The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-18

AT Mt. Moriah. with the touching and
enchanting discourse of Rev. Mr.. w. R.
Cullum, the very able and talented
Baptist divine of Wake Forest.
great banquet was spread in the
basement hall of the Manufacturers
Club at the Charlotte meeting, around
which speakers, teachers and others
gathered to partake of feast prepared
by noted chef, while under the beau
tiful oaks near Auburn the rural
matrons spread white cloths and
covered them with tempting viands pre-
pared in the country homes, by the
matrons themselves.
At Charlotte we found a system of
graded schools with an enrolment of
over 5000 and with corps of 81 teach
ers, superintendent by Prof. Alex. Graham,
an educational genius. At Auburn is
the Academy referred to with an en-
rollment of 81, in charge of Rev. M. A.
Adams, with two assistant teachers. AT
L-arlotte the great system of schools
is supported by a special graded school
tax on millions of dollars worth of prop
erty. The Auburn school is supported
by tuition paid by it's patrons, Argument
ed by the public school fund set aside for
the school district in which it is located,
but the Charlotte schools and the Mt.
Moriah school are each doing most
valuable work in their respective fields.
| have not been making invidious COM
PARSONS The one is as good as the
other and the good results accomplished
are on a parity with each other, and
when / had looked upon the situation
at Charlotte and then on the situation
at Mt. Moriah, and when I heard the
Governor, DR.. Smith, Mr.. Page and DR..
McIver at Charlotte and then listened
to the Governor. Mr.. Adams and Rev.
Mr.. Cullum at the country academy, and
as l looked upon the vast audience at
Charlotte and then upon the limited
crowd in the rural school house the fol-
lowing question arose in my mind:
From which of these schools will come
an Aycock? a Page? a McIver? a Gull
lum?' If history is to repeat itself the
Mt Moriah school stands the better
chance, for if l mistake not, each of these
glittering lights in the new galaxy of
intellectual excellence received their
training in the rural school house, but
it is safe to predict that from the little
school at Auburn and from the great
schools at Charlotte will come men and
women who will be the peers of those
who have preceded them.
The Charlotte schools and the Mt.
Moriah school each occupy prominent
and most important positions in that
new education army that has been
formed to rid our grand old State of
llteracy. and they are doing their re-
spective work and doing it well.
The address of Governor Aycock was
as eloquent, as forcible, as convincing,
as frank and logical at Mt. Moriah as
it was at Charlotte. The inspiration he
gathered was perhaps the same at each
place. He went to each place to plead
for a cause as holy as the cause of
humanity itself and he pleaded for all
the children with as much earnestneSs,
as much feeling and fervor, as much
frankness and with as much eloquence
at the one place as he did at the other.
The people heard him and applauded his
manly utterances at Charlotte, they
likewise heard and applauded him at
Auburn and at each place they babe him
God speed in his splendid leadership of
this great new crusade for intelligent
citizenship.
F. 3. ARENDELL.
Raleigh, n. c., May 16, 1902.