. •
; ■ i.ym
ff.it
lOanes Pot Tar Heels to Shame
In Way of HandKng Schools
Wow ralWrhtaniaant la a
full
Tkq
Illitaraey to pmtkalljr on
to thia country, a fact which
out to groat contrast with owr
•W» atau of North Carolina which
haa an much of that dua<toatot
blight Aa tfcto to writtaa thar*
mm ta mUS aa
af cm own atata
ttea 27 of tha declaration of richta
ton tha right ta tha
priTftosa ft adoeatkm aad H to
Arty of tha atata ta gaan
tain that right."
BHtaracy L'ahaowa to
That daclarntiaa to at toaat a half
! ita priaeipto to
lUtr to North Carolina. Bat
M atata still
army of native bora who
aotthar read nor writa thalr nai
Til* Dimni cannot
agty fact.
rery long ifo that the late Gorernor
Ajrrock thanked God far South Caro
lina because H kept his state from
being at the bottoai of the educa
tional Hat.
Laugh at Our Complatsary.
The extent of literacy In Denmark,
• conntit utional monarchy, p a t a
Democratic North Carolina to ahame
not only in thia reapact hat in the
Matter of length of achooi term, the
careful preparation of pensioning
oar teachers, and general intereat in
education and other enlightening and
cultural agencies. Denmark's com
pnlaory achooi attendance legislation
ia nearly a century and a quarter
eld. Such legialation in the United
States ia only 75 years old, and in the
•oath It is only 25. In at leaat one
southern state. Mlssiaeippi. it ia only
aeren years old; and in our own state
mt North Carolina thia kind of law
la juat It years old—the age, by the
way. when a slip of a home grown
and untrained girl may legally take
charge at a school ia that state 1
North Carolina's complacent in
difference tp or digniAad li|issm!i
hi the Mot of illiteracy on oar ctrill
w«li«> Ir a rsprsaeh whioh 9* ean
mA, laughs at «-«itk our boast
hi
only half m|
•t
United Htatea aa at
ha to rawindad that!
an Engttah-epeakinf Dane,
tteal wizard who Rata hie information !
Hirta. The fact waa|
■a it I
laat Hummer hi
from the atate department of
tion hi Kalahrh.
That atatement
vary etrilrinc in at
ft waa noted that North Carolina with |
•00.000 aehooi children
tfjMO laaehara apenda only ahoat
122.000.000 for their education Iowa
with 700,000 children and TJflM
tearhara apenda |d^H.M far their
ia one of tha
with North
CaroMaa. ana of tha original It Tha
thonghtfai Dana aaailea at thia kind
of information and aaka for aa as
ar efty
or profeaaora of education hi North
Carolina can accommodate tha ta
luirin* Dana with aa aaawerT What'a
•.he anawer of the ctate
-nt of eehoob? Certainly
he
razxled Our Wt>UfilaM>.
From VatMRftsn thm W re
<■entlv com* th* atary that Mr* than
ie-third at th* vfralwMr 2*0,
'•00 children who enter th* first
tradti at th* North Carolina schoole
<-ach year fall to reach the second
frmSe the nut year? "Why?" aak
•d th* statistical vrisard "Why this
waste?" h* asked. WIS mm of th*
100 county superintendents, or of th*
city superintendents. or will th*
state superintendent send tim answer
which has been promised tfcis rariona
Dane, who really doe* net understand
why such a thine should b* allowed
in any country?
School Director A- Foaeing, in
what we in North Carolina would
call th* town hall, was intonated in
these embarrassing facts, thooch he
■shed them with gracious courtesy.
Such educational waste is entirely
unknown in Scandinavia. Its exist
ence in an American state, about
which the Dane* hare recently been
hearing so much, literally bewilders
them. It should shame us in North!
Carolina, and command the serious1
attention of thoee interested ir the!
much heralded program of economy, j
! The visitor is impressed at once
with such educational contrasts
when he begins a study here. Well
'rained and somewhat nature teach
er* contrast vividly with1 our poorly
trained and immature ones. We prob
| sbty have in the United State* the
lowest standards for teachers to be
, found anywhere in the civilised
I world, and North Carolina certainly
has not yet advanced beyond that
standard, if indeed it has even yet
[quite reached H. A teaching body In
j Denmark which views tsathing as •
profession contrasts -7ith too many
.teachers in North Carolina (and th*
United States as a whole, far that
) matter) who view education aa a
stepping stone to something aha. A
minimum school tana of more than
,M days in Denmark shsmss the
North Carolina ls«al term of a meag
er 120 days a year. A real compul
sory school law h Denasark appears
strikingly when set up against the
make-believe law of North Carolina.
Almost perfect attendance hi th*
Danish schools makes w ewn North
MM *•
"the
at the beginning of the
ft
•arty i
unsuited to tha climate, white toh
could ba sucresafully nlwi It
10 rtiiMl until coltvnisl policy dklstcd ;
that EngllalUMt Mat Wjr their U
htcco from thf A ffifion colonic in*
Ntaad of growing It l
LM Cenrge Ltfta
la ltl* Lloyd George, then Chan
«Bor of tha Eichaqw, aa part of Wa
Liberal free trade campaign rained
the embargfe, and in 1ft I, ka
to repreaentatioaa made by wonld-bel
tobacco growers—there waa a treat j
tobacco "war" an at
Liberal Gn >11 ianaa« giaated a rebate
»f one-third of tha
rloty to Elfliih grower*. Cultivation I
araa taken up in rarhw district*, and |
by 1913 mm 14*
ruKtvation. In that year, however, {
I.iberal objections to tariffs and re
bataa reached in the withdrawal of
the rebate aad a grant from the De
velopment Commiaeion was ■ahatitu
ted. But thw rlmiclMri tobtcco
ttOa Instead of incraaaing it, i
in* the war tha Induatiy feU <
it was regarded as by na ai
"esaentlal" wartime trade far tha em
ployment of England's diminishing
Since tha war there has been a re
viral, although tobacco is only grown ]
in two counties, Hampahire and Nor
folk, Mr. Brandon In tha first-named
county being the leading giuwsr. Tha
preferential rates granted by the
Baldwin Government to empire grown
tobacco apply to tha English crop and
provided mm little stimulus, bat it te
pointed oat that colonial tahacco can
still ba grown at lower coat, owing to
prevailing wage acalea in England.
Brandon, however, is campaigning
for definite Government recognition
of the tobacco-growing industry, and
he coatend* that a measure of effec
tive protection for a period of year*
would *aa the industry once more
firmly established in this country. He
points to the good results which have
come tram the policy adopted toward
Migar-beet cultivation, and suggests
that Government aasistanaa to tobac
-o growing would give a good deal of
fresh employment without entailing
in the course of ha yews any appre
ciable tea* of revenue to the Exche
quer. .
Knuliafc Loaf Well LiM
At Church Crookluim, Brandon has
had ten arm under culthration thl*
vear, and he expects to Increase hi*
acreage next season. The greater
part of the Hampshire crop la now
uaod. without any addition of foreign
grown tobacco, far brand* of riprrt
and pipe tobacco, which are quite
popular with those who know them.
Manufacturers who purehaae the dried
leaf have reported overwhelming in
quiriee for tMa English tobacco, and
thejr agree that there to • stable mar
ket for supplies.
Other agrlculturtoU who ton hith
erto derated their acraatf* to hope
are contomplath* trying tobacco, and
: | — * nliMaat . 0 M1 „ i - — 4
it It pOMfflP QMt, flW MuTKWR
may once wore
haeco growing
enough to supply
frnif (nitiMi af tha county b» chnaaa ,
to try tha tkraa Mnted la orda*
hut thay may to |hwi a "fair aad
impartial" trial.
*4 ttoy coald not obtain lipartial
InatiM bafor* a jury at Statoa coun
ty mm. It ww pnititad oat ttot
ttora Is Mt a Jam la tto emrftaaa at
Stotoa county at tha pnwnt thaa and
thin was ritad aa a raaaoa to tolfer*
that the atmoaphar* In thia county la
not what n.ljrht ba tiinaad "healthy"
for Jew*. or eaan other faraicner*.
Tto SaflMta. aim did baainaaa at Kiitf
for a abort tim*. war* tha only ara
hara of their race In tha enoaty at
that tima, aAdartto atatad, aad at bar
affidavit* taw dad to ihow that Gamtila
merrhanta in Kinc wan entiaialy
unfriendly to tto Jawi who war* than
runninf a large ator* thara.
In the affidavits heard by Jodge
Brock vm the Ant indication that
the dtfmu eMHtl wfU likely 1*7
1« prove that the «tor» wu burned
hy ani who were iirtinrtal hi
running the Sameta oat of tiuainna
and that tha Sameta, norther tha
father nor tha aon nor brother, had
anything to do with it at all. Peei
ng which was represented aa being
xtramsty bnotila to tha garnets was
'.ho principal plan of attorneys.
J odea Brock said ha d>dnt aaa
how anybody could mistske Attorney
J. H. Fol**r. of Mount Airy, far a
Jaw. hot Mr. Foliar made affidant
to tha fact that cartel* Daf resi
danta had that idaa in Mind and that
apoa a cartain occasion thcra. whan
ha wa. in conversation with a Mr.
Pulliam in front of a drug ■tore, ho
waa told later by a friend that* ha
had boan in dancer of www aaaanlt
if not death itaolf until hia identity
waa learned. Mr. Pulliam testified
upon the witness stand that Dr. G E.
Stone interrupted hia conversation
with Mr. Polger to inqsin who tha
latter waa, and that another man.
Early Moser, who paaaod ap and
down tha sidewalk in front of Mr.
Polger several times while they war*
in conversation, told Mr. Pulliam that
he (Moeer) was trying to "catch tha
-ye" of Mr. Pulliaai to tell him that
Mr. Polger came there with Max
garnet. Mr. Polgar's affidavit sat
forth his own suspicions of tha two
men who passed hack and forth, and
the Mount Airy lawyer sworn that ha
hought they were trying to cdtch
portions of the conversation ha was
having with Mr. PnDiaa. Upon a
later occasion. Mr. Paige's affidavit
declared, he and Mas Samet, paaaing
through King an route from Greens
boro, stopped at a filling station
and that a crowd quickly gathered
there and that it was very evident
that they harbored ill feeling toward
Samet.
Waal &-Months' Tarm Submit
ted to Poopfe.
Charlotte. Oct. 24.— Resolutions
were tdoptod hare today at the clos
ing wiilon of th« annual convention
Of the South Piedmont district of the
North Carolina Teachar's Asaociati—
railing upon the 1M7 Lafkistsn to
submit an amendasent to the consti
tution providing for an eight months
dam of the people. The pgiswt mbi-,
•mum term Is sis months.
• ' '
In ths Atlantic Ocsaa only two,
placas are known to azoasd >4,000
feat ia depth, the deepest spot being
27J7* feet, north o| Wart ladiaa.
'n the Pacific, hswisi, a spot U.
«M fact deep has haaa found off ths
soathwaat coast of a pan. Wsahais
<*ise has a depth grmlsr than 90,000
feet heea tamA'
Alan
prison reform," mji Dr.
"It la Mt my pur-pew, in tkii aw
ita at capital puniahment, mnr to con
rlone or condemn the practice, how
rvar, I bdl>w that to a f*w yeara it
win ha a thine a# the put, ao far aa
North Carolina ia nrnnnMi
"tot itm* tka lawa of on
inflict the death penalty an
fntmd guilt; of capital offanaaa. It
am writing tMa to maka a piaa far
a awre humane method of lata! as
"it n not th* object of the I
to inflict bodily pain upon a
that to Mil
■wM to tto ideal
idea is to rid mcMt if aoch u im j
naia, ami by «• doing toU up an es
tsipW to tto vmU to perpetrator of
flaw. We often shudder wton
•htnfc of tto brutal coatom of behead
nc, aa practiced in mm af tto Baro
* doee *em mmt brutal and I
thirsty, tot, brutal aa it may
it la far i
>do of asacutian uiactkod in
•
ly chopped off. death ia
because tto centre of perception ia
w»w»d from tto tody. There la ao
"When a Man ia hanged, at do not
know bow long to might raaaln con
scious. Tto neck ia not aNrayi broken j
wton tto trap ia sprang, in which case;
daath finally rasalts froa
lation, which may take several
utes. And even if tto neck to brok
en, wa knew that men with broken
necks, have lived and rwimrf con
ariooa for days, and even years.
Death by straagnlntion on tto gal
lows most to one of intenae human
suffering and indescribable agony.
"Electrocution My to a Uttle morei
humane. Bat every time I read of
an electrocution at our State Capital,
I am made to shudder. We rand of
tto priaoner being brought to tto
death chamber and placed in the
chair. He is strapped hand and^foot
until to can not move. Tto electrodes
are applied. Tto switch ia turned.
We rend of tto rigors and contrac
tion* of tto moactes of tto poor con- |
demned body, of tto odor of burning
human flesh. The switch is turned
off, tto heart is still banting. Tto
current ia turned on again, and some- j
times again, and in from three to five
minutes tto priaoa physician .pro.
nouncea the victim dead. I say vic
tim, because he ia a victim of one o« j
the moat barbarous
practiced by a civilised
"New I do net know,
any one else know, just how long a
man might remain conaciow after
*uch a current of elasticity ia aant
Into hia tody. Expert opinion ma)
■ay that consciousness ia loot tto
TRAINLOAD OF WATCS
SENT TO ASHCaOHO
Hick Fmmt W»
• to uptriU a traia of IS cm to
tilMkon daily until the water •bort
«a to ntimrad.
*i npplr of watar to tow,
half mooch watar betn« avail.
ttO.OOO and SOO/MW gallons of
To ton a nrikteat quantity evan for
conservative aw, 100,000
must be supplied daily fraa
than local tMrcn. High Paint to
preparad to (fro this supply of 19C,
in the
relief.
made to oparata a ipirial traia
here to Aitoton each day.
Mayor McCrary aaid there
boro'i water ahad to fhra
*nd the iltuation to the worat
the town's history.
A. L. Armeed %• Sm Far
Omm|m Far Killa* at Sm
NashvJUe. Oct. a.—It ha. bean mm
thoritativety given oat here. accord
in* to the Nashville Graphic, that
Rot. A. L. Ormond, Methodist minis
ter of this place, win brine "it for
>huri against W. B. Cote for tha
killing of hi* son. W. W. Ormond.
The writ will he brought hi Wake
couaty and will ha broacht by the
local minister hi hia capacity aa a4
of his son whom Cote
iriy in August, being
by a Uaioa comity
lory.
Just when the si—iw wfl] ha ia
Cate baa not basa 4s
hat It is qaKa ;
W
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