The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-27

lay, Night May It'll. The sale OF
reserved seats will open, Monday,
April 3Oth, there will be increase in
prices. Half of the balcony will be
reserved for colOred people.
the very lotion of the list. Even
below all of the other southern
states. including Louisiana anu
states that do not make any pa
ticular pretention to Negro educa-
ton. The provisions of the state
Tor Negro education, for Negro
schools seem to lie the least of all
the states. That is to say, that the
state schools of Arkansas, the
schools supported by the state for
Negroes seem to be less than the
State school supported by the state
for Negroes than any of the states in
the United States, or in other words,
if SENS that Arkansas stands at
the bottom of the list OF states in
its preparation for Negro education,
The Branch Normal School of Pine
Bluff seems to be the only state
educational enterprise fostered and
maintained by the state, and a large
Per cent, we are informed, Of the
funds that support that school is
siven by great educational funds,
and not particularly by the state.
1t was exceedingly painful to note the
sweat difference in the appropria-
tons of the last legislature Off Ne,
gro state schools and white state
schools. What little appropriations
Tor buildings and new paraphernalia
that was appropriated by the legis-
lature for Negro state schools seems
to have been vetoed by Gov. Brough.
$4,000 seems to have been set apart
by that law-making body for that
purpose, but even that pussila1imous
sum as compared with that great ap-
preparation made for the state school
at Fayetteville was vetoed and cut
out by the governor. When it is t.
lie remembered that there were
several state schools for whites
which are equipped and maintained
in a first class way by the state that
every branch of study necessary tc
make first-class citizens out of the
white youths of the state are operat
ed in connection Herewith, and tina;
large and liberal appropriations are
made for their maintenance, ant
separate teachers for separate
branches, and then there is only one
| little pitiful school fostered by thu
e state for the colored, and what lit
; tie appropriations were made 70
that Institution TO broaden it and t.
{ make il really a iirst-class schoU
! were vetoed and cut off, then it doe
appear that the Negro is just re-
sons to complain, just reasons to fee
, himself a9grieved just reasons [
, memorialize the state that he as
I citizen and a tax payer feels tina
|, The Is not being Justly treated. Their
e can be no complaints about tn
s. splendid arrangements for the whit
: youths. 1t is to be conceded thi
j. they have no more than what 9
s should have. The editor of I'll
"a Peoples Defender as a Negro cit
n cenzen, as representative of Negr
p interests congratulates and praise
l. them, but he sincerely and earnes
d y enters protest against the yer
II poorly arranged preparations for N
g groes as compared with that
'e whites. 1t is to be believed IL
lie editor shares that belief, that IL
N matter has not been justly and pro
IL erly brought to the knowledge of Il
RS white people, for there can he I
Is doubt but what hundreds and thou
'e ands Of white men and women
. this great state a are in harmon
with Negro uplift. Thev. believe
y educate, to enlighten, to Christia
ize the Negro makes of him a bett
citizen, and therefore makes hi
a. more tolerable for his white neig
y Dor, more acceptable as a part
is their community. If the matt
b. could be fairly and properly broug
T. before them, it is believed the me
" ter could be adjusted and remediC
i'd for there are hundreds of peop
e, who do not believe in an unfh
ir deal even though that deal be und
j. their own control No enlighten'
Is man, whether he be white man
he black man, can help but see when
he stops to consider in the light
III righteousness and truth, but VIII
e. the Negro, from ali education
d, standpoint, as a citizen Of the gre
lie state of Arkansas is getting the l
Ii tie end of the deal, Tor the Neg
1t is doing his full share, he is raj