The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-01-22
SAYS AFRICA NEEDS
THE HELP Of AMER
.|CA BADLY.
Visitors to Hampton Discuss
Scarcity Of Schools For
Training Of African Girls.
Would Found Schools.
py Wm. Anthonv Aerv.l

.
Hampton, Va. Jan. 20.-'The boys
ofRWest Africa are getting good
chances for industrial and technical
training, but for a thousand miles
ters to the vocational education Of
African girls" declared Mrs. Casely
Hayford, native African. president
OF the proposed West African Indus-
Freetown, Sierra Leone, in her recent
adress to the members of the Hamp-
ton Institute faculty on The Needs
and Possibilities Of Africa" Mrs. Hay
women give to countries their
chief characteristics. If the women are
strong physically, intellectually, and
morally, then the men are similarly
natural, outdoor lives. They are strong,
fine and unselfish. They lead lives OF
complete effacement. These women,
however. are broken-hearted. They
chance to receive an education 1t
rs hard for girls to keep their res-
peet without any money in their pock-
"For the past four months my niece
and / have been in America. We are
trying to interest people in the estab-
lishment of a vocational school for the
girls of West Africa.
The British Government Is favor
able TO our educational plans. It is
glad 20 see the natives helping them
selves. 1t has promised to make a
suitable grant Of land and to provide
one-half the funds required for the
Many think Of Africa as Inhabited
by savages, but IL ia a misnomer to
call people savage" who do as beauti-
full art work as do the Africans that
have. never come in contact with white
people, who engage IN communal life,
who have such innate ideas of polite
ness, and who have such a romantic
outlook on life.
The keynote of the twentieth CEN
tury is Christian efficiency. Some for
ty years ago one could keep body and
soul together in Africa for ten to fif-
teen cents a day. The impress on Az
rica, however of western civilization
has broadened the ideas of Africans.
How can the economic change be
metz We believe 1t can be met thru
Christian efficiency. This is what we
propose with the help of our friends
Miss Kathleen M. Easmon. a native
African, who was one out of eight
hundred students at the Royal Coll
1ege Of Arts of England to receive a
Special Talent Scholarship and who
successfully completed a four-year art
course at South Kensington, referred
to the need OF giving African girls
SOM some education for iife, and and Of bring
the town and the country or Ndsh,' as
II is called in Africa.
THE people of Africa are dissatis-
fled said Miss Easmon. They have
an instinct to beautify everything.
They have artistic longings They dec
crate every conceivable object wooden
spoons. calabashes. trays, horns, and
even discarded whislkey bottles and
cigarette tins. They work straighte
away on metal, leather, and wood.
They do beautiful work In god with
ave u Africa feel proud q Am
know what we can do, even in the
bush We wish people everywhere
to see and know about the work that
is done by those who are not influ-
enced by outsiders"
Miss Easmon displayed and describ-
ed some of the art work in weaving,
leather, wood, and brass which has
been done by Africans who live in the
hinterland.
Mrs. Hayford and Miss Easmon let
Hampton for Atlanta, Tuskegee, az
other educational centers to present
the needs and possibilities Of West
African girls