The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-12-04
Special TO The Broad Ak

nrofusion of beautiful flowers, folk
lore music and fitting decorations, the
new annex TO Poro College was Joined
TO the mother plants this week. The
dedieatory exercises occupied the mai
four DAYS of Thanksgiving week and
were attended and participated in by
the flower of racial endeavor and oe-
complishment from all over the eoun-
try.
The event brought so many of the
outstanding members of the race to
81. Louis that Prof Aaron f. Malone,
President. and Mrs. Annie VI. Malone.
Founder of Poro College, anticipated
in as a signal for the arrangement of
various conferences looking up TO the
welfare and advancement of eOlored
people.
Five Acres of Floor Space.
Admiring visitors inspected the diff
ferent departments of the institution
and were greatly impressed by the
magnitude of the undertaking, the al
most fawless system of administration
and the abiding evidences of its sue
cess. Ii is :ruly unique organization,
with its compact combination of indus
trial, commercial, educational, Philan-
thropic and religious features, and
probably has no counter part in all the
world.
With the added 10000 square feet
in the newly completed annex, floor
space in the Poro establishment aggre-
gates five acres, every inch of which Is
devoted to teaching some useful les
sons to the youth of the race. The
spectacle of $50 young women and
young men engaged in the manufac-
turc. shipping and clerical addenda of
Poro products; the array of hundreds
of girls uniformly intent upon aequir-
ing the culture to fit them for useful
occupation; the gentle Christian at
mOsphere that starts with the chapel
assembly in the morning and pervades
the discipline of the entire day, sug
costing an iron hand in a velvet glove;
the elegant simplicity of mural deeOra
tions, often by eolored artists; the cur
riculum that provides for culture by
contract and example; the essence OF
applied business science reduced to It's
lowest terms gives Poro College first
rank among useful and successful IA
cial undertakings and n singular place
for Mr.. and Mrs Malone among the
leaders in constructive efforts.
Cost 100000.
Rapid evolution of the POrO enter
prise necessitated the erection les,
than two years ago, of building that
cost S3jO,OOO. As soon as the plant
was installed it was discovered thai
even with the most careful economy
of space the new building did not meet
the demands of the business, and on,
of the first plans set TO work in its new
home was TO project additional foo
acreage. This was accomplished TIVE
weeks ago when the annex was com
pleted at a cost of $4,000, bringing
the building investments of Poro Col
lege during the last two years up Il
$500, 900, absolute bookkeeper's figures
The annex adjoins the mother plan
and, like the first, is built Of the fines
and most secure of freproOf material
and is connected with sundry tunnel
and bridges, the arteries Of the eco
nomic system. Every improvement il
equipment that is available has beer
installed; mechanical carriers tina
bring the Poro products from tn,
laboratories to the shipping tables
labor-saving Office appliances; eleanl,
young women diligently operating il
serupulously clean factories, Aoode,
with light from hundreds of windows
that is the new home of Poro College
Neighbonood Center.
And this splendid monument to raeia
achievement is in the very heart of
eolored neighborhood, facing one of tn
leading churches and within a stone
throw of two of the principal sehoO
buildings.
"But why" we asked Mr.. and Mn
Malone, "did you not erect this mag
niieent racial enterprise down in tn
center Of the business district
"Wouldn't it be a revelation to tn
, white people to see daily what 70
are doingi"
"We have the answer" smiled Iii
, tie Mrs. Annie Malone. "You kno,
: we are not working among the whit
people. We are striving for our owl
e Poro College is an industrial effort @
the eolored people, by the eolOred pee
!. pie, for the eolored people, and tn
education that we have to offer is tn
education Of example. Undismayed b
the century or more Of handicap this
we labor under, we mean to catch an
then keep up. You cannot help III
q Jews by dwelling among the Gentiles.
z We did not ask any more question
= on that score, but began to look aroun,
e We found that the eolored people
Ia