The broad ax., 1922-08-05
By VIM. Anthony Aery

.5dress on "Co-operauop delivered
:, Ogden Hall, HampU IN Institute,
before the closing Sc ssion of the
eigbteenth annual meet ing of the Ma
,;onal Association Of Teachers in
Colored Schools, expressed the pro-
found conviction tb at America ought
right away to sT.end FIVE times as
much money for education as it is
now expending,y America could at
lord TO spend fthis money for eduea-
non" he SAID, ''if the people should
quit paying Es4OOOO,OOO for every new
battleship."
Doctor billiard, who is a member
Of the G eneral Education Board and
oresider.t of the Jeanes and Slater
Funds stated that the Jeanes Fund
received from public tax funds S3,4OZ
in Iel2-I3 and in 1922 received
sIJ 600 The county training schools
f. colored students, which increased
rom Jour in 1912 to $50 in 1922, re-
,.;ved for salaries, from public funds
s3Aa4 in 1912. and in 1922 received
t,on the same source, $4,000. This
I.st amount was more than doubled
- concentrations for other forms OF
e,,,oort OF the 81 100000 spent IT
building "Rosenwald schools, when
are modern rural schools for Negroes,
TrI;us Rosenwald of Chicago. gave
s7o3 GOO: white people, Sl5l,OOO; col
o-sd people, $4,000; public tax
funds. ss6O,OOO. Doctor billiard oe-
Jared that the masses cannot be eou-
Gated by philanthropy. The ohiy
-;gbt way to educate people Is
through public taxes.
The association elected DIR. Jonn
A Gregg, president of Wilberforce
1T,;versity. Wilberforce, Ohio presi-
d.nt and R. S. Grossley, Assistant
St. Supervisor of Negro Schools
1.cl,son Miss, executive secretary
- cher officers, including seven
e, yg-c installed by the nrsl
--.-,d.,t Il the association, K X.
,,r5-L. y. Philadelphia. The 1873
-.,-..r vii be held at Tuskegee
ms ute. jury 2s-H.
Progress Policies Outlined
Tn association adopted the pohcS
.I-rr;rq a paid executive secre-
+arv: urged schools, munlcipahneS'
sonn+;as and other agencies employ
80 teachers to make provisions for
ns1s;onine them; expressed ITS COM
-,endation of the work which depart
-,e,+s of education Throughout III.
South are doing to improve eoioie I !,
...,bers through summer schools anu
ts,cber-training departments III seu
- Southern States to PROVIDE as
eo.ediIv as possible adequate elemen-
=, and high-school training Tor all
tbcir Negro youth; approved the WORK
- the state agents for coloreo
e.LooIs. commended the John r.
c,.,er Fund. the Jeanes Fund, the
Posenwald Fund, the Phelps-Stokes
Eu,d and the General Education
po.rd not only for their material as
-;s..,oe hut also for their construc-
So suggestions and leadership IN
N.g-o education; endorsed the aims
- methods of the Commission on
TDte--racial cooperation; called upon
.aIo-ad teachers to render more en-
-. service to Negro youth; ano
on-a-nsnded the movement IN the
yrgro Immigrant colleges to ehm-
nate hieh-school programs as I@piu,
" as possible, and develop emeen'
.o,,ege- departments. The resolutiohs
committee included N. b. fouIs
Florida. w. T. B. Williams ai4-
hama. s. G. Atkins, North CaIohI1
Tobn HOPE. Georgia; John NJ. GanGy
Virginia: Mary NJ. Bethune' riiO1
and R E. Brown, Louisiana
No Cleavage IN Education
That the old conflict between IN
d,,stri.l education and academic ecu
cation is largely past; that the nnt
c.nnot be strictly drawn between tns
cultural and the vocational; ana ina
the aim of every educational Insutu'
t;on should be to fit or at least y
belp to ft, its students to DO "nA'
they can do best, were opinions @
pressed by DR.. James E. Gregg. prin-
cipal of Hampton Institute IN MS
address of welcome.
President Gregg of Wilbertoree' ~
his response fer the teachers paio
y-.-n tributes to Samuel { Arm
s+-onq Hollis B. FrisseH. and James
+ Gregg. DIR. H. L. MeCrorey
president of the Johnston {. smith
IIni,ersity, Charlotte, N. c, the out
ICING president, made plea Tor the
increase of pubHcity-supported eduoa'
tional facilities for Negro children
living in country districts and the re
moval of the handicap OF one-teaenei
rural schools. He advocated the Is
adjustment of a Federal department
OF education, pensions for teachers
the development of higher standards
of ethics IN the teaching profession
and the employment of whole-ume
paid executive secretary TO increase