Worth v. Board of Public Education

On February 23, 1917, Congress passed what is commonly known as the Smith-Hughes act (39 Stat., 929), and is contained in IT. S. Code Ann. Title 20, chapter 2. Under this act Congress appropriated three million dollars annually “for the purpose *173of co-operating with the States in paying the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects.55 That sum is allotted to the States "in the proportion which their urban population bears to the total urban population in the United States.55 U. S. C. A. § 13. In order to derive the benefit of this appropriation the State must,…