The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-10
SPOKE At PEACE.
Governor Aycock's Ad-
dress Last Night Short
But Charming.

denly stopped his speech after talk
ing only twenty-five minutes at Peace
Institute last night. showed the mas
ter mind of the accomplished speak
err and pulled up a thoroughly delight
cd audience with too sudden sense
of regret that he was done Wheh
the Governor paused to thank ms
audience of several hundred young
women and a handful of men VINO
looked strongly homogeneous among
the school girls, he had the cohhpiele
and charmed attention OF every ilSt
cner. Ii had seemed but an ihcfedloly
short time since he had begun ana
when he closed there was Il swapping
of watches the wheels OF winch mad
seemed literally to fly around their
circle For a moment or so the girls,
who had settled themselves in ENJOY
ment, did not realize that the ad-
dress was concluded. When they did
they broke out into an unaffected,
spontaneous and prolonged applause
of the feminine sort that must have
sounded gratefully on the ears of the
Governor who was forced to hiSe and
BOW his thanks.
The speech. whiCa was on educa-
zion. was gem of its sort. 1t fit the
occasion and pleased the audience to
the last degree. 1t went smoothly,
easily and in the Governors best and
most charming style converse
tional, punctuated with bits of fine
but soft-toncd defamation. Ii was
earnest, humorous and sensible and
the interest were for a moment flag
gsed. The Governors diction waited
It's way on gentle wings from subject
to subject till the end and. as | have
said the audience gasped when il
found that he was done.
The Governor came into the hall.
which was comfortably filed, at eight
O'Clock, accompanied by DR.. Dinwid-
die, DR.. Moment. Treasurer Lacy. Au-
ditor Dixon. Capt. Alex. StrOnach, DR..
Du Bose and Prof. Henry Jerome
Stockard who occupied seats on the
platform. He was in evening dress
and made a handsome picture as he
stood at ease before his school girl
audience.
Stating in the beginning that, his
experience as a school teacher having
been limited 10 two months, he did
not propose to attempt to give q
technical educational address, the
speaker went on to say that it was
TO It's young womanhood that the
state must look for the education of
the masses and the up-lift of the
race. The boy in college was apt to
be something of an aristocrat and
the girl more so. They felt that they
had an advantage, that they were of
different clay. The needful thing,
however was to educate everybody
and everything An Irish potato was
not tit to eat until it was educated
When man first tried 10 eat it, it was
like DR.. Dixon and his first oystG':
the more he chawed it, the bigger
il got (The grammar. eXplapined the
Governor. was of a special North Car
Il rafN1 tNfC, Il
Vidual use.) Education, he declared,
was the getting out CT a thing all its
good and reprpessing all its bad.
The Governor illustrated his point
by the training and development OF
the pointer dog. The dog, in the first
instance hunted birds naturally but
he hunted them to eat. He drew
stirring picture OF a finely bred dog
trailing birds that stopped on the top
most rail OF a fence at the sight of a
covey huddled on the other side; of
now. for fear of flushing them, he
backed down the rails one by one,
ran down the fence a hundred yards.
jumped over and returned to stand
the birds. waiting with every nerve
atingle, with the water of desire drop
ping from his jaws, for his master
10 give him the word to flush the
birds.
That. said the Governor. was edu-
cation: and the highest education is
Self-restraint.
He had no uptopian dream about
universal education. That did not
mean that every man would or should
be made alike but that there should
ne given to every man the opportun-
itN of becoming what he was intended
10 be- The greatest thing in general
education was the competition 1t ere
ated The more trained intellects
III. Ia y,f
only the average but the exceptional
product The chief incentive to good
work was association and COMPETE
ton With ones equals. He told of how
the two minute trotter had been de-
velopcd by the training of thousands
and thousands of horses and of how
the final effort was made with the
trotter urged on by runners ano
aerved to the point of breaking the
record or dying in the attempt.
NO one can win race worth win
ming against a scrub said the Cover
nor. "'To break record one must
compete with a thoroughbred.
He dwelt upon the value of general
education in creating an appreciation
class-that would know good work
when il was done. To do something
well required an audience that was
capable Of understanding. The praise
of ignorance was dampening to higf
effort: but intelligent appreciation was
the highest reward it could receive
Whether education, nor anything
else worth having, said the Governor
could be had except at price. North
CarolinianS had as much to pay as any
neopIe The money cost was the leas1
IF the price. No people could give
better teachers, better books, better
songs. better work than we. All gooc
came from drudgery and self-sacri1ice
Everything cost and the fine things
mad to be paid for in advance. The
price of education, of the fine, high
pure and true things of life was in
linire toll and patience untiring.
The Governor in closing espresso
his appreciation of the opportunitN
80 o1a~eee the students and his glad
ness at talking to them before he re
tIy.s as oVernOr.