1 j (.raining of a few thousand for I eigners" than it spends for th? j more than .3.400.000 boys, girls ! and adults in the public school systems of this country Mr. Abbitt pointed out that un der the progress of the State De partment. International Educa tional Exchange. Technical As sistance. and the Mutual Security Agency, 16.728 persons were in volved in a far-flung educational I program among foreign countries I at a cost of $49,807,417 in fiscal ! year of 1952. In the same year. , Mr. Abbitt said, the federal gov i rnment provided only S26.4O3.O0u | i for all vocational education in the | United States. He emphasized j that the foreign program, while I costing twice that of the program ! m this country, involved less than j 17 000 persons, while at home 3.400.000 were involved More Funds Mr. Abbitt said tlmt in the re cent presidential budget submit ted to congress even larger funds were requested for overseas ex penditure for vocational and I technical education while no in crease was recommended for the program at home. The appropriation for vocation- j al education, including vocational agriculture, distributive educa tion. home economics, and trade end industrial education for tiie coming year totals $25,958,383.08. i Of this. $18,673,861 is recoin- ; mended for the program set up under the George-Barden Act j and $7,285,122.03 under the automatic allocation from the i Smith-Hughes Act The Fourth District Congress man cited figures to show tiiat the increase in foreign expendi tures for the educational pro- ; grams nearly doubled m the past year. For fiscal yem of 1951. the government m a d e available slightly over $28,000,000 for the program. The breakdown for fis cal year of 1953 is not vet avail- 1 able.

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