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-Hickory VOL. I, NO. 135 URGE SIX AMENDMENTS TO FEDERAL RESERVE ACT Report of Reserve Board on First Year's Opera tions Declares Act Has Been One of Most Beneficial Ever Passed by Congress. i "y Associated Press.) hington, Feb. 14. Six amend to the federal reserve act were mended to congress today in p,.rt of the federal reserve board ,, tirst full year of operation new banking system. ear's experience in the opera f the federal reserve act" says u .i l it, "has confirmed the board pri'touinl conviction that the is been one of the most benefi ces of legislation ever adopted :, cress. Not only have its fun- principles been fully vin- i but in most details the work ' the measure has been success- I'he amendments recommended i rnr.t national banks to subscribe A' h"'.d stock in banks organized for .-'.Hvial purpose of doing a bank : usiness in foreign countries; ! Ynv.it, with the approval of the . the issue of federal reserve ,,s to Federal Reserve banks eith er ajamst the deposit of commercial , .i'.n r or gold, provided that the gold ... deposited shall count as part of the required reserve bank; K end the acceptance system of ::.e domestic trade so far as it re to documentary acceptances se .;: i ! y shipping documents or ware ...e receipts, covering readily i: le commodities or against the ; . i-e of goods actually sold; iYimit national lanks to estab slices within the city or coun , :. which they are located. i :: ;;t advances to member banks the member banks' secured fr ssury notes or against the de ; -.. of pledge of U. S. government i..r.d.s; ,..:hoiize a wide discretion in the r-.ik.rir of farm loans by nat'ona o that a federal reserve bank rr. .-ht makep roper loans of this kind .. thai a radius of one hundred miles if its place of business whether in i'.i district or another district. "It is believed," says the report, t the enactment of these amend rr.i i.ts will, besides enlarging the use-t.-s uf the national banks, result ', .reatly strengthening the oper i. !. of the federal reserve act, and :r. :e completely realize the purpose :' ts framers." The board announces that it does Tt consider that it can direct the i'Uint'ss operations of federal reserve Kirik in respect to foreign loans, 1 a: that its function is to oversea these bank;. A plea is made in the report of the entrance into the sys tem i if more atate banks and trust "mpanies. In speaking of foreign borrowing ;; the United States the board points that it has received many in ;j.!.es on this subject and has giv- them careful attrition. It has le.uhcd the conclusion, it says, sup ported by legal advice, "that the pur ; for' which goods are sold or ex t rt.-l, r the use to which such -is are ultimately put," does not t:id within its province or jurisdiction. "If." the report add, "the trans--i'ti..r.s which have; given rise to - ft sales or shipments are of .. '..-. commercial nature, if the '.. upm which they rest is such comply with the requirements tre federal reserve act, and if maturity of the loan falls with i t!." limitation of the !w, then the ; i, trier growing out of them, no mat ! Iy whom or for what drawn, may a, will be discounted by federal re- rv.i hanks, and munt be regarded failing within the legitimate t'-r" of their operations. The ' : ra! Reserve act makes no pro- - for collateral bond or stock "ii', or fur the purpose of foreign rnments' obligations by reserve i itmns. Neither such obliga- ' ' therefore, nor loans to member I ( -' ks based thereon, are eligible as I ' ''-'merits for Foreign Reserve !i;r.k. "Trie operation of the reserve sys '' m is a matter of business to be "'.icu-d in accordance with the ' rrn of the reserve act and the reg- ;- on of the board. It is not the ; r ' :r.e of the board to deal with ' M'ms involving international re ' 'i '-hip of the United States, 't for the purpose of restrict "v of extending exportations in one, le. lion or lanother. The eltgibil 'y of paper for reserve banks is de-t-r m ,n'l by considerations which are "id under one set of international ""i.itKship an another; the function '' oassuig upon and dealing in such !; ll" r under these regulations be to the several reserve banks, The hoard, however, believes that the ,i; ''! -ing of the country's export trade at the present time one 'of the "" -t important financial problems i;" which the nation has to deal; '"id it is of the opinion that federal !'" ( rve banks cannot, even if they uM, avoid the responsibility of i'- i t.ing in this process of financing " ';!. legitimately and properly de u,;v's upon them," The board expresses regret that in f.i" states suits have been instU ' '"1 to test the validity of ths pro Sl ioms of the reserve act by which t- may grant certain fiduciary pow 1 1 ( 'o national banks, announces its ' ' ntion to have its counsel inter '''' in these cases any says that w-ry effort will be made to have the 'l''Mtion settled by the supreme court '' an carlv date. It is pointed out that only .'$2 state banks have been uim ittel to the system and 84 others have come in by conversion Into n. tional banks. Requirements Lowered "it is regrettable" continues the "port, "that in not a few states re :rve requirements for state banks 'id trust companies have been ma terially lowered by legislative enact ment since the adoptions of the fed eral reserve act. The only Justin cation for the reduction of the re serve requirements for national anks is the fact that the national banks are members of the Federal reserve system and that the federal reserve banks hold part of the consol idated reserve of the national banks ami are therefore in position to come immediately with all of their re , sources to the support of national : banks m case of necessity or emer- gency." ; On the other hand it is stated, , state banks have reduced their re : serve requirements without the sup ! port of the reserve system. "This" i says the report, "is an element of danger in our banking system, be cause the weakening of the reserves of the state banks and trust com panies makes them more vulnerable in times of emergency ami It ts con ceivable that a situation might arise in the chairs of such state banks and trust companies where they they ; might have to call upon the credit : structure of the national banks and , the Federal Reserve system for sud- port when they would not be entitled to it because they had not contribut ed to the strength of the Federal Re serve system by taking membership in it. The board is giving serious thought to this question and to the action that may be taken to guard agains the consequence of his situa tion.'; This part of the report is concluded with an expression of opinion that the credit resources of the country would be greatly enlarged and ' strengthened with corresponding benefit to business and the people if j state banks and trust companies were ' to enter the system. Money at Ease The report declares that a condition f remarkable ease was the out 1 standing feature of the country's ; money market during the year, it i says that the nation's export trade ; has reached highwater mark, the ! manufacturing in nearly all lines Is active and that it has been the part of wisdom for reserve banks to con ! serve their resources" and hold them i selves in readiness to meet any un expected developments in the situa ! tion." An increase of almost a bill i ion dollars in the combined loans of j national banks in the year and an in I crease of nearly two billion dollars ; are pointed to aspertinent in consid ! ering the situation. "These facts" the report says, ; "would seem to indicate that it is ; proudent to be prepared for a time iwhen the leadership and operations t of the federal reserve bank will be come correspondingly more influen tial." Branch Agencies ! The discount policy of the board during the past year is declared to have been the proper one under the existing circumstances but it is point ed out that as times goes on there will be a disposition to make these rates as nearly equal in all parts of the country as possible. The reserve banks have not been greatly encour aged to indulge in such commercial banking operations as the law per- : mits, open market operations as the j act terms them, the board says, be j cause thereby the danger of infla i tion might have been increased and ! money rates further depressed. More j active participation in such transac tions by reserve banks may be ex pected, in the future. The board, the report announces, is considering the establishment of branch agencies of reserve banks in cities other than those where such banks are located and for the present does not expect to approve the estab lishment of branch reserve banks. The clearing operations of the banks, it says, have proved a success but too few of the banks have taken ad vantage. E COMI (By the Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 14. Prepared ness problems again today held the center in congressional activities, Having conclude hearings on the military question, Chairman Cham berlain and his associates on the sen ate military committee todajj were considering a bill they were to in corporate in the federalization of the national guard. As their work pro gresses, the senate committee pro poses to confer with the house mili tary committee. Chairman Hay of the house com mittee, resumed today work of re drafting the house defense bill to elim inate the continental army ie.iicuic and to place in its stead the plan to federalize state troops. The house submarine cummiucc day began an exhustive inquiry into submarine activity and into an in vestigation of the alleged shortcom ings of American submarines, I Chairman Padgett of the committee i does not believe the naval appropria tion bill will be ready to report to the house before the latter part of May, I The senate committee will wait on the house. A'' Philadelphia judge decides that if a man lends his wile money it is hers. Must have been some one in Philadelphia reckless enough to lend his wife money. Albany Argus. Time works wonders. So would men if they put in 7wRiy-:oar hours each day as time does. PREPAREDNESS AGAIN BEFOR TTEES HICKORY, N. a, MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY UNEMPLOYMENT WILSO DECREASES IN PARIS (By Associated Press.) u"a' rcu- m.Tne number oi men and women in the city of Paris thrown out of employment by the uiiiwmsnea irom 257,435 du ring the battle of thp M tember, 1914, to 79,447 in December, 191., according to official- figure, ' irom me number of unem ployed cards issued to wnvl-mon ,i workingwomen to entitle them to re ceive me allowance to the uncmpioy ed made by the city. ine decreasing number of idle workmen is evidence of the revival of nearly dvtery Parisian industry. The most important of all, the tex tile and clothiner trade in whi -h iVip were 44,333 unemployed March 1st, has now only 29,963 persons out of worK, ot whom 2,5G9 are women. "Unemployed" oards were issued to about 10,000 men and women prac ticing "liberal professions. " The number was reduced only to 3,347 m march and 9,317 in December, show ing that the situation of the mivhnri- ic, the sewing girl and the common laborer is better in compaiv-on than actors out of engagements, artists without customers, etc. House servants uv the worst off. Of about 40,000 idle at the beginning of the year, only l-TODO have found places. This is atr.l'Hun to meas ures of economy in some Parisian fmailies, the breaking up ) ethers and to the fact that many families have left the city fo:- their country homes for the duration of the war. The building grades have come back nearly to normal conditions since there are only about 2,437 men of those trades idle; it is about the normal figure of times of peace. . Women so largely employed in lux ury industries were the " most af fected by the war, but they are rap idly finding new occupations. "I am taking the place of my hus band who is fighting in the Argon ne" said a woman street-oar conduc tor. "Before the war I was seam stress in a big dressmaking estab lishment." There are now 630 wo men taking men's places 6n that line, enabling the company to double the service of the lines in operation last spring. The subways have given places to about 1,500 women. Like the tramway conductors, they wear a jaunty fatigue cap that gives them a military air that everyone accepts as quite appropriate; they are do ing their share. The Paris commission houses lost 48,750 men by the mobilization and took on 27,400 women, mostly wives, sisters or cousins of their mobilized employees. Ten thousand women found places in the Paris postoffices which have lost 20,000 men by the mobilization, The six railway com panies centering in Paris gave place to about 7,000 women, while 2,500 vvere taken in the principal panics. The number of women employed in the national tobacco factories has doubled, while no legs than 150,000 women are employed in different branches of the military equipment and munitions industries. In the handling of machine tools they soon become quite as expert as men and on fine work have a lighter and sur er hand, Their wages ar in most case3 about 8 cents an hour, though in some factories, working by the piece, they earn as nign as iz trances lipu; a day. IS WRECKED BY FIRE (By Associated Press.) Schenectady, N. Y., Feb. 14. The munition plant of the General Elec tric Company was wrecked by fire today. The blaze was extinguished by the company's private fire de partment, and no report was made to the city fire department. Officials of the company withheld all information, TOE READY 10 REPORT (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 14. Captain Bullard, President of the court of in quiry which investigated the explos ion aboard the submarine E2, in which five men were killed, today re ported that the committee was ready tii snhmit. its findings. j Officials believed its conclusion would conform substantially to those of the special board which held that the explosion was due to battery troubles. IJUICK GARAGE TO MOVE INTO NEW QUARTERS SOON TV,o TtmW ftoracft. now located On T ,1 clroof ill mnvo to the n6W i.iiiMinm i-onontlu pnmnleted tor """""'ft S t T Ti lNfo V C Motums and A Li. xvlU- die March 1. This is one of the best i ; tv.Q itir Qnfi tVip carage lUCclUUUB ill m- vijr, " will be as well-equipped as any in tne state. In its new location the Buick Garage people will go after business harder than ever, ana are expecwu v make even a better success of their business. MUNITION PLAN R INQUIRY BEFORE WIN VOTERS OF OHIO (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 14. President Wilson today formally gave his con sent that his name might appear on the official primary ballot of Ohio. In a letter to the secretary of state of Ohio the president stated that he was unwilling to enter a contest for the nomination but was ready to per mit the use of his name in the coming primary in order that the Democrats of Ohio mie'ht exnress tVipir- for president. I he president made known his po sition in order to eomnlv wit tna . - r-j f"- Uhio orimarv law whirli rpmnVpo didates for the party's nomination to make Known their position before February twentv-fifth quires the consent of candidates to make use of their names. The president was officially notified of the law last week, and today he wrote the secretary of state of Ohio letter, ine president said: "I am nclosiner to vou a letter, tho )-"o of which, I dare say, will be quite ob vious. Friends in Ohio have called my attention to section 4954 of the gener al code of Ohio as amended in 1914, nicn regards primary elections, and 'liich also remiires t.ht prmeont - 1 - - - VI candidates for their names tn ha nW- ed on the ballot. "I aecordintrlv takp t.Vip lihortir rW sending you the inclosed letter, by which you will be governed." (By Associated Press.) Washington, February 14. Aban donment of the coast defense type of submarine was recommended by Rear Admiral Grant before the house committee. Limitations of cruising radius, unseaworthiness and other limitations, he said, made it advisable in future to eliminate these classes. MARKETS ;tt?ttt NEW YORK STOCKS (By the Associated Press) New York. Feb. 14. Irregular price chanees marked the renewal of operations today with further activ ity in the metal group, all the leading conners makinc? new hierh records. Mexican Copper, Baldwin Locomotives and Airbrakes were among the ac tive lists. United States Steel was arrai'n Viprivv. Railroad shares were again shunted to the brackground with moderate concessions. COTTON FUTURES (By Associated Press.) New York, FeU 14. The cotton market opened steady at an advance of two to seven points and sold about seven points net higher during the early training, with May work ing up 12.21, and October to 12.40, the market steadied. The market closed steady. Open Close March 11-94 11.94 Mav - 12.17 12.15 July 12.34 12.34 October 12.40 12.36 December 12.50 12.49 HICKORY MARKETS Cotton 12 Wheat $1.50 CHICAGO WHEAT ( By Associated Press. rWrQffn TiVh 14. Wheat develon- ull-ub I x- ed weakness today in the absence of any fresh export business. After opening 3-a to io lower and l-a ad vance, with May at 1.28 3-4 and July at 1.24 1-2, the market sagged nd then advanced au round. THE WEATHER ;utttttrttt::::;::::::::;::;:;-;::::::M::::i;n For North Carolina: Fair and continued cold tonight. Tuesday fair, with slowly rising temperature; strong northerly winds. COMPARATIVE WEATHER Feb. 13, 1916 1915 Minimum -- -- 9- -- 60 62 Minimum -- -- -- 34 2 Mean 47 47 Rainfall . 16 Mr. Charles Costner of Gastonia is in the city. A dancer who is dancing to aid the Belgians is photographed in a cos 4. . v.rVnYVi indicates that she has given the Belgians every stitch she could spare. Louisville Courier Journal. . It takes a rousing aemonswauon to get a small boy out of bed in the early morn. Among the prophets who are pre dicting the end of the war in 1916 is a sprinkling of those who forcast GRANT AGAINST SUBMARINE DEFENDER 14, 1916 TRY BLASTS Dropping- from 60 decrees at 1 o'clock to 34 degrees last nierht at 7 o'clock, the mercury indicated as best it could the state of the weather. It was running some. From shirtwaisst to overcoats m five hours might be the title of the play. And at 7 o clock this morning Weather Observ er Gwin's thermometer recorded 17 degrees above zero. The change in five hours was 26 degrees and in 17 hours it was 43 degrees. The mercury came near running the gamut. But the change was welcome. For several days the weather had been too warm. Grape vines had begun to snow signs of lifej trees were swelling with the sap of SDrine-. and other kinds of vegetation were thriv ing. Violets of course had remained all winter, but they were finding- com pany. Gardeners had begun to get busy, and some radishes and lettuce had been planted. The cold snap will serve to halt trucking and gardening activities for a tew days, and what is better, will prevent the fruit trees from blossom ing forth. A BABY DOOMED A NOI"th Carolina Baby Will Sr.on Die of Tuberculosis Word has just come from an east ern North Carolina town of a mother hopelessly sick from tuberc ilo.-.'s and her three year-old baby who has just contracted the disease from her. The mother, it seems, contracted the dis ease from poverty and the child from her. The physician writes: "If the child could be g-iven a better oppor tunity, he could get well, but the mother's condition, I think, is hope less." In these two sentences arc texts for sermons. The hard cold facts confronting this mother and baby are, first, if their poverty brought them to this condition, they have not funds enough to go to a sanitorium to be cured. Even the minimum cost at the State Sanatorium is a dollar a day. Second, the State Sanatorium is filled to overflowing, and hundreds of consumptives are on the waiting list already. Furthermore, the moth er is in no 'condition to go to a san torium, but should eo to a tuberculo sis hospital. 'lhe state has no such hospital. neither has that particular county. The baby should be rescued but there are no provisions for babies or chil dren at the State Sanatorium, not even an open air school. Hands went up in horror when tne Bollinger baby was permitted to die and it was "sightless and dumb and unhearmg." 'This, not a "defective baby, shut in a world of his own, but a conscious child who is hungry, or sleepy, or cold, or alone; a whoie, sweet, confident baby, a baby with eyes and ears, who clings like a lit tle soldier to the scanty hope of the years." And where are they who de- qlare that a baby should be given a chance to) live? And thev who called a deed done to the Chicago Daby a crime,' BACK FROM CRUISE (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 14. President and Mrs. Wilson arrived at the navy yard on the Mayflower at 6a. m. to day. They did not leave the yacht for the white house until 8 o'clock. MUCH J E WELRY LOCATED AT ASHEVILLE Chief of Police Lentz yesterday re ceived a letter from Chief of Police L. E. Perry of Asheville informing him that a lot of jewelry, some of it handsome, had been located in Asheville, and suggested that the Hickory chief forward a descriptive list of articles stolen in this city. This Mr. Lentz will do, and if anybody cah help him or will forward a descrip tion to Asheville of articles stolen, it might be the means of discover ing some valuable jewelry. The latest big theft in Hickory was last Thanksgiving day when Miss Lillian Wakefield of Lenoir, a teach er at Morganton, was robbed in the station at Hickory. Some handsome articles of jewelry and some clothing were taken from a traveling bag at the depot, and no trace has been found. In the last year several diamond rings, bracelets and other valuables have been reported stolen, and the chief is hopeful that some of the jewelry located in Asheville may be that stolen here. SECRETARY OF WAR STILL UNSETTLED (By the Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 14. (President Wilson reached no decision on whom to appoint as secretary of war while he was on his week-end trip 'down the Potomac, and a successor to Sec retary Garrison may not be named for several days. A medicine glass is merely a sani tary measure. It is a waste of money to advertise for lost friendship. ' COME IN A DAY NORTHERN FRANCE SCENE OF MORE HEAVY FIGHTING Germans Have Advantages in This Section-New British War Loan to Be Issued Soon Allies Spread Out at Saloniki Other War News. (By Associated Press.) Activity on the major war fronts is confined mainly to northern France, the infantry battling being most pro nounced in the Artois district, where the , Germans claim substantial suc cesses. In the Balkans the entente forces ! are reported extending their posi- i tions around Saloniki, concentrating troops as far as the Bulgarian fron tier. In Albania the situation ap pears fixed. Bulgarian troops are said to have penetrated sixteen miles from Avlona, while an Austrian col umn has been reported twenty miles west of Durazzo. The Italians have been in force at Avlona and seem to have also a con siderable body of troops opposing the Austrians in the Durazzo sector. Reports from Athens credit the Turkish government with the inten tion of strongly reinforcing its army on the Tigris, where the British are struggling to force their way to (By the Associated Press) Paris, Feb. 14. Reports of the loss of the French cruiser Admiral Char ner, which was reported to have been sunk by a submarine which was pa trolling the Syrian coast were con firmed today. According to the report received at the French marine, a raft bearing one sailor was picked up in the Med iterranean. The rescued man said the cruiser was sunk on the morning of Febru ary 8. He declared the cruiser was sunk without warning and that the crew had no chance to escape. FRENCH CROISERIBRI LOST WITH CREW : What is Required to Make Hickory's Schools Adequate to Needs of Community If there is a person in Hickory who feels no special concern in the pub lic schools, he should stand some morning on the corner of Fiftennth street and Thirteenth avenue, or at Eighth avenue and Sixth street, and see the children on their way to school. As he sees this army of boys and girls, their faces bright with eagerness and the joy of living, laughing and skipping and playing pranks on one another, he will catch a conception of what a great work the schools have to do. Or if he will go into the school rooms and see the faithful conscienti ous teachers at their work, he will get a new idea, perhaps, of the grave responsibility which rests upon the teachers. Let him go into the First grade and see thel ittle tots at their work, all filled with curiosity, inter est, and the playful spirit of child hood. Let him go into the Fourth or the Fifth grade, each with its fifty or more pupils, and observe the fun loving, mischief -making activities of these boys and girls. Let him go in-, to the Eighth or Ninth grade, each with its fifty or more pupils, and see what a task it is to control and guide properly the activities of these pupils. Will Have Understanding Any one who will do this will have a clearer understanding of the pa tience, tact and firmness required of the teacher. He will realize some thing of the greatness of the work and of the stress and strain on the teacher. And he will be the more willing to provide the things nece sary for successful school work. But the fact is that every body in Hickory is deeply interested in the work of the schools. They take pride in the fine record the schools have been making. They are highly pleas ed with the excellent work which the teachers have been doing. They are proud of the fine attendance, the high standing at the University, at i the different colleges, and at profes ! sional schools taken by the pupils of the city schools, and of the lead ' ing position taken in competitive , tests. j More Teachers Needed- j But if this record is to be main tained, more teachers are needed. It is impossible for a techer with fifty pupils to do as much work and as thorough work as she could do with ! thirty-five pupils. For the year 19 14 the average for all the graded . schools in the state was an enrollment of forty pupils to each teacher, and jan average daily attendance of thir Price Two Cent3 Kut-ELAmara to releive their forces there. Formidable numbers, it is said, are being sent to Mesopotamia in an effort to forestall a juncture. Recent Turkish official reports have indicated no important change at Kut-ELAmara, ut the latest one reports that a force of irregular Arabs' were active along the line of British communications. Military observers in Petrograd and elsewhere have pointed out there possibilities )of the Russian opera tions in the Causasus being linked up with the British along the Tigris. Whether this proposed increase is designed to prevent a juncture be tween these allies is not known. All single men of military age in Great Britain, who have not been ex empted, were called to the colors in an official proclamation today. It is officially stated that the next war credit vote in Great Britain will amount to 250,000,000 pounds, bring ing up the total war loan to 1,912, 000,000 pounds sterling. TISH CRUISER STRIKES A E (By Associated Press.) London, Feb. 14. The British cruiser Arathusa struck a mine to day off the east coast of England, ac cording to a statement issued by the British press bureau.. It is feared the vessel will be a total loss. The Arathusa was a light cruiser. The vessel was built in 1913-14. She was armed with two six-inch guns fore and aft, and six four-inch guns on the broad side. She was also equipped with four 21-inch torpedo tubes. ty-one. The average length of school term was eight and a half months. In the schools of Hickory the avti -age enrollment for each teacher is forty-four, with a daily attendance of thirty-seven, and the school term is eight months. Any one can see how the schools of Hickory are handi capped. High School Imperative There is imperative need for an other building for the high school grades .There should be rooms equip ped for work in domestic science for the girls, and for work in physics and chemistry for the boys. One boy in the Hickory schools a few years ago became interested in the study of electricity. Since that time he has taken full and complete course in electrical engineering. Who knows what posibilities lie wrapped up in j some one of these boys in Hickory. ! The peonle of Hickorv arp able to provide better school facilities if they but make up their minds to do so. And they will make up their minds to this effect just as soon as they realize fully the crowded con ditions that exist. Not as Great Here The amount per pupil raised by local taxes for the schools of Hick ory is not as great as that raised by other towns and cities. Other towns in the state raise from twenty-five to fifty per cent more for each pupil than Hickory does. While Hickory ' with a low assessment of property for taxation has a tax levy for ail school purposes of 40c, other towns with a higher valuation of property have a school tax levy of more than 40 cents. Some have a school tax of 45 cents, some 60 cents, and some 65 cents. What is Required If serial bonds should be issued, an additional levy of only a few cents would provide for the interest 'on these bonds and for the payment of one or more bonds each year, a levy of ten cents would be sufficient j to pay the interest on a bond issue J of $30,000, and to pay up and retire I one of these serial bonds each year. It is necessary that something be ; done, and that some steps be taken at once. There are 877 children en rolled in the white schools this year, and 253 in the colored school. This enrollment of 1130 pupils will be in creased next year to 1200 or more. Unless action is taken at once, the opening of school next fall will find the schools in a worse crowded con dition than ever.
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