The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-10-03
CORRESPONDENCE
LETTER t=ROM THE
STATES CAPITAL


.-- IN politics than anything else ,le-
,.tu,iug around the State Capital this
v With the election only five
...+..; ahead it is natural that this
should be so.
I'm what Governor Beckett and Sup
rrlo+endent of Public instruction JOY
n,a have done within the last few days
-u candidate Linney's absurd noise,
about the alleged extravagant con-
,1f.t OF the public school system by the
p.aocrats of North Carolina is not
,nough to close that sly politician S
,noath OIL the subject, then he is dead
e, :yAt. and has not sought to fairly
...G honestly enighten the people.
ii Republican spellbinders of small
81, raiibre who have echoed Candidate
Ii7lcv's utterances on this matter do
.ot uow shut up shop and close the
shutters OF their political gossip manu-
tartorv. then it will be because they
t.1, decided to continue to ignore the
truth in the continued hope of fool
;a,r some of the voters and keeping
-.,rl fooled till after election day in
Eot 5mber.
Here is just one overshadowing fact
fiat Is enough to settle any doubt these
~uyNhinders may have raised in the
miqi of any voter rational enough to
formulate an idea and receive a
thoughtful suggestion: Today, after IS
wears of continuous hard work on the
ururcsition, the State Of North Caro-
l:t. under Democratic administrat ton
Vt affairs, is educating properly 2SS,
Qua school children for 124 days in the
wear at cost per child of only 1-2
cents more shan the Republicans spent
10 ..eeIucate in an inferior manner
less than half that number for only 73
days of each year.
Under the Republican regime the
children attended school in the poor
est school houses known wherever peo-
pie wear clothes with apologies to Mr.
Bickett). and We're "taught'' by tn,
Eclipse not excepted). and the chance
TO get much of an . eddicashun - under
those conditions was dim enough te
suuply everything else needed to com
plete the deadly parallel Of the con
traSt between then and now. Is there
a we'll informed father or mother il
North Carolina who would vote for
or desire the election of the Republican
ticket in this State this year, becaus,
oI any possible advantage that Nigh
accrue to their children9 I don t be
Iieve IT, And I don't believe anybod,
else believes it.
II there is any one thing, Of tn
M&pT splendid accomplishments of th
Democrats in North Carolina durin
the last sixteen years, that towers owe
al the others (important ami valuabl
as they are), it is the growth of tn
public school system, viewed from a
angles, and as was emphasized in thes
letters last week, it is being lone in
more economical manner, SO FAR as tn
spending of money goes, than in an
save and except one.
1t is a record of which the Dem
Gratis of North Carolina are proud whe
they come to know the truth and di
buse their minds of the impression
made by the shyster tricks IF the R
publican speakers-made at the e
game they are playing to I" fool tt
Hoters.' For they are not going
''stay fooled''
The Raising and Distribution of schc
Funds.
Superintendent Joyner says tt
about Candidate Linney's absurd su
ge:tion that the sparsely settled cou
ties like Ashe, Allegheny and Waite
"a should have as long school term
the populous counties with large citi
like Durham and Forsyth, for instan
which annually contribute over 81
hH1 each through their five cent Sta
tax on the 800 valuation of proper
10 the State equalizing fund for
benefit Of Alleghaney, Sampson a
1ther counties having less than f
months in any school district).
JOINER says. and what he says is
'Iasf Word.'' so far as one is quahf
10 speak on the subject of this latitr
Is rohcerned:
From a moment IS reflection it V
b" seen that unequal distribution
IoUi&tion must be taken into consid
@t'oA as well as unequal distribut
OF wealth i'll the equalization of e
e&hoAa1 opportunity In the equal
N9n 7t advantages there must be tai
INTO "onsideration term, house, eql
Meht, attendance, number and gu
IIlttitH of teachers. No cxclusiv
per capita distribution of State
count. school funds can take all
Nrs' INTO consideration, and COZ
40rHtIv such method cannot equa
educational opportunity Under