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noq ; -nb .1.. ni fetilq orfl lf)iw 30 simnieij loan n! Jasa EEnbate AM Illiteracy Is Plea of Governor Craig. PROCLAIMS NOVEMBER AS MOONLIGHT SCHOOL MONTH FOR WHOLE OF NORTH CAROLINA-FIVE THOUSAND TEACH ERS ARE VOLUNTEERS IN WORK SUPERINTENDENT JOYNER CALLS UPON ORGANI ZATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL CIT IZENS TO REDUCE THE PER CENTAGE OF ILLITERATE VOT ERS; MOONLIGHT SCHOOL DAY IS FEATURE. "I call upon every man anrt every woman who craves the sacmP privi lege of being of greatest service to those in grsatest need to render here the infinite service of bringing new freedom to a human mind," declares Governor Locke Craig in a proclama tion released Monday setting apart the month of November to be observed in this Stote as "Moonlight School Month. . , The proclamation is accompanied by a letter from Dr. J. Y. Joyner to superintendents of public instruction of the counties of the State and all the teachers of the public schools suggesting plans for organization. Fully five thousand teachers in the white schools of the State have vol unteered for the work of vJiping out adult illiteracy in North Carolina. It is a matter that has been upon the hearts of the educational leaders of the State and the need has worked out in them this plan of reducing the iourteen per cent, illiteracy among the voting population. Outlines Plan. Dr. J. Y. Joyner in his long letter t the -teachers and superintendents outlines in detail the plans which have been adopted for the campaign. They are here given: "1. Get from the census the ames and addresses of all the illiterates in the school district With the aid of the school commitee and others, well acquainted with the residents of the district, verify, and if necessary cor rect and complete the list. "9 Rpp to it that , every one of twriMjHo them rece5ves a sympathetic, tactful dbnU lan1 carne6t personal invitation to at one """f, Seiect the right person to give J)d ,Vt,j8 personal invitation to each moIw no.(ftme eighbor some friend, some fel isvan W! $$1 member of church or fraternal organization, some one that has the enwfj Irf'&Ojence and friendship of the per nol W! .&Tftmted and how 10 ap" ':il''n,JMc'him. .!.p.otoq i5 WJMany illiterates are naturally wo tail) pSJe'over their inability to read Jhari Respect their feelings. jo1 'B8r'ftWyitatioIIB be extended, and all thp ofr2r work of the schools for f ncqq Sj&Jfiducted in a spirit of )(.) PaffleYfc'-'WhCThood, good fel-,'3-rA;'i?mocratic equality. In ',J ,0 JVori aftfJcCavoM everything that , 'ThesQ'w our. brothers and fellow- bio, because in chfl'Uioort they l;ad no opportunity to go. to school or had no no'Ty nj auTTiontv, over them .-lim-CMOnt'f.iitlpiviiuu.ve ol-if: import; K'; CMO'it'i'iiripi'oi iuiXve c to maw ttfin use t!i irfill'.! - JT'JIl Mill .O I). Vjy.lVI') If i-i on fro to scnooi. it )! our iliit jinviiffp to. ;9r s,.vi , SPiv s. i renin. lie .ymhuviii'ti .l.'.'m Mil1- I Jnoiet'ftua tio i)!ufti''ii'niiqo?q f.'-i rn-i j; j brie )fcos f.rfi inttitCWfr'tTA- 'hW 4 i W' ltoog bne iib iyxj-!'iv't:1',jil)' rrt 'ihiih JVii' til' H.di'j-iHleri ioJ iet to Sf.'M ! ?WiinunJ rtrt) osn'jiw .it;(iiv cJ'-rtl' oon'iprht- ntaininfr prehensible to adult bemnjafitiiih tttJKl-Ji niSiik. liL'noipnfti no moi'l l-liaflo . .V.vn.ers. of each .'Rchool.ili diue- 0MteW cSHWto-i&Wl ,9iiilqi'ili vo. T i jJ'(5jTOwt 1P TTtAlcA la no. do. 91 tnon J);rn1. Ml. IMdm each .distinct to se; 'hSiMWm EAsbWtmoaiflpossible, for the triOfn line ito:mqt iihitr,'Si , paper 'each week. 1 icilT -".W JmioTjAff'WM "oW'-WWRHMB8' dnf fhta MAltra 1 1 - 1 oe placed in their hands f fanu. the , first, to interest them, to siiinul --o t ,..ua Bea t wiiii wnat fekmia on in their ounty and in the world; t cultivate from the first the useful habit of reading their home paper; to furnish, as they begin to learn to read, an abundant supply each week of the best and most interacting ma terial for supplementary' reading. Most of them, as soon as they begin to acquire the power to read, will read each' week everything in the paper that they can read. Each night ex tracts from the paper should be read aloud to the pupils by the teacher, and as soon as possible by the pupils themselves. Most of the pupils learn ing o read will become permanent subscribers to the county faper, and keep up their practice in reading. So far as I knew, North Carolina is the only State in which this co-operative plan with the county newspapers in teaching illiterates to read has been suggested or in which this generous offer has been made by the papers. I am exceedingly anxious that it shall j have a fair trial, because I am conn dent that it will contribute greatly to the success and to the permanency of this work. . "5. Upon application to the State superintendent, bulletins containing twelve lessons three a week for four weeks in reading, in arithmetic, and in writing, prepared especially by the State Department of Public Instruc tion, with the aid and criticism of some of the most experienced and suc cessful primary teachers in the State. Some of whom had had experience in teaching adults, will be furnished county superintendents in sufficient number to supply each pupil enrolled with one copy. Superintendents are urged to order at once the number needed, but not to order more than will be needed.- "A teachers edition of the came bul letin, containing valuable suggestions to teachers for teaching the lessons, will be furnished through the county superintendent to each teacher of a moonlight school. The county super intendent is urged to oder at once from the State superintendent's oflVce the number of teachers' bulletins needed for his county, and to send at once to the teacher of each moonlight school a copy of the teachers' bulletin and a sufficient number of the pupils' bulletins to supply each pupil with a copy. "6. Copies of the bulletin contain ing the lessons by weeks will also be sent to the editor of each county news paper, but the county superintendent is expested and urged to see the editor personally, explain the plan to him, and arrange for him separately by weeks, with the date of the publica tion of each, the -lessons to be publish ed each week. t " Social Entertainments. "7. The vounty superintendent and teachers, in co-operation with the school committee, the various com munity organizations and others in terested, are urged to arrange some social entertainments in connection with the moonlight schools, partici pated in by the pupils and by other citizens, to add to the interest and happiness of the pupils, i;nd to afford an opportunity for all to get together and for an expression of interest and ficoun.gement from outsiders. The pupils of those s-whools .should be made to f"pl ;it homo f'om the !rt , and also to feel th:t they are a part of the comiv.unity in v hctn tht .Mker part el immur Nove rpiy ,1 i li. t ) veat!i"r ! b,' p -:..--!it'.i a:ul Ihs roads in 1'M comiiti-'Mi. During November or 'h other month lis may be Relet ted, MM. Vitrate public intercut umd effort 'iiiii'i this one work of teaching the rjaHri'MMifJI-JUf your county to read and write. -Kally to the work your n---ws-nAMiPP'a!l organizations that have orfli,iivf)ftftLnlitfir aid ami all other agen eles.fttttttrian ,be enlisted for service. H& Hie Rafters full of it every week. tWtfndhotltftil-.are furnished with the and thflihrdtt'i'itiltrtinewe about the schools. Lia'aiikhborte(4he schools open the pamnbeiboa ftdt fthe names, of adult (ttlfl'tfatebjbliAioU districts. Publish eokiwddkblkhe oauthber, but not the names, of those enrolled, ' m each mncousJagementlloof A others, publish "MhlsfrchnsWflBfcato jtteakstHetmumber, and. Wy,ThlrjfcproieBK,ii!ittit names of fcboae Itfiateifeate Bnanotdnt read and i)iVi-JwlocijtoJ HMiJeqthis news e9n-WnlHMppHedflw!Bkhyi;thrugh the l!Bi,di$ffrnmeaW-iadM$l, and houMiftJBOj;btedlKWt'luTifeo6:.OUI,ty iSuMnqJrtdrnlobjodaB(itatWer. The Superintendent .hMiBjifcftB 1jagaers ifrn)4 fcfiftfrndh totffih the Wpafts f(r,eothAt tjf ile ly mate rial m nromptJy,unpiMd),na oa.T ndents -urged 8S?Sfali a joint meeting jfif thfoSJmyjr Teachlie recognized organ of Democracy in raittee on Commuyjx j,gerv Agent, the Heme Demonstration Agents, the President or Secretary of the County Farmers' Union, editors of the county newspapers, the mayor of the county seat, one representative each f the Junior Order and of the Woman's Clubs of the county, two weeks before the beginning of the moonlight school month in that coun ty, to ascertain the facts about the adult illiteracy of the county by dis tricts as reported by superintendents and teachers and to complete the or ganization and plan8: for pushing the campaign and work for its eliminR' tion. North Carolina Day. "10. The program for Community Service Day and North Carolina Day this year, now. in the press, centers around the moonlight school and the elimination of adult illiteracy every school district as the one most important community .service to be concentrated upon this year. It is suggested that this day be observed in each county on the Friday before the opening of Moonlight Schools and on that day. at each school house all the details for opening and successfully conducting the school be completed. ( May Extend Term. "11. Because of . their onerous duties in the day fchools and ttieir inadequate salaries I did not feel that I ought to ask or that the communi ty ought to expect of the public school teachers more than one month's extra service at night without com' pensation. It is hoped and expected, however, that before the close of the month sufficient interest will be aroused and sufficient success will be attained in many of the moonlight schools to warrant extending the term, and that citizens and interest ed organizations and orders in the community will arrange for such ex tension and for payment of the teacher or some other person to con tinue the school, and also to provide, where feasible, instruction for other adults, besides illiterates, desiring ad ditional instruction." Program For Moonlight School Day. The following program is suggest ed by Dr. Joyner for the observance of Moonlight School Day by the com mittees of the county on community service and the county teachers asso ciation, the object to enroll active workers: 1. Song "America." 2. Scripture Reading and Prayer. 3. Reading Governor's Proclama- tio for "Moonlight School Month." Reading State Superintendent's "Letter to Superintendents and Teach ers." . Where Our County Stands in the Adult Illiteracy Column. Why we Should Observe ".Moonlight School Month." 7. How to Organize a Moonlight School: (a) The Survey of Illiterates: (b) How to Get Them O Enroll and Attend; (c) Use of Lesson Material. 8. Roll Call of School Districts to Find Volunteer Helpers. !). Appointment of Cemmittees. 10. Song "Carolina." SECRETARY DANIELS An Instance of Notable Development in Intellectual Scope. The career of Josephus Daniels is r. nun lcable. It rci'.ds more like a ro hif.nve than a story of real life. No s.-ion of a.i illustrious house, no heir . I'.'ine or fu-trr.e, yet with the chisel f aiv.bitWn, industry and indomitable ..-ill, I".- I'lrwl his way up the rugged v.ers ct' siii'i-e.-s. As a boy, he was on'y niftc-d with a line native in tjl'x t, but hud a fine idea of of nio la'ily, sobriety and nil the higher vir- In his youthful voy:ce he did not npghict the experience of trained nav igators, he did not take, unhoiy 711 os- ions for a pilct, he did not place folly at the helm. The sirens, whose tong is as charm ing as the voice of Calypso, appealed to him in vain. A youth at home ho sailed on the calm waters of a quiet river, in bark furnished with a mother's love and guided by a father's skill. Soon he found himself sailing the winding channels, the rocky straits, the rush: ing carrents at the river's mouih into the great sea of active life. This be ginning was a prophecy of his present career. We first hear of him as editor of a small weekly paper in eastern Caro Iina. With heroic effort, intense per severance, manly self-respect, ini s development of fine political acumen, he won his way to the editorship of The News and Observer, the leading Democratic daily of the Capital of the State. Even with this achievement, many of us, of both political creeds, regard ed him as only a wire-puller, p. shrewd politician, a man of no large ability, His paper, however, grew in influ ence and power. Finally it became the State. Still, many of us made ce, conjLmore or less sport of Joe Daniels. Time ran on, and many of us, much i$ft refused to acknowledge it, knew that Joe Daniels had won warm place in the heart and mind of the State. Intensely Democratic, and in Its 4i- nunciation of Republican measures his paper was as remorseless as the torch of Omar, yet it grew in popular favor and power. So great was its influence, that it was well-nigh impos sible to get a bill through a Demo cratic Legislature, unless it had upon it the seal of Joe Daniels' approval, To his great crvdit be it said that his paper, with marked ability, always lined up oa the side of a larger educa tion for the chHdren, temperance and every moral isue. With unflagging loyalty it supported Woodrow Wilson for the nomination for President. Wilscn was nominated, of course, elected, and in due time Josephus Daniels was appointed Secretary of the United States Navy. Then it was that those opposed to him as well as some of his own political house hold, ridiculed the idea that he would achieve any distinction in hu new field o endeavor. To the chagrin of a few and to the delight af scores, he has made good and abundantly. He has done more for temperance, morality and the educational uplift of the Navy than any of his predecess ors. For this a small coterie of naval officers their liquor rations cut out. criticise him, the people and the ship crews applaud him. He has not only strengthened the Navy in the creased number and better equipped battleships and submarines, but in so doing has actually saved to the tax payers of America millions of dollars. I want to ask the space to mention all his savings and only give a few. He saved $178,750 by manufacturing mines at a Government station, in place of purchasing them; $280,425.33 were saved in his contracts for guns and gun forging, $50,000 in the cost of powder. By securing contracts of competition for projectiles he saved $1,077,210. In the purchase of armor plate he saved $110,084. In the face of this wonderful achievement, the scoffers may scoff, but the name of Joe Daniels will ever travel with the stars. His invitation to that electrical world wizard, Edison, and scores of the foremost electrical experts of America to make suggestions for bet ter battlships, better submarines and a better system of naval attack and defense, will forever enshrine his name in the affections of a grateful people. No man, in public life today, has so developed in intellectual scope and vision, and everywhere, even by the great dailies of a different political creed, he is regarded as among the very foremost, who ever held the exalted station of Secretary of the United States Navy. He has the integrity that wins pub ic confidence, the intelligence that commands respect, the economy that saves his Government millions of dol- ars, the patriotism that knows no duty but loyalty to its country and its President, the industry that- never tires in the pursuit of national wel fare, and the tact to adapt himself to the openings of Providence, and thus make himself the man for the hour of opportunity. Respectfully, C. F. McKESSON. WATER CRESS SALAD Water cress is u salad not well enough known in the South. In the vicinity of New York ami other large ities many farmers realize more pro- lit from water-c vsF, cvt haphazard :Vm the marpi.i of springs than from i j, ear's work in growing potatoes or corn, it lias a particularly pieasaiu. tinsrcit taste, and is a great blood purifier. At. present prices on acre could bo made to bring a good profit, not to mention its health-giving quail tics. TAKE "CASCARETS" IF HEADACHY, BILIOUS AND CONSTIPATED Best For Liver and Bowels, Bad Breath, Bad Colds, Sour Stomach. Get a 10-cent box. Sick headache, biliousness, coated tongue, head and nose clogged up with a cold always trace this to torpid liver; delayed fermenting food in the bowels or sour, gassy stomach. Poisonous matter clogged in the in testines, instead of being cast out of the system is re-absorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes conges tion and that dull, throbbing, sicken ing headache. Cascarets immediately cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and pois ons in the bowels. A Cascaret tonight wrll surely straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep a 10-cent box from your druggist means vour head clear, stomach sweet and your liver and bowels regular for months. Mr. Frank Finch, of Bailey, N. C, who was 50 years eld last Angus s, is the fatter of tacty-f osr children. PROCLAMATION FOR MOONLIGHT SCHOfjlQHTHTl Whereas there are in North Carolina 132,000 white nen and f boys and girls, over 10 years of age who cannot read and writea greater in number than was sent by North Carolina to th sertioT Confederate States and 14 per eent of the white Vetera are renortL the census as illiterates, the State in this particular standing nractS2 1 the bottom the roll of States; and c!ly 4 Whereas it is largely because they lacked opportunity, largely b, J they "had no chance," that these people, brothers and sisters of ours literate today, growing up as they did in the years of war and reconSt,! tioa, and the years of poverty that foHowed, before the State had nrmruf adequate schools or thoroughly realized its daty to provide facilities TS by every child may "burgeon out all there is within him;" and '"t Whereas the State has now come to a poignant realization of it aJ not only to provide schools for the boys and girls of today, but also to w ine aoors 01 Knowieage, 01 nope, nuu , . , 1 , a 1.. . lecwa in aer uays m yovcivy, unj Whereas, while our illiterate people as a whole have bravely and J severingly achieved usefulness, success, despite their it terrible handicap, we can have been their achievements, how lifo r.t mi rvmmnnwpa1tli hnd thev hands; and while our State, through AwtivA nmciwritv And rlvio nrncrreRA. erratkt&T nmnaa wtt ahnnlH malrA wpiv Whoroaa thrnoh th Mnnnlicht. perience of Kentucky and by the experienee of numerous counties in onr ! ot. V.o q at V.on1 oa outline kir ths Siiruri-tonJ.4 '"11 Instruction and the State Committee carry the immeasurable benefits of education to all who were negljcUdil neglectful in their youth: Now, therefore I, Locke Craig, .Governor of North Carolina, do ktJ this my proclamation to designate the month of November, 1915, as "Mom.! light School Month" in North Carolina, and set it apart to be devoted to tkf high purpose of beginning a crusade to eliminate illiteracy from the SW trusting that the movement then begun will not cease until every unletw man and woman, boy and girl is given access through reading to all the WMjhb of knowledge now, sealed to them, to the end that North Carolina long befob another census year may be a State without adult illiterates. I, therefore, call upon the citizens, teachers, and educational authority' of every county to organize for the purpose of eliminating adult illiterao from that county; and I call upon the members of Ui Farmers' Union, the Press Associate the Junior Order, the Federation ti Women's Clubs, and all the other orti zations that have already enlisted in the cause, to be unfaltering in ttf splendid purpose to carry it through to a triumphant conclusion; and I I call upon the commercial organizations, boards of trade, eme ii.f religious organizations, Sunday schools, and all organizations everywhere tef give loyni, enuiuBioaiic aiu unu support to a movement wnose success will promote the welfare of every individual in the State and bring new conii- and courage to all the people; and I call upon every men and every of being of greatest sesvice to those finite service of bringing new freedom to a human mind. Dowi in our city of Raleigh on the 9th day of October, in the year tf our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and in the one hundred in fortieth year of our American Independence. ay the governor: JNO. P. KERR, Private Secretary. You Ought to When you are sick you want the best drugs you can.get, and yon deserve to have them. There is a meaning in the word "RexaH" when it appears on a bottle of medicine or fountain syringe or any Other such article. It carriee s guarantee that the goods are all that is claimed for them. You can get the best by getting the "Rexall" kind. There is no line of toilet articles that excels the Phoebe Snow products. If you want the best and the most delightfully perfumed, greaseless cream, try a jar 'of the Phoebe Snow. It costs only 25c. Phoebe Snow Talcum Powder, each, 2Sc. Phoebe Snow Toilet Water, 75c. Fountain Synngas, 75c, $1.00 and $1.25. Massage Bath Sprays $1.50. Mew lot of Hair Brushes at popular prices. 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HOBBS Guilford Collesa, N.C. w uyyuj iuiui.jr ir an wno wir - 1 dp.; xees, good citizenship and hurti c.r'l but feel how infinitely great S1:! infinitely richer their contribution t, mi hut hoA th lepvn of loanl.. i patient struggle, has won its wT3 Wp run hilt rflMt niun ' I All Aur npnnfa pdiirat.A1 - aMj 1 1 Srhfml. & w nrp unam-asl k.. on Community Service, wherebv ffl?i woman who craves the sacred pririW in greatest need to render her tu E LOCKE CRAIG, Governor. Have the Best and alive. DR. J. G. CRUTCHFIELD, DENTIST. Office over Bank o Randolph Phone 28 - Asheboro, N. C. Children Ory FOX FLETCHER'S CAS-TQBIA
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