The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-11-27

inps, and the average lengIh oA 'H
terms is from three to five months. Inc
Negroes constitute about IL per cent
of the total population of the country
A little less than two per cent OF the
expenditures of the over $7OO,OOO,OOO
expended annually for education Is
spent upon them. Of the over $oOO'-
900, 900 spent on public schools, the Ne
fgroes receive about one and one-hah
per cent. More money is spent on spe-
ciaI schools for Indians, about $780,
900 annually, there is expended for
higher and Industrial training for the
Negro, little more than 100000.
After Fifty Years There is as Great
Need for Work in Educating the
Negro as Immediately Follow
ing Emancipation.
1 find in some instances that there
is a belief that Negro education has
advanced enough for the various phil
anthropie and religious associations to
gradually withdraw their support and
use their resources in other directions.
The truth of the matter, however, is
that after fifty years there is still a
great need for the work of the Amer
lean Missionary Association and sim
liar organizations to assist in Negro
education as there was Immediately
following Emancipation.
There are about 100000 Negro
children in the South enrolled in pub
lie schools. This is large number but
not as large, however, as the number
not in school. According to the United
States Census reports, ffty-two per
cent of the Negro children IN the South
of school age are not attending school.
There are yet in the South over 2,OOO,-
900 Negroes who are unable to read or
write. Almost 100000 of these are of
school age.
Although there are perhaps 100000
Negro students enrolled in normal
schools and colleges, statistics show
that only about one-fourth of these
are doing work above the elementary
grades. And only about one-third are
receiving industrial education. In
fifty colleges devoted to Negro educa-
tion there are, according to statistics,
less than 5000 students who are doing
work of collegiate grade.
More Attention Given to Educating
Foreigners Than Educating Ne
groes.
In the North the Jew, the Slav, the
Italian, many of whom are such re-
cent arrivals that they have not yet
become citizens and voters, even I'M
der the easy terms granted them by
the Federal naturalization laws, have
all the advantages of education that
are granted to every other portion of
the population. In several states an
effort is now being made to give i'm
migrant people special opportunities
for education over and above those
given to the average citizen. In some
instances night schools are started for
their special benefit. Frequently,
schools which run nine months in the
winter are continued throughout the
summer, whenever a sufficient number
of people can be induced to attend
them. Sometimes, for example, as in
New York State, where large numbers
of men were employed in digging the
Erie Canal and in excavating the Gro
ton Aqueduet, camp schools were start
ed where the men were employed on
these public works in the day might
have an opportunity to learn English
language at night. In some cases a
special kind of textbook, written in
two or three different languages, was
prepared for use in these immigrant
schools, and frequently teachers were
specially employed who could teach in
the native languages if necessary.
While in the North all this effort is
being made to provide education for
these foreign peoples, many of whom
are sojourners in this country, and will
return in a few months to their homes
in Europe, the Negro in the South has,
as is often true in the country districts,
no school at all, or one with term of
no more than four or five months.
taught in the wreck of a log cabin
and by teacher who is paid about
half the price received for the hire of
first-class convict.
Negro Expected to Make as Much
Progress in Education as Whites.
Received for Education
About one-Fifth Of What
The Whites Received.
There is sometimes much said about
the inferiority of the Negro. In prac-
tice, however, the idea appears to be
that he is sort Of super-man. lie is
expected with about one-fifth or one
tenth of what the whites receive fos
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