The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-26
NEGROES MUST
 HAVE EDUCATION IF THEY ADVANCE

Adequate college and university education for colored people is urg- ed by pr. Thomas Jesse Jones of the United States Bureau Of Education, Department of the Interior, in the two-volume report on Negro Educa- tion just issued by the department.
 ''If college education is of value to any group, surely it is to those who are to be the leaders of the colored people. Only broad-minded leader ship with thorough grasp of human development can understand the pe- culiar difficulties resulting from the close proximity of such widely vary ing races as the black and white peo- pie of the Southern states.
 'The race must have physicians of real skill and the spirit of service to lead against the unsanitary condi- tions that are not only threatening the group itself but also its white neighbors. It must have religious teachers who can relate religion to the morals of the individual and to the common activities of the com munity. It must have teachers of secondary schools who have had a college education in the great mod ern sciences and in the historical de- IVGlOpmGnL or ClVll1ZaL1On.r Dr. Jones points out that despite high ideals and notable enthusiasm on the part of the race and it's bene- factors, most of the colored institu- tions calling themselves colleges are poorly equipped and ineffectively or ganized and administered. Only a few institutions at present have the student body, equipment, and teach ing force of a genuine college, but a number of institutions do some work of college grade. The location of two or more colleges for Negroes in Sel- ma, Ala; Little Rock, Ark; Atlanta. Ga.; New Orleans, La.; Holly Springs and Jackson, Miss; Greensboro, N. C.; Columbia and Orangeburg, S. C.; Nashville, Tenn.; Austin, Marshall, and Waco, Tex. indicates wasteful duplication of collegiate effort.
 | Any plan for further development of college and university education for negroes should, according to Dr. Jones, take into consideration income, plant. teaching force, and present To- | cation of schools offering more or less college work. Every institution should realize that success and hon. or and human service are not neces- sarily attained through a college de- partment or even through an indus trial or agricultural plant" The Bu- reau's report suggests that all agen- cies interested in negro education CO operate in the development of a few institutions of university and college grade. There seems to be general agreement that Howard University at Washington. and Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn, are the e 1nos1 1 promising institutions for ss develop npf 1e 1riVy rte, f,S that first-class colleges be located al
 Marshall, Tex. Still another group ot institutions should be developed into
 unior colleges or institutions doing two years of college work. A number of institutions are already offering l courses of this grade but, they are al in need of more equipment and larger
 income. These institutions, Dr. Jones
 points out, should make generous l provision for teacher-trainine courses. both in their secondary ant tcollege classes.
 '"rhe education of negroes 1T
 America undoubtedly requires insti tutions that are genuinely of colleg, grade,' says Dr. Jones. '"The frs step in the realization of this neeC is the agreement that all shall com
 bine in an effort to develop a fev well-selected institutions. The sec ond requirement is the determination on the part of the institutions tha every college activity shall be adapted to the demands of modern society," Il The State Department said the re port that the United States was go ing to elnd Money to Mexico wa
 false,