The farmer and mechanic., 1903-03-03
JUST WHAT It NE[2
States Woman's Corfs,.
Appropriations Asked.
The Probabilities are That the Psss-s.l
priation Averaging 81, 500 Ysa..
Withdrawn Af,sr Jan

There is no Institution 81 a
lima more popular than ,he ~....
and Industrial College a. ts-......-
is the only institution ia .. ....
tablished by the Sta.e fa-
has done great work
greater than even its h.st E--
pated. Every dollar "a, ~...
vested in that institution t..
invested and has paid n gaaa. ..
the education OF the women w.. .H. ..
DR.. McIver. president eC sa
who presented the needs .t t..
tion in a speech before taa .
and Appropriations Commit. r...
also a succipct statement. lu s...
legislator and every citizen OK .# .
is interested. 1t IS as follow.
Q. H Guion. Esq, ChaIrmar .s r-
Committee on Appropriate.
Dear Sir: About a week a-- ...
ed before the Joint Committaa u. .
tion to present the needs oE .H e
Normal and Industrial Cole.
answer any questions that ...
asked in regard To its lugam. m-# -
peEses. ! think only four u....s
the committees on appropsa .
present and, naturally in tLe -r.. -
of work, they would not keep a ....
that was said in my brief stat.a.-t
/ wish, therefore, to ask th.t ... fla.
lowing facts be in reach OK gaU. ..
mittee when the appropriate ..r
college shall be considered
l. The bill before you ask. far
room for our young women. mu.H .
important question for women than 4
men Without more dorultogy F... ..
have reached our maximum att.......
We turn off about two hundred u
annually, and eighty students naw Boar.
IN private families.
.. We need. besides this a cold ..r
age plant, for the sake OF both M
and economy This need is urged He ...
Board of Directors. by the State E.
of Examiners and by the State Board r
Health in their official reports.
3 We have no gymnasium. aal .r
library and reading room about .
feet is not large enough for t#a-.a..
OF the even inadequate SUPPLY Of Ho..
We now have on hand.
4. Since our bill was introduce. H...
received information from n most .r5#.#.
tial member of the Peabody Board .
means almost certain withdrawal e.
our Peabody appropriation amouuNG5 s
1000 or $4,000 annually
5. Considering the fact that thor. .r.
more white women in the State
white men, and that they have only h.
one college supported by the State .a
their college. their normal, and their a-
! trio in
of our students become teachers and .#
taught during the past ten year. u0.
than one hundred thousand North Caro-
lima children, and considering the far.
fact that our college is the young a
most inadequately equipped and has a
employing teachers, the smallest a@#E
among our State colleges. ] hope that a
least the dormitory asked for I'm our Il
will be allowed, and in view o. our pros
pective decrease in annual iBrama
would like to have our bill amend. 81
as to make it possible to provids Fl
storage plant, costing about ... .
$4,000
If our Board of Directors had Era#
of the probable loss of the Peabo1y
port, from $4,000 to 5000 in two E.."
it would have instructed me to ae t
large special appropriation or aa Is
! crease in our appropriation for ma.a..
ance.
| am writing this as briefly ae ! f..
because all these facts have not ..
placed before any committee to tHa .
| islature, and because only few @,
committee have had an opportu.
hear any Of them discussed.
Very respectfully,
CHARLES d. NINEH.
Prcsl3sr.