The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26

tain the best of the race and found
them with live appreciation for even
the most classic numbers.
The NJ. G. 1. College and Rusk's Uni.
versity at Holly Springs with their
eight hundred studentr4 show that the
Church Schools of the state are doing
their bit for the race and caused us
to thereafter put larger pieces of
money In the collections for education.
Jackson and Campbell Colleges at
Jackson, Alcorn and Southern Univer-
sity at Baton Rouge. La, are real in
spirations in what they are doing for
the race. AS general rule the pres
ent presidents of these excellent in
stitutions are big, clean, intellectually
competent men, well chosen for their
tasks.
This especially true of President Ro-
coan of Alcorn, "the Lincoln Institute
of Mississippi" whose fine personal
character, temperament and training
eminently fits him to guide the Star
of the East of the race in Mississippi,
for Alcorn with five hundred acres of
land and the many sciences and arts
taught, makes it an exceptionally big
unit in the manhood, making indus
try of the New South.
The campus is large and shaded by
trees as old as some of the buildings
and while dining at the Executive
Hall, erected in 1928 as an interbellum
Presbyterian College and later sold to
the state and given TO the race, one
could not resist the feeling that the |
departed spirits of the departed races |
great men and women-Revels and
others still inspired sShe ideals and
quicken the ambitions of the faculty
and students of effort
The Louisiana state achool, South
ern University, at Bstkn Rouge, oc-
cupying one of the mos&beautiful and !
extensive sites on the $great Missis-
sippi river with five Mlrsired acres of
the richest land in thet8fS Ssissippi Val
ley and many large, rsAktn buildings,
is is. another aIIh,i especialllhssght spot, in
It's president, Prof j. S. Clarke who I
enjoys the absolute confidence of the
Board of Directors and the Governor
Of the. state is provided ample appro-
priations and given a free hand in
making the institution a credit to the
state and a great benefit to the race.
rhe state university for the whites is
ilso located at Baton Rogue and there
S most cordial reciprocity between
he institutions to a degree surpass-
ng similar institutions, even in our
)wn state.
This is largely due to the efforts of
resident Clarke, one of the most eff
icient and progressive educators. 1t
las been my fortune to know who has
established manhood ideal at South 8
'rn, the absorption of which by the
student body inspires the admiration
md respect of en-the meanest of the
ace; for to say one is from South
'rn" protects the individual from
much of the indignities, etc. common
n the southland.
New Orleans, with Straight Univer- .
ity and New Orleans University, gave !
he Boone Co. enthusiastic audiences {
nd are supplying the need for higher s
ducation which the city fails to pro- |
'ide in high schools. T
New Orleans, from many angles, :
S one of the most interesting cities t
n the country; combining a beautiful
modern system of boulevards and I
arks with narrow side streets, e
eighteenth century 5
'rench and Spanish architecture S
With modern bungalows and man S
ions; a population largely Creole
White and Negro) apparently living
A as much harmony as in any north
rn city and poured around all, rich \
ropical vegetation in full foliage at h
hristmas time; this tends to make It h
place not soon to be forgotten. /,
1t is pleasure to me to give you a
lese thoughts of the southland as l n
hall do weekly. s
John M. Day-Asst. Mgr. Blind B
oone Concert Co. o
Mr.. Henry of 1913 Lydia avenue is