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1/25/69 Fayetteville Address -6- of persons reaching maturity incapable of earning a livelihood and paying taxes in a mechanized economy. My newly enfranchised fellow citizens, this can't go on. First the elementary schools. In our region the custom formed for the early years of education to be taken in public, tax supported schools. Whether it would have been better to have a balance between public and private schools and whether we lack it owing to some earlier error of citizenship is not germane today. Substantially all elementary education is public. Let us turn with a will to making it work. That means teachers and facilities. Our most effective teachers are being lured away by industry and commerce and agriculture. And the type of young adult most needed in the schools too seldom nowadays considers going there in the first place. That means the schools must pay more, much more, for teachers' services. It's right, but that's not the reason for doing it. A teachers' strike is wrong but that's not the reason either. It's simply because the competitive factor in the talent market forces it. In our region progress has been made in the school plants themselves. Much remains to be done, particularly in the former Negro part of a segregated system. This is going to take a lot of money - raised by taxes, state and local, that can only be levied with your support. But the schools need

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