The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-03-05
Land Grant College Survey

Congress has appropriated $4,000
Tor the purpose of surveying the land
grant colleges of the United States. in
cluded in which there are a number Of
Negro colleges. In fact, the southern
states boast Of seventeen land grant
colleges. devoted exclusively to the
training Of Negro students. In the
northern states, where. of course, there
are no Jim Grow school laws, Negro
students have access to any land grant
college which they may select.
It is estimated that the survey,
which is to be conducted BY the u. s.
Bureau of Education, will require two
years of intensive work to complete
the survey task. Since the Civil War,
Congress has appropriated 100000
to the support of the land grant col
leges. and it is said that the prospec-
tive survey is to reveal whether or not
they are fully carrying out the inten-
tons of Congress.
Negroes are intensely interested in
the work Of their students, whether in
segregated or non-segregated land
grant colleges-and they have right
to be SO, as contributors to and de-
tenders of the parent Government. 1t
may not be amiss to refresh the races
recollection of the survey Of Negro
schools made more than.a decade ago
by DR.. Thomas Jesse Jones (white)
and the two-volume report which DR..
Jones made, showing yelled but gross
determinations in the cooperative sup
port Of the Negro schools, as between
State and Federal governments. These
conditions, though somewhat i'm
proved, will probably be revealed again
in the prospective survey.
In view of the peculiar conditions
confronting the solid bloc of Negro
schools in the Southland. it is particu-
larly desirable that educational experts
of the Negro race be assigned to some
of the survey work There are ample
race men and women available Let
them be appointed to this survey, so as
to secure both the racial and the BIZ
racial view Of the entire situation CON
fronting the Negro land grant colleges.
Archbishop Curley's Plea
Believe it or not, the Church OF
Rome has gone as far, if not further
than any contemporary church, in
sounding the cry of Zone God, One
Church. One Creed" loud enough to
be heard, without amplihers, by the
struggling black people Of America
In fact, the Roman Catholic Church
has repeatedly challenged the Protes-
tant Church to meet its standards of
religious fairplay.
Recently, in Washington, D. c., be-
fore an audience of two thousand
whites, Archbishop Micheal J. Curley
urged that the colored people of the
country be extended the same educa-
tional advantages as the white people.
If the country would but hear this cry,
what Heaven on earth would come
to pass. The Archbishop doubtless
had in mind spiritual as much as Sc
cular education-a spiritual education
reaching from St. Peters Cathedral, in
New York, to the lowliest parish house
Of New Orleans-from the Salvation
Army barracks to the Y NJ. c. A.
from colorful education to colorless
education, save in the internal essence
of go thou and preach the gospel to
the whole world" and in so doing,
'sLove thy neighbor as thyself." God
bless Archbishop Curley.
Sailor, Bewarel
II is to be hoped that the Negro
group of American citizens will not be
easily misled into something" Of
which they know nothing" That the
Communist c1an-the latest radical or
eanization-is willing TO include Ne
groes into their midst may look 100
per cent on the surface, but the fact
that there will be a colored section
OF the khan known as the Touissant
L,Ouveurture Auxiliary" has the same