MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART NATIONAI fillf7f.A1)W SIANPAR(lpt, DOCUMENT RESUME 88 168 953 .S0 011 626. TITLE Sixth, National Conference on Citizenship. INSTITUTION Department of Justice, Washington,D.C.; National Education .Association, Washingtone,D.C. PUB DATE May 51 NOTE 140p.; For related documentsf see SO 011 628; Photographs throughout document may not reproduce clearly; Proceedings from the National Conference on Citizenship of the' National Education Association (6th, Washington, D.C., may ,16-20, 1951),_ EDRS PPICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *American Culture; *Citizen Participation; *Citizenship; *Citizenship Responsibility; Civics; Critical Thinking; Democratic Values; *Educational Needs; Educational Objectives; ElementarySecondary Education; Global Approach; Government Role;.higher Education; Leadership Qualities; Leadership Responsibility; Moral Development; Peace; Politics; Social Change;. Socioeconomic Influences; *United States History.; Values; War ABSTRACT The document presents proceedings from the sixthiu a series cf annual national citizenship conferences.Held in WashingtOn, D.C. in 1951, the conferenceserVed as a (forum, where educational, political, business, religious, labor, Civic,and commtinications'leaders could explore functions' and duties 'ofAmericai citizenship. The theme of the confefencewas !!Freedom in One Worldv Today. and toiorrow. Specific concerns of conference speakers included reviewing the reeponsibilitieSof the United States as leader of the free world and defining the role of the UnitedStates in stemming the tidejOf comOunisme Speakers stressed theneed for AmeriCan citizens to pursue active political cooperation,study of political matters, conscientious leadership; andrespect for other people. Topics discussed include education of the foreign-bornfor citizenship, naturalization proceedings and probleiS,world freedom, citizenship in time of.crisis, attitudes,of youth 'toward citizenship, the role of ,the media in a changing world, and citizens! responsibility for freedom.at home and abroad'. Speakersincluded President Harry Truman, the:attOrney general of the United States(J. Bollard McGrath), representatives of the National Education Association, United States,senators from Oregon (WayneMorse) and Tennessee (Estes Kefauver), members of the clergy,educators, media representatives, and young people representing theBoy Scouts of America, 4-H clubs, the National YMCA, the American Legion,and the United World Federalists. (DB) *********************************************************************A* '* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best thatcan be made 7 * from the ,original document. / * **141*************M2P**************************200P*#####***######*****# SIXTH NATIONALCONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP p13,4SHOPYAVAILABLE Under Auspices CC) of the NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION and the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTOF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D. C May 16-20, 1951 "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCETHIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION LWELFARE NATIONA,k-INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE-PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN- TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE- INFORMATION CENTER (BOG)AND, SENTOFFICIALNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF USERS OF THE ERIC SYSTEM.- EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY Published by THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE. , UNITED STATES 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington6, I. C. Aingle copies, 50 cents. Regular NEAdiscounts. ""-- I PAGE THE CLOSINGGENERALSESSION TABLE OF CONTENTS Invocation Hanky 87 ti PAGE Greeting from Ho orary Chairman Barkley '117 JOINT CITIZENSHIP COMMITTEE inside cover Vice PresidentBa kley (picture) OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE .2 88 FRONTISPIECE Canadian Delegate Sends Greetings 4 JPierre.Houle , ' 89 TITLE PAGE 5 Citizen's Responsibility for Freedom Abrod Cunningham. 90 HONORARY SPONSORS Citizenship Seri,ously Threatened Anderson . 97 Americans Need to Relax and Laugh OPENING GENERAL SESSION' Morris 99 Conference Is "Our" Conference Chairman Welcomes Delegates Moierey 9 Kennan 101 Invocation , Defense of American Principles Harris 9 Allen 103 :The Conference IS Off to a Glowing Iu) Conference Helping To Solve Pnablems Miller a Start (pictures) 11p . Awards to ConferenceChairmen)) 1.07 onferences Have drowf:, Evans 12 Conference Comes to Close'/ khe U. S. and World Freedom McGrath 14 Hyatt 109 A Ndto'of Realism Cap 19 ,.Citizenship in Time of Crisis.......... , Morse 22 ADDITIONAL RECORDS Citizens Must Make Right Decisions Truman 28 History 112' THE YOUTH PANEL Reasons for Conference 112 Opening Remarks of Chairman Davis 34 INS Conference and PostConferen Celebration (pictures) Invocation Carney 34 113 Freedom and Citizenship Activities Cunningham,, 35 Plan of the Conference 114 Exhibits Draw Important Visitors (pictures)..... ...... ..... 36 Conference Planning Committee 115 Place of Youth in Conference .. Flynn '40 Planriing Committee Alternates A Citizen's Responsibility (youth panel) 43 116 Chairman of Special Committees 117 THE LUNCHEON SESSION Schedule of Meetings 118 OpeningoRemarks of Chairman Mackey 59 Group Leaders 123 Invocation Gersten' eld . 59 Participating Institutions: OrganizationsAgencies 121 Responsibility for Freedom at Home Cunningham . 60 !Defense Commission Officers 136 Citizens' Are Responsible Kelauver 63 ( Among Those Who Helped Many People Contribute (pictures) 6 136 Press and Radio in a Changing World (mass Attorney General's Committee hiside cover media panel) 73 Conference Broadcast in 40 Linguages (pictured 76 (7) {6} q I SINCE the inception of the CitizenshipConference in 1946,over1,000 organizations and agencieshave participated. These reach nearly every wholesome ac- 'tivity of American life and their membershipembraces almost the entire 150,000,000 population of our country. DEPARTMENT10# JUSTICE PRESS RELEASE I ti:145;* SOCIAL Ear uaa Val TO ItitEMOVED THEmOF 111 IE COIC;ONlF, llkENCF freedomHiOne,odd:/, ido grid onvorro L' -4111AU. V. illillME 1 IVE_S OF. NCE Ali ____---- oYt7e:0;raminethe functions and ISof Ameri UNCEASING ST can citizenship in today's vi/Orlil, To a.st in the developmen ore dynamic pro. INTER ICIPATION cod' s 'unship more effective, cote the ys itnd means by which various organizations may co quite concretl'e y t,o 0 ,v/eitipment ofa more activ c ttened, cone scielitiousi and progressive /, ryin Our country. 4 MUT RI f A IVE CO RATION ENUGHTENE OM' ROMISE EFCTIVE CITIZESO( RARY, ATONAL ED ATION. ASSOCIA1 WASHING ,c)N,b: C,Q 4 ,HONORARY SPONSORS FLORENCE LLEN, judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit OPENING GENERALSESSION ELLIS GIBBS ARNALL, president, Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers EDWARD ARNOLD, .executive vice prAident and treasurer, Permanent Charities Corm Thursday Morning, May17, i'951 mittee of the Motion Picture Industry, Inc. Hums S. BONAR, superintendent, Joliet Township High School and Junior College Mil. HAROLD HITZ IBURTON, chairman, Washington, Society National Civilian 'Re- Chairmaq otConferenceCommittee habilitation, Congressional Club Opens the Sixth Conference WILLIAM G. CARR, associate secretary, Nationailliducation Association THERON LAMAR CAIUDLE,21sistant attotnei.genetal, Department of Justice .The opening general session TOM C. CLARK, justice, Supreme'Coutt of .the United States of the sixth NationalConference onCitizen- ship, ERLE COCKI, JI.,'national commander, The American-Legion held under the aaspices of the National EducationAssociation andthe FRANK J. DELANY, president, The Federal Bar Assoiation UnitedStates Department of Justice, convened at10:15 o'clock,in the Presi- PEYTON FORD, deputy attorney general, United States Department of Justice dential Room, Statler Hotel, PHILLIP FORMAN, judge of the UnitedStates District Court, District of New Jersey Washington, D, C., Miss CormaMowrey, presi- CODY FOWLER, president,'Arnerican Bar Association dent, National EducationAssociation, presiding. .\ WILLARD E. GIVENS, executive secretary, National Education Association FRANKP. GRAHAM, administrator, Defense Manpower Administration4Department of MR. EVAN E. Dos (Superintendent of Schools, Winfield,Kansas; Chair- Labor ' man of the Conference Committee): Ladies and gentlemen, if I WILLIAM GREEN, president, American Federation ti Labor seem to you tbbe unduly excited in Emu, G. HARRISON, former commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service opening this conference, it is becauseI am. It is an A. J. 14AYES, president, International Association of Machinists . honor to me to be able to declare the Sixth National Conferenceon Citizen- HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, United States senator from Minnesota ship now open. CHARLES S. JOHNSON, president, Fisk University It gives me great pleasure ERIC JOHNSTON, administiator, Economicitabiliption Agency to present the chairman of themorning. The W. P. KENNEDY, president, Brotherhood of Railkad Trainmen teachers of America ave accorded Miss Mowrey the highesthonor they can SIDNEY G. Kuswoam, chairman, Commission on Americanism and Civic Affairs, bestow. Miss Mowreyis a lassroom teacher in West Virginia, This.year B'nai B'rith. she is serving as president of th ROY E. LARSEN, chairman, National Citizens Commissionjor the Public Schools , Nitional Education Association,an organization ARGYLE R, MACKEY, commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service of more than halfa million achers ranging all theway from college prem GEORGE MARDIKIAN, president,