Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-09-11


I'll the wisdom which modern social
science can furnish. viii be hard put
10 10 combat. And alasi the south
had first 10 forge her owl weapons,
nay. even TO build the forge. In all
the south there was no training scfrool
for social workers, few social experts,
few libraries of social science. The
single library OF Columbia university
contains more valuable books than are
owned by all the colleges OF the south
put together.
So the first thing was to train lead
ers. all the way from district nurses
10 sanitary engineers. The new south
Is daring. II not only contemplated
school Tor social workers whose fac
ulty Of white experts. should teach in
a negro department as well az In
classes OF their own people. but II
dreamed OF raliying seven religious de
Nominations to the support OF the
training school. The dream has come
truo. The American lnterchureh Col.
lege for Religious and Social Work
efs opens its doors on the 18th OF
January. The negro department.
opened .on the fiftieth anniversary OF
the proclamation Of emancipation. has
been In operation almost a year. The
school has astuteIy sat itself down In
the shadow of Vanderbilt university
ard Peabody college ttraining school
Tor normal teaehers) In order 10 es-
tabilsh a cooperative triad. no one
Of The colleges duplicating the ad-
yantages % the other two. students OF
one passing freely TO lectures In the
ethers. Since the negro department
il situated a; little distance land al
20 because negro students IN the south
DO not so to white eollegel. profess
aofa and social experts from the north
win repeat their addresses 1t Nash
vile Institute for Negro Christian
Workers
Economy IL achieved by this happy
arrangement. Each Of the seven co
operating denominations win eyentn-
ally have fits own trainingschool on
the campus. building and owning their
own halls and giving at their Own ex
uense all instruction ia denomina-
tional doctrine. poiliy and methods.
while the intarchurch college pro
ysden a faculty 20 give all courses
which can be taken ip fpmmon b. all
the students This amounts 70 about
four-afths Of the whole curriculum.
The social service library. already
opened. wlll be 81 the command Of
all and a chapel. gymnasium and ad-
mlnlatration building for common use.
No such audaclous system OF church
cooperation has yet been launched In
America. nor do ] know its parallel
anywhere. II Is estimated that the
maintenance OF seven distinct denomi-
national schools with seven distinct
faculties would require an annual out
lay OF si0s.0o Yet the seven. to-
gether With the training schools main
tanned by the !. II. {. a. and ! w.
c. A can be handled comparatively for
$4,000 a year The saw 4 Is actual.
too. for the demand for social work
ers Of every sort il SO strong through
out the south that the denominations
would be compelled TO build ludepen-
IDENTITY had II not been for the Inter
church college The south IL full
OF the raw material FOR social work,
college men and women who want
only expert training 20 make the finest
kind Of instruments. The south needs
no; imported northern experts. but
home bred workers who know their
ground MARY Rrosgcn Hart In
Washington Cd. CT Star.
.a~
In these days OF great achieve
ments J, L possible TO reach heights
befcs Unknown by short cuts. The
Japanese have assim.lated Western
civilization IN about half century
from the time. FL 1881. when commo-
dore Perry OF the United States navy
ffrst entered the hafbor Of Tokyo. the
capital OF Japan. and forced the Jap
anese 70 give up their policy OF isola-
ton and nonintercourse with foreign
nations. There lie no question that
the colored people have assimilated
American civilization in 300 years Of
contact and are today the equals Of
the ether varieties which make UP
cosmopolitan America.
The difference between the ilteracy
OF the white and colored peoples IS
not 30 great as tho census would seem
TO Indicate. The dense urss u gnor-
ance is Ia the South. and the differ
ence between the literacy Of the
southern colored man and. the south
ern white man Is very small. In Chi
cago. owing to the large foreign popu-
lation and the fact that all native
citizens have had equal advantages,
there Is probably less illiteracy among
the colored people than among The
whites.
Russia has 1852 miles OF nayigabie
inland waterways: Germany. 1929:
= France. 1862; England, 1906; Hol-
land, $3.50: Sweden. s.1s7. and Bel.
GUM. lao.
The value Of gold produced In the
Gold Coast and Ashanti during 1912.
Was 40 O4E AGE fhe far0aat nrodueffon