The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-18
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS IA
VOR TOWNSHIP TAXATION
FOR SCHOOLS.
SUPT. MEBANE'S EARNEST APPEAL
Addresses by Profs. CIaxton and Alderman :
Election Of 0ficers--W. It. Whtse;t
Reelected. w. H. RagsdaIe
Pres. adjournment,

| The Teachers Assembly adjourned to
| day after Il most interesting session
| This morning the exercises included nd
dresses by Prof L. Z. ClaXton on The
| Training of Teachers" and Prof. 10. A
Alderman on 1.-THE Organic Union of the
| Primary and Secondary Schools. State
SUPERINTENDENT Mebane made an earnest
appeal for union of forces of public
| and private schools. The motion was
| adopted to appoint ii committee of nine
to petition the General Assembly for the
establishment of a system of ten super
yisors, each to have general supervision
of ten counties and cooperate with the
| State Superintendent i'll the election OF
officers. w. IL. Ragsdale was elected
| president: Prof. Holland Thompson.
Statesvile, first vicepresident; w. L.
| Whitsett, reelected secretary and treas
urer.
The attendance, while not so large
as AT some other sessions, was COM
| posed of many Of the leading teachers
in the State. Among the teachers pres
ent are noted: President w. ii. Rags
dale, Greenvile; Profs. Minis and Flow
ers, Trinity; Principal Hugh Morson,
Raleigh; Principal Holland Thompson.
Concord; President McIyer and PrOfs.
Joyner and Forney, Normal and Indus
trial College; superintendent Graham,
Charlotte; Thompson, Statesville; Man
gum, Wilson; Flowers, Durham. Prof.
j. Il. Carlyle. Wake Forest College; SUI
pervisors Ellis. Buncombe Butler, Ire
dell; Henderson, Caswell; Hayes. Will
son: Cooper. 0nslow; Sheets, Dayie;
Painter, Jackson. President j. G.. Clapp,
Catawba College; Pro. j. c. Biggs, of
the University; State Superintendent G..
ii. Mebane President Edwin r.. Alder
man. of the University; Prof l.. +.
Claxton, State Normal and Industrial
College; President +. T. Hobgood, Ok
ford Female Seminary: Prof ]. Allan
Holt, Oak Ridge Institute: Superinten-
dent Il. Il. Lewis. Concord; Superinten-
dent e. Mex. Goodwin, State School for
Deaf and Dumb, Morganton; Superin-
tendent II. NJ. Davis. Tarboro: Super
visors w f. Wood, of Mcdowell; Jar
Wis. of Madison.
The opening address by Prof. Alexan-
der Graham, superintendent OF the
Charlotte Graded Schools was very
fine 1t was like everything that schol-
ar says wise. practical. scholarly. His
subject was "A Plea for the Truth OF
History" The following extract is TAX
en- from the Gazette's account:
Several years ago in the town of
Waynesville in this State. on fifteen his
tory examinations papers handed in by
forty-fye teachers for a State certifi-
cate. in answer to the superintendent of
public instructions's questions: What
was the difference in the influence of thu
settlement ct Plymouth Rock, Mass.
and the influence Of the settlement nj
jamestown. Va" the following answer
was noted: The influence at PlymourT
Rock settlement was good and resulted
in liberty. the influence of the settlement
at jamestown was bad and resulted i'm
slavery These answers show the ten
dency of thirty-three and third per
cent Of school history teachers i'm the
South to-day. This should not be so and
would like to ring it in your ears like a
fire bell in the night
LET us teach our children that North
Carolina is a part of the jamestown
settlement, that the first child born OF
English parents was in North Carolina
that in North Carolina the first Indian
and the first white child were baptized
that the first Governor of North Caro-
lima was put to death IN rebellion
against tyranny and taxation without
representation. History tells us that
Governor Berkeley addressed him as fol-
lows: Sir, / am glad to see you; | will
try you at II o'clock and hang you at A.
A declaration tantamount to indepen-
dence a hundred years before '7G was
adopted in the State of North Carolina
The first resistance to the Stamp Act
was in 1865 in North Carolina, at VIII
mington under Ashe. The first blood
4 Al. I. 4.
at Lexington or Concord, but the shot
that was fired that was heard around
the world was on the banks of Ala
nance Creek, in the State of North Car
DINA. In the Revolution the first VIC
tory was ut Moores Creek, in February.
1T76, fought entirely by Southern troops
and coupled with the battle OF Fort
Monltrie, in our sister State of South
Carolina, gives us the first decisive vie
tories Of the Revolutionary War previous
10 the Declaration Of independence.
'"1he great historian Bancroft. says
that the credit of the first declaration of
| independence rests not with the cavalier
Of Virginia nor with the Dutch Of New
| York nor with the Pilgrim of New Eng
land, but with the Scotch-Irish patriots
of Mecklenhurg. n. G.
dozens of North Carolina people,
students of colleges. soldiers who fol
low the State flag, have asked me the
meaning of April -. 1916, inscribed on
| that banner. On that date North Caro-
lima, before any other colony, instruct
ed her delegates to declare independ-
ence @n the mother country. The
story is too long, fellow-teachcrs
When you teach Bunkers Hill, teach
Kings mountain with Bemis Heights
relieve the gloom Of the defeat of Cam
den with an account of the first resist
ance TO CORVALLIS in the conquered
South mt Charlottesville. n. G., where q
little band Of 800 Spartan soldiers Of
North Carolina drove back the prone