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THE DANBURY REPORTER. VOLUME XXXIII. • Better Schools For the Country Districts FARMERS IN NORTH CAROLINA CAN EASILY IM PROVE EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES. SUPT. JOYNER EXPLAINS As Much As One-Half the Cost of School Building and Site May Be Borrowed From State Loan Fund—State Loan Fund Now Amounts To $317,000--Many School Districts In All Parts Of the State Have Taken Ad vantage Of It. More than eight-teiths of the people of North Carolina live in the country. In any land, and es pecially in any Republic, the hope, the power, the prosperity, the safety, dwell in the many, not in the few. The stragetic point, therofore, in civilization, society, government, morality, and relig ion in a State like ours is jn the rural population. The stragetic point in the preservation and im provement of the rural population is the school for the better educa tion of the country children. The question, therefore, of most vital concern to our farmers, and, in fact, to all our people, is the im provement of the country sohool. As the towns and cities are largely dependent upou the country for support and for supplies of new, clean, fresh and vigorous blood, they are scarcely less vitally con cerned in the preservation and im provement of the country children than the country people them selves. I beg, therefore, to sug gest and explain some practical means within the reach of the farmers of any community for the improvement of their public schools. I.—HOW TO BETTER THE BUILDING AND EQUIP- M ENT. The money for a better sohool house and a better equipment may be securod through the co-opera tive elTorts of the county, the co'nmunity and the State, The County Board of Education is au thorized by section 4110 of the public school law to set aside an nually a certain per cent, of the school fund to be used for build-1 ing and repairing school houses \ and for equipment. Out of this fund, not exceeding one-half the cost of the building can be paid; the remainder must be raised by the community by private sub scription, or by local taxation, or m ist be taken out of the regular apportionment to the school dis trict. In many counties the build ing fund is necessarily so small that the Boards of Education have been compelled, in order to make the fund go farther, to require the district to raiso more than one half the cost of the building. THE STATE WILL LEND YOU HALF AT 4 PER CENT. As much as one-half the cost of the building and site, or of the re pairfl c and equipment, may be bor rowed from the State Loan Fund lot building and improving public school houses. Application for such a loan must be made by the committee of the district, through the County Board of Education, to the State Board of Education. Blanks for such applications will be furnished by the County Su perintendent of Public Instruct ion or by the State Superintend ent. The State Loan Fund now amounts to $317,000. The loans are payable in ten annual install-1 12V." •. ■ - ments, and draws 4 percent inter est, payable annually. Thirty thousand or forty thousand dollars to this filnd, plus the additions from the sale of swamp lands be longing to the State board of Rd ucation, is annually available for loans. Many school districts in all parts of the State have taken advantage of this loan fund to pro vide the money for securing bet ter houses and equipment on easy terms. The annual installments and interest can be paid by pri vate subscriptions, by local tax ation, or out of the annual ap portionment to the district from the County School fund. Pam phlets of information will be fur nished upon application to the State Superintendent or the County Superintendent. HERE'S A BOOK OF SCHOOL-HOUSE PLANS FOR YOU. The law provides that the build ing of all new school-houses shall be under the control and direction lof and by contract with the I County Board of Education; and | the Board is forbidden to invest j any money in any new school ; house that is not built in accord ! ance with plans approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Contracts for build ings are required to be in writing, and the buildings must be inspect, ed, received and approved by the County Superintendent of Public Instruction before full payment is made therefor. A pamphlet containing the plans approved by j the State Superintendent of |Public Instruction for houses of from one to eight rooms in size, j with full specifications and com | plete bills of material for eaoh house, prepared by skillful archi tects, will be furnished upon application to the State Superiu. | tendent or the County Superin ' tendent of Public Instruction. These plans are in accordance with the best established princi ples of modern school architecture; and the information contained in the pamphlet is sufficient to enable any carpenter of fair intelli gence to build a house in accord ance with any plan contained therein. II —HOW TO GET A SCHOOL LIBRARY. Another means of improving the country school, easily available to any community, is the rural li brary. Provision is made by law for the establishment of 500 rural libraries and 500 supplementary libraries biennially, SEE WHAT TEN DOLLARS WILL DO. Any school district, incorpora ted towns having as many as 1,000 inhabitants excepted, may secure a rural library as follows : The patrons aujJ friends of the school are required to raise $lO and ten der it to the County Treasurer. This may be raised by private do nation, by school *- f i DANBURY, N. C., JULY 11, 1907. etc. Thereupon tho County Board of Education 'is required to ap propriate $lO out of the General Fund of the county, and upon cer tificate of the County Superinten dent to the State Superintendent that the school district has raised $lO and the county has appropri ated $lO, the State Superintend ent is required to send $lO from the State appropriation to the Treasurer of the county, making S3O for the purchase of books. These books must be selected from a list approved by the State Superintendent and printed and distributed in pamphlet form. The list has been carefully prepared and contains represented master pieces in all departments of good literature, classified according to subject matte*and adaptation to children of different ages and de grees of advancement- The County Board of El cation is required, upon application of the County Superintendent, to furnish out of the General School Fund a neat book-case with lock and key. For convenience and economy, arrangements have been made with the Snow Lumber Company, of High Point, to fur nish these oases at reasonable pri ces, the cases being constructed in ] accordance witli a plan prepared by Bti architect under the-direc tion of the State Superintendent. The plan and the prices will be found in the pamphlet containing the approved list of books. The library thus established must be conducted under rules and regu lations prescribed by the State Superintendent, printed copies of which will be furnished upon ap plication to the County Superin tendent or tho State Superin tendent. You CAN GET ONE AS EASILY AS THESE 1,500 DID, About 1,.>00 wf these libraries have boon established in this way, containing about 135,000 volumes, costing about $15,000. These li braries may be enlarged bien nially by the addition of sls worth of books selected from the approv ed list $5 of which must be raised by private donation, or otherwise, $5 appropriated out of the Gen eral County School Fund, and $5 contributed out of the State ap propriation. The value of such a library to any school, and, in fact, to the en tire community, can scarcely be measured by any human standard. The libraries are kept in the school houses during the session, but arrangement may be made for using the books during vacation also. The books are read by old and young. They supplement the regular school work along all lines and are like a breath of fresh air in the school room. They go into hundreds of homes and aid in cul tivating in young and old, in school and home, a taste for lit erature, and in forming the read ing habit, and in providing, through the best books, the best association and communion with the greatest minds and souls of the ages. Five hundred of these li braries and five hundred supple mentary libraries are available every two years. It is e'isy for every rural community in the State to secure one in the near fu ture. 111-HOW TO GET LOCAL TAXATION. For the improvement of public schools, good teachers and enough of them to give thorough instruc tion to all the ohildren, are neces sary. For providing better build ings and equipment and more advanced courses of Instruction, more money is, of course, neces sary. These things cost money and cannot be had without money. The State and county have about reached the limit of taxation provided hy law for T|>e rural' community, 1 therefore, that desires better educational advantages than it now has must make up its mind to adopt the only means found available and adopted by the towns. ONtIY TWO WAYS OPEN. There are but two means—(l) private subscription and (2) special local taxation. Private subscription is uncertain and unequal, depending upon the life and liberality of a few in each oommunity. Local taxation is uniform, certain and permanent, basod upon the 'principle of an equal distribution of the burden according to the property owned, and an equal distribution of the benefits according to the protec tion and the enhancement of value derived from the improve ment of conditions. ONE-FOURTH OF VOTERS MAY CALL ELECTION. Under Soction 4115 of the pub lic School Law, a special tax district may be formed by the County Board of Education with in such boundaries as may be named therein upon a petition of one-fourth of the freeholders resid ing in such district, an election j ordered after thirty days' notice,' and upon a vote of the majority of the registered votors in favor! of it, a special tax not to exceed thirty cents on the huudred dol lars valuation of property and ninety cents on the poll annually levied, to supplement the funds for the public school in said district received annually from the State and county apportion ment. Every cent of the fund thus raised by the special tax must be placed to the credit of | the special school district, and 1 the use of it placed under the j control and direction of that com- ! ruittee. THE ARGUMENT FOR LOCAL TAX-! ATION. By such a tax the school fund in most rural districts can be doubled, and in all largely increas- j ed, and enough money provided j for better salaries for better teach-1 ers and more of them, for better j buildings and equipment, for lon ger terms, and for more extensive courses of instruction. By such a j tax, all the cities, all the larger towns, most ©f the villages, and not less than 350 distinctly rural communities, are today providing better school advantages for their children. This means of provid ing moro money for better schools is in easy reach of any county, township or school district in! North Carolina. Every cent of the money raised by local taxation for! schools by any community re-' mains in the community for the improvement of the community schools. Every cent of it is in vested, through a better school, in the minds and souls and charac ters of the children of the com munity who are to become the men and women of the com munity. Every cent of this local tax that goes into a better school t to give the children of~all a better : chance to be somebody and to do something in the world is invested in the best possible advertisement for the best class of immigration for the community. Every cent of money, therefore, invested by local taxation in a bettor school, by inviting a better class of ini- j migration and preventing a dis astrous drain of its best blood by other communities offering better school facilities, enhances the value of every cent of property in the community by increasing the demand for it by the beßt people, Let us have more local tax dis tricts. In next week's Progressive Farmef I hope to tell its readers how to get one of the rural high schools provided for by the recent Legislature.—.!. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent Public Instruc tion, in Prog, Parmer. Sandy Ridge Wins the Championship Of Stokes County A FINE GAME OF BASEBALL WITH PINNACLE AT DANBURY ON JULY 4. SCORE EIGHT TO FOUR Several Hundred People See the Contest—Sandy Ridge's Fine Field Work—.The Snow Creek Boys Know How to Handle the Ball—The Game to Be Played Over On August 3—A Good, Clean Game—Both Teams Made Up Of Gentlemen. The basebiili championship of Stokes county was last Thursday, July 4, transferred from Pinnacle to Sandy Ridge. The game, which resulted in the scoro of 8 to 4 in favor of the Snow Creek boys, was the best ever played on the Danbury diamqnd, and was witnessed by several hundred people, many ladies being in the crowd. The features of the game were the fine pitching of Michael for Pinnacle, and Webb for Sandy Ridge ; a three base hit by Webb ; splendid work in the right field by John Abe Shelton and Will Hutcherson. There was little difference in the work of the two pitchers, both being fine. At the bat both sides were fairly matched, but in the field Sandy ifldge clearly out classed the Yadkin boys. Sandy j Ridge rarely fumbled with the ball, while the Pinnacle players several times showed nervousness. i The first inning was bad for Pinnacle, Sandy Ridge making two runs, which put a damper on 1 the Pinnacle team from which it never recovered during the whole | nine innings. The Pinnacle boys olaim that they were not at their best, three of their best players being absent. It is learned that thoy challenged the Sandy Ridge boys for another game here Saturday, August 3, which was accepted. It is certain that a big crowd will be here to witness the contest, it being on the date of the Old Soldiers' Re union. The game will not be called until after the reunion ex ercises are over. There is no question but that Thursday's game was good ball; and the crowd was well pleased. The Sandy Ridge and Pinnacle boys are all gentlemen, and con ducted themselves with the best manners on the field. They won many friends while here. There was an entire absence of that curs ing and quarreling which charac terizes low-born players on some teams. The vanquished team bore their defeat with the best of grace and good humor, and will try again to bring to their banner success and the title of "Cham pions of Stokes County." The score was as follows : Pinnacle.... 00200011 o—4 Sandy Ridge 20011200 2 —B Two Former Stokes Boys To En gage In the Clothing Business. Messrs. J. R. and Ollie Boyles, two former Stokes county boys, the latter of whom some years ago represented this county in the Legislature, will open a first-class clothing store in Wintton-Salem |on September Ist. Both of these ! young men are at present with the IR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. J. R. Boyles travels out of Charles ton, S. C., while Ollie Boyles I makes his headquarters in Bir mingham, Ala. BIG DAY AT WALNUT COVE. The Flag-Raising and Barbecue At tract Large Crowd—o. B. Eaton and G. H. Hasten Make Ad dresses Winston Band Furnishes Music. Walnut Cove, July s.—Yester day was one of the greatest days in our town's history, being the occasion of the flag-raising and barbecue given under the auspices of the Walnut Cove Council, Jr. O. U. A. M. An immense crowd was in attendance, coming from Wins ton-Salem, Madison, Germanton, Rural Hall, Belews Creek, Pine Hall, King and this immediate section of country. The exercises pertaining to the flag-raising and the presentation of a Bible to the Walnut Cove school were highly interesting and very much enjoyed. Mayor O. B. Eaton and Mr. G. H. Hasten, of Winston, delivered interesting addresses. The barbecue, which was a most important feature of the oc casion, was under the direction of Dr. Elias Fulp, and suffice it to say that nothing was left undone to make this part of the program a success. Delightful music, furnished by the Winston Cornet Band, added greatly to the pleasure of the day. Two games of baseball were played at Walnut Cove yesterday. The first contest was between Walnut Cove and Hill Top teams. The score was 17 to 13 in favor of the home team. Walnut Cove also defeated Walkertown, the score being 15 to 14. Both games were witnessed by large crowds. GEO. CHARLE* CUT BY A NEGRO. Difficulty Caused By Negro Imposing On One Of Mr. Charles' Child ren-Negro In Jail Under SSOO Bond. Mr. Geo. Charles, a prominent business man of Germanton, was seriously cut on the throat and shoulder by Ernest Miller, a Ger manton negro, last Thursday. The particulars as given the Reporter are that Miller pushed one of Mr. Charles' ohildren off the Germanton depot platform and he and Mr. Charles becamo engaged in a fight with the result above stated. Some of the men present took charge of the negro until Sheriff Petree arrived. In the meantime a warrant was Is sued and he was tried before Jus tice of the Peace I. G. Ross, who bound him over to the Superior Court and in default of a SIOO bond the negry was brought hero to jail Thursday night by Deputy Sheriff A. W. Davis, of Danbury. A phone message from German ton Friday to Deputy Sheriff Da vis stated that Mr. Charles' con dition was more serious than it was thought at first and that for this reason Miller's bond had been i inoreased from SIOO to SSOO. No. 22
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