Statue of Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock, Oct. 15, 1922

Day of Unveiling Statue of Aycock. . . Exact Date to be Selected at Committee Meeting Here Tuesday

Goldsboro, Oct. 14—The exact day the monument to Charles B. Aycock, educational governor of North Carolina, will be unveiled at Raleigh, will be decided at Raleigh Tuesday by Josephus Daniels, R.D.W. Connor, P.M. Pearsall, Nathan O’Berry and George C. Royall, members of the committee on the $18,000 monument to honor the state’s greatest son, it was stated today by Captain O’Berry. The date is to be sometime in July and the speaker is to be selected. The monument being built by a sculptor, Bourglhum, is to be one of the finest in North Carolina, and will occupy the plot to the left of the front entraqnce, McIver’s occupying the right.

“The monument,” said Captain O’Berry, “is to represent the great things Aycock stood for—Education—the equal right of every child to develop what is in her or him. His greatness as a man, as an orator, as a statesman, will give place to this single theme, for to him it was the greatest thing in the world, the thing he gave his life to and staked his political reputation on” he went on, “when there is no sentiment in North Carolina for education; and it is on these grounds we are asking for contributions. We still have only a little over $13,000 of the more than $18,000 that the monument will cost. However, the monument will be built and it will be presented to North Carolina whether anybody else gives a cent or not. We have guaranteed the remaining $5,000, the monument is being built, and it will be a reality; nevertheless it is discouraging to find how quickly some people seem to have forgotten Aycock. Why, young people—many of them who would never have had an education if it hadn’t been for Ayock—should consider it a privilege to contribute. Some people of course are sending me checks for amounts as high as $200, but most of these were intimate friends of Ayock who knew him as we know him in Goldsboro.”

Captain O’Berry remembered what so many have forgotten of how the man who honored North Carolina so much and who as this late date is being honored by his people, went out and canvassed the state, creating sentiment for education which there was no sentiment for education. From the Raleigh News & Observer, Oct. 15, 1922