The broad ax., 1922-08-05

fiuence.
Assembly of Leaders
Among those attending this meet
ing were seven former presidents
R. R Wright, ST., Philadelphia; n.
B. Young, Tallahassee, Fla; w. T. B.
Williams, Tuskegee Institute; John
NJ. Candy, Petersburg, Va; John
Hope, Atlanta, Ga; L. J. Rowan, Al
corn, Miss, and S. G. Atkins, Win
ston-Salem, N. c.
Among the educational leaders
present were: Principal Mary NJ.
Bethune of the Daytona Normal and
Industrial Institute; Clinton ]. Cal
loway, director extension department
of Tuskegee Institute and field agent
of the Rosenwald School Fund; Sec
rotary Ethel II. Caution of the Y. w.
c. A. National Board; President ]. s.
Clarke of Southern University; Presi-
dent Oliver L. Coleman of Coleman
College; John w. Davis, president
West Virginia Collegiate Institute;
James B. Dudley, president North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical
College; President G. A. Edwards of
Kittrell College; J. B. FELTON,, State
supervisor of South Carolina colored
schools; President John NJ. Candy of
the Virginia Normal and Industrial
Institute; George E. Haynes OF the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America; William H. Hol-
loway, professor of sociology in Tai
ladega College; President w. T.
Holmes of Tougaloo College; Presi-
dent John Hope of Morehouse Col
lege; Benjamin F. Hubert, director
Tuskegee Institute agricultural de-
partment; President z. T. Hubert Of
Jackson College; Alfred Lawless, Jr.,
general superintendent American
Missionary Association, Southern
Negro church work; E. A. Long, prin-
cipal Christiansburg Industrial Insti-
tute; Edward L. Pierson, president
Colored Teachers Association of
Texas; William A. Robinson, Raleigh,
N. C., state supervisor of teacher
training and high schools for Ne
groes; L. J. Rowan of Alcorn, Miss,
president Alcorn College; William W.
Saunders, state supervisor of West
Virginia Negro schools; President J.
70. Spencer of Morgan College; G. w.
Trenholm of Montgomery. Ala, presi-
dent State Normal School; Thomas
w. Turner, professor of botany in
Howard University; President J. c.
Wright of Edward Waters College;
President Nathan B. Young of the
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
College.
North Carolina Program
n. c. Newbold, Raleigh, n. C., di-
rector of the division of Negro educa-
ton in the North Carolina State De-
partment OF Education, reported that
at the three colored normal schools
in North Carolina there is being car
ried on extensive building programs.
The present plan is to make the three
Negro normal schools standard in
every respect and to develop one nor
NAL school into a teachers college.
The present aim is to make the State
Agricultural College for Negroes a
standard, four-year college. North
Carolina now has 20 county training
schools. which are on the way TO be-
coming full four-year high schools.
Last year $3.50 colored teachers out
of 1000 attended summer schools.
Professor Newbold made a plea for
fairness, justice and reason in dis
Ncussing North Cardinals program of
Negro education. 81 cherish one am
bition," he said. at is that the State
OF North Carolina will understand
its obligations to colored people and
have the wisdom to realize its obIiga-
ton and perform its duty in the sight
OF men and the fear of God"
Signs of Progress
G. w. Trenholm reported that dur
ing the past year the Alabama State
Normal School for Colored Teachers
has added three good buildings to its
equipment, a high school, named in
honor of DR.. James Hardy billiard, a
dormitory and dining hall.
Nathan B. Young, Tallahassee, Fla
president of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College, stated that
a Rosenwald agent for Florida had
been secured during the past year and
that the State Department of Educa-
ton is working out a system of sec
ondary education for Negroes. Ken
lucky has been maintaining ten sum-
mer schools for colored teachers, and
the Kentucky Legislature has appro-
priated $4,000 for these summer
schools and two normal schools.
r. E. Brown reported on the
growth of summer schools for colored
teachers IN Louisiana during the past
four years. Louisiana now furnishes
summer school facilities for about
1000 colored teachers. There are at
work in Louisiana II eolored indus
trial supervising teachers, 9 home and