THURSDAY. (JUNE 21. 1962
'Behid the News
Reapportionment
And 2 Americas
.
Two recent Supreme Court why representation in state
decisions have lifted the lid on legislatures should be equalized.
a controversy which been
boiling at- I .state and local levels , .. An immediate answer is to
ever since the 1960 Presidential . ..be found in the 14th Amend
,election. The problem, appor- merit cited above, but material
tionment, is older than the Con- and philosophical issues beyond
, stitution, proving as it did to the Constitutional considera
. be 'the major issue at the con- - tion are involved here.
vention of 1787. • Miller of EconOmics
Just as the cities elected . •
There is a matter of econern-
President) Kennedy, there is ics; manufacturing contributes
little doubt that rural.elements better than seven times as
control „ almost every • state 'much to the gross national
house in the nation. Rural product as farming; taxpayer
school districts 2 are often fi- dollars have sustained farm in
nariced out of the city dweller's come even since the last war,
wallet, while urban food pro- Mit it- must be acknowledged
cessors make profits on the '
'that in the event of a depres
sion, a farm could look mighty
. Such i s th e bitt erness of th e gam. to a hungry engineer.
'
city -country. feud that Presi- Also deserving consideration
dent Kennedy, in the wake of- is i the possibility that the ap
the Baker.. v. Carr Tennessee - portiorunent problem may solve
:reapportionment verdict, issued ' itself as Americans of the future
a' solemn warning of the day seek lebensraum —' or "living
when the United States may be room's— from V/heatfield to
"two Americas," ,-; divided in suburb to urb.
political impotency.
The Baker ruling held leg- This solution is not a happy
islative districting to be sub- one, nor one which is likely to
iject to court review under the occur within the lifetime of
federal constitution. Apportion- ,the Philadelphian who see s,
ment among districts could be magnificent Centre County .
so "irrational," the court ma- schools built with his money
jority asserted, as to violate the- or several millions freely spent
equal protection clause of the to make-pigs fatter while medi
14th Amendment ' - :cal research for humans rthist
go a begging.
'On the other hand, the farm
-,, A Michigan suit, brought by 'el' has little guarantee other
August Scholle, AFL-CIO pres- than his disproportionate rep
ident, may determine what the resentation in government, that
court considers- "irrational." if, the cities gained political
Scholle challenged state senate ascendancy, they would be
districts ranging in constituents sympathetic to the special prob
from' 61,000 in one rural- area Jems in economics, conserva=
to 530,000 in his own district. tion and cultural isolation he
The case has been remanded to must face. : .
the state high-court for review 'rn spite of his erudity, Presi
in the light of the Baker decis- dent Kennedy may not have
ion.
1 perceived the rural-urban sit-
It is Something of a legal uation in an historical prespec
curiosity 1 that the- Michigan tive. Politically, an equilibium
plaintiffs, are asking the court has always been achieved be
to rule that seating must be tween.the farmer and the man
proportional in - both ;state ufacturer. An administration
charnberS, when constitutional_ which favors one and not the
13% the reverse is true of Con- other is buying trouble. City
gress where senators represent . and country are two children
Whatever number happens to , which always bear watching;
reside in their respective states."' if yoti take your eyes off :one
too long, he will wander off
And now a seeming paradox a
aiisesi; the U.S. Senate, tradi
nd fall down the cellar stairs.
tionally lhe conservative body,
can today be counted on- to
pass al far higher -proportion of
liberal, pro-urban legislation
than the; House of Representa
itives. The catch is that senators
-must run as large in their state
and that) most states, although
geographically rural, are demo
graphically -urban. ,Well over
50 per cent of U.S. citizens now
live in "Metropolitan" areas of
over 50,900
Schollia Suit
With these facts'in mind, it
t becomes!entirely proper to ask
I i
ARE; you ?
graduating at the
end I of this' term.
WILL YOU ?
be off campus in the
fall lend graduating on
before Juno "63.
DO You?
have a last dame which
begins with. an M thru Z. and will
you: giadnaie at one of the next four ceremonies.
IF THE ANSWER TO ANY OF THE ABOVE IS "YES"
WOLD YOU PLEASE 'DO YOURSELF AND LA VIE A
I FAVOR? HAVE YOUR SENIOR PORTRAIT TAKEN AT
PENN STATE PHOTO SHOP
214 East CO!lege Ave.
No appointments, tiouxi from 9 -4, dark coat
. and tie; black sweater and pearls.
By LAWRENCE CAMERON
The Baker decision can have
'no direct effect on rural politi
cal power for over a decade.
It is vague and the'suit.v. that
"promise to. clarity , It will drag
,through the American legal
maze for years. Thus we are
not witnessing political or cul
tural mitosis, but only another
shift ,and a gradual one
in political balance, a shift re
flecting the evolution of this
country from an agrarian to an
industrial nation.
EEMEM
SUMMER COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
E=IM
A Gradual Shift
rfEffii
t
Corps Traini ng -- ..Prcv - tain. Ends
the University of the Philippines, The" 55 People . who were s
he said. to the Philippines will
A lack of genuine, realistic in- Filipino teachers in educat
tereit and poor health of some children in English, the :k
PeaCe Corps volunteers caused the i tanguage- of the islands. They
elimination of 10 persons, Bixby receive a salary of $l5 per ma
said, [and serve for two years, he sa
By NANCY •McCORKLE
After preparing 500 Peace Corps
volunteers for teacher's aide po
tsitions in the Philippine Islands,
the University training staff has
1 •
,discontinued tho program_ because
tit needs a vacation, Paul W. Bixby,
!program director, said yesterday.
,I• The four Peace Corps groups
that were trained here since June
t .
1961 made up one-third of all the
i -
'volunteers sent overseas in the
first year of the Peace Corps
t project, Bixby said.
4 1 Peace Corps headquarters in
.e.Washington D.C., requested that
9 the University train 300 teacher's
3 1,:itides this summer. Bixby said, but
lithe staff here could not aezommo-
Ildate this number. Instead. the 300
'llvolunteers will be trained at tini
'versities in California.
ANOTHER REASON that Rix
!by gave for the termination of the
:IProgram was: "The Penn State
k. training staff has been increas-
ingly convinced that elementary
. - Ischool teacher's aides for the,
Philippines should have stronger;
-r interests in • teaching as a career;
1 than were aparent in the trainees
•;'; who were being sent to Penn:
ii,state." ,
4
.
A year from now it is quite
iu.
ig poisible that professors will par-.
ficipate in another program at
the Univesrity, Bixby said. How
ievef, the training staff members;
,within the College of Education:
f a , would „like those groups to have'
some training in ! l eaching. he said.
tlThe most recently trained vol-1
unteers at the University corn-,
tpleted their indoctrination int
4 4 . June. and 55 of the original group
k of 65 were selected to receive,
one month of further training at;
New College Diner
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