Our Manifest Duty by
Dr. J.Y. Joyner, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
To make the world safe for democracy, in the fine phrase of
our matchless President, our boys on the Western Front are fighting and
suffering and dying every day. Millions more of them in the cantonments and in
our homes are ready and eager to flight, and, if need be, to die.
But the victory, that they and their noble allies shall win,
will be largely temporary and fruitless, and the world will not be safe for
democracy, nor will democracy be safe for the world, unless the masses of the
people of the world be adequately prepared for the larger duties, the graver
responsibilities, the greater privileges, the harder tasks of democracy, and
for the appreciation, preservation, and transmission of it.
Such preparation can be provided only through the education
of all the children of all the people of each generation in every democratic
land. Only by providing opportunities for all the children of all the people of
North Carolina, can we make North Carolina as safe for democracy and democracy
as safe for North Carolina as any other part of the democratized world after
this war is over.
Six Months Schools
The manifest duty of those of us who remain at home is to
vote and work for the adoption of the constitutional amendment for a minimum
school term of six months. It is an immediate and practical means for largely
increasing the efficiency of our schools for the better education and,
therefore, the better preparation of all the children of all the people for all
that will certainly follow allied victory in this world-wide war.
For the good of the children and the honor of the State,
make the vote for it unanimous on the 5th of November. If you can
not vote for it, for the sake of the children and their mothers, who can not
vote, do not vote against it.
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