The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-02-13
THE NORTH CAROLINA GIRLS.
An Appropriation of $4,000 for q
Female Industrial School.

"A petition has been presented to the
North Carolina Legislature during IT,.
present session praying for an appropria-
hon of $50, 900 to aid in the establish
ment OF an 'Industrial School for the
white Girls of North Carolina" This
isa very trifling sum, as the Whining
ton Messenger observes, "for 1 500. 600
| people to give to the cause of woman
to the safety and happiness, and com
iort, and usefulness, of hundreds of the
white girls of Carolina from year tG
year and from generation to genera.
Ee2egIsIaSdft viii make the -dssiresd sssar
and that the school will be established
Certainly the State could not find a bet
ter investment, nor one that would nav
larger and handsomer returns.
Inc movement is under the direction
OF the Kings Daughters, who are circu.
iatlng petitions throughout the State for
signatures, and who will doubtless po
10 Raleigh with so many of the inteiIi-
gent and patriotic people of the State be-
hind them that, even if it should be so
disposed, the Legislature will not dare to
refuse their reasonable request. The
number of lliterates in North Carolina is
positively disgraceful. According to the
census of 1880, of persons 10 years of agc
and upward 1872 per cent. were returned
as unable to write. OF the SO. 619 white
females, from Is to 90 years of age, both
inclusive, who were returned by the cen.
sus enumcrators, 1920 or 2s. o per cent.
were unable to write, and of the 215. $50
white females of 81 years of age and up
ward, 72,Ol7 or 1874 per cent were una.
bic TO write. More than one third of the
white women and girls in North Carroll
ma, one OF the richest and most flourish
ing States in the South, cannot write
their names, and very nearly as many arc
unable to read the language which they
speak. Surely, something should be
done by the State for the education of
the future wives and mothers of the
state, who are to give character TO the
citizenship of the generations yet to be-
In their present most praiseworthy un-
dcrtaking, as we are told by our Will
mington contemporary, the Kings Daugh-
tiers "are moved by profound apprccia.
tion of the necessity of doing something
through the State for the benefit of that
class OF white girls who arc unprovidcd
for and have no way of obtaining a
place or Occupation whereby they may
earn an honest living"
~ w aio iSJoiceu W KNOW tnat North
Carolina is keeping step with her sister
Southern States in their efforts to anne
iiorate the condition of the Women of,
IN TINS practical agc-uf pom 2ssi7s 1s1szG1sDss
ertlons for the means of making g living.
In his inaugural address Governor Till
man directed attention to this important
subject, and, with the cooperation of
the State, we have no doubt that his re-
concentrations will assume practical
shape and that it will not be long before
South Carolina makes ample provision
for the education in "thc practical arts
and sciences" of its daughters, as it has
already made provision for the education
OF her sons. The experiment of indus.
trial training schools for women has
been made in Mississippi and Georgia
with the best results, and what has been
accomplished in these States can be ac-
eomplishcd with even greater satisfac-
tion in the two Caroljuas.
In Mississippi and Georgia the location
of the industrial schools was left open by
the Legislature to the competitor Of riva!
towns and cities. The Mississippi Col
lege was established at Columbus because
Columbus, with population of six
thousand, many of whom were colored,
| gave 800, 900 to secure the location OF
the school at that place. OF this amour,
$50, 900 was represented by suitable build.
ings and grounds, and $40, 900 was con-
tributed in cash. In Georgia the little
town of Milledgeville entered the lists
against the burgeoning city of Atlanta,
and secured the establishment of the Geor.
gia Industrial and Neurological Insti.
tutc for women within its limits. To ac-
complish this end Miledgeville, with
| population of four thousand, subscribed
| $40, 600 in cash and made a loan of $12,-
600 to the State to aid it in pushing for.
ward the work of construction. What
Mississippi and Georgia have done in
this direction the two Carolinas can do.
The need for industrial schools is even
more urgent in the last named States
than in the former, and when the public
mind shall be fully aroused upon the
subject we have no fear as to the ulti-
mate result.
Our girls ought to be educated, and
educated in the most practical way
North Carolina is moving on the right
inc, and we shall be much disappointed
if the Farmers Legislature of 1891" do
not take practical view of the question
and extend the aid for which the Kings
daughters pray.-Charleston News and
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