The gold leaf., 1902-11-06
HE'S PROUD OF HIS STATE
Professor Alexander Graham Takes
NO Stock In Detractors and Dectrac.
tions Of North Carolina.
Ga>tOnia Gazette.

In a recent report to his School
Board, Professor Alexander Graham.
superintendent of the Charlotte
draded Schools, took occasion to
point out some weak points in some
OF the detractiOns of the Old North
State which it has lately been quite
fashionable i'll certain quarters to
publish to the world. From this re-
port, apparently published as a paid
| advertisement in the Charlotte OBJ
server, we make the following ex-
tract, which is good enough to pass
along:
Within the space of a year there
were held two educational meetings,
one at Salem and one at Athens, Ga,
that have been far-reaching in their
| influence, resulting in great educa-
tional rallies all over our Southland
and successfully projecting and estab-
llShIng two great summer schools,
| one at Knoxville, Tenn, with an en-
rOllment of two thousand and one at
charlottesville, Va, of more than
one thousand. 1t was pleasant to
see and delightful to read of distin-
guished young North Carolinians
leading in both of these great gather
ings. 1t was great to reflect that
the Old North State had led Tennes-
see and Virginia both, and during
| the past nine years had given the
North Carolina teachers the oppor-
tunity to hear the expert teachers, in
evidence for the first time this year
at the great summer schools at Char
| lOttesville and Knoxville.
1t was wonderful to hear Hamilton
Mabie, editor of The Outlook, point
to old North Carolina as "a pillar of
cloud by day and pillar of fire by
night" 1t was simply the irony of
fate to witness ex-President Alder
man, of the University of North Car
Olina and a graduate of same, now
| President Of Tulane University, pre-
sented to that magnificent audience
side by side with Hamilton Mabie, as
| the two greatest masters of English
speech i'll the great Republic of the
United States i'll the presence of Wal
ter Page, the man who recently pro-
claimed the "tragical truth that the
University of North Carolina for all
its lifetime had neVeEproduced a man
eminent in his profession. This same
gentleman who recently produced in
Worlds Work the Englishman of the
South an hundred years behind all
other English-speaking peoples, not
even excepting those in Australia,
had the pleasure of seeing DR.. Paul
Barringer, president of the Univer-
sity Of Virginia, a graduate of our
own Davidson College; DR.. McIver,
another University man; DR.. Carlyle,
another denominational graduate,
of Wake Forest; DR.. Branson, the
president of the Georgia Normal,
another North Carolinian, and that
matchless orator, Judge Emory
Speer, of Georgia, all leaders in this
great meeting and comparing favor
ably with Mr.. Page himself, our self
constituted critic, and OvershadOw-
ing many of his Northern conferres,
whom, | have no doubt, he regards
as "eminent in their profession" 1t
was heart-rending to Mr.. Page to
hear such men as Lyman Abbot, DR..
Parkhurst and DR.. Dickerman declare
that the forgotten man" of North
Carolina was far superior in every
respect to thousands Of the rural
population Of the great State of New
York or even Massachusetts,.
| Allhail and good day to our North
ern born friends of the Salem and
Athens conferences. They gladly
turn on the searchlight of truth on
the path of true history SO that Wal
ter H. Page and all other detractors
of our section and State can see their
way clearly to "go way back and sit
down.