Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-20
Most of Arkansas Baptist College Fund Given by
 Negroes Unaided.
VISITORS MAKE TALKS
Negro in Arkansas Never Has Sought Social Equality, Says Dr. Norris. Trustees of College Be
 Named Tc1ay.

| tooNS oIA Ol ChC YHc,Ooo l used by the Arkansas Baptist college of Little Rock during the past twelve months according to a statement of
 Joseph A. Booker. the president, made to the Arkansas Baptist State convcn- tion yesterday. Dr.. Booker reviewed the progress of the school and com mented on the advance the negroes arc making along educational lines. The adress of Er. E. c. Morris, in which he declared negroes do not seek social equality, lively session over appointment of committee and speeches from negroes from other states featured yesterdays session. In his opening adress, Dr. B. C.. Morris in calling to order the second days session of the Arkansas Baptist State convention, declared that the negroes of Arkansas had never sought social equality, or social interming- ling with the white people and never would. He said that every thinking negro in this country was satisfied with his own, and wanted only pro- tection of life and property and a l fair play in tho walks of life
 "We are pleading for the education of our boys and girls,'' said Dr. Nor ris, "and this in the rural district as we'll as in the cities and towns.
 Provide us with good school buildings, l good teachers, and you will get bet l ter results in the iountry and the l farms and fewer negroes will leave
 their farms to live in the crowded cit ies. We are in favor of education, and have declared that our boys and
 girls must be educated and we are
 going to do the work and if this is not
 given us, then it will be necessary for
 us to go where we can get it. The
 world is demanding educated farmers, l field hands, house servants and cooks
 as well as doctors, lawyers and pro I fesscrs The world is demanding thinKt rtssr inscvery walk ofeltfs. and to
 be thinker you must he trained"s
 The convention was addressed by
 the Rev. P A. Knowles, one of the vet-
 eran pastors, who served as moder-
 ator of one of the leading associations
 in the state for number of years,
 and is now chairman of the National Baptist Home Mission Board, with l hcdaauarters ill Little Rock. I Appointments Cause Dispute. Dr. D. B. Gaines read the journal,
 over tho appointment of committee
 to represent the shares of the conven- l tion in the Stockholders association
 which meets this morning. At this
 meeting the trustees of the Arkansas
 Baptist college will be elected. Points
 of order and questions of law flew
 fast, and motion upon motion was
 made, but the committee remained
 and the convention went on to busi-
 ness.
 Vice President J. P. Robison consid-
 cred the little breeze" good sign,
 because it represented that negroes were thinking. Our people ar get l ting up and in this you will find men
 contending for the mastery. We are
 now prepared to turn our attention
 to business since every man had a
 fair chance to express himself"
 | The report of the educational leader of the Negro Baptists of Arkansas,
 Dr. Joseph A. Booker, president of
 the Arkansas Baptist college, Little
 Rock, followed. It showed that $25,- 900 had been collected and expended ] for the college during the past IF
 months, and the amount came largely
 from the negroes themselves. He
 considered that demonstration of the doctrine of self-help. Four hun ed last year and 15 teachers employ ed in the various departments. The students came from Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas, while the teachers were from some of the best schools in the | country.
 It was a surprise on the convention l when Dr. Booker informed the dele
 gates that there were in the college students from hte lcil section of Ok ! lahcma who were worth from $20.000 l to $50,0OO each, and that he was put ting into them race pride as we'll as race love.
 | Then followed the report of Busf- ness Manager s. M. Wesley, of the
 Vanguard. the official organ of the l convention Wesley is graduate of the Arkansas Baptist college, and a
 practical printer. He has devoted his
 life to the work, and in the convention he has made many friends for the
 work and the paper. He represents
 the aggressive young men.
 l J. S. Ladell, D. D., the leading ne-
 gro evangelist in the convention, de-
 livered short addi ess on soul sav-
 ing, telling how to win them, and re- ferring to his own success. He is
 called upon from all parts of the
 country, and will spend January in J Pennsylvania and New York
 T The Rev. I. R. Jamispn.- of Meifee,
 Ark. declared that the time had ar : rived when the negroes should look after the training of their children
 that it was necessary to go back to ] the days of the mothers aud fathers and teeeh them the proper thing to
 do. He wanted that they learned true
 manhood and woman hood and tnal limpudence was neither. He was giv. en an ovation.
 I Dr. R. E. Bryant of Mariana. deliv hlered an address telling what was De }. ling done In the associtYtfon coverln( xa-7L