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No. 4 -- 1426 uocuM r:: NTS p.QOM T HE WO R K S PROGRAM *** --Worl1:s Pro -'!.I'ess Administration-- For Re lease to Morning Newspapers January 30, 1937 Hop 1dns Cites Gain on Educationa l Front. 11 For the first time in America, f ederal func!s have 'been c onsti- tutionally usea to provid.e dir e ct e ducational aid f or needy young people of this country, 11 Works Progress Adl'1inistrator Harry L. Hopkins late today . told 155 stuaents from Brooklyn College of New York. Taking time from pr e ssing flood duti e s, Ad.mir.i st rator Hopkins told the stuc3-ents, uno.e r tho direction of Dr. Louis A. VJ'ar s off, professor in the Government and Puolic Law Department of the Coll ege , a 'branch of the City College of New York, that h e was 11 ve ry proud" of the fact fec',eral funds were 'being used. to provic!_e educa tional opportunities to those who could not afford it. 11 1 could never get ;ri;1self to accept the philosophy," he said, "that those of us who live in this country are ent itled to an education simply 'b e cause, often o;r accid.ent, our fathers ancl mothers happened to have money. It seems a perfectly aosurd doctrine to me. An::l. I think it is high time we put an ena. to it. "I don't think everybody should. necessarily go to college. But I do think that everyone who should go to colle ge should not be k ep t from going 'because of the economic status of his family. 'Ne have this situation going on in our country, but w·e hc?ve r.1aa.e a little progress on that front. I am proud of th-e fact that the government is do1ng these things, and I wish it might do more. 11 This is the sixth consecutive year the Coll ege has sent a contingent of students to Washington to observe the day-to-day c onduct of Gove rnmental affairs. Earlier in the day they ·11 ore addressed 'by legislators, including Senators Copeland, New York; King, Utah; Robinson, Arkansas; LaFollette, Wi$consin; Steiwer, Oregon; Harrison, Mississippi, Guffey, Pennsylvania and Pope, In.aho. The stucents snent a week in ~ashington visiting govprnment offices and. points of interest before returning to New York, January 30. ---oOo--- Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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