The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-07-25
ATTENTION OF HAMPTON
NEGRO CONFERENCE
Problems Discussed
White and Colored Death RATES; Ne
gro Population and Hliteracy;
Raising Money for Schools, Public
Health; and Cultivation Of Corn.

Hampton, Va, July 19.-Yearly the
leaders Of the colored race in asricul-
ture, education, sanitation, and public
welfare, gather at Hampton Institute
and in open conference and discuss the
present-day worthwhile problems of
the Negro race in the light of knowl-
edge and with open hearts and minds.
Problems Discussed.
The sixteenth annual Hampton Ne
gro Conference, held on July II and
IS, dealt with the following vital sub
jects: Work Of Industrial Supervis-
ors in Virginia.; Progr SIS in Rural
Schools; Negroes and the Census of
1910; White and Colored Death. Rates;
Negro Population and Illiteracy; Ne
groes in Virginia.; Organization Work
Among Virginia Negroes; Manage
ment of Boarding Departments; Rails
ing Money for Schools; Cultivation of
Corn; Public HEALTH; Mini.ter and
community; Recreation and Amuse-
ment; Movement Of Negroes to- the
Cities.
Negro Rural Improvement.
There are now seventeen colored
teachers at work in eighteen counties
of Virginia, under the direction of
Hampton Institute. trying to Secure
the more complete cooperation of
parents, ministers, and teachers in
improving school life. These work
ers are carrying On school-demonstra
tion work which is giving new life
and fresh hope to many neglected
country districts .-..--- .....-------
Jackson Davis Richmond, Va, SUI
pervisor Of the rural elementary
schools Of Virgini" read the follow
ing summary of the industrial su-
pervisor's work in Virginia.:
| Work was carried on in eighteen
counties. Negro schools in these
counties 469; schools visited regular
ly, 299; average length of school term
six months; schools extending term,
1921; average length of extension, one
lmonth.
Nine buildings were erected at g
Icost of $4,000; twelve buildings were
lenlarged at cost Of $1,068.15; build,
Iings painted, ~; buildings whitewash
led, SO; sanitary outhouses built, 81.
/ There are in these counties 34S i'm
3Drovement leagues; 121 schools have
introduced individual drinking cups.
The Negroes in these counties gave
in cash, some $13,744.16 for buildings
improvements, lengthening terms, In
dustrial materials, etc.
Negroes And Census Of 1910
DR.. Thomas Jesse Jones, specials
in community work, u. S. Bureau o
I Education, Washington, D. c., and az
: active worker in Negro 'uplift a
: Hampton Institute and elsewhere, ex
planned, with the aid Of charts an
a pamphlet that he had prepared 70
, the Conference, the phases of signih
cant progress that the colored peopl
have made from 1900 to 1910.
. Copies of DR.. Jones' article may b
had by writing to the Publication Oh
flee, Hampton Institute, Virginia.
= Today, Negroes N the South cult
o vate 100000 acres. Forty per Ger
t Of all agricultural workers in tn
t South are Negroes. The total valu
e of land and buildings on farms owr
cd or rented by the colored farmer
n of the South Is almost a billion do
i lars Negro illiteracy has droppe
n from ID per cent. in 1900 to 30 pt
a cent. in 1910. The Negro rate Of ii
J. crease in population, 11,3 per cent,
elequal to that Of European countri