The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-11
NORTH CAROLINA IN EDUCATION.

nual Educational Edition. published as a section
of this paper. It is an account Of advancement
in the last twelve months which is one not alone
gratifying, but one which must inspire to greater
effort in the next twelve months. That We Go
Forward is the slogan Of the educational forces
of this good State.
There is not an article in this edition but which
is of interest, as it affects the educational condi-
ton of North Carolina and the progressive spirit
which is the keynote of these tells that in this
State the faces of the people are turned to the
rising sun. What has been accomplished in the
past decade in the cause Of education makes a
wonderful story, and the past year is one of the
chapters of absorbing interest.
The articles in the Educational Edition are of
a wide scope. It is not alone the teacher in the
school room who has been called on to Qon-
tribute to the symposium on topics having to do =
with the educational life of the State, but there
are articles from others also. It is gratifying to
this paper that it is able to present such an edi-
ton and to chronicle so inspiring a record of
accomplishment.
Regarding the advancement of the cause of
education as of prime importance to the State it
sends forth this edition with the hope that it
will prove Of service in the cause. It treasures
as a great treasure that it is known as a worker
III Ul1S SIcdC uelO OF eOuCauOn, tnat 1t can De
said of it, as says Superintendent Zebulon V.
Judd, of the Wake county schools, Il wish to
thank you for the strong position which your
paper takes on the question of public education
in North Carolina. I believe that your paper has
been one of the greatest factors in fact, with
the exception of a few leading lights who have
devoted their entire efforts to educational service,
the greatest factor-in the great educational
awakening which North Carolina has experienced
during the last ten years."
The people of this State have received a noble
heritage in all which has come down to them
through the ages. Having received much it is
their bounden duty to pass on to generations yet
to come a nobler and a better North Carolina.
1t is an undertaking to which the North Carolina
OF today can well consecrate itself, for there is
that ability among our people which does not
hesitate to take upon itself large tasks. The call
of the day in North Carolina is that we bend
every energy in the advancement of the educa-
ton of the generation which is soon to take the
place of those who now direct in this State. It
IS true that The noblest motive is the public
good and it is to the forwarding of the public
god that the fullest advantage in education must
be had for all in North Carolina.
A year ago Governor Locke Craig, in the Edu-
cational Edition of the News and Observer. de-
clared that We must grid up our loins to make
speed in the race, that we may reach the goal
which will give to every child in North Carolina
the possibility and the opportunity to attain to
the highest that is in him. X X X And | have
that supreme and abiding faith in the men and
women of North Carolina that l look into the
future and see written Victory" To that call
for progress the people of the Old North State
have in the past year responded most nob1y, and
there is within them the full determination to
continue pressing forward.
And always to our people in this fight for edu-
cation there should be taken to heart the words
of that Great Apostle of Education in North
Carolina, the beloved Charles Brantley Aycock:
Equal! That is the word On that word /
plant myself and my party-the equal night Of
every child on earth to have the opportunity to
burgeon out all that there is within him. That
is the message which in its essence has inspired
IN the past, that is the message which will be a
blazing hight In the future, a light which will
guide this great State to the best in the education
of its youth.