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Vol. XXXI. No. 26.
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1916.
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WE MUST give the boys and girls of the rural South longer
school terms and we must do this no matter what it costs
in time, effort or money. Not only is it true that in no
other section of the United States are the people doing so little for
their boys and girls as we are doing, not only is it true that prob
ably no country in Christendom except Russia is doing so little for
its boys and girls as we in the South are doing, but the shameful
fact is that when the writer was in Japan, we found even that so- fa Washington:-: :: :: x x :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: w :: : : 107
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and giving its country boys and girls twjce as long a term as we
are giving ours and with compulsory attendance.
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thpi tflhlft nrenared hv the Russell Sacre Foundation showing thp. ,7, WTAH
number of days schooling received by the average child in each JJ. Nebraska
state in 1910. We of the South have made gratifying progress Indiana
since then, to be sure, but yet all too little, Your boys and girls, Colorado
kind reader, your boys and girls here in North Carolina who were JjjjjJJ
getting only 51 days, average iri 1910, South Carolina's with 50 days,
Virginia's with 58, and Georgia's with 62 these boys and girls vvyOmin
of ours must face the competition of boys and girls from Massa- k oakota
chusetts who were getting 131 days average, from Ohio who were
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getting 113, from Illinois who were getting 108, and from Wash- .30 Delaware
ington who were getting 107, and so on down the line. Are you fvipcim
; willing simply in order to save a few pennies to send your boys Tennessee
and girls out into life less weH equipped than their competitors ? ?i Z0"A
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Nor can we lay the flattering unction to our souls that in propor-. PKLAH0MA
i tion to our means we of the South are doing as well as people of georgu
j the other states are doing. We are not. That's the pleasing, fatal m Mississippi
lie with which -politicians and mbssbacks have fooled us all these tucky
years Here are the off idal figures showing what each state in 4itcxas
j America spends ; yearly for schools 'in proportion to each $100 nolTna
i of wealth in that state and you can see whether North Carolina, u 'Carolina
5 South Carolina Virginia; ; '.Georgia and Florida are nearest the top JJ a?!1!
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This table; baaed on the average length
of school term and the average attend
ance, shows the.nuraber of days school
Ing. actually, received by the average
child of school age In each state In the
last census year. Each dot equals one day.
1. ' Oklahoma.. .75 cents
2. s Washington . . .'. . . ,l. . ;. t 72 cents
2. Utah .V . . . . 51 cents
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6. Oregon . . .....a.;...,.;... . . . . . ; 45 cents
. North Dakota 44 cents
7. South Dokota . T. . I .......... 4 . .". . , 44 cents
8. New Jersey ......................... 43 cents
9. Vermont 40 cents
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15. Massachuetts 34 cents
JJ California i 33 cents
17. Tennessee , 33 centt
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2 - Louisiana , U cents
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DON'T FAIL TO READ-
Better Methods of Preparation and Cultivation
How We May Get Efficient Rural Schoolt ;.
Two Communities that -Made Over Their
Schools " I ......
A Succett Talk by Dr. Liberty H. Bailey . .
How One Community IinproYed Its School
Bqildins: . .
How to Make the Oat Crop Pay . .
Pointers for Oat Growers .......
Are You Giving Your Teacher a Square Deal?
How to Grow Dewberries . . . . . .
Where Country Children Get as Good Schools
as City Chadrcn : i . . . . . . v.; l
Guard Acraintt TvDhoid '
Ten Sanitary Commandments for Jlural
Schools . . 19
Taking Care of Our Educational Plants . . 19
Have a Good School at Home 20
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30. Arkansas 1. 29 cents
31. Nebraska 29 cents
32. Missouri '.. 29 cents
33. New York 29 cents
34. New Hampshire 21 cents
35. VIRGINIA 18 rents
36. NORTH CAROLINA 28 cents
37. Montana 28 cents
38. Pennsylvania 27 cents
39. Arizona 27 cents
40. Rhode Island 27 cents
41. SOUTH CAROLINA 27 cents
42. Iowa 25 cents
43. Delaware 23 cenU
44. Nevada 23 cents
45. Alabama 23 cents
46. Maryland 21 cents
47. Wyoming 20 cents
48. -.New Mtxlco U cents
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-.Whatever other neighborhoods may or
may not do, why not decide right now
that boys and girls in your neighborhood
shall have a better chance no matter
whether this means local tax, consolidation
of districts, or transportation of pupils?
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