The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-04-24
SAYS THAT NEGRO LIFE
EXHIBITS MANY CON-
TRASTS.
Prof. W. 7. B. Williams Dis.
cusses Educational Needs.
millions Awake to Call for Education,

Millions Awake to Call for Education.
Hampton. Va. April 22.-Prof w.
T. b. Williams of Tuskegee Institute
Ala, field agent of the Jeanes and
Slater Boards, spoke recently in og-
den Hall. Hampton Institute. on Con
trasts in Negro Life He said
IF is not difficult to find many
good Colored homes. In many cases
well appointed. beautiful homes. in
almost every section of the lower
south, both in the towns and in
country places.
There. are, however, thousands of
wretched cabins Not long ago / rode
from Memphis one cold day right
gown the Delto to Vicksburg, Miss.
road a single home occupied by Col
ored people that was at all attractive.
Very few. indeed, gave evidences Of
ordinary comfort. Yet knew that
IN li some towns through which we
homes. e0'u
Many Colored people have had the
aanS aadavSantages Of school and have bene-
sent their children to school in large
numbers Many, however. have had
little or no opportunity for school
ing. Many are large landowners but
there are hundreds Of thousands who
among all colored people today
the desire. for education is greater
than ever before, never before have 1
seen the Colored schools so well III
90 as this year; Indeed. many of
ought to be doing. Everywhere find
Colored people struggling for an edu-
cation Prof Williams. speaking dr.
reetly to the Hampton student, said I:
nave often wished could make
much better off you are at Hampton
than the students in SO many places
to which It would be very easy to
take you. The world is going to ex-
return for what you receive. than it
could reasonably expect of those less
fortunate than yourselves Prof.
Williams added:
No Teachers, No Schools.
Hundreds of Colored public schools
have not opened at all this year be-
case they cannot get teachers. In
some counties as high as 40 per cent
OF the public schools have not opened.
The war evidently emphasized the
people as nothing else has ever done.
Those thousands of young men who
went out from the Far South es-
pecially, many of whom had had no
cHdHCt VI euuCdllOIl, CdIne DUCK with
keener appreciation of it's value than
they ever had before. The idea of
getting some education has handed
on to their people and everywhere
they are striving to see to it that
the boys, and girls get little chance
"The exodus of the Colored people
from the South has had something to
do with this increased effort on the
part of the public authorities: Many
lAw. rAnwx fs.ar Nc
they never understood before. that
the South cannot take its place along
side of other sections of this coun-
try and hold that place, unless 1t has
higher average intelligence. unless
the average intelligenc of that sec
tion can be brought up to the other
sections of this country So, as never
before, they are trying to see to II
that every boy and girl gets at least
better chance at schooling. /.
"Only recently we had several of
our Jeanes Conferences, and in al
most every case teachers reported bet
ter conditions than formerly. greater
interest on the part of the public
est on the part Of the colored people
themselves in the. effort to extend
arms in building better schoolhouses
and in giving better supervision to
the work of the teachers.
school authorities in the South are
interested in Colored public shools
as they have never been before. and
especially Is that true where the
school authorities are young. well
trained men themselves.
within the last five years the Col
ored people have put into the build
ing of Rosenwald schools-improved
rural school. something over half
million dollars, while the public auth
critics and Mr.. Rosenwald have put
in more than that amount.
"The masses of our folks are to be
educated and trained by young men
and young women like yourselves. The
two and q quarter millions of Negroes
in the South who cannot read and
write must be educated by Negroes.
The burden of that work is upon
folks who have had such opportunities
as you are receiving at Hampton.