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The statement said that, "President Johnson was
told today that the 14,000,000 Americans living in abject
rural poverty are a 'national disarace' to the world's
richest nation.
"In a IO-paqe report issued last September and
released by the White House today, a special national ad-
visory commission warned that riots are rooted in rural
poverty and indicted Government, private enterprise and
citizenry for indifference to the problem."
The article goes on: "Describing the misery
in which the rural poor live, the report spoke of Negro
children who do 'not get enough food to sustain life, and
(are) so disease ridden as to be beyond cure.'
"It drs-ribed the rural poor as living in
'atrocious houses and going to poor schools with the result
that nore than 3,000,000 rural adults are classified as
illiterates.
"'In both educational facilities and opportuni-
ties, the rural poor have been short-changed,' it declared."
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