limitations; high-school tax-levy limits were removed; and special levies for teachers' retirement provided for.

The Montana legislature passed a joint memorial to Congress asking that the amendment to the United States Constitution proposed by Senator Tydings relating to a balanced Federal Budget be submitted to the people for ratification. Only by a postwar balanced Budget can the solvency of America be preserved. Yet the Federal Budget cannot be balanced if through a gigantic program of Federal aids and subsidies, the Federal Government continues to assume obligations that properly belong to individuals and to the States.

AMENDMENT OFFERED BY CHARLES E. GREENE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF DENVER, DENVER, COLO.

Amend the printed bill (S. 181) page 8, line 6, as follows:

After the word "received" insert the words "and in so doing shall provide that the amount apportioned to each State under the authorization of section 2 (A) and section 3 (A) shall be distributed within each State to those school districts qualifying under the provisions of this act in amounts which bear the same ratio to the total amount made available under said sections for the State as the average daily attendance of pupils attending all types of public elementary schools (including kindergartens and nursery schools) and public secondary schools (through the fourteenth grade) in each qualifying district bears to the total of such average daily attendance for all qualifying districts of the State."

(Whereupon, at 11:30 a. m., the committee recessed, subject to the call of the chairman.)

HEARINGS

U.S. Congress. Senale BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR
UNITED STATES SENATE

SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 717

A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO
ASSIST THE STATES IN MORE ADEQUATELY FINANCING EDU-
CATION AND IN REMOVING SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS IN
EDUCATION; TO AID IN ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING
EDUCATION SERVICES; TO ERADICATE ILLITERACY; TO PRE-
SERVE AND PROMOTE THE NATIONAL SECURITY IN PEACE
AND IN WAR; TO RAISE THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF THE
NATION; AND TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE

AND

S. 181

A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO
ASSIST THE STATES AND TERRITORIES IN MORE ADEQUATELY
FINANCING THEIR SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION DURING
EMERGENCY, AND IN REDUCING THE INEQUALITIES OF EDU-
CATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

73384

PART 2

APRIL 11, 12, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, MAY 3 AND 4, 1945

Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1945