The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-21

the establishment of six more libraries IN eacn
county; so the way is now open for you to get a
valuable little collection of books for your school
-openAnow, even if you did make application last
year and find that you were too late. Forsyth IS
the only county in the State that has already ap-
piled for It's full quota of six new libraries; II you
are not in Forsyth, there is no reason why you
should not at once take advantage of the general
plan. Raise $40 or more by private subscription,
let the committee set apart SO of your districts
funds, and the State will give you $40 from It's
$4,000 appropriation-thus enabling you to begin
with at least $50 for the purchase of books. Bet
ter start this movement Immediately, or you may
find that six more progressive neighborhoods have
reported first and exhausted the appropriation.
Possibly, however, yours is one of the 500 enter
prising communities, each of which has already
established a school library. In that case, it be-
comes your duty to see that it is properly replen-
ished and cared for. If your neighbors will raise
SIS or more by private subscription and set
apart S. from your school fund, the State will
give you Shaking in all $15-to buy more
books for it. We hope that many schools will
take advantage of this opportunity to get new
works or new copies of old works that have been
worn out.
- u u VIA u lie SCuOOl DuIIu1uS ICSGi1' IL
reflects credit on your neighborhood, then it is
better than most of those in the State. If it's
not creditable, then you now have the best oppor-
tunity to improve it that has ever been offered.
This comes through the 100000 school-house
loan fund set apart by the last General Assembly.
If you wish to erect a new building, you can Dor
row the money from the State Board of Education
at 4 per cent interest-one-tenth of the amount to
he rpD9id each Vnar for ton voorc This idoo &c.
becoming very popular, and we must say of this
as we said of the school library appropriation,
that unless you act promptly others may reap the
harvest ahead of you. Up to the beginning of last
week, only 10 applications for aid in erecting new
buildings had been received, but by Wednesday 81
more applications were fled-these being from
the following counties: Randolph 2, Wilkes 5,
Caldwell 5, Haywood 2, Pamlico 2, Mecklenburg 6,
Vance 5, CASTOR 8, Cabarrus 5, Iredell 8, Curri-
tuck 2, Columbus 3, and one each from Watauga,
Yadkin, Johnston, Moore, Beaufort, Camden,
Warren, Perquimans and Richmond. It would be
highly creditable to you if you should do as a
number OF Franklin County communities have
done-raise by private subscription half the
amount needed for erecting the new building. We
are coming to the time when we shall be about as
much ashamed of a tumble-down school-house as
of a shabby church.
Unless you are in Mecklenburg, we are safe in
saying that you ought to have better roads, and
we hope you will improve every opportunity to
help along the cause of better highways. That
there is now no method of cooperation in road
building-State or Nation duplicating amounts
raised by the community, as in the school library
matter-is much to be egretted. The Brownlow
Bill embodies this idea, however, and it might
be well to petition your Congressman in it's be-
half. Senator Latimar. we ohsarun m;lI n-anaaa