The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-02
Campaign OF EDUCATION
Strongly Endorsed by the Press of the State--ihe
Fight Against nliteracy Must be Kept Up
documents of Newspapers from
Cherokee to CurrituCk

beauty? a circulating library be 1t
yer so small; pictures on the walls,
if unframed, will be e~levating in
heir ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Record.
"Asheboro has a public school i'm
association which has done
much good. Through the efforts of the
association the public school building
has been repainted since the school clos
ed, Let US have an organization in
every public school district in Randolph
county and let q house to house canvas
be made to get all children in school.
Courier.
I'VE want q graded school in Taylors-
vile and we must keep crying until We
get it."-Taylorsville Mountain Scout.
Don't answer this letter unless you
have a good graded school, IS the way a
man who was writing to Monroe about
here, concluded has letter. Peo-
pie are moving about in North carroll
ma a good Zeal now, and the prime OBJ
iect sought is good school advantages
for the children."-Monroe Journal.
TT will pay to make a little sacrifice
for the children, and parents who do so
are heading the opposite direction from
the poor house, strange as it may seem
to some. Keep the schools going."-The
Record, Madison County.
Yes, education is business. The
greatest business in which the human
family can engage. 1t is safe to say
that if North Carolina had about $9,0OO,-
900 a year to spend on her schools
(Which is about the comparative amount
in proportion to population spent IN
Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Ohio
instead of only about 81, 80, 900 as at
present, the proportion of wealth and
manufacturing would undergo a radi-
cal change in favor of this state within
the next twenty years. baskerville Cit
izen.
we should thank our Creator that
the day is fast dawning when the chill
dren of today will have better opportu-
tiles for an STANDARDIZATION Trans
eript.
"a sentiment in favor of better
schools and longer terms is steadily
growing in Northampton, in fact our
people have made rapid strides in that
direction during the past ten years.
Roanoke Chowan Times.
Realizing the Importance of having
wide awake, public spirited men in each
section Of the county in touch with US,
your committee recommended the cleo
ton Of each school committeeman in the
county to active membership in the
Board of Trade, exempting them from
the payment of Notwithstanding
Board of Trade
Dare county distinguished itself the
other day when it struck off the last
shackles of ignorance and led the state
in the fight for better citizenship. There
has, been a disposition on the part OF
some to credit this to the efforts of in
dividuaIs, and to say that the people
are awakened to a need of better schools
and school houses Ion by the work OF
men campaigning for that purpose. The
fact is that Dare county vas foreanes
in voting the special tax was not du'
to the work done by any man or set o
men; but it was the result of a grea
popular ground swell-a realization o
startling conditions of illiteracy destin
ed to deprive the rising generation o
the sacred right of suffrage their Anglo
Saxon ancestors Observation-Disclosures
City Economist.
"As Carlyle has we'll said: That Their
should one man die, ignorant who ha'
capacity for knowledge, this l call
tragedy. were it to happen more thai
Il III IL III q 4AAANNOg w. ~ $1,000
computations it does This tragedy
a daily occurrence in North Carolina
this tragedy has held the state back i
. wealth., in influence, in population; an
now in this day of agricultural and in
.dustrial prosperity, this tragedy alon
mars the prospect of future greatness
In the rural district The campalg
for good schools has only begun."-Pro
>, gressive Farmer.
There is no better index of publ
opinion than the state and county pa
ners of North Carolina. The abov
: extracts from representative county pa
pers from the mountains to the seacoas
| furnish the best possible evidence {
: the permanent and ever increasing III
{ terest in public education. This NOV
ment for better schools and more none
= for them has evidently come to sta
The chief characteristics of our Mort
Carolina folks are their conservatisl
n and their reliability. They considt
: we'll before moving. That which move
0 them must appeal to reason n con
I mon sense. Therefore they take I
= backward steps in any great movemen
s 1t has been the constant purpose OF II
= state superintendent and all othei
aiding III Lle ulESCliOI1 vi lIAS uuSNSA
= al affairs of the state to appeal
: reason and judgment not to prelude
a and passion. to direct and organize Il
a deep-seated interest and profound CO..
t victions of our people toward the su
cessful accomplishment of what the pc
{ ple themselves desire and deman
( There have not been nor will there
y any extreme or fanatical methods 7
I sorted to. 1 am convinced, therefor
e that there will be no reaction but /
5 stead a continuous, safe. healthy grow
in public sentiment for education al
: in public demand for more n oett
: schools, houses. and teachers until
IS good school with good equipment. a
e fording the means for a good, pract'c
education, shall be within the reach
every child of school age in u stat
= North Carolinians have made up the
j. minds to give their children an ECU
> chance in life with the children OF tn
"a -;c+or crat and of the other COuntrI