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BADIN BULLETD
NORTH BADIN
“Since the Great Majority of Negroes Are in the working Class, Their Permanent Interests Are as Workers*’
DIRECTORY
R. McCants Andrews, Director of Welfare
Work, Formerly Assistant Supervisor of Negro
Economics for North Carolina, United States
Department of Labor,
Prof, K. G. Harris, Principal Colored School;
Dr. W. I). Price, Chairman Health Department;
Miss L. K, Marable, Community Nurse; W. H.
I’earson, (Chairman Ward Committee No. i; W.
H. Ciaither, Chairman Ward Committee No, 2;
T. H. Brooks, Chairman Ward Committee No. 3;
T. W. Sampson, Chairman Ward Committee No.
4; Robert Crump, Manager Baseball Team.
RELIGIOUS
Ministerial Union—Rev. L. A. McDonald,
Chairman, Pastor A. M. E. Z. Church; Rev. C.
IJ. Thompkins, Pastor A. M. E. Church; Rev.
P. F. Long, Pastor First Baptist Church; Rev.
Mack Moore, Pastor Second Baptist Church;
Rev. I). Mosely, Pastor Holiness Church.
FRATERNAL
Mrs. Anna J. Graham, W^orthy Counsel, Ct. of
Calanthe; Fletcher Finger, Exalted Ruler, I. B.
P. O. E. W.; L. A. Donaldson, Noble Grand,
G. U. (). O. F.; D. E. Bell, Worshipful Master,
F. A. A. M.; J. C. Gadson, Honorable Ruler,
Supreme Circle; John H. Graham, Chancellor
Commander, K. P.
COMMERCIAL
Badin Stock Company—Prof. E. C. Harris,
President; Dr. W. D. Price, Secretary-Treasurer.
North Badin Business League—I). E. Bell,
President; Miss P. Farrington, Secretary.
North Badin Fire Department—R. W. Robin
son, Chief.
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Mrs. C. J. .Michaels, Director, Piano and Voice;
Miss Lucy Wallace, Piano; J. E. Armstrong,
Director of Band; Lieut. G. E. Nelson, Director
of Orchestra.
BULLETIN STAFF
Rev. L. A. McDonald, Lerman A. Royster,
John II. Graham, Miss Taylor.
Education and Efficiency
Prof. E. G. Harris
Principal Uadln Colored School
If there is anything essential to make
the negro or any other race efficient as
laborers, it is mental preparedness and
strong moral habits. The reasons for
this assertion are apparent.
First, let us consider the general mental
attitude of the untrained worker. He Is
superstitious. He believes that his
employer is robbing him when he desires
him to do ten hours’ work for ten hours’
pay. He watches his foreman with
doubts and fears, and only works when
the foreman is present and has a watch
ful eye over him. In other words, ho
hands his employer what he expects to
receive—a dirty deal.
He has no regularity. He believes ne
should work only when he needs some
thing. For instance, it it takes ten dol
lars to satisfy his family and himself
for one week, and he earns five dollars
a day, he believes in working two days
that week and laying off the rest of the
week. On jobs where regularity is indis
pensable, it takes a police force equal
to a small United States Army to keep
things going.
He has no knowledge of economics, and
no desire to accumulate. He buys a
two-dollar hat which will last only two
months,' when a four-dollar hat would
last a year. This demonstrates his idea
of saving. He buys cheap things, and
lives in poor houses, his needs being
small. This ignorance and superstition
is within itself his greatest handicap,
and often leads to dishonesty and crime.
On the other hand, let us notice the
mental attitude of the trained, intelli
gent, or educated worker. He is not
superstitious. He takes his employer as
a partner and not as a lord, with the
knowledge that as he makes more for
his employer he makes more for him
self. He expects no robbery of his right
ful earnings. He gives his employer
honest work, and can be trusted to do
his duty in the absence of a foreman. He
needs no bosses; he only needs a know
ledge of what his employer wants done.
He is not satisfied to make just enough
to live on, but wants something to put
away as a saving. He either buys a
home or starts a bank account, or both.
When he buys, he expects his money’s
worth, and does not buy cheap clothing
with the idea that he is saving. He is
not content to live In a i>oor house, or a
rented house, but wants a home which ho
can call his own.
The way by which a worker becomes
trained or educated is thru the instru
mentality of the great social forces that
are within his reach In his community.
These are the churches, schools, societies,
lodges, business and social organizations
all of which we have strongly repre
sented In North Hadln.
Our white friends are aware of the
fact that If the negroes of this beautiful
city are given the opportunity for pre
paredness, that the Tallassee Power Com
pany can rely upon them as honesi
laborers. There are some who oppose
education for negroes, on the ground that
they are not large taxpayers. But th®
officials of this Company know that the
laborer and the consumer pay their prO"
portion of the tax on capital, which tax
runs the schools. The negro is the
laborer, and a very large consumer; he
produces aluminum yearly which ruB®
into great sums, and it is his toil
muscle that make the school fund. Out
of the inexhaustible storehouse of 1*'®
own labor he draws his quota of
appropriations for schools. It is no'
every company employing negro laborers-
however, which accepts this view
negro education for efficiency.
During the summer of 1917, the desir*
of the Company to promote the welfa*^®
of its workers was expressed in
desire to establish a good school. It
opened in two well-equipped buildio^®'
with two teachers. In 1918, another bui*
ing was erected on the school grou® '
and six teachers were employed, ind'*
ing a teacher of domestic art. and
night school was opened for the work*^
Meanwhile, the new brick building i
is to be an exact duplicate of the ^
for white children was begun, but
interfered with because of shortag® i
material due to the war.
The present session was opened
doubled advantage. Another building ^
been opened and equipped for school ^
due to the growing number of .jt
from 192 in 1918. to 388 the
enrollment. Klgbt teachers are
including a teacher of school musi*^ •
a special teacher of Industrial
for boys. The latter teacher Is df
of the community band, and jjf
organizing a school band. To cro»“ ^
order of affairs connected with
ored school, we have what no oth*'’^^f
school in this State ha«--a Conse>^*p^
of .Music, directed by four well-“^*
teachers of long experience. j
When the school bell is heard
thirty In the morning, anyone cf ;
by and sees the hustling I,
the crowd of bojrs and glrU. J i|
from every nook and comer of |),
tor the Chapel serrice*. is Impr***