The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-09
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which characterized D.. Graham
as being ''the fightingest Marine in
the first World War"
"As to being the fighten'est Ma
rine in the first World War;" D..
Graham said in opening his ad-
dress, II might say that while the
United States was in a state of
war I was in the State of Penn
sylvania.
DR.. Graham's address was built
around two bills now pending in
the House Of Representatives in
Washington, and sponsored by
Senator Lister Hill, of Alabama,
of whom DR.. Graham said, 1T
does my heart good to see a South
ern boy taking the lead in such
legislation.
The two bills are concerned with
Federal aid to help individual
States build hospitals. and with
Federal aid to State schools.
DR.. Graham commended North
Carolina for taking the lead in hos
pital legislation which would take
medical care and health centers to
rural areas, and which would also
enlarge the two-year medical school
at the University Of North Caro-
lima into a four year medical
school.
"Thirty-four counties in North
Carolina do not have a single hos
pital," DR.. Graham said. "And as
for the medical school at the Uni
versity, unless it is expanded it will
die under the policy pursued by the
American Medical association
Concerning Federal aid to State
schools, DR.. Graham said, III
Southern congressman would gel
busy this bill would already have
passed. BY one congressional act
we can accomplish as much as we
can in six years Of effort.
Many mid-western businessmen
to whom I have talked think this
Federal aid to schools is charity
to the South. Charity! The South
has been giving since Appamattox.
The shift from the slave labor to
the machine age, which ! whole
heartedly approve, left the South
behind. ! want the South to be
an equal partner with the rest Of
the United States," he said.
Continuing his strong plea for
Federal aid, DR.. Graham made
the following points to bolster his
argument:
1.-The rural people Of America
produce 81 per cent of the chill
dren and receive only nine per cent
of the national income.
2-The Southern people are re-
sponsible for 81 per cent of the
children OF the nation and receive
only eight per cent of the income.
3-The Southern people eco
nomically support and educate
these children when they are non
productive. a large proportion OF
whom In their productive years,
migrate and build up other sections.
4-In rural America, and in the
South as a whole, excepting North
Carolina, the support Of the public
schools is by taxation. mainly, on
land and local property where it
is, which cannot be shifted where
az in the great industrial and H.
wealth il increasingly shifted to
the consumers Of all sections.
5-H many Southern states spent
their whole general fund on public
schools alone they would not then
reach the national average in ex-
pendfture per public school child.
1An educational lag in any Sec
tiqn damages all sections.
1.-The children Of the remotest
rural or mountain area are as
much. American children IS the
children in New Rochelle or San
Francisco.
8-H the Hill bill Tor Federal
aid should pass in full then the
States and localities in America as
whole would provide 81 and one
halt percent Of the support of the
public schools. Surely" DR.. Ora.
ham said, "the nation as 4 whole
should provide one-eighth Of the
support Of the education Of child.
rem who are to be not only the
citizens Of state but also citizens
Of the United States"
9-Only by Federal aid to the
states can there be provided In
all the States equal educational op.
portunity "for all the children who