The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-02-15
RALEIGH LETTER.
GORMAN News BUREAU. /
Raleigh, n. C., Feb. -, 1906. !

1t is always pleasure to recognize the
success of our home educational institu-
tons and the growth and success of
Kings Business College OF Raleigh and
Charlotte is a striking instance in point.
One OF its latest accomplishments Is the
issuing of the handsOmest catalogue in
the State And what adds to its credit
is the fact that, handsome as it is, it wa S
not printed in the North, but is the pro-
duct of the Raleigh printing firm OF Ed
wards & BroughtOn. and equal to any
thing the best of Northern firms turn out
Just as the colleges which it represents
can and does afford a business education
to North Carolina young men and wO-
men equal to that of the bestin the North
and at much less expense. WeshOuld all
labor to build up home institutions OF
every character. by patronizlng them,
especially when it Is to our own mater
ial and pecuniary interest to do SO.
The Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton is completing the computation pre-
paratOry to paying out the second one
hundred thousand dollars appropriated
by the State for public schools needing
assistance. SO far applications for aid
have been made by sixty counties, which
represents about twO-thirds OF the coun-
ties Of the State.
\ wave of Jim Crow legislation as
applying to the separation OF the races
in street-cars seems to be passing over
the South. Asheville board OF aldermen
passed such an ordinance during the past
week and the Virginia Legislature has
Just enacted a State law extending the
operation of the law now III force In
Richmond to all the cities and towns OF
that State where street cars are Operat-
ed. The wave has not yet struck Ral-
eigh, however.
Another North Carolina boy, graduate
of Trinity College, has started out to
win fame and fortune away from home
where so many of the boys OF this
State find it either preferable or neces-
sary to 90 to win them The young man
now referred to is Mr. Julian Blanchard,
graduate of Trinity's class of 1905,
who has Just been elected assistant pro-
lessor in the Department of Physics at
Columbia College, New York City. He
left for the scene of his duties last Thurs
day. tits announced that Messrs. X. W.
Parham, E. ". Knight and F. S. Love,
representing Trinity College, and Mr..
Raymond Browning of Trinity Park
High School, will attend the great Stu
dent Volunteer Convention, which will
meet in Nashville, Tenn, February 2Sth
to March 4th. 1t is said that there will
be five hundred professors and three
thousand students attending this con-
vention as delegates.
Dr. Mckelway, who is secretary Of the
National Child Labor Association, has
appointed a working committee" Of
fifteen who are to be charged with fur
thering his plan OF conducting a crusade
in North Carolina in the interest (as he
sees it, of the younger children now en-
plOyed in the cotton mills and other fac
tories. The present law on the subject
makes twelve years the age limit at
which children may be employed in these
manufactures 1t is understood that the
crusade is to be in the interest ofcreating
public sentiment to back up certain de-
mands which it is proposed to make OF
the next Legislature. Among them will
be the following: That no female child
under fourteen years shall be employed
at night in any mill or factory. That no
child of either sex under fourteen years
shall be employed in mills or other fac
tories either day or nignt. That no male
child under fourteen years shall be so en-
ployed at night unless he can read and
write LLEWNAM.