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THE MOKCOE JOIRAAL, FRIDAY, JAMAHY 14. 1WI
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Rich Beyond Measure in Wealth and Natural Resources
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We Are Unable to Meet Our Obligations to Our Boys and Girls in Higher Education
AT THE OPENING OF THE 1920-21 SESSION OF THE
COLLEGES OF NORTH CAROLINA
11,808 Boys and Girls
Sought Enrollment
ONLY 9,500 OF THESE COULD BE ADMITTED
For 2,308 There Were
No Accomodations!
The following' tablo tells the story more graphically than
words could ever paint it the story of North Carolina's desper
ate need of far greater equipment to provide higher education for
her youth.
The numbers opposite each college represent the
boys and girls tor whom there was no room whose
hopes for higher educational training were shat
tered! Normal and Collegiate (Ashcvillc). 300
Flora Macdonald
St. Marv's
205
200
North Carolina Stale College for Women 230
North Carolina State A. & h
100
Salem Female College 300
Wake Forest.
40
Meredith 100
(Ircenboro College for Women 100
Davidson College 175
University of North Carolina 250
Eastern North Carolina Training School 40
Trinity 75
(JuiU'ord - 10
Elon 4'
Kutherford - 50
Weaver - - 10
Cullowhce 12
Oxford 40
Louisburg 10
Queens 144
Davenport 71
Mitchell 22
TOTAL- 2,308
SUM TOTAL Approximately ONE OUT OF EVERY FIVE
OF THE vouth of our State seeking higher educational training
was this vear UNABLE TO FIND IT!
Mon and women of North Carolina mothers anil fathers of the rising feneration ; young men and women
who have been fortunate in the possession of every educational advantage; the youth who are now enjoying
the advantages of higher educational training we must faee the facts! Our State cannot meet PRKSKN'T
obligations with its equipment for higher education! What of the future! What art" we g !g to do about
it T The responsibility is ours! Let us meet it squarely and fairly!
The story of inadequacy of our institutions to meet
the demands laid upon them is only partially told
in the table opposite. While that table discloses
the startling fact that over '2, 'MX) of our young men
and women are being denied the opportunity of
eollege training, it docs not disclose that the !.")((( J
students are working under the severest handicap
possible tcrrilic crowding! The instances are not
few where these students are packed three and four
to a dormitory room. Can you imagine fruitful
work, comfort or health under such conditions?
Picture for yourself the catastrophe that would
follow an epidemic of disease through one of iheso
institutions now !
And yet not all the story is told. We have con
sidered the present only. What of the future? Five
years ago SCO students graduated from the four
year high schools of the state. Last June there was
'i.O(.H) graduates from these schools, not counting
the considerable number from other high schools.
It is conservatively estimated that within the next
tive years the number will be doubled, or more.
Five years hence there will be at least fi.000 of these
high school graduates. Will we, in the meantime,
provide accomodations for them in the State's insti
tutions of higher education? Or will we sit quietly
by and tell them, in effect, that they are not worth i,
higher education to the State?
Can Red-Blooded North Carolinians Remain Inactive in the
Face of Such a Crisis and Still Boast Patriotism?
We sent our sons into the shambles of war to be
maimed, sacrificed if need be, for the sake of an
ideal, in the name of right and liberty. We paid
richly in both gold and blood. As patriots, we
appeal to you now does North Carolino owe noth
ing to the womanhood for whom they sought?
Let us recall that U0 per cent of our white draft of
the war were illiterate. Perhaps the educational
opportunity is gone for them but what of their
children? Do we owe nothing to them, for the sake
of the past? Fnless North Carolina provides it, she
can offer nothing in the opportunities for citizenship
that higher education affords!
OUR STATE INSTITUTIONS ARE ASKING YOU FOR $18,000,000 FOR A BUILD
ING PROGRAM EXTENDING OVER SIX YEARS
Will we give it? Can we refuse it! In the 250 years
of our proud existence as a State we have spent just
1 -l,OOS,771 in equipping our state institutions of
higher education! We have pleaded poverty! But
lire we poor? Last year we produced over 700,000
000 of agricultural products alone, and paid into
the federal treasury over $160,000,000 in federal
taxes. We spent o",000.000 for new automobiles
just TWICK the amount asked for higher educa
tional needs over n period of SIX years and 20,
000,000 for gasoline and upkeep of the automobiles
we already had! Poor? The man or woman who
would plead poverty as a bar to educational expen
ditures in North Carolina should be denied the priv
ileges of citizenship! We are the purest-blooded
American State in the Union. Can we match that
blood with pride, with high ideals, with a realizing
sense of our obligations? If we can, our institutions
will get the 18,000,000 asked and more!
But they will NOT get it unless you men and women
of North Carolina DEMAND it! And you can de
mand it as YOUR OWN, not a gift passed out re
luctantly by a benefactor. Too often the hue and
cry has been raised that, "nothing can be done, the
politicians control the State." That is the biggest
"bogy" North Carolinians ever faced. The politi
cians if there really be such in North Carolina
are powerless before YOl'R will! The State is
yours; its institutions are yours; and the opportun
ities that will be presented to your boys and girls
. their future are dependent upon 'the State's
policy. towards its institutions of higher education
as YOU dictate them! The members of the (Ieneral
Assembly are YOl'R representatives; they are Dot
dictators. Make known to them your desires in the
matter and see how quickly they respond. That is
their will to do yours! Face the facts: If the
next (Ieneral Assembly fails to provide higher edu
cational equipment for your youth, blame vonr-sclves!
THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS PAID FOR BY MEN AND WOMEN OF THE STATE
WHOSE ONLY INTEREST IS TO BE OF SERVICE TO NORTH CAROLINA.
Greater State Educational Institutions Movement
JOHN R. PURSER,
Treasurer and Chairman Finance Committee
1 CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Are Our Boys and Girls Worth $18,000,000 to the Future?
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