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WM IS! - . Si T VOL. LXXXVI-NO. 77. ' WILMINGTON", N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1910. WHOLE NUMBER 13,325. " Il'i WILMINGTON SCHOOLS The United States 'Ambassador MESSAGE OF WHITE SOUTH TO THE RACE OF NEGROES FOR THE YEAR 190940 Would Solve the JMystery. . : -' i .. ;'3T:. .1 jlr. John J. Blair, superintendent of the Wilmington PubUo Schools, has just made his annual report to the joint school committees of the city and the County Board of Education. The report this year is Very compre hensive and enlightening as to the schools .and will be read with interest by t he public generally and parents especially. The report is as follows: To School Committees, Districts Nos. 1 and 2 and Board of Educa . tiou. Wilmington, N. C.,' New Han over County, June 6th, 1910. Gentlemen: I have the honor of submitting my 11th annual report of the condition and progress: of the schools under your charge for -the-years of 1909-1910, which has Just closed. It will be the purpose of this report to give you some information and tacts with regard to the condition, progress and improvement of the schools; the efficiency and standing of your teachers and to place before you a summary of the work in the different departments, the attendance, discipline and such topics of an edu cational nature as belong to the year's work. iStatlstlcal Summary 1909-10 of the white schools: Enrollment. Schools. Male. . Female. Total. ViiKm Mrt' . . 6(fi 1,141 Heuieuway j 410 .M 845 Hit li School . . 00 '.,'192 282 Total '. .. ..1.036 1.231 Average Dally Attendanee. lliioll 400.S7 47T..25 He men way 327..TO 33S.37 . Higb School 79.12 1M.73 Total ft7.49 979.37 Prreni(e., . Tnloii it.; . 94 Hemenway '....92 94 Hiuh School .... .. ...95 , 95 ;""2,208 r R76.12 K4W.K7 243.87 l,79fl!8a 93.5 93 95 Total , 93 94.5 COLORED SCHOOLS. Enrollment. Male. . Female. .. 489. -. :'.17 94 PHiools. Williston Ten body Total. 800 621 1.427 4.T3 389 842 K8 90 89. i. .2.52 Total .741 08ft Average Dally Attendance. uimston in , IVahody .. .. . .1R3 Total 3fi0 Williston .. KZ, Feu hod r 89 27 20 4S2 90 K.5 Total 8 High School. i The Wilmington High School stands at thft head nf the CountV Educational System. .t!The; ""COnsttrctlQirrtr gotrfl'rir. nads has piacea it into closer touch, vtA within . the reach of most of the rural schools of the county, including particularly "those .of Wrightsvllle Sound, Greenville, Masonboro, Middle Sound and Delgado, which have all been represented at the High School during the Daat year. One feature of the future construct ive work to be done in the county should be the bringing about of a closer relationship between all the. different schools and the regarding of the work of the High School as a common standard of comparison. New Hanover has the proud distinc tion of being the flrt county to levy a special tax for the county, as a whole. ' ' ' ' . . .. The smallness of the county makes the plan of correlation of schools feas ible and practicable and the interest of the County Board of Education and the School cdmmittees of the dif ferent districts, should aid in bringing about a more perfect " organization. The addition of two more class rooms to the High School during the Sum mer vacation, will afford . a sufficient amount of room for immediate' need?. The promotion of 120 students from the Union and Hemenway this year and the probable entrance of a num-. ber of others from the .county, while only 22 have gone out from the school, by graduation, brings us face to face with the problem of providing at least four more rooms for the accommoda tion of this additional number. I know that plans are being devised jointly by the efforts of the School Commit tees and County Board of Education for providing the necessary room and equipment to meet the emergency. Keeping Boys in .School We have been graduating about three girls to one boy. Causes of this are:' Lack of men teachers; lack of individual at tention; lack of knowledge of boys' ambition and what he expects to be- cpine; lack of laboratory facilities, which would give them opportunity iw preliminary instruction for elec trical and mechanical engineering. Im practibility of division of courses Into classical and scientific on account of lack of room. More optional to elective courses should bo offered at the beginning of Junior Year. Teacher Meetinas. The teachers meetlnea which have b'-' n held during the year proved to be both helpful and inspiring. In the Juarnmar schools a text book was tak- for the basis of work, namely Hamilton's "The Recitation." The 'achets provided themselves with ''ks and completed it in the 6erles 'j i i;ssons taken during the term. U have evidence of the fact that 'no standard of teachine and In the fiiethoriH employed a distinct Improve ment lias been made. class room work of. many of our tonrhers could be taken --as mod- s in any school In any part of the '"intry. Most of the teachers sub- . NeriliM for PilimnHnnal tnnrnala anA hv a ding and practice keep abreast of times in the best there is in mod in '.'ihioaHon. thnuirht and nrncrpsR. I know of no Bystem; of schools .in l " country in which a greater degree f l;oisonal pride is taken by the arbor as in thl Htv. ' The "teachers realize ahat the" work o i out for each year, is so closely follows that the child the primary first .grade to the senior classof the High School, is like a gradual continuous incline and not a series or irregular disconnected and uncertain steps. It. is found that the children read with ease and with expression. The introduction of the free arm movement in writing has given the most gratifying results.' The principals report that all work both written and mental arithmetic during the year has been most satis factory. The relative subjects of history and geography are as successfully taught. A careful study of North Carolina history has had the effect of arousing renewed interest in the wonderful his tory, of our own State. Spelling forms a part of the da V lessons in every department of the school and I believe that the criticism of modern methods and teachings prove poor spellers does not apply to the schools of this ity. ' The written examinations that were given at the end of the year were pre served and open to the Inspection of me public.. While there Isno prescribed course in ethics opportunity is given daily for instruction in punctuality, obedience, truthfulness, conduct in church, Sun day School, public hall and on the street. The reports on file in the Superin tendent's office in Raleigh shows that there is not a school system in the State which has a better record fo punctuality on the part of both teach ers and pupils. Our pupils are taught to take a pride in the care and preservation or school property. A spirit of self gov ernment and co-operation with right feeling authority in the maintenance of law -and order characterizes the student body. , A kindly and friendly spirit between the teacher and those who are taught is noticeable on every hand. - Care is taken to inculcate Into the minds of the child the proper atti tude toward civic life of the communi ty. In order to obtain some practicable results, "A School Children Civic Im provement League" was formed. The purposes of which are briefly outlined below: 1. To create an interest In the pos sibilities of a greater and more beau- 2. To co-operate' with the. Sorosls and Civic Improvement League and to aid in the jvork of the city . govern ment. 3. To plant more evergreens and aid n beautifying streets and homes. Things School Children Can Do. r 1. To avoid .walking on any grass whether in center of street or De- tween sidewalk and curbing. 2. To avoid putting paper or any trash on the streets. 3. to help enforce laws for collect ing trash. 4.' To prevent the scattering of nails or boards or broken glass along the public thoroughfares. 5. To prevent , the defacement of paint or chalk of walls and fences along the street. Hundreds of packages of flowers and seeds were distributed to the chil dren and instruction given in plant ing them. At the close of school many children brought for exhibition the flowers and plants raised in this way. We cannot- . wholly estimate the progress and success, of,. the schools by concrete results. We have constant ly tried to make the work in wnat is generally regarded as essentials more definite in the matter or pro moting thoroughness. All are agreed that the fundamental elements of schools education are those which are necessary to meet the demands of every day life reading, writing and arithmetic. These subjects must ever hold the foremost place in the curric-. ilium of the grammar schools. Any neglect here entails a life long loss in the child's equipment. Our aim has been constantly to give time and attention to these fundamen tal subjects and not allow other sub jects" to monopolize the timewnicn rightfully belongs to tnem. In other woras, tne scnoois oi w u mlnsrtnn have tried to avoid all forma of sham and so-canea "iaas, wmcu 0 . mm m m.m . 1 1 l have in modern times crept into our scheme of education. School Atfiletics. The natural form of exercise for the children finds expression in, suet games as baseball, basket ball, tennis and track athletics, it is my oDserva tlon that it is not wise to. permit boys,; particularly from the grammar schools, to engage , in tnese spons without the presence or a teacner, physical director or some one in au thority. All these sports ana game3 ahmild he nermitted ana encouragea and regulated, so as not to be indulg ed in to excess, resulting in waste of time, neglect of school work and Improper association. One of the greatest needs of our school system is the providing of a play ground which can be placed un der the control of the school authori ties. During ahe Fall a traqdc athletic meet was held in which from 75 to 100 boys took part. This form of exer cise is being recognized and Introduc ed to a greater extent in the schools, in most other sDorts. such as baseball. the number who can take part iri a game, is so limited, whereas, m track nthipMra. it I as easy for 100 pupils to get the proper exercise in one Af ternoon. . ' . Th nnestlon of the manner in which a boy spends , his time out of school hours' is: of such vital interest and so closely relating tP the educational (Continued on Page is.) life w w Fi i . Coino, Italy, June. 18. Acting uncer instructions of Ms government. United States 'Ambassador J. G. Leishman has taken personal charge of the investigation of the murder mystery of Mrs. Porter Charlton. The finding of the coat of Porter Charlton, husband of the dead woman, in the lake here has led the police to believe that Ithe body of Charlton will be found in the la'ke. A large stone is raising from the wall near where the coat was found, and the police state this rock may have been used In linking the body. The fact that Mrs, Charlton "was a. cousin 'of the late President Harrison, has stirred tae Italian-autnorlties to new efforts. Still later dis . patches -declare tlatj. Charlton has -escaped the country. " ' - -" .. - NEW SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES Number of Important Enterprises An nounced in This Week's Issue of Baltimore Manufacturers' Record Corporations. (Special Star Correspondence.) Baltimore, June . 16. Among the many Southern industrial and other developmental enterprises reported in this week's issue of the Manufacturers' Record are the following: Alta Vista Cotton Mill Co.. Alta Vista, Va., organized with $300,000 capital -to - build plant of 13,000 spin dles and 300 looms. Golden Belt Manufacturing Co., Dur ham, N. C, awarded contract 'for con struction of additional building c6st- ing $50,000. rv; : V Berryton Mills, Raccoon, Ga., or ganized with $150,000 capital to install 5,000 . spindles, hosiery, knitting ma chinery and provide general cotton mill improvements. ' J. H. Wheelwright of the Consolida tion Coal Co., Baltimore, announced that plans are being made for organiz ing a company to expned from $3,000, 000 to . $4,000,000 for. building water works to supply water for industrial and railroad purposes in the Monon gah valley of West Virginia; the wa ter to be piped from the' Allegheny mountains. George W. Mueller Interior Co., Rome, Ga., incorporated with $500,000 capital to build a plant for manufac turing bank and office fixtures, man tels, tiling, etc., from wood, marble, bronze and other metals. Bayou Sale Planting & Draining Co., New Orleans, La., incorporated with $300,000 capital to drain 8) acres of land for sugar cultivation, enlarf and establish sugar plant, etc. Worth Manufacturing Co., Rich mond, Va., incorporated with $150,000 capital to manufacture razors, razor sharpeners, shaving brusnes, etc. Hill Printing & Stationery Co., Wa- a A 1 !1L m l f K co, rex., mcorporaiea wiin iuu,uuu capital. Cal-y-cine Corporation, Norfolk, va., chartered with $175,000 capital to manufacture beverages. Aden Manufacturing Co., Danville, Va., chartered with $50,000 capital for manufacturing vehicles. Jeff ries-Spaulding Manufacturing Co. Chase City, Va., incorporated with $25,000 capital stock to build box shook plant. , Carolina Lumber Co., Huntdaie. n. C organized with $225,000 capital'.to build mill and develop 4.500 acres of timber land. Montezuma Fertilizer Co., Montezu ma, Ga., was incorporated with $60,000 canital. G. E. Patrick Lumber Co., Roanoke, Va., was incorporated . With $250,000 capital stock. Cumberland Mining Co., Glasgow, pKy., was incorporated with" $100,000 capital to develop lead and zinc prop erties. y -Cobahee Fertilizer , Co., ; Charleston, S. C, awarded contract for construc tion of plant costing $200,000. Texas Pottery Co., Fort Worth, Texas, incorporated with $20,000 cap ital to manufacture pottery ware. National Lumber &Creosoting Co., Texarkana, Ark., purchased and will develop 30,000 acres lof timber land between Lewisville, Ai;k., and Shreve porl, La. f South Tennessee Development & Mining Co., Iron City, Tenn., will de velop 2,000 acres of iron ore land, in stalling a plant costing $40,0t)0; con templates .erection of iron furnace later., . Automatic Lubricating Device Cor poration, Newport News, Va., charter ed with $100,000 capital to manufac ture patented automatic device for lu bricating bearings of . railway cars. Dowling Engine Works, Biloxi, Miss., is being organized with $10O,0D0 capital stock to build twin cylinder engines SAINT JOHN'S DAY. Announcement as to Exercises at Ox ford Orphanage. Oxford, N. C, June 18. On Friday, June 24th, in the ample oak grove of tne uxroru urpnanage tne annual celebration of Saint John's Day will talve place. The occasion seems to grow in interest from year to year. If con ditions are favorable, it is likely that between seven and ten thousand of our people will gather in Oxford for the celebration. A special session of the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina will be held about noon and, very soon thereafter, the exercises out in the grove will begin. Unless some thing prevents, Grand Master Richard N. Hackett will preside. Mr. W. B. - Ballon, of Oxford, will deliver the address of welcome. Grand Master Hackett has announc ed the appointment of Rev. Plato Dur ham, of Concord, as orator of thOjfflay. The children of the Oxford Orphan age, witn tneir sweet singing ana their open-air concert in the afternoon, will contribute no little to the enjoy ment and profit of the occasion. Some of the visitors to Oxford will. doubtless, prefer to carry baskets and enjoy their dinner in good old-fash ioned picnic style. . '. An abundance of pure ice water will be provided. '. From stands on the grounds barbe cue dinner, sandwiches, other lunches, fruits, ice cream, lemonade, etc., will be on sale. The Seaboard Air Line plans to again operate excursion trains from Raleigh, Durham, Weldon and Hen derson. Besides the usual increased equipment and attractive special rates on regular trains, which are run on schedules most convenient for the people east of Oxford, the Southern Railway will operate an excursion from Greensboro. This special will leave Greensboro at 7:30 A. Mi and reach Oxford about 10:45 A.- M. Re turning it will leave Oxford at 4:30 P. M. and arrive in Greensboro about 7:45 P. M. , v The Oxford Orphanage, one of the greatest institutions ; in our common wealth, its three hundred; and thirty children, the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Masons, the splendid speak ing, the sweet singing, the afternoon concert, the out of doors picnic fea ture, the fine fellowship these are some of the attractions of this cele bration. And the convenient excursions and low rates will be but added in ducements for many of our people to go to Oxford Friday, June 24th. Keep The Complexion Beatitiful Nadine Face Powder (In Green Boxes Only) Produces a soft, velvety appearance so much ad mired, and remains until washed off. -Punned by a new process. Will not clog the pores. Harmless as water. Prevents return of discolorations. White, Flesh, Pink, Brunette. By Leading Toilet Counters Or Mail. Price 50 cents. MONEY BACK if Not Entirely Pleased, prepared by NATIONAL TOILET CO., PAH&TBfll AUTOMOBILE VEILS The correct thing at $2.50. Taffeta Silk Skirts. A special at $2.98. One piece Gingham Dresses. Good value at $6.00. Middy Blouses. We have the only correct style to be found in the city. , We are agents for the Royal with, .always on hand. LaGrecque Agents Standard Agents t (Address at 1910 Commencement of North Carolina A. & M. College for the Colored Race, by Crence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmers .and Gazette, Raleigh, N. C.) My purpose is to bring you what 1 believe to be'the message of the white South to the negro race. If I were asked to put this message into a single paragraph f could not do better than to quote :he words of the foremost citizen of North Carolina, Charles B. Aycock, who declared when he was Governor of the State, at the opening of the Negro State Fair in 1901 :C "No thoughtful, conservative, and upright Southerner has for your race aught but the kindest feeling, and we are all willing and anxious to see you grow into the highest 'citizenship of which you are capable, and we are willing to give our energies and best thought to aid ,you in the great work necessary to make you what you are capable of, and to assist you in that I elevation of character and of virtue which tends to the strengthening of the State. But to do this it is abso lutely necessary that each race should remain distinct and have a society of its own. Inside of yur own race you can grow as large and broad and high as God permits, with the aid, the sym pathy, and the encouragement of your white neighbors. If you can equal the white race in achievement, in schol arship, in literature, in art, in industry and commerce, you will find no generous-minded white man who will stand in your way. But all of them in the South will insist that you shall ; accomplish this high end without so cial intermingling; and this is well for you; it is well for us; it is necessary for the peace of our section." This, as I conceive it, is the true message of the white South to the negro race expressed in a paragraph. Expressed in a sentence it would read: "Our race integrity guaranteed, there is nothing that we are not wil ling to do to promote your develop ment" How the Ignorant Negro Field Hand Has Hurt . the South. And my answer to the hoary and oft-repeated charge that negro educa tion is a mistake and will "spoil field han48 a chntgoeieateJ to me the very , day I accepted your Invitation by a man who had held honorable of fice by negro votes is that there is almost nothing else under high Hea ven that the South needs so much as the "spoiling" of field hands of the type we have had until now. This ignorant negro field hand Is and has been one of the greatest eco nomic curses with which any people has ever had to contend, and if 1 thought your race could never ad vance to any higher type of industrial efficiency I would start an effort to morrow chimerical as the plan might seem for the colonization of our en tire negro population. If by "spoiling" field hands you mean making them into something dif ferent, then every State and county in the South needs a campaign for spoiling them, for from the standpoint of efficiency almost any change would be for the better. Considered entirely apart from the losses of war, let me express to you the frank and delibe rate opinion that even since 1865 the presence of the negro in the South has There Is No Use Arguing The facft remains the same that no sore is better equipped for Summer Business than PL ATT & HAAR Some Summery Suggestions: PARASOLS To match your silk, linen or wash dress. A BARGAIN One case flowered organdies to be closed out at 10 cents yard. . FLAX I ME Another supply at 11 cents yard. Long Cloth. A special value at $1.00, worth $1.50. Bathing Caps. The nobbiest line in the city. Lumina Silk Hose. A bargain at $1.00 per pair. Society Goods Society Goods.? A full .line of stamped p-f latt & H&'&? 1 made the whole section and my en tire race poorer and chiefly by rea son of this same time-worn, half-sa cred Southern fetich of an ignorant lliter ate field hand as the ideal agri cultural laborer a field band who too much of the time has made a mock ing paYody of what should have been the richest agricultural section in the world, simply because he has been Ig norant and the white man has let him remain ignorant; a field band whose most trusted agricultural guide has been the inconstant moon. And yet when all is told I fear that the igno rant negro depending upon the moon as a guide presents a less pitiable '. ' spectacle than the 19th century white man depending upon ignorance as a help. Has Cost the South Millions. Small wonder that the penalty has been that while the Southern farmer has grown poor hiring an ignorant negro to take one mule and plow an acre of land a day three or four inch es deep, farmers . in the West have grown rich paying several times as much to an intelligent white man to take three or tour horses and plow four acres a day six or eight inches deep. And more than this, the intelli- . gent laborer in the West has main tained the fertility of the land while : ignorant labor in the South has not only failed to make immediate profits but has laid waste the capital of the landholder as well. Millions of acres of once fertile land now abandoned while in the six States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama, and Mississippi, the farmers spend $50,000,000 each and ev ery year for commercial fertilizers as compared with a total expenditure for public schools of only $11,000,000. And still with a blind fury like that of the enraged Ephesion worshipers of Dl-' ana, thousands are continually crying out "Great is our ignorant negro field hand, unspoiled by knowledge and in telligence, turned loose to deal with the one fundamental resource which must support life among us as long as the race shall last the soil!" How We Need to "Spoil" Field Hands. We need to "spoil" a hundred, thou sand field hands by giving them such intelligence as to learn them not mere ly how to plow but how to plow so as , to prevent washing and save moisture'" and conserve fertility; not merely how to plow deep and how to plow shallow but to know when each method will Uelp' liurt ike -'trop? yl d .in; .' Fall; not merely , how to put 'cottofi ' seed into the ground, but how td select cotton seed wisely and thereby get the $3,000,000 a year which Director Wil liams says a proper policy of seed se lection would save to North Carolina alone; not merely..how to scatter our $50,000,000 worth of fertilizer in the rows, but how to use it so as to save the $15,000,000 lost each year by ig norant handling of this $50,000,000 purchase; not merely how to drop peas but how to use them to enrich the land; not merely how to give hay and grain to cows, but how to feed ' so as to make the cows profit-makers instead of profit-eaters; not merely how to plant crops, but how to plant them in a land building instead of a land ruining rotation; not merely how to set out a fruit tree, but how to combat the pests and diseases so aa ' to make it fruitful after it is set out and. to have this sort of intelligence on the part of our field hands and farmf laborers we must have men who know a fertilizer formula from a doc-' (Continued on Page 16.) pieces, and the floss to work them hi xm 4X: r : ?n iea with that that , procedes an ':mx:; .t v 1. 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