Lenoir, N.C., June 10—Road building is booming in our section at this time. We can step out on the porch and not only hear the pile-driving hammer but see the mixers of two big bridges in the making. One of these crosses Lower Creek and is a part of the Lenoir-Hickory (hard surface-to-be), the other crosses Zack’s Fork and is a part of the new Lenoir-Wilkesboro (highway-to-be). Both are situated in the extreme city limits. The big shovels on both roads can also be seen, and blasting is taking place. Surely there are very few who do not appreciate fully these two big developments.
Mr. S.F. Horton stopped over with us on Saturday night on his way to Wake Forest Summer School.
Miss Blanche Horton is spending the week here and enjoying the Chatauqua.
The meeting at the court house on Friday the 16th was perhaps one of the most important ever held this year for the betterment of the moral and educational conditions in this our county. There were many from different communities in the county, but not nearly so many present as should have been.
Mrs. W.H. Sherril, president of the County Betterment, presided over the meeting and asked Miss Public over to lead the devotional, which she did in a beautiful, sincere and modest way. The Federation song was used. Mrs. Sherril made the opening talk based on the need of improvements in the community. A round table discussion followed in which Miss Boyd spoke of the needs of homeless children over the county, also of the need of community club work.
Miss Steele reported from Yadkin stating that they were planning to make quilts for the Patterson School.
Miss Russel of Granite Falls spoke of the need of good ladies in the work and close co-operation.
Mrs. Robert Barlow spoke of the need of a home demonstration agent which would result in the most needed canning clubs.
Mrs. R.L. Gwyn gave a report of the State Federation at Raleigh mentioning the big reception given the delegates at the Governor’s mansion. Also the one at Wake Stone, the home of Josephus Daniels and how he received in the absence of his wife, who is away in a hospital.
Then at 11, the crowning speech of the morning took place when Miss Albertson, secretary of the Parent Teachers Association of this state, made one of the very finest addresses ever heard in this section. She explained the mission of the work to travel over North Carolina and try to bring about better cooperation between the school forces and the parents, that the parents should seek acquaintance always with the teachers of their children, should encourage and sympathize all that is possible. That it was the teachers’ duty to train the child to be a better citizen, to season every lesson with a thought of true citizenship, that the parents should try to get proper laws enforced for the safe guarding of the children, such as, stop the selling of cigarettes, stop the joy riding, etc. She spoke of the two evils with that of cheating in the school room as the most disastrous of the times.
She spoke of the future dangers, not the Bolshevists or the Reds, but of the boys and girls who are indulging in these things today which threaten to undermine our civilization tomorrow. She spoke of the danger in the fact that 11 states have passed laws prohibiting the reading of the Bible in the school room and brought to mind the fact that though Greece gave to the world culture and art, she couldn’t stand; though Rome contributed law, she fell; Palestine gave the one thing needful for a nation to rest safely on, namely, Jesus Christ, and that if America forgets Him, she is doomed. That the religion of Jesus Crist should be taught in our schools in order to make our nation safe.
Miss Kelly then gave a list of the prizes offered the communities for the betterment of school conditions or equipment in the school house.
Miss Albertson explained the working of the county council and of the discussion she organized one. Miss Dora Anderson was elected president of the council to consist of the officers of the various betterment clubs of the County Association.
From the front page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, June 12, 1924
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