The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-06-28
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We CAN EDUCATE OUR OWN
BY Elicit Lawrence

One Of the big problems facing the world today is
what to do about the state educated youth Of Germany.
Yet there is pending in Congress at this very
which will ultimately mean that the boys and girls Of our
own country will be educated in federal controlled schools
This bill provides 200 millions annually during the
ENERGY and after the emergency 100 millions annually,
to reduce inequalities Of educational opportunities. Read
that last.
We suppose by now we should know what the spon-
sors Of this bill mean by emergency. Goodness knows we
have had enough emergencies since the New Deal came
emergency can be justified as applied to this bill. The
Federal Government is worse than broke. 1t is head over
heels In debt. Even under q sound 1iscai poncy, wnlcnw we
hope we will eventually have under this administration,
It will require one hundred QOO) years to pay this debt.
Yet they talk about Smelling out 200 millions yearly, dur
ing the emergency and 100 millions yearly after the
s sarp1eses! New ,n1 York for si Instance %eSi has 3 ~ surplus Of 500
millions and would be handed another 10 million as their
part under this bill. Mississippi is in wonderful financial
debt and getting richer every day. The States do not
need this money. The Federal Covenant does need II.
But for some good many years it has not been stylish
to talk about debt insofar as the Federal Government Is
concerned. It did and can continue to borrow money SEEM
ingly without limit. If need be it can print money. Have
sometimes thought that's what it did.
Il : poor man marries 2 rich gal. who do you think
wears the pants in that family? II it's your money that
IL being put up to run a business, its you and rightly so,
who will control that business. And if you think the
Federal Government is not going to control our scnools,
maybe not the first rev years, DuC ultNm0Lely, ~ Sno
put up the money, you need to do some more thinking.
Just recently . bunch of educated high yallers' met
here in our own State Capital and r%esoluted; how they dld
'resolute", against dual education. here in the South. And
mark you well that dual education will be a thing OF the
past II Mississippi ever accepts one thin dime OF TINS
money, If this bill ever passes, which God forbid.
We are fully aware that Mississippi, in simple
justice, must from now on, do more in the way Of edu-
cation for our colored people. This, in our opinion, would
be good business, since the more intelligent every seq
ment of our population is, the more useful all can be.
However we must not lose sight of the fact, one need
not be 80 very aged to remember, that a very few years
back Mississippi counld not pay its teachers, or for that
matter pay any of its public servants. We think in these
last short few years wonderful progress has been made
in education, both for white and black. Ne shall continue
to make progress. Be that as it may we must insist that
the education of its youth. white or black, is Mississippis
own job, or problem if you prefer.
AZ There should be no need to write Southern Congress-
men to vote mo" on H. R. 1926. Or Southern Senator'S
to vote mo- on Senate Bill No. 1871. These are the num-
bers of the companion bill known as the Education
Finance Act of 1945", a bill skilfully designed to wrest
control of schools from the individual States and vest it
in the hands of the Federal Bureaucrats.