The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-08
BOTH HERALD A BETTER DAY
FOR RALEIGH.


Public School Committee of Raleigh
township, the body which controls the
city schools which are virtually the
township schools, are ones that will
meet with hearty approval.
More than hearty approval, in truth,
for words of warm commentator are
due the gentlemen for their action
which has in it the possibility that a
large majority of more than four hum
dred children in this township who are
not attending school may be induced
to become students. No more impor-
is the action shown in the following
resolutions adopted:
whereas, the School Committee of
Raleigh township is informed that
several hundred children, more than
six years of age and less than four
teen, are not enrolled in our schools;
and, whereas, many of these children
are prevented from attending by want
of books and clothing.
Therefore, resolved, first, that We
request the newspapers, Minister'S
missionaries, educators, police and the
public in general to exert themselves
earnestly in the encouragement of the
parents and guardians of these chill
dren to enter them in the schools.
Resolved, second, that the Asso-
ciated Charities be requested to call
upon the people of our city and town
ship to provide a sufficient supply of
books and clothing for the children
who need it,
The wise step taken is in starting the
movement, but it will avail naught
unless the people rally about the
standard that has been raised and
give life and being to the purpose set
forth by the committee. 1t is not
right that i'm the capital county of
North Carolina that four hundred
room because they are without proper
clothing and without necessary books.
! The largesse OF the people must
overcome this difficulty, and to this
end there is strength in the call OF
the School Committee for publicity.
Yesterday in these columns we dls-
cussed the idea of publicity as applied
to corporate interests, to trusts. ON
the heels of that we call attentlon
to another feature of it right at hand.
1t is that publicity in this very case
is all that is needed to stir the peo-
pie to the absolute necessity of see
ing that neither lack of clothes nor
lack of books keep one of the needy
four hundred from the school room
without care and instruction these
n
With it they will become valuable as
sets in the moral and material ad-
vancement of the State.
Raleigh must not let the matter
stop aid die with the issuance of this
appeal for aid. this call to prosperity
to heed the needs of adversely. The
work must so on. The children must
become attendants at school. NO man
in this day in Raleigh can do more
good than by championing this cause
and aiding it to become an accom-
plished fact.
The other splendid action of the COM
mittee was to provide for industrial
training in the public schools of the
township, in so far as this can be ac-
plished by courses in cooking and
sewing, these for pupils of both races
1t is a step forward and it will bear
rich fruit Those who in after years
become the mistresses of homes of
their own will be better prepared to
manage home affairs in domestic lines,
those who are to serve will be better
prepared to serve. The institution of
these industrial features is a splen-
did provision for the betterment of
home life in Raleigh, and the extern
sion of this influence will go on as
time passes.
These two actions of the committee
are magnificent auguries for the flu
ture Both mean much for better lives
and better morals. Their full accom-
plishment should be the goal aimed
at by all appreciative of the best for
the city and section.