The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-09-09
Rust College Launches
Drive For Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars
DR.. S. D. Redmond, Trustee
Makes Appeal

In a letter sent out recently, DR..
S. d. Redmond of Jackson, trus-
tee of Rust College makes the fol-
lowing appeal in an effort to help
the 79 year old college raise $780,
600 for building purposes:
Friends of Rust College in Mis-
sissippi, Rust College, located at
Holly Springs, Miss, which lost its
main building beautiful five story
edifiee, some time ago, is launching
a drive for a 100000 building fund
to greatly increase its much need
ed housing facilities, and as trus-
tee, 1 am asked to help raise this
money.
Rust College, 70 years old, the
oldest Negro college in Mississip-
pi, during its existence has enroll
ed over 10000 students, turned out
several thousand graduates, and
students teach and labor in every
nook and corner of Mississippi, and
teach, preach and labor in every
state in the union.
Rust is under the auspices of the
Methodist church-Combined Meth
odist-Southern and Northern, but
her opportunities are wholly non
sectarian. All denominations fare
alike there Negro boys and girls
there are given not only literary
instructions and PRACTICAL training
in how to earn a livelihood, but
character building, founded upon
the Christian religion and better
race relations, form an important
part of their training
Increasing the activity of the
mind only, aften times only sharp
ems the wits Of a depraved mind;
but founded upon high moral
background, we build constructive
ly. And that's what Rush College
has stood for all of these years.
Rust is one of the few privately
supported Negro schools that was
able to stem the tide of the re-
cent depression, due largely to the
fact that we have there an unusual
man in Dr. L. NJ Mccoy, as presi-
dent, man who really makes three
stalks of corn (not grass grow,
where one ST. used to grow; and
although Rust ollege is surround
ed by the poorest land in the state,
it is in the midst of more washed
lands and gullies than any other
part of Mississippi DR.. Mccoy de-
fies these conditions He has his
tractors to pull those hills down in
to those gullies, convert those
gullies into rolling table lands, pro-
vides his own soil, and grow upon
those old hills, those erstwhile gull
lies, somesstf the finest crops seen
anywhersP Mississippi.
las Ypesult, hesa@able to grow
and 81 in mass, practically all the
food fstuffs needed ~
hundred students, far cheaper man
those students could live at home.
1t is a real education for these
hundreds of boys and girls to study
the thrift and husbandry of Presi-
dent Mccoy, himself product of
Rust College. Mccoy teaches boys
and girls to do common things in
uncommon ways. And Rust College
must carry on. Rust is a great light
set upon hill top, and is helping
to light this nation: yea, the world,
for its students, its graduates ARE
fighting around the globe, and
whenever they fight, America has
real defenders for their motto is:
FAITHFUL TO EVERY TRUST"
This state, this nation, needs
education today as they never
needed it before. This war is going
to be brain not Drawn. Illiteracy
can't whip nor keep whipped, Ger
many nor Japan, two of the most
literate nations of the world. To
keep America free, every citizen
must be prepared to do his full
duty.
$4,000 negro boys in Mississippi
have been unable to qualify for the
draft merely because of illiteracy.
$4,000 white boys have had to take,
or will have to take these Negro
boys places on the battle fronts
stupendous wrong against the
white boys of Mississippi! Has not
somebody been asleep at the
switch? May this great wrong never
be repeated But the only way to
do this, is to build more and better
schools and enforce our compulsory
school law Not only that, but our
army has also lost Is divisions of
Negro boys from Southern states
because of educational deficiencies.