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the superior advantage offered, thru
North Badin, the finest city in the South.
Page Twenty-Five
The Student Experiment
Readers of the October Bulletin will
•■ecall the announcement that the experi-
•^ent undertaken by the Tallassee Power
Company in the use of students durinj?
the vacation period was beine: studied,
would be reported in full. The ob
ject of this report is to point out the
success of the experiment rather than
® failure of individual students. There-
the men who have reflected credit
J|Pon themselves and their schools are
"ereunder noted.
^ No student with whom I talked this
^Pring, or who read the circular letters
twenty North Carolina schools
colleffes, was misinformed about
at was expected of him, or about what
could expect in Badin.
Quotations were made from the Badin
LLetin, which described the nature of
e Work, including this:
he work is handled in three eipht-
iob*^ and while the work is a man’s
the conditions under which the
9nd sanitary and healthful,
the Company is prepared to take
^'1 care of its men.
dp letter of May 22 advised stu-
'‘ts to
special qualifications, if
*^sh indicate whether you
in the construction depart-
Tjig ’ carbon plant, or the pot rooms.
guaranty that anything will
«t|]| you outside of pot room work;
^'*’d other openinps when
on the pround.
tliij*'^®^®P'nents seem to indicate that
'ssjfwill prove hiphly sue-
*»
for the lack of time we did not go any
further. We decided we would not stay ”
Others who expected to earn money with
out going into the plant stayed longer.
Those who came prepared to work, got
jobs immediately, and mostly to their
liking, and held them.
Thirty-one students, representing eight
schools and colleges, left records which
have been considered in this study.
Three, whose records happen to be poor,
did not register their schools, and have
been disregarded. The thirty-one came
from the following schools:
Biddle University (Charlotte) 12
Shaw University (Raleigh) e
Henderson Normal School (Hender
son) 4
High Point N. & I. (High Point) 4
A. & T. (Greensboro) j
Waters Normal (Winton) \
St. Augustine (Raleigh) 1
Virginia Union University (Rich
mond) I
Union Theological (New York) 1
our list of applicants is grow-
day. It is necessary to remem-
V’^°'^®ver, that you are being solicited
th while we are serving you
V u* •‘l>il>ty, we are count-
®“ch one of you to 7nakc good.
't Quotations are given to make
^hat no misrepresentations of
S Were made either by the Tallas-'
''f ^of*ipnny, or from the office
supervisor of Negro Economics
Carolina, and to give final
j the complaints of boys who
^“din and went away without
*^tident.«i came to Badin and left
j train. One young man wrote
‘'Some atudenta told us
^^’^''comfortably warm there. We
^6 entrance, and looked in, but
Total 31
Further examination of these thirty-
one records eliminated four. From the
remaining twenty-seven, Tables A and B
were made, to show the length of service,
and the weekly earnings, computed on
the weekly averages of the “twelve best”
students. Finally, Table C was drawn,
to show the comparative records of the
“six best.” These records speak for
themselves.
tabi.e a—length of service
No. Name School Weeks
1 ricrran. KrncPt. High Point & I i8
2 Jones, T. R. Riddle I'nivcrsity i6
David, Charles. High Point -V. X: I. .16
4 Steele, A. O.. Riddle I^niversitv ..tj
5 Williams, Koscoe, X. C. A, .v T x\
6 Van Landingham. S. C., Riddle University.. 9
7 Warwick. 1. A., High Point X. 1 9
8 Martin. Conrad*. Va. Union University 9
Q Walker, Isom. Riddle University . 7
10 Allison, T. K., Riddle University 7
IT Alexander, R. T.t, Hende’S»n . 4
12 CJrecr, A., Riddle Uin'verjJtr 3
•Worked in |K>t room for thi-e weeks.
tLeft on account of illness.
TABI-E B—WEEKLY EARNINGS. COM
PUTED ON WEEKLY AVERAGES
Occupation Rate Weekly
No. Name Department per Hour Wage
1 Jones, T. R.*, Rrickmason 65c. $28.60
2 Williams, Koscoe, Pot Room 37c. ^7-95
3 Greer, U. A., Carbon Plant. . ..30c. 27.00
4 Win Landingham, S. S., Carbon P. 30c. ^4-00
5 Warwick, J. A., Carbon Plant 30c. 21.90
r> Walker, Tsom, Pot Room. 37c. 21.75
7 Steele, A. O., Pot Room 37c. 21.35*
8 David, Charles, Pot Room .37c. 20.65
Q Allison, T. K.*, ^^essenge^ 37c, ^0.35
1(1 (^crran, Krncst, Pet Room 37c. 1950
II Martin. Conrad, Messenger 37c. 18.35
J2 Alexander, R. T., Pot Room .37c. 18.00
Note—These figures include a bonus of
twenty-five cents per day for a full week’s work.
Earned extra money as musician.
table c—comparative records of
SIX best men
„ Length of Weekly Weekly
vvii Service Average Earning
\Vill,ams. Roscoe.* ....Fifth Third Second
i Jones, T n.t, Second Twelfth First
, ..,^7’ Twelfth First Third
4 \anLand.ngham,S. C.Sixth Second Fourth
6 Fiff'
i,,, ’ ‘ ■ Fourth Sixth Seventh
ing schoTh ’
weatler"!n'f
weather and hy hrickniason’s scale.
Attention has been called to peculiar
ities which affected the showing of some
of the men: (l) Greer (Table A) left
on account of illness after three weeks
of fme work, the cause or nature of his
unknown; (2) Martin
(Table A) took work in another depart
ment after trying the pot room for three
weeks, the latter work being at a smaller
rate of pay; (3) Jones (Table C) had
his average lowered because of two weeks
of bad weather. It has also been noted
that Williams (Table C) took a vaca-
tion trip North before re-entering school.
All the boys went home, or to nearby
points, after finishing their work.
Baseball players and musicians were
used to good advantage. The Badin Col
ored Jazz Orchestra was composed of
T. B. Jones, trombonist (Biddle) ; G. S.
McLean, pianist (Shaw) ; Kenneth Hin
ton, violinist (Kittrell); and T. E. Alli
son, drummer (Biddle). They received
fu P*'°‘^®®ds of a weekly dance in
the Badin Theater (white townsite), and
filled engagements in North Badin, Albe
marle, and Salisbury. Cook and Mow-
ery (Shaw), Caldwell (Biddle), and
others helped to make the Badin Slug
gers one of the best baseball teams in
the State; but the star pitcher, Caldwell,
was the only one to remain thru the
season.
T. B. Jones performed the greatest
service in community uplift, because of
his upstanding manhood and versatility.
Besides being a good brickmason, he was
band and orchestra leader, and choral
director for the A. M. E. Z. Church.
Jones’ choir sang beautifully in the dedi
catory exercises of this beautiful new
building in August.
It is not pretended that there were no
disappointments in this first effort of
many of the men to become successful
workers in a technical industrial concern.
It was also expected that some of the
men would not catch the extraordinary
spirit of the general superintendent, Mr.
J. E. S. Thorpe, who said: