Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-04-14
Congratulations To The New President
Of Alcorn College

No state institution of higher learning for Nos
hos lbs oeen as much IN the news in recent months has
1eeh Acorn college, state institution of higher
learning for Negroes which is again the news as the re-
suit OF the election of President W. H. Pipes as its new
president by the State of Trustees of institution Of
mgher learning in Mississippi.
thirty three year-od native Missssinnian rborou,
educated, erudite Master of Arts Doctor of Pb,osonh
Win admitted practical study training in some If
what the great thinker and educator Booker T. WASHING
eoh choose to call the occupations of life Dr
fpes may be easily observed prori as well ouaod f
the high position to which he has been elected We ber
congratulate him on behalf of the Negro Citizens of the
se even though they eXerted little if any influence in
his election 80 ~ ~
In extending congratulations however, we are led
20 ADVISE the New President that aside from his admins
atve duties and responsibilities, the most important
function and responsibility of the college president is in
Tie 1leld OF public relations in the winning of public
appreciation for the program of the institution and at
facng to 1T an appreciate and apprecative student fol-
lowing
Outside of his duties and responsibilities as president
of the college, the President Alcorn assumes willingly
or unwllingly of the highest positions of Negro
leadership in the state In this respect we think that the
intelligent Negro Citizens of the state would have said
to the New President that the day has already passed
Negro leaders attempting talk sides of their
mouths fool Negroes and white people one and the
same time and that formula has yet been discovered to
permanently hold back the tide of human progress with
which the Negro citizen of Mississippi is rapidly coming
abreast
Land Grant College, Acorn has been through the
years, and is at best makeshf compared with
other land grant colleges of the nation Intelligent Ne
eroes of Mississippi while recognizing certain special func
tons of land grant colleges nothing in the letter.
in the spirit of the law under which land grant colleges
established to prohibit development and expansion
of the program and circular at Acorn college to at least
afford educaon opportunities for Negro youth of Misss
sp comparable to snch opportunities offered land grant
colleges of other states.
In viewing the conditions at Acorn College under his
predecessor President Bell the Negro citizens of the state
may be said to be entertaining hope that the
sident will not fail to the impossbies in attempt
ing to make brick without straw Making brick without
straw is what Bell Rowan and all his predecessors have
been trying do Acorn in attempting to operate and
maintain and institution of higher learning the disgrace
fully appropriations money by the state legislature
for the operation and maintenance of Alcorn College
Again we congratulate Professor Pines and express
the hope that during the period of his tenure Acorn Col
lege will begin to take higher place among the Land
Grant Colleges of the Nation.