Pearl Criticizes Other Experts . . .
(Continued from f'tifh' t)
today becoming as rich as a
Goldwater.”
“Operation Bootstrap"—Gold-1
water’s answer to the poverty;
problems—"or giving every poor
kid a rich father," is not a practi
cal solution, according to Pearl.
Poor Locked Out
Pearl also said that just as
society has been closed to the
poor, in the past, the public sec
tor “our credential society —also
locks out the poor."
He said that social work, “our
largest, and fastest growing in
dustry," is closed to people un
less they have at least five years
of education beyond high school
•'And at this particular time, it’s
impossible to expect persons from
disadvantaged backgrounds to get
a college education," he explain
ed.
Alinsky Assails . . .
(Continued from pa;ie i>
of power to take their legitimate
place in the American scene.”
The leadership of these groups,
he said, "is seduced by payoffs."
He explains it this way:
"In city after city we had city
hall sitting on top of a pile of pov
erty funds. They have their com- *
inittees on Economic Opportunity
stacked at least two-to-one with
payrollers of the party faithful.
‘‘They pursue a policy of identi-;
fying what they define as positive
and negative programs with posi
tive and negative community
leaders.
‘‘Positive means you do what
city hall says.
‘‘Negative means that you are
a maverick.” Then irony touched
his voice. “You are so subversive
you think for yourself. Your pri
mary loyalty is to the people of
your community. You are inde
pendent and irreverent of city
hall.”
Alinsky is also critical of what
he calls the "Peace Corps men
tality" of the War an Poverty.
‘‘It doesn’t apply to our dispos
sessed.” he says. ‘‘These people
are Americans. Our slums are
not foreign nations to be worked
with such a manner as never to t
change the status quo.”
To Medicine Man
He grinned. ‘‘In Woodlawn (his
Chicago group) we used to joke i
that the first volunteers from the
so-called domestic Peace Corps.
VISTA. would be greeted by 100
Negroes in loincloths who would
take them to our medicine man.”
That got a laugh from the 1.500
spectators crammed into the Stu
dent Union ballroom and Taylor
Lounge where Alinsky’s talk was
piped in.
Alinsky doesn't just attack the
War on Poverty. He has an alter
native. To explain it, he harkened
back to Franklin Roosevelt’s Ten
nesses Valley Authority.
‘‘I can remember going down
to Norris, Tennesse. in the 30's
and asking the men working on
TVA what they were doing." he
says.
“And they would turn to me
and say. 'What do you mean, mis
ter, look down there. See that.
Soon there won’t he any more
floods. And electricity, y o u
know ' ”
• There was a program that
brought in the people, that let
them feel they were doing some
thing important.”
Then Alinsky's voice began to
sound almost visionary.
"When I look at these floods,
and the need for electric power
and the shortage of water for
irrigation and problems of water
polution," he says, "1 can see
tremendous programs.
Programs with Meaning
"I can see big programs that
will have meaning for the people
and importance for the country.
"I can see towns, because it will
take 10-15 years to really solve
these problems.
“I can see integrated towns
with good schools and headstarted
programs.”
Then his voice turned ominous
But big industry would vio
lently oppose this kind of pro
gram,” he said. “And I can tell
you that rarely has a government
program been as popular with
business as the poverty program ”
Some people in the audience
took exception to Alinsky's views
The most outspoken was James
Klonoski, University associa t e
professor of political science.
He argued that. “You need big
government to do big jobs. What
will your little groups do?” In
my American Government class
that would be a D-minus.”
Alinsky replied that "the funds
will have to come from govern
ment.”
Then he added, "If it’s a D
Minus. I’m not registered here.
Remember, students are starting
to rate faculty members, too.”
Another person "compliment
ed” Alinsky for his "rambling
cynical” speech.
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As a solution to the poverty ills
of the country. Pearl asked for a
“resrtucturing of the jobs to fit
the people. We have to exam
ine the entrance requirements of
the job structure,” he said.
New Careers
“I’m not talking about the cre
ation of jobs," Pearl said. "I’m
talking about new careers—with
a sense of permanence and mo
bility.
"There is a fantastic need in
welfare, recreation, conservation
—in the entire public sector —
for new people; here are the op
portunities for large numbers of
persons—opportunities that are
blocked for the poor,” Pearl i
charged.
“I’m not advocating the em
ployment of non-professionals,”
Pearl said. But he explained how
his proposal could help solve
two problems in one action; the
poverty and the lack of personnel
in the Held of education could
both be alleviated by changing
the method of becoming a pro
fessional educator.
“Alternate Paths"
Specifically, he said “we need 1
parallel paths for becoming teach
ers."
In explanation. Pearl suggest
ed that people could either "take
the college path," the traditional
means of becoming a teacher; or
“an alternate path.”
This alternate path would
enter the teaching field at a low
level, as a teaching aid.” Pearl
said these teaching aids could
perform much of the non-profes
sional jobs that “we now saddle
our teachers with."
"As he demonstrates more and
more skills, the teaching a i d
could get college credit. After
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!wo years he would move to u
teaching assistant. In two more
years, he could become a teach
ing associate," Pearl said. "And
linancially, in two more years, he
would be qualified as a full •
Hedged consultant," if he demon
itrated ability and initiative.
Chance to Move l!|»
"This system would provide dis
advantaged people with the op
portunity to move up in society,"
He said. He also noted that each
step in the procedure would be a
plateau, explaining that if a per
son wanted to stop any place
along the line, he could. Pearl
said that this type of procedure
would be viable in other fields
n the public sector.
"The poor are poor because
they lack the opportunity to do
anything else; their so-called
apathy is a function of being
locked out, of trying to solve
the insolunble," Pearl continued
"People lose interest when their
problems are insoiuable,” he
said.
Calls Alinsk.v "Conservative"
Pearl concluded his talk with
an attack on the views of the
jther three experts on poverty
who are participating in the con
ference. lie called Saul Aliasky,
best known of the throe, especial
ly for his community action pro
grams in Chicago iimi other cit
ies, "the most conservative of the
speakers." He compared Alinsky
to William Hockley, articulate
spokesman for conservatism in
the United States, claiming that
•both of them” are conservative
in their approach to poverty be
cause they advocate only sell •
help for the poor." Alinsky doesn’t
want the rest of America to
change, according to Pearl.
Not u Utopia
He criticized Robert Lumpmun,
noted economist and professor at
Wisconsin, for his "modern-day
Hooverism." Calling Lampman's
approach a "trickle-down theory,"
Pearl said the approach was not
viable.
Robert Theobald, a British so
cio-economist, wus criticised by
Pearl because while Theobald
rlaims that there are loo many
people for tlie number of jobs
available and advocates teaching
people how to use their leisure
time, Pearl says that there are
"hundreds and thousands of jobs"
that have to be done in the pub
lic sector.
"This isn't utopia yet," Pearl
concluded
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