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schools? Bigger
Is the First
to the Bill of Rights,
"Congress shall make no laws
respecting, the establishment of re
ligion," being threatened?
That question is being asked in
Washington. 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.
These statistics are on record.
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re so low ?a to be hardly believable. |
few York spends KIM * ,
nit; Mississippi spends *400.
heir place of Msfk some Americans (
to a sort of i
way both in I
l?Mte and House to hoeat FWemli
M to schools, particularly in pl
t?to#. Senator Tsft, who ia not re-1
raided aa a spendthrift, ia backing!
?e bill. 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
<f school expenditures to a minimum
if 140 a pupil a year, and to this end
vould grant to poorer states equal!*-}
ng funds, the total starting at about I
1160,000,000 a year and rising to a
K>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. Mrs.
Hinson is the former Mis* Thelma
Hardy of Snow Hill
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isked the bus driver.
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teep the statistic to myself."
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