The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-01

all the children. The people of the State
will more than ever honor Chief Mag
istrate who has the true idea of his great
office-the idea of rendering service of
dren. He has shown to all the world
what all his friends have known-that
|! he makes no promises Ito get in on
that he does not perform. He pledged
his every effort to the voters to secure
efficient schools and to make it posi-
bic for every boy and girl to be educated.
Right manfully is he redeeming that
pledge. For years the people have been
looking for a political leader who put the
education of the children above politics
and office. And Governor Aycock has
shown himself TO be the leader for whom
the people have been waiting. In the
efforts he is making to induce the peo-
pie of every neighborhood of the State to
vote special taxes, build better school
houses, employ good teachers, and in
duce regular attendance on the part of
the children-in this effort in which he
leads, the Governor is entitled to the
earnest cooperation, not only of every
father and mother in the State. but as
we'll of every good citizen, for education
is after all the mud sill upon which all
our institutions and Industries rest.
While Governor Aycock, on Thanks
giving day, was speaking to the people
in Camden county and urging primarily
the Importance of getting all the chill
dren to attend the schools, it must be
gratifying to him to know that in the
oldest Episcopal church in the city, the
noble and patriotic rector was naming
his abundant labors' as one of the
causes of thanksgiving. DR.. NJ M. Mar
shall, the rector, said:
But circumscribing this hurried re-
Prospect and coming neaier home, what
patriotic citizen Of this comm onWcalth
can fail TO feel that he has abundant
cause for thanksgiving in he fact that
we have for Our Governor Christian
gentleman of pure and blameless life
and character, who has sven in i'm
petus TO the cause of pop'.iar education
and elevation nj the mass. s. worthy to
enroll his name forever among the
States most honored servants ana sens.
THE school master is a. ROAD N the
land. Never was there d time il cur
history, not only as a Srate. but as 4
nation, when liberal education with al
the blessings that follow in its train
was in such easy access to TIC poorest
and the humblest.
mot merely common schools, but col
leges and universities are established and
frequently richly endowed in every
quarter, and they are more generally
attended than ever before. Never III
our history was there such general and
munificent provision for the poor and
rich and suffering, whether in mind,
body or estate. e
1T is an age of large fortuEe.; 1.-The
outcome of our marvellous mate, ial
prosperity-but thank God, it is an age
of large gifts for good, rs we'll
We have emphasized this inspiring ex-
ample of Governor Aycock with the hope
that it will cause every man in the State
to say to himself: Am l doing my duty
to the children in my neighborhood? If
the Governor feels called upon to travel
by boat, by buggy, by rail to stimulate
the zeal of the people, ought I not to be
willing to exert my every effort in my
own community" If every man of in
fluence and every father in North Carolina
would make this honest self examination.
the evangelists of education would drive
illiteracy from it's borders within the
present decade.
Men and brethren: Why not follow
the inspiring example of the Chief Mag
istrate of the State?