N.C. Colleges Cannot Meet Demand for Higher Education, Nov. 19, 1920

Dr. L.A. Williams of the State University, who is directing a survey of the local public school system, delivered an interesting address last night on the Present Educational Situation in North Carolina. After reviewing the educational history of the State in which he showed that a real demand for education has been developed to the point where it can be no longer supplied, he suggested that a remedy for the conditions must be found. This year the University turned away 300 men who wished to enter; 500 young women were denied admission to the North Carolina College for women, and the same story is to be told of other colleges in the State. The Remedy is a more intelligent interest, which will lead to expenditure of more money. The late Dr. E.K. Graham used to say that North Carolina can afford all the eudcation she wants. We now spend $100,000 daily on automobiles. Last year we paid $169,000,000 in Federal surplus and income taxes. This shows the wealth we have. We must spend more on the education of our boys and girls. (From the front page of the Roanoke Rapids Herald, Nov. 19, 1920)