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read and write. We know that transportation facilities have
made migration easier and thus have cause education itself to
take on features which make it national rather than local in
character. That fact leads directly to the concept of federal
financial support and subsequent control of educational procedure.
If one forgets about the citizenship factor, one may say that the
educational program needs very soon to become federal. If it
should, however, then certainly it should be federally supervised
and should be paid for from the federal treasury. I can see reason
in saying it is national business to see that every child ,-- white,
black, or brown, -- in this nation gets at least a sixth grade
education, I mean by that that every child must learn to read and
write and spell. That much is basic, for if a child moves from
one state to another, then he can read what the second state has
to say to him. If this factor is a national issue, -- and it is ,--
why not be forthright and say we need to pay for this service
directly from the national gvernment just as we pay for the
United States Navy? Under such a regime we'd say to the people
of a state, education of your children up to twelve years of age
is the job of the United States government. These children, born
in this state and in the United States, are citizens of the
United States and for this reason the national government is going
to see that the education of these children is cared for. The
national government of the United States will under this regime
decide what kind of teachers they shall have, what they shall be
taught, when it shall be taught, and under what circumstances.
The United States government is going to take over the education of
all these children up to and through the sixth grade and so far as

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