WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS,

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,
Princeton, N.J., May 22, 1964.

Representative CHARLES A. BUCKLEY, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. BUCKLEY: Under separate cover, we have sent you a copy of the report of the Conference on Appalachian Development, which was held at the Woodrow Wilson School in March. The report dealt with six general aspects of Appalachian development-public welfare, manpower development, social overhead development, land resource development, industrial development, and the organization of assistance. In many respects the report endorses the proposals of the President's Appalachian Regional Commission, though it is critical of the pasture improvement program and some aspects of the highway aid program.

The report offers several additional recommendations for Federal action such as Federal aid to education and accelerated depreciation allowances for investment in depressed areas. We hope you will find the report of interest and of relevance to your hearings on H.R. 11065.

Sincerely yours,

BLAKE SMITH, Conference Chairman.

REPORT OF THE

CONFERENCE ON

APPALACHIAN

DEVELOPMENT

Organized by The Graduate Students of

THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton University

"A Rationale for Appalachian Development," Blake W.H.Smith 62

"Appalachia, the Case for a Regional Approach to Develop

ment," Jack Krauskopf

65

"The Case for a National Approach," Gordon MacInnes

66

"The Strategy of Development," Ray Close

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"A Note on the Role of Education," Thomas Seessel
"An Educational Program for Appalachia," Mac Destler
"A Case for Urbanization as a Policy," Jack D. Herrington
"The Case Against Urbanization as a Policy," Robert Gay
"The Case for a More Decentralized Approach," Sid Gardner
"The Inadequacy of Decentralization," Michael Lipsky
"The Case Against Regional Incentives for Industrial
Development," Henry P. Gassner

"The Case for an Appalachian Resource Development
Corporation," Alan G. Bischoff

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Introduction

The Conference on Appalachian Development, organized by the graduate students of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, took place in Princeton on March 20 to 22 of 1964. It was attended by seventeen students from West Virginia University, the University of Kentucky, Cumberland College, Pikesville College, and Berea College, by forty two students from the Woodrow Wilson School and the departments of economics and politics of Princeton University, and by twenty three authorities on various aspects of Appalachian affairs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Chairman of the President's

Appalachian Regional Commission, declared in his keynote speech that "the only war we want in Appalachia is a war on want." Thirty years ago one third of the nation was ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed; today, he said, our task is to enable the lower fifth of our population to take its place in our fantastically affluent society. Mr. Roosevelt outlined some of the developmental proposals contained in the report of the President's Appalachian Regional Commission.

These proposals were the focus

of discussion throughout the weekend.

The delegates and authorities divided into six commissions

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on Public Welfare, Manpower Development, Social Overhead Develop

ment, Land and Resource Development, Industrial Development, and

the Organization of Assistance.

In each of the commissions, the

delegates and resource authorities discussed the adequacy of the