Evening star., 1947-11-05

collect food from the clClZenS OF tnS country.
I believe that the Friendship Train" plan
will do more to cement good feelings between
the United States and peoples of other coun-
tries than any other plan set forth to date.
However, in order for this plan to be success.
it will have to receive wide publicity by news
papers, radio and leaders of the Government.
washington, being the Nations Capital should
set an example for the rest of the country.
Collection centers should be set up at fire
and police stations and the District schools
should encourage collection drives by the chill
dren.
True, the languages are different, but people
could even write their names and addresses on
labels Of the food donated, and this may in turn
lead to writing friendship between the peo-
pie of America and many people in the Euro
pean countries.
I feel sure that successful Friendship
Train" plan would convince the peoples OF Eu-
rope that Mr.. or Mrs. Ordinary American Citi-
zen Is vitality interested in their welfare and Is
sending food packages as a token Of friend
ship. So, let's all back the Friendship Train, and
let the Nations Capital lead the way in ex-
pressing its desire to aid our neighbors across
the sea. THEODORE ROTHMAN.
REGIONAL COLLEGES Advocated
To the Editor OF The Star:
have an inquiry as to how this regional
education system advanced recently by the
Southern Governors conference will work.
Well, the project or concept, of course, arises
out of our peculiar educational needs here in
the South. The Southern States have colored
colleges, but only few have professional col
leges, such as law, medicine, pharmacy, ETC.,
and in but few of the Southern States is there
at present sufhcient demand to justify the es-
tablishment of such colleges as State institu-
tions, yet the aggregate demand In the South
is such as to justify the establishment Of these
institutions as regional institutions of the high
est order, For instance, the North Carolina
College, at Durham, N. c., has a law school
that readily might be converted into regional
Jaw college the equal Of any in the country; and
understand that Nashville, Tenn, has a
colored medical college that likewise might be
converted, and so on throughout the list OF pro-
fessional schools. BY thus pooling our needs
and resources in the South colored youth could
be given the tops in professional institutions.
The mechanics of setting up these regional
colleges is simple. The United States Constitu-
tion, Art. I, Sec. 10, says: mo State shall, with
out the consent Of Congress- enter into an
agreement or compact with another State" :"
which means that with the consent of Con-
gress the States may enter into compacts and
implement same by legislative enactments,
which the Congress, by appropriate resolution.
may approve; or the Congress may authorize
such compacts in the hrst instance. Both
methods heretofore have been used.
But it may be objected that am wrong in
opposing Federal aid to such an undertaking.
do not think So In fact, II we are going to
mix the Federal Government in this matter.
I am done with 1t. The education of Southern
colored men is the South's problem. And this
goes for the white men of the South as WELL
Federal aid means Federal control as sure 'as
the earth revolves. The United States Supreme
Court gave such control the green light In
Wickard vs. Filburn when it said, ut is hardly
lack of due process for the Government to reg
ulate that which 1t subsidies" So s. ct. Rep.
at page 90. JOHN w. HESTER.