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-.Satardayv March 23, ?m EDUCATION, CO0 a Fdacadoa to DeWW I. X Cooperation ta Multiply It. and (3) Legation and Good Government - () ta-alMVT. i i on1 Unman IVnjrrMV Plain Tollr AKmit M -- t v.uuVu Jo Promote juu rMii, - - - --rrr , . "WMWtsioo wiuremenia involved I 1 ,' - Reviewing the Work of the legislatures 4. '' A State Highway Commission was -esHhlish. edjwhich should furnish exoert. helo in road bnild- THE Virginia Legislature shall have : to ing and save much money. now wasted, wait to review till ' next ; week, .but , r 5. In '.quite a' large number of , counties-how lords of the North Carolina and South Caro- many -we do not yet know the useless office of - making bodies may now be-briefly exam- county treasurer was r abolished. Other bounties r , : " saving money to the tax payers "'S. Smith Carolina Legislature did not .measure ; by putting officers on a salary basis, r , , . -, , ; u t,iVh standards set forrt in the inaugural 0. tour constitutional amendments which nar- "Pj 0f Governor. Manning,: but it did pass a. rowly. escaped success last year are to be voted on Lr of notable law. " lit adjourning the House again at the next election. Three of these look to fUIjwPsentatires, Speaker James A. Hoyt sum- 1 increasing: local self-government by providing for Vl . . a. iiviMneitt of the Legislature as ;, settling local legislation at hnm in stead nf 1 il. M named uic follows: leavine . , it to: the Legislature, and the fourth , proposed . .... .1:.- i', Ant VtkV- imuitiu , is - ir proviamg emergency judges. "1. A primary u-,- uThe oeople ousht to aoorove these amendments fair. 2. a ...nulsorv education law'thati while not- fr v.r , . t.j .c,w-o c-iipupi4iiiy.vi mciax amenameni aue 10 a afl some ot us naa , J:;wsndcr,tandiiig oe:its provisions. Certainly the 3. A reiormauun nat?nn .. questions at home instead. of having to "wait two But-the attempt iu put v v v. .;..Jf. s : ; .when local questions are left: to the Legislature it ken seriously made weartVare more largely -4. The States eatr the plain people who could appear ctatp Hosn tal for the Insane,- is to he put upon a "7 . toCand theUluct&toeltto .3 f Jr;WPTO' proper Ddsis, j.;.;;;(.:i i; .1,,,. cannot afford long and expensive trips to Raleigh. the policy of g&VK&: a Senator Currin's bill for 'the repeal of the crop- fortunate and tttJlMr by Seriator StednL-so as to J- -S. The hqor . ifefe-aw:ite:p to $250 per work horse in 1916. $200 in generation the turbmg mfm, $150 in-1918, and $100 in 1919-passed theSen- a(,er a ate but was killed in theVHouse-Srgely because- submitted to the people, and submitted m iucn a . . . . trfv..j way that the derision' of:the'jople,Ie.&Ml; j"e! legislation prevented .t. way uidi u c ...i.-..'? i.:,i,.: .tiU -from-getting. attention in the closing liours. In not subject to any f-. matter of child labor legislation the General let us hope that rtMM ft.; Assembly also jnide'a shameful record. Only nine Carolina is concerned, once and for all,, and set- :seaatorst9Kj for humin r;shls against proper-. Vfke House has also' pasiedthe ther.oody -. righti k thker- ' ' ' has not considered, a..bill'prowlto5;;fo.:1ncdca- v - , . inspection of school jaiidrea. . Also a bin yrovia- e Vote on Land Segregation Between ing for the Torrens System. - . m , r The new compulsory education : law provides, j " : .: - - ---- that upon petition of a majority'of the registered fTAHE idea 'of Land Segregation Between 'the voters in any school district, attendance shall be fl --rws maie Tapid progress so rapidas to required of all children between' the age5 of eight JL m t m that the state Farmers' Union and fourteen for four months in the -year. This is , an1 advocates have only to keep up the 6ght certainly a mild measure, and now.that North Car- , anotjier two ''years in order -to have the amend ohna has just tried State-wide compulsory at-" mJit submitted, J' tendance and likes it, we 'hope to see thousands ; It is generally ' believed that the'measure would of districts in our sister state avail themselves of-, fave had a majority in' the House, supported as it their new opportunities. . .-. 'J, , h' was by such "actively -interested men as Dr. iR; LI The highly important tax commission .bitle. Carr, Capt. T. W. Mason, Judge Jacob Battle, F. R. are told, "is intended to bring about equality of Mintz Col. Benehan Cameron, F. E.Thomas, J. B. taxation, make those who are not: bearing their Clark, Thomas McBryde, G. R. Kingr J. M. Clay just share of the burden, do so: and relieve those, t0Hj.j. T. Wall,- M. A. Bennett, J. B. Scott, C H. B. who are bearing too much.' ; There "will be a tax Leonard, etc., etc.; but having' been -first- intro commission, headed by a chairman "at $2,500 a year , 'duced in the Senate it was first Toted on there, and two otler members at a per diem.' The're will j.. The ballot there as. we reported in last week's also be a board o review consisting of.orie mem--' Progressive Farmer, was.l to' 17 against granting Der-Ior each congressional district 'J . . . this demand-of the organized .white fanners of The liquor question is to be decided by'a.. vote , North .Carolina, .the'. ballot being as follows:., on the question of state-wide: prohibit! a right to vote on Land September. Here again if South-Carolina wishes S Segregation Between the Races Senators Cahoon t0-iiC?1Sult the Pef ience of North Carolina, she of Pasqnotank,Cooperpf New Hanover, Currin of -wrdinaTprolilbition works wellso well that Granville, Giles, of, McDowell, Harding of Pitt; Ma webewve a majority of those who .voted against Jette of. Tyrrell, McNeeiy of Union, McNider of state prohibition in 1908 would- vote jnst as em- '. Perquimans, McRadcart of Columbus,-Morris of Patically for it if thelssn were submitted to- -CabaTrus, Parker of Johnston, Snow of Wake, ay- -'-.. - - cjv-, rt H"11-fa vpti! of "Wavne. IJodiurch General Assembly, of North Carolina , tLt' " 17- THE Legislature oT-NoHh' Carolina wouni up .' of. Wilkes, .Dixon of Gaston Eiird of Stanly by makins a better record, than ' if at-one Haymore of Surry, Herbert of Clay, McAulay, of 4- &u ! w I m o 1 a I "i r r T T "uie promised to do -The Senate was more Montgomery, jonas oi umum, Prpsive than usJ-.L HouUss W ' ' UHehril MeRae of Mecklenbarg, Miller of W Jne most i .... . - - . mi, f DrQfim P-n-virnn nf Transvlvania. Folk following -siation adopted was.tne- S Bertie Thomson of Ire- 1. state-wide primary bill' for all state offi- vcS arm . . dU Parties the same dav: In a lartre ... . " . . v : - le neoDle are. civen the' se their county officers "and represent -nf Warren. Soewht of Bertie, Thompi d?U, Wad of Craven Weaver of Buncombe. -; It is easy - to see from " an examination of this ballot- that : a majority . of "the . Democratic votes were for the billand' we believe a majorwy oi wie 'ves tut tWrTahM 'PMci wM afco-hare been for it if they H forWdden this prrrilesl The Fbr marv Z I is W appreciated conditions under which-our white ?,ot so Rood as it S1,L71?7.. i ie!.p"?arjr ?lU 'S - thr wiv and families are laboring. In Fm'to 'i'-.ik? vote frotn east. of Dart nf 4i ttiC Bdmc uav Tijrht n . Un?e.s' t00' thc People, are given the atlves, but t forbiddei 'ot so Rood a he Tight- dire r, . ' V A W Jim I II r I T 111 A M .Kk i 1 I . L. fended as to pTovMe to the compulsMy's e Creensboro was for" the, bill. ad from eastern HearKr u I0r nominations by -oetition In ortn varonna iudi . V T" -S- 'efeS: : Carolina east of srd Hamlet ifq ffer msrifr office butbuldTun- Wr-.f a remeay-Cflly four votes were The -ctn . 4 per cent or tne voters. QOt Ss to nroMKV ."""wram.iHw.-.'war. o' amended T1 . "UlaKCV TTt 'JJTIV if oon-ifoi. nannl .. to mcorlorat'6 tax Uwa Pn he fir!i ' ? Si ff?. -lad of IT! the graduated feature; We "are. . I tand Segregation idea shows that the pUn . mherit.n.r "cw Cognition ofdhe "iusticef the a- : is COming and commg tast,nd we.nave vniy iax. -: . . , .. . -:v - v . - i . w tId-TiHtio- tin iyi7.; ror the gentlemen who voted in opposition this time we have no harsh criticism," but they should study conditions before another session and resolve to give the people a chance to right them. Many of them simply did not think public sentiment strong enough to justify ah amendment now; others were simply not informed. As for. the question of con stitutionality the able arguments of Judge Maa- ning and Senator "Majette almost silenced th'e op position on this point : Senator Jonas and Senator Nash both raised the cry that the plan would be unjust to. the Negro, but we don't believe Senator Jonas realized this . fact that while it is true that the Negroes would be'able to segregate but few districts to them selves, most of the land in 'the state would' not be segregated at all, but left as it is now. Certainly .there would be plenty of territory left in which Negroes could buy land. Senator Nash, on the other hand, noble charac ter that he is, throbbed with a chivalrous regard for a weaker race, and for this we honor him. We should be ashamed 'of ourselves if we were in spired in this matter by any bitterness toward the Negro, We are not. . But here is what Senator ; Nash hasn't seen and what he must be made to see I He hasn't seen the great burning issue to .which, alas 1 our comfortable city dwellers are yet largelp" :,4bUnd-nameIy, that ' the disadvantaged "man,-; the-handicapped man, in the rural South to dzy'Ss jiot the Negro who is fast becoming heir tD the most advanced civilization in the most favored portion ' oHihe'i : whole earth, but the really dis advantaged u is , the small white farmer who must, conete' industrially with a race with lower -living standards and who finds his white social life imnnvritbH if 'tint 1mnrJ11 v -Ji jm tir-eril sandwiching of white and Negro homes. These are the people -who, fighting the hard, battles of of our race and of a sorely pressed civiliration are ignored while benevolent people overflow with sympathy for the supposedly down-trodden Negro. Let Senator Nash, and his colleagues persist in their chiyalrons attitude toward the Negro we honor them for it; let them safeguard; the Negro's rights as they may but let them also consider if their chivalrous ' spirit should not also go out to the. white, men and women. . women-nf'oucown. .race an bibodbn all Southern iar ' : Let them consider the case of a sfxTteen-year-old "' schoolgirl ivho rites in a" letter now before me that she(-carmgo' to'-school a mile and a half away because of the Negroes. . Let them consider the case of a dear old whi,te . haired widow lady who will die far from home and -linsfolk'and who writes tnc: . .'.'i. . j:-.:'. :tJll: . M-S-. "Many a man has died and left his wife and children i in very; good circumstances with a little farm- and stock where she and her chil dren conld have stayed and worked and been happy. But for fear of the Negro she would hov trt iiJl nn anA Jeave ir all and cm tn thf . v factory with ' a sad heart and put her darling children to work from daybreak till dark. The .Negro is free and the white child has often be-' come the slave through" fear of. the Negro., Iv' ' myseJf would never have left my home but for ' . this fear' " ' . . Or let them consider this further letter : , This is just to thank you, Mr, roe, tor your work on segregation, through The Progressive t irmerand ; to : beg-you; nor:tobeeary.in: weU-doing hntil something; is accomplished. I am a widow -with a family of little girls. I had to leave my, home when my husband died because it is not safe to live in the country - Willi WJ lLia.ll IU UlC,lllU9t ttilU 11 IJ, nui J4I in mo$t:places for .''little girls to walk alone o . school I am now forced to ;live in a sm ill 1 . rented; house instead of in my own comfpna- -ble home; A Negro lives in my house. I fan hot hold out to work so hard long; then v;hat will become of-my girls? They can bny be clerks, stenographers, or, 'mill : girls, ; an d they have to work so hard and get so little respect. Why won't goboVmen do something so that 3t will be. possible for women such' as t; to live -on their farms before their farms are. washed to gullies and their houses "torn to '.'pieces' ?" Is not this,; Senator Nash and gentlemen, where" some chivalry is . also nee ded? For . our part, we4, believe it is, and we believe that th6 remedy can be applied to i the help -of white communities that to work substantial injustice to the . Negrocer tainly not ' more injustice than present conditions wreak upon worthy men and women of our own ' race. WtP.Z -' K-s r --.j lie Plea of Chivalry BROTHEHHOOD THE q-oest xn& crowning nf n yoofl, r.,. UTeT aal star, is JBrotherJwoi; . Tmr it will btiat affaia to Earth, . Her lOBS-lt Poetry aad-Mirth; v Will semi -new lirhl era every face, A Kingly poTrer.upoa the rac ' " yr-"X:, And till it cornea we men ara alavea, . , v And travel downward to thj&uat of rrava. .. s " . Edwin Markhata. TO giru Uuistivca.auu i e-. o. ---- . . .
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