The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-25


ment for the special training of teach
ers. and placed over it 7rof. E A. Al
derman, who had already by active
work in the public schools for eleven
years manifested great earnestness IN
the cause Of popular education and
ability to train teachers. 1t has also
established a summer school for teach
ers. which has recently closed its first
session at Chapel Hill, having enrolled
go teachers, active and enthusiastic in
their desire for Improvement, The
summer school may be considered per-
manently established, and its work
will doubtless grow in usefulness with
each succeeding year. The advantages
of the University are now accessible to
young men who complete the courses
in the best public schools; and this ar
rangement for the admission of stu
dents from the higher public schools
into their universities exists also in
other States. We will instance the
universities of Harvard, Yale and Cor
nell.
10. North Carolina appropriates to
annual maintenance of the University,
500, 900 (the same that it has been since
1887; to the A and NJ. College $40, 600;
to the Normal and Industrial School
$12, 500, and to the Cullowhee Normal
81, 500, (total $4,000 for the higher
education of whites, against $107, COO
which is appropriated in South Carolina
and $124, 900 which is appropriated in
Virginia for similar purposes. And in
most of the States the amounts are
largely in excess of the above.
The money appropriated to the North
Carolina University and the other in
situations above named does not come
from the public school fund. That fund
is separate and distinct, being drawn
from the poll tax, fines, forfeitures and
penalties, liquor licenses, and a special
tax on property. No man who pays
only poll tax contributes to make up
these appropriations for higher educa-
ton. The constitution requires all the
poll tex to go to the common schools
and to support the poor, and the above
amount of $44, 600 appropriated to
higher education, is raised by a prop
erty tax. The total property valuation
of the State being $3.50, co., 900, a tax
rate of four-ffths of a cent on 500 will
yield $21, 900, being one thousand dol.
lars more than the appropriation to the
annual support of the University.
About ~nine-tenths of the taxpayers
of the State, therefore, being listed at
less than one thousand dollars, con
tribute less than 8 cents to this pur.
pose.
1t costs about $12, 900 a day to carry
on the public schools, and if the Uni
versity were destroyed and its $40, OOC
appropriation were added to the school
fuod, it would not lengthen the term
TWO days.
The last Legislature made a special
appropriation of $40, 900 a year for two
years to repair twelve buildings, to pro
vide water works and proper sanitary
convenience and to build an infirmary.
Most of the work has already been
done, and since the completion of the
water works and the sanitary arrange
ments, not a single cas- of serious i'll
ness has occurred in the institution
This special appropriation can, under
the law, be applied to no other purpose
than these much-needed repairs and
improvements.
IL. The University is straining every
nerve to accomplish much work with
it's limited resources. The annual in
come is less than $40, 600, derived from
the following sources, to wit: State
appropriation, $4,000; endowment
funds (estimated), S.. 200; escheats (es
Cimated) $500; tuition and fees from
students (amount received last year,
$13, 1877 81; miscellaneous (rent of lots
etc. &127.75 Total, $50, sos SO. It il
believed that this amount will be re
uuired to meet the necessary expenses
for the year now begun.
The salaries of professors, instruct
ors. assistants and officers aggregate
$31, 623. The bills for fuel and lights
maintenance of library and reading
room and laboratories, stationery anC
postage, printing, ordinary repairs o.
building and labor on grounds, servant
hire, summer school for teachers anC
other incidental expenses will aggre
.o4o 60 OCO There ia also need for ad
ditional, apparatus, as we'll as for sucf
books as are essential to advanced
4 nt,,du in all The departments of instruc