The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22

J ,,1.;,r - rcssib1o for County Roards oF
! Fduootion in counties whose total school
/ fund oxcoods fifteen thousand dollars to
! o,,,r1o, NC Countv Superintendent n
teamed man for All of his time to direct
/ ana organize and stimulate the cduca-
/ tionaI work OF the county. This ought
TO result in great benefit to those strong
/ counties whose large school fund will
/ Justify tho employment of such a man
/ at a living salary and will permit a
number of County Boards of Education
/ TO unfottor a valuable County Superin-
! tondcnt and allow him to give his whole
/ time and thought and soul to the up-
! building of the educational work of the
/ county. There are about forty counties
/ in the state whose total school fund
exceeds firtccu thousand dollars. CD An
/ amendment that makes the holding Of Il
summer school of a month or moro for
/ which school teachers in the larger coun-
! ties and the combination Of two or more
/ counties for the holding or a similar
/ school This ought TO result IN giving
many pubic school teacherS an oppol
iuhlly 10 acquire AT nominal cost az
/ Ih'lf very doors larger ana better
kho"Icu8' OF ih' SUBJECTS Ih'y nave 10
IeaCh ana OF the IHeIhooS OF t'achlhG
Lneln' N'l PROVISIONS Iof permanent
n'd.' organization oI county HoPeFIA-
I'"d'hlS' ! ms ought 70 result IN
i"IHtI hHo"l Rouge ol ll' Work closer
/ sympathy ana moro h'IpiuI cooperation
anu q more '"ocuVe organization on the
pau VI Oo"n'y ouptIiu''hu'hlS VINO
dI'cr an are largcly the directors OF tho
| Cuu0d IIoI"l Noih u me counties. ~
PROVISION lor the easier formation o.
| School uIstrlctS out OF portions or con-
| HBuous counties by agreement and con
| sent Oh the county Board OF Education
OF inc TWO counties. 20 Provisions
IoI Jhe PuollcaCIoh OF annual statements
OF the proceedings OF County Boards
Oh cducauoh' ~ continuing the APP
PolhtmehJ OF inc county Boards OF Edu-
eauoh III lhe hahdS OF the General AS
seholy' wv Amendment TO the law IN
regard 10 inc colored normal Schools
providing Tor thelf consolidation and bet
IoF management
). The establishment of a permanent
loan fund for building and improving
public school houses setting aside for
this purpose the money heretofore ac-
Cumulating in the hands of the State
Treasurer from the sale of public lands
and hereafter to be derived from the
same source amounting now to about
two hundred thousand dollars, one hun
drcd thousand of which will be available
at once placing the fund largely under
the control Of the state Board of Edu-
cation to be loaned under such rules and
regulations as they see fit to adopt, to
County Boards Of Education and by them
in turn to districts in their counties
needing aid for public school houses
The loans are to be paid back in ten
annual instaIImcnts and are to bear four
rer cent interest from date The State
Board and the State Treasurer are Sc
cured by liens upon the entire county
school fund and the County Board Dor
rowing from this fund and loanng to any
particular districts is secured by a lien
upon the entire district fund, 1t is
doubtful whether any othcr act of any
General Assembly since the war will re-
suit in more permanent benefit to the
public school system. one of the greatest
needs OF which is comfortable and re-
spectacle school houses. This loan
fund will enable many a district that
now has no house to get one and many
another that now has a house that is
neither comfortable nor respectable to
get one that is comfortable and respect
able on such easy terms that the dis
tricf will scarcely feel it and that the
school term will not be materially short
ened any year and viii result under
proper management in getting good
houses in all districts needing Them
within a reasonable term of years, 1t
is the most equitable plan that could
be devised since it is based upon the
idea of allowing the district to help
itself and then to return the help within
a reasonable time to be passed on to
others that need help and that are will
ing to help themselves. 1t is no wild
! cat scheme because, II properly admin
| istered the law renders the security as
safe as any security for any private IN
! vestment could be rendered by the la"
| T. An act appropriaung hVe Thousand
| dollars for the establishment OF add'-
| tional rural Libraries and two thousand
| five hundred dollars for the enlargement
of the rural libraries heretofore eStab-
lished, the money to be appropriated to
! the districts upon the Same terms as
under the former rural library act,