The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-06-01
EDUCATION IS |
'. ANSELL'S PET
Former Acting-Judge Advo-
cate-General of u. S. Stirs.
up Currituckians Friday.

last Friday when General Sam
uel T. AnSell of Washington,
d. c., made one of the most
potable addresses ever heard
in Currituck, at the dedication
of Moyock's new high school
building.
General Anscll is the most noted
Currituckian alive. lie rose to the
rank of Brigadier- General during the
world war, and was Acting-Judge Ad-,
vocateGeneral of the L.. s. He
fell into disfayor with military men
after the war because of the wallop-
ing he gave them for their efforts to
punish dcSerters with Imprisonment
for life, but his efforts succeeded in
accomplishing great good in the work
nearest his heart,-the education and
uplift f the iliterate and unfOrtu-
nate.
About 400 people were present to
hear the speech of General Ansell,
who ut times moved his audience to
tears with his oratOry, or brought
laughter to their eyes. His speech
embodied an earnest appeal to Cur
rituckianS to carry on their educa-
tional work. and to pursue it with
greater spirit of independence than
heretofore.
General Anscll recalled his early
school days in Currituck when it
was il hard matter for boy to ac-
qure an education. lie compared
the splendid new building at MoyOck
with the schools of those days, and
said Currituck county had made 200
years of educationally progress in the
last ten.
but there is lot Of work to az"
General AnScll said. And Currituck
county should keep up the work it
has begun. 1t only lacks education
to make it one of the richest cOun-
ties in the State The trouble North
Carolina and the South have not pro-
sresscd more. is because the people
have been too independent. But the
people are uncXcclicd in capacity and
quality.
Free government" said the speak
rr consists in fighting out your diff
fcrcnceS, then accepting the opinion
of somebody else and putting your
shoulder to the wheel for the great
est good.
You will never miss the money you
spend on education. The womenfOlks
of Currituck County spend enough
money on rouge. on silk stockings, on
icwclry. or the county spends OH
snuff and tobacco. five times enough
money Il year to pay for your schools.
The rich men don't do the world
any great good: it is the educated
ones who do General Ansell went
nn to say that the people of Currituck
shouldn't want man of Alamance
to educate his own child and go down
in his pocket to help educate other
children. and that the donor b;mSelf
was wrong; that we should have too
much respect to accept donations un-
less they were given in the form of
Il loan.
lie told Currituck people that they
were not doing more than onc-fOGrth
of what other counties in the Uni
tcG States were dong: that this cODli-
ton WAS characteristic of the na-
tional policy which provided one bill
lion two hundred million dollars for
IN Army and Navy and neglected
education.
lie deplored the spirit which al
lowed preachers and teachers to go
poorly paid, while negro messengers
in the War Department drew higher
salaries, and asked Currituck people
if they were willing to trust the elu-
cation of their children to negro ser
wants of the Government.
That without preachers and teach
ers. no free country can be safe, waS
one of his main points. He stressed
his speech by asking if the people
believed in Il class of slaves for
domestic labor. He pointed out that
there is 10 need for anbody to do
hard work; that the highest index
70 civilization WAS the desire to keep
clean; that women have always been
slaves to domestic labor; and that
the farmers of all men should be the
best educated.
Spoke al Shawboro.
General Ansell spoke at ShawbOrO
Friday night in the town hall. The
speaker was introduced by Sheriff Il.
+ Flora. Il lifelong friend. The musi-
cal numbers on the program was a
solo by Mrs. Mae Wiley, and songs
by the Shawboro quartet. consisting
of Will Flora, Burwell Flora, Julian
Bell and J. p. Morgan.
General Ansell was most enthu-
siastically received, not only for his
splendid address, but because Shaw
boro folks were proud of him as a
Currituck boy. During the social
honr which followed, all present were