The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-27
CITY TEACHERS HOLD MONTHLY
INSTITUTE MONDAY MORNING
, AT COLORED HIGH SCHOOL FOR
INSTRUCTION FOR BEGINNING
THE SESSION.
Three Colored Communities Enter
the City, Queen City, Lincoln Man.
or and Wheatly Place. Armstrong
Addition Known as Booker Wash
Ningten.
Superintendent j. f. Kimball Pre-
sides and Delivers Address.
BY N. w. Harllee


By N. w. Harllee.
These are serious times and Sc
rious problems confront us as teach
ers of the young, this is time of
serious reflection, never was there
a time for more serious reflection
than today that it seems that a
new and added duty rests upon the
teachers white and black to think
seriously upon the work in hand.
When we think of the three problems
confronting the American people, the
problem of the railroads. the problem
of labor and capital and that of the
Negro problem. These are problems
to be sure that engage the attention
of the most thoughtful and demand
the most earnest consideration.
There was never time when the
saying of Solomon, the wise man,
THAT Righteousness Exalteth a Ma
ton" is more true old fashion
enough to believe this saying of the
wise man and that the reverse is
true that wickedness debases ma
ton. When we think of the striking
police of Boston, we are not sur
prised so much by the strike as to
what actually occurred after the
strike. That Boston has always set
up a standard for other cities, and
proclaimed to them her own exam
Piles as she was in position to do
so as she had rare advantages for
years of training coming down from
the time of the Pilgrim fathers,
we should expect her to be in po-
sition to speak of the short comings
of other cities. But what actually
transpired in Boston? After the
strike, 1t is difficult to think of the
shameful acts. Men set about loot
ing and robbing. They played
craps on the street made sacred
by the first blood shed in the Revo-
lutionary War for freedom. Now that
gun have been with drawn, they be-
the police badge and the police's
gan to take what they call freedom,
and the most revolving thought in
the actions of the men who put their
what they termed freedom, began to
insult women end children and that
1t was dangerous for a woman to
pass unaccompanied in the streets
for fear of being molested and in
suited. Who would have thought that
such characters were in Boston, the
very cradle of refinement and cul-
ture?
These were not the original citi-
zens of Boston, these were not of
the Puritan stock, they are the new
corners, those who were strangers
to the teaching of the Pilgrim Faith
ers. What have the teachers
their work? What would / recon-
mend were the Superintendent of
the schools of Boston? But we have
a work to ourselves. We are to
teach civic Righteousness in our own
schools. impress the boys and girls
with lofty ideals of right actions,
right ideals of honesty, of industry
and truthfulness by living these lives
ourselves.
Such a disgraceful and unheard
of actions would not haves taken
place a hundred years ago. So there
is much work for the teachers of
Boston.
The address was listened to with
SiVSeSl attention ana evident appreci-
alton coming from our Superinten-
dents with added interest and en-
phasis that sent each sentence home
to the teachers to begin the years
work with added zeal and new in
SEPARATION. While the speaker was de-
livering his address of which the
above is only paraphrastic report.
the writer thought of the great work
that Supt. Kimball had accomplished
in our schools and what a scope of
advancement had really taken place
In the efficiency of the teachers, the
steady improvements of the great
system, and with what ease and ia
cility the schools move upward and
onward without seeming friction and
without undue complaint.
Superintendent Kimball stated that
the intermediate departments of the
Colored schools would be supervised
by Prof. J. F. Peeler, and that there
would be added Improvement in work.
ing Of the schools this year, with