THE UPLIFT.
Vol. V. Concord, N. C., july, 1914 No. 5
EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
IT not only ' located an unknown
river in South America, but has at
last discovered closer home a larynx.
The first week in July is a great
event for theThomasville Orphanage.
The receipts for the conduct of the
institution amounted for the year
over $42,000.00.
To see twenty gallons of pure
water flowing each minute into our
tank, where before scarcely enough
could be had to wet the bottom, is a
sight to behold.
Lest we forget the good old way,
we are reproducing in this number
an account of how they courted in
Georgia way back yonder. This was
before they eliminated papa and ma¬
ma in this serious matter and was in
the days when a marriage was an¬
nounced several months before rath¬
er than several months afterwards.
ANNUAL MEETING OF BOARD.
On the 17th of June the annual
meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the Jackson Training School was held.
The meeting was in Hotel Rocking¬
ham, in the town of Rockingham. It
was on the occasion of the annual
Convention of The King’s Daughters,
several of wb an are members of the
Beard.
The various officers made their re¬
ports — all were encouraging. The
flnancies of the institution were on
t.h > right side of the ledger. No
hills remained unpaid, and all affairs
were found strictly in shape, so much
so the Roard manifested a pride in
Superintendent Roger.
The Board authorized and in¬
structed the superintendent to pro¬
ceed at on-e towards the erection of
the Margaret Burgwyn Chapel, ami
to hurry it along to completion.
Superintendent Roger read his re¬
port. It was of such general in¬
formation and threw so much light
on the efforts of the institution to
carry out its mission, that the Roard
requested its publication in the UP-
ijft. The report may be seen on
another page of this number.
The time for the election of officers
of the Board for the next two years
was at hand. The election resulted
unanimously as follows:
Mr. J. P. Cook, Chairman,
Mrs. W. II. S. Burgwyn, Vice-
Chairman,
Mrs. I. W. Faison, Secretary,
Mr. D. B. Coltaane, Treasurer.
The following compose the Execu¬
tive Committee for the next two
CLARENCE O. KUESTER.
See Page 14.
years: Messrs J. P. Cook, D. B. Col-
trane and Chas. E. Boger. This
committee carries out the wishes of
the Board and acts for same in the
case of an emergency.
The meeting was one of the most
pleasant and profitable in the history
of the institution; and all members
of the Roard were present either in
person, spirit or proxy.
A TAR HEEL RIGHT.
Elsewhere in this number may be
seen a paper read before the recent
meeting of the Press Association of
North Carolina, at Wrightsville, by-
Mr. Bion H. Butler, editor of the
Hoke County Journal.
The showing he makes of the mar¬
velous resources and opportunities
within North Carolina struck almost
everybody at the convention with be¬
wilderment. It caught the crowd,
and the beauty of the whole per¬
formance was in the fact that Mr.
Butler was utterly unaware of any
special force in his paper. He was
speaking out of the fullness of his
heart and from unquestionable data
he had gathered.
That article will be read by hun¬
dreds of thousands of people in the
United States. It ought to he read by
every citizen of North Carolina; par-
rents should induce their children to
read it and think over it. If you have
any state pride then this article will
move you; if you and your child have
no state pride, then you ought to get
busy ana cultivate some. It will make
a better citizen of you — it will put
you into a -lass of normal people— it
will take out of you the kick and the
stubborn and the grouch. If you go
through life loaded down with kick,
stubborn and grouch, you have a
sorry liver that will cost you your
life and your welfare hereafter.
Mr. Butler is a North Carolinian,
by choice and deliberation. He has
circled the world, looking for a home
place. That his judgment should
finally plant him in North Carolina
with the knowledge of the world be¬
fore him, lends a mighty force to
what he says.
If the Agricultural Department at
Raleigh will issue this splendid word-
picture of the state and send it out
through one of its Bulletins to the
thousands in the North and West
who seek and desire new homes, it
will render the state a valuable ser¬
vice.
Mr. Butler has lived in North
Carolina on a farm, near Raeford,
Hoke county, for eleven years, com¬
ing to the state from Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. He seems to bo the
happiest North Carolinian we ever
saw.
