The news & observer., 1901-03-21
LAW as TO CERTAIN GRADUATES.
Mr.. Farnell Gives His Views on the Repeal of
This Measure.


To the Editor:
We notice in the observer of the 9th
instant that old DR.. Prejudice and DR..
oelnshhess went up to see the commit
tee on Education. This committee were
gagged until, not being able to stand 1t
any longer, they decided to report tavora-
ply the Dill to repeal the law granting
graduates OF certain normal schools the
privilege TO teach in the public schools
| without further examination This was
victory for these old sinners, because DR..
Prejudice and DR.. Selfshness are always
ready to thrust their ever brandished Dag
gers into the State educational 1nstltu-
tions and let out every drop OF State ala
to education This attack before the
committee was step in that direction
1t can be plainly seen when we remember
that DR.. Prejudice and DR.. Selhshness,
who urged the repeal of this statute, are
rivals especially of DR.. McIver. This ques-
zion would not have been agitated had the
State Normal and Industrial College been
out of the way. 1t is all a farce ABOUT
the people being so much agitated over
this law. If there was any agitation, 1t
was through the influence of DR.. PreJu-
dice, DR.. Selfishness and Mrs. DR.. Back
bitter, who went around among their
neighbors and got them to say "Yes, Doc
tor, you may tell them that you saw me.
Then these agitators go before the com
mittee and tell them that the State from
Currituck to Cherokee is ready TO take
up arms against this mighty sea of trou-
bles.
Does not every thinking man in North
Carolina know that this show before the
committee was mere ignis fatuus It
can not be shown by facts and figures that
the statute in question has caused any
young lady to attend the Normal instead
of ether female institutions; and has
worked no hardships on the self-educated
young lady with first grade county GER
tificate. They contended that it was
special privilege granted to the Normal
schools that was working death to other
schools. Who doubts that the State
grants special privileges to it's student
graduates? The State established these
schools for that purpose. The Normal
and Industrial College was established
for the purpose of educating teachers for
it's public schools If it cannot do this
it is farce and should be at once aban-
doned If its graduates are not competent
and worthy to teach, but have to go to
the county superintendent for certifi-
cate of proficiency, then DR.. McIver and
his able faculty are not worthy of the
place they occupy
One sarcastically asks how this law
got on the statute books. The Legislature
that put it there saw that it was unrea-
sonable to issue diplomas from its own
institutions and then require the one
holding a diploma to be re-examined by
another and usually an inferior officer.
Those favoring the repeal bill asked that
the State show no more privileges to one
institution than to another. How can they
ask such thing without asking the State
to give no more scholarships to the host
of worthy but poor young ladies who ask
the State to give them chance to be-
come mentally the equal if not the su-
perior. for their rich neighbor girls at the
other female schools IF the State appro-
PIRATES money to educate them for the
public school work, why not grant them
the privilege to do sO2 ,.
Those great men before the committee
also asked that the State protect itself
against this great evil CD of allowing its
own Normal graduates to take charge OF
district public school within it's borders.
Turn them out with diploma, for what?
To be asked the Tenth rule in Smiths
Grammar" by petty politician who is
as much an enemy to the State Normal
and Industrial College as those pessimists
who advocated this repeal bill?
If $50 ministers and 10000 Methodists,
and as many Baptists were represented
before that committee, may God in his
mercy look down upon North Carolina,
and send the Savior at once with ten thou
sand angels to scrape selfshness and pre-
iudice out of the hearts of the people.
GEO. T. FARNELL.