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COLLOVHEE NORtlAL
A SCHOOL OF MERIT
DESTINED TO BE LEADING f ACTOR IN
REGENERATION OF WESTERN
NORTH CAROLINA t
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To the Editor: Since - cotoihg to
Jackson count last fall it lias been
my pleasure tv visit Cullowhee sev
eral times and note with pride whal
is being accomplished there. The
school has ten well prepared teach
ers. Prof. A. C. Reynolds, formerly
county superintendent of Buncombe
county, is the very efficient princi
pal and professor of pedagogy. The
school is the largest now in its his
tory, having enrolled approximately
two hundred students, the larger
majority of whom are boarding stu
dents. Nearly all of these, young
men and women expect to teach.
Many of them have already; taught
one or more terms of public school.
The State most have invested in
building something like $50,000.
There are three splendid , buildings.
One of tiese is a girls dormitory
which accomodates perhaps 125
young ladies. ;
In the old administration build
ing is a well equipped auditorium
which is seated with open chairs
and seats 600 people. A new ad
ministration building is nearing
cbinpietion wihch will . cost about
$25,000. In this new building there
are seventeen tjlaslsrms
hall accomodating two hundred pu
ifflscieljiilsSon
floor wSbe Ifitted s trp a "modern
library and reading "room. Just
at this time the school and vicinity
are taxed to their utmost to provide
boarding facilities for the students.
This school is located in an ideal
community. '.Towering mountains
surround it in every direction. In
the village is a Baptist and Meth
odist church. The school has a
splendid faculty and well organized
departments Courses in domestic
science and agriculture are. given.
Ail pupils are taught drawing. A
department of music is ' also pro-
vided. Ihe agricultural course
is '
conducted hv rroi. crown, w
lio ,
graduated a few years ago from the
North Carolina College of Agricul
ture and 1 Mechanic Arts. Prof.
Brown was reared near by is one of
the progressive farmers of the coun
ty. He gives special attention to
training teachers to teach agricul
ture in the public schools.
This school is destined to be the
leading factor in the regeneration
of Western North Carolina. Each
year sees, the school given new and
largei usefulness. There is no rea
son why this school within a very
years should not be made a college
by the State, Perhap there is not
a school in the State with a larger
sphere of usefulness and I - doubt if
and school in the State collects -a
student body possessing more latent
talent than Cullowhee. These young
people all have strong bodies and
vigorous minds and are the purest '
AHWQwnn hlnnd on thft face-of i
the earth. ' , ; " ; .. '. ."- ;
This is one of the schools of
auh StAtft mkv well be
justly proud. Jt W : I The buildimi is a
Jackson county is one : of the State and a monument to the busi-
. wU,oo oWiitv of those who have the
mnst nroeressive counuca -ui uic
State educationally. But Cullowhee
tw ii -twW
receives
r xtw n r An tiiA 1
bnUdings are steam .Heated, ard
lihtod with electiicitvP-Tias. ril
Uaey,inNews.andObserye;r ;
MAT CULLOWHEE
MEANS TO L N. C.
. The excellent ai tide on the Cul
lowhee Normal and Industrial
School, written by Prof. Chas. H.
Utterly for the News and "Observer
and copied in in this week's issue
of the Journal, reached bur desk at
an opportune time, for it was the
purpose of the Journal to devote
part of its space this week to Cul
lowhee and the great wort that is
being done at that institution. -
However, we feel that Prof, Utley
has told better than we shall be
able to do, the story of Cullowhee
and the high place that institution,
its faculty, and its students hold in
the esteem of the people of West
ern North Carolina.
The Cullowhee Normal and In
dustrial School is located in one of
the most favored portions of Jack
s )n County", where the waters )f
Cullowhee creek join those of the
Tuckaseigee in their tortuous, tire
less journey through the hills to
ward the "Father of Waters," and
where the fertile valleys, as rich as
.any in the State, are surrounded by
towering mountains. The township
is one of the best agricultural sec
tions of Jackson, having great na
tural advantages for farming the
people of Cullowhee have improved
them and made great advancement
along t;he lines of scientific agricul
ture. The people are happy and
prosperous and with the school as a
center the community is taking on
new life, is reaching out for larger
The school buildings are situated
on a lovely elevation overlooking
the limpid waters of the winding
Tuckaseigee, 2250 feet above the
level of the sea and commanding a
view of the beauty and grandure of
the surrounding hills and plains.
The girl's dormitory, or Da vies
Home, is one of the newer buildings
and furnishes admirable accomo
dations for some 125 young ladies. I county. The department of music
In the old administration building is under the; efficient direction of
is the auditorium, with a seating i ivjrs Mary Carter Brinson. . Miss
capacity of 600. The new adminis- ( Charlotte Young is doing an excel
tration building has just been com- ient work in the department of Do-
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pieteu anu me recuauon rooms are
now being used, is well constructed
of first class brick and concrete
asbestos slate roofing. In the entir
stiucture t lere is not a foot of
wasted or unutilized space. The
basement is to be used for physical
and chemical laboratories and for
baths for the students. The floors
of these rooms are concrete and tho
rooms are well supplied with run
ning water making them especially
adapted to laboratory purposes.
On the first floor are two admin
istration offices and five well light
ed and well ventilated recitation or
class rooms.
The second floor has four class
rooms the same as those on the
first and also has two society halls
with library rooms for each.
Even the attic is turned to a good
purpose, the whole of it being made
into Y. M. C. A. hall and lecture
course room.
Itwiu uc ucaicu uy otui um
every room is supplied with an
! emergency flue to guard against
a y mishap toithe heating plant.
construction in charge. For we are
of the opinion that in this buUtogjson u
cot hni realized more for the
money Rested than in -y bu
it has ever erected lor anyurpu.aex .
'The school has, iti-wn. hedtirigf
oivyiARCH: 13, 1914
plant, the buildms are lighted with
electric current generated at its
own dynamo on the Tuckaseigee
river; r ,is sullied with pure,
clear, fres ae in superabund
ance from the sch&l's own reservoir
in the nearby . mountains. As it
stands today, the State's educrtion-
' r"!V.T'.
ai plant at Cullowhee has
proximately $50$Q6.
cost ap-
Cullowhee has been a most potent
lector in the edujltional campaign
in the mountains! Here a host of
young men and wmen have been
prepare4!toraiend;have gone
forth to spread f tKe gospel of en
lightenment allifver this section
and even to piednjont rnd eastern
Carolina. Day 4ay Cullowhee
has been growinind extending the
sphere o r its influince until it is felt
in every cove anftjon every creek
in North Carolina'airAppalachia.
The faculty oM?the Cullowhee
school is one of th strongest, if not
the strongest, offfthe secondary
schools in the State and would do
credit to any college.. Prof. A. C
Reynolds, formerly superintendent
of public instruction of Buncombe
county, is the principal, and holds
the chair of Educiion;;Prof. L. B.
Abernethy has the" chair of Mathe
matics; Prof. O. S. Dean that of
English; Prof. H. B;r Jones of Latin,
Prof. E. H. Stillweftjof History; Prof.
Frank A. Brown neulture and
Prof. J. N. Wilsoti Bursar and has
the chair of Ciys , and . Spelling.
These gentlemenejflnbj introduc
tion to the peopl&lhejjare known
all over the wS"r;art of the
State as instructpMbiMii fiist rate
abilrty,ch:nnelgp
hilin
the minds of the, students but are
moulders of character instilling into
the young people 'the things that
are more necessary than mere
knowledge of worldly; things. Prof.
Reynolds, Prof. Dean, ProL Abei
nethy and Prof. Jones have come
to us from other counties and aside
from the Work they are doing in the
school are invaluable as citizens of
mestic Science,
At Cullowhee the trustees and
the faculty realize the necessity of
looking after the development of
, tne bodies of the students as well
as their minds and an athletic field
of six acres-has been prepared, con
taining nine tennis courts, a base
ball ground, a basket ball court and
a race track. All the young folks
at Cullowhee take a keen interest
in athletics and every afternoon,
when the weather permits you will
find nearly the whole student body
on the athletic field.
Of the student body Prof, Rey
nolds says, "We have the best body
of students with whom it has been
my privilege to work."
For a Normal school for Western
North Carolina the Cullowhee school
is admirably located, being in the
center of Jackson and Jitakson is
the central county of the western
group. Cullowhee is only 7 miles
from the railroad and there is being
completed a magnifice it sand-clay
highway from the railioad at Sylva
to the school Cullowhee is a most
important element in the .cause .01
education and progress in the moun
tains MThft aiding star of Edeca-
t jon in the west" Around her Jiick-
Jackson county she is a vitalneces-
ft
REASONS FOR THE
FARM LIFE SCHOOL
In this age of keen competition
men and women are educated for
every line of activity. Schools are,
nearly as old as the race. Training
schools are nothing new. But not
training schools for farmers, the
real food producers for all the world.
But teachers, preachers, lawyers,
doctors, salesmen, telegraph oper
ators, mechanics and many others
have been provided for by regular
training schools lor generations.
While the farmers and the ones who
prepare the food and keep the home
have been overlooked or neglected.
ON URGENT NEED.
The food supply is too short The
corn crib and smoke house are about
to fail. The butchers find it hard to
get beef. The grocer has daily calls
for eggs and butter at fancy prices
but his supply will not meet the de
mands. Eaters are in excess of the
producers, or the methods of pro
duction are too antiqaated to keep
pace with the ever increasing de
mands. Scientific methods have been
introduced and adopted in every line
of activity more than in the produc
tion of the raw materials for feed
ing and clothing the race. Methods
must change or want and suffering
finally come.
THE PRODUCERS MUST BE
EDUCATE!!
The farms have lost their virgin
richness. Crops are failing for Want
of better and more scientific cuiti
ing hadan adage that when a man
does not have sense enough to , do
anything else, he can farm." This
idea sent many a man into some
so called learned profession to live
hard and die poor, when he could
have been a leading producer teas
ing treasures from mother earth.
That idea has made the world poor
er. We now know better, we pre be
gining to learn that many young men
turn their backs on the form be
cause they do not know any better,
the educated farmer.
The world is about to recognize
the fact that we all sit at the farm
ers table, and feed our stock from
his barn. If he fails we go hungry.
If he succeeds we have plenty. And
we are about to learn that the farm
er c in do a much better business if
conducted along scientific lines than
he has heretofore. In fact if he has
managed to feed us all and keep his
head above water what will he do
when provided with agricultural
schools teaching him every fine of
agricultural science and stock rais
ing. He deserves to be made a prince
among men.
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE WILL
BRING RESULTS.
In every profession this fact has
been clearly proven a thousand
cimes. In thousands of tests with
every known crop the same prmci-
L, wnnd ' Honht 1
yic ua3 s " .
' Knowledge is power" as certainly
in the corn field, in the garden, in
the cow lot; and poultry yard as
any where in the world; Too long
dready this knowledge has been
neglected But this is a new era day
has come and we are about to wake
up. Real work lies ahead of us. only
the wide awake well preparee,upto
date in make up and method can
cope with the problems ahead of lis.
THE WORIS GREATEST
. ' . AKIlST. '
Not with pen, "brush, or chiiel
$1.00 THE YEAR IN ADVANCE
marble but this artist who keeps
th& world young and beautiful paints
rosy cheeks on childhood's laughing
face, and puts manly vigor into man
hood's frame of flesh. She keeps the
worlds workers, old and young, well
and strong, or sickly and weak. The
cook in the kitchen is the dynamo
of the family and the farm. Skill,
she needs, the highest and best the
food she prepares makes us happy
and sends us to work singing, glad
to be alive and face the worH with
strong hearts and clear brains or
or give us indigestion, the blues
steals thei smiles away, kills song
and the puny, sickly, underfed, but
gorged on indigestible poorly pre
pared food, wants to commit suicide.
The cook stove not the piano is the
real music box. Skill in the fingers
that make the bread mean much
more than the skill that can tease
harmonies from the key board of the
piano. Bad cooking heads the list,
according to good authority, as the
cause of divorce in the courts of
the United States, all honor we say
then to that artist who prepares our
food, sets the table keeps the home
and then a "side line" rears- the
coming generation, in health' for
manhood's strenuous life or ignorant
sends the little infant to an eayrl
grave and persuades herself to be
consoled by a platitude of that
ancient patriarch of patience, ; Job.
"The Lord gave and the Lord hath
taken away, blessed be the nanie of
the Lord." ;
Let no one think, doctor, lawyer,
preacher, engineer, teacher, anybody
needs scientific correct r training
M mm m mm rnrmm. m .MM I I . m a n m m m m- W V
destroyer give, herthe b&tossible,
-, Chas. H. Utley
DELIGHTFUL
ENTERRAINMENT
AT THE CULLOWHhE NORMAL AND
INDUSTRIAL
On Monday evening of this week
the departments of Music and Eng
lish gave'the second of a series of
literary-musical entertainments. The
evening was pronounced a decided
success by all who attended. The
program follows.
"Interpretation of Robert Brown
ing" Mr. F. L. Wells.
"Prelude in D. Flat" (Chopin) Miss
Kathleen Conroy.
"The Death of the Flowers" (Bry
ant) Miss Edna Coward.
"The Song of the Cattahoochee"
(Lanier) Miss Bettie Snyder.
"Gypsy Rondo" (Haydn) Misses
Gibbs and Howell and Mrs. Brinson.
"Selections from John Charles
McNiel, Mr. T. W. Bird.
"Doan ye Cry, Ma Honey" Messrs
Brinson, Picklesimer, ; Wood and
Hardin.
"Annabel Lee" (Poe) Mr. Conley
Rich,
"The Butterfly" (LaVallee) Miss
Kaeen(nroy. . ,
Epch Arden"(Tennyson) Piof-
essnr Dean, assisted hv Mt Rrinr
at the piano.
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THE BOONE-
The citizens ?.of. Jackson conny
and surrounding ' counties j should
not forget the debate betWMn fhiliw
whee and BooneFriday -tach 20
This promises io hebir$he most
Interesting and exciting;, occssiona
nf the ivear. ? i?fTfind HKntA -
dmeiijexpectedlja
date March 20th. .
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