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GEORGE S. RENSON
'raldtHt'JXantiHg College
Seaeeg. JrJuuuet
Federal Aid
School teachers are influential
people. They choose their call
ing as a rule because they love
children, and love influences chil
dren. Youngsters, in turn, control
their homes and parents more
than they realize; In ways they
don’t know about. Thus a good
teacher is a power in the com
munity. Any politician could cut
quite a splash if only he could
line up all the teachers behind
him.
The idea is not new. Starts are
made in that direction often. Plans
to halter the public schools of
America in a bureaucratic tread
mill have come before Congress
four times since 1937. They have
failed every time but each new
attempt shows more strength. The
most recent one, discussed in this
column exactly a year ago, gained
enough momentum to get talked
about from Bangor to Burbank.
Maybe Nine Live*
This latest sally on the public
school system was led by Senator
Lister Hill of Alabama, helping
Senator Elbert D. Thomas of
Utah. The bill, <S. 367) as fin
ally rejected by the 78th Con
gress, is dead but the senators’
ambitions can still wiggle. Hill is
campaign now for re-election on
a platform of “federal aid to edu
cation”, and that’s been a hobby
of Thomas’ for a long time.
The issue will be revived. Poli
tical problems have a way of
coming to life repeatedly until
they are cured, and this one is
not cured.
Teachers have a right to earn
as much in the classroom as they
might get for manual labor in a
factory and, until teachers’ pay
is adjusted, state school author
f ities will have their troubles born
of somebody’s mistakes; maybe
their own.
Money Has Power
Federal aid to education, if it
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comes, will be federal control of j
schools eventually, whether the
author of the bill wants it or not.
Whoever signs the checks can
compel obedience to orders, even |
from teachers. Obviously most
public school systems need, not
federal support, but better state
support. There are at least six
good reasons. Three are plain and
practical, the others basic.
<1> Federal control would cost
taxpayers more for the same re
sults than state control: an extra
handling charge. Federal con- j
trol of schools would make one |
more huge bureau with an army
of henchmen in a maze of pyra-I
miding salaries. <3> Federal con
trol will ride down traditions.:
How the South will fester at the
first successful effort to seat white,
and colored children together at
school. It might easily result in
wide-spread violence.
Wrong in Principle
The foregoing objections are
practical ones. But it is wrong in
principle to rob parents of their!
influence in public schools. (4)!
Concentrating school funds in the
hands of far-away strangers is
saying to all parents, “Hands off
school!” <5> It is also fruitful of
racketeering. 6> Worse yet, it vio
lates the principle of state sov
ereignty which is the backbone of
American freedom.
Any time rich Washington sets
up a W. P. A for teachers, local
school revenue will start drying
up. Soon the U. S. Treasury will
be footing all bills and that sug
gested 200 million dollars a year
increase in pay for teachers will
not be a drop in the bucket. In
many states teachers need and de
serve more pay. If it comes the
people will pay it and they’d bet-;
ter handle it locally. A local so
lution to the problem is possible
anywhere.
GRANT JACKSON
ILL OF PNEUMONIA
Grant Jackson, of the Miners
and Merchants’ Bank, has been
taken to the Maynard Columbus j
Hospital, suffering from pneumon-i
ia. He is reported today as slight
ly improved.
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Soldiers
Vie on ’Ball
Tournament
FORT RICHARDSON Alaska—
Approximately 150 soldiers have
put aside routine Army duties
temporarily and gathered at this
Army post for a tournament
which will decide the soJcior soft
ball championship for the Alaska
mainland.
A tournament will get under
way simultaneously at an Aleu
tian base to determine the champ
ion teams of the Aleutian area,
and the No. 1 teams of the two
tourneys will play a three- out-of
five series beginning July 2r<
weather permitting, for tht aii
Alaska championship The Aleu
tian winner will journey to this
post for the play-offs.
On-the-scene word descriptions
of the games will be transcribed
and expedited to radio stations a’ [
each of the posts to enable sol- j
diers to keep up with the champ
ion softballers of their own posts.
Many participants of the vari
ous teams have semi-pro exper
ience n either softball or regu
lar baseball, as well as having
played in American Legion lea
gues throughout the States.
For example, pitching for the
Kodiak Bombers is Technician
Fourth Grade Leslie Lees, who i
nitched a St. Louis, Mo., softball
team to the national champion
ship in 1940. He compiled an
outstanding record that year, in
cluding six no-hit, no-run games
in a row—63 consecutive score
less innings—striking out 25 bat
ters n one game. In league play
this season. Sergeant Lees chalked
up four no-hit games and allow
ed a total of only five hits in the
other four games to lead his team
to the post championship.
Not all the stars had a lot of
experience prior to army partici
pation. Cpl. Mervil Willoughby, a
bank clerk of San Jose, Calif., is
one of these and he is the lead
ing slugger of the Prince Rupert
club, sporting a .479 batting aver
age which includes 23 runs-bat
ted-in and has scored 21 times
himself. The Prince Rupert ag
gregation enters the tournament
with a 28-game winning streak
working, and a team batting av
erage of .327, which would be
the envy of any big league man
ager.
Regardless of the outcome of
the finals, winners of the two
semi-final tourneys, which are
being played on a double elimi
nation basis, are assured a week’s
all-expense furlough at the Mt.
McKinley U. S. Army Recreation
Camp. Two of the teams in the
mainland tournament represent
U. S. Army posts in Canada.
Inaddition to this, every play
er participating in the tournament
will be given a certificate by the
Alaskan Department and the first,
second and third place winners in
each of the semi-finals will be
awarded trophies.
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