The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-02
THE NEGRO
AND INDIAN
What Education is
Doing For
Them.
MEETING OF THE
WOMAN'S BOARD
Mrs. c. B. Dyke Reads an Inter
estins paper-Reports OF
Local Missions.

The woman's Board of Missions held
it's monthly meeting yesterday after
noon. at 2:3O in the Sunday school room
OF Central Union Church. the attend
ance being quite large. There were
number of interesting reports on the
| missionary work being done in Homo
lulu. especially among the Hawaiians
and japanese. The main topic OF the
afternoon. however. was an address by
Mrs. c. b. Dyke of Kamehameha
School. on negro and Indian education.
| which proved a most interesting side
light on the work being done among
the people OF these two races. Mrs.
Dyke showing that she has CLEANED her
facts by personal Investigations.
Mrs. Dykes address was entitled
! Educational Work of the American
Missionary Association" although she
stated that this title restricted many
points of educational; development she
desired to present. The main object OF
developing an unciviliZed race was 10
| substitute the ideals of the civilized
race for those of the unciviliZed, and
! thus raise the standard of the latter.
Any one who has these ideals must de-
mand certain very definite things, such
as righteousness. love, beauty and a
certain amount of wealth and justice.
Herein lies the entire problem of the
education of the negro. At the begin
ming of their slavery he was unedu-
Gated and uncivilized. but 240 years of
seryitude gave him q training in the
shop and field. and in many industrial
things. The negroes had certain
amount of education, for they were
compelled to practice sobriety, faith
and economy. But now after forty
years Of freedom there are 100000
negroes living in the South in belt
surrounded by educated people. who
are practically today untouched by
civilizing influences. The negroes are
thoroughly religious and there is a great
| deal of brotherly love among them. AS
soon as one gets ahead in the world.
his first thought is to pull up his fam
! lily with him.
| II was often said that the education
of the negro is failure. This was
true in the South TO a large ex-
| tent. although the South had spent
much money TO educate the negroes
| Twenty years ago Kentucky spent 30
cents a year to educate the negro,
and today the State is spending So
| for every negro. Twenty years ago in
| North Carolina the annual expenditure
| for each negro's education was 10 cents
and today 81. o3 In the Northern States
| the average cost is $50 for each pupil.
| but owing to the poverty which mas
obtained in the South since the war.
| what the Southern States expend Tor
| education is large in proportion to that
| mt out by the States OF the North.
| The average negro child in the rural
| districts Of the South receives on an
/ average about forty days schooling
| in n school year. Only one half of The
children OF school age are enrolled.
4 The poverty Is very great
| The speaker stated that most people
recognized that the animal instincts of
men come from the lower nerve CEN
i ters When the higher nerve centers
are educated there is a degree OF eau
| ton in the person. The violent crimes
perpetrated by the negroes in the South
| are committed with a surprising lack
| OF foresight and caution. The negro
/ knows this. but at the same time his
| animal instincts are strong and he can
| not practice caution and foresight AT
the same time. although knowing that
| even within a few hours he may De
| taken and hung or otherwise killed for
| his crime. II the children could be
| gwen three hours education every day
| she believed that the results would
show In later years when there would
he less crime and less race hatred.
She spoke OF the work OF General
| Armstrong at Hampton. There the re-
| Iiefous nature Of the negro was deNel-
| oped by missionary work. This nature
~ the negro was a wonderfully true
ono In time OF trouble he learns To-
l lean uDon a higher power for help.
During all his slavery he was depend
/ ing and leaning upon some higher
power The one thing most needful IN
the South was an educated ministry
because upon the result Of their teach
ings much depends. The negro leans
/ uuon the ministers who exercise much
| power over him and all his race. These
| uueducated ministers are the ones who
| tell them that IL Is not 81 easy for a
rich man 10 enter heaven as FOR a
camel TO go through the eye Of cam
| brio needle" What they had % say
was mostly from memory. The great
| est trouble with the uneducated negro
| was his lack OF desire for wealth. Liv-
! ing Is easy I'm the South and fifty per
| cent 81 a large number OF children with
whom the speaker had talked on the
subject. said they did not want 10 b.
| wealthy. Their religious teaching had
| been such that they believed the Bible
had expressly forbidden them u be-
come wealthy. and they preferred -
live indolent lives