- Title
- Public letters and papers of Locke Craig: Governor of North Carolina, 1913-1917
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- Date
- 1916
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- Creator
- ["Craig, Locke, 1860-1925."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Public letters and papers of Locke Craig: Governor of North Carolina, 1913-1917
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MESSAGES TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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tions. I am satisfied that such a system would save to the State thousands of
dollars every year. But, if the General Assembly should not see proper to adopt
this view, I recommend that the General Assembly shall direct that the Governor
require that each State institution shall make to him in such form and detail as
he may prescribe, a monthly or weekly report, as to their business management
and condition. This would give the Governor at all times a clear insight into the
workings of our institutions, and accomplish much in the way of economy and
uniform business.
CHILD LABOR
The last General Assembly enacted a statute compelling the attendance of
children upon the public schools. This statute should be enforced. The child
cannot work at manual labor to advantage, but his mind is eager for knowledge
and most retentive. His character is responsive to culture. The factory is no
place for the child. The drudgery of toil is not his rightful inheritance, before
his bones are hard, or his muscles are. firm. If we grind the seed corn there will
be a failure in the crop of men. We should have upon our statute books a law
forbidding children of tender years to work in mills or factories, and limiting
the hours of labor of those who are of sufficient age to work. This law should
provide that women shall not work at night in the mills. Motherhood should not.
be condemned to such service. And this law should be vitalized with safeguards
for its enforcement. If, in our most progressive centers of industry and thrift,
the family cannot live without the work of children and the drudgery of women,
then our civilization has broken down, and is a failure.
I commend the mill men of North Carolina for the humane spirit with which
they have cared for the health and education of their employees, and the children
of their employees.
WESTERN TRAINING SCHOOL
The General Assembly should earnestly consider the establishing of additional
training schools for teachers for the western part of the State. We are paying
out large sums to teachers who, by reason of circumstances and lack of convenient,
schools of proper character and facilities, have not been able to equip themselves
efficiently for their work. Salaries paid for inefficient teachers must result in a
more serious loss to the State than salaries paid for inefficient work in any other
business or profession. We must create facilities which are convenient and within
the reach of those who must teach the children of the State. A splendid and well
equipped school has been established in the east. Tor a number of terms the
Legislature has considered a school for the western section similar to that estab¬
lished at Greenville. The west desires this school located at some convenient
point within reach of many counties not yet provided for. Many superintendents
have brought to my attention the absolute need of such a school. I earnestly
recommend that a school similar to the school at Greenville be established at some
point in the western part of the State, located to serve the people of that locality.
It would result in inestimable benefit to the people and stimulate our intellectual
as well as material development.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS SHOULD BE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR
If, in obedience to the expressed wishes of all political parties we provide
primary elections for (he nomination of State and Federal officers, it would be
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