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CHICAGO, ILL," SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1922
NEGRO EDUCATION
MAKFJ5 PROGRESS
Dr. James H. Dillard Declares America
Should Spend Five ' Times More
Money for Ejucation
PUBLIC TAXES 7OR SCHOOLS
Dr. John A. Gregg Is Elected President of
the National Association of Teachers
in Colo red Schools
CHARLES E. STUMP, WHO CLAIMS TO
BE THE REGULAR TRAVELING
CORRESPONDENT FOR THE
BROAD AX, STOLE AWAY FROM
NORTH CAROLINA TO JUNCTION
CITY, KANS., WHERE HE ATTEND
ED THE SESSIONS OF THE
SUPREME LODGE KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIAS.
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By Wm. Anthony Aery
Hampton, Va.-Dr. Jame s Hardy;
Hard of Charlottesville. Va.. in his'.
Dillard
Co-operation' delivered
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Ogden Hall, narapujn institute,
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the closing se ssion ot tne
hteenth annual meeting of the Na
tional Association of Teachers in
Colored Schools, expressed the pro
found conviction tb-at America ought
nght away to spend five times as
much money for education as it is
now expending "America could af
lord to spend this money for educa
tion." he said., "if the people should
quit paying 440,000.000 for every new
battleship."
Doctor pillard, who b a member
of the General Education Board and
presidert of the Jeanes and Slater
Funds, stated that the Jeanes Fund
received from public tax funds $3,402
in '4912-13 and in 1921-22 received
$115000. The county training schools
for colored students, which increased
from four iu 1912 to 156 in 1922, re
ceived, for salaries, from public funds
444 in 1912, and in 1922 received
torn the same source, $416,000. This
bst amount was more than doubled
by appropriations for other forms of
support. Of the $1,407,000 spent in
building "Rosenwald schools." which
are modern niral schools for Negroes,
Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, gave
$293 000; white people, $151,000; col
ored people. $403,000; public tax
funds. $560,000. Doctor Dillard de
clared that the masses cannot be edu
cated by philanthropy. "The only
nght way to educate people is
through public taxes."
The association elected Dr John
GreS. Prudent of Wilberforce
Sniversfty: Wilberforce, Oh;
dent and R. S. Grossley. Assistant
State Supervisor of Negro Schools.
Jackson. Miss, executive secretary.
Jackson. .ncluding sena
,.-, ,r-c installed by the first
.ident S the association. R.R-
v 5: Philadelphia. The 1923
r.r ." w?l be held at Tuskegee
,e. July 25-27.
c Policies Outlined
r .c association adopted the policy
ttry. urged schools, municipalises,
Ury,.,. a ?, aeendes employ
r to make provisions for
Pensioning them; expressea ,
mendation of the vrork rhich dep art
ments of education throughout the
Sou doing to -P'"
teachers through summer schools and
Sher-training departments; ; urged
all Southern States to provide fas
speedily as possible adequate e emen-
F , x.:-u ,-,l trainine for all
tary ana wg --- - .
their Negro youth; approved the work
of the state agents ior ..
- 1.. .nmmpnded the John .
Slater Fund, the Jeanes Fund, the
Rosenwald Fund, the elps-Stokes
Fund, and the General Education
Board, not only for their material as
sistance, but also for their construc
tive suggestions and leadership m
Vegro education; endorsed the aims
and methods of the Commission on
t .--i -neration: called upon
colored teachers to render more effi
cient service to Negro youth; and
. . .t. ,nnmmt in U1C
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Negro land-grant colleges to elm
..?- t,:t,.crl,nol orograms, as rapid
lv as possible, and develop efficient
college departments. The resolutions
committee included N. B. Young.
Florida; W. T. B. Wltans, Ala
bama; S. G. Atkins. North Carohna
John Hope. Georgia; John M Gandy.
Virginia; Mary M. Bethune. Florida,
and R. E. Brown, Louisiana.
No Cleavage in Education
That the old conflict between in
dustrial education and academic edu
cation is largely past; that the line
cannot be strictly drawn between the
cultural and the vocational; and that
the aim of every educational institu
tion should be to fit, or at least to
help to fit, its students to do what
they can do best, were opinions ex
pressed by Dr. James E. Gregg, prin
cipal of Hampton Institute, in bis
address of -welcome.
President Gregg of Wilberforce,
his response for the teachers, paid
warm tributes to Samuel C. Arm
strong. Hollis B. FrisseU, ard Jmms
E. Gregg. Dr. H. L. McCrorey.
president of the Johnston C. Snath
University. Charlotte. N. C, the out
going president, made a plea for the
increase of publicity-supported educa
tional facilities for Negro children
living- in country districts and the re
moval of the handicap of one-teacher
rural schools. He advocated the es
tablishment of a Federal department
of education, pensions for teachers,
the development of higher standards
of ethics in the teaching profession,
and' the employment of a -whole-time,
paid executive secretary to increase
, the association's membership and in
I fluencc.
, Assembly 01 Leaders
AmaS those attending this meet-
Assembly 01 Leaders
,n& wtre seven former presidents:
R. R. Wright, Sr Philadelphia; N
B. Young, Tallahassee, Fla.; W. T. B.
Williams, Tuskegee Institute; John
M. Gandy, Petersburg, Va.; John
Hope, Atlanta, Ga.; L. J. Rowan, Al
corn, Miss., and S. G. Atkins. Win
ston-Salem, N. C
Among the educational leaders
present were: Principal Mary M.
Bethune of the Daytona Normal and
Industrial Institute; Clinton J. Cal
loway, director extension department
of Tuskegee Institute and field agent
of the Rosenwald School Fund; Sec
retary Ethel M. Caution of the Y. W.
C A. National Board; President J. S.
Clarke of Southern University; Presi
dent Oliver L. Coleman of Coleman
College; John W. Davis, president
West Virginia Collegiate Institute;
James B. Dudley, president North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical
College; President G. A. Edwards of
Kittrell College; J. B. Fclton, State
supervisor of South Carolina colored
schools; President John M. Gandy cf
the Virginia Normal and Industrial
Institute; George E. Haynes of the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America; William H. Hol
loway, professor cf sociology in Tal
ladega College; President W. T.
Holmes of Tougaloo College; Presi
dent John Hope of Morehouse Col
lege; Benjamin F. Hubert, director
Tuskegee Institute agricultural de
partment; President Z. T. Hubert of
Jackson College; Alfred Lawless, Jr.,
general superintendent American
Missionary Association, Southern
Negro church work; E. A. Long, prin
cipal Christiansburg Industrial Insti
tute; Edward L. Pierson, president
Colored Teachers' Association of
Texas; William A. Robinson, Raleigh,
N. C, state supervisor of teacher
training and high schools for Ne
groes; L. J. Rowan of Alcorn, Miss.,
president Alcorn College; William W.
Saunders, state supervisor of .West
Virginia Negro schools; President J.
fO. Spencer of Morgan College; G. W.
Trenholm of Montgomery,. Ala., presi
dent State Normal School; Thomas
W. Turner, professor of botany in
Howard University; President J. C
Wright of Edward Waters College;
President Nathan B. Young of the
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
College.
North Carolina Program
X. C Newbold. Raleigh. N. C. di
rector of the division of Negro educa
tion in the North Carolina State De
partment of Education, reported that
at the three colored normal schools
in North Carolina there is being car
ried on extensive building programs.
The present plan is to make the three
Negro normal schools standard in
every respect and to develop one nor
mal school into a teacher's college.
The present aim is to make the State
Agricultural College tor .Negroes a
standard, four-year college. North
Carolina now has 20 county training
schools, which are on the way to be
coming full four-year high schools.
Last year 3,850 colored teachers out
of 4,000 attended summer schools.
Professor Newbold made a plea for
fairness, justice and reason in dis
cussing North Carolina's program of
Negro education. "I cherish one am
bition," he said. "It is that the State
of North Carolina will understand
its obligations to colored people and
have the wisdom to realize its obliga
tion and perform its duty in the sight
of men and the fear of God."
Signs of Progress
G. W. Trenholm reported that dur
ing the past year the Alabama State
Normal School for Colored Teachers
has added three good buildings to its
equipment, a high school, named in
honor of Dr. James Hardy Dillard, a
dormitory and a dining hall.
Nathan B. Young, Tallahassee, Fla.
president , of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College, stated that
a Rosenwald agent for Florida had
been secured during the past year and
that the State Department of Educa
tion is working out a system of sec
ondary education for Negroes. Ken
tucky has been maintaining ten sum
mer schools for colored teachers, and
the Kentucky Legislature has appro
priated $76,000 for these summer
schools and two normal schools.
R. E. Brown reported on the
growth of summer schools for colored-
teachers in Louisiana during the past
four years. Louisiana now furnishes
summer school facilities for about
2,000 colored teachers. There are at
work in Louisiana 17 colored indus
trial supervising teachers, 9 home and
10 farm demonstration agents, one
state club agent and one Rosenwald
agent.
Clinton J. Calloway of Tuskegee
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Institute, stated that the Alabama
State Association of Colored Teach
ers now has an enrollment of 1,600
teachers. Last year, through the as
sistance of the Julius Rosenwald
Fund, $154,000 worth of Negro school
buildings were constructed. The en
tire Rosenwald school building cam
paign in Alabama has netted 235 Ne
gro schools, erected at a cost of $400,
000. and of this amount Negroes have
given 30 per cent. There are now
enrolled in seven Negro summer
schools in Alabama 3.000 teachers.
R. S. Grossley of Jackson, Miss.,
reDorted that his state had completed
a Negro school building program of
$500,000. At Mound Bayou, a Negro
settlement, the colored people, within
an area of 25 square miles voted a
bond issue of $110,000, and erected a
$100,000 modern, well equipped school
building. At Hattiesburg, a saw-mill
town of about 10,000 people, therohas
been erceted a $75,000 Negro school
building. Mississippi has committed
itself to the policy of standardizing
education in Negro schools and oi
developing public Negro high schools.
Mississippi is now conducting 23 sum
mer schools for 3,000 colored teach
ers. Durine the past year there have
been built in Mississippi 53 Rosen
wald schools at a cost of $400,000
Virginia has a population of 690.-
000 Negroes. There are, however,
90,000 of the school population, which
is 220.000. who are not in school Only
95.000 Negro children of the 132,000
enrolled are in regular daily attend
ance in Virginia schools Virginia
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HON. P. A. NASH
Member of the Firm of Nash Brothers, Extensive and Successful Con
tractors, Prominent West Side Democratic Politician, Who Has
Always Had a Strong Following Among the Colored People in
the Fourteenth Ward. Member of the Board of Review of Cook
County, High Class Business Man, Who Has Legions of Friends
Who Would be Delighted to See Him Enter the Race for Mayor
of Chicago in 1923.
now has 23 Negro county training
schools. There ate 2.500 Negro
teachers in Virginia, which needs at
least 4,000 teachers. Virginia has cut
down the number of its illiterates
from 56.000 in 1910 to 28,000 in 1920.
There are still 16,000 colored il
literates in Virginia. Virginia during
the past year has completed 23 Roien
wald schools and 56 other Negro
Physical Training Demonstration
The Hampton Institute summer
school department of physical educa
tion, under the direction of Charles
H. Williams, gave a unique physical
training demonstration in the large
institute gymnasium for the benefit of
men and women who are interested
in modern methods and undeveloped
possibilities of physical education.
The program included the following
numbers: Supervised play for recess
periods: frcc-hanc1 gymnastics; school
room lessons: dumb-bell drill; Rus
sian folk dance; gymnastic lessons;
Indian-club exercises: Swedish folk
dance; bombardment and dodge ball:
aesthetic exercises: aesthetic dance,
Lange's "Flower Song"; characteris
tic Negro folk dance, "Cotton Needs
Pick-in'," written by Charles H Wil
liams: and "Scenes from an Imagin
ary Ballet" 03 Coleridge-Taylor, with
dance interpretations "Ocean" and
"Birds" devised by Dora Cole Nor
man, well known danseusc of New
ork
HON. PATRICK J. CARR
The Popular and Up-to-Date Treawer of Cook Coasty, Who WMi
His Thousand of Warm Friead Scattered Tknfio Tb City
and Comty Fed Dead Se of Hk FJectioB to Hk Freet Pott
tion This Coming FaJJ.
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CARR TO ORGANIZE REALTY
TAX BUREAU
County Treasurer Patrick J. Carr
has written President John R. Ma-
gill of the Chicago Real Estate
Board and President William H.
Loehde of the Cook County Real Es
tate Board inviting them to agree on
a man to manage his proposed real
estate bureau in the treasurer's office.
Mr. Carr says he will get a special
appropriation to pay the man upon
whom they agree.
The bureau is planned to make it
more convenient for brokers repre
senting large numbers of clients for
estates, banks and trust companies
to get information regarding taxes'
and . special assessments without
having "to wait in line."
MAKING RAPID STRIDES
Friendship Club society of The
New Morning Star Baptist Church,
3802 Federal street, has made rapid
strides within its M.ty days of organ
ization and i doing much good in
charity work among members and
friends. Mrs. Maggie Woodson, 3350
Giles avenue, is president; Miss Flqra
Baker, secretary: Miss Rebecca Scott,
treasurer: Rev. Andrew Atkins, chap
Iain: Rev Wm. Davis pastor of the
church. Rev. L. Jones, assistant pas
tor, and Mrs. Lizzie Irwin.
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Junction City, Kan. There arc
big doings down here in Kansas, and
I am some guest, believe me, honey.
When I wrote to you last week, I
was down in North Carolina, the
guest of so many big people I could
not tell you them all, but after tak
ing a special meal with V. Gomez,
of the Rankers' Fire Insurance Com
pany, I then got myself in shape
and left for another part of the
world.
Back to Raleigh, where I found
Hon. Berry O'Kelly, the great leader
and worker in the National Negro
Business League waiting for me to
come on down to see him. He had me
to promise to meet him in Norfolk
when the National Business League
meets there; and I expect to be right
on hand, and when I get through I
am going to beat it to Richmond, Va..
to speak at the Fifth Street Baptist
church, and from there I will go to
Washington, New York, Chicago, and
then on to California. I will be there
to the National Baptist convention.
I have kept before you National
meeting after National meeting, and
now they are reaching the end. The
National Allen Christian Endeavor
League convention or congress will
be in Chicago August 16. and there
will be many people there for that
big meeting.
You will be interested to know that
when the National Baptist convention
meets in Los Angeles. Cal.. Septem
ber 6, the Rev. Dr. A. M. Townsend
will be able to report that they arc
working on our new publishing house
and that it is going to be the finest
in this country owned and operated
by us. The buildings are being torn
down now, and then will follow the
foundation. They have put some
money into this, and it is going right
on. Those who go to Nashville, will
be able to see just what we Baptists
are doing. Be in Los Angeles, and
hear Dr. Townsend make his report,
and get some new inspiration.
But I started to tell you about this
place. I got down here Monday
night and was assigned to the home
of S. K. Smith, who is a head cook
in the largest hotel, and a man of
wonderful ability and influence. He
owns a fine home, it is a fine house,
and you may know that there were
fine doings. But I was not here to
see Mr. Smith, but I was invited by
Dr. S. H. Thompson, grand chancel
lor of the Knights of Pythias and
Mrs. Norene Davis, grand worthy
counsellor of the Court of Calanthe
to come and be the guest of the two
grand bodies, and that is why I was
assigned to such a fine place, and
that is why I got so much attention.
They had a great big meeting here,
and they were able to do great things
for the whole race.
Dr. Thompson is just a man who
is bom to lead men, and he is doing
it. too, and when they get sick, he
then makes them well, for he is one
of the best physicians in this whole
state of Kansas. He is some man
when it comes to speaking, and he
has many friends. He wanted to re
tire, but they would not permit him
to do so. t
Hon. S. W. Green, of New Orleans.
Supreme Chancellor of the Supreme
Lodge of Knights of Pythias, was the
guest of honor and I was just a plain
guest. You see he i somebody and
at the head oi something, and it is
just poor me trying to learn how to
write for newspapers, and get things
in life as I would like to have them.
He is one of the strongest men in
this race, and a leader among men
You can scratch him in the hand 3nd
get him to wink when it comes to ou
and bring the other fellow to time.
But you may wink and blink all you
want to, but if you are not right then
the Supreme Chancellor will dose his
eyes and, apply the law, and when
you run into him it is just like run
ning into a buzz saw. He studied his
lesson and when he goes to the reci
tation room he is prepared for any
thing, and when it comes to the drill,
well, he is head of that.
Supreme Chancellor is a safe leader
for the American people, and when
he is presiding you get all that is
coming to you, and that is not say
ing too much. He speaks right out,
and when you don't come up then
out you must go. I am sorry that
"Missouri has fallen by the wayside,
but it is no more than I expected.
They wanted to sujnd and see all the
others .get their bed and walk. He is
just a small man, but big in brains.
He said so many good things to the
Knights of Kansas and told them all
about the other jurisdictions and whaj
they were doing.
Supreme Chancellor Green did not
say anything about Missouri, but it
Is only a question of a few days when
you wiU hear something drop, for I
am told tli at the Grand Lodge- of
Missouri voted that the Supreme
Lodge could go where it was
'perpetual summer, and where the
wind was never known to blow, for
they were not going to pay any taxes
and could live without the Supreme
Lodge. (
Then there was Mrs. Norenr
Davis, who is just a worker. She
has such a sweet, loving disposition
that she is loved by all the women,
and they voted her a vacation trip
to California and the West and she
is just going and is going to enjoy
herself. They just presented her with
all the things she needed. I mean
she is to go to California in style,
and what it takes to go in style she
will have it, for the women are go
ing to see to that part of it.
Mrs. Davis has promised to have
some real chicken for me, and some
other good things, and the only thing
necessary is for me to be on hand.
and they will divide the eats with
me. I guess I will just eat my fool
brains out, and then eat them in
again. I met many good people
there, such as Mrs. Drumgound, the
Misses Garrett and Perkins, and I
could just talk about them all day
and then take part of another day.
Junction is an aggressive city, and
our people down there are doing
things. They own some real fine
homes, and the people all joined in
making it a success. The uniform
rank was out in full under General
Thomas Kennedy, and then the
Chamber of Commerce just told them
Pythians to say what they wanted
and they could have it, for they were
glad to have them in town. I heard
them tell the people that they wanted
75 automobiles for the parade and
they were there. The leading white
people donated their cars for the oc
casion, and declared it was a pleasure
to do so. We had one more time
in the town, and all left with praises
on their lips about the city.
Here I am moving again, and yot:
will rejoice with me to know t..at
Prof. Inman E. P- .as been e!ect-,
ed at the head oi iMuln Uuivfrivtv,!
Jefferson City, M. Me rmt fcis
school on the ma;, a fee tint ao,
and then left it. It Jww.- never bees
what it was when fes feft 3tf Mat put it
down now that it ' h ra4c wii th
best schools again - this man is
going to make it so.
Prof. Inman Page is one of the
greatest school men in America, say
ing nothing about race or color. He
is refined, polished, and a man of
wonderful ability. He got his degree
from Brown University, way up yon
der in New England, and then he
has kept up every since. He is a
reader, and thinker and a scholar. I
am sure that the people of Missouri
will rejoice to know that he is to
be on hand next fall when the school
opens, and you arc going to have big
doings.
I think I will bring this letter to a
shut up, and write you again soon.
CHARLES E. STUMP.
MISS WELLS ON VISIT
Miss Hazel Wells teacher in Hart
shorn Memorial College at Richmond,
Va., is in the city on a visit with her
father. R. W. Wells, president The
Wells Book and Stationery Concern,
and while here is the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Harding. 3710 Indiana
avenue. Miss Wells will spend three
weeks at Minneapolis and St. Paul,
Minn., before returning to Virginia for
her fall duties.
GET TICKETS FOR COLUMBUS
All day Friday. August 4, the office
of The Bailey Realty Co., 3638 State
street, second floor, was crowded with
members and friends of A. U. K. &
D. of A, who purchased their tickets
and certificates to leave on Sunday
for Columbus, Ohio, over thtf I .nn
sylvania lines in special trains to the
fiifteenth annual session ct the national
grand council
MORRIS IN OHIO
Charles Satchell Morris. Jr., widely
known asa scholar and orator, is-now
in Ohio, and will visit Cleveland, '
Columbus and Troy, speaking before
large audiences. On returning to the
city Morris, will prepare, to go east
for an extended lecturelftrirJ'.
Attorney Vklette N. Anderson,
4133 Indiana avenue, is spendTagjfcer
vacation at her summer home, Idle
wild, Mich. Sneexpects to return to
the city September 1.
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