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“HIGH” LIFE, JANUARY 28, 1921. P'i:§B FIVE HISTORY OF GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, CHAPTER I The Irvin Shoe Company desires to serve you and your friends with DEPENDABLE FOOTWEAR you’ll find our prices astonishginly low— considering the Quality and Comfort They Give IRVIN SHOE COMPANY 114 W. Market Repair department in rear of store. THE HABIT OF THRIFT IS A foundation of Success. Acquire this Habit by Depositing in Our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. 4 PER CENT COM POUNDED QUARTERLY. ATLANTIC BANK AND TRUST CO. Greensboro Breaks the Ice. In 1840, Rev. Calvin H. Wiley, of Guil ford county, was elected the first super intendent of Public Education in North Carolina. He realized the great need of better education in the state, for, as today. North Carolina was far behind the other states in education. So, Rev. Wiley made an energetic effort to get the better towns of the state interested in the matter. His plan was an excellent one for that time. Each city was to organize graded schools and provide one teacher for each room. Bach city adopting the plan was to provide a tax sufficient to run the schools eight or nine months a year. Greensboro was the first city in Noi’th Carolina to try the experiment. Quite a numlber of citizens signed a petition to enlarge the city limits to include two square miles and to start a system of pub lic graded schools. Mr. James W. Al bright, a memiber of the Board of Aider- men, drafted the amendment, which con tained this clause: “Sec. 74, that the corporate limits of the city ishall constitute a school district, and that all taxes levied upon the citizens by the state for school purposes, shall be ex pended in conformity with the regulations of the state, in establishing graded schools within the city, and should the amount thus realized not he sufficient to keep the schools open eight months in the year, m that event the commissioners shall appro priate a sufficient amount of money from any funds on hand belonging to the city to supply the deficiency.” The amended charter was sent to the legislature. Mr. Alexander Mclver, who was then superintendent of Public In stitution, went before the law-makers rn Raleigh and put up a stiff struggle for clause 74. 'There was quite an argument, but the amendment was ratified March 28, 1870. The hardest struggle was yet to come, however, when the amendment was up for adoption or rejection in Greensboro. Numbers of prominent citizens fol lowed the greatest debate ever held in were for graded schools, and they did their utmost to put the law across! There were others who saw no good in the plan. They declared that such a plan would ruin the city. It would make a lot of stuck-up lazy people, it would bring the best and most cultured children in contact with the' scum of society, and it wr/uld be unfair to tax a man to raise money for educating Brown-Belk Company We Sell It For Less One of the 30 Belk Stores Brains, Ambition, Energy and Character are the Qualities necessary to secure a position ■with the Pilot Company. If you can qualify we have a place for you Southern Life and Trust Company Greensboro, North Carolina some one else’s children were their chief dbjections. So the contest wmged at white heat up to, and even during, the election. Little though we may realize, it the issue at stake had a direct '.bearing on our lives and future. We owe our present educa tional advantages, to a large extent, to the passage of that amendment on that event ful day in May, 1870. It is interesting to note that, in spite of the strong and de termined opposition put up, the measure was carried by an extremely large ma jority. There was a free school building on the site of the present Lindsay Street Gram mar School. It was a little brick building containing only one room. The city took control of the building and called for bios oil enlarging it. The contract was given to one of the Aldermen, Symoure Steele, and C. N. MeAdoo. They made it into a two story building containing five rooms and a chapel. At that time it was con sidered quite an up-to-date structure. September 6, 1870, Greensboro openeu the doors of the first graded school in the state. Jesse R. Wharton, was the first principal and superintendent. The first teachers were Misses Sallie Brent, Pris cilla Macon, and Annie Litchford. There were two hundred pupils enrolled in the eight grades of the school. Which fact only goes to say that from the first the experiment was a decided success. Among the pupils were sons and daughters of the best and bluest blooded citizens of Greens boro. Mr. Wharton and his faculty felt a great responsibility. They knew that the eyes of other cities were watching to see how the plan worked. They felt it was up to them to make it work. So no mat ter what difficulty loomed up on the hori- zon, they went bravely on with their work. Soon Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Goldsboro, Wilson, and Charlotte, who had 'been waiting to see if the plan would work, one after another, fell in line and followea Greensiboro’s example. Now there are graded pulblie schools all over this state. Professor Wharton laid a good firm foundation for educational growth and ex pansion in Greensboro. He was popular with the patrons of the school because or his sincerity in his work. He died March 5, 1904, at the age of seventy. Myrtle Ellen LaBarr. LITERARY DIGEST CLUB HOLDS FIRST MEETING 'The second meeting of the Junior Liter ary Digest Club was held January 14th, with Doris Stinnette as chairman. She called for a discussion of the poetry rn that week’s issue, the leader of the 2nd group, Wilbur Sharpe, then took charge of the grogram. Discussion; Topics of the Day—Pauline Fitzgerald. Talk—New,}'football—Emil Cline. Paper—Business English—Bryan Stack. Spice of Life—Vallie Dillon. Talk—Child Labor—Margaret Thompson. The chairman then called for a general discussion of the Irish question and other current topics. ‘She asked Sula Beall to read some of the topics in brief, wheih are always interesting. Wilibur Sharpe brought the following statement before the club: North Carolina spends per day $100,00o for automobiles, and only $300 for schools. Critics Report—Myrtle Ellen LaBarr. The Junior Literary Digest Club de cided to hold its meeting on Thursday, last week, so that they might combine it WATCH FOR US This is our space We will he here until the finish If you wear anything come to us for it We have it from Toe to top knob Clothes, Shoes and everything else DONNELL & MEDEARIS “Cash System Saves” with a celebration of Lee. Jackson Day. The meeting was called to order by the ■chairman, Myrtle Ellen LaBarr. She stated that there would be no general dis cussion of current topics since the prog ram was rather lengthy and so the meet ing was turned over to Blanche Mann, the leader. The program follows : Description and illustration of the va rious kinds of posture correct and incor rect. Horace Lamberth. An account ofGlady’s Beggars’s Opera and Why it has been revived. Helen Stack. Discussion of cartoons. Roy Broadnax. A sketch of Stonewall Jackson. 'Blanche M ann. Poem. Robert Edward Lee. Lueile Pettit. Jokes. William Brickart. Original poem and talk. Jackson and Lee as citizens, soldiers, and Christian patriots. Myrtle Ellen LaBarr. Recreation—Stonewall Jackson’s way— Pauline Fitzgerald. There was some discussion over the two to send to chapel. It was finally decided that three ought to go, so Blanche Mann, Pauline Fitzgerald and Myrtle Ellen La- Barr were decided upon. The club felt highly pleased to have as their guest superintendent Frederick Ar cher. They like to feel that the superin tendent is interested enough in them to pay them a visit and see how they are do ing things. They regard Mr. Archer as their friend and are looking forward to other visits from him in the future. As she looked in the mirror She had to confess That the end of her nose Was a shining success.—Ex.
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