SECTION TWO—
North Carolina Ranks Low In Comparison
With Statesln Most Os 23 Educational Items
Among 23 items indicating ability,
effort and effect of public education,
North Carolina usually ranks low as
compared with other states.
North Carolina makes its highest
score, 7.0 per cent, and thus is at
sixth place among the states, in the
per cent of elementary school teach
ers employed in 1953-54 with less than
four years of college preparation.
Arizona ranks first in this respect
with a percentage of 2.5 per cent,
whereas South Dakota with 99.0 per
cent of its elementary teachers in this
category is forty-eighth, or last.
North Carolina’s lowest score is the
28.7 average number of pupils per
teacher which puts this State in for
ty-sixth place. The U. S. average is
24.1 pupils per teacher. The range
in this item is from 14.6 in North
Dakota to 30.6 in Alabama.
On effort, which is measured by the
per cent that total current school ex
penditures fom State and local sources
is of average income payments, North j
Carolina occupies seventh place with
a score of 3.02 per cent. Average for j
the Nation on this item is 2.27 per|
cent, whereas the range among the
Weekly Devotional
Column |
By Tames Mackenzie
' 1
“Some Christians enjoy their salva
tion; others just endure it.”
The above quotation is taken from 1
one of the most courageous and con
secrated Christians it has ever been
my privilege to know. Bob, who was
a classmate of mine at Moody Insti
tute in Chicago, was bom with pa
thetically deformed legs. They were
normal from the thigh to the knees,
but from there to his feet was only
a few inches. When I first knew him
he resembled nothing so much as a
person walking around on his knees.
11l never forget how earnestly we
prayed for him when he dropped out
of school for a term to have his feet
amputated, so he could be fitted with
wooden legs. Nor will any who were
there ever forget the day he returned,
and gave his testimony before the en
tire student body. “I was shaking,
with fear as they wheeled me into that,
operating room,” he said, until the
words of Isaiah came to my mind:
‘Fear not: for I have redeemed thee.
I have called thee by thy name; thou
art mine. When thou passest through
the waters, I will be with thee; and
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states is from 3.70 per cent in New
Mexico to 1.75 per cent in Rhode Isl
and.
Ranks 44 and 45 are more common
for North Carolina on these 23 items.
This State ranks forty-fourth in the
number of school-age children per
1,000 wage-earning adults, in income
payments per child of school age, and
in income payments per pupil in av
erage daily attendance. In income
payments per capita, in per cent of
school age children in school, and in
per canita retail sales, North Caro
lina ranks forty-fifth among the
states.
Another item on which North Car
olina is relatively high is the aver
age number of days attended per pu
pil enrolled.
According to the study this State
ranks fourteenth in this respect with
a score of 161.4 days. Average for
the nation is 156.8 days, and the range
is from 176.3 days in Nevada to 140.2
days in New Mexico.
I On all other items North Carolina
ranks twenty-second or lower, mostly
! below thirty-fifth.
through the rivers, they shall not
overflow thee: when thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be
burned; neither shall the flame kindle
iupon thee. For I am the Lord thy
God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savi
our’ (Isaiah 43:1-2). Then I began
!to sing to myself (and Bob began to
sing): 1
In shady green pastures, so rich and
so sweet,
God leads His dear children along;
Where the water’s cool flow bathes the
weary one’s feet.
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THE CHOWAN HBBALD, EPBNTON, If. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1954.
§§§§ SERMONS I
g HMta|l|l —By— p
FRED DODGE |j
Text: “The best reformers begin
on themselves.” G. B. Shaw.
A little girl had not dusted the
furniture to the satisfaction of her
grandmother. She was required to re
peat the task a second, and then a
third time. Finally, when her grand
mother still did not approve, the little
girl looked at her grandmother intent
ly and said,
“Grandmother, that dust is not on
the furniture. It’s on your glasses.”
We often see sights of which we do h
God leads His dear children along.
Tho’ sorrows befall us, and Satan op
pose,
God leads His dear children along;
Through grace we can conquer, defeat
all our foes,
God leads His dear children along.
Away from the mire, and away from
the clay,
God leads His dear children along;
Away up in glory, eternity’s day,
God leads His dear children along.
Some through the waters, some
through the flood,
Some through the fire, but all through
the Blood;
Some through great sorrow, but God
gives a song,
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not approve. It is so easy to criticize,
that we rush to state our views. We
must remember that when we set our|
selves up as critics, we are especially (
open to attack. There is much to un-,
derstand in the actions of others.
Before Christ started out to criti-j
cize the evils of His times, he spent |
forty days in the wilderness, meditat
ing and praying. Yet we leap to criti
cize folks at the drop of a remark.
Perhaps we should stop long enough
to wipe our glasses, anyway. The
furniture may not be so dusty after
i all.
long.”
Bob had an effervescent sense of
humor, and at times it was danger
ous to be with him. Once when we
; had meetings together he informed
the congregation that I had been a
child prodigy concert pianist, and that
I had turned down several offers from
leading symphony orchestras through
out the country in order to go into
Christian work. It was all that I
could do to act “modest” and get out
of making a fool of myself at the
church piano. A casual observer
would never guess he had wooden
legs. Once he came out to hear me
preach, and sat in the front row dur
ing the entire sermon, industriously
scratching one of his wooden legs. At
another time I went into his room at
school, and found him sitting with one.
of his legs off, arid lying across his
lap. He had discovered that by hit- i
ting it in different places with a wood- ’
en coat hanger he could r ake it sound 1
like the diferent notes of the scale. !
These he had marked out with a pen- :
cil. As I entered the room, he was
beating out, “When the roll is called i
up yonder, I’ll be there.”
And he will, too—with many tro
phies of grace along with him. He is
a zealous and earnest soul winner. 1
Often have I seen him kneel down in 1
the gutter to pray with some down
, and-outer from the skid-row section
: of Chicago, and lead him to Christ,
r j Such is his spirit, and the Lord has
r' honored it by blessing him and us
-, ing him. For example, more than any 1
I other man he is responsible for the
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Today, at twenty-seven, he is pas
tor of a thriving church in New Bruns
wick, New Jersey, is married, and
has two children, a boy and a girl.
In addition, he Is professor of Bible
History at Shelton College, and has
made a name for himself as a Bible
teacher—especially for his studies in
Daniel and Jude. His life verse is
Romans 1:16 “I am not ashamed of
the Gospel of Christ for it is the pow
er of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth.”
In Doubt
Lawyer (handing client SIOO) —
Here is the balance of your awani of
SSOO, after deducting my fee. Why
do you frown? Aren’t you satisfied?
Client—l was just wondering who
got hit by the car, you or I.