The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-06
the institutions with large, endow-
ments of state and church aid, of
which this school has neither,

the institutions with large endow-
ments of state and church aid, of
which this school has neither.
Mr.. Gardner, one Of the candidates
for the coming goverporship, said: II
am pleased and surprised beyond men,
tioning at what my eyes have actually
seen here today as a result Of prac-
tical and common sense education of
Missouri Negro youth. The world
should know, and the colored people
especially that Missouri at this school
has her own 'Tuskegee,' which is
splendidly solving the problem and
even leading that great Booker T.
Washington school in successful farm
ing and in training colored youth back
to their own best opportunity Of pro-
duction. It is truly an inspiration, a
school worth while. / am a farmer
myself, was poor farmer boy and
my sympathies must necessarily be
with all upward struggling peoples,
but especially all my life, brought up
and reared among colored people, as I
was, l have felt a keen desire to help
them make good citizens wherever and
whenever l can. Like Abraham Lin
coin, whether ever hold office or not,
I here and now promise that I shall
deal justly and fairly with our COL
ored people who, now see, are just
as responsive and capable of being
helped as those in Alabama and other
soutern states. This Bartlett Agri-
cultural and Industrial School as now
named impresses me as Missouri's
best solution of the so-called colored
problem. I shall help it equip and
grow and encourage all my friends to
aid it. It is gratifying to note the
growing confidence Of the colored race
in the schools permanence and its
province of work. Three of the races
members of the board Of trustees have
furnished that number of rooms in the
new Adolphust / Memorial Boys
building at the cost Of SIS, and Mr..
John Lange gave the first 500 to-
wards the new barn. Mr.. Albert
Hicks has given $40 towards the up
keep this year and a pure bred Duroc
Jersey sow easily worth $25, has also
gotten his friends in Columbia to give
towards two very useful farm i'm
plements. Others Of the neighboring
people have given labor and food ma
terial to make that farmers confer
ence a success and there is a helpful
and appreciative awakening all along
the line among them"
The new teachers are Prof. M. r.
Powell, A. B., Howard university;
Prof. r. H. Payne, A. NJ, Kansas uni
versity; Mrs. A. NJ. Fisher, Columbia.
These with Miss Maude D. Nelson OF
Louisiana, who is teacher Of music;
Mr.. M. F. Rollins, shoemaking and
harness departments, together with
the principal and his wife, compose a
faculty as capable as one can find in
the best white schools. All are men
and women though highly educated,
yet joyfully do labor work necessary
to apractical school for doing things.
The United States through the Mis-
souri, State university has located
Prof. E. M. Parrish as farm agent ex-
pert at this school and from this
school as base he works out in north
central Missouri among Negro farm
ers. This also is a great gain. Stu
dents are in this school from many
from Arkansas, Oklahoma
and Illinois, and are pouring in daily.
This is truly school for our people
worth while.