The Phoenix index., 1941-01-25
Rings Pan
Africanisnl
Battlecry
Educator Heard
At Lincoln Univ.
Anniversary

1EffEHSON CITY Mo,-(SNS
Propoundinig the optimistic convic
ton that "The future world will,
in all reasonable probability be what
colcred men make it," DR.. Will
liam E. Burghardt Dubois whose
voice Is heard above the confusion
of a world "retreating towards dis
integration" delivered a clarifying
and poignant address here at
program commemorating the 18th
anniversary of the founding of Lin
coin University.
DIR. Dubois shared the speakers
platform with Governor Lloyd c..
Stark, retiring executive of Missouri
Discussing "The Future of the
Negro State College" the sage of
Atlanta University traced histori-
cally the evolution CT those con-
ditions which resulted in the crea-
tion of separate schools for Ne
groes. denounced the idea of seq
regated schools as being extrava-
ragated and "idiotic," said that state
public school education in the
resulted from "tjae black
votes of Reconstruction" and pre-
dicted that The Pan-African move
ment, which is being espoused in
Negro colleges and in foreign lands.
will probably bring the ''colored
world to its 'rightful heritage"
NEED MEN OF VISION
The Observation-Disclosures re-
search expert said that state pub
lie school education and that OF
schools like Lincoln University must
be administered by men of large
vision" and that Lincoln University
should be thought of as a center
where the cultural outlook of thi!
: country is to be changed and up
lifted and helped in the recon
. struction of the world"
Y Problems facing the state system
S of education, under which Lincoln
e operates, according to Dubois, ar
f economic and religious and ar
, "those class distinctions based OF
: incomes and on racial distinction
D based on physical differences ant
appearances and on historical as
sociations supported by prejudict
and folk lore
Speaking of segregated schools
> DR.. Dubois said that these are ;
direct contravention to that demo
cratic equality coward which al
education in the end must strive.
The laws which prescribe separat
schools for races simply put int
words a deep feeling and determin
alton on the part of the dominan
group that coeducation of the race
is a thing more to be feared thai
the failure of democracy"
Negro schools supported by tn
l state are not equal to white state
supported schools, DR.. DuBios sale
because "any time that a state i
compelled by higher law or by low
er prejudice to embark upon a pro
gram for which it has no real ik
ing the work will be done, at frs
certainly, in a cheap and slip-sho'
way. The separate institution will b.
by all standards poor institution
poor in physical equipment, poo
in cultural advantages, tempted t
initiate where it cannot be real ant
to boast of what it has not"
SELDOM GET BEST TEACHERS
The facts t;:at Negro institutions
seldom get The best of teachers
engage in political intrigues ane
sacrifice the welfare of the insti-
Y tuition to personal gain were
brought out by DR.. Dubois
In the opinion of the speaker
j Lincoln University should not be
y come another University OF Mis-
! souri, for "amcng the great univer'
: stiles of America, the University
of Missouri would hardly be PLACED
among the first. 1t can be consider
ed a sort of average Of those plod'
> ding miscellaneous centers Of
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