The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-15
THE BUY-A-BALE AT ten
CENTS In The SCHOOLS

| CENTS In The SCHOOLS
Plan Suggested by State Superintend-
ent JOyner for School Children and
Teachers to Buy-a-BdIe.
| Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton j. Y. Joyner addresses the fol-
lowing plan to buy-a bale Of cotton
at ten cents to the school superin-
tendents. teachers and children of
the State:
l. Buy-a-Bale Clubs for Teach
ers: Let every teacher and every
superintendent of schools that can
possibly afford it, buy bale of cot
ton at ten cents pound and hold it.
Let the county and city superintend-
ents present the matter to their
teachers in their teachers meetings
and country teachers associations,
and form teachers clubs of two or
more to buy bale Of cotton at ten
cents pound and store it. When
cotton reaches ten cents it should
be purchased at half cent above the
market price and held.
| 2. Buy-a-Bale Clubs for Children:
A fine lesson can be taught in thrift
and economy, as we'll as in public
service, by having the children of
each school. or the children of each
teacher in each school. to invest
their own money in their own bale
| of cotton at ten cents pound, or a
half cent above the market if the
market price is ten cents or over, to
| be held, and, when sold, the pro-
ceeds thereof to be returned to the
children themselves. according to
the amount invested by each child.
Where this plan is adopted certi-
| fed list of names of the children in
vesting, with the amounts invested
! by each in the bale purchased, should
be deposited Immediately after the
i purchase, with the bank in which the
| deposit of the proceeds of the sale
of the cotton is to be made. When
the cotton is sold the fund arising
from the sac should be deposited in
the bank to the credit of the teacher
of the school district, in trust, for
the investing children, as each child s
interest shall appear from the certi-
fed list in the bankers hands. The
fund being to the credit of the
teacher of the district, instead of any
individual teacher, in trust for the
Individual child, will be subject to
the check of the teacher, as trustee,
/ for each child according to his inter-
J est, irrespective of any changes in
Individual teachers.
3. Buy-a-Bale Day: Let the coun-
ty superintendent set apart the ear
liest possible day after the opening
of the public schools of his county
as -Bale-of-C Cotton Day" ir
every public school; call meeting
of all the people at the public school
Ehouse at 800 o'clock in the Afternoon
on that day for the purpose of rails.
ing the money to buy bale Of cot
: ton at ten cents a pound and hold il
r for the school. Let him give notice
of this meeting through the county
press, instruct the teacher in charge
of each school to give notice through
the children to parents Of the schoo
and to enlist the children in the cam
= = paign for raising the money to buy
at least one bale Of cotton, urging
: them to contribute, and to get thei1
parents to come to the meeting ant
a contribute. Let the superintendent
e enlist also, the active cooperation
t of the school committeeman, th'
Woman's Betterment Associations
= the Farmers Union, and other or
ganizations in the county and in tn
various school districts. With tn
a funds raised let this bale of cottol
t be purchased through the schoc
committee or through some othe
committee designated by the meet
ing. Wherever possible it should b
bale of cotton raised in the schot
q district, and where it can be done
= it should be purchased at ten cents
pound, or half cent above the mai
: ket if market price is ten cent
= through the organized channels fe
purchasing distress cotton and hole
Ia ing it, or where a distress bale
p forced on the market in the COMMIT
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