Questions for the People, Sept. 11, 1924

Are the people of Columbus county able to stand and increase of 35 cents on the hundred dollars’ valuation of their property this year? Can the average farmer spare his children from his farm eight months in the year to go to school? Can he afford to buy all the school text books required at prices double their actual worth? Are the children getting three or four times as much out of the six and eight-months’ terms of school now as they did out of the two and three months’ terms 25 years ago?? These propositions are before you, fellow citizens. Study them over.

From the front page of the News Reporter, Whiteville, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 11, 1924

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