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

Try the lU0dl place ToI lhc OSNClop-
ment of the strongest type of men
and women, and help, 1 think, to ex-
plain the historical fact that the
country Away has been the greatest
nursery of great men n women
The old myth of Antaeus, represent
ing the earth giant as uncomfortable
SO long as the contact between him
and his mother earth was not broken,
was not all a myth. There was a
great truth at the bottom of it,
which we in modern times would do
we'll to need"
DR.. Joyner's administration is now
approaching the end of it's first
decade, with sufficient retrospect to
afford an object lesson to the world
at large worthy of emulation and
broad adoption. Along with the ad-
vance educationally, his State has en-
joyed a remarkable growth of intelli-
gence III the pursuit of agriculture
His words that a man must be taught
ito mix his brains with his soif' have
been measurably realized. In review
ing the period an observer from the
New England States can hardly fail
to be impressed with the idea that
there is much that has been done in
the State of North Carolina that is
not only adaptable to the rural sec
lions elsewhere, but is sorely need
W. ~ al o1Oo vi
Carolina has grown in acreage and
production in the past ten years,
while in one New England State
alone are more than 500, 900 acres Of
soil once under the plough, now
abandoned and adding nothing to the
wealth Of the people.
just a month after DR.. Joyner be-
gan the direction of the schools Of
the State the Women's Association
for Tho ~ D,,hI:o CoL~~1
Houses in North Carolina, was or
ganized. Then Mrs. w. r. HQllowell,
n of the forceful personalities in
the State, as president, was one of
his most efficient aids in educational
growth. From the parent or State
association have been formed county
associations, and from them the
many local associations have instill-
ed a splendid spirit awakening local
pride n enthusiasm. This organ
lzation, enlisting the efforts Of the
best and most earnest women in
every section Of the State, has proved
its usefulness far more than vas an
ticipated; for they have One more
than to improve the material condi-
ton Of the school property. The be-
terment associations Of the State
ave been able to secure special tax
alton, consolidation of school dis
tricts, increase of teachers salaries
n more days to the school year.
At the beginning of their work there
were $40 school districts in the
State, without a habitation; they
W. reduced it more than half;
there were 500 log ~schoolhouses and
there are now less than 400. School
Libraries a~ggregating 10000 volumes
n valued at 100000 have bee dis
tribued. An inestimable amour OF
good has been accomplished by
bringing the people together to
make a social centre. Of the school
breaking down the barriers Of habit
Indifference.
The Story of Wake County.
Wake County with it's 500 square
miles II $4,000 souls, 10 townships,
and its 81 Women's Betterment Asso-
citations enrolling 651 militant wo-
men, is a shining beacon for all the
world where any sort of a crop may
be grown and humanity may still be
uplifted. Wake County is now, in
deed, Gods country-and the achiev-
ments of it's citizens for the past six
years justify a prophetic faith in the
the development in the Soutnern
States Of Il great educational and ag-
ricultursI prosperity. Wake Count,
ital city Ct Raleigh deserved!y
christenei by it's Chamber of Com
merce, Wide Awake Raleigh"
Ever thing that has been accom-
plished in Wake County has been
accomplished by the people them
selves, under the inspiration of the
county superintendent, z. v. Judd,
and his assistant, Miss Edith Royster.
two leaders in the finer growth
of this section Of the nation, have OK
tended their influence beyond the
territorial boundaries of North Caro-
lima, and have been in frequent de-
mand in the important assemblies of
the educators of the Southern States.
In Wake count possibilities have been
transformed into achievements as has
been accomplished nowhere else in
the South. They have done SO we'll
themselves that the largess Of
the General Education Board Of
New York City, and the Peabody
fund have never been given to them: