school sys t.:!m," h e said, ! shot of educational adrena lin "ca n we create an educational whose effects ca n w ear off in process whi ch \ Vill give every : the grinding bor2dom a nd frus - disadvantaged child in our na- . tration of s lum classrooms." tion a chance t o obtain the h ighAckno\l'ledging th ?. t it would est educ2.tion level in h is · be d iffi cult to provide one pow:eri' SHRIVER PROPOSES WIDE SCHOOTiJ DI1 AN Ill!) � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document ‘| Establish a program of tu- ‘students from high schools and WWHIMY LAL AUL UNL | WIDE SCHOOL PLAN | Wsofce OL Seeks to Help the Poor by) Making Permanent the Gains of Head Start By HAROLD GAL Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Nov. 19— Sargent Shriver has proposed a broad program to help under- privileged children retain the gains they make in the Govern- ment’s Head Start project. The director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, which administers the program for pre- kindergarten children, warned that the present elementary school system was "critically inadequate to meet the needs of children of poverty.” He urged educators across the: country to do the following: €Provide one teacher for jevery 15 children. €Utilize new sources of edu- cational manpower, such as teacher aides, “subprofession- jals" and volunteers, torial assistance in which older college would take part. Establish neighborhood coun- cils and community associa- tions, outside of parent-teacher groups, that would get parents involved in the activities of every public school, €Provide an adequate supply of all necessary supplies, includ- ing toys and films, and make broad use of electronic learning! aids. ‘ Initiate programs to train}: “childhood development” spe-|; cialists who would work exclu- sively in early primary grades, diagnose obstacles to a child's progress and prescribe help by other professions, such as psy- chologisis, sociologists and read- ing specialists. Mr. Shriver put his proposals forward in an address yester- day before the opening session of the annual meeting of the Great Cities Research Council at the Pfister Hotel in Milwau- kee, The session was attended by top educational officials and other leaders from. the 1 larg- est cities in the United States, Mr. Shriver spoke from notes, and the official text of his re- marks was made public in Washington today. E The Shriver program, which he called Project Keep Moving, } ——— = — |“a short-term experience, and a THE NEW YORK TIMES - NOV. 19, 1966 SHRIVER PROPOSES WIDE SOHOOL PLAN Continued From Page 1, Col. 7 was inspired by a major study made public on Oct. 23. That study found that the education- al advantages gained by a pre- school child in the head start program tended. to disappear six to eight months after the child had started his regular schooling. The study -was directed by Dr. Max Wolff, senior research sociologist at the Center for Urban Education in New York. It was sponsored by the Fer- Kauf Graduate School of Ed- ucation at Yeshiva University and supported by funds from the Office of Economic Op- portunity. ‘One Grade at a Time Mr. Shriver conceded that his proposals could not be accom- plished all at once. He said, however, that “any urban school system with imagination and a reasonable use of resources could tackle the job one grade at a time.” He calleg Project Head Start shot of educational adrenalin whose effects can wear off in the grinding boredom and frus- tration of slum classrooms.” Acknowledging that if would ov] teacher for every 15 children, Mr. Shriver said that putting teacher's aides and other adults into the classroom could make up for any failure to achieve a 1-to-15 ratio. hood be drawn into the school so that children and parents was a basic part of their total environment. Mr. Shriver said that elec- tronic aids had already proved their effectiveness in Head Start classrooms. He did not say in his address where funds for Project Keep lieved that funds would be made available through Federal enough pressure from communl- ties throughout the country. Mr. Shriver said that many children “gained in Head Start has been crushed by the broken promises of first grade.” Project Keep Moving, he said, could stir “a revolution in edu- cation from preschool through college.” “Only if we maintain the pace of Head Start throughout ‘fhe school system,” he said,|: “can we create an educational), process which will give every/: disadvantaged child in our na-/, tion a chance to obtain the high- est education level be difficult to provide one He urged that the neighbor-| alike could feel that education} Moving would come from. An). aide in the Office of Economicl Opportunity said in Washing-|’ ton today that Mr. Shriver be- and state agencies if there was). Pointing to the Wolff study,}: “thel, readiness and receptivity” that) in his} power.”  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 14 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/7fcd7ec736b9b22a87d95e4699adf9cb.pdf 8700b348cafdcde2fa29bd261feeb364 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. THE WALL STREET JOURt'l\JAL - NOVEMBER 18, 1966 GOP on the Offense P\,evived Party Seeking ~1ore Positive In1age \;\Tith. 'NeYV Fecieralisn1' l\1ore Local, State Activity With Federal I-Ielp Is Goal; Beating LBJ to the Punch? But Unity l\Jay Shatter by '68 By JOSEPH W. B t a,ff R ep orter of S ULLirA N T H E "\\' ALT, STREET Jot:RN.\L WASHINGTON - Congressional R epu blica ns are b eginni ng to fl ex thei r n,ew p ostelection muscles. And like th e ex-weakling in the tra ditional beach scene, they're getting a n exhila r a ting f eeling tha t they can outfight the "big bully' ' - in t his case L yndon J ohnson. This n ew optimism is not based on prospects for r a mming through s pecifi c GOP-sponsor ed · legisla ti on in a Congress s till dominated by the D e m ocr a ts . R ather, t he R epublicam p la n to seize the lniti a live in polit ical thinking fr om their foes and bui ld a posit ive image for themselves. At bottom, there's a sense tl1at momentum : fro m last week's big elec.tion gains m ay en- , able the GOP to break loos e from its long defensive s tance in Congress. By qui ckly advancing a n ew political motif of their own, R epublican lea de rs, especia ll y in the House , hope to shift th e public focus away from the standard _ meas ure of th e past generation: Na m ely , h ow li beral or cons ervative is the GOP 's stand on Democra tic we lfare prog rams . With the l!l68 Presidential election in mind, moreov er , th ese Republic;m strategis ts t hink t hey ' ve hi t. on a theme th a t ca n uni te p arty liber a ls such as New York's Sen. J acob J a vits , midd le-roaders such as Gov, Geo rge Romney of · Michigan and conserva ti ves such as iroYernor-elect Rona ld R eagan of California, Goldwa te r Goa ls , Re,·ers3 neasons In capsule form, th e e m e rging strategy consis ts of pursuing m a ny of U1e goa ls Ba rry Goldwa ter ad,·oca ted in his 1961 Presidentia l bid but r evers ir.g th e reasons for doing so. T he objec t w ill still b e a mu ch bigge r rol e for stale and local goYernm ent and private enterp rise in comba ting the country's. ills . But Instead of invoking th e need "to pres eHe the tried and t rue rnlutions of the p a st," the stre~s will be on " mod ernizing ' ' and " energ izing" gove rnm enta l s tructure:, to cope with the rohle m s of th e future. And ins lPad of leaving a n Impression tha t they WOllld disman tl e pa rts of th e F ede ra l Go,·ernment, the GOP s lrate-_ giE<ts in Cong r ess intend to project a vita l role for Washi n;;ton-i n pumping ba ck ils re,· enu e., t o _the sb, te,, in prnmo li ng interslatP com pact,:; to d e~ ! with r egio.nal problfm s a nd In fos tering " Com ~~ t-s tyJ,, ' corporations to enlis t p r ivate· ente rpr ise in the wa r on poverty. . "We a im to turn . t he political frame of referenc e in this country upside down, " dec l':1.res one of' the mos t act i\'e of th e youthful H ouse GOP " acti vi:;ts" who helped inst;;J l Rep. G erald F ord of j\Iichigan as House ::IIinori ty L ea der two years ago. "CrNling n ew techn iq ue:; a nd p roviding ne w r esources for . local ities to take t he governmental lead is goi ng to b e th e progressive course, and r eliance on an eve r-growing F ederal bur eaucracy \\ill b e the hid e bound, r eactionary approach." SeYeral Possiblo ::'IIoves To exploit th e election's stimulus, House GOP lead ers hope to m ove r a pidly on several front3: As the corner, tnn~ n( (l,Pi r ,jnme.,.ll2-..E!o· ram, thev' r e toil in~ t0 prepare a blueprint for a Ju mp-sum. nn -strin"~·~tt:Jche <i1stribut ion of Fprlpp[ re,·P n11Li,Q_ thP ~t~tes. After years of tal king 1,·islfully about such a sche m e (along " ormer J ohnson economic a dvi s er Walte1 H eller ) they fin ally h ave in h and a detail ed drait that was p repared on com m; ssion by a B rooking3 Imtitulion schola r, Rir'.h· ·arct Na tha n. This plan would p;.imp out t o the states a s pec ifi ed p ercenla ge of Federal income ta x collections-perhaps 2',c. or 3% initia ll y. T he distiioution for mula would b e weighted to favor poorer· st:iles, pro,·ide bonu:; money fo r state:; m a king the greatest reYe nu e-rais ing effor t of th eir own , and earmar k 5% of t he · I fu nds for adm inistrative u ses to "i mproYe the l eadership a nd o,·e rall policy form ula tion rol e of slate go,·ernment. " - As a way to get a n opi_nion-holding jump on the D emocr a ts , there 's ta lk of p r esentin;,; a R e publican ' !State of the Union" message fn a dvance or i\[r . J ohn:son 's. Last· J anua ry Mr. Fo rd and St'na te llrinority L ead.er Everett D irksen or Ill inois man aged t o g et a h a lfnou r of na tional television t ime to r espond to t he P r esid ent' s annual discourse. But several top strategists now b elieve t he party's n ew , offensive postur e would best be drama tized by going first. There's a lso strong , surprisingly widespread se ntim ent in these Cong res sional c ircles fo r sharing the la Iking-ti me with one of the GOP 's progre.ssiYe go,·ernors, p er haps J ohn Love of Colorado or Dani el Eva ns nf Washingto n, 11 s a 1-ym bol of a part y comm itm en t to greater state-level \'ita lity. As a devic e to make th eir n ew th em e stick in t he public mind, party hands are g roping for a ca t chy s loga n. In a ta lk yesterd a y to t he Nationa l Confrrcnce of Sta te Legislative Lea ders h ere, the Hous e GOP's No. 2 m a n, ?l[elvi n L aird of Wisconsin, m a d e a tentative mo1·e to preempt one of ::,.rr. J ohnson's 0\\11 concoctions : "Crea tiv e federa lis m." I n urging the sta t e legislators to p romote " a clim a te in America t hat enh ance:, and encour ages creat i1·ity and s olution-finding a t the sta te and l ocal le,·el," h e procla imed th a t "history can yet r ecord t hat th e d ecade of the 1960s was th e period in which Am ericans r ededicated th emselves to t he attainment of n ew heig hts . . . -t hroug h a creative federalism that kept in step with mod ern t imes." )Ir. Joh nson' s \ Yea pons 1 How m uch hea dway the GOP ca n m a l-:e under a ny s logan r em a ins to be dete rm ined. D espite D em ocra tic Cong r essiona l los~e.•, possession of the " 'hile Hou ·e still gi1·es Presid ent J ohnson abundant resources for blunting the GOP th rus t. He could s et a sombe r, wa rti me tone for the coming Cong r essiona l session a nd ri dicule any GOP re,· enue-~haping plan a s the he ight ·- -of fis ca l foll y a t a ti me of o,·erriding n eerl . to finance Vietnam fi ght ing and to fi gh t infla- ! [ �THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - NOVEMBER 18, 1966 GOP 011 the·Offense: Party H opes -'New_F.ederalism' _Will Help .Image· Conti1med From Pa.ge, 01111 lion- at home. Or he might str ive. to persuade the· electorate tha t he's better at "creative federalism" tha n the GOP, by pointing to such steps as a grant of broad latitud_e_ to the states In · use of Federal public h ealth funds and efforts fo tailor the n ew "model cities" slumrebuilding program to each locality's special needs. Or ll<fr . . Johnson could .deride the Repubffca.n . offensive·_ as warmed-over G·o ldwaterism, impradical for dealing v,ith today's complex urban problems. · · Within Congress, moreover, Democrats still hold the seats of power; · by ·pushing bllls to provide fund s for Great Society programs which the GOP opposes, D emocratic leaders could make the Republicans once a gain look 1lke ' '.aglnners." · Nor is there any certainty that GOP forces wlll get or s tick together on the course now projected. While 1\-Iichigan's Gov. R omney Is currently jus t as bent as Congressional pa rty leaders on enlarging the sphere of state and local government, h e could well d ecide n ext s pring that Immedi ate n eeds, say, !or F ederal s chool construction funds outweigh any dis tant commitment .to an alterna te, tax-reba te pla n tha t can't be implemented until the GOP 1·egains control of Cong ress. Jockeying for the GOP Presidential ·nomina tion . also could precipitate a. party spilt. Romney m en akeady 1mspect Messrs. Ford and 0 Laird of private colla boration with form er Vice President Richard Nixon, and at some point this could provoke a Romney denunciation · of their )egislative course. Within Cong r ess, ·too·, the GOP's old -liberal vs. conse rva tive animosities could boil up at any point. · For now, though, the Congression_a l GOP appears more n ea rly united on a course of action than at any· point in r ecent · years. 'When I ca me back to ·washing-ton after · the election, I was fully res igned to hea r the conservatives ta lking up th e r eturns as a mandate for· putting a )egisla tive blockade on everything," relates one self-styled House . GOP moder ate. "To my delight, though, many of them were just as r evved-up a s I am to launch a .P,rogram ol our own... ' " .,. - '. . Commlltees nnd Cohesion Organiza tiona l and s ta U build-ups la unched two years ago have played a big part in fostering ,this cohesion. In the House , a GOP planning and research committee has r eached consensus on numerous ppsit!on papers, _m any ol them developed with academic help. In addition, the new R epublica n Co-ordina ting Committee h as brought toge ther Congressional leaders , fiv e G.OP governors, the party's form e1; Presidentia l nominees and National Cha irm an R a y Bliss for numeroi.1s s kull S(?sslons a nd p os ition-charting. "After t wo years of sitting n ext to George R omney at the Co-ordina ting Committee m eetings, we find ourselves agr eeing on practically everything tha t comes up," r em a rks R ep. John Rhodes ol Arizona, cha irma n of the House R epublican P olicy Committee , who's generally considered a n ardent Goldwater conser.va tlve. · Moreover ,. the p ar ty's cap ture of 47 more 1 House s eats solidifies th o position ol Hous e I GOP Leader Ford and gives him more !ree_dom for t aking the Initia tive ; incoming fresh· · m en lawmakers, by all ·Initial s oundings of ' Ford m en, ·are mostly quite r eady to follow · the leader who h as helped to brighten the party's face. "If we'd only picked u p 20 sea ts or so , J erry Ford would be looking over his shoulder every tim e h e m ade a move, but now he's in position to get together with Ev Dirksen on a Sta te-of-the-Union plan, say, and then sail _right ahead with it," calculates ·one senior House R epublica n who opposed :Mr. Ford's leadership bid two years ago. The " Gener a tional Gap" In the Senate, th e arrival of such engaging fac es and articulate voices as those ol TIil· nois' Charles P ercy, Oregon's 2\rark Hatiield and Massa chusetts' Edward Brooke m a y be worth more tha n all the organizational and t actical Innovations combined. " Most o! the \ thlngs, we're ta lkit)g about are aimed in es- 2. sence 1tt meeting the so-called ge1:era ti or.al gap. And I , for one, think the big bloc of younger, unaligned vote rs ls _g oing to Identify just as much ,~ith a Percy or a. Hatfi eld as : a Bobby Kennedy," · asserts one seasoned r House hand. 1 ·when it cori1es to legisla tion lnu;ediately : at ha nd, the GOP probably ,~ill go strong for ;, curtailing F ederal spending to deter Inflation. · Ma ny pa r ty liberals, as wen · as conse rvatives, hit hard on ·tnis theme during their · ca mpaigns. There should be general agreem ent ·o n curbing such "lower-priority" programs ·a s r ent subsidies, the national teacher corp3 and highway beautification as ,veil' as ·resis ti11g any major expans ion o( school or antipoverty aid. 1 "I'm ecnfident I ca n Identify S5 billion or so to ·cut 1:iy breakfas t-time the. morning a fter Johnson's budget comes up," s ays a s enior m ember of the House Appropriations C<;>mmittee. · · -/ Aside from such bipartisa n un derlakings as raising Social Security benefits or overhaulin;; the cli-aft, GOP lawmakers don' t see much imm ediate chance of actually framing i-najor legis1acion. As various Grea t Society programs come up for extens ion, though, there's _hope for us ing the pa rty's added voting power to . give s tates and localities a bigger rol e. In the c·a se of F ede.r al s chool aid , which comes u·p for r ene,,:al In · 1968, current thinkin;_;- is lo press for · giving coi-n mun lties much more leeway to s et iheir owa priorities. As for r c\"enuc-sha ring with the states , ! ew Republica ns entertain a ny serious hope of getting such a program .of: the ground in the next two yea rs. "We'll hold out rcvenue-shar- , ing as the first order of bu~in ~~s a fter we 1\ r e;;ain control of Congress In 196 ', ·· s ays a lop party planner. . ..,.. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - NOVEMBER 18, 1 GOP on the Offense Revived Party Seeking. More Positive Image With ‘New Federalism’ More Local, State Activity With Federal Help Is Goal; Beating LBJ to the Punch? But Unity May Shatter by ‘68 By JOSEPH W. SULLIVAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -— Congressional Republi- cans are beginning to flex their new post- election muscles. And like the ex-weakling in the traditional beach scene, they're getting an exhilarating feeling that they can outfight the “big bully’’—in this case Lyndon Johnson. This new optimism is not based on prospects for ramming through specific GOP-sponsored legislation in a Congress still dominated by the Democrats. Rather, the Republicans plan to seize the initiative in political thinking from their foes and build a positive image for them- selves. At bottom, there's a sense that momentum: from last weck's big election gains may en- able the GOP to break loose from its long defensive stance in Congress. By quickly ad- vancing a new political motif of their own, Re- publican leaders, especially in the House, hope to shift the public focus away from the standard measure of the past generation: Namely, how liberal or conservative is the GOP's stand on Democratic welfare programs. With the 1968 Presidential election in mind, moreover, these Republican strategists think they've hit on a theme that can unite party liberals such as New York's Sen. Jacob Javits, middle-roaders such as Gov. George Romney of Michigan and conservatives such as eoevernor-elect Ronald Reagan of California, Goldwater Goals, Reversa Reasons In capsule form, the emerging strategy con- sists of pursuing many of the goals Barry Goldwater advocated in his 1964 Presidential bid but reversing the reasons for doing sn. The object will still be a much bigger role for state and local government and private enterprise in combating the country's, ills, But instead of invoking the need “to preserve the tried and true solutions of the past,'’ the etress will be on ‘‘modernizing’ and ‘'energiz- ing’’ gavernmental structures ta cope with the roblems of the future. And instead of leaving an impression that they would dismantle parts of the Federal Government, the GOP strate- gists in Congress intend to project a vital role for Washington-in pumping hack its revenues to the states, in promoting interstate compacts to deal with regional problems and in foster- ing ‘\Comsat-style"’ corporations to enlist pri- yate- enterprise in the war on poverty. _— ““"We aim to turn, the political frame of reference in this country upside down," de- clares one ofthe most active of the youthful House GOP “activists’’ who helped install Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan as House Minority Leader two years ago, ‘Creating new tech- niques and providing new resources for locali- ties to take the governmental lead is going to be the progressive course, and reliance on an ever-growing Federal bureaucracy will be the hidebound, reactionary approach.” Several Possible Moves To exploit the election's stimiulus, House GOP leaders hope to move rapidly on sev- eral fronts: As the cornerstone of their domestic pro- gram, thev're toiling to prenare a blueprint for a lump-sum, no-strings-attached_distribu- tion of Federal revenue ion the states, After years of talking wistfully about such a scheme (along with former Johnson economic adviser WaltaCHeles) they finally have in hand a detailed draft that was prepared on commis- . &ion by a Brookings Institution scholar, Rich- ard Nathan, ; This plan would pump out to the states a specified percentage of Federal income tax collections—perhaps 2% or 3% initially. The distribution formula would be weighted to , favor poorer’ states, provide bonus money for states making the greatest revenue-raising ef- fort of their own, and earmark 5%. of the funds for administrative uses to “improve the leadership and overall policy formulation role of state government.” -—As a way to get an opinion-holding jump on the Democrats, there's talk of presentinz se Republican ‘State of the Union" message in advance of Mr. Johnson's. Last January Mr. Ford and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois managed to get a halt- hour of national television time to respond to the President's annual discourse. But several top strategists now believe the party’s new, offensive posture would best be dramatized by going first. There's also strong, surprisingly widespread sentiment in these Congressional circles for sharing the talking-time with one of the GOP's progressive governors, perhaps John Love of Colorado or Daniel Evans of Washington, as a symbol of a party commit- ment to greater state-level vitality. As a device to make their new theme stick in the public mind, party hands are groping for a catchy slogan. In a talk yesterday to the National Conference of State Legislative Lead- ers here, the House GOP's No. 2 man, Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, made a tentative move to preempt one of Mr. Johnson's own concoctions: “Creative federalism." In urging the state leg- fslators to promote ‘a climate in America that enhances and encourages creativity and solution-finding at the state and local level,” he proclaimed that “history can yet record that the decade of the 19605 was the period in which Americans rededicated themselves to the attainment of new heights ...-through a creative federalism that kept in step with mod- ern times.” Mr. Johnson's Weapons ‘ How much headway the GOP can make under any slogan remains to be determined, Despite Democratic Congressional losses, pos- session of the White House still gives Presi- dent Johnson abundant resources for blunting the GOP thrust. He could set a somber, wartime tone for the coming Congressional session and ridicule any GOP revenue-shaping plan as the heizht of fiscal folly at a time of overriding need . to finance Vietnam fighting and to fight infla- A op ee ey eee THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - NOVEMBER 18, 1966 GOP on the Offense: Party Hopes ‘New Federalism’ Will Help Image ’ Continued From Page One tion. at home. Or he might strive. to persuade the electorate that he’s better at ‘creative fed- eralism" than the GOP, by pointing to such steps as a grant of broad latitude to the states in use of Federal public health funds and et- forts to tailor the new “model cities” slum- rebuilding program to each locality's special needs. Or Mr. Johnson could deride the Re- publican offensive as warmed-over Goldwater- ism, impractical for dealing with today’s com- plex urban problems. / ’ Within Congress, moreover, Democrats still hold the seats of power; by pushing bills to provide funds for Great Soclety programs which the GOP opposes, Democratle leaders could make the Republicans once again look like ‘‘aginners.”’ Nor is there any certainty that GOP forces will get or stick together on the course now projected. While Michigan's Gov. Romney is currently just as bent as Congressional party leaders on enlarging the sphere of state and local government, he could well decide next spring that immediate needs, say, for Federal school construction funds outweigh any distant commitment to an alternate, tax-rebate plan that can't be implemented until tha GOP re- gains control of Congress. Jockeying for the GOP Presidential -noml- nation’ also could precipitate a party split. Romney men already suspect Messrs. Ford and Laird of private collaboration with former Vice President Richard Nixon, and at some point this could provoke a Romney denunciation of their legislative course. Within Congress, ‘too, the GOP's old. liberal vs. conservative ant- | mosities could boil up at any point, For now, though, the Congressional GOP appears more nearly united on a course of action than at any point in recent years. )“‘When I came back to Washington efter the election, I was fully resigned to hear the con- servatives talking up the returns as a mandate for putting a legislative blockade on every- thing,” relates one self-styled House GOP moderate. “To my delight, though, many of them were just as revved-up as I am to launch a program of our own.” Committees and Cohesion - Organizational and staff build-ups launched two years ago have played a big part in fos- tering this cohesion. In the House, a GOP planning and research committee has reached consensus on numerous position papers, many of them developed with academic help. In ad- dition, the new Republican Co-ordinating Com- mittee has brought together Congressional leaders, five GOP governors, the party's for- mer Presidential nominees and National Chair- man Ray Bliss for numeroug skull sessions and position-charting, “After two years of sitting next to George Romney at the Co-ordinating Committee meet- ings, we find ourselves agreeing on practically everything that comes up,” remarks Rep. John Rhodes of Arizona, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, who's generally considered an ardent Goldwater con- servative. Moreover,. the party’s capture of 47 more |House seats solidifies tha position of House ‘GOP Leader Ford and gives him more free- dom for taking the initiatlve; Incoming fresh- men lawmakers, by all initial soundings of ‘Ford men, are mostly quite ready to follow the leader who has helped to npighten the party's face. “If we'd only picked | Up 20 seats or 80, Jerry Ford would be looking over his shoulder every time he made a move, but now he’s in position to get together with Ev Dirksen on a State-of-the-Union plan, say, and then sail right ahead with it,” calculates ons senior House Republican who opposed Mr, Ford's leadership bid two years ago. Tho “Generational Gap” In the Senate, the arrival of such engaging faces and articulate volces as those of Mlli- nois’ Charles Perey, Oregon's Mark Hatfield and Massachusetts’ Edward Brooke may he worth more than all the organizaticnal and tactical innovations combined, ‘‘Most of the things. we're talking about are aimed in es- sence at meeting the so-called generational gap. And I, for one, think the big bloc of younger, unaligned voters is going to identify just as much with a Percy or a Hatfield as a Bobby Kennedy," asserts one seasoned House hand. When it comes to legislation immediately at hand, the GOP probably will go strong for, curtailing Federal spending to deter inflation. Many party liberals, as well as conservatives, hit hard on this theme during their cam- paigns. There should be general agreement on curbing such “iower-priority’’ programs as rent subsidies, the national teacher corps and highway beautification as well as resisting any major expansion of school or antipoverty aid. “I'm cenfident I can Identify $5 billion or so to cut by breakfast-time the morning after Johnson's budget comes up," Says a senior member of the House Appropriations Commit- tee. " i Aside from such bipartisan undertakings as. raising Social Security benefits or overhauling the draft, GOP lawmakers don't see much im- mediate chance of actually framing major leg- isiation. As various Great Society programs come up for extension, though, there’s hope for using the party's added voting power to give states and localities a bigger role. In — the case of Federal school aid, which comes up for renewal In 1968, current thinking al to press for giving communities much more leeway to set their own priorities. As for revenue-sharing with the states, tos Republicans entertain any serious hope of get- ting such a program off the ground in the| next two years. ‘We'll hold out revenue-shar- | ing as the first order of business after we) regain control of Congress in 1968,"" says a| top party planner.. ac  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 13 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/38964bf0803c4cb007515abec6caae75.pdf 96b7a098fda64464af5d6ba5272658a3 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. .., EVtE ~VDl\Y U1 tEll}J:r' ,;~c; tr/~r; ,,, · life is a relentless. search for it." In analyzing this coexistence of the p a thological and the healthy, Lewis gives considerable precision to a term th.at he originated: the "culture of poverty." And he provides some im· ~:; JeH::HAEL HARRINGTON portant · theoretical insights of con~ VIDA" is unquestiona bly one siderable relevance to some of the . of the most important books political debates going on in America published in the United States today. this year. It is a shat tering account E ssentially w hat Lewis does is to of three g ene rations of the Rios famincorporate two of the m<?st popular ily in the slum!? of San Juan and the oversimplifications about the poor Puerto Rican enclaves of New York. into a complex idea. On the one hand, M:uch of it is told in the tape-recoro.ed. there is the belief that the impoverwords of the s ubjects themselves. The ished h a ve been sp ared the corrupbook is iin large p a rt, as Oscar Le,,is tions of a fflu ence and are ther efore says, "a picture of family disruption, a potential source of social r egeneraviolence, brutality; cheapness of life, tion. The e..-xtreme version of this lack of love, l a ck of education, la ck thesis is the idealization by Frantz of m edical facili-ties--in short, a picF anon (a uth.or of "The Wretched of ture of incredible d eprivation the efthe E a rth") of the "people of the f ects of w hich cannot be wip ed out s hanty t owns" as the creative and in a s ingle gen eration. This Zolaesque revolution ary force of the secon d h a lf r eal1ty emerges from a Puerto R ica n of t11c century. In America n terms, society i n w hich -the is la nd average tl1e B lack Power ideologis ts are makir.come per person -r ose from $120 to ing a similar claim for the victimized i1-<1 0 betv,een 1940 and 1963. inhabitan ts of the N egro g h etto. And The casual, m a tter- of-fa.ct des cripon the other h and, there is the view tions of s oc ial h ell itha t -abound in that p overty h olds only. rlegrada tion. "La Vida" arc sometimes s o appalling T h e compassiona te p artisans of this tha t t he m iddle-class r eader ·is in view believe that they must h elp t he d a nger of be ing overwhelm ed. How, passive and defeated poor who ca nexactly, does h e assimilate t o his exnot h elp themselves, while the reacp erience the r eminiscence of a cript ionaries believe t hat the slum d wellpled child who tells of h aving played ers " got tha t way" because they the " game" of pros titution ? But ,then wanted to a nd lacked Goldwaterit e three of the m a j or chara cters in this virtu es of thrift and ent erprise. book actually worked at the profesLewis's definition of the cul t u re of sion for a period, and one mother poverty r eveals t he h alf-truths and ent ertains h er children by singing- la rge falsehoods behind these contra"dirty" songs. 1\.fo~ conventionally, dictory myths. Those w ho dwell in yet still not quite what the middlet his subculture d o not "belong·• to class reader is u sed t o, t he five cen t ral any of the institutions of the larger figures of "La Vida" have a lready h a d socie ty. U n employment and unde ra t otal of 20 m a rriages (17 of t h em employment make t hem mar ginal in consensual unions, 3 of them legal) t he la bor marke t ; they d o not j oin and they are clearly not done y et. political parties ; t hey spend rather Nevertheless, in a probing introducthan save, and pay more for inferior tion Lewis a r gues tha t ther e are in m erchandise s ince they do not have t h ese lower depths certain strengths. access to cheap credit a nd don't shop There is a fortitude and res ilience in in supermarkets ; am~ so on . N ow the Rios family, and its members a re there are, and have been, ·poor people capable of great kindness despite the who did "belong." There are prin1brutality of their circumstan ces. itive and utterly impoverished tribes "Money and m a terial possessions," he w hich nevertheless possess an intewrites , "although important, do not grated and self-sufficient culture. And motivate their major dccL<;ions. Their various American immigrant groups, deepes t need is for love, and their mos t notably the Eastern Europe.an J ews, came to tl1is country with inMR. HARRINGTON is the author of "The tact t raditions that protected them Other America" and "The Accid ental from the extreme social and spiritual consequences of being poor. c~ntury." LA VIDk A Puerto Ri~ n Family in the Culb.trc of Poverty-San Juan and New Yorl By O scar Lewis. 669 PP· New Yori: Random House. $10. , LA r ! r L L �EVERDAY HELL - NEW YORK TIMES - 11-20-66 Myrdal was thinking along these lines when he said that the underclass of the affluent society ls a "non-revolutionary proletariat"), and it v.ill disappoint all the romantic expectations from Fanon to Black Power and back. And yet, as Lewis emphasizes, the very absence of regular institutions v.ithln the culture of poverty forces the people to crea te their own associations and values, in order to survive. The (Continu ed on Page 92) Thus, Lewis's culture of poverty a. very specific and unique phe• nomenon. It occurs in societies in is 2. which the cash economy and rapid change subvert the old ways and a· group is left behind without either money or even a hungry solida1ity. People .inhabiting the culture of poverty. then, are "out of it," and their life is the experience of a disintegration. This is the profoundly egative side of being poor (Gunnar r I l •:!l . L__ . 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But I have For example, the marriage social invention as well as a concentrated on my agreements patterns - or more precisely, police problem. Their destruc- with Lewis (which fa r outthe endless succession of con- tion created a ',vacuum that was weigh the disagreements an:;,w ay) because I think "La sensual unions - in the tRios partly filled by heroin. In any case, Lewis is quite Vida" . is one more brilliant family will strike most rea ' e rs , right to understand the culture demonstration of the validity as cllaotic. Yet the m en, wit hof poverty as a dialectic of and profundity of the m ethod out jobs, income or property to pass on to their offspring, see strength and weakness in which L ewis has pioneer ed: the m eno point in getting involved in the desperate need to survive ticulous des cription, and t apesimultaneously brutalizes and recorded self-depiction, of the legal entanglements. And the women fear being tied to men provokes a certain dignity into daily life of a single yet archetypical family of the poor. who are often immature a nd un- life. If these people a r e· not a And finally, for all of the reliable-a nd by r efusing to give fount of revolutionary purity, Ule f a thers of their children the neither a r e they an inert m ass grea t interest of Lew is 's introduction, the emotional force of legal status of h u..s'bands, ·they . to be m apipula ted, "s ocial-engin eered" or nights ticked for "La Vida " comes, of course. m a intain a s tronger cla'im on their own good. For when po- from the Rios f amily itself. the child ren if the col!ple sepa- litical and social hope pen e- The poor, I ha ve long f elt, rates. From the p oint of view of tra tes down into the culture needed a novelis t m ore than the slwn there is a very real of poverty, as h appened with a statistician-and Lewis has logic h er e; it is barely appa rent, the Southern Negro dur ing the p roved once a gain tha t p erhaps thnn'!h t o the 'OU ts rl~r w ho h :>..s last decade, the la tent nobility they are the ir own best novelists. The Rios f amily m akes n ever h ad to cope wi th the k inds surfaces, a nd, if it cannot of ,p roblems which confront the transform m odern society, it . the dialectical concep t of the Rios fam ily every day. still m akes a disproportiona te culture of p over ty unbea ra bly It is f rom t h is va n tage p oint . contribu tion to social chan ge real; the world which they describe is intolerable and their tha t Lewis can s ee the neigh- and the common goood. r eminiscences should m ove a borhood gang as a "considerI h ave, to be sure, some quesable advance" over t he m on! tions and r eserva tions about s tone to t ear s. Yet U:!ey have n ot been overwhelm ed; they r av.aging d espairs a n d anomie aspects of Lewis's discussion . I tha t can be found in the cul- think t hat the number of Amer- h a ve a capa cit y t o a ct on t heir t ure of poverty. One r emembers icans who live in the culture own behalf that demands libof p overty, and are poor, is eration, not n obles se oblige. the fea r\ul case in point that (Continued from Page 1) in Harlem in the 1950's when I IL r \ � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document EVERYDAY HELL Y Times LA Nir. A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poyerty—San Juan and New York. By Oscar Lewis. 659 pp. New York: Random House. $10. ~ By MICHAEL HARRINGTON ~~ ¢¢] A VIDA" is unquestionably one of the most important books published in the United States this year. It is a shattering account of three generations of the Rios fam- ily in the slums of San Juan and the Puerto Rican enclaves of New York. Much of it is told in the tape-recorded. words of the subjects themselves. The book is in large part, as Oscar Lewis says, “a picture of family disruption, violence, brutality, cheapness of life, lack of love, lack of education, lack of medical facilities—in short, a pic- ture of incredible deprivation the ef- fects of which cannot be wiped out _ ina single gencration, This Zolaesque reality emerges from a Puerto Rican society in which the island average income per person rose from $120 to $740 between 1940 and 1963. The casual, matter- of-fact descrip- tions of social hel] that abound in “La Vida" are somctimes so appalling that the middle-class reader ‘is in danger of being overwhelmed. How, exactly, dees he assimilate to his ex- perience the reminiscence of a crip- pled child who tells of having played the “game” of prostitution? But then three of the major characters in this book actually worked at the profes- sion for a period, and one mother entertains her children by singing: “dirty” songs. More conventionally, yet still not quite what the middle- class reader is used to, the five central figures of “‘La Vida" have already had a total of 20 marriages (17 of them consensual unions, 3 of them legal) and they are clearly not done yet. Nevertheless, in a probing introduc- tion Lewis argues that there are in _ these lower depths certain strengths. There is a fortitude and resilience in the Rios family, and its members are capable of great kindness despite the brutality of their circumstances. “Money and material possessions,” he writes, “although important, do not motivate their major decisions. Their deepest need is for love, and their MR. HARRINGTON is the auther of “The Other America” and “The Accidental Century.” u/2e 66 life is a relentless search for it.” In analyzing this coexistence of the pathological and the healthy, Lewis gives considerable precision to a term that he originated: the “culture of poverty.” And he provides some im- portant theoretical insights of con- siderable relevance to some of the political debates going on in America today. f° Essentially what Lewis does is to incorporate two of the most popular oversimplifications about the poor into a complex idea. On the one nand, there is the belief that the impover- ished have been spared the corrup- tions of affluence and are therefore a potential source of social regenera- tion. The extreme version of this thesis Is the idealization by Frantz Fanon (author of “The Wretched of the Barth”) of the “people of the shanty towns” as the creative and revolutionary force of the second half of the century. In American terms, the Black Power ideologists are mak- ing a similar claim for the victimized inhabitants of the Negro ghetto. And on the other hand, there is the view that poverty holds only degradation. The compassionate partisans of this view believe that they must help the passive and defeated poor who can- not help themselves, while the reac- tionaries believe that the slum dwell- ers “got that way” because they wanted to and lacked Goldwaterite Usitines of thrift and enterprise. ” Lewis's definition of the culture of poverty reveals the half-truths and large falschoods behind these contra- dictory myths. Those who dwell in this subculture do not “belong” to any of the institutions of the larger society. Unemployment and under- employment make them marginal in the labor market; they do not join political parties; they spend rather than save, and pay more for inferior merchandise since they do not have access to cheap credit and don’t shop in supermarkets; and so on. Now there are, and have been,-poor people who did “belong.” There are prim- itive and utterly impoverished tribes which nevertheless possess an inte- grated and self-sufficient culture. And various American immigrant groups, most notably the Eastern European Jews, came to this country with in- tact traditions that protected them from the extreme social and spiritual | consequences of being poor. 4 EVERDAY HELL - NEW YORK TIMES - 11-20-66 an Thus, Lewis’s culture of poverty is a very specific and unique phe- nomenon. It occurs in societies in which the cash economy and rapid change subvert the old ways and a group is left behind without either money or even 2 hungry solidarity. People inhabiting the culture of poverty, then, are “out of it,” and their life is the experience of a dis- integration. This is the profoundly gative side of being poor (Gunnar + Myrdal was thinking along these lines when he said that the underclass of the affluent society is a “non-revolu- tionary proletariat”), and it will dis- appoint all the romantic expectations from Fanon to Black Power and back. And yet, as Lewis emphasizes, the very absence of regular institutions within the culture of poverty forces the people to create their own asso- ciations and values, in order to sur- vive. The (Continued on Page 92) —+—- a ee \ ee He shah) Aco eg 1 2 “IOP. 4 —— BSjeetn eee pt tsk ae ae i} Reet etd nes it ‘ es raf ‘ een : c= 4 eS i 5 : A Bootes iret \ ES: 2 te 4: 3 f { 2 E a * fo | { .3 Be ebd gst ; Tis es = aA} bo t. | , te - wee ® 4 s t,t te bc P t AF eee ns te A \ , ef te | ‘| \ “<7 Chey ag T pbb | aaa | | Le ee h, * orl bate * prion eer  Everyday Hell | (Continued from Page 1) problem is, the middle-class visitor from the Mars of the Jarger society will often not recognize this social ingenuity, even when he comes face to face with it. For example, the marriage patterns — or more precisely, the endless succession of con- sensual unions—in the Rios family will strike most readers: as chaotic. Yet the men, with- out jobs, income or property to pass on to their offspring, see no point in getting involved in legal entanglements. And the women fear being tied to men who are often immature and un- reliable—and by refusing to give the fathers of their children the legal status of husbands, they. maintain a stronger claim on the children if the couple sepa- rates. From the point of view of the slum there is a very real logic here; it is barely apparent, thench to the outs'der who has never had to cope with the kinds of problems which confront the Rios family every day. It is from this vantage point. that Lewis can see the nelgh- borhood gang as a “consider- able advance” over the more ravaging despairs and anomie that can be found in the cul- ture of poverty. One remembers the fearful case in point that EVERDAY HELL - NEW YORK TIMES - 11-20-66 Kenneth Clark has described: in Harlem in the 1950’s when the police succeeded in break- ing up the violent gangs, that moment was the start of the narcotics plague. The comfort- able white could not under- stand that the gangs were a social invention as well as a Police problem. Their destruc- tion created a:vacuum that was partly filled by heroin. f In any case, Lewis is quite right to understand the culture of poverty as a dialectic of strength and weakness in which the desperate need to survive simultaneously brutalizes and provokes a certain dignity into life. If these people are not a fount of revolutionary purity, neither are they an inert mass to be manipulated, “social-engi- neered” or nightsticked for their own good. For when po- “litical and social hope pene- trates down into the culture of poverty, as happened with the Southern Negro during the last decade, the latent nobility surfaces, and, if it cannot transform modern society, it. still makes a disproportionate contribution to social change and the common goood. I have, to be sure, some ques- tions and reservations about aspects of Lewis’s discussion. I . think that the number of Amer- icans who live in the culture of poverty, and are poor, is greater than his estimate; I would not refer to the bureau- cratic, collectivist system of Communism as “socialism”; I do not think that there is a “so- cial-work solution” to poverty in America any more than in the Third World. But I have concentrated on my agreements with Lewis (which far out- weigh the disagreements any- way) because I think “La Vida” is one more brilliant demonstration of the validity and profundity of the method Lewis has pioneered: the me- ticulous description, and tape- recorded self-depiction, of the daily life of a single yet arche- typical family of the poor. And finally, for all of the great interest of Lewis’s iniro- duction, the emotional force of “La Vida" comes, of course. from the Rios family itself. The poor, I have long felt, needed a novelist more than a statisticlan—and Lewis has proved once again that perhaps they are their own best novel- ists. The Rios family makes . the dialectical concept of the culture of poverty unbearably real; the world which they de- scribe is intolerable and their reminiscences should move a stone to tears. Yet they have not been overwhelmed; they have a capacity to act on their own behalf that demands lib- eration, not noblesse oblige. en ows ae re ee ee  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 12 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/c30ccee20aa646a65ee069e1f3e3173c.pdf 27998fa9c41419d662b5a8cce6f3a5a7 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. C. Memorandum TO : Date: November 17, 1966 Paul :1. 'lvisaker Proj ect/No. : Q\ · Ezr - · re ·rant z Subject: Area of emphasis f or _1\fhi t e House Task Force on the Ci t y In tryi ng to \ r ite a l et t er in response to your reques t at t he fi r s t tas k f or ce meeting , I - ve 'ecome i mpress ed by t hee tent t o whic the maj ority of the problems tat ,e tal · about today have be r evi wed over and over again in t he past. On mos t of thes e I am r elatively inexperienced , and rathe_ t han t r ying t o s et out a gra .d f rar.iewoT. on al l oft e proble. s that we shou l d t ry t o deal with , I would like to co c nt te o. o, pa ti cul ar area whi ch I feel very str ongly about . T·.e Federal GoverTu~ent spons o: s a great deal of research i n city pr oblems , s ome of it a cade~ic, and the bul · of it practical . Neither benef its substanti al ly from t he other . ~- eor i cal study o= t he city conc e. t ates various l y on urban growth and f or m, soci al ecology, or the plani ng process, , aking litt l e cont r i bution to t he unders t andi ng of action pol i c ies . Proj ects are deve l oped on an ad hoc basis to meet a comproise a~o .g the exp essed eeds of t hei mor e voca l constituent s ; the out come i s fre uently wide of t he first objective and t here i s seldom any attempt to show how it got t .ere . Te z a Le o co tro led experim nt s i n t he f ield and l ittle cumulat i on of evide ce . 4 Performance in both the academic and pr actical area s of urban s t udies could be improved by p::-ov::.ding a bridge bet ween the t wo ki nds of work . I sugges t that a portion--pos ibly 2%- 5%- - of eve_y Feder al progra directly or remot ely aff ect ing t he city be cornm~tted for exp rimental work , and that thes e experi ment s be conducted under t. e diTect·on of an interl ocking body whi ch wou l d repres ent and s erve all the affett ed Federal agenc ies, State and local ofx icials where appr opriate and repre sent atives of industry , labor and the academi c communi t y . In addition to performing ( 1) res arch and (2) experi ent al projects, thi s body could: · (3) pTovide policy coordination between agencies, (4) serve s a c learing hous e f or information on regu lar and exp erimental programs of the linki ng agencies, and for consulting services i n r esearch and planning , (5) direct cont act research fo r other publ ic and non-prof it bodies . By: 120 Broadway San Franc isco, Ca li fo rnia 94111 Phone 415 434 3830 �Page two These _pe::i .1 e .ta l progrc:.1s Nould :. eviell the effect of possible changes in codes, ~ or practices , ma:ket organizat i o and many other aspects of our work in c.:.ties Khich affect cost and erJ..or-1ance of our physica l structures . We would equa _ly be co .cer .ed with t he relation or people t o one another , t· ,e i .troduct·on of social s ervices, and the development of nei ghborhoods . By structu ing the -- eri : ental prog·ams, i t should be poss ible to develop a data base which wou d enable future decis.:.ons to be made on major programs for the city on bctte .:.. fo _ ation t han we ave today . Givei. sue a means of coordina·~ion, Federally sponsored urban studies could be st uctured .:.n a planned, cu ulative s equence, co. tribute reliable experimental evide ce, ru~ p~ovide a sound bridge between a cademic and practical sttidy in the fie d . I hope that a1. .ot stressing a point of view on a single subject too strongly fo _ t .e first go- r ou d . Ezra Ehre ·rantz � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document BUILDING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT, INC. Memorandum Date: November 17, 1966 Project/No.: Subject: Area of emphasis for White House Task Force on the City to write a letter in response to your request at the first task force ing, I have become impressed by the extent to which the majority of the problems we talk about today have been reviewed over and over again in the past. On of these I am relatively inexperienced, and rather than trying to set out a ame ntr. Si eS oso xn pu fP @ ct oct oct oct y le fe i Qu hb anework on all of the problems that we should try to deal with, I would like trate on one particular area which I feel very strongly about. ~ ¢, and the bulk of it practical. Neither benefits substantially from the heoretical study of the city concentrates variously on urban growth and form, ecology, or the planning process, making little contribution to the understand- action policies. Projects are developed on an ad hoc basis to meet a compro- ng the expressed needs of their more vocal constituents; the outcome is wide of the first objective and there is seldom any attempt to show how it . There are no controlled experiments in the field and little cumulation of om hearer w oY OH MS O ct et Dp mma ¢ ) eH @ fo c 4 cb s ct ore & . < H cf D ct a i 3 Performance in both the academic and practical areas of urban studies could be improved by providing a bridge between the two kinds of work. I suggest that a portion-~possibly 2%-5%--of every Federal program directly or remotely affecting the city be committed for experimental work, and that these experiments be conducted under the direction of an interlocking body which would represent and serve all the affected Federal agencies, State and local officials where appropriate and repre- sentatives of industry, labor and the academic community. In addition to performing (1) research and (2) experimental projects, this body could: (3) provide policy coordination between agencies, (4) serve as a clearing house for information on regular and experimental programs of the linking agencies, and for consulting services in research and planning, (5) direct contract research for other public and non-profit bodies. By: 120 Broadway San Francisco, California 94111 Phone 415 434 3830 Page two These experimental programs would review the effect of possible changes in codes, labor practices, market organization and many other aspects of our work in cities which affect cost and performance of our physical structures. We would equally be concerned with the relation of people to one another, the introduction of social services, and the development of neighborhoods. By structuring the experimental programs , it should be possible to AETEDOR a data base which would enable future decisions to be made on major proETens for the city on better information than we have today. Given such a means of coordination, Federally sponsored urban studies could be structured in a planned, cumulative sequence, contribute reliable experimental idence, and provide a sound bridge between academic and practical study in the I am not stressing a point of view on a singte subject too strongly t go-round. 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Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 7 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/cc2959e20085df3f4f2b516f609cc5f0.pdf 9f2962299be2461b61c2836fdd0e65cf Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. From i::he Desk of ArDee Ames Some additional clippings on the Rib icoff He arings. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document From the Desk of ArDee Ames Some additional clippings on the Ribicoff Hearings.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 6 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/eb0b41b345cb72617331536e5efcf1a2.pdf c500645f383656d5694121c6e4cf78a1 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. From the Desk of ArDee Ames � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document From the Desk of ArDee Ames  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 5 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/cfed54c42e837e78ec959a5c304d50ff.pdf 08da6d9473f9d32c87d86ba9d4121f13 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Some addition8l inf ormation on t he Ribicoff Hearings From the Desk of ArDee Ames l ,, ·-·· ... - --- - - -·.·· ,_. - - . . . .,.. - - · -··---- .. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Some additional information on the Ribicoff Hearings From the Desk of ArbDee Ames  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 22, Folder 17, Document 4 Box 22 Box 22 Folder 17 Folder topic: Task Force on Cities | 1966