Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 29.—Specific figures [on] Carolina's startling appeal to provide for its youth is making its appearance in the advertising campaign by the Association for Public Education in which A. M. S. P. I. [is] executive director. It is making its appearance in the newspapers of the State and [is] facing the [people] of this State on behalf of the youth and the [pertinent] facts calculated to [arouse] the [people] of North Caro[lina] to [action]—and, the immediate action [that] will be [required] of [the] people is publi[cly] stated. [The] number of North Caro[lina] [students] who sought ad[mission to] colleges this fall [and] accommodations—[the] association de[clares] educational [trends]. The list fol[lows], opposite each institution the number [of those seeking] admission and [could not get] [due to] over[crowded] [facilities] at [collegiate] (Asheville) Normal [School?], 205. Mars Hill, 100. [Davidson] State College for [?], A. & M. State A. and M., [? Female] College, 140. [Wake] Forest, 40. h, 100. [? College for Women], [?], 175. University of North Carolina, 250. East North Carolina Training [School?], [?], 75. [?], 10. 7, 1. 50. [?], 10. [? where], 12. [?], 40. [?], 10. a, 14. [?], 71. ca[rolina?], 22. sl[?], 23.4. : ["with"] crowding of the 9500 [seeking] admission to these insti[tutions], the point being that in [many] instances these [lacked] three and four [times] room—a condition [rising] against good work in comfort and possible [health]. And yet the inst[itutions] [were] unable to receive at [all] every five young men [or] [women] who applied for admis[sion]. [All] the state are urged to immed[iate] action in order that [such] conditions may be remedied by ac[tion in] the General As[sembly]. Institutions are ask[ing for ap]proximately $18,000,000 [for a] program extending [over a] period of six years; and when [one] would plead state poverty to such an expenditure [it is a] shame by the figures the association [presents]. These speak both to the untold [value] to the State and to the par[simonious] policy that has always [prevailed] in the past in provid[ing] adequate equipment—[for] the past two and a half cen[turies amounting to only $4[?]0,000. Yet the people of the state [put] $160,000,000 into the [highways] last year. [Spent] for new automobiles and $100,000,000 more for gasoline and [tires for those] already in use. [The] value [of] rural products alone for [the] year was valued at $700,000,000. [The] campaign, as it has begun, is done on a high plane, the appeal [aimed] to the best motives [stirring] of loyal Tar Heels. And Carolinians are told in [this] that whatever is done about the situation is depen[ding] upon their action [before the] Assembly. They are told [that the] men who represent [them] will [do their] will if they do theirs. And if the legislators fail to act in response to the State's educational needs it will be because the "folks at home" are indifferent to the young, indifferent to the future opportunity that may be given their [children and girls].
