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tendents and boards of education. When a contribution is made the local
school officials are free to use it for the purpose agreed upon. The Board
has never, in any way, indicated the slightest desire to exercise any con-
trol whatsoever over the administration of the schools, either public or
private. What is done is done with a keen desire to be of assistance in
providing a satisfactory school system for the children of the state.

All North Carolina people will remember with appreciation the
Farm Demonstration work initiated and promoted some years ago by Dr. Seaman
A. Knapp. His program was financed by the General Education Board. Like-
wise, North Carolinians will remember with gratitude the splendid work of
Dr. C. W. Stiles in the eradification ofhook worm from our state. The
Rockefeller Health Board provided the funds to carry out his program.

As the Farm Demonstration program was an aid in the economic de-
velopment of North Carolina, and the Hook Worm Eradication program brought
health and longer like to thousands of our people, so the General Education
Board, and the other Funds discussed in this paper, are [begin crossed out] one [end crossed out] ^([an?]) aid in the de-
velopment of an educational program for all North Carolina people. (It is
probably not generally well known that the General Education Board has made
large contributions for the education of white people also. A person who
knew the facts, stated a few years ago that the Board had given for white
education in the South about 5 dollars for each dollar contributed for Negro education).

Appropriations to the Normal Schools were made to purchase modern equipment for modern buildings erected by the State.

For fourteen years the salary and expenses of the Director of Negro
Education have been paid under the head of "State Agents of Rural Schools".
An assistant's salary has been paid in part for the past six years.