Show EDUCATION bicker dicker I 1 strife the proposal for tor or federal aid to edu education nuo flo was getting nowhere oher fast its proponents realizing all the while upon what thin ice fee they skated had believed the plan had been handled with sufficient tact and skill to win some hope of its final approval but at this stage of the game that appeared to be nothing more than wishful thinking THE explosive issue lisue made doubly ly volatile by the injection of the religious issue by a bill offered by representative barden D N NC Q and nd by the dubuc public row between francis cardinal spellman Iman and mrs eleanor roosevelt threatened to kill the proposal entirely the barden bill would exclude catholic a and in d other nonpublic non public schools from all federal aid because mrs roosevelt in som some of her syndicated columns h had bad a d argued for separation tion of church and state cardinal spellman accused her of being anti antl she denied the allegation and pointed to her record as proof WITHOUT any attempt to argue the relative merit merits of each viewpoint capitol observers were generally agreed that these developments had done nothing to help the plan for the federal government to assist in school programs by giving financial aid the proposal without the added controversies was stormy enough in itself inasmuch as there had been much hue and cry to the effect that federal aid to schools would mean ultimately federal effort to control the choice of what would be taught in the schools it appeared that this obstacle to the proposal might have been hurdled but when the religious issue was injected the fate of the plan was seriously jeopardized |