The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-12

ment of unopened sections and at
profit to their promoters. The number
of such roads has noticeably grown
within the past few years, and a num-
Der of lines, projected as mere tram
ways to lumber camps, have taken a
permanent place as arteries connecting
the people of what were shortly before
the back-woods' with the cities or
their own State and the centers OF
the world. On the lines of these roads
several of which are now binding new
cords between tide-water and the in
terror, are springing up numbers of
new towns which enjoy the trade and
patronage of large sections.
The Glory of the School.
Anything purporting, in howsover
a general way, TO tell something or
what North Carolina has done of re-
cent years would be incomplete with
out a statement of school conditions.
The schools have followed on wealth
as education grows out of ambition
and success. The emotion that
prompts a people or an individual to
donate advantages to the succeeding
generation, is both the sign and the
explanation of real advancement.
While the mills were going up ana
the money coming in and the desc
late places being built, the children in
constantly increasing numbers have
been going to school houses. Their
time to work is yet in the future and
The fact is realized. That they will
work better for the schooling is an
axiom SO old that it may be only
smiled at in greeting. Tersely here
is something that the schools have
done. 1t is put down in figures: there
is q poem in each dry mineral.
In the last year one school house
was built for every day the sun rose
and set.
In 1880 receipts for school purposes
were $523,550.
In 1900 they We're 1,01S,000.
In 1901. they were $2,000,000.
In 1880 expenditures for schools
were $352,393.
In 1900 $930,000.
In 1904, $780, 900.
The percentage of increase was in
North Carolina, ABS; in the United
State, 201.
In 1880. the value of school
property was ...........$ 220,442
IN 1900 it was ........... 1897, SCI
In 1904 it was .......... 100000
In this regard the percentage of in
crease in North Carolina was S93 per
cent; in the United States, 1S7 per
cent
This last is a startling fact. but
true:
There are more school children ac-
cOrding to POPULATION in North Caro-
lima than there are in Massachusetts.
What VIII We Do With IT.
Out of the nnumerable citations OF
what the recent years have done to
make the State we love better in point
of wealth, in point of opportunity to
labor in point of knowledge of our
selves and our duties toward education
and temperance and progress and
morality, it is hoped that enough has
been taken to show that a long history
of good deeds is now upon the cresl
with the hilltop that grows higher
and higher with Nthe ascent at last .
plainly in sight. There can be no
going back. there is an advance in
evitable and sure Whoever car best
serve that advance, while yet keeping
in mind the tolls that made the pro-
gress to the point of his own vantage.
the men in whose labor he found the
platform of his own abilities and his
cwn hopes, whoever by staying al
home and himself prospecting among
The people who know him and whom
he knows is the man of a great hour.
The opportunity is here. What will
we do with it?