The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-04
Worst SOutherners
Come From North
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hundred in my classes during that
time who had read that immortal pic
ture of antehellum Negro life. I'm
Gle Toms Cabin.
What the white south reads. the
black South reads. an what the
white South bars, is barred from
him"
Mr. Bond says he knows dozens Of
public school heads whose education
al ability consists in their proficiency
in serving fried chicken and hot bis
cults to visiting school inspectors.
Mr.. Pond tells of how he was a
memher Of a school faculty. in one
place when the appropriation com
mlttee of the state legislature came
to visit
when they arrived, the principal
had the entire faculty in overails in
the pea patch. The visitors were es-
eorted 10 the dining room. where
/ they were served mountainous plates
of fried chicken with beaten bis
cults prepared by a female cook
especially imported for the occasion.
although the credit was given to the
domestic science department.
THE legislators departed without
having seen a single classroom or
asked a SINGLE question about the
efficiency Of the teachers.
Negro spirituals and fried chick
en- have done more for Negro eduea-
ton than all the philanthropic foun-
dations.'
Golored neonle who want to get
along in the South are advised by
Mr.. Bond that the simple technique
is to say "mister" to all white men
and always put ina am or sir
on the end Of every sentence, ut the
same time taking off your hat to the
male as well as the female.
Mr.. Bond infers that the imported
culture Of the Old South has been
exaggerated and that the biz houses
of plantations were mere cottages
and the lordly white masters there
presided over a few flea=bitte dogs
and marov mules plus a few unkemr
NEGRO slaves"
"What the South needs,' he said
"is more genuine southern white gen
tlemen
"The great white men Of the las
two decades are men like Narda
man of Mississippi. Helm of Ala
bama. Blease of South Carolina an,
Bilho of Mississippi.
. "The last named responded to
telegram sent by tde ". A. A. c. ?
, against lvnching with three words
Go to He'll
"Another of rhe South's whit
leaders is Bura Hilbun. friend o
! Governor Biibo, discharged recent
:. on the charge of embe2zlement o
: SIS, 900 of the Rosenwald Fund mon
I 'es given in his care to aid in build
: ing colored schools. Hilbun was
5 Northerner.
@ "Bv far the most detestable Negr
hater in the South" Mr.. Bond sal,
Q SIS the white Northerner come Sout
:. to settle and live. In all hotels I'll
!. guests most abusive of the help al
# more than likely to be Northernef
a have heard numerous cooks an
.s maids sensonally employed by pc
/, sons wintering in the South gi'
. their infalible verdict: 'They's Il
= .meanest kind of no white trash. >
y On the subject of social equals
:. after dark, Mr. Bond said he fotlr
= IN Montgomery, Ala, seven hous
= of prostitution cheek and iowl wi
/ two colored churches.
y Montgomery is tolerant in tn
respect" he said. "for two of Il
ID houses were stated by white womo
e, and two by Negro women fdr viii
patronage. while the remainder we
So reserved for colored only.
ly "In the county where these lin
err were written h e county feceiv
nf From, state funds ri SO for eve
ic child, black as we'll as white.
Y. this amount, little more than 81
r spent on the Negro children per ca
ne tia. while all the remainder goes
n the white schools, together with
rl the local and county district tar
a for school purposes