The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-05-01
WILL EXPAND NEGRO Elk.
TENSION WORK
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both races; helped rural peonIe start
bank accounts; organized co-onerativo
buying and selling organizatians. 81
cured on demonstration plots a gen
eral average yield of 35 bushels ner
acre; and organized extensive club
work for boys"
Working Program.
D. A. Evans appointed a committee.
consisting or ]; w. Hill, j. b. Pierce,
q W R Rayis, Henry s. johnson and
~ S,,,. ~ HUDSON to report on the re-
SUITS or the meeting. The committee
report as follows
IT is the sense of this meeting.
That the. present Conference of
Whlte ana Negro Extension Workers
on Negro Extension Work has been
very valuable in bringing out the
value, status. and needs of Negro
extension work;
should be conducted in cooperation
Nth the Negro land grant colleges of
Ehe states. by arrangement perfected
by the white land grant colleges,
wherever practicable;
That the work should be extend
ed and developed as radily as funds
and local conditions will permit;
That boys and girls club work is
regarded as on integral part of county
agent work;
THAT all reports on Negro girls
and boys club work should be sent
to the Washington office through the
state agents in charge of club work
in the state;
THAT Negro district agents CO.
operate with white county agents in
counties where there are no Negro
agents to make contact points with
Negro farmers.
"That program of education be
conducted for the purpose informing
both whites and Negroes as to real
value and needs of Negro extension
work;
THAT the Negro special agents. APP
pointed during the war emergency
be continued in their present capacity;
That 70 county 6t and 9ca agents fbef
weekly reports all work done with
whites and Negroes; and
That we depreciate the spirit OF
groces, and we pledge the efforts OF
all extension workers in bringing
about satisfactory conditions which
will adjust such unrest.
Conference Personnel.
From Washington omce-Dr A. C.
True. director. States Relations Ser
vice; ]. A. Evans, chief, office of Elk
tension work South; I. o. Schaub
Field Agent, Virginia and other
Club Work; e. A. Miller, Field Agent
Maryland, West Virginia. Kentucky
Oklahoma and Texas
Directors States Extension Work
rector and ". +. Moore. assistant di.
rector; (b) West Virginia; Nat T
Frame. director; (c) North Carolina
g. r. Hudson. assistant director ant
err; td) South Carolina-Henry S
Johnson, district agent, representing
w W. Long, director; (e) Maryland
DR.. T. 3. Symons.
Presidents of Negro Colleges-War.
rem K. Blodgett. director of .Agricul.
tural School and J. L. Blair Buck
director of Extension Work. represent.
ing James e, Gregg, principal o. o.
Virginia Normal and Industrial Insti
tute; John W. Davis. West Virginit
Collegiate Institute; Carlos G. Vale
actAng director of Agricultural Depart
ley, North Carolina Agricultural anC
Technical College; r IS. Wilkinson
South Carolina Agricultural and Me
chanical College.
Special Agents-John b. Pierce
Hampton Institute and T. NJ. Campbell
Tuskegee Institute.
District Agents.. e. Hall and
D. Wray. North Carolina; Fl. p. Dan
iels: South in, Carolina; Martin y E; an5
+. Armstrong. Maryland and A. c
Burnett. Kentucky.
Need of Trained Workers.
J. A. Evans in an address to IN
Hampton Institute agricultural stu
dents, said: THE strongest student
are found in agricultural classes
Adopt farming as business OF pro
fession and you will find that !,
ten or fifteen years farming WI
Gay you better than any other busi
ness or profession. ..
well trained men are needeo 70
all forms of extension work. whic
was begun in 1904 in Texas with
few men as temporary. project !
show men how they could get cot
ton in spite of the boil weevil. Toda
in fifteen Southern states there ar
some 1900 men and between 700 an
800 women employed in extensio