The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-01
THE SOUTH AND The NEGRO.

Reducing a races iIIiteracy sixty-seven per cent
in fifty years is remarkable record yet that is
what has been accomplished for the negroes of
America And this has been achieved by a southern
school, st. Augustine's. Raleigh. N c.. which is
of the greatest single agencies in the world for
continuing the relations of friendness coopera-
tion between the in the
No other such record has been made all his
tory. In 1857 when st. Augustines school for
groes a Raleigh N. c.. started by the Episco-
pal church, the iliteracy the race was ninety
per cent. When the school passed it's
ffteth the illiteracy had been reduced thirty
per cent
In that fact is to be found corrective OF the
pessimism with which the progress of is
regarded No race in the world has made such rapid
strides in education, and education is founda-
ton which all advancement is built And no race
in the world has ever been given such edu
cational advantages by another race, as have the
American negroes in the south.
Contrast the educational advantages which have
been given the negro In the south with the way in
which the negroes OF the Congo were treated under
German rule.
With the education OF the negro who gets his
education in the south pride of race such as
was preached and taught by noted negro leader
Booker r. Washington. whose gospel of race pride
did not include pretense to so-called equality but
urged the lifting of the race to higher standard
through education and work, just every must
lift itself, die.
Contrasted with the troubles in Washing
ton and Chicago, the following report of the work
at ST. Augustines in North Carolina discloses a
splendid cooperative spirit which is anirnating the
two races in the south. when left by outsiders to
work out their salvation.
st. Augustines is the largest and most i'm
portant school for negroes maintained by the
Episcopal church Its faculty consists of thirty
five teachers and Officers exclusive the staff
OF St Agnes's Hospital which is a part of the
school. The total yearly enrolment of the
school is about five hundred. while approximate
ly 1000 patients annually treated
hospital Collegiate, normal and industrial
courses given.
The work of the graduates the school
has multiplied it's work thousand fold. Many
are in the ministry many teachers,
some are physicians all doing good work for
the elevation of their
Nine former students of the school entered
the officers training camp Des Moines, just
after the United States declared Ger
many and six of them received commissions
Heutenants in the army. These men entered the
world to fight for the country that had
given them their chance. They did not go
with the idea of winning any equality with the
white race but to do their part in defending the
country which is giving them and their people
such opportunities other has been
given for education and enlightenments-op
tur-ities which have come to them through SUBJ
scriptions and taxation which have been largely
contributed by the white
The negro leaders of this country realize
the opportunities that theirs, and it is to
them and those that they leading, to-whom
the south Is depending with good faith, to main
tain the cordial relations which have existed in
this section between the two races during the
past fifty years