The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-24
PROF. MONROE BALL ADDRESSES
PINE WOODS INDUSTRIAL
SCHCOL-ENCOURAGES NEGROES
TO MAKE THE BEST OF THEIR
OPPORTUNITIES.

The efficient young principal, Prof.
Monroe bail, of the Braxton collegiate
Institute, delivered splendid address to
the Negroes of Rankin and Simpson coun-
ties and the Piney Woods Rural In
dustriaI Scnool last Saturday. He is one
of the ablest of the young educators in
Mississippi, being product of the best
educational institution that the state at
rordS. He SAID In part:
''As your principal has said in his in
PRODUCTION the line along things social is
and will be drawn for all time to come
and | heartily agree with him that the
best thinking people of both races see the
necessity of cooperation in all that makes
for the upbuilding of the south.
81 he progress of the Negro in this
country has IN a measure been extremely
fast. In one sense there is no race prob
lent is matter of racial progress, and
it is usually the unthinking portion of
both races that is the cause OF friction"
He then took up the new idea of educa-
ton, mind, morals and muscles, and
after an interesting discussion of the. agri-
cultural high school, said in part:
81 see that your principal is working
along the rigid lines-the development OF
your muscles-ln that you have equal op-
portunity with the white man. | look into
that corner and / see where you have
been making baskets. | look into the far
room and | see the girls in white aprons
and caps and the dlnning table decorated
with wild flowers, along the walls | see
the sewing bags harging in neat order,
in the other room | see the shoe makers
tools, the carpenters bench and tools,
locking out CT the window | see your farm
and---learning to do these things in an
intelligent manner is the first principle
of genuine education. These industries
are the bedrock principles of your educa-
tion.
81 endorse everything that | see here
and commend tie way In which you are
successfully managing the school, you arc
Or the right road---uplifting ones fellow
man is a noble work and | pledge to you
and your principal in your struggle for
betterment, the support and encourage
ment of my people in this section Of the
country"
After explaining the education of the
mind and laying great stress upon the
proper developement of the morals, he
showed the grave responsibility of the
teacher--how he or she ought to be of un-
spotted character and closed with an earn
est, heart touching plea for right thinking
and right living.
Principal L. Z. Jones then thanked Prof
Ball on behalf Of the best Negroes OF the
south for his words Of good cheer, and
when was Mr.. Leonidas Everett, of the
Clinton College, son of President K. F.
Everett, Of Braxtcn Bank, the industrial
work that is being done, they were con-
| Quoted into the training department OF
domestic science where the girls of the
| cooking class served them the following
menu-a copy of which was at each plate
Menu
! Training Kitchen
| Pine Ridge Rural School
Gumbo of Rice with Crouton
Baked Mississippi Channel Cat
Tomato CroquetteS
French Fried Patatoes
Piney Woods Golden Brown Rolls
Boston Baked Apples with Whipped
Cream
Coffee
Served to
Prof. Monroe Ball, Principal Braxton Col
legiate Institute, Mr.. j. R. Webster
ard their party, March 10Th, 1910
| Typed and Cooked under the direction
of Miss Mary E. Martin, Jeanes Fund
Industrial Teacher.
The hundreds of Negroes who had lis
tened with interse earnestness felt that
each was a beneficiary and all left for
home filled with inspiration 70 better his