Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-04
MY PLAYS AND REASONS FoR AN
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR
ROCKINGHAM.


of promoting education as well as re-
4 ligion. In fact, you can do little in
religion without education. And for
long time / have been praying over
and studying the situation. Now
there is a clear idea in my mind.
therefore submit same to the public
in the following:
l.-Wfat Are My Plans for This
School?
~ Locate in reach of two or three
of the mills nearest Rockingham that
plenty of work may be obtained Let
the boys work In town as we'll as in
the mill The school is for boys
only.
t2) Make it for a hree year course
"a practical course. Give three years
in history, three in English, three in
mathematics, one in spelling, one in
geography, and one year-the last
year-in Bible.
81 Appeal to the rich and the
poor but especially to the unfortun-
eSNS' hC pan W lSI uOWu sap
for the poor boy who cannot pay his
way through school. Nobody would
be turned away
(D House and board them. Board
them at cost My idea is to accom-
modate one hundred. Give them an
up-to-date home with modern equip
ments.
60 Make the school self-sustain-
ing. This can be done, or there
about.
CO. Make it for the whole state.
In fact, get the students from every
where.
% Let students work half time.
Work half day and go to school a
half a day. Fifty work in the morn
ing, the other fifty go to school. Then
in the afternoon change and let
those who worked in the morning go
to school, Likewise those who went
to school in the morning work in the
afternoon.
(S) Give my time, thought, pray,
ers, and what little money can
gratuitously, until every dollar of it
is paid for. I am not working for a
job; am working for a school OF ire
mendous importance.
(9 Instruct students in religion,
based upon the principles of Jesus
Christ affiliating the school to one OF
my churches, unwilling the Gospel
truth AS IT is.
II.-Why Have This School?
~ Because it is almost an only
method. Hundreds and thousands
have quit school in the fourth and
fifth grades Many of them realize
their mistake at fifteen or twenty;
but they have no money, nor any in.
ducements to enter school again. They
will not go back into the class with
the eight and ten year old children;
they are not ready for high school.
And il they were to enter they would
likely become discouraged and quit.
My plan is to let him work his way
and put him in class of his own
nature and age. 1t is not a high
school, nor public school. 1t is the
means between the two.
(2) We should have this school to
make mill leaders-men who under
stand the mill people. They need wise
leadership-in politics and religion.
Largely the mill people of South Car.
DINA, politically, have the State in
their hands. Their power should be
wisely guided.
They need educating. On election
day Whittier says:
1.-THE rich is level with the poor,
The weak is strong today;
And sleekest broadcloth counts no
more
Than homespun frock of gray"
t3) Then we should have this
school to hold up white race. The
Negro is going to get an education.
He is determined to get it. That is
right. But God forbid that the Negro
should surpass us! 1t is a shame for
white people to drift along as rub
bish on the sea in ignorance and pow
erty. If we remain ignorant we will
remain poor. Poverty thrives with
ignorance.
az The school will better the
community. That, I think, is so GER
tain fact that little should be said
about it; for most any reader could
mention a dozen different advan.
tages. In fact, 1 can't see much in
a community If all are ignorant.
(5) The next great reason why we