The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-07-09
WAKE SCHOOLS MAKE
SPLENDID SHOWING
They Lengthen Term, Incr ease Pay, Quadruple Prop
erty Values and Do We flare Work Without Wits
key Money! Record Of Seven Years Under SUI
perintendent Judd.

schools run longer. better. spend more
money, pay better wages, take them
selves more seriously n get through
it all without compromising the com
nGunity In which they flourish.
The Community Service.
The paragraphs in the foregoing
tell in a slight way what the conmu-
nifty is doing for the schools. There
is q better story Of what the schools
are doing for the community.
The moneys referred to COrne from
the public. They may have been
urencned from unwilling and miserly
hands. they nay have been generous
y given and thanklessly received.
Who knows? But there is q way to
tell whether this growth is worth
while. What the community does
over and above what it has to do,
cannot be mistaken.
Give Eight Thousand.
And in this county, the school chill
dren and teachers nav contributed
to their schools the sum Of S3,40S.24.
This is to be known as the volunteer
offering Of Wake county. 1t is a
movement represented in terms of fig
ures. Measured by them, it is a
charming story, but itemized it is q
remarkable transformation.
This gift represents in cash contri-
! buttons ~S2,O84.4O. From the school
farm has come the amount Of ST.
0S7.O7. From gifts and labor S387.51
and from the cOlOred schools $91S.74.
This sum, raised wholly outside the
| public funds, the Val county Volun-
teer Offering, ONES from an almost
interrninable list of young energies.
The schools gave box parties, enter
tainments Of several characters, plays.
sold oysters and refreshments, had IL
Illustrated lectures. recitals, sold Ii
brary certificates, held spelling bees,
Cave bazaars. had cotton pickings, ac-
tually worked as day laborers and put
their earnings into the school
They Saved Money. Too.
But they did more. By their ener-
gies they saved one hat would
have gone to defray the legitimate ex-
Eenses of the schools. It takes wood,
it requires curtains. coolers. reading
tables, shades for the eyes of the chill
dren, the multitudinous things that
teautify and adorn, but which neve
found their way into h scheme of
things until more recently. This
money has been raised by these va
rious methods and SO spent a not
one cent has been taken from the al
lotted school fund for what is known
as extras
Extras the Word.
Extras is the word That's the story
Of this system of schools. 1t has not
been content to do the routine. This
community service has manifested it
self at every possible opening. In one
school district the ladies secured the
houses and washed the windows. In
another the women spent three after
Moons in cleaning the building. while
at yet another, six Of these angels
Of OrnamentatiOn fumigated the build
ing and Set it in order Of health.
Fumigation isn't decoration, but fumi-
| gators are. AT still another building
the children removed between ffteer
and twenty Stumps and the men OF
the district put a ditch across the
edge of the yard. The teachers anc
pupils removed the rubbish and clean
ed the grounds.
These extras are made up of cash
Of articles that prevent the expendi.
ture of money and in many instance:
the men have given wood to allow tht
term to run its limit rather than take
any money from the treasury. Every
thing mentioned has been estimated
at its minimum and large amount!
have been contributed to building
not reported, so that the whole doe;
not pea in figures alone.
Woman's Work.
In these schools will be foun(
pianos and organs and Il teachin,
Of music. It is the proper accom-
paniment to the song Of progress
made in every line. For Holly Spring
3 the ladies had borrowed $3.50 to b
put on it for permanent improve
ments. They went to the banks an
) gave their notes for that 0 t
be paid in ten years. In this item
ization of school growth, that debt i
discharged. They paid s115 a fey
days ago and cleared the house Of al
: en~cuInbrance. Practically all of tn
work done has prevented the shorten
ing of the terms.
s What COlOred SchOOls Have Done.
< The test of the school, after all,
r not the length of term and the pay 0
n the teachers. It is not so much wha
the schools do for the pupils but wha
they are mad to do for themselve:
r In the colored department is to be re
corded a remarkable condition. TheS
g school Of the county gave S9lS.74 c
y this big contribution. They have cos
e the county nothing in the ~extraordi