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t
1909.] DocuMEXT No. 3. 39
a system of schools open eight or ten mouths in the year, adequately equipped
with houses and teachers, have been couipelled to supplement their State and
county school funds by local taxation. The experience of other States and of
these communities in our own State compels the conclusion that the only hope
of largely increasing the present available funds for the rural schools, and thus
making these schools equal to the demands of the age and adequate to the
education of S2 per cent, of our population, is to be found in the adoption of
local taxation.
"The principle of local taxation is right and wise. It involves the princi-ples
of self-help, self-interest, self-protection, community help, community inter-est,
and community protection. Every cent of the money paid by local taxation
for schools by any community remains in the community for the improvement
of the community school, and every cent of it is invested through a bettor school
in the minds and souls and characters of the rising generation, in au increase
in the intelligence and efficiency of the entire community. Every cent of this
local tax that goes into a better school to give the children of all a better
chance to be somebody and to do something in the world is invested in the best
possible advertisement for the best class of immigration and is the surest
possible means of keeping in the community the best people already residing
there by giving them a better opportunity to give their children a better chance
to get an education that will better fit them for coping with the world with-out
having to move into another community to get it. Every cent of money,
therefore, invested by local taxation in a better school, by inviting a better
class of immigration and preventing the disastrous drain upon its best blood
by other communities that offer better school facilities, enhances the value
of every cent of property in the community by increasing the demand for it
by the best people. The wisdom, then, of such a tax for such a purpose is too
manifest to need further argument."
Schoolhouses.—There are still 247 white and 132 colored school districts
in North Carolina to be supplied with houses. There are 111 white and 195
colored log houses and many old frame houses unfit for use to be replaced.
There are hundreds of old houses to be repaired, enlarged, equipped, and beau-tified.
The equipment of most of the old houses is poor and entirely inadefiuate.
Some i<lea of the iuadeciuacy of this equijiment may be obtained when it is re-memberMl
that in 1908 only .$.38,473.27 was sjient for furniture and e<iuipmeut
for rural schoolhousesTj .V comfortable, well-e(iuipped schoolhouse is the first
essential of a succes.'Sfm school. Such a house insures permanency and inspires
in children and patrons pride and confidence.
In every county tlicrc should be a strict enforcement of the law placing the
building of schoolhouses under the control of the County Board of Educa-tion
and requiring all new houses to be constructed in accordance with plans
approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and that board.
A revised and enlarged pamphlet of approved plans for schoolhouses has
l)een recently Issued from the office of the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and copies of it can l)e secured uiion application. The [lamphlet
contains bills. of materials, specifications, cuts. Hoor filans, blank contracts,
etc.. for the erection of any house in it.
The law requiring the contract for buildings to lie in writing and the house
to be insi>ected, receiveil, and approved by the ("ount.v Superintendent before
full payment is made, sliould always be rigidly enforced. Xo more money
should be allowed to be w;isted on cheaii, leniimrary. Iminfiperly constructed
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t
1909.] DocuMEXT No. 3. 39
a system of schools open eight or ten mouths in the year, adequately equipped
with houses and teachers, have been couipelled to supplement their State and
county school funds by local taxation. The experience of other States and of
these communities in our own State compels the conclusion that the only hope
of largely increasing the present available funds for the rural schools, and thus
making these schools equal to the demands of the age and adequate to the
education of S2 per cent, of our population, is to be found in the adoption of
local taxation.
"The principle of local taxation is right and wise. It involves the princi-ples
of self-help, self-interest, self-protection, community help, community inter-est,
and community protection. Every cent of the money paid by local taxation
for schools by any community remains in the community for the improvement
of the community school, and every cent of it is invested through a bettor school
in the minds and souls and characters of the rising generation, in au increase
in the intelligence and efficiency of the entire community. Every cent of this
local tax that goes into a better school to give the children of all a better
chance to be somebody and to do something in the world is invested in the best
possible advertisement for the best class of immigration and is the surest
possible means of keeping in the community the best people already residing
there by giving them a better opportunity to give their children a better chance
to get an education that will better fit them for coping with the world with-out
having to move into another community to get it. Every cent of money,
therefore, invested by local taxation in a better school, by inviting a better
class of immigration and preventing the disastrous drain upon its best blood
by other communities that offer better school facilities, enhances the value
of every cent of property in the community by increasing the demand for it
by the best people. The wisdom, then, of such a tax for such a purpose is too
manifest to need further argument."
Schoolhouses.—There are still 247 white and 132 colored school districts
in North Carolina to be supplied with houses. There are 111 white and 195
colored log houses and many old frame houses unfit for use to be replaced.
There are hundreds of old houses to be repaired, enlarged, equipped, and beau-tified.
The equipment of most of the old houses is poor and entirely inadefiuate.
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