The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-11
PROF. JONES DOING
GOOD WORK OVER STATE
Noted Negro Educator Well Re-
Ceived at Grenada.

or the GRENADA Sentlnel, appear
ed in that paper on the 22nd of
March, and gives an idea of the
work being done among the
negroes of the state by Prof.
Laurence c.. Jones. head of the
Piney Woods School, near Brax-
ton.
"A highly interesting as well as
instructive address was deliver
ed Sunday night by Prof. L. c..
Jones, a colored College President
at the A. and M. E. church in
Grenada. By invitation several
of the white citizenship of Gre
NADIA were present among whom,
besides the ladies were: Prof.
A. B. Campbell, Messrs W. M.
Dubard, ]. T. Thomas, j. c..
Wilson, H. HI. Heath, and 0. F.
Lawrence. Prof. Jones was edu-
Gated at the University of Iowa.
He came to the piney woods
section of Mississippi, apparent
ly with no other desire than to
be the means of up lifting his
own people and thereby contri-
buting to the general better
ment of Mississippi and the
South. He talks fluently. He
reasons well and there is just
enough of humor in what he
says to keep the mind of his
hearers on the alert. He speaks
as one who thinks he has a mes
sage to deliver and goes about
his duty with a precision and
dizziness. He has a valuable
school property at Braxton con-
sisting of nearly 1900 acres OF
land and some handsome build
ings. All features of industrial
work are given attention and
agriculture, of course, is not
overlooked. There are something
near 300 students in attendance
and from what Prof. Jones says
he must have the work highly
systematized and the absolute
cooperation, as we'll as good
wishes of the white citizenship
of that immediate locality. No
doubt much money has been put
into this sceool enterprise by
various citizens of the north but
tits q well-knoWn fact that many
of the best white citizens in
Mississippi have for several
years been putting money into
this school.
Prof. Jones was presented to
the audience by Rev. H. II.
Buckingham in a few appropri-
ate remarks. The speaker ex-
pressed his great pleasure at
seeing some of the white citizen
ship present. He then gave just
a little insight into his own life
and told his people that he came
to them not as a representative
of the government or as any
body's hired man but that he
came because he felt it his patri-
otto duty to lift his voice in be-
half of his country in this trying
hour. He said that the war
needed the colored man but he
would also have the colored man
remember that he could not
offord to do all in his might for
the United States at this time
lest when victory came the color
ed man would not be in a position
to receive the benefits that were
in store for his race as a result
of the war. He said that the
white race had done the great
things that it had because it had
an ideal and because it had a
record to sustain. He said that
the white people were justly
proud of their family history and
he implored his own people to so
live as to have a family history
TO which they might refer with
pride. He talked of the Ameri-
con fag-its stars, its stripes
and what each one represented;
he said that there was not a
single thing in the flag that the
white people were not proud OF;
He insisted that the colored
people had something to do with
making that fag-that they had
q part in the War of Revolution
in the war of 1912 and that they
had fought valiantly in Cuba
during the Spanisn-American
war. All these Things, the speak
er said, should be an inspiration
to the colored people to respond
nobly to the Nations call at the
present time.
He talked very plainly and
very practically about social and
economic conditions confronting
the negro. but he insisted that
the Negroes destiny was within
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