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*' '' 5 **jEr~iAPJ nv^rsr t -f^r- -^r^? 7^^'^^-. ^ <^v.-t : 7.7 ^ Thirty M EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Spending Them end Now At that time the state was spending a little more than $1,000,000 annually on its schools. The value of all school property was only a little s more than $1,000,000. Titer,, were j nearly 1,200 log cabins among the ' acbooi houses of the state. The teachers received an average salary 1 fit $23 46 a month. There were 400(- a 000 children attending the public ' schools of that day. There were no ! more lhan thirty public high schools. 1 It la little wonder that OoV. Aycock's doctrine of universal educa- f tion come as something of a novelty ( and that the men and women who went up and down the state preach- t ing the cause of education had to 11 wage an uphill fight. '< Educational statistics of the pres- < ent day show how far Gov. Aycock's j couse has gone toward complete vie- 1 tory. The annual school expenditures j of the state are in the neighborhood ' of $30,000,000. Only fifty-three of the;' 1^00 log cabins are left. In 1889 30 * - ' ??I... t ? .. 11 pvrceui Ul luc i?ui?uiauuu \jl iuc < stat^ was Illiterate; by 1920 the percentage had been reduced to 13, and since then the figure has been brought even lower. The 8,320 teachers of 1889 have Increased to 21,000. The teachers of today receive an average monthly j salary of 199.93, nearly four times ! that of a quarter of a century ago. j The total enrollment In the schools The State University This remarkable progress, which has ploced the schools of North Carolina on a level with the best schools of the country, has been accomplished without Bensaltional methods, and it is going on at an accelerated rate today. This in the opinion of North Carolinians, is the oustanding fact in the educational history of the state. The University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, was chartered 137 yean ago and received its first class 1S1 years ago. It had attained great Dromlnenca before the civil war, but up to that time had been an institution primarily for the well-to-do and leisured classes. It was the only southern institution of learning to hpM commencement exercises the dark year of 1865, eevn though there was only one man to graduate in that year. But it could not survive the period of reconstruction and was forced to close its doors for five years. When the university reopened in 1875 It was to enter upon a distinctly new perod, in which it grew from a faculty of eight members and a student body of 69 jto a faculty of 175 and student body of 2,500 and la which it ceased to become a university for the privileged few and became a university as much comasathsd to universal education as were public schools trt the state. The of th? university with IN CAROLINA Twenty-Five years Ago North, Carolina Was Spending on | Schools Only *~One Million Dollars Annually ? Today Over Tfiirty Millions?State Forges Ahead Along All Educational Lines?Has Oldand Also Richest University in United States Any comment ou the educational system of North Carolina suggests at I once that the state possesses the oldest state university and the richest university iu the country?the one, 1 the University or anna -Chapel Hill and the other. Duke university (formerly Trinity college) at 1 Durham Hut the most Important : thing with regard to education in the state began twenty five years ago. ' Then Charles B, Aycock became gov- ' etnor of North Carolina. He had 1 made his campaign on two isses: 1 good roads and good schools. He . had been elected, and had. unlike i most politicians, proceeded to show that he was wholly in earnest about ! what he had said on the stump. Up- I on his inauguration he said in his < inaugural address what might have i been taken as idle rhetoric coming I from another man, r "On a hundred platfroms, to half ' the voters of the state," he said, "in * the late, campaign I pledged the state, its strength. its heart, its : weatjlh. to universal education 1 ' promised the poor, illiterate man. bound to a life of toil and struggle ' mad poverty, that life should be ' brighter for his girl and boy than it 1 had been for him and the partner of ' his sorrows and joys , 1 "I pledged the wealth of the state to the education of his children. Men ' of wealth, representatives of great corporations, applauded eagerly my ' declaration. For my part 1 declare ' to you that it shal[ be my constant aim and effort, during the four years that 1 shall endeavor to serve the people of this state, to redeem this most sol,-inn of our pledges." P-V L lillion Do the vans. I'ir-t ihampiorit'd effectivi lv l>v tiev. Aveook has' woa ' for imi.;i.si:fe |> bile eonl'ideiue ,an steadily mounting approbations o the part of the legislature. The Gift of James B. Duke Duke university had its 1> ginning in 1S3S with the estaonsnnn-..i. * Union institute in Itandoii li count by the Methodists and Quakers, on of the rare occasions where diff? reii religious denominations liar.- harnu tiiously combined in Qu name c education. In ISaS ii hnnme th Normal College, the first institutio for the training of teachers in th south. In lSfiS it became Trinit College and cam,, under the diret tion of the Methodist Kpiscopa Church South. In 1 St?2 Trinity Co! ego was rcmoevd from liandolpl county to Iiurham. largely througl the efforts of Washington Hike whi t gai'c $S 5.000 to tnake certain th removal of the college. Taxes on real ami per onal prop erty are collected by th counties The sta e collects none. Of whirl ?t>.1100.000 was to be used for til' material expansion of ill univer sily; the principal of tin trust turn was then to he allowed t i accuinu alp until it again amount il to $10. 100,000. Duke I'lTiversity was thei o receive approximately .1 third i>l he interest of this trust f nul Mr. Duke had previously shown his nterest in Trinity oClli ge by pre :entitig a new building for its library itui $10,000 for the purchase ol looks, by donating $">0.ooo for tin reation of a dotnitory and by ad ling with his brother. Ponjttnin X, like fSO.000 to its pernuinent en lowinent in 1913. ltdwe a 1901 and 1913 he eontributed to the urrent expenses of the college, ill 1922 gave $10(MMHI for tile purpose nul in 1933 ga\v $1.0000011 for the ndowment fund. In October 1923. lie died, less than 1 year after be had ere'ted his treat trust fund, and by bis will it ?as found that he had ?xnr ssed his renerosity to the univer ity furthet >y the outright bequest of $10,000, lOOnml by the bequest t ' it of his vsiduary estate. Thesi gift- hav< node it lieyontl question, the most 'iehly endowed educational instilu ion in the T'liited States HIGH SPOTS ( IDEVELOI \! ENT North Carolina! What a tale of forward notion!! Fifty years agl( th re wasn't a iolvent bank in the stat. Fifty years ago poverty sta'ked i broad. I Fifty years ago. next to N w Mex c i North Carolin a was pointed to s the ninst illiterate stat in the " n ion Fifty years itgo there w.o-n't a d>' cut highway in the state Fifty years ago the state's en eebled and afflicted suf i- d with >ut the touch of a helping hand. Fifty years ago thy state's indus ries were represented by fo.ir cot on mills, a few small grist mills ind lumbering operations on a small scale. "Tar. pitch and turpentine'' was al :hat the world had knot.: dge of it North Carolina. Rut fifty years ago brae men be gan to erect on the a:-li s of Civi war conflagration tiie fo tnikatiot uf a new commonwealth. What a change today' No state in the Union h is equullet the progress made alone, many es sention lines. Today North Carolina pays niori tax to the federal government thai the states of South Carolina, Ceoi gla, Alabama and Florida combined and ranks seventh In the (Unite* States. Today North Carolina ranks fiftl as an agricultural stale, first as i miscellaneous manufacturing stati and -second as a cotton producini state; first in the production of to bacco; first in the production o peanuts: second in the manufactut ing of furniture , and second in tin manufacture of cotton Instead of her four cotton mills the state is the home of over fou hnmlrpH rpnrpspntinp' hnlf <?f thp or tiro south's spindleage. The outpu of her industries annually totals ii value $750,000,000. Streams that for centuries rolle to the sea untouched by the han of capital( are today developin more horsepower than is develope in al] the balance of the south con bined. One hundred and twenty milllo dollars are being expended on goo roads within a five year period, Mllions upon millions have bee spent to give the yo ith of the stat the best of educational advantage! and from Hatteras to the Tennesse line, one finds the whole state stu< (led with magnificient brick sehooli I colleges and universities The rare beauty of Carolina beac .n?un?Ain U - S ~ ~ J I (Will iiiuuiiuiia ntnii'M i* iii uigin^ I North Carolina from all quarters e the continent armies of men and wi men each season to rest and pla; and for the first tim^ North Can lina's surpassing resort advantage are being nationally recognized a superior. K COUNTY A liars Spei 01 PEST CHURCH '? rnunu 10 JIH in iitTun 10 mi EPISCOPAL ONE :s >f y' Da inp the beginning of its hlsit tory In 1879, when the Rev. Milton resigned bin parish In Spartanburg and moved to the little mountain e h imlet. the Holy Cross Mission of n the Episcopal church> is probably p the old sl established church in Tryy on. North Carolina. .. According t0 the records which 1 have been preserved, the minister |. built a church soon after his artj rival, doing much of the work with (, his own hands and the aid of the B members of his congregation, e He served as rector of the institution for 12 years but moved from ^ the stnto to Oregon in 1891. Three years 'ater his work in Tryon was ( resumed by the Rev. Charles Ferris. In 1S99 I: became a regularly conifitnted parish with the Rev. Mr. F nis as its first rector. Following 10 years of active servicthe rector resigned in 1904 with ( ill,, comple'lon of the present church f w'iirh was consecrated on December 1.', 1904. He was elected rector erne v.* 5* ?{* 4 ->* v ? * ++ v + * + < + +i? 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E. j1 N. Joiner. 1905-10: the Rev. J. W. I Areson. 1910-13; and the Revt H j' | Browned Browne. 1913-JB. 1 The parisli now has a membership of 175 with an active and well or- 1 'unitized S iinlay school while; in ad- ' dltion. it maintains a mission Sunday j school in a neirby mil! village, I During the summers its parish I, *+* + +***********+*** +*+ * Be W \ GOO We have had the jobs in Trvon am best to render re Let us figure witl you in every littl good work. Will Cheerfully F CONSI r n V- 111 Plum E STREET tit tttf ttff tttll-f' . r -tr" ' "jif !y fct.jt _ t'TMSri de>?t*\i ; ; * * i, m CELEB It A T I < iucation I / MMB C 'n fr< nc nc )ED SCHOOL . - ot y . ai - '* ei house not only provides an assembly ar hal] for the Sunday schooland other ar parish activities?a choir cloister, w rector's study( kitchen, audltoriunf. m hoy scout room and virtual community chest?but serves the community as well. Here various social Ihnc- ge tions are held from time to time by 8e ihe instltution( the other churches tJ( r>f the city, the Parent-Teachers' as- ^ JKJ social ion, the ihiblic schools, the Oranin Fortnightly the Junior Chor- ^ ?1 society and other institutions of tj, Ihe city. > : > ?'+++V++++++ fr< rlB1" rnrirn onr ir CnxTMTV NTIPWfl LP 1 IlCi rv/na\ \>v/ Wa . * + **++*+*** + + +*+++ 1 ne ?+*+*++*++**+?*+++ **< *+++++ *+*< +*+ + : + > < : < * } :- : } *+++++ J| SB/ W^g* ise and S ON In North OUIMBUS FEELS SPIRIT OF NEW DAY IN NORTHJAROLINa The development of the southV: ape of the Blue Ridge mount .i: to an all-year resort for toun om all sections of the country ?t only reaching an advanced si;: Tryon, but has extended as r irth as Columbus, the county Polk county. The little town which hatt h.-. ileep for many years is now a?;;; ting to the possibilities befor,id has recently built good churche id schools and installed light ater. cement sidewalks, all ij. odern conveniences of the larg, wns. Columbus has been the county at for many years, having beer, leeted because of its central lo< . >n and accessibility from ever tint. It was named after Colutv ts Mills who donated most of th. tid for the original development <v e town. The little community is accessllil.im all points of the state by means state highway No. 19 which con cts It with Tryon and Lake Lanl-r elect MBEI any important . i * cuities are tne s. ve can please reasonable for With EstiiT -DAY HERS king TRYON, h*t1 I I lltilltlUlllll I II 1 .a.A * a. Z Z ZT7 T<# >" CaJ I :> k^H ' I "I '* '"* hi ' M '** I ' H 'iB ' '.' *1* V V V?'? J, J.X 1 I I | H ? I lates N. C. .
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