The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
Leadsall North Carolina Newsstand Circulation
SOWING FOR THE REVIVAL
Address to the People of North Carolina by Confer
enCe of Educators, Held in the Governors Office
in Raleigh, February 18th, Ioo2--The
Names of the Sgners.

of this educational trinity no community
has ever yet succeeded in establishing
the means of complete education for it's
children.
These 35 towns and cities within our
borders have followed the lead of other
sections of the United States in adopting
first the means Of education local taxa
zion. The fact that 50 per cent of the total
school fund of this Union is now raised
by local taxes, while North Carolina
raises only IA per cent of her funds by
that means, and lags behind all ner sis
tel States in every phase of public edu-
cation, has both it's lesson and it's warn
ing.
3. Remembering that in the last year
nearly thirty communities in North Caro-
lima, some Of them distinctly rural, have
adopted the principle of local taxation
for schools, we think this time most aus
picious to urge general movement Of
all our educational forces in that direc-
| tion, and, therefore, we appeal to all
patriotic North Carolinians, men and wo-
men, who love their State, and especially
that part of their State which is worth
more than all it's timber, lands, mines,
and manufacturing plants. to band them
selves together under the leadership of
our Educational Governor" AMI the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
aided ~ the Southern Education Board,
to carry forward the work of local taxa
tion and better schools, to the end that
every child within our borders may have
the opportunity to fit himself for the
duties OF citizenship and social service.
And, finally, heartily believing in the
| CEristlikeness of this work of bringing
universal education to all the children of
| North Carolina, we confidently rely on the
/ full cooperation of all the churches Of
/ the State whose work is so near the
hearts of all the people, and, therefore,
| appeal to the pulpit to inculcate the SUI
/ preme duty of universal education.
/ Charles b. Aycock, Governor of North
| Carolina.
r. f. Toon, Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
/ John Duckett, Chief Clerk Department
OF Public Instruction
Charles y. McIver, President State
Normal and Industrial College.
F. p Venable, President University of
| North Carolina.
George T. Winston, President College
/ of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
Charles E, Taylor, President Wake
| Forest College.
Edwin Minis, Trinity College.
Henry Louis Smith, President David
son College.
Charles H. Mebane. President Catawba
College.
j. o. Atkinson, Elon College.
r. d. Bratton, President st. Mary's
College.
R. T. vann, President Baptist Female
University.
L. L. Hobbs. President Guilford Col
lege.
C. G. Vardeu, President Red Springs
Seminary.
j. B. CARLYLE, Wake Forest College
j. l.. Kesler Baptist Female Univer
sity.
j. y. Joyner, The State Normal and
Industrial College.
d. H. Hill, College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts.
L. w. Crawford, Jr., Rutherford Col
lege.
j. l. Foust, The State Normal and In
dustrial College.
NJ. C. S. Noble, University of North
Carolina
Henry Jerome Stockard, Peace Insti-
tute.
f. p. Hobgood, President of oxford
Seminary.
Robert Bingham, Bingham School.
j. A. Holt Oak Ridge Institute.
Hugh Morson, Raleigh Male Academy.
d. Matt Thompson. Superintendent
Statesville Public Schools.
c. L. Coon. Superintendent Salisbury
Public Schools.
f. p Moses, Superintendent Rai&gh
Public Schools.
f. J. Tighe, Superintendent Asheville
Public Schools.
r. r. Foust, Superintendent Goldsboro
Public Schools.
f p. Mangum, Superintendent Wilson
Public Schools.
e. c. Brooks, superintendent Monroe
Public Schools
Alexander Graham. Superintendent
Charlotte Public Schools
Frank H Curtiss superintendent Bur-
liDgton Public Schools.
Harry Howell. superintendent Wash
ington Public Schools
w d. Carmichael, Durham Public
Schools
w. S. Long, County Superintendent OF
Alamance.
J. A. Anthony County Superintendent
of Cleveland.
j. A. Butler. County superintendent Of
Iredell.
J. f. Ray Superintendent of the School
for the Deaf, Dumb ard Blind.
f. Mex Goodwin, Superintendent OF
ethe ~ C. School for the Deaf
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