Bronze Reporter [Volume: 4, Issue: 31]

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Ainerican way of life, to protest acts or policies which
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- -. the latest news from Washington

of special interest to.Michigan...

n Washington looked a little stunted
last week. There just weren~t as many greenbacks on its
branches and Congressional gardeners apparently had the
idea that ~green thumbs~ are out of style. Quite a few Senators and Representatives acted to shut off portions of the
tree~s rain and sunshine, otherwise known as appropriations.
Funds for several federal agencies were slashed. These

~knowledge and care.

~of an urgent defciency bill, are |. special clipper-type cargo ves
gressional leaders to use their

ther committee and floor action
and it remains to be seen whether the money tree is permanently cut back.

No prudent gardener, of
course, should let his tree run
wild, but proper trimming takes
At this
writing, a gardeners~ hassle is
holding up welfare benefits payments to 120,000 needy persons
in Michigan~ and thousands in:
other states. These funds, part

deadlocked by House and: Sen-|
ate disagreements over totally
unrelated items. Result: $7,000,-,
000 in assistance for dependent
children, widows, blind and disabled persons in Michigan is
biocked. Under our state law
the federal money must be available before state matching funds
can be used.

I have urged the chairman
of the two appropriations committees to avoid working a
serous hardship in Michigan
by getting busy on this bill.
Shortly afterwards, President
Eisenhower himself asked Con
influence to pry this bill out
of conference. It is my hope
that by the time this is read,
relief will be on the way.

SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
Snclair Weeks informs me that
his Department will back my
bill to authorize shipbuilding at
Great Lakes yards. This is most
encouraging. Back in 1936, when
the Merchant ~Marine Act was:

items, however, are due for fur-passed, large ocean-going vessels

could not be built at Great
Lakes ports because there was

ne practicable means of getting
them out to sea. That problem,

of course, ha disappear once

the St. sone Seaway is
open. es intento to-get the
necessary legislation out of the
way before the Seaway opens
so that Lake shipyards will be
eligible to compete for ship construction work, The Maritime
Administration expects to build

isel for deep water and Lake
'trade and if my bill is passed,
Mchigan shipyards will get a
crack at those contracts.

~ ONION OPERATORS are still
at it, |but we~re closing in on
them. Speculators have been
cieaning up at the expense of
the nation~s onion farmers and

}Senators from onion areas are

aroused. Here~s the type of abuse
I refer to: On February 4 a
50-poundsack of onions. cost

' $2.20. By March 6 it had sunk

to 85 cents but two weeks later
it zoomed to $1.60. Price swings
of this type simply cannot be
justified by supply and demand.

~They are caused by deliberate

manipulation. Onons are perishable and do not lend themselves
tc futures trading and some
time ago I introduced a bill to
outlaw such activity, I am happy
to report that the Senate Agriculture| Committee, which is
studying the bill, gives every
indication of favorable action.

~A STARTLING CHANGE in

Program Aid

ANN ARBOR ~ Program
chairmen for women~s clubs
throughout the state are urged
to take advantage of the package lending service~ which~ has
been maintaind for many y2ars
by the Library Extension Service of The University of Michigan Library. These packages

of program aids supplement |,

those available in the local library, Miss Clover Flanders,
chief extension ibrarian, points
out.

Michigan~s rail passenger service
may come about in 1960, according to Maurice Hunt, Public
Service Commissioner. |

Last week, before a~ Senate:
subcommittee, Mike exhibited
two maps of the state, one honL\eycombed with lines representing present service. The other
map, projecting the situation to
1960, was entirely blank above
the Muskegon-Bay Cty: line. In
other words, railroads are planning to abandon passenger service in the northern two-thirds
off Michigan.

Dwindling passenger revenues
and railroad red ink are at the
root of this alarming trend, I
asked Mike to tell his story to
the Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation to enable them
to study a situation which is
developing all over the United
States and one which deserves
action on the Congressional
level.

THE FIRST WHITE settlers
in Grand Rapids found several
Indian tribes encamped along
the west bank of the Grand
River near the rapids, where fish
and game were plentiful. One
of the most enterprising pioneers, Louis Campau, set up a
fur-tradng post in 1827, at what
is now the foot of Huron street.
Four years later, he made his
smartest investment ~ a large
tract of land: on the river~now
bounded by Michigan and Fulton streets and Division avenue,
which was to become the center
of Grand Rapids..~ Best ~

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THE N. A. A.~P. AND FEDERAL AID
TO SCHOOLS

The National Asso~iation for the Advancement of Col

~|ored People strongly endorses President Eisenhower's pro
posal for legislation to make federal funds available to the

7 states for school construction, provided these schools are

made available to-all childr e of race~in -
accordance with the United States Supreme Court ruling of
May 17,1954.._.

~The President has asked for more than two billion dollars to assist the states in the construction of public schools,
The NAACP seeks an amendment to the President~s proposal
specifying that federal funds be made available only to
school districts which have made a start to comply with the
Supreme Court ruling.

There arefeight states Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and -Virginia) which have stubbornly refused to allow any school
district within their borders to begin desegregation of public
schools. In each of the remaining 40 states integration has
either been achieved or a start towards desegregation has
been made.

The NAACP supports the anti-segregation amendment
and urges its enactment because:

' The United States Supreme Court has declared segregation in public education illegal and unconstitutional.
Segregated schools mean inferior schools for Negroes.
The federal district courts have no power to initiate

action to secure desegregation; they can act only in
response to costly suits filed by parents.

The National Administration has failed to indicate
that executive authority would be invoked to withhold
federal funds from segregated schools.

States which have enacted legislation deliberately to
evade the law of the land are not entitled to~ receive
federal aid.

' Duplication of facilities required by segregation is

economically wasteful; the government Has no right

to waste the people~s money.

Enactment of the school aid bill without the anti
segregation amendment would encourage the eight

states to continue their defiance of the Supreme Court,

They would use-federal aid to stengthen their segre
gated school systems.

@ The anti-segregation amendment does not deny fed
eral funds to any law-abiding state or school district.

It is unfair to use the taxes of the overwhelming

majority of law-abiding citizens to support the preju
dices and illegal actions of a law-defying minority.

@ Federal benefits are inseparable from compliance with

federal law.

@ To pass the federal aid to school construction bill

without the amendment is to repudiate the United

ro Supreme Court and to subsidize defiance of the
aw

@ Segregation is immoral as well as 2step
@ There cannot be one law for the, ign and ~ pot My
for some states in the Nation; lay

for all.

The NAACP recognizes the pressing ~need for more
schools throughout the Nation. It believes that the federal
government has a responsibility to aid the states in building
more schools to meet this urgent need.

The school aid bill can be passed with safeguards against
racial discrimination and segregation. If it is killed, wate
cause will not be the anti-segregation clause.

The chief opponents of the measure with the amendment.
will be the representatives of the eight states that, thus far,
have refused to comply with the Supreme Court opinion.
But these eight states have only 16 senators and 69: ~congressmen.

It is plan that these men alone cannot kill the bill in |
either the House or the Senate. ~They cannot kill it even
if they recruit to their side a total of twice their number.

Therefore, the contention that the anti-segregation
amendment will kill the bill is just so much talk. Remember
that the bill was killed in 1956 on a party vote turned on the
method of allocating the funds~not on the anti-segregation
amendment.

The question today is whether eight states can determine
national policy. They cannot do so if the supporters of the
federal. aid bill go to work on the representatives of the
states with integrated school systems. There is where. the
votes are. These votes are not committed to the maintenance
of segregated schools.

If these votes are already against federal aid, amendment or no amendment, then the bill is in danger: but
neither its danger nor its possible defeat can be ~blamed
on the amendment.

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