NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1948
THIRTEEN
Education Bill, Root of Civil Rights
Problem, Neglected by the House
By PETER EDSOX
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA) Filibustering Dixlecrat senators win
their battle to sidetrack the ami poll tax and other civil rights bills,
while the real legislation to correct what's wrong goes completely
neglected. This is the Federal Aid to Education bill. It has been
passed by the Senate. But Is now lies dead and buried In the House
Committee on Education and Labor.
If ever anything Is going to be I
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sheer desperation with the two
older parties, which have for so
many years given lip service to
civil rights, without ever having
done anything constructive about
them.
The southern attitude Is, "You
Yankees don't understand this
problem. You have got to give
us time and let us work this out
in our own way. Furthermore,
the problem must be worked out
on a states' rights basis, because
conditions vary from state to
state. Mississippi can't handle It
the way North Carolina or the
Industrialized areas around Birm
ingham or Mobile or Atlanta
would handle It."
The country has been waiting
for over 80 years for the South
"to work this thing out In its
own way." There has obviously
been some progress. There could,
of course, be more. If, however,
It Is still too soon to expect any
broad action, such as outlined In
the president's civil rights pro
gram, then certainly It is not too
much to expect that there should
be more acceptance and wider
support for the Federal Aid to
Education bill.
United States, It must come
through more education. The
principal arugment of the Dixi
crats against granting full ballot
privileges and other civil rights
to the Negroes Is that they are
not educated enough to use in
telligently those guarantees of
freedom and equality guaranteed
them by the Constitution.
If you accept that argument,
you must also accept the fact
that the school systems are at
fault.
Simple figures show what's
wrong. In eight southern states
at the bottom of the list, the
average annual expenditure per
classroom Is less than $1000. The
national average Is $1600.
tchsol Money Needed
Most southern states admit
frankly that they can't afford
to spend more. They can't col
lect enough taxes from their rela
tively poorer populations to give
the Negroes better education and
so fit them for responsible citi
zenship. In this situation, the only rem
edy is through Federal aid to
education legislation, which
would give minimum grants to
all states, but relatively largpr
grants, per pupil, to the poorer
states.
Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft's bill,
which passed the Senate last Ap
ril, would provide for a minimum
expenditure of $50 per pupil per
year. This would be roughly $1500
10 uauu per classroom, i ne total
cost would be $300,000,000 a year.
A companion bill has been ap
proved by a House subcommittee
on education under Rep. Ed
ward O. McCowen, Ohio Republi
can. The National Education As
sociation, which has lobbied for
this bill for many years, believes
It would pass the full House Com
mittee on Education and Labor If
brought to a vote.
But Rep. Fred A. Hartley Jr.,
of New Jersey, chairman of this
full committee, has refused to
bring the measure up. Instead,
he took up the committee's time
at the special session with an
Investigation of Communist infil
tration in New York department
tore labor unions.
If this committee Is really con- transplanted to different rivers
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played in Henry Wallace's third! The Chinook were planted In the
Commercial Crab
Fishing on Oregon
Coast Area Halted
PORTLAND,' Aug. 12
Commercial crabbing off the
Oregon Coast south of Cascade
Head will be closed Aug. 26. Be
cause more than 10 per cent of
the crabs In that area have been
found soft-shelled.
The solt shells occur during
the 'moulting" season. The state
Fish Commission ordered the
closure this week.
Research biologist John Garrett
said 50,000 spring chlnook finger
ling raised at the Bonneville
hatchery have been . planted In
three coast streams as part of
the "salmon housing."
He said the" experiment might
show whether salmon can be
party convention, the prominent
part which Negroes play in the
Communist Party Itself, should
be ample warning to legislators.
South Negllgsnt
If they don't do something
soon to Improve conditions, they
Kllches, Trask, and Wilson rivers
all coastal streams.
Arnie J. Suomcla, master fish
warden, called "poppycock" th
neiiei inai upper toiumma river
salmon runs could be transplant
ed. He urged fish escapement
may wake up some morning to devices along the river, and said
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Oregon women. In line with a
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Increasing numbers to combat the
high cost of clothing, states Miss
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and Mrs. Earl Seely, Glide.
Sackett and his two compan
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