The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-30

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expense easy to be borne"
We believe that this plan coD7d /.
made # great service throughout thu
South and we commend it to all in
terested in the public schools.
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These Northern visitors strdio5
the race problem almost as earnes+1r
as the educational problem. Writ
ing in his paper, the New York ONT
look, of April 9th, DR.. Lyman All.
bott sums up his impressions Of bis
trip South, so far as the race issue
is concerned, as follows:
E'The S~outherner has less prein-
dice against the negro and more IN.
terest in his welfare than the North.
erner has he desires the negroes,
education, but believes that, what
ever it may become in the future. if
should nov be industrial rather than
literary the South has spent on the
negroes education between three
and four times as much in school
taxes as the North has spent in con-
tributiOns the work of the North
among the negroes should be Carried
on in fellowship with the Southern
whites, not in ~antagonism to them,
to attempt to force either political
or social equality is to infict meal
culable injury on the negro and on
the Nation. In a word, the North.
erner should recognize the fact that
the Southern white man now wishes
to befriend the negro but the negro
should recognize the fact that he
has yet to earn the Southern white
mans respect"
The good results obtained by re-
formatOry schools came in for their
share of attention, and the North
Carolina Reformatory Association
can get ONE valuable points from
the addresses made. DIR. John era
ham Brooks, of Cambridge, Mass.
talked at some length regarding the
EImira, N. Y, Reformatory. "Thir-
ty seven different trades are taught"
he said. THE boys are given an all
round training which teaches indus
try, order and virtue. So great is
the confidence in them, that posi-.
tions r always awaiting graduates
of the EImira Reformatory
DR.. Albert Shaw, discussing the
same subject, asserted that nine
tenths of those who take a two
years curse at this institution be-
come useful citizens. He told this
story: A rather eccentric DIR.
Beecher, a brother of the famous
Henry Ward Beecher, was once pas
tor OF church at EImira, New York.
In his flock there was a widow
lady, the mother of two sons who
from some cause seemed unlikely to
make q success in life. She took her
troubles to her pastor and asked his
SONHDCA' NAOCA AC144IS u01 SOOI
and her request for advice as to how
to make useful and successful men of
her boys, DR.. Boecher replied "'WeII,
sister, you know Smiths jewelry
store here on Main street? Well,
just let those boys go down there t.
night and break the plate glass win
dow and take a watch apiece. They
will then be arrested, and 1 will see
that they r given an indeterminat9
sentence at the Elmira Reformatory,
after which you need have no fears
for their future /"
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Gen. Toon, Superintendent Of
Public Instruction, for North Caro-
lima, spoke of the millions which
the South has paid for pensions to
Federal soldiers, and urged the pro
priety Of Congressional %apprOpria-
tiOns to supplement State apprOpria-
tiOns to public schools in the South
Gov. Aycook struck the key note
when in his address of welcome, he
spoke of the great need of better