Excerpt from The Alumni Review, Vol. 9: April, 1921 Then the climax. A. M. Scales, Director, in the name of the Citizens Association for the Promotion of Education, sent out a call to the citizens of the State to join him in a public hearing before a joint session of the finance and appropriations committees in Ra leigh, Wednesday evening, February 23. His call was followed by a call from Charles Weill and Mar maduke Robins to Chambers of Commerce, Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. A call was issued by the central chairman to University alumni and to the organizers of the fighting groups in the counties of the State. Miss Laura Coit, president, and Miss Ethel C. Bollinger, secretary of North Carolina Col lege Alumnae Association, both enthusiastic and in defatigable in activity and organization, who had been passing -the six battle points to thousands of alumnae in the State now sounded the assembly call to these leading women. Mrs. Hook and Miss Petty gave notice to the women's clubs, Thomas J. Harkins to the Scottish Rite Masons, Francis 0. Clarkson to 700 Councils of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and Mrs. J oseph Gari baldi to the parent-teachers Associations of the State. Five hundred citizens, men and women, answered the rallying calls from all over the State. At Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham, they mobilized and from eastern points, they came to join the chorus of faith and progress. P. H. Gwynn, Sr., from near the Virginia line brought most of his family to the demonstration. Another man wired that though he was sick in bed he would come if the word came back for him to come. Mrs. Hook and R. R. Williams eloquently voiced the petitions of the crusaders and Scales revealed himself in his quiet, effective way as a master of public assembly and petition and his chosen and impromptu speakers represented not only the extent of North Carolina but also the vigor and variety of North Carolina life - wealth, civic clubs, youth and age, labor and professions, public schools and denominational colleges, fraternal organizations, parents and teachers and militant womanhood. They spoke not only in a cause but also from personal experiences in the field in storming the strong-points of indifference and experience. President Rondthaler said his happy words in a brief, final way. President Hobgood spoke as president of a denominational college, T. J Harkins for the educational committee of the Scottish Rite Masons, Dr. Pegram for the Junior Order of American Mechanics, Mrs. Wiley Swift for the State parent-teachers Association, 0. B. Riddle, _ of the Burlington Kiwanis. As an editor of a church paper, J J Wells for the Kiwanis Club, Stahle Linn for self-help students, J. E. Latham for the non college men, and Newcomb for the public school children. They spoke from a background of power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.