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a President and Publisoer oy, EVIRETT ALLEN | ; LEE ANDERSON i Published Each Afternoon Except Sunday SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1959 Taxes Send More to Highlander___ Tha News-Free Preas commented the other day on the use of the American taxpayers’ money to finance a State Department exchange student program that will bring @ woman from Liberia to take part in activities at the netori- ous Highlander Fotk School near Mont- eagle, Pen BaP TNE Ta mm. Bue Mae turned out that is only part of the story. In addition to the Liberian woman Sponsored by the State Department's International Educational Exchange Service, Highlander Folk School is go. ing to he visited today through Sept. & by 11 French students under State De- partment grants for “an experiment in international living.” There are grave questions as to the advisability of perverting the student exchange program by requiring the tax- payers to support junkets to an inatltu- tion which ig not really s school in the usual sense—and ig an institution that ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN 1S UNCLASS,7IED DATE _BY FF 2 eee te te Le Tlit4. certainly the Government of the United States should not give any semblance of official support, ; We do not expect ever to find out what the cost of the tours of the - Liberian woman and the 11 Frenchmen to Highlander really is. The State De- partment wraps up such programe in a deep camouflage of red tape ao that costa of the exchange programs is dif- ficult to discover, although it ig ascer- tainable that some 22 million dollars has been appropriated for some of the pro- gram. While we may never know the cost in dollars of State Department . sbonsorship of Liberian and French vie- {tors to Highlander Folk Schocl, the . coat will be somewhere in the tax bill of the American people. But far worse than the dollar cost is the disgusting fact that the State Department has any part in sponsoring individuals at the highly suspect Highlander Folk School. > Knoxville Division c je @l- (- FO1/ - a jel ARS £m NOT RECORSED— more ag t iY 149 9 SEP 14 19: Ween Gt EE morn a