European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 06, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \esj.kilpa7rick sunday August 6, 1978 the stars and stripes Page is lad news Congress Lay set up a new left. Of education Post leave Home without it a we have some bad news and use news. The bad news is that a committee has recommended  that Congress create a new in enl of education. The worse news me Bill probably will pass. I. The new department will arrive on Islington scene As the second vast in racy created at the request of a Titt who campaigned against the Creol vast bureaucracies. His first bom the department of Energy already ing on weight. Same arguments that resulted in the Ament of Energy Are being heard in n of a department of education. All eggs it is urged should be placed Basket. Such a reorganization wed will result in greater efficiency positive savings. A Small sceptical might suggest that the reorganize  More Likely result in further  in and larger expenditures any event the Senate committee has Gether a Bill that would Lump most of overment s programs of education i single massive department with 23. Ploy yes and a budget of roughly $18 in. Some Large details remain to be de out. Chiefly having to do with lunches but the grandiose outlines Clear. They form a thoroughly de eng picture. New department of education have its own Secretary of course an under Secretary a first assistant rotary and seven other assistant Secre is for child development. Indian Edu on. Child nutrition elementary and Sidary education Post secondary Edu on occupational adult and Community cation and educational research and Iro vement. There would be two More instant secretaries to assist the assistant caries. The Bill Calls for an inspector ral a general counsel and an office of rights. In the classic pattern the new depart l would have an advisory Council this would be composed of 22 members. Fully chosen according to the rules of Enisz. With no More than 11 from the me political party. The members would Rve part time. An executive director h staff would serve full time. The coun in the fashion of All advisory councils Irio Mically would deliver advice that no will Lake. The Bill goes on and on. The office Olivit rights would have a staff of 1.100 division at child nutrition would have.4 billion to spend. The division of ele in and secondary education would Cut 54 billion in Grants. Someone in the mazes of this bureaucracy would de liver a s500.000 Grant to the University olo Regon for the Wayne Morse chair on Law and politics " this is one More baby Behemoth no gifts of prophecy Are required to see the trends that lie ahead. As resistance to High school taxes grows stronger the financing of Public education will Drift steadily to Ward the Federal Treasury at the moment Federal funds provide about 8.3 percent of the total spent on Public schooling the National education association is pushing toward the Day when Federal taxes will cover one third of the Cost. Federal controls already exert heavy and often Deci Sive pressure on local decisions the controls will get tougher and tighter As the equalizers lobby for identical per Pupil expenditures  upon a time education was wholly the responsibility of the Stales and the localities. The Senate Bill contains one perfunctory sentence giving lip service to that tradition. But the effect of the pending Bill would be to accelerate the process of Ero Sion and to Vest Ever expanding Power in Washington. He who pays the Piper Calls the tune. This May be a new department of education but its creators Are teaching old lessons. A of Jeloni  in Tow column of cartoon an out do rms Tell Tom m in no to the Contd rat m  to vow o the Ster 3 or la United set gov Trowt. Tom Wicker project has grim message for kids in an echoing meeting Hall at the Fishkill . Correctional Center an in mate called Duke glared menacingly around a half Circle of 12 teen aged youths White and Black. They stared Back at him with Blank faces somehow More defiant in their apparent boredom than they might have been in  Many you go s think you re oin to jail 1 Duke demanded none pro to or ?" Duke said in mock sur prise. Nobody s Goin to jail How Many you Guys smoke Herb a few hands went up How Many been in trouble with the to Leece More hands went up feet shuffled. A i can Tell you Duke said. He gestured at several inmates in Green prison garb set Ting behind torn his voice Rose my Broth ers can to you. You goin1. Man you bang-in1 out with a Bunch of dudes you got to go that s the Law of  he looked around the Circle again spoke quietly earnestly Hangin out print  said Lonnie Wilkins. Another a mat. Who followed Duke to the Center of the Circle. I was your age. I was Tayin a w 3 Hooky Drinkin that liquor Hangi nout cot caught stealing shoes the judge it me to trainT1 school Only it was a Ruoo for children. J came out of there really Tough Murgui. . Hangout i thought i was Slick Man. He t33lj boys about dog a stretch m Comstock you got to fight m that i his drug Habil i i was Uhn to body Roget a or get killed try to Sll july he got aught St a Keg up a drugstore when a tee Untoma Kot Barret  his head and old hint kit you move a muscle. J � blow your brain Oul the Annie had somebody ing. Please Don t kill me. Please that was me Talkin Lonnie said Man. Liat killed my Tough Guy image of Maseu right  he was turned Dow when he tried to cop a plea for a 5-to-10 year sentence went to trial and got 10-to 20  Don t even see the parole Board for 10  Lonnie told the boys slumped in their hard a Reikai chairs but in prison he d columns comments finished High school started College i m Learnin to think because i m Here for not thinking he finished with quiet intensity Don t leave Here and say you did t  is the essential Point of project Yap Youthful assistance program organized and paid for by inmates. It has brought its grim message to nearly 1.000 Young people most of them visiting fish kill for Tough profane frightening frequently moving rap  most like the dozen teen agers listening to Duke and Lonnie. Had already been in trouble wit the Law but were too Young for prison. Sometimes project Yap speakers Are Al Lowed to go outside to speak to Young peo ple and their parents at High schools or Community organizations always the aim is the same to con Vince youngsters on the Edge of crime and prison including some delinquent girls that there s nothing Good about come. Be cause it leads to prison and prison is hell one of the founders of the program. Melva Defendini i known As Bluet a bearded White Man who angrily prowled the floor m front of the listening kids like a Tiger in a Cage summed it up we re the example of what you Don t want to be like nothing Cool nothing Ilick most of the inmate be ures. Delivered m Street argot that the 12 youths clearly understood. Were too profane to be reported Here. They told of violence rape loneliness the crushing boredom the smells and noises and despair of prison life. One Blac inmate detailing his years in Clinton. Sing sing Auburn and Fishkill. Pointedly reminded the White youths you White lads y All Are the minorities in these  Turkell. A tall White Man de scribed As a former pharmacologist doing l-to-15 on narcotics charges delivered a graphic anti drug lecture you think an gel dust is nothing. It s coot. We just shoot it up elephants to Tranquiline  under new York state Law. He reminded them give a joint to a Friend you e a  to the one or two who admitted having taken Ltd. He pointed out that even when made by the highest standards there were five bad batches out of every 12 but you la put bad stuff in your bodies cause it s Cool a Middle class businessman imprisoned for embezzlement the Only reason he survives in  says Blue is we look after nun i. Quietly warned i never believed i d be in prison either and it s ruined my whole  boys Beard his words from their Blank faces no one could Tell if they were hearing anything else