The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-06-12

POPULATIONS MADE BY STATE
LEGISLATURE - BR IL liant
REPRESENTATIVE OF TENNEs.
SEE-MR. CARUTHERS NEPHEW
OF MR.. AND MRS. CART.
WRIGHT, OF PATTERSON
STREET.
The election of Prof. j. Thomas
Caruthers as principal of Manual
Training and Industrial School at
Bordentown, N. j. last week, is an
other high honor conferred upon one
of Tennessee's worthy sons. Mr.. Ca
ruthers is nephew of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Cartwright, of 171S Patterson
street. and son of Mrs. P. G. Poindex.
ter, of Madisonville, Ky. He is a Ten
nessean, having been born and reared
at Columbia. Immediately after fin
ishing at Amherst College with the
class of OF, he accepted a position at
the Bordentown school and was given
charge of the Agricultural Depart.
ment. His first years work had just
been completed. After seeing how
thoroughly he organized the agricul-
tural work of the school within one
year, placing it upon higher standard
than ever before, it seems that the
State Board of Education had found the
man they were looking fora young
man capable of performing the
great work to be done, and they at
once offered him the principalship
of the school This is the largest
training school for Negroes in New
Jersey, and one of the best in the
East. The State legislature has made
additional appropriations for the
school each term and several new
buildings are now in course of cree
ton. The school is not new one by
any means, but there seems to have
been a desire on the part of the Board
to get a practical man at the head.
The fact that the new principal has
had thorough training in school that
stands high along this line Of work,
and his excellent record, had great
deal to do with his appointment. AL.
though a young man still in his TWEEN
ties, he has the brains, push and ambi-
ton to go forward.
That Prof. Caruthers will prove him
self, and thoroughly represent the tai.
ent and worth of the sons of Sunny
Tennessee" there is no doubt. His
friends in Nashville, as well as Column
bia, rejoice at this deserving promo
ton and wish for him ali the honors
that New Jersey can put upon his
worthy shoulders,
While the election and promotion Of
F; Prof Caruthers to this comfortable
berth and prominent position attests
the wOrthiness of the Negro to fill such
a position, it also shows how little in
terest the state Of Tennessee has in the
education of its youth in any particular
line The state of New Jersey has not
one fifth of the Negro population that
the state of Tennessee has. They have
not provided for them in any particular
school. 1t is estimated that the state
of New Jersey spends about $4,000
annually in this school alone, aside
from the other appropriations they are
making In this way the Negro boys
of New Jersey are receiving direct
benefits from the requests and from the
various funds, including the Morrill,
Fund, for taking agricultural and me-
chanical training.
The announcement made some
time ago that there would be estab-
i, Iished a branch of an A. & M. school
for the Negro in West Tennessee,
started a force to work with the in
tention of getting the school located in
\ Nashville, where it rightly belongs.
1t ought to be located in the middle
of the state since there is no agricul-
i tural and mechanical school in the
+ state, and since the legislature is not
D providing for any appropriations or
dividing that part that is received from
S the United States government New
S Jersey is to be complimented for the
S oraat work che is dining for the educa