The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-07-08
Says Liberians Suffer
From Lack Of Defiaite
Educational Program.



ptft under very extensive cultivation
~ both Europeans and Negroes. Eng
if4h Ia spoken very largely among the
eeltiers due to the many years IL was
under English rule. The Negro popu-
lafioh Is descended from freed slaves
frofn the colony OF Sierra Lcona-that
branch Of the Bantu stock kpDwn as
tbs Bube compose the native popuia~
tim They are OF o very low grade
Of INTELLIGENCE. small OF statute and
ereastve. large farms OF cocoa are
now being Observation-Disclosures are
imp0rted from Liberia to work on
those farms. Earring the biondy rec
ora Of the Spaniard In the slave trade,
which has been Utmost destroyed in
thai part OF the continent the native
has gained much from the thrift and
iftelIcctual development Of the ma
tive spnnish. We shall note ns we con-
and intellectual development OF the
Spanish. We shall note as we con
slider the nations that now occupy
territory IN Africa have had TO pay
IA most cases a big price In blood
but y am forced TO believe II is only
aidar the way they have In many in
atances butchered up the helpless ma
tlve--tho long years they tore them
away form their homo and scattered
them over the earth--surely their
blood cries unto God. which cry some
day must be heard.
liberia without workable Educa-
tion rrogrann.---isducntio Among the
Natives.
ton ia the Republic as II relates to
the state Ia colossal failure they
have the Department of Education
but Il Is that only In name, 1t was
the opinion Of one man with whom
property had not paid taxes on It I'M
forty yoarsI do not give this out
AZ authentic information, but was
told thiB BY man who was In po-
on that people that VIII not pay
taxes cannot have o school system
chat Is worth while. It would be in
sition to know-it goes without reas-
order to compel citizens to cutltive
government land for the education or
the chiIdren-no people Will ever take
tlona OF tho earth who allow their
children to groy UP In Ignorance
Those Of my friends who say that by
description and portrayal OF condi-
lions in Liberia IS anything but en-
couraging--they seem to think that !
have It in for my countrymen-b
that Is not my purpose Of feeling. but
liz we are going to help Africa we
should know tts actual needs IN
support OF my stateShent regarding the
evidence few excerpts from the re-
mort OF Walter H. Walker. Secretary
Of Public instruction. He says that
the total amount OF funds placed at
HIS disposal for the entire school
aysten OF the Republic for the year
1891 was $4,000. but let us quote his
exact words. although $4,000 was a2-
propriated, finances Of the Republic
were in such a bad shape that only
S3323C were actually turned over to
me schools by the Secretary of the
Treasury. SO that Mr.. Walker declares
your Honorable BODY Ndberia and
Tsegfslature) will readily see from re-
lated conditions how utterly impos-
department. TO maintain any thing
like q decent public school system.
or call IN the aid OF decent and Quail I
fled teachers. ] must frankly admit
that the situation az present Is almost
This generation Of chill
dren growing M in accommodating !
shamefully robbed Of advantages and
being hopIessiy crippled for future
70 the state. A remedy Tor
such q state OF affairs must be
found and the prevalent o. tIalh.ng |
Of the minds Of the young must not
be countennncod longer IL we would
feel secure about the future of the
/ think this statement fully justify
ma in saying that they have not IN
All the years OF the nation gotten to !
The place where thoy can have an
outline OF system OF education
think OF three hundred and thirty
three dollars Go maintain the public
school avatem Of nation OF more
than two million people. The work
81 education that Is being felt In the
nation Is being done by the Chris
tlan schools about which we she.s
taiix at another time.
Native HdncntlOn.
II may be interesting to some Of
"a GO know that system Of instruc-
ton Is given BY certain native women
III the bush" All girls are sent 60
these instructors when they are old
enough to understand teaching. No
man allowed to enter one OF these
ach0ois AZ Il claimed that these chill
dren arc taught all the duties Of
] was told while in Africa
that a man was found near and they
jumped on him with one accord and
beat him almost to DEATH do not
know in what this teaching consist
but n II keeps the girls from go-
ing 10 obstruction q the way that
thousands Of ours GIT may be worth
while after all tFust some day To-
learn what Ia taught In a bush
school. but am sure Of one thing
shall never learn BY caves dropping