The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29

EXCELLENT PAPERS READ
INFLUENCE OF CITY SCHOOLS
on POPULAR EDUCATION.
EDUCATORS DlNED AT A. & M. COLLEGE
Committee Appointed to Report on important
Matters at Next Session Of the Associa-
ton Which viii be Held Here
Dec. % and 20 1900.

Dec, 20 ana ~ lJUUs
This association held three meetings
yesterday.
Messrs. Alex Graham, of Charlotte;
T. II. Foust, of Newbern, and A. r.
Hill, of Fayetteville, were present at
the meeting.
Papers Were read by j. ID. Eggleston,
Jr., of Ashevile and ]. /. Foust, of
Goldsboro, ON school Discipline" by
President G. r. Winston on 'Public
libraries; e. r. Moses, of Raleigh, on
classification, and NJ. c. s. Noble, of
the University, on THE Influence of the
City Schools on Public Education in
North Carolina
Prof. Noble, in his excellent address,
spoke in part as follows:
THE city school problems are identi-
cal in purpose, in method of support,
and in practical management with the
public school problems of the country
districts and the smaller towns. Their
purpose is the education of all the chill
dren within reach, their method of sup
port is local taxation, and their practi-
cal management must be that of Well
trained experienced superintendent
with genius 10 lead, ability TO train ana
enthusiastic power to inspire both the
teachers and their pupils.
The country district school also has
for its noble purpose, the education OF
all the children within reach; if ever
permanent is local taxation, and it's eff
cheney can come only from Il manage
mnt of wen-trained teachers, led and
inspired by superintendent of scholar
ship, experience, and success in the
school room.
The city schools have won glorious
victory for popular education in North
Carolina. In nearly every city the ex-
cellent work of the public schools has
won over the people first to local tax
and afterwards to an increased tax for
popular education.
SIN those cities where an election has
been held for an increase of the tax,
many who opposed any tax at the first
election We're conspicuous and able
champions of the proposed increase of
tax. This would not have been the
case but for the good work of the
schools. which showed that money spent
for public education was the best I'M
yestment a town could make The
country districts and other towns had
not been idle spectators. The cities
having public schools are the observa-
ton schools in which other communities
learn many facts i'll all of the depart
ments of modern life. The man on the
farm is beginning to see that his brother
in the city has good school for his
children because city dollars pay taxes
for the education Of city boys and girls.
and he sees that country dollars must
pay school taxes for the education of
country boys and girls. Soon there will
be fought out in the big farm and
the little one, in the quiet country town
peaceful in its rest of decades, and in the
''hustling" village just waking up under
the noise of its cotton mill and other in
dustrial enterprises, the same fight for
the children that has been bravely
fought and gloriously won in the cities
represented by you. The fight is COM
ing. You have heard the warning guns
at Kinston, Albemarle. Monroe and
Henderson and in the few heroic town
ships that taxed themselves under the
law of 80. Soon the engagement will
become general and will not stop until
all over the State the principle of local
taxation for school will have been Won
and every educational privilege now
enjoyed by the boys and girls in the
cities where you labor will be the proud
possession of all North Cardinals boys
and girls"
BY invitation of DIR. Winston members
Of the association dined at the A. and
NJ. College, where excellent short
speeches were made by DIR. Winston
and Profs. Mangum, Noble and Ora
ham
President Alderman addressed the
association Oh the relation of the college
to the high school.
Committees were appointed to report
at the next annual meeting on ".The
Qualification of Teachers, School Libra
ries, Public Libraries and the Study of
Art and School Decorations
Superintendent @. A. Grimsley, of
Greensboro, was elected president; J. l.
Foust, of Goldsboro, yice-president, and
w. G. Lane, of Albemar.e, secretary,
for the ensuing year.
Resolutions of thanks to the proprie-
tor of the Marlborough House and to the
city papers We're adopted.
The association adjourned to meet in
Raleigh, December 9th and 2Sth, 1900.