The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-28

eS were made. Most conspicuous among
the campaigners from among the political
and other leaders Of the State were Gov
ernor Aycock, Ex-senator and Ex-Gov-
ernOr Thomas j. Jarvis, Congressman
John H. Small, State Auditor B. +. Dixon,
Z. b. White, Esq, member of the State
Legislature; J. W. Bailey, Editor of the
Biblical Recorders: EX-State Senator A.
NJ. Scales. Ex-Attorney General r. d.
Douglas, the last two Chairmen, respec-
lively, OF the Democratic and Republican
Executive Committees Of Guilford county.
Each of these speakers was usually &C
companied by an active teacher familiar
With every phase of the educational queS-
zion.
The educators who took an active part
in the campaign were headed by State
Superintendent Joyner, Ex-State Supcrin-
tendent Mebane, EX-State superintendent
Scarborough, Presidents of the State col
leges, the Presidents or Professors Of
nearly all of the leading denominational
colleges, superintendent Of the city
public schools, County Superintendents.
and others. These speeches were made
chiefly in the months of June, July and
August.
Already last summers campaign has
borne fruit. as several districts have
voted the special tax and many places
are preparing to vote it. The most sig
n~ificant fact that i can state in regard to
the North Carolina campaign is that the
audiences attending the educational
meetings in June, July and August were
larger than the audiences that attended
the political speakings in the months of
September and October preceding the No
vember election. Several of the speakers
were in both campaigns, and the Gov
ernor, who is probably the most effective
and popular political campaigner in the
State, says that his audienccs>at his fit
teen speeches in the educational cam
paign were larger than the audiences he
addressed at any fifteen political gather
ings. To a person who knows NORTH
Carolina this means a revolution in pub
lie thinking so far as education is con-
cerned. for the political speakers had as
large audiences as they have usually had
except in a year when there was a Presi-
Dental election.
The educational campaign was parti-
cipated in by political leaders, educa-
tors, editors, clergymen, lawyers, physi-
clans, business men and farmers.
To some extent this campaign would
have been carried on even if there hao
been no Southern Education Board, bu'
I would not know how to estimate the
value of the assistance the Board has
rendered by paying the travelling cx
lenses of most of the c~ampaigners, anC
Gefraying the expenses for literature anC
campaign organization Tt should be saiC
here that the travelling expenses of th'
Governor and State Superintendent Wer'
paid by themselves.
have felt all the time that, actint
as the agent of the Southern Education
Board, it was my business to find GU
where valuable educational work was go
ing on and then to use the means i
placed at my disposal to intensity an
multiply the force of that work, rathe
than undertake to inaugurate neN
schemes or independent campaigns o
wage any warfare upon individuals O
movements that did not meet my ap
prevail or the approval of those l wa
representing. 1t is worth moro to tn
cause of universal education to strength
| en- those who are fighting for it tina
to light those who are pulling the othe
way. Truth needs nothing but agitatlo
in a fair, open field.
In addition to the work OF the speak
ers in the campaign. three or four hun
: dred dollars was spent in preparing an
, disseminating educational literatur
through newspapers and SPECIAL tables c
local statistics bearing upon the sublec
: of taxation for schools, consolidation {
: school districts, and the Improvement {
public school buses.
III. WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION 0 TIL
RETIREMENT OF PUBLIC SCHOO
HOUSES IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Just before the close of the past co
loge year undertook to organize throus
the students of the State Normal an
Industrial College a woman's moVemel
for the Improvement of the public scho'
I houses of the State. 1t is the Won1e
rather than the men who have made tr
churches in the town and IN the counti