Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-03-03
.Of the Joint Committee to Pine Bluff Warns the COlored Girl Students
 to GuardTheir Virtue.
Cautions the Boys Not to Make Dudes of Themselves-H Hearty Praise for Father Lucey :
 and His School.
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 The joint committee of the Senate aand House, consisting of Senators Blackburn and Douglass and Repre- sentatives yanHoose, Keith and Jeffers, who spent Thursday and Friday at Pine Bluff, inspecting the coIored branch of the State Univer- sity are very generous in their re- ports of what they saw and heard in our sister city.
 "How did you find Pine Bluff pro- gressing?" said the reporter to Sena- tor Blackburn.
 ''I was perfectly surprised to find a eolored school so nicely conduct ed, he said. q was under the inn pression that it was only mechani- cal school, but I found u handsome, large school building occupied with a fine corps of intelligent teachers and a large room well filled with students of both sexes, neatly dress ed, intelligent looking, and, when the president called on them to sing, they. with one accord, did so with @as much dignity and accuracy as any white students in the State could do, and I must say that I am proud of the institution and will al- ways cheerfully pay my part of the taxes to keep it up. Representa- tive Keith, of Benton county, told them that he was willing to be tax ed that they might be educated, and said that he might differ with them politically, but he thought that if we educated them we would make more Democrats out of them, and at that remark the darkies audibly smiled
 .'Did all the committee members address the students?"
 '.Yes, sir, each member made en- couraging remarks and students cheered heartily"
 'It is reported that in your talk to them you advised the young men against becoming dudes and admon-' ished the girls not to be too promis- euous with their lovers; is that true?"
 "Well, yes, told the boys that l hoped that there were no dudes among them; that had the utmost contempt for white dude, but there being no colored people in my eoun- try, never saw negro dude, but l imagined that a negro dude would look just like monkey, but not have as much sense, and when l said that, the boys all smiled their approval. 1 then turned to the girls and told them that 1 was once a young man. and in fact, felt young yet, but tilai l had seen considerable of human nature, and that it had bean my experience that the spoony st,ung lady and the fast young lady were not the kind of girls that were sought after for wives, but that it was the modest, unassuming young lady, and one that would not throw herself in the way of the young men that was most sought after forcom- paniOns. I also cautioned them and told them that their virtue was to them what Christ vGs to the world it was their Savior, and they should be just as sacred with one as the other.'
 What about the mechanical de- pertinent of the sehool?"
 "It is immense. Mir. Langford has certainly done well with the appro- priation in erecting shops, water works, sewers, etc; he is the right man in the place and they lave fine plant. We saw the machinery all in operation and boys there not over 12 years of age and doing good work. turning out wood ornaments, and in fact they ali seemed to be handling their machines like experts. was proud to think that the State could and was doing so much for the descendents of Ham, and 1 say that .S. Harris, superintendent of the machinery department, certainly is an excellent man for the position. He is very systematic, and every tool is in it's place and everything as clean as a pin. In fact, the whole thing is working nicely and I only wish that every member of the Gen eraI Assembly could see these schools and their management. !"
 Did you visit Father Lueey's school?'
 s'Yes, and was very much gratified with what we saw there, and all the more so when we found out that
 n'~r Lucey was an old ex-Confe l.
 nd if he can give 50
 se to educa-