Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-05
sTERLING-ToWNER BILL.
Stevenson Shows Fallacy of Objec-
tions.
n Stntn SnnlaY.

Columbia State, Sunday.
REPRESENTATIVE w. +. Stevenson, oi
the Fifth district, renominated Wltn-
out opposition last Tuesday. SENDS the
following statement from Montrc;lt' ~
c.. about the Sterling Towncr BILL Tor
the extension of Federal aid to puDhc
schools:
"a controversy seems to have arisen
in rarts of the state about the Ster-
Iing-Towner bill and the main reason
assigned in opposition is that IL VIII
give the United States government
control of our schools and result III
giving us mixed schools. AS TO that
matter, congress has controlled tne
schools of Washington, ID. G., Tor oo
years and has been Republican 81
years of that time and yet the races
are separated. having one set of public
schools for whites and one for colorcd.
II congress doesn't force colorcd peo-
ple and white people to 20 to school
together where il has held the power
since the Confederate war, why sup
pose or surmise that it will do so where
il has no power to DO so and seeks no
such power?
The right of control by the states is
specifically provided in the bill. The
national government merely supple
ments state aid to schools in trying to
bring the children of backward COM
munitics out or the darkness into the
light. It does this as to roads, and no
body objects. Indeed, they claimed 1ar
more and this year congress appro-
priatcd $750O00OO for roads and all
South Carolinians were for it.
Are roads more important than
childrcn's minds?
Congress appropriated money to
send and maintain agents to extend
agricultural knowledge in every coun-
tv. TO eradicate ticks and tuberculosis
from cattle and cholera from hogs.
and foot and mouth disease and other
diseases of domestic animals.
Aren't the diseases OF dHrkencd
minds and unframed intellects OF chill
dren more dangerous to the nation
than those of animals? Jesus Christ
healed man on the Sabbath day and
the pharisCcS began TO swell M be-
cause he violated the Sabbath. He said
to them which of you having an OK Or
IN ass fallen into the ditch will not
s,rnightway pull him out on the Sab
bath" He Silcnccd them because they
had to conCcdc tilat- man was worth
more than beast. Yet our PhariSces
do not seem to conCcdC that.
"Rcccntly the th-TOwncr bill
passed and became n law making pro-
vision for assisting the state and corn-
try in caring for mothers in the time
of childbirth. to insure the best cHr" Of
the child possible at its advent into
the world. The counties Of South Car
Olina fell over themselves to get their
respective pro rata of the money ana
nobody thought ii would result in any
harm 10 the state. But why provide
for proper caro- ut birth and not h"lD
provide for ii during its development?
again the agricultural colleges. in
CludinC Clemson, receive under the
MoIrill fund and land script fund large
appropriations from the government.
Clemson receives about $4,000 annu-
ally. Has there been amy domination
by the United States govcrnm mt Of
that school? If il is; good thing '"r
the boys in college 10 have help, why
not also for the children i'm school, u
vast majority of whom never reach
college?
"Thcrc are two classes Of people on
posing tho bill First, tho extreme
states rights gruup who ar%u" that to
allow the United States 10 aid the
schools is to ACCEPT domination hy the
United States. The instances given
above answer that contention.
Second. an ecclesiastical class who
argue that the government has no
right to take any action relative TO cd
ucaiion in the stat"s. They fear com
petition with church schools. The Ro-
man Catholic church and the Knights
of Columbus, it's vcrlc sCmi-ScculaI'
organize ton principally represent that
:.rouu. Their position is shown to loo
Unicnahlc. when I'll rCm"mhcr that for
mary years the Indian schools Of that
church have solicited and received