The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-05-09
DOES EDUCATION PAY !?

w. l.. Sfamey or k1ign POlnt argues
convincingly for the school tax in
Wake county in communication
! on this page today Mr.. Stamey is a
newspaper editor and has long been
| stud ying the sources of progress.
| He is right in tracing eOodly part
of present-day development to the
schools. Education truly is great
! developer.
The States OF this Union which
are puttiag the Tost money into ed
uca'ipq are the States that are 60
ing ahead Take Massachusetts,
great, rich, progressive State that it
| IS. Massachusetts spends twenty
seven million dollars a year for its
common schools as against North
Carolinas five and half millions.
1t has fewer Hitter ates on its rolls.
New Jersey with its wonderful COM
mercial and industrial Roadway also
spends about five times as much as
North Carolina and has smaller en-.
rollment Ohio and Indiana, COM
monweaiths of mighty power and
influence. spend on the common
schools forty and twenty-four mil
lions respectively. Ohio has more
school children than North Carolina
but Indiana has fewer.
Look where you will and you will
fiId that IA high state Of develop
unent of the common school system
means great prosperity. The States
that lead in the procession are the
States that are not afraid to invest
in education.
The article referred to:
VIGOROUSLY SUPPORTS SCHOOL TAX
To the etfi or: While / am not a
citizen of Wake county, | am never
thel=ss iuentified, in a way, with the
county and is capital because own
a lot ia that splendid property known
as Cameron Park, your city, tonse-
Quen ly feel an interest in any
htng that is destined to help city |
aud county and indirectly State and
Nation, and make for intellectual
power, the greatest asset Of all for
present aud future generations.
| speak of the small increase in
taxes which the great county of
Wake desires in order To keep her
schools IN the front rank Of progress
aud eniigh eminent.
Its a puzzle to me how any fair
minded man could conscientloGsly
raise howl against any movement
t 5at " ill make his or his neighbors
children more proficient, mure intel
lee ual aud therefore more iEdepen-
dent Every dollar we invest III bet
Ter teachers, better schools and bet.
ter school houses Ii North Carolina
is retuined 20 us tcn-fold In fact,
Il, one cdn measure, IN dollars and
cents, the value of an Intellectual
mind to the community end State.
We thought most of the tight
wads and old fogies had passed with
the Innovation Of 6 Cd roads, teIe-
phones, rural free delivery aud
schuols, but il seems there are yet a
Jew left to put.a stain upon North
fair escutcheOn. and some
VI vel 4C4fO"S uetO OCCA1
richer against their will i'm such fer
ward movements. The most chronic
gruInbler Is now in favor of good
roads, yet how much more iInpor-
tant are good schools?
want 10 see North Carolina climb,
climb. climb like-well, like Empey
speaks Of going over the tOp, with
the b st Of luck" until she stands at (
tive very Top in educational facilities
and we can only do this by keeping :
our Schools at high standard aud {
this takes money. Our teachers are ,
paid less for what they do than the
laborer to-day. yet they
are chos-n ODE leaders of children.
to mould opinion, shape destiny and I
turn olt of the lathe of life" o.
feet product of young womanhoou
and manhood
| am with you in the fight for