Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-01-15
Improving The Road From Highway 81 To
The AIcorn College Campus

the 194l-43 bennpn President VIM Bell is asking the
legislature of the state for total OF s127753 for the
suing bennum including in the amount S007GO0 for new
buildings, special equipment and improv ements the en-
umeraton of which would SEEM in the mind OF anyone
quanted in the slightest degree with the conditions
rounding the maintenance and operation OF the institution
Immediately recommend each Of them for the consider
alton and approval of the legislative body.
While there appears every need for each item ouin-
ed the list of buildings, special equipment, and improve
ments requested in the report the most important item
might easily be the request for 100000 for improved
road from Highway 81 to the College Campus In suggest
ing this the most important item requested IN the
port attempt made intended to be made. TO de-
from the Importance of other items mentioned in the
report.
However anyone who has Travelled the road from
Highway 81 to the Acorn COLLEGE Campus and to have af
forwards, before travelled the roads and highways
throughout the length and breath of the state will Admit
that the most terturous and hazardous short
stretch of road be found anywhere in the entire state
Unusually narrow encased for large part OF the way IN
nigh wall ike banks heavily infested with trees whose
hanging and dense underground of foliage give it
tunnel like aspect the brightest day. constantly
eroded and subject to precpous earth Slides with many
dangerous that oomup sharply and with abrupt
subject to deep ges it's bed after each ram
despite its gravey surface makes every trip along TINS road
narrowing and unWaned experience and adds many an
other imaginative mile to what could otherwise be most
pleasant and reflective approach the states most
ed seat of higher learning for its Negro Students
In the past great deal Of criticism has been heard
against Acorn College because of its isolated location In
spite of modern improvements in travel convenience the
criticism college because Of its isolation still
sists There is isolation exactly like Inaccessible lsoa
ton
For anyone who has travelled the road from highway
CT to the Acon College Campus there will be little diff
Guilty in arriving at the conclusion that the persistence OF
such criticism is due almost solely to this torturous and
hazardous stretch of road.
Improve this road and what is in the minds OF
drab ard dreary isolated location will be changed
almost immediately into place of rustic and enchanting
beauty in due time because of its Isolation
the perfect setting for institution of higher learning
Moreover improve this road, thus relieving Alcorn
College its drab dreary and inaccessible isolation would
reclaim for it students who will otherwise seek nigh
learning in the institutions of other states at loss Oh
MANY dollars annually the institution aside from being
reflection upon the good of the great state
of Mississippi
It would be the beginning of for Acoar Col
ege It would reflect great credit he memters ut the
State Legislature 1t would glorfy the of the State
of Mississippi 1t would the deepest appreciation IN
the and minds of the Negro Citizens of the State
and would be anplauded by fair minded Christian
white citizen the state should the legislature in its pre-
sent session. in whatever appropriation made for Acorn
College include therein the money for the I'M
proveent of the road from Highway 81 to the Acorn Col
leoe Campus,