The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-30

of Miltiades will not let Us sleep.
Second, we must eXault the worker,
the man who achieves, and we Il
make our schools train for life and
work. The whole world is beginning
10 realize the Importance II his re-
form-even the japanese of whom /
have just been speaking. How natural.
for example. sounded the following
paragraph which | found in an Eng
lish newspaper in Tokyo. translated
from an article by DR.. keiba Teicho
in the Japanese newspaper, "kyoi-
kukai:''
Not II out Of ten high school
students enters a college. Yet the
whole curriculum OF the high school
is rendered subserVient 10 the college
needs. 1t to this: That those
who do not go to the colleges are sac
rificed for the sake of those who do.
They are taught things that are quite
useless 10 them in after life, and
brought up in an inConsiderate gill
considered) manner"
This IS but another way of saying
what Dr.. Henry Z. Cope, for example,
said recently that "our public schools
have been organized TO get all the
children ready for college. whereas
less than n per cent of the pupils
reach college and less than three per
cent the high school, Many a town,
/ II SIlouId tAdIIiIi16 tI&t 1Fd11AIIlS ~
its higher grades, would discover. as
did Newton, Mass, last year that OF
every dollar expended. One-third went
for foreign languages
For Latin, ID cents:
For French, IL cents;
For German, 6 cents;
For Greek, l cent
35 cents in every dollar for foreign
language. while q half cent in each
dollar went for shopwork and me-
chanical draWing-the only thing of
an industrial character for boys-and
less than half q cen for domestic
science for girls.
One of the Great Tasks.
One of our great tasks is TO change
all this-to make cur schools more
practical. North Carolina has been
a leader in many things, and why
should it not now become a leader
in this s~tupendous ask of demon
strating how great a State may be-
come where each man enters his life
work with all the inspiration for
achievement and all the helpful scien-
tiic knowledge and all the joyous
adaptation to environment it is pos
sible for the schools to give?
Campaign For immigration.
Third. | believe that North Carolina
should begin and vigorously prosecute
a campaign for the sort of immigra-
ton We need-thrifty white farmers
and Iaborers from the North and
West. Our State is still to sparsely
settled. In the last census year there
We're only 100000 white people in
North Carolina as compared with
10000 negroes-a white population
entirely too sparse. If instead Of
], SEQ, 000 white people we had g.,
ooo,oo0 white people together with
our 700, 600 negroes, we should then
have a population per square mile
about equal to that Of Indiana, hall
that Of Maryland, and only one-hfth
that of Massachusetts. And if the
white population Of North Carolina
could be doubled, COnsideG. how mum
more important every institution il
the State YOU be: how much more
varied would be our industries; how
much easier it would be to get good
roads in counties in which the White
population is now too small to main
tain them: how Easy ii would be te
double the usefulness of our public
schools; how quickly we should buil6
railroads in sections which must 9th
erwise remain dormant and backward
for Ions, long years: how inportanr
our cities should become: how much
more Influential our an(
how much more attractive would be
!, the country life in our thickly settled
communities, NJ how much easier j
NOuAo ~ " Sc ltItpIiOlitS ana water
works and trolley lines and socia
centers and local libraries and bust
; ness cooperation and all the advant
ages of twentieth century rural lifel
We should select our settlers. q
: course, but in the West and Middl,
West, we can get an army Of the fines
D farmers and citizens in America
1 men who would come here and bur
5 lands instead of going to Canada ana
: paying twice as much for lands. I'm
| half as good. And if you don't be
lieve that a denser population help
a county consider just what the effac
would be if half Your county's pres
ent population, every other family i
f it, should move away.
f Conserving White Civilization.
n The fourth State policy to which
e urge your attention is that Of a bette
provision for the DEVELOPMENT an
n maintenance OF a robust white civil
zation. We may shut our eyes for
f little while to the big issues involve