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“Federal Aid
To Education—”
Warning local citizens tnat .federal aid to education could mean control of the public schools by Washington, William J. Bird, national affairs advisor of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, on Tuesday called for greater community and state participation in public school systems.
Speaking over WCVA, Culpeper, at 7:15 Tuesday in the second of a series of eight broadcasts transcribed from Washington, D. and sponsored by the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce, JBird asked evterv citizen to do what he can to keep free the freedom of tnought and education in America.
“Teachers and people like us everywhere, who are vitally interested in good education, have been told only part truths, 'Only one side of the question,” he said. “Even a national teachers’ organizaton announced last summer that it wasn’t interested in printing in its magazine any material against federal aid to education because it didn’t favor that side.
“The United States stands apart from the nations of the world today in her approval and support of a system - of public schools. No nation ever before has provided so much education for her people at public expense. And the real measure of success can be laid at the door of local communities all over the land,” he exclaimed..
“Everyone knows we have some serious problems in our educational system' today. We need more classrooms, we ntjed more school buildings, we need more teachers. We need to increase feathers’ salaries. We need more facilities. But let’s not look to federal intervention to obtain the remedy to these needs,” be said.
Bird said that one claim of the proponents of federal aid to education is that education snould re equalized between the states. But, he reported, in direct contradiction to this, the proponents would make lederal monies availaide to all states. Every state would receive a minimum of $5 per child per year whether it needs it or not. The speaker Pointed out that this offer was neing made as a political handcut, because proponents of fed
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