The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-07-09

science. At Method. Cary. Wake For
est, Wakefield and Holly Springs.
classes are regularly taught There
are enrolled 348 children under a reg
ular leader. who is under a most eff
cient teacher. Sarah Louise Delaney.
She IS supported herself from the
Jeans fund and her teaching has been
the subject Of the most compliment
tary comment by the white people
who have seen it. She is a daughter
Of Archdeacon Delaney and sets a
fine example to the younger members
Of the race. Think Of cOlored schools
raising $1,000 to invest in themselves!
Is An Evolution.
This story is an evolution. It is
not a record of radical and spectac-
ular methods. There has been no
n~eglecting of children at any other
department. They learn to read fas-
ter. spell better, write infinitely more
and are far in advance of their fell
lows Of the other generation. There
is not a patriotic North Carolinian
who does not envy them their supe-
riOr methods, their comforts and their
lives Of generous e~ndeavOr. Such
methods find occasional criticism, but
no mar can object to that plan that
makes legibie penmen, good readers,
intelligent spelling, correct takers and
good cooks.
These things have come about be
cause the teachers are led BY a man
Of vision. He hasn't been content to
travel the road. His profess
sion is full of educated indigents
earning starvation wages. He be-
longs TO hat few who would be will
ing TO do the same thing to make
the lot Of h Oncoming race easier
and better.
superintendent Judd has worked
this miracle Of educated regeneration
in Il few years. But it hasn't been a
movement. He has brought
up a community of interests. he has
had splendid assistance. His first
lieutenant is Miss Edith Register and
nearly every teacher under him is a
captain Of scholastic industry.
Better Paid Teachers.
And whether a cause or a conse-
quence of this community bettermtnt.
the increased pay Of teachers is the
and contradictory thing in our ad-
vancing civilization has been the
steady position which our teachers
have held at the foot of the list of
those paid for valuable services. The
substantial advances registered in
Wake and North Carolina are com
m%endable and promising of better
ltll1SS W COIIIc. lIlOuSn 1UeTD dlu
still. there has been some recognition
Of the necessity for greater reward
and the step in the right direction
gives encouragement to the profess
sion.
1t has beer a stigma upon the State
II the country that those who do
best and most important Of public
services have received the smallest
mOdicum of pay. For years the men
who drove the night soil carts along
the streets, the most mental Of en-
Payments, received better pay than
the patient and faithful teachers who
toiled over the mind and character
Of the child who is the citizen Of to-
morrow. By actual figures it has
been shown that these workers re-
ceived $3.50 a day when teachers
were being paid $1.15 and working
but five days in the week.
1t Is small consolation to know that
North Carolina has been in the same
evil rut Of habit as other states
Sometime g an article in one Of the
magazines told how San Francisco
Luzerne, Pennsylvania, school teach,
ers 50 a week for nine months in the
year. Canadian masOns received STAG
a month ard North Carolina schoo'
teachers $35. It's no attack upon the
lowlier service. They are paid none
wv hluCu. IL lS IlcUllOIlCu W S1O "
that states which have been banking
their future upon the schools ant
~blazoning their glory in the public
prints, have been paying to the re
sponsible agents Of this immorta
progress. barely enough to support ar
individual, to say nothing Of tn
family.
Our civilization w~illenever be right
ed until the pay of those who teach
nd train children shall ho hro1,rb
nearer 70 a parity with those who per
form III most mental occupations
or who riot in our less useful voca
tons. We no longer refer to tn,
mountain peak which separates tn,
~baseballist and the pugilist from tn.
teacher and the college professor. I
Will be a long time before the com
pariSOn can again be made. But tn,
time ought to be near when a grea
State like North Carolina, in a mos
prosperous era can take up seriouSl,
and honestly the question of teach