The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-07-07
6o7 COLORED TEACHERS FROM
10 STATES ATTEND FIRST
HALF OF HAMPTON INSTI-
TUTE SUMMER SESSION
BY VIM. Anthony Aery

Hampton, Va.-Virginia. with an
enrolment Of $50 colored teachers
(221 women and IS men), is the ban
ner State in the Hampton Institute
Summer Session for Teachers, acl
cording to DR.. George p. Phenix
vice principal of Hampton and direc-
tor of the summer school North
Carolina comes second, with an en-
rollment Of pa (lSo women and rs
mem. The total enrolment for the
first half, which will close on July ~,
is now 697, distributed as follows;
Alabama, 6; Arkansas, II; Delaware,
II; Florida, IA; Georgia, Is; Ken
lucky, %; Louisiana, IA; Maryland.
IS; Mississippi, IA; New Jersey, q;
North Carolina, pa; Ohio. /; Okla
homa, 6; Pennsylvania, 1 South Car
DINA, 80; Tennessee, IA; Texas, Ill;
Virginia, ESQ; West Virginia, z. In
the Hampton Institute Summer
School there are representatives from
l9 States-585 women and liz men.
The second half will begin on July
80 and continue through August 81.
During the twelve-week session
Hampton expects to reach 1000
teachers. The summer school is con-
Quoted under the auspices Of the
State Board Of Education and the
Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute.
Teaching: A Public Service
Principal ]. E. Gregg in his recent
address Of welcome to the visiting
teachers expressed his satisfaction in
the quality of students represented at
this summer session. Doctor Gregg
spoke on Teachers as Public Serv-
ants" He indicated the work which
teachers are doing in lifting the levels
Of thought and living among men and
women everywhere.
eve must have" be said, 'in our
teaching a background of reverence
and loyalty and devotion to the very
highest ideals that men and women
know. We need these ideals to put
our work in its proper place and to-
keep it there.
"There Is no room in the teaching
profession for the man or woman
whose mind is fixed primarily on
money Or primarily on selfish advan
tages. The sooner they get out Of
teaching the better for themselves.
their schools, and the children with
whom they have to do.
"There is not any work in the
world more interesting. more hope
full, more rewarding, more delightful.
more difficult, more honorable, more
glorious than the work Of teaching
Sixty Jeanes teachers, who are do
ing industrial supervision work III
Southern States, form part OF the
summer school, which has been Or
gained to provide instruction for
high-school teachers, county training
school, teachers. supervisors, home
economics teachers. physical-edura-
ton teachers. and elementary teach
ers.
Peace Through Education
The Rev John Macbeth, secretary
81 the Scottish Missionary Congress.
which assembled in Glasgow last
fall, who was on his way to Tuskegee.
recently spoke as minister and educa
ZIONIST on the relation OF Hampton In
stitute to the objective 81 Christian
education. He declared that the Scot
tish Missionary Congress was part
Of campaign 70 teach the boys and
girls Of Scotland how to have an in-f
telligent appreciation Of other races.
He spoke specifically on the strategic
Importance Of Christian teachers and
Of the present crusade which is being
made throughout the world among.
thoughtful people to secure peace
through Christian education
Mr.. MacBeath also declared that the
Ten Commandments are not limited
BY geographical frontiers; that the
laws Of truth operated universally and
uniformly; and that the whole world
is interdependent. not only industrial