The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-12-09

who go about helping to improve the
public schools, received from public
tax funds $500. In l921-lo22 the
Jeanes teachers received from public
tax funds $ll4,521. In 1912 four
county training schools were estab-
Eshed. The counties all together gave
for these county training schools
(there were three that finally ran
through the year, 1854. In 1921
1922 lS6 county training schools re-
ceived from public tax funds $657, oil.
Doctor billiard pointed out that "the
great L0dy of Southern people hate
lynching and want it blotted out" He
said that there are hoodlums every
where, North and South. He stated
that education, religion, and public
sentiment are extremely important
factors IN the adjustment of race
problems" He expressed his admira-
ton for educated, refined, cultivated
colored men and women who live in
good houses and have good surround
ings but who are rudely handled by
public-service men. "These educated
colored people show great temperance
without serViiity and are indeed Chris
tians who exert unusual self-controL
IF Jesus Christ is right, then the Ne
groes have taken the right line in be-
ing temperate and patient. / repeat
edly say to colored people, Don't quit
being Christians
Negro Edreatsou in Delaware
Dr.. Joseph H. Odell, director of
Service Citizens Of Delaware, in his
address on Equal Educational OPP
portunities for Negroes" said: pierre
S. DUPONT and visited Negro schools
in Delaware week after week in 1919.
We found the Negro schools in de-
plorabIe condition. A photograph was
made of every Negro school and every
Negro school was carefully measured.
We secured complete picture of the
Delaware school system for Negroes.
We found that not a single Negro |
schoolhouse was worth saving. The
Negro school houses were insanitary,
foul, and inadequate. During the
past eighteen months Delaware has
built ffty-one Negro schools with |
ninety-three rooms. There has al |
ready been completed $7O6y0O0 worth |
of Negro schools. Under contract
now there are Negro schools which |
will cost $215,OOo in addition. There
are still nine Negro schools to be
built"
DR.. James E. Gregg, principal of
Hampton Institute, declared that men
and women are looking to Delaware
as a model State in careful educa-
tionaI planning. Doctor Gregg stated
that the problem of raising the
level of education is that of working
hardest where the problems are worst.
He pointed out that Negro education
must be undertaken for the interest
of both white and colored people.
Negro Education IN Pennsylvania
DR.. Thomas E. Finegan, State super
intendent of public instruction for
Pennsylvania, who spoke on The Re-
sponsibiIity of the State for the Edu-
cation of the Colored Race" traced
In some detail the Negro background
through $50 years of bondage He
discussed the conflict of two import
ant ideas-democracy and slavery. He
stated that the Negro problem has al
ways been treated in the spirit of COM
promise "The principle of charity
has been eliminated from State public
school systems" he said. There are
now constitutional provisions for the
securing of educational facilities for
the free public-school education Of all
citizens. We should open to colored
people the door of opportunity
through the public schools. The Ma
ton faces the obligation of affording
Negroes educational facilities Each
state has similar obligation for the
education Of Negroes within its bor-
derSS