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THE GUILFORDIAN
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
This is Progress,
The report of the census bureau
on illiteracy in the state of North
Carolina shows that it has decreased
from 18.5 per cent in 1910 to 3.1
per cent in 1920. The percentage of
illiterate whites has decreased from
32.3 to 3.3; of illiterate negroes
from 31.9 to 24.5 In other words,
the fight against illiteracy in the
state has been one-third won in 10
years. But this decade was also one
of organization for the battle against
ignorance. Only within the last few
years could our organization have
been described an anything like com
plete, and unquestionably its work
has been more effective toward the
close of the decade than it was in
the beginning. Hence there is every
reason to believe that the next census
will show an even greater ratio of
progress.
In other words, North Carolina at
]ast has begun to realize what
a terrific handicap is ignorance, and
how hopeless it is for an ignorant
people to attempt to compete in the
modern world with the educated. And
we want to compete successfully with
the best. Hence the prodigious effort
that has succeeded in cutting down
illiteracy by one-third.
This is an effort that will mean
more to the state than the labor that
has raised her to third position in
value of agricultural products, or that
has made her output of manufactures
more valuable than her farm prod
ucts. Her material advance doubt
less was necessary as a basis for her
intellectual advance; both efforts
went along together and supplement
ed each other. But the wealth that
we create in material things would
be a curse, rather than a blessing, if
it were unattended by the creation
of intellectual and spiritual wealth.
The goods with which we dower the
children of the state may be taken
from them, but the mental training
that we give them is theirs as long
as they live, and the craving for
intellectual food that we stimulate in
them will be handed down to their
heirs and assigns forever.
And what a destroyer of pessimism
is this report! North Carolina has
yet so far to go, has yet so much
to do, before she can be brought
•' -east of the more advanced states
c the union, that any thoughtful
r: . must have moments cf depres
sio i when the task seems hopeless.
Then along comes something like
this import, to show how much
ground we have already traversed,
and one is compelled to abandon his
pessimism for very shame.
There is a great deal the matter
with North Carolina's educational,
political, and economical system, but
after all she is sound at the core.
She may have a long distance to
travel, but she is headed in the right
direction, and she is moving. , All j
that is necessary is to keep her
going, and in due course of time she
will arrive at the goal which her
most patriotic citizens . would have
her attain.
SIX MILLIONS READY TO KILL
Aitive armies of the fourteen most
important nations of the world today
include approximately 6,000,000 men,
according to figures obtained as reas
onably correct. With the inclusion
of land armaments in the agenda of
the forthcoming conference limita
tion of armaments these are the
figures with which it is expected the
assembled commissioners will have
to deal.
While China stands first among
the nations in this summary of sol
diers actally under arms about Sep
tember 1, last being credited with
1.137,000 active troops. France is
far ahead, among nations not dis
tressed by civil strife, in the number
of men with the colors. The French
army strength is placed at 1,034,000
men, the Brittish Empire standing
next with 740,000, and Germany
last, with 100.000. The United
States stands thirteenth, with 149.000
men in he regular army, exceeding
only Germany, while Italy has 350,-
000 and Japan 300,000 active troops.
Figures for other powers include,
Russia, 580,000; Poland. 450,000;
Greece, 255,000; Spain, £'53,000 Switz
erland, 170,000; Turkey, 152,000; Cze
cho-Slovakia. 150,000.
OUR ANNUAL FIRE LOSS
The first ten days of October
have been designated by various mu
nicipalities througout the country for
the education of the public in means
of fire prevention.
"Fire Prevention Week" never
carries more significance, it is said,
than it does this year. Statistics
compiled by the National Fire Pro
tection Association show that last
I year's fire waste will run higher than
$500,000,000, a property loss nearly
' equal to that of 1906, the year of
I the San Francisco fire, and greater
than any other year's total in the
country's history. This loss, it is
estimated, would have equaled the
amount needed to overcome the Rus
sian famine.
WORLD COTTON STATISTICS
The world's production of com
mercial cotton, exclusive of linters,
grown in 1920 as compiled from
published reports, documents and cor
respodence, was approximatly 18,-
810.000 bales of 500 pounds net,
while the consumption of cotton (ex
clusive of linters in the United
States) for the year ending July
31, 1921, was approximately 15,-
520,000 bales of 500 pounds net. The
total number of spinning cotton
spindles, both active and, idle, is
about 155,000,000.
THE G-UILFORDIAN
ALUMNI NEWS
The members of the Guilfordian
Board realize that accounts of college
activities and of daily happenings
on the campus are not of very great
interest to those who have been
away from the college for a number
of years. But this column which is
reserved for Alumni notes each week,
we should like to make of real in-
terest to you. Alumni and old stu- j
dwents of Guilford, but if this is j
to be done we must get in closer
touch with each other. We have j
tried writing personal letters but
so far this has not proved a very
satisfactory method and it is evident
that some other resort is necessarv. I
We suppose that most f the classes
are, or have been, organized, and
we suggest that each secretary be j
asked to keep the Guilfordian in-
formed concerning the members of j
his class. If your class is not organ
ized do so as early as possible ,and let
us hear from you. We should also j
like to suggest to you, the members j
of the various' classes, that you j
get in touch with the secretary of j
your class, or with the Guilfordian,
and send us any information you are '
able to command about yourself, your
work and your meetings with other
Guilfordians, that your friends who I
are among our subscribers may feel I
that they are once more at least j
indirectly in touch with you. It is
hard to send you word of your
friends unless you respond to this
appeal for news. Don't get too
busy to write the Guilfordian, or
your class secretary, a word of
what you are doing. Deaths, births,
marriages, business accomplishments
—anything which you thing will be
of interest to Guilfordian readers.
MANY FAILURES IN OCTOBER
October failures reported by Brad
streets number 1,806, an increase of
11 per cent oveu those of September j
and the second largest number in ;
any month since March, 1915. In- j
solvencies last month were nearly
four times those of October, 1919.
Liabilities aggregated $47,722,293, 31
per cent above September's total, j
but smaller than in any preceding 1
month back to November of last
year.
The biggest increase came in the j
South, which had about two and one- i
half times the failures and liabilities
of October, 1920. In ten months of
1921 there have been 15.535 failures
involving liabilities of $591,105,741.
WOMEN 21-YEARS OF AGE AND
OVER
Census reports disclose that the
total number of women 21 year's of
age and over in the United States
comprises 26,671,061 whites, 2',730,469
Negroes, 55257 Indians, 3,646 Chi
nese, 22,316 Japanese, and 401 wo
men of other races. Of the white !
women 21.100,793 were natives, and
5,570,268 were foreign born! and of
the natives, 15.202,194 were of na
tive parentage, 4,045,947 of foreign
parentage, and 1,852,625 of mixed
native and foreign parentage. The
total number of female citizens, of
all races, 26.759,952, comprised 23,-
860,351 native and 2,899.601 foreign
born naturalized women.
TAX BILL AMENDMENTS
Interest in consideration of the
revenue bill by the Senate has been
increased by the • introduction of a
number of amendments proposed by
the Democrats and representing the |
party's views. Among them is a
proposal to reduce the higher brack
ets of the personal income tax
from 65 per cent down to 52 pev
cent instead of down to 32 per
cent, as provided in the bill reported
in the Finance Committee. The 52
per cent rate would apply only to
incomes in excess of $500,000. An
other amendment eliminates all tax
on freight, passenger and Pullman j
rates, effective January 1. 1922. The
committees' bill retains these taxes
during the next calendar year at
half the present rates and on Janua
ry 1. 1923 cuts them off altogether.
There are several other proposals
of minor importance.
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lives on account of fire last year, or
over a quarter of the battle deaths
of the American Expeditionary
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Sixty thousand other persons during
the same period were injured.
Fires in the United States average
cne a minute, and 75 per cent of
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