schools and colleges which are providing the youth of our State with
good educations at no expense to the taxpayers.

I spoke a moment ago of the new problems which have been created
by the technological changes of the past few years. Let me offer you
three separate quotations from three different persons on a single topic:
"Social dynamite, " said one; "A terrible waste of our youth, " said
another; "The most dangerous social condition in America, " remarked
the third. They were all talking about the social and economic problems
that have arisen as a result of youth leaving school untrained for occu-
pations.

It was Abraham A. Ribicoff, the Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare, who called the situation a waste of our youth. It was Dr.
James B. Conant, formerly president of Harvard University, who de-
scribed it as social dynamite. And it was Arthur Goldberg, Secretary of
Labor, who labeled it the most dangerous social condition in the country.

With the unemployment rate running at about 7 per cent, there is a
general tendency among employers to be more particular in their hiring
and to raise new barriers against the uneducated. Consider some of the
economic and social consequences of such a condition. The implications
stretch much further than the problem of the individual who cannot
find a job. The individual and the thousands of others like him end up
on welfare rolls with resultant burdens upon the taxpayers. Not only
that: individuals without cash in their pockets and with time on their
hands frequently run afoul of the law, and thus increase the nation's
crime bill.

The answer to this problem, of course, is more training and more
education. Strayer College has demonstrated both its willingness and
its ability to meet the requirements of the business world and govern-
ment for men and women who are highly trained and highly skilled in
their fields. In so doing, it has elevated the lives of the students, it has
educated and, at the same time, has performed a valuable public
service.

Again, let me congratulate you for modernizing and expanding your
quarters, and accept my thanks once more for inviting me to attend this
significant and impressive ceremony.

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