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Dan forth Lecturer Urges More Cultural Spending THE BATTALION Tuesday, February 22, 1966 A noted Latin American au thority declared Friday that the United States' should spend more money to make its great culture known and appreciated. Dr. Jose Maria Chaves, a Dan- forth visiting lecturer, said the truly phenomenal intellectual activity of the U. S. is not gen erally known outside this coun try. “The U. S. has achieved great ness in literature and science — in making the fruits of,higher education and learning available to more people, universities, li braries, concert halls than any other place in the world,” Chaves said. “The U. S. is willing to spend a great deal of money in various development and public informa tion programs abroad, but has not been willing to spend any money to speak of in making its great culture known and appre ciated by the nations it is at tempting to lead,” he continued. “While people of the United States are developing a high de gree of technology and enjoy tre mendous financial and economic wealth, they do not have any greatness when it comes to the humanistic studies or those dis ciplines of a cultural nature,” he added. Chaves, president of the Insti tute Israel-Iberoamerica in New York since 1948, said he favors strengthening existing programs of cooperation between the U. S. and Latin American countries. “U. S. interests can best be served,” he said, “by providing trained leadership and by train ing people for future work in cooperative programs.” Chaves praised the American farmer. “The American farmer is not aware of vital contributions he is making to uphold the position of U. S. leadership in the world and to support U. S. foreign poli cy,” he commented. “The foreign policy of the U. S. is financed in great measure by sale and dis tribution of agricultural sur pluses in the underdeveloped areas of the world. “People are not always aware that the position of the U. S. as a world leader depends to a con siderable extent on relations with Latin America,” Chaves contin ued. “Latin America is the num ber one buyer of U. S. manufac tured products and the number one supplier of strategic and raw materials for American indus tries . . . coffee, tin, gold, plati num, silver, tungsden, boxite, diamonds, bananas and tropical County Officials Conference m/ Studies Retirement System Members of the eighth annual County Judges and Commis sioners Conference heard a pro posed state constitutional amend ment described here last week that would provide a retirement system for all county employees. The amendment was outlined by J. C. Davis of Austin, assist ant attorney general in charge of the state and county affairs sec tion and one of the organizers of the conference. He said Senate Joint Resolu tion Number 4 would authorize the Legislature to provide a state-wide system of retirement, disability and death benefits for all officers and employees of counties, other political subdivi sions of the state and political subdivisions of the county. The proposed constitutional amendment, he said, will be sub mitted to Texas voters at the general election in November of this year. One of the proposal’s provi sion, Davis added, is that the system be operated at the “ex pense of the county or other po litical subdivisions of the state or political subdivision of the county electing to participate.” In other action by the Legis lature which affects counties, Da vis said House Bill 374, as amended, authorizes the Com missioners Court in each county to increase the maximum com pensation of each officer in an additional amount not to exceed 20 percent of the maximum au thorized by the bill. fruits ... to name a few. “I am firmly convinced that the support and cooperation of Latin American nations is abso lutely essential to preservation of the free world,” Chaves em phasized. “If this were not so, the Russians and Chinese would not be making efforts to gain support and influence in the western hemisphere. For in stance, the Chinese are spending $100 million a year in subversive programs and other activities in Latin America alone.” In contrast, the U. S. Infor mation Agency budget for the entire world is only $14 million. Less than four per cent of all U. S. foreign aid is spent in Latin America, he added. Chaves, who has represented Latin America at the United Na tions, criticized the U. S. for sending ambassadors to various countries as a reward for their political support or economic achievements. “If the U. S. sent one of its Nobel Prize winners anywhere in the world and he remarked that he was from the United States, do you think people would say: “Yankee, go home!’ . . . certainly not,” Chaves pointed out. “Latin America is a vast area . . . also eight million square miles . . . with tremendous na tural resources virtually untap ped, undiscovered,” the educa tor-attorney added. “Only four per cent of the land is used for food production for 220 million people. 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