Chairman. it is a proud privilege for a freshman Congressman to raise his voice and to cast his vote for this great bill embodying a noble purposeto begin now the task of helping our public schools. The public school system has been one of the great creative triumphs of American democratic society. Over the last century our public school system helped make our pluralistic society workit stretched out a helping hand to children of farmers. miners. factory workers. children of native born Americans and immigrants alikechildren of all faiths and colors. In simpler bygone days the little red schoolhouse and McGuffeys reader could perform this miracle. But today we face a far different. a far more complicated challenge.
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