The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-11-25


Turner Normal College a visit and
spoke to the students. Mr.. Hart is
one of the trustees of the college.
DR.. ]. A. Jones leIt this week for
Chicago, where he went to visit his
mother, who is confined to her sick
bed. He is to return within few
days.
Turner Normal continues to swell
its student roll. The latest additions
are Miss Dora West and Mr.. Theo-
dore West of Lynnville, and Messrs.
Philip Jordan and j. Eddie Carpen-
ter, of Pulaski.
The boys building at Turner Nor
NAL filled up some time ago, and now
they are compelled to move them into
the recitation rooms in the girls
building. The crying neew now at
Turner Normal is new building.
DR.. Stanley Davis and Miss Lille
Buchanan, two of Shelbyvilie's most
popular young people, were Joined in
wedlock last Wednesday at $3.50
p. M, DR.. ]. A. Jones, of Turner Col
lege, officiating. DR.. Jones had been
the instructor of these TWO young peo-
pie some years ago, while they were
school boy and girl Miss Madge C.
Boddie played the wedding march.
Rev. ]. A. Crump, who has been
confined to his room several days with
fever, is out again and at his post
of duty.
The public school gave a very in
teresting musical concert at the Mt.
Zion Baptist Church on the 23rd, as
a Thanksgiving entertainment. The
proceeds were for the benefit of type
writer purchased by the principal for
the school.
The Thanksgiving entertainment
given by the students of Turner Nor
NAL on Wednesday was very inter-
esting. The Silver Star Drill, con-
Quoted by Mrs. Benson, and the Red
Riding Hood Drill, under the direction
of Miss Boddie, were exceptionally
fine.
The Negro Normal School in Tennes-
see.
Editor of the Nashville Globe:
Where should the Normal School
for Negroes in Tennessee be located?
Peculiarly enough, some have seemed
to feel that few dollars contributed
by some community should deter
mine the answer. If a stalk of corn
Is to grow, it must hot be laid down
upon rock as SOIL. 1t must be
placed in good, real soil and proper
surroundings. The better the sur
roundings and soil. The greater the
yield If Negro Normal School is
to grow and to amount to anything
in Tennessee, it must not be located
on dollars alone; it's location must
be decided upon in accordance with
educational atmosphere and con-
venience to the masses which it is
expected to reach and benefit. The
choice for location seems to lie be-
tween Nashville and Chattanooga.
Chattanooga is a splendid little
city, but it has almost nothing in
the way of educational atmosphere as
compared with Nashville with its
dozen or more colleges and univer-
stiles.
If the Negro Normal we're located
in Nashville, the very fact that II
would have to compete for standing
with such Negro schools as Fisk
Walden and Roger Williams Univer.
stiles would force its FACULTY and stu
dent body to maintain the highest
standards Of excellence along all
lines. There would be no such stim.
Glns in Chattanooga.
1t is to be hoped among other
things, that the said Normal will do
much along agricultural lines for
the Negroes Of the state If so, II
will need to specialize on crops pc
Culiar to Tennessee. This will call
for experimentation at the school
The very geographical position of
Chattanooga makes the soil and sur.
rCundings adapted to getting facts
Concerning the average kinds OF
crops of Georgia and Alabama rather
than those of Tennessee, while Da-
wilson County surroundings and
soils are such as to make a good ex-
detrimental location for ordinary
Tennessee crops.
With the completion of the Ten
nessee Central Railroad, Nashville,
besides being centrally located, be-
comes connected by direct line with
I'll parts of the state. Chattanooga
is off in a corner. Nashville is more
centrally located and thus the better
Tlace for the SC 1oci
Chattanooga is convenient to reach
from East Tennessee but is very in
convenient to reach frora West ana
Middle Tennessee. The number O..
Negroes in East Tennessee, as COM