The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-06-15
LOOKSLKEA
COMBINATION
State College and Board of
Agriculture Draw Close
Together.
BY o. J. COFFIN
Special Raleigh Correspondent OF.
THE INDEPENDENT

C. Brooks. State Colleges new
president, is the boy to put the
"ag" in the agricultural exten-
sion service and tomorrow
morning is to present his
views on the subject of con-
Solidating the service with the
college to a committee of
trustees of State and members
of the State Board of Agricul-
ture.
The ways are probably CREASED for
the merger, for DIR. Brooks works
mighty smoothly and and DIR. Clar-
ence Foe, chairman of his trustees
and also of the oBard of Agriculture,
is working with him. Another fine
sign of harmony is that Director Is.
W. Kilgore of the extension service
wants to go out to the college. 1t
looks as if the State Department of
Agriculture. which has hitherto block
ed all efforts at consolidation. would
wake up some morning soon and find
itself policing power rather than an
educational agency.
| Which is as it should be if State
! College is ready to undertake the
work. And President Brooks will be
sure that it is before he offers to be
saddlcd up with increased RESPONSE
bility.
DIR. Brooks became president of
State College Monday and was sue
cecded as State Superintendent of
Public instruction. which job he had
held since December, 1918. when he
was named by Governor Beckett to
succeed DR.. J. y. Joyner, by \. Il.
Allen of the State Department of
Education. The transfer was made
quietly. Mr.. Allen has been around
for years. is thoroughly conversant
with all the details of his post. though
not conversant about them or any
thing else.
North Carolina has never had a
more unaSsuming. Woodworking Of
fetal than a. r. Allen. No college
has had president better qualified
to tell it what the people expect of 1t
than Dr. Brooks.
1t could be wished that every other
governmental activity was as well
tuned up as the North Carolina state
College of Agriculture and Engineer
ing and the State Department Of
Education. ''t
Look Out on July |.
The most casual investigation at
any time within recent years would
have convinced any discerning per-
son that the State Department of
Agriculture stands in need of reor-
canization. There is growing the feel
ing that it will not be long getting 1t.
Commissioner W. 4. Graham is not
expected to be Il candidate in next
years primaries. George Ross OF
Moore County. member of the Leg
islature and State College graduate,
is spoken of oftenest as his probable
successor. The chances are that
State College graduate will get the
commiSsionerShip and then there
should be no clash of interests be-
tween college and department.
The report of the auditors who for
about four months inspected the
books of the State Treasurer is to
be made about July 1. 1t will be in
cluded in the report of the leglsla-
five committee headed by Senator w.
II. Long of Halifax. Nobody knows
what this report will be like; every
body is affecting to register pollte
Indifference.
When it is made public something
ought to happen. The Governor who
crlsSed out Corporation Commissioners
Maxwell and demanded the investl-
CATION. will feel obliged to comment.
Mr.. Maxwell is in a position where
he'll have to say something, too. Ben
Lacy, who has talked less than dur
ing any similar period in his life
may submit few remarks. Auditor
Durham. who has denied reports of
his contemplated resignation. will be
required by the situation to at least
explain how he expects hereafter 10
keep such a check on the States af-
fairs that one simple citizen can go
ND to the capital and find out how the
State stands financially.