AVC Gains in 'Grass Roots,' Bolte Claims

Pointing to outstanding instances of small-town action by his organization during the past year, Charles G. Bolte, national chairman of the American Veterans Committee, told an audience of over 100 at the University AVC chapter's Anniversary Dinner in the Hotel Continental last night that the current task of liberal groups is to "find roots in the neighborhood on the basis of everyday activities so that when you speak up on matters of world policy people will stop to listen."

Bolte, who conferred earlier in the day with newly-elected delegates to the AVC National Convention, asserted that the most significant but least spectacular success of the AVC during the first year of its constitutional existence has been its ability to integrate chapters into community life across the nation. Membership passed the 100,000 mark this week, he announced.

Bender Speaks

Sharing the platform at the Dinner with Bolte were Wilbur J. Bender '26, AVC member and Dean-elect of the College, Cord Meyer, Jr., of the AVC National Planning Committee, and Edwin H. B. Pratt, State AVC Chairman. Meyer contended that steps toward "strengthening the U. N. in the direction of limited world government" spelled the only way to peace.

At a press conference in the morning Bolte had cited housing as the single item in domestic policy which still occupied the greater portion of AVC's attention. Attacking the Legion's housing program as strangely similar to that of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, he declared that our failure to provide homes for ex-servicemen was "the No. 1 national disaster."