The Department of State, with the assistance of many private organizations, is steadily increasing its efforts to provide German young people with the opportunity to become good citizens by the standards of democratic tradition.

This is the story of Ernst Hermann Taucher, a likeable young German who has recently gone back to his own country after spending a year in the United States. During that year he lived with an American farm family, attended the local high school, went to the church of his "foster family," and helped with the farm work as the son of any farmer would. He made many friends in the school and in the community. Most important of all, he learned the American way of life by living it. Ernst is one of 576 German boys and girls in the 15-year to 18-year age group who have had or are now having such an experience.