The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-05-27
n. KNIGHTS SCHOOL Plan
Recommends Consolidation OF Several
Small Schools into One Central
Graded Institution

Small Schools into One Central
Graded institution
Chapel Hill.-The vital facts on the
consolidation Of rural schools. which
has attracted widespread interest IN
the State, are presented in the latest
publication Of the bureau OF extension
at the University of North Carolina
by Or. Edgar w. Knight, professor Of
rural education at the University.
DR.. knight shows that, through ur-
ban schools have improved notably In
the past ten years, rural schools have
not shown corresponding improve
ment. and that country children In
North Carolina are not obtaining the
educational advantages city children
are. AS 80 per cent Of the State popu-
lation is rural, the great proportion OF
children are severely handicapped in
their schooling by having poorer paid
and poorer trained teachers, poorer
equipment, less time, cruder facilities
Of every kind. "The condition Of
rural schools is admittedly the most
] insistent and Immediately urgent task
+, before North Carolina today" says DR..
/ Knight.
He sees the solution 10 the consoli-
do ton of small schools into larger,
I better equipped schools with provision
| to trasport children from distant
places in trucks. Several one-room>~
schools ought to be consolidated into
a large school with different teachers
for different grades, he argues. The
plan has been tried with success in
Arson, Buncombe, Craven, Edge
combe, Granville, Halifax, Orange.
Pamlico, Wake. and Wilson counties.
Wilson county is using this year 20
trucks to bring children to school and
expects to have so trucks next year.
Gastonia.-June 8 is the day set for
the laying of the cornerstone OF the
North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital
In CASTOR county near Gastonia. Gov
ernor T. w. Beckett and the highest
dignitaries of the Masonic and Pyth1an
fraternities In the State have prom
Used to be present.
Rocky Mount-Mr. Thomas B. Nc,
Adams, vice-president of the Mer.
CudALS &N6(AOAcbA A0oAhO Va A$ANAAAAANSAb
and vice-pfesident of the American |
Bankers Association, has accepted an
invitation to address the North Caro-
lima bankers at the twenty-fourth an.
nual convention which will meet in
this city June 10.
Wilson-Wilson town, beginning
July /, will be first class postoffce,
that Is the increase in salaries that go
with the raising of the rank will come
Wilson's way and the patrons Of the
office are praying that the service
may be improved. Office clerks and
city carriers get an increase OF 500
per annum.
Greensboro-J. S. Griffin of RAJ
leigh, chief of the North Carolina cor
poration commissions special revalua-
ton staff, was here comforting with
local tax officials in regard to the ad-
minstration of the tax revaluation act.
He expressed qualification over thes
progress made in Guilford county in
the sphere of revaluation. He found
that the work would be practically
complete by June 1.
Oxford-With a total membership
OF over ten thousand through five hun
dred auxiliary societies, the Woman's
Union Of the North Caro-
lima Methodist conference, which is
holding it's annual meeting here, has
just passed through one Of it's most
successful years.
Pledges for 1920 amount to fifty
thousand dollars. 1t was decided to
hold the next meeting in Hay Street
church, at Fayetteville.
Asheville. Surrounded unawares
and captured while intently watching
members of the posse, who left for the
Anderson settlement, few miles
from Barnardsville, to apprehend the
outlaws who captured Chief United
States Marshall Garner and County
Jailer Williams and held them for
several hours, Robert and Mede And
srson, two of the brothers comprising
the notorious Greasy Bill Anderson"
gang, were arrested by forces under
Of Sheriff e. M. Mitchell, be-
tween 300 and 400 gallons of liquor
was destroyed, and one Of the largest
stills ever to be found in Bunconbe
county was seized, all IS result Of
one afternoons work
Arrested Alderman Resigns.
W1lmingtOn.-L L. Shepard. mem.