The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-15

farming and domestic science. ana,h.
State also provides the funds appnr~
toned to the county high schools
The county high schools system.
now nearly five years In operation
has been accepted by all but nine ~
the 100 counties in the State. II has
served to bridge the gap between tba
elementary schools and the COLLEGES
and universities, and has made Tho
requirement of a higher education az
SO little cost as to be within the pos
sibilities of every bright boy or girl.
Dormitories are maintained i'm con
nection with them, SO that pupils too
far away to come and go daily NAV
remain through the school week.
Board is provided at actual cost and
may be paid for in provisions at the
market price.
Recently the State Board of Health
has Joined forces with the State De
partment of Education. and a vigor-
Gus campaign for training in hygiene
and sanitation has followed. Tho
health board has issued many pam
phlets for distribution among the
teachers, making an examination in
their contents a prerequisite for a
certificate to teach in the State. One
of these booklets embraces fifteen
fvd- minute talks on health, to be
given twice each week. An impor-
tant bulletin on Eyes and Ears"
prepared by the health board, gives
helpful information regarding the 10
cation, construction and shape OF
school houses, and the size, seating,
lighting, ventilating and heating OF
schoolroons, with many sanitary sus-
gestions. The. result has been an i'm
portant reform in the consideration
of a child's eyes and ears to deter
mine the treatment of cases of dull
ness, truancy, backwardness, irrita-
bility, in%attention and allied defects.
The advance that North Carolina
has made within a decade, practical
ly, forming a chOate school system
out of chaos, and quadrupling its re-
sources, has loosed the purse-strings
of the Legislature. The last session
increased the State and county tax
moro than 10 per cent, adding an in
crease CT over $500, 600 to the ele-
school fund. This increased
Willingness to give money for the
schools has been reflected in the
districts. Since the beginning
of January this year, fifty more spec
ial tax districts have beer added to
the 1900 already levied, and now
nearly a million dollars is added to
the school funds, where there was
practically. none ten years ago. An
other wise provision, enacted several
years ago by the Legislature, was tho
establishment Of a a fund, for the
construction of new, or the repairing
of old schoolhouses. School districts
are required to return the loan in
ten annual instruments with interest.
Since the fund was established in
1903. over half a million dollars has
over $4,000 was distributed to many
needing assistance.
North Cardinals Educational Mes
sage.
There are many sections of the ma
ton, where rural conditions have de-
clined as the flood of young blood
has flowed to the cities, hat may be
by the application of some
Of the methods of development that
years in North Carolina. The school
farm. which Mr.. Judd's fertile mind
mas given to the Southern States,
would work a social and educational
miracle, in many forlOrn places in
the abode of the abandoned farm, in
New England. 1t does not require
to gain the advantage of the
farm round the
will answer
same as was the case in
instance in Wake county. The
trend of educational activity in the
States, in the past decade
been distinctly towards the farm
New England and some Western
states, IT mas been away from ii.
covered with profitless bushes
and tarmsteads fallen into the cellars,
the progress of the youth TO
There is nothing in the argu-
nent that the soil is exhausted-it is
ne human equation that is missing
rom the problem. The great impress
;lon that North Carolina and her Sis
,er States gives to the student Of So
conditions, is her solution of the
to hold her people close to her
as strongly rooted as the long
eaf pines to the soil-and the adapt
Utility of the same ways of uplift
% sections hundreds of miles away.
A woman's idea of a mans re-