The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-26
Making Citizens.
Greensboro Patriot.

Greensboro Patriot.
About twenty years ago II man
who was seXperimentingi in the untried
field of daily journalism in the town
of Concord conceived and gave eX-
preston to the idea that North Car
olina was not doing its duty by the
youthful violators of the laws of the
Commonwealth. The editor believed
it a crime against society to sentence
boys to enforced association with ma
ture and hardened criminals in the
jails and on the county roads, and he
lifted up his voice through the print
ed page against the system that tend
ed to destroy rather than to save the
manhood in boy convicted of All
offence against the law. Out of that
agitation grew the movement that
resulted in the establishment of one
of the most beneficent and useful in
stitutions in North Carolina-the
Stonewall Jackson Manual Training
and Industrial School, located on IL
good farm near Concord. 1t is
home and school for wayward boys
without any of the appearances of a
prison. Here youths who go astray
are committed by the courts OF the
State and trained for citizenship.
1t was appropriate and most fortu-
nate for the State and,the institution
that the editor who started the agi-
tation twenty years ago-Mr. James
P. Cook, of Concord-was made
chairman of the board of trustees.
the trustees selected for superintend-
ent Mr.. Walter Thompson, an expe-
rienced educator and splendid execu-
tive, who, with the active co-opera-
tion of Chairman Cook and the other
members of the board, one of whom
is Mr.. Caesar Cone, of Greensboro, is
conducting the institution in a most
acceptable manner. The boys divide
their time between school work and
working on the farm and in the
shops, where they are trained in
woodworking, Tailoring, shoemak-
ing, printing and other trades.
Prompted by his newspaper in
stinct, Chairman Cook became pos
sessed of the idea that it would be a
good thing to print a newspaper
from the institution, a paper to serve
the double purpose of training a por-
tion OF the boys in a useful trade and
in keeping the public acquainted
with what the Stonewali Jackson
Manual Training and Industrial
School is doing. The first number
OF the paper, which is appropriate,
ly called The Uplift. came from the
press in June, and its contents bore
| abundant testimony as to the wis
dom of it's establishment. The paper
is produced at a minimum cost, the
| type-setting and other mechanical
work being done by the inmates o
the school, and is issued once II
month at a subscription price o.
$1.OO a year. 1t is the purpose o: the
management to raise through sub
scriptions to the paper "a most in
teresting publication, by the way,
an amount OF money sufficient to
construct ali additional and badly
needed building at the school. ANY
reader of the Patriot who will send
$1.O0 to The Uplift, Concord, \
C., will receive in return more thar
his moneys worth, and in addition
will have the realization that he ii
assisting in the praiseworthy worl
of making good citizens of waywart
boys. who, but for the existence o
the StonewallJ J ackson Manual Train
ing and Industrial School, would
doubtless develop into hardened
criminals, q burden and a menanc'
to society. Already the institution
is doing something for Guilior'
county, and we hope to see Guilfor'
county do something for the institu
ton by way of subscribing liberall,
| to The Uplift-
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