The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-02-02
NEGROES APPEAL
FOR ASSISTANCE
FROM LEGISLATURE
(Contributed)

The Colored Agricultural and Nor
NAL University, the only state edu-
cational institution for negroes in Ok
lahoma, through the facts, herein set
forth, makes a direct appeal TO the
white citizens OF this commonwealth
to the end that the legislature now
in session will appropriate sufficient
funds for its proper equipment, main-
tenance and support.
We begruige no institution any
generosity which has been or may be
shown it. We only ask a just pro-
portion OF the public funds that the
negro boys and girls of Oklahoma
may have an equal educational oppor-
tunity with other OklahoMans.
Very recently Hon. p. p. Claxton,
United States commissioner of educa-
ton, after two days investigation
of the state school for negroes by
his personal representative, said ''un-
der the new administrative board and
under President Marques and his
faculty the institution has been put
on a thoroughly sound basis both
financially and educationally, and that
the outlook for the university is very
hopeful if properly supported by this
state"
Governor Robertson makes bold to
say: 1.-THE Langston University is not
physically fit for an educational in
| cti ha lootc1atttra onftll visit
the place it would either improve IT
or abolish it."
The Oklahoma Times said, two years
ago, Qhe condition has not been re-
medied) the students are housed in
dormitories mot fit for any self
respecting citizen of this common
wealth 10 spend one night in"
Our Investigations show that, though
the ratio of the negro population tc
the white for the past ten years
has been nearly one 10 ten, the ap-
preparations, by the several state leg.
islatures for the same period 70,
the negro state school, have been bu'
one twenty-fifth of the total amount
appropriated for strictly educationa
institutions.
, On q basis of present values Of
= buildings, lands, equipment, etc, the
. capital outlay for the negro stat'
university Is but one thirty-thirC
of the total for all the strictly edu
cational Institutions.
4 Last year in the mixed normal ant
3 collegiate institutions OF Kansas ther
: were one and one-third times a
d many negro boys and girls from Ok
4 lahoma enrolled and in attendance II
the grades above the high school a
: were enrolled in the negro state uni
$ versity in the same grade work.
= Is it not profitable investmen
t for Oklahoma to make adequate pro
d vision for education Of her negr
4 population?
r Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas an
n Ohio three times as many negro boy
d and girls from Oklahoma are er
= rolled in the same grades at the CO
d rolled in the same graes at the co
ored A. & n. university. This is du
: entirely to insufficient equipment an
d teaching force, and very scanty trad
8 and laboratory facilities.
I, A newspaper headline says tha
q Tennessee has just spent $4,000 ft
y new equipment for the trade depar
o ment of its negro state normal. TIL
q sum would buy all the buildings an
i space and equipment devoted to trad
l. purposes at Langston and then leaN
u margin OF sS1,o for other pu
" poses.
/ The negro state school at Langstc
!, is more poorly equipped for trat
- and agricultural work by 81 p,