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Editorial and Opinion Federal Aid To Schools The hill pending in Congress to provide federal aid to the states for schools has come in for considerable discussion be cause of its many ramifications. T he outcome of action in the lower house is awaited with much interest by our state administration as well as local school authorities. # As might have been expected, one of the clearest and most forceful arguments presented in connection with its consid eration by the Senate was that of Dr. Frank Graham, the new Senator. Regarding federal control, which has loomed as a ' boogaboo in many quarters, he told the Senate: “The federal aid bill itself provides federal guarantees against federal control of state and local school poliicies and gives assurance of state and local control of the selection of administrators, teachers, curricula, text books, general poli cies ahd state constitutional provisions. With the adoption of this bill the states and localities would provide approvi mately nine-tenths and the federal government approximate ly one-tenth of the general fund for the elementary and sec ondary schools of the nation—$300,000,000 out of approx imately, $3,000,000,000. The opponents and proponents of federal aid for the schools, along with the overwhelming ma jority of the American people, are against federal control of the schools. It is not federal control but honest bookkeeping to require. (1) that the federal funds supplement and riot supplant present state funds; and (g) to require that since the number of school children constitute one of the grounds for the allocation of federal funds, that every child receive his share of the federal funds apportioned to the state by count ing him. To distribute the funds inequitably between the races would be a dishonest use of federal funds appropriated and accepted on one basis and then misappropriated on another basis. , "To use the federal power to withhold federal aid from the states, having racial segregation in the public schools as ‘ a matter of state policy, would be an exercise of federal con trol of state and local schools. An amendment for such federal sanctions against the states would result in the defeat of the federal aid bill; would deny desperately needed addi tional funds to the very children who need them most; would cause a setback rather than an advance in the recent increas ingly equitable relations of the races in the South; and would give new power ro the demagogues against the men and wo men of good will of both races who tvork steadfastly, intelli gently,-prayerfully, and progressively at this complex prob lem of the races in the religion of its heaviest concentration anywhere in the world. “The purpose of the federal aid bill is not more central- . ization of control of the schools in the national government but-more equalization of opportunity for all the children in all the states. In taking this position in opposition to fed eral sanctions against the Southern States, we hold that fed eral aid to the states for the schools is a next step toward the fulfillment of the historic American dream for the equal opportunity, freedom, and dignity of all people. In taking this simple step for more equal opportunity we still hold on no our religious faith that all people are inherently children of God and brothers of all men whom “God has made of one blood to dwell on the face of the earth.” An amendment for using federal sanctions-against the Southern States would defeat the federal aid bill, would block one Of the next steps toward the equalization of opportunity, and increase the .. present prisis inr-tha schoois;-r——----— Salute To Alamance Alamance County’s gigantic Centennial celebration is ~ moving forward with the force and momentum it deserves. From' the opening event, the activities have been impressive and colorful. Evert the rain has not dampened the spirits of v—■ the celebration’s promoters nor the success.of events them selves. To those who have borne the brunt of..the work in connection with the undertaking, we hand a sinceie salute. Visitors from Orange County, from Guilford, from all over the area are finding much of interest and delight. We of fer our congratulations to the moving forces in Alamance who conceived and carried the undertaking to its present point. - THE NEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday by THE NEWS,, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C.v . Edwin J. Hamlin..Editor and Publisher Community Representatives—Miss Elizabeth Kirkland, New Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. C. H. Pender, Cedar Grove; Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, Mebane; Mrs. Marinda McPher son, Hillsboro Negro Community; Mrs. Golden Sellars, Chapel Hill Negro Community. Manager, Chapel Hill Bureau, Miss Willie Gee. SUBSCRIPTION RATE8 1 Year (in North Carolina) .... 6 Months (in North Carolina) .. 1 Year (putside North Carolina) . 8 Months (outside North Carolina) ... Member North Carolina Press Association $2.00 .. $1.50 $2.50 .. $2.00 Awarded First Place. General1 Excellence by North Caro ’ lina Press Association for 1946. Exclusive National Advertising Representative * Greater Weeklies | Ww York •‘ Chicago • Detroit • Philadelphia £ A*******************************^ Thursday, May is, 1949 PRESS COMMENT Eye On Scott From The West A GOVERNOR TO WATCH (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Governor Kerr Scott Of North Carolina is.. a State »executive who believes, in making real use of his appointing power.' Just a month ago, he resisted all the appeals of professional politi cians in his State for him to appoint them to a vac4hcy in the United States Senate. Governor Scott’s choice was the distin guished one of Frank Porter Graham, president of the Uni versity of .North Carolina and one of the country’s outstanding educators and progressive lead ers. The North Carolina Governor has now made another appoint ment which breaks with politi— cal tradition. To his State’s Board of Education he has named a Negro—the first such appointment in North Carolina history. His choice is Dr. H. L. Trigg, Whoeamed a master’s degree at Syracuse University, in New York, and now is presi dent of St. Augustine College in Raleigh. Why did Governor Scott ap point Dr. Trigg? He could not have had better reasons. Be cause his nominee was “well qualified” and because "it was time the State recognized its Negro citizens and accorded them a voice on State boards.” Kerr Scott is a Governor to Watch. If he puts as much thought and' independence into all his appointments as he has in these, the country is going to hear more of him. FARMERS ALL (The News and Obserevr) The story is told that back in the early days of the Truman administration when men from the 'President’s State of Missouri seemed to have the inside track for the best jobs, two govern ment officials were discussing a difficult problem. One was sure he had the right answer. The other one was un convinced and used the old-time expression from the “Show Me State.”' “I’m from Missouri,’ he said. The other grinned. “Who isn’t, these days?” Something of the same sort attfinds the North Carolina ad ministration of Fanner Kerr Scott. Everybody apparently, who wants or gets a State job, is a farmer. The Governor wants, as he said in Manteo, for his new highway commission, men “near to the earth and to the people who need the roads worst.” And everybody appar ently is getting nearer .and nearer to'tKe farm. The new ABC Board Chief R. W. Win ston of Raleigh, the Governors announcement says, “operates a large farm in Johnston bounty.” . And Secretary of State Thad Eure takes his routine role in the' celebratioiT of “Straw Hat Day” as a “country boy’.” Peo ple who once called themselves doctors are now “farmers-and— doctors.11 Motors transport op erators are “farmers-apd-truck ers.” There* are farmer-mer chants, dentist-farmers, auto dealer-farmers, banker-farmers. And a lot of city dwellers who make-most of their money and spend most of their time in town are just “farmers.” Governor Scott is certainly right in believing that a State so largely rural as North Carolina should draw heavily upon its best rural brains and leadership in the government of the State. But both he and the State in creasingly need a definition of the word “farmer”’ If a farmer is anybody who owns a piece.qf land in the country, it is to be hoped that that does not elimi nate all those in the country ] who don’t own any land. Cer tainly if a definition eliminated plow handle some of our leading all those who never put hand to Opportunity You can go just a% tar; as your ability and energy ’(trill take you in the new.U^.S. Arihy andtT.S.Air'Foi-ce. No artificial barriers stand in yoiir path. Sixty-five World War II generals start ed as privates. Chances for getting ahead are greater to day than ever before. In come increases with each promotion. Young men, here is opportunity. America’s Finest Men Choose U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force' Careers v * LOCAL RECRUITING STATION Depositors National Bank . Bldg. 123 West Main St. Durham, N. C. I And How He Bitett Bulldozer For Hire By Hour or By Day Call f-3862, Chapel Hill tor your flowers,^ West-Williams FLOWER SHOP Phone 9906 CarrW, John P. Ballard Insurance Agency Complete Insurance Service Hillsboro OHS CONGRATULATIONS —to the— TOON® MEN’S STORE on its modern, up-to-date Building and complete, new store I SHUE’S GROCERY Phone.327* Hillsboro Avenue “farmers” would be disqualified. Of course, there are good fanners who live in town, some of them in bigger houses than that one which belongs to the banker. Also there are some city “farmers” who are interest ed in the land and the people on it only to exploit both. There are bad farmers in the country;, indeed, some of those fartherest back in the hollow at the head of the creek and beyond the end of the road are there because they are bad farmers!. Farming is-no more divided by the city limits than manufacturing is. Some of our newest mills now stand where the cotton grew. The important thing is not the label “farmer” but the spirit of understanding of the needs of a still largely rural State. Whet Governor Scott is seeking and what this State needs is that “independent yeomanry” which old man Thomas Jefferson be lieved to be the best basis for hope of good government in a free land. North Carolina still keeps the pattern best and that pattern is still North Carolina’s best hope. A THOUGHT FOR TOQAY A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. S. T. Coleridge. -o God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.—Yiddish Prov erb. , My opinion is that the future good or bad conduct of a child entirely depends upon the mother. —Napoleon I.' A spoilt qbild never loves its mother.:—Henry Taylqj-. . Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little chil dren.^—W. M. Thackeray. ; . -o—.— The hand' that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. —W. R. Wallace. A good way to use old soap scraps is to grate them into chips on a household grater or if very dry, put them through a food chopper. 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