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.Ifivernor called on him. "I have come to remind you that
- we did not ask you to come here," the official said. "Al
ways remember we did not invite you."
One month later, the governor returned. He had heard
a rumor that this Yank, unlike those in the cities, neither
received food packages from home nor shopped at the U.S.
commissary in the capital. This was a new kind of
American.
"Can you eat with chopsticks, too?" the governor de
manded of the youth.
"I'm learning." .
The governor smiled. "Then come home with me for
dinner." It was the beginning of a useful friendship.
Whatever we Do, we must send out only those who are
qualified to perform useful work. Dr. J. S. Noffsinger,
who organized IVS eight years ago, told me, "We started
by picking boys who had grown up on farms, so they would
know how to use their hands. We picked graduates of
agricultural schools, so they would know a little more than
the farmers they had to teach. We still follow that policy."
"Has it worked?" I asked.
He told me of dozens of cases where ingenuity and stub
bornness have solved problems too complicated for native ,
resources. His story of an amateur well. digger is typical.
This American farm boy found that most of the families
of his area were ill with, dysentery . The trouble was traced
to polluted wells. He resolved to dig new ones. Unfortu
nately, not one well-boring machine could be found in the
entire country.
He removed an axle from an abandoned truck, welded
an eye to one end and a bit to the other. He built a derrick -of
three tree trunks and slung his "boring machine" aloft.
Finally, he organized two tug-of-war teams and gave them
a long rope, the middle of which he looped around his axle
exactly as he had looped, a string about a wooden auger
when he built his first Boy Scout fire without matches.
The teams pulled the rope in turn, spinning the bit into
the earth. He struck fresh water at 90 feet. The govern
ment was so delighted that it made his method official.
It also hired him, at the age of 24, to be a full professor
at the national agricultural college.
Time is of the essence. A dozen new nations need a variety
of services but lack trained men and women. They need
help today, not only in their capitals but in their rural dis
tricts and villages. Service in the. Corps will be no picnic.
In his special message to Congress, President Kennedy,
.warned that "members will often serve under conditions
Family Weekly. April 30, 1961
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of physical hardship, living under primitive conditions
among the people of developing nations."
A term of enlistment will vary, from two to three years.
A volunteer will receive intensive training in the lan
guage and culture of the country to which he will be as
signed, as well as specialized training to increase his skills.
His pay, beyond lodging, board, medical care, and insur
ance, will be an allowance to meet his basic needs approx
imately that of a private in the U.S. Army.
He will not be excused from military service, although
the IVS has found draft boards sympathetic to the prob
lems of their volunteers.
In its first year, the Peace Corps will feel its way, recruit-lev
ing only 1,000 to 2,000 members, and observh.3 their work
in the countries that have asked for them. Ten nations
have already expressed an interest.
Recruiting will be conducted through colleges and private
organizations already in the field. Our first Corpsmen prob
ably will go to Africa, Asia, and South America this fall.
The Corps' ultimate strength may rise to 10,000. It would
be a mistake to turn it into a work-relief project
with tens of thousands on its rolls. This is not a job for a
modern CCC; manual labor is plentiful abroad and our
Corpsmen should never take away jobs from native citizens.
Taxpayers will be interested in the fact that a Corpsman
will cost the Government under $10,000 per year, which is'
vastly less than what is spent on a high-level consultant
by other U.S. aid programs.
Most important, Corpsmen will live with the plain people
on the land, in the shop, or at the school. They will often
share quarters with their opposite numbers, visit their
families, and earn their friendship. Out of this will come
other values. A deep human need is met when you lend a
' helping hand. Our culture denies this pleasure to most
of its youth. Once experienced, , it lights a fire in a person.
I am thinking of a youth, the son of an Army colonel,
who went to Southeast Asia. He was building a badly
needed bridge when a loose chain caught his leg and
crushed the bone. His leg was amputated. While he rested
in a hospital, families from his district cooked delicacies -and
walked many miles to deliver them to his bedside.
They collected a fund from their tiny earnings and offered
to pay his medical bills, '.
When he returned to the United States to convalesce, a
half-dozen corporations offered him jobs. He was promised
security, a brilliant career, all that ambition could desire.
Last winter, that young man returned to Asia, proudly
ra an nrtlfinial leg to work with those he loved.
As I help move the Peace Corps legislation forward in
Congress, I often think of him and also of those four youngtJ
teachers in Cambodia who got me started. With more of
their kind serving humanity as well as their flag, I know
that the unfriendly image described in "The Ugly Ameri
can" will be erased forever.
How to Join the Peace Corp
Applications for Peace Corps volunteers
may be obtained by writing:
Peace Corps,
Washington, D.C.
Remember that under present plans there is no ex
emption from military service; you will receive the
.same salary as a buck private in the Army, payable
monthly or at the end of service; you will probably
serve for two or three years after a training period
of several months.
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