Show EXCHANGE STUDENTS German Youths to Learn About U.S. Living in Rural Homes By Anne M. Mattingly Washington Bureau people are so nice and It's wonderful to be able to say whatever you want to In I'm so happy to be This statement by one of the 74 German teen-agers who arrived in this country recently to study our agricultural methods under a joint national grange and state department accurately represents the collective sentiments of the group as they looked for the first time on the American way of These youngsters are to be sent to grange homes throughout the a large number going to and There the will become of the will help on the and will attend the local Tre homes have all been and in most cases the boys and girls were given a choice of the type of farm on which they wanted to The financing while here will be done completely by the grange families in return for the farm work that the youths Although this program of the state department and the national grange Is one of It represents for the most part an opportunity for foreigners to see not only our agricultural methods but also to study our national philosophy and the manner In which we It Is hoped that after a year In this the students will Inject Into their native Germany upon their a good deal of what they have Other alms of the program include youth and agricultural This group of 74 represents only a small part of the entire There will be German teenagers sent to study here this but the total from Germany during the including all age will be almost in is still only a part of the of program inaugurated by President Truman last year which brought persons from 55 countries to the United States to and ABOVE THE teen-age there are Farmers young men and women in their from and who do much more traveling than the younger They shift from home to home and learn all types of whereas the teen become of one family for a year while they go to Since only about one in ten of the group of 74 which arrived recently can speak It might be assumed that language would be a great barrier to their American there was a girl In a similar group last year within a had learned English well enough to compete with her fellow pupils on their own Officials of the state department and the grange praised the teachers in our schools to whom fell the task of educating these The extra time spent with them and the understanding given them did much to aid the rapid adjustment of the Upon their arrival In New this latest and first such group of German teen-agers were whisked down to Washington where In a spent part of their second day in this country writing home to their families to let them know of their safe arrival and to tell of their first While In they met Herschel master of the national who welcomed them to this country and added that he hoped the Americans with whom they came In contact would learn as much about Germany as the students did about America that in order to be the program had to be The group also met Harold of the exchange of persons division of the state who summed up the whole purpose of the program with his quotation from Charles I hate that Lamb Is reported to have do you know someone course replied I knew him I wouldn't hate through the immediate sphere of the study of and the greater and broader one of human this program can continue to aid In the cause of international it will be a great boon not only to this but to the entire If knowledge and understanding are there is less chance of |