The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-01-26
THOUSANDS FOR
CURRITUCK Ed.
Joseph P. Knapp To Provide
Three Homes For High
School Teachers

County has been given a decld-
ed boost recently by Joseph =.
Knapp Of that county who has
personally given tWcnty-siX
thousand dollars for the build
ing of three tcacherages in the
county's three high school CEN
tres: Moyock, Currituck and
Poplar Branch.
Mr.. Knapp is giving $4,000 to the
Poplar Branch School for teacher
age; $4,000 to Currituck and SS,OOO
to Moyock. Perhaps he does better
by Poplar Branch than by the other
schools because Poplar Branch has
done more for itself.
In other ways Mr.. Knapp is help
ing Currituck County, bcautifying the
grounds of Curr!tuck Court House,
giving aid to road projects and TAX
ing an interest in the Life and pro-
grcsS of the county generally.
The man who is doing these things
for Currituck is seldom heard of out
side of Curritucli County; tho one
of the most influential Of Amcrl-
cans, Mr.. Knapp figures very little
in newspaper stories. Occasionally
he is referred to as New York multi
millionaire sportsman. or something
like that. lie IS perhaps many times
n millionaire and he is in fact the best
all round spOrtSmcn in the world; but
if you were to ask him what he
would rather be than anything else
in the world, he probably would say
Il would just like TO be known as
the best damned printer in the Uni
ted States" And he may be just that
after all, for he is president OF the
great American LithOgraphic Co, and
prominently identified with Ihe
Crowcll Publishing Co. and L. f.
Collier & Son Co., a combination
that can perhaps lay claim to beng
the biggest publishing business in
America.
Mr. Knapp is not a resident OF
New York. but 4 resident of North
Carolina. having built home on
Nackuy Island. in Currituck Sound
and removed his citizenship from
New York to North Carolina. His
interest in education in Currituck is
inst an out-cropping of his deep and
fundamental interest in universal cdu-
cation. If YOU read Golfers Weekly
Won must have noted that it IS giving
4 lot of space to education: Collier 5
boIievcs that every boy and girl III
America should have .dcntically the
same educational opportunity ana inc
very best Il nation can provide. mat :
4 Joe Knapp idea passed on to Il
great weekly periodical i'll the policy
Of which he is interested. Mr.. Knapp
v,s m educational enthusiast before
no over built home in Curr.tuck.
What he is doing for education III
Currituck is only beginning OF cdu-
cation in every nook and corner OF
the great American commonwcalth'
This newspaper has called Mr.. Knapp
, rroctical visionary, or something
like that, lie IS modern cOmblna-
tfon Of idcaliSt and business genius
If he were not a business genus he
nrobably would be going about DOT
Ouiyotc fashion fighting wind-mllIS
20 rcform the world: but being i'll
tcnycly practical he cnyisages the
colossal fact that no one can reform
humanity except humanity itself; ana
,bo reason humanity has made sucil
, boIluvo mess of it to date IS due
.oInIv TO human ignorance. ME-.
Knapp would educate every lhul'l'u"i
capabIc of assimilating an education
and Let an educated world apprchcnd
and solve its own problems. Ihat 5
v,b,t's in the heart and mind OF the
mann and the fact that he shells out
few thousands to his CurritucK
ncirhbors for the advancement OF cdu-
cation in Curr:tuck, is only lhclucn-
fail to the big idea.