^DIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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What Will the Southern Negro Do with His Advantages?
How W.11 We Answer This All-Important Question?
_ . .
HE writer had the very great pleasure of entertain
ing in his home Sunday just gone, a very promising
young minister of Livingstone College, who in his
surprise to learn of the many advantages offered
the race at Badin was led to inquire very diligently into the
living conditions of the race here, and of the advantages
offered for its highest development. After informing him
as test I could, as nearly accurate as I have been able to
gather from the status of Badin’s past history, the young
man, seeming in deep amazement, asked, “What shall we do
with these most excellent advantages?” Feeling the keenest
of gratitude and appreciation of the advantages offered us
its works. Therefore th^ T branch of
passed. the educational advantages are unsur-
to make the
employer, by having thp J I ’ .Profitable to his
Therefore, the school here for The ^rac training,
idea. There are six tearhpr= • a great
build^gs, for fosterrng^\to";dSo:''^^^
wo».«hooa ,0, “1
NIGHT SCHOOL CLASS
®s a race by those able to give aid, as was expressed by the
young college minister who knows how to appreciate good
as do all intelligent people of the race, I am led to take
his chance to inform others of his class, with the hope of
®ving them feel as he does, that Badin is one of the most
t'fomising opportunities for negro advancement on all lines
*'«cessary to his civilization in the South.
You desire to know what we have to be proud and boast-
? of. It is but fair and truth to say that we have any
all things that any other race has. One of the best
j Kulatcd concerns for honest wage-earners in the South,
hiention this feature first of all because the masses of our
are honest toilers, and are seeking information of
** kind. The accond question of importance to the
■”®u«htful race man is: “What educational and religious
^^''antages are offered us there?” We proudly answer that
^ "fhere in the South can Jbe found a Company using terms,
^ y*. and means to educate the race equal to those of the
^•laasco Power Company. We pay no tax for educational
L. ^Poaea, and yet we have a school second to none of ita
open to the race in the South. Thia ia due to the fact
pr.»nt .h,;!; “r .r.S"lr"T'
the fact that war empro-o.,,.- u scale, by reason of
to have prepared sufficient rMm f''® impossible
But for the^carc ty ^f ir^nd tV
would h.v. j buvrrsi" rj’
tages of room and eouinmpnf * advan-
of School, her. InfZT"' Ll JhT"’-
ror i't r :„tH -
«i««io„ in u,r?o»" X.S”!,'’'’ “I'"
training offered bova and iriri. { j giving the same
oour,. '“'if'"'
haa been divided into three classes aifn *
like heroes to get the beat of thL ^
given. advantages so kindly