Brother Lewis Caldwell
Chicago, Illinois
of the
THETA CHAPTER BEATRICE CAFFREY
Illinois
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House of Representatives
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Brother
Lewis A. H.
Caldwell
Bill Would Add Policy Game to State Legal Gambling List
Theta Chapter of Chicago photographed
after raising funds for this Youth Group.
$28.1 MILLION ADDITIONAL TITLE MONEY AVAILABLE CHICAGO — Urban and rural school districts serving the highest concentrations of children from low-income families in 46 states and the District of Columbia received an additional $28.1 million under grant allotments announced by HEW Secretary Casper W. Weinberger. The awards are made under Part C of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, authorizing special additional grants to eligible urban and rural school districts. The funds will be used to help defray the costs of compensatory education programs and are in addition to approximately $1.56 billion in Title I grants awarded school systems in Fiscal Year 1973. Largest Federal Aid Program Title I, the largest of all Federal aidto-education programs, serves nearly 6.6 million educationally deprived children in 13,900 school districts. Projects are designed to meet pupil needs for remedThe Sphinx / October 1973
ial reading, language development, mathematics, and other instructional programs and services. The extra Title I money allotted under the Urban and Rural Grant program will be used during the 1973-74 school year. It will help support new or expanded projects for preschoolers and youngsters in elementary school in some 4,000 school districts. To be eligible for a grant under the Urban and Rural program, a school district must have 20 percent of its schoolage population drawn from low-income families, or 5,000 such children who comprise 5 percent or more of the total school-age population. The amount each school district receives under the special program is limited by the district's basic Title I grant and the total funds available for the fiscal year. New York State has been allotted $4,989,802, the largest state allotment.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — After legalized bingo and the proposed state lottery, what next? Legalizing the numbers game, according to State Rep. Lewis A. H. Caldwell (D-Chicago), who introduced a bill to do just that Friday in the Illinois House. Brother Caldwell, author of the 1945 novel on the subject called "The Policy King," said, "Now that we appear to be moving toward a state lottery, it is only proper that we give the same confederation to legalizing the numbers game." Betting numbers, which is also known as the policy game and bolita in black and Latin communities, thrives in lowincome areas, Caldwell said, because bets can be as low as 25 or 50 cents. He said his bill, by legalizing the game under private corporations licensed by the state, would drive organized crime out of the racket. "People have been playing policy for decades and they will continue whether it's legal or not," said Caldwell, who also wrote his master's thesis on the subject in the late '30s. Ten per cent of the gross receipts would go into the state treasury for welfare and education, Caldwell said, which is better than having it go "into the pockets of fat-cat syndicate crooks." Brother Caldwell is past secretary and Life member of Xi Lambda Chapter, Chicago, Illinois. 35