September 23, I955 } D.M. letter (Continued from Page 2) Those in the project who had worked in slum communities be- fore considered the project val. uable because it achieved two results which admittedly sound unimpressive. First, many people in the community came to Billy King and the students who were in Des Moines most often for information on Des Moines agencies and how spe- cific problems could be solved. Secondly, Billy got people to meet with each other to work collectively on their problems. Our overwhelming difiiculty was finances. The attempt at Grinnell sponsorship of the proj< ect was impractical. We faced a cyclic problem from the first. Without money the project couldn’t operate, but without results no one was willing to give money. showed a mistrust of the proj- act. I think the doubt smse irorn two factors that we didn’t fully anticipate before the proj- ect was introduced to the cam- pus in general. The first is that Billy King, the community or- ganizer who lived in Des Moines, was a slum person him self, This, while enabling him to communicate more effective- ly with the people in the com- munity, meant he could not speak to students on the aca- demic level to which Grinnell is accustomed Secondly, the project was so distant that it had to be controlled by Billy himself. Obviously, the mistrust was never overcome. I think that most people who worked on the project would agree that it had the potential of being valuable as a long term effort. but the immediate problems were insurmountable — Janet Rae Smith Furthermore, the project@—— turned out to be expensive be- yond our wildest expectations. The basic expenses which we had to meet constantly were travel to and from Des Moines once a week if not more often, paper and printing lor the com- munity and college both (we probably printed an average or 500 sheets of paper per week). and support 0! one person. 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