Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-15

authority, too. that every Negro In
Titust0wn gets and reads daily pa
per. Some Negroes buy and read two
daily papers. ITO millions OF black
/ folks, even now says the institutes
report, this would seem ultra modern
To some 1t may seem strange and
4 even dangerous that Negroes should
be so up and coming, but the truth Is
that IN proportion as Negroes get
\ knowledge based on experience and
\ have their wants increased, they set
tie down to habits OF thrift and indus
\ try. This Is what has happened to the
Negroes Of Titustown. They have en-.
joyed rare opportunities. They have
B had plenty Of work to do--work on
the rich trucking lands, In the United
States navy yard at Portsmouth. on
the great coal piers at Sewell's and
Lamber's point, and on the estates OF
wealthy Norfolk business and profes.
sional men. They have also received
good wages.
THE church at Titustown--the Mt.
Pleasant Baptist church-is a fine
structure It was recently built at a
cost OF $4,000 and has membership
4 Of 1900 persons. For long. long dis
\ tances colored people come to attend
this church and discuss problems Of
I lively civic interest
In Titustown the church is strong
and very attractive, but the school is
also strong and fully as substantial. II
I less outwardly attractive, The county
school board spent IS 900 on the Titus.
town school, which Is brick, four
n room building 90 constructed that an
4 other story may easily be added. Some
n $50 children are enrolled and the aver
age attendance Is very satisfactory.
The children II Titustown school have
Y epod teachers and = term Of seven
" months. They are clean, happy and
alert. They are physically well set up.
and show the good results of careful
I home training. The Titustown moth.
" err md II possible to remain at home
4 and care for their children instead Of
eking out q meager living over the
Washtub. The school equipment is
good and Is being steadily improved.
The county manual training teacher
has been able to make, with the as
u sistance Of the boys, some useful arti-
Giles of school furniture, The school
playground .of three-quarters of an
acre ID kept clear Of weeds and trash.
\ IA plot OF two acres has been reserved
Il for public park. It Is important that
N any scheme for community building
some provision should be made for
# recreatiOnal activities. One of the cry
Il ing needs Of Negro country life is
healthful recreation"
A caterpillar's eyes can see nothing
at ! distance beyond two-flfths of an
inch. 5
The students at Tuskegee are quot
ing with enthusiasm the following
statement from recent census bulle-
tin:
Farming In the South is passing
4 into the hands Of the black man. In
The last ten.year census period the
number 81 acres occupied by whites
actually decreased; the negro acreage
= Increased, si
.The proportion OF whites engaged
III farming decreased; the proportion
81 Negroes Increased. Ownership Of
farms BY whites increased IL per cent:
" Negroes, II per cent. Among the
whites the increase In farm tenants
men who do not own the land they
work vas n per cent; among the Ne
Eroes II was but Fl per cent. .sss
.'The total number Of white farmers
working not their own but another
mans land increased $4,000; the to-.
tai number Of Negro farmers working
{ another mans land increased lis, 000.'a
with wireless stations powerful
& enough to reach vessels in all Chinese
Il water, the government Of that nation!
win establish q typhoon warning serv-33
lee.
me ways 81 the law are sometimes
IKE those III d heather Chinese. A
.ew York policeman. on whom three
abnlldoxs we're ssicked, |" had the sick
4 cr arrested Tor violating the sanitary
/ code II provides that CANNES must
be muxzled. 533s If. s85sB
@ The sound ~ the military rife bull,
ISlet, frayeling II 500 feet = second,
/ IN IKE tl,at 81 u long lacksnake whip,
Sci. q II ~ = ~, Va