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It has arisen because of a confusion over last laws relating to education; because of a recent 5 to 4 decision of the Supreme Court in the Evereon case upholding a New Jersey statute which permits school districts to use tax receipts for trans portation of pupils to parochial schools . Now it is raised again, more emphatically, in pending hills for large-scale Federal aid to education. The whole drive for larger Federal aid to education appears likely to be wrecked again, where it has been wrecked before, on the question of parochial schools. Now pending in Senate and House are major bills to raise teachers' salaries and help cor rect school conditions in poorer states. But these bills run head-on into the whole parochial school issue either in what they contain or what they leave out. Here is the story in brief: The founding fathers determined that there should be free exercise of religion and wrote it into the Bill of Rights, but as a counterpart fore bade Congress to pass any law re specting "an establishment of re ligion." The church-school issue began to arise only after World War I and in confused and ambigious form. Today 16 states permit use of public funds for transportation assistance to pa rochial schools;' 12 require Bible reading in school*; 10 allow public school pupils to be dismissed from class to receive religious instruction in school or otherwise. S ; Federal school lunch subsidies are given to pnblic and parochial schools alike. The Supreme Court decided that a religious sect could not be compelled to send its children to public schools. Some of the laws were favored -by Protestants, some by Soman Catho lics. ;Vi; ? . ? Then came the Everson decision of the high court, last October. By 5 to 4, the court held that New Jersey school districts could use public funds, collected from all the taxpay ers, to pay for transportation of Ro man Catholic parochial school stud ents. Taxpayers could be forcad to pay taxes to aid religious training which they did not. support. Strong dissents were written by the minori ty, notable Associate Justices Wiley B- Rutledge and Hugo Black. But the provision is on the books. * With teachers' strikes emphasizing low pay, and illiteracy statistics dis closing the weakness of schools in poorer states, the public rarely has been more conscious of the need for reform. Three million adult Ameri cans never attended any school; ten million adults are virtual illiterates; two million children (6 to 16) were not in any kind of school in 1840; in 1946 the American public spent three times as much for drink as for schools. Hie poorer states spend a larger proportion of tax income for schools than the richer states, but cannot keep up. 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Senator Aiken backs anoth t- These two hills differ greatly in I heir proposed generosity; they dif-i 'er even more profoundly in their I landling of the crucial parochial I tehool issue. j The Taft bill, like the McCJowan bill n the House, seeks to raise the level ut 6260,000,000. Senator Taft is a convert to the! de? that greater Federal aid to ichools ia urgent and that the nation Gsces "a very grave crisis in educa tion." But Senator TWt would not five subsidies to parochial schools.! federal aid would be extended to 'private" schools in a state only in| proportion to what that state already j rives to such schools. In southern itates this is small indeed. The Aiken bill would provide much larger Federal aid to state schools starting with some 6460/006,900 and inding with more than 61,000,000,009 annually. Educationalists, who only sadly compare America's liquor bill ?nth its school bill, feel that the money could be well spent. But many peope deplore the fact that the Aiken Wll by-passes the states on the pa-1 rochial school issue. It would grant direct Federal subsidies in all states. Senator Aiken estimates the amountl rf such subsidies as 660,000,000 an nually. A direct subsidy to parochial j schools seems contrary to some of j America's oldest and most cherished traditions to many observers. They note that efforts to expand Federal! rid to state education have run on the same rode before. Parochial schools ore feeling ria-| in* living coats, and fiene ia strong pressure on Congress to support the Aiken rather than the Taft bill. Even with the new pressure for | school aid, it is doubtful, however, whether the Aiken hill could pass 1 Congress with it parochial school fea ture. In either case, Am showdown is likely to be postponed till the next tension. birth announcement Mr. and Mrs. Emer Hinson an nounce the birth of a daughter, Sa tan Hardy, Thursday, May 8, Caro lina Genera! hospital, Wilson. 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