The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-03

ID lgaws : ,nlstlnderstood Cb-educntiot1
is iinpfacticabla in my Southern State,
nd for that Hto y grgeXr ereh as
lad eoeducation though tic p ,st, q
was founded ~ abolitlonists who ei n;err
and Ie tho ~ Wits mar would be made edual
by education. THUS Berea. has always
lid i mixed attendance. THOUGH 4 e 2 n;
mon eass-roolns are USED, II NJ Is q Ia
races Ia i II Tie q dormtores. TRere are Bet.
ter schools for the negro in Kentu lucky,
but there is no school doing more soGS n
students could only be transferred to some
q. tho good colored schools; and y Be[ hn.
half of the 1nolsntaineers, the school y
would take much higher RANK ttl''h =
unfoftnately for the Welfare 5s Of oer9 e.
ing open TO black and white alike, IN. the
beng wed WY " pa usaaeat n peoR Ri,
was feasible. As Berea was doing doll, q =
to let negroes become u.s. students 4 Mar
iii preventing co. education. It affected
only Bercu since, in no other school N
9 STATE a Is nc hardsp on Berea Il
was ordered that the law should not be-
como Directive until July IL. which. should
be between the school terms ahd 70 sa asa
that separate schools might be conducted.
provided they be at least 20 miles apart.
The trustees of Berea. however, beile I've
conducted and IL they loose tho fight
they have decided to make. say they VIII
remove tho college to OHIO, or to some
other state permitting the co-educatloil
q I'll,
For forty years Bercl has been ndmltt-
Ing both white and colorcd students;
There are at present so5 wh i,eo,, n nho ~
the proportion for many years. Inc
whites come almost entirely from INC
mountains, where there arc no negroes.
south. 1t Is claimed for Bcren that the
negroes are so distributed among TIE
classes that their education costs practl-
schools would require the Withdrawal OF
n large portion OF Berea's resources. "
this, there Is no doubt, but the question
haS been asked, would not this be nic a,
aid very materially the development %, or
lerea? AS it stands To-Day Kentucky
and kcntuckians do nothing Tor Bereh
ton, yet they realize that great WORK
Is being done for the mountaineers. ~
tic same time the State provided excel
lent schools and colleges tor the NE iissIoI 10
President william G. Frost as a monu-
ment to the nnti-slavery sentimedntL, IN IN
Kentucky. It was founded In the nilies;;
more intense, some men began to free |
their slaves and remove TO the Tree
States. In Eastern Kentucky u large
number OF nnti-slavery men. OF whom
Caasius NJ. Clay was one. remained IL
was at Clay's Invitation that tie Key.
John G. Fee. of Bracken county. hrst
came and settled on Berea ridge. He was
n slaves,
Hanson and others who favored nbo-
liton gathered around him; ana there
the college was born. Though there were
war since the war. and until this year
the right Of Berea to treat the negro as
the equal OF. the white has never been
alton It has been permitted TO SO ahead,
and as said, it has been Il great benefit
to the mountaineerS; being located Almost
provides for the admission of AL young
people of good moral character During
the twenty-five years following the close
negroes The first colored teachers in tn,
State received all the education they had
at Bcrca. When the States esta blishcd the
State school for negroes. and later nor
Berea began to show a steady decline N
negro attendance. AS It did. 80 did y
show an Increase In white attendance,
'' Opinion Mo p'Ii IS nearly evenly divided in
Madison county as to the continuance OF
Berea college as "a school openFto both
races. The school itself favors separate
schools for the races in Kentucky, yet be-
lieves that by maintaining its own school
for both races. it Is bringing the negro
to higher level. However, the people OF
Madison county as rule are tolerant,
and while there are some hotheads. they
are willing to let I3erea run quietly along,
so long as the negroes keep In their
place, outside the school, for they realize
that as tho influence OF Berea is steadily
growing with the white people OF the
mountains, It Is as steadily declining with
the negroes, who more and more seek
the excellent schools maintained by the
State. The position of Berea is best
stated by President Frost. as follows:
1T Should be understood that in any
and every case, Berea College proposes
to stand it's ground and go forward with
tile great work committed to 1t with f.
deity to the interests Of both races. Our
work was never more promising than at
the present time Berea will emerge from
this rs from earlier trials stronger than
before.
"The incident will bring before the
whole country, the vital part Of the
Southern problem. It is not mainly q
negro problem, but white problem as
to whether there can be enough of intelli-
gence and liberality diffused among this
dominant race to allow a true govern
ment by the people, and a Christian
treatment of the humber race, recently
CIIAs. A. DALEY.