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Qttp Harren Srrarii Published Every Friday By The Record Publishing And Sapply Company BIGNALL JONES, Owner and Editor Member North Carolina Press Association Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Warrenton, North Carolina, under the laws of Congress. "Second Class Postage Paid at Warrenton, N. C." SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, $3:00; Six Months, $1.50 Give To Foundation Several years ago a small group of local people found John Graham High School football players engaging In the game without adequate protec tion afforded by good equipment, and the school athletic department deeply in debt for what equipment it did have. This group founded the Warren ton Boosters Club and with around 200 members at $10 each, managed to pay off the debt, buy good equipment, and a bus for the transporation of the ath letic team. They have subsidized the coach, put athletics in the John Graham School on a sound footing, and were in strumental in having a gym built here which has not only served the physical education program of the school, but has proven of general worth to the school and the community. But laudatory as the Boosters pro gram has been, there are many persons in the school district who are genuinely interested in the John Graham School, but who feel that athletics are being overdone. For this reason they refuse each year to buy a Boosters ticket and show no enthusiasm for the construc tion of the physical education building. In their refusal to buy Boosters tickets, some of those persons have been rather vocal about the needs for scholarships and a general improvement in the scho lastic attainments and opportunities giv en the children. Well now these persons have an opportunity to practice what they preach. * The Boosters Club has incorporated a Foundation for Better Education for the John Graham High School, the Mariam Boyd and the Nathaniel Macon schools. Having incorporated the foun dation, the Boosters Club has stepped out of the foundation picture as an or ganization. although many members will support the foundation because of their interest in the schools. Money donated to the foundation will be handled by the school officials, and will not be used for athletic programs. It will be used to subsidize the salary of the principal, and other key person nel, perhaps. If funds are available it can mean in some instances the differ ence between an exceptionally able man or woman, and an average man or wo man. It can mean the difference be tween a well equipped laboratory and a well stocked library, and even possibly the employment of a good librarian or an extra teacher. There is no doubt that the education al program of the state will help the John Graham school. But it will not help it relatively. The community is still too small to pay supplements through a tax levy as do many of the better schools. If the Warrenton district schools are to make real progress, addi tional money is needed. We hope that not only members of the Boosters Club, but that all others interested in the district schools will make a donation to the Foundation for Better Schools. Checks may be made to the Foundation For Better Schools, and addressed to the Foundation for Better Schools, Warrenton. Deserves Thanks The thanks of Warren County citi in general and of the Warrenton School District in particular are due to W. R. Drake, chairman of the district school committee, for the fine planning and smooth operation of the Education program here and at Macon last Wed nesday. vlThe program was as near perfect as one could hope to attain, and the oc casion one of the most enjoyable events ever staged in Warren County, with not a single incident to mar the occasion. Warren County was honored in hav ing Governor Sanford, Dr. Graham and Dr. House visit here, and seldom have three men of such calibre been on a Warren County platform at the same time. The great pity is that more of our people did not take advantage of the opportunity of hearing them. Not only were the principal speakers notable men with S record of fine accomplishments, hot among the alumni here to honor the late John Graham were a number of distinguished men. That more of our citizens were not present for the oc casion was the loss of those who failed to attend the exercises. But one must wonder, with some feel fa* of dismay, the genuine lack of in terest in quality education as demon strated by lack of public attendance at the exercises. The occasion had been advertised as Education Day, and two Ipited educators were on the program, and both talked on education. The man mm principal plank in his platform traa and is the improvement of our * and who happens to be the ?r of North Carolina, and as deserving of the courtesy of an aadience, failed to receive the audience fa which he was entitled. J The State of North Carolina can tax people to the Hmit of their ability; ga may be erected; the best employed, and we will fail to ?*r goals of a first rate educa ??jP|fa unless our people back the program, people were present at each of hool football games on Pri pment to flfl| Governor Sanford tell how North Caro lina schools may be improved, or to hear his views on this pressing1 matter, or to hear our own Bob House pay tribute to a great educator and suggest how the lessons he taftght may be of value in bettering present day schools. They are the facts; each one may draw his own conclusions. NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record October 12, 1956 The Warrenton Tobacco Market will re open Monday morning following a two-day holiday on all bright leaf markets to permit redrylng plants to remove a glut. The C. C. Granger Company of Henderson opened a store in the Perman building on Main Street Monday. District Boy Scouts will hold their fall camporee at Kerr Lake this coming weekend. Owen Smith of Raleigh has been employed by the Board of Education as architect for a Negro elementary school to be built near Nor lina. October 12, 1951 A million dollars Is needed by Warren County schools, W. B. Terrell, school super intendent, told members of the local PTA this week. Amos Harmon, a 4-H member, told the Warrenton Rotary Club members Tuesday night how the Rotary Pig Chain gave him a start in the pig business. The Wise PTA will sponsor a square dance at the school building next Friday night with Norman Ball's musicians furnishing the music. The annual Boy Scout drive will begin In Warren County on Monday morning. October 9, 1936 The Warrenton Telephone Exchange will switch over to the dial system on Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock. The Warren County Fair, which opened on Monday morning under the sponsorship of the Warrenton Lions Club has been well st tended and the number of exhibits have been varied and large. - The Warren County Memorial Library will make Ha annual canvass for funds next week. The Littleton football team opened its sea son at home last Friday night with s 28 to C victory over Weldoo. r.~ MOSTLY PERSONAL By SIGN ALL JONES. The progress of people is i measured in time as the only | real measure of progress, and : thus we do not say that the North and West are smarter | than the South, but that the (South is ten years behind the | rest of the Nation. This does | not, of course, mean that all northern and western people are smarter than all Southern people, for it is quite obvious that this is.not the case. There are those who would deny that the South is behind the rest of the nation, but every lndice of progress, literacy, per capit al income, high school and college graduates, books read. ' etc., are againsf those who hold this view. I Anthropologists, in their I study of the history of the races, point out that while a | savage may be possibly a thous ' and or more years behind en | lightened man in cultural de velopment. significantly they! say that a thousand years I I can be bridged in a generation' through education. Even here I most people know of many cases locally in which an un derpriviliged and lowly person has managed to obtain a good education and seen this per son, if not in one, in two gen erations. reach a high econom ic and cultural level. Some time ago The Readers Digest carried an article about a child being found in the Andes mountains and brought back home by a scientist. This child's parents, according to the article, were living in the Stone Age. Given a fine edu cation, the child revealed a high IQ, and became an ex cellent scientbt. Even in this country, the pioneers of only a few bund red years ago, mostly illiterate, offer a picture of evolution. The great mass of these peo ple were violent, they drank heavily, fought with savagery, with kiyves, gouged an oppon ent's eyes out, bit noses and ears, and showed In many other ways a lack of refine ment. Lawson, in his History of North Carolina, tells how the pioneers would go into the woods and capture an Indian, as if, he were a wild animal, and sell j him into slavery. Some man! has said of the pioneer women, that they should be praised for their virtue and their stam ina, for they not only had to endure the rigors of a savage land, but also had to endure the pioneers. Shaw in his Pygmalian de velops the theme of betterment through education, as he has a girl taken from the gutter, trained to the point where she became a "lady." Incidentally, it was from this play that the great stage play, "My Fair Lady," was developed. One may go to the jungles of Africa, to some remote sec tions of South America, or to some isolated islands, and'find today inhabitants who have not even developed the wheel. If left alone these people may continue their existence for a thousand years before some one learns how to build a wheel, the beginning of me chanical development. But if some of the people are taught to read and given a drawing and description of a wheel, they could build one. This il lustrated how in one particular education can bridge a thous and years in a generation. There are a number of peo ple who deeply love the South, and are proud of its heritage and its many virtues. But they are seriously disturbed by its i relative lack of progress. They j believe that the poverty of [he South is due to the ignor ance of the South, and they preach education as a solution. In an effort to bring North "arolina to the national level, governor Sanford has inaug lrated a program of quality !ducation for the state, and lis program has received the iupport of our people. A be iever in the value of educa ion, I "determined to support Sanford Sanford for Governor when I heard him tell a small group here that his main plank would be better schools. I have had no occasion to regret this decision. But as lonq as the sales tax on food is considered an un just hardship and unfair tax on our people, as long as our people count only the cost and can not or will not see the goal and the necessity for tho program; as long as our peo ple are not willing to sacrifice for their children; as long as the worth of a school is judg ed by its athletic teams, and the rare student instead of the general average; as long as we! put community pride ahead of quality edueationf we are apt to find ourselves footing the bill without any commensurate gains. Beckwith Funeral Held On Saturday Funeral services for Miss Winifred Wilson Beckwith were' held Saturday at 3 p. m. from1 the First Presbyterian Church with burial in the family plot in Cedarwood Cemetery. The Rev. John M. Walker and the Rev. Stanley White officiated. Miss Beckwith died at her home in Roanoke Rapids on Thursday morning of last week after an illness of several' months. She was born in Lexington, j !f. C? and was a graduate of | the Woman's College of the; University of North Carolina., 5he had lived for a number of | ^ears in Plymouth, Pa. The, major part of ht^ life was ? ;pent teaching *1m Shelby,1 Jreensboro, and Roanoke Rapids. Surviving are one brother, Dr. R. P. Beckwith of Roanoke Rapids; two nephews, James P. Beckwith of Warrenton and Dr. R. P. Beckwith, Jr., ol Richmond, Va.; and one niece, Mrs. Sam T. Gregory of Scot land Neck. Charles M. Roper Dies At Durham HOLLISTER ? Funeral serv ices for Charles Meredith Rop er of Hollister were conducted Saturday at 11 a. m. at the Holloman Brown Funeral Home in Norfolk, Va., with burial in Rosewood Park at Norfolk. Mr. Roper, 40, died at the VA Hospital in Durham on Thursday morning of last week. He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs. James Overby of Norfolk, Va., and Miss Susan Roper of Hollister one son, Charles M. Roper, Jr. of Hollister; one brother, A1 bert C. Roper of Norfolk. Va. and two grandchildren. Mrs. J. J. Nicholson. Jr., and tittle son ot Pinetops will be weekend guests of Mrs. J. J. Nicholson of Macon. Miss Hariet Gillam of Vir ginia Beach, Va., was a week end guest of friends here. Mrs. S. A. Robinson of Lin :olnton was a weekend guest jf Mr. and Mrs. Alfred WH-. liams. GOOD USED FURNITURE C & S SALES NEXT TO WARREN RECORD SANDWICH SHOP in the Green Building on Market Street HOT DOGS ? HAMBURGERS BARBECUE ? SOFT DRINKS MILK SHAKES ? 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