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THE WASHINGTON DAH.Y NEWS' PUBLIBHED KVEBY AFTERNOON , EXCEPT 8TTNDATB. Entered u tecond-claaa nutter, Auguat 5, 1809. at the poatoflce of Waahington, N. C., under the act of March S, 187*0. Subacriptioaia moat be paid for in advanaa If paper ia not re paired promptly telephone or write, thia oiloe. Btthacriben deairinj; the paper discontinued, will pleaae notify tiiia oflee, otherwise it will V continued at regular subscription rates. JAMES L. MATO Paoraiar<?| CARL GOERCH Borroa) WASHINGTON. NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 19, 1918. HOW MAY STATES RECEIVE RETURN FOR THE MONEY SPENT ON EDUCATION? .fame* H. Dooley, of Virginia, bas prepared a most interesting article on the above subject. It is an article which we know will be enjovcd and appreciated by evervoue of our readers. We reproduce the major part of it: For several hundred years after the conquest of Europe by the bar barian*. education, as wo generally understood the term, was confined almost entirely to the Catholic celrgv. and to the sons of the rich wflio attended schools and colleges conducted and taught by the clergy. Latin was the laiiiruage of the church. Greece and Rome were for ita clerpv the storehouse of all elarning. eirqueuco, art and science. In all the schools ehcir chief aim being to master the beauties of the classic author*, and all the students being in pursuit of the same kind of ';du cation, thov were divided into classes, and all pursued identically the same studies. This system has been handed down from generation to generation, from nation to nation, and so generally prevails throughout. Europe and America, with some variations, that, any proposal of a radical change will inevitably meet with violent opposition. The system may not be so verv objectionable for children at private schools whore the expenses are paid bv the parents, and the vast majority of the scholars Tr.nv be presumed to bo in pursuit of what is generallv termed a polite education. Rut when the svstein is applied to the public schools, and mere especially to the public schools in the Southern States. I re spectfully protest that it is a huge and mo?t expensive mistake. The public schools are supported bv taxes levied alike upon the property of those who have children and those who have none. A State has no constitutional right to take the property or the monev of A tr? benefit R or the children of R. The sole ground upon which taxes can be levied upon the property of A to educate the children! of R i? that it will 1 ten e fit the State bv making the children more valuable citizens. That being the law the most important question for the State to consider and determine is. what sort of education will make them the most valuable citizens. Above all. in the Southern Staters, where we are overshadowed bv the dark cloud of an ignorant, thrift less race, who constitute the bulk of our laboring population, the ques tion. what sort of education will most enhance their value as citizens, surpasses, in tnv judgment, all others in importance. The one thing absolutely necessary for every creature in this world is food, good and sufficient food. Civilized peoplr get their food by cultivating the earth. Farming is. therefore, the most important of all industries. It is the foundation of the wealth and prosperity of every country. Bv economical and proper cultivation, the produc tivity of cverv acre of land in Norih Carolina will be doubled, treble.!, even quadrupled, and the wealth of the State proportionately increased. T venture to sav that in this e.-untrv, particularly in the Southern Stat**, there is no industry in whidh brains and education are so sadly needed as in this greatest and most important industry of farming. Consider the situation in the South. On the one hand, we hgve a great extent of territory; some rich, some poor : a large proportion of it. once rich, now impoverished bv wasteful, careless, even destructive cultivation. On the other, we have millions of ignorant, thriftless negroes, who live upon the land, and for whom and for their children and their children's children there is no other outlook but to cultivate, live upon and get their living out. of the soil. The object of State education should be to make of these people valuable citizens. How can the State 1 ie-t gtt value for the millious of money it an nually expencU-iipon the education of these millions of children? By our pre- nt inefficient, and wasteful methods. t\ie. Southern States are itnnuallv raising crops to the value ? rf about two thousand millions of d? liars. If the children wore taught at the pnblie schools to cultivate the lands with the economy and improved methods used in France or Bel gium. we could speedily increase our crops to .-ix thousand or even eight thousand millions annually. This would !>e getting some value for the State's inonev. What value doe* the Srate get for it ui)der the prr? nr system of schools f<sr negroes? Thev are not, taught to do anv work bv which thev can add to the general wealth of the Coni ne wealth. nor does the sort of education which they receive improve their m? ral- r diminish the criminal expenses of our government For more than fortv vear\ while, the public ?chools for nr^groes have been growing, the criminal expenses of "C^rth Carolina have been- ex panding still more rapidlv. and it i- today almost impossible to hire u man, white or black, who knows anything more than the commonest rudiment* of agriculture. Everv country school in the Southern StaH-s sl'.oulil have attached to it a farm of not less than twenty acres, vl;ieh t :??? children. especially the negroes, should l>e taught to qnltivate ? '???nomii a'lv and according to the bo? methods. They should beJ taught the value arid the proper use of the different fertilizers, how to i u.-e them, how to improve and build up worn-out lands and all the busings of managing a farm. The average crop of cotton through-] out the Southern States i? f.?ur tenth* of a bale to the acre. It has bfcn demonstrated over and over again up n the model farms estab lished l?v the T nited States (rovemment. that bv proper culture more than a bale of cotton to trie aero can l?e raised. So with all other crops. I l.e lands of the South are capable of producing an almost unlimited quantity of cotton, corn, oars, rice, fruits, truck and other valuable cr*?7*s. All that is needed is proper cultivation of a kindlv soil. It the children in the country, white and black, were taught to cultivate the land scientifically and economically, the South could siipplv food for the whole United States. f he tremendous migration of the farming population to the cities is a fact which threatens seriously the future welfare of the nation. It. will surely sap the vitality, tho moral** and the ^productiveness of bom races. O oh! smith, commenting on this condition of things in hngland. said 15 0 years ago: A hold praMnntfit, their rounJr >/'.<? pride, WhoTt rmrr rirxfroi/r/f, can nfivrr be supplied." I lie drift of population from farm to citv is due principally to two causes: First, to fhe kind of education which the children do receive, and second, to thr kind of education which thev do not receive. We have pmhaWv in the S?nto of N'orth Carolina half a million eiulorcn attending count rv public, school*. f ruler the present system thev are all. in citv. town and country, require*! to afudv identically tbe ?ame books: therefore, to acqijire exactly the *?mo knowledge and ideas. Their minds all receive the same l^nt and w in the ..me direction. What thev learn has the tendency- to make tbcm desire tn leave the impoverished land and their wretchol. unattractive surroundings. Their imaginations are inflam e< >y the tflare and Hitler of the unknown. Omne ifrwiiim pro, mtr,f,ro r?f. Their mo, da pre awakened to the belief that bevond the narrow, monotonous life of the farm there is a bright and beautiful sphere^ where the brilliant lights the thronging multitudes, the mar Ice ?. the churches, the i^oatres, furnish a never-ending round of pa rao . exeitnrnent ami amusement. Tnn.lHWn,!,. ??r Px^fir Oron thorn i? * Uw> rwk,, all of which ?m mwine in tho ,amo direction and hnnt towanli the gro?A. Thjfcouri?ww,wtJH?^.u-db*<he^. Molina from the mol Suqh alsp i? the tffoct^f i ? of (aueataao. If v*B Ktae to a?r oauotry children preJitolj At education u you giro city ohiMrra, an education best adapted to city Kfe, their minda will (low in the same direction aa die minda of oitr children. th#r will have the aams desires, and if they can, they will gravitate towmfda. the md% kind, of Ufa. Bapaoially ia tfaia trne at the negroea, many of whom think thai in order to demonstrate and eniov their freedom they mat chance their hona and mode of life. Ou the other haed. theft are taught nothing by which the impover ished lands, can. be deataprvd trt fertility, by which they, aan acquire money, or by lanmi t>P wfciA they mm,y reader their country -life more attractive. We should have tarn svatem of adnoatiou adaptehto the in struction of children in all things which pertain to the development and improvement of ooantr? life. Ita aim should be first and fore-, moet to teach than how to manage the farm economically and how to cultivate (be land- to the beat advantage In addition, their sndtes should tend to iotareat them in thinjsa pertaining to tho canntry. Thev should be imbned with the love of nature^ of bird life, of animal life, of the grand forenta, the majestic mountains, the rippling streams, the manifold beautiea Hv whicH thev are surrounded, and fran whiA the ( poor little ritv child mi af?anrluded<. Sooner or later, and the sooner the better, something of this sort must be done to stop the depopula tion of the farms. Already we find our population and its consumption of food havo so rapidly increased thai exports of' graini hate almost: ccamd. and price* have advanced more than on?himdred per cent We?R>rmerlv rai?"d a surplus which was sold to Europe for several hundreds of millions of dollars. Now we rai*Q little more than we consume. If t\e drift from the farm to the eitv continues much longer, we will ?oen raise loss tlian we eonsumc. and will be in the condition of Eng land, Such a. system of edueation is peculiarly suitable for the Southern States, because we are wsentiallv an agricultural people, and it is the only probablo solution of the negro problem. The T own Gossip I WENT TO THE revival AT THE Baptist church LAST NIOHT. AND I enjoyed it, E3P10CIALLY THE sinking. AND I would HAVE LIKED to join IN THE singing, BUT I felt KINDER SCARED. AND I attended A REVIVAL In Teaa* SOME TIME ago. AND THEY put me IN THE choir. AND I stayed there UNTIL THE director FOUND OUT WHAT WAS the matter WITH THE choir. AND THEN he told me THAT I had A WONDERFUL voice AND OUGHT not TO BE straining It. SINGING AT revival*. AND I quit. AND LAST night I STARTED TO JOIN In ONCE OR twice. BUT EVERYTIME I OPENED my mouth, THE FOLKS near me WOULD LOOK around KINDER SUSPICIOUSLY AND 1 quit. AND IT'S always BERN THAT way. AND I remember THAT WHEN I used to TRY AND sins bass IN THE quartettes AROUND TOWN. THEY'D ALWAYS quit AFTER THE flrst song AND HUNT FOR SOMEONE else TO SING that part. AND I can't understand WHY FOLKS ACT THAT way. WILLIS-MlttH VINEYARD open for the reception oi three miles - Admission prlee ? 1Q osnta, basket 50 ecnts. , MMwc. SOW B. h. BUSMAN, PRESIDENT OF Washington Horse Exchange Co.. Is la St. Louis, where he Is buying two ?ar loads of horses and mules. This stock wll larrlve by express next Prlday. 9-15*9 tc. k WANTED: keeping i adults. Address R, News. 9-19-it*. ton, N. C. 9-18-&p. AND HE HE lately I'VE BEEN trying TO LEARN HOW TO yodel. BUT 80MEH0W OR OTHER. SOMEBODY ALWAYS etarta IN TALKING AFTER I'VE sung THE FIRST few notea OR ELSE THEY ASK roe SOME QUESTION THAT I'VE koi to answer, AND THEN. I HAVE to quit YODELINO. * AiND I get A LOT of pleasure OUT OF my singing, BUT I'M beginning TO BE afraid THAT OTHER people DONT. AND I can't eee whj. I THANK you. SICKNESS WANTED: OFFICE WORK AT night. Address, "Nliht," care of I Dally News. 9-12-tfc. FOR RENT: TWO RO6MS ON EAST Main street. Good locstlon. Phone 84 J. f-ll-lw-dh. FOR SALE: DRY WOOD OCT Short lengths. S. R. Powle A Son's mill. t-4-tfe. WANTED ? GUM IXKiR^OF GOOD quality. 10 Inches snd up ^ small end. Pamlico Cooperage Co. t-4-K NOTICE. A contractor Is wanted to build a room 24*30x12 feet to the school building in Plney Grove district, six miles from Washington. Plans and specifications are In the hands of the County Superintendent and A. C. Wldmere. Secretary of Committee. Washington. N. C.. R. F. D. No. 4. to whom bids may be submitted. Build ing must be finished by November 1 im. W. O. PRIVET'S, County Supt. CAR LOAD HORSES & MULES Which I will sell cheap for Cash or credit. (Zome to see me. J E. WINSLOW Stable* on Third Street ? Washinaton. N . C.
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