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Show Springville man with AIA; helps with economic problems in S.A. communications - or how to impart knowledge in the simplest, sim-plest, most graphic terms. The AIA does not go into a program with the idea of From San Jose, Costa Rico, C. A. this week, came a clipping clip-ping from a newspaper which describes a worthwhile program initiated by the Rockefeller Brothers and in which a Springville man has a major position. He is Howard E. Law, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Law of Springville, who is training young Latin Americans Ameri-cans to be leaders in 4-H style clubs in undeveloped rural rur-al areas. Mr. Law is one of 12 North American technicians who make up the staff of the American Am-erican International Association Associa-tion for Economic and Social Development. (AIA). The AIA is sort of a private Peace Corps, sponsored by the Rockefeller brothers, which has been working for the past 16 years with the desperately poor and restive rural masses of Latin America. ' According to the writer of the article, the people South of the Border constitute a critical cri-tical problem as they demand a better way of living. Years past, they didn't know that others lived so well. Now they know, they want improvement. If they don't get it, they may resort to political means, which in Latin America, is the same as a revolution, the writer- explained. ex-plained. In some Latin Countries in which the AIA operates, a man's income may be as low as $100 a year, which goes to keep the family in basic clothing and now and then to purchase a small hand tool with which to work on his farm of two or three acres. But this man wants an education edu-cation for his children. He wants them to have better clothes and better things to eat. Education in his way of thinking means better crops, bigger and better livestock. The writer of the article states, "That is why Howard Law quit the U. S. Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, to devote his time to training leaders for 4-H work or for 4-S work as it is called in South America Am-erica meaning saber, sentir, sevier, saude ' or (knowledge, f eeling.service, health) . In addition to work with rural youth, the AIA pays special attention to lending technical assistance to land reform programs and mass |