fiSlsiw Mfo ,4?- j-* aw ftlid ft. jffljji there bub ble* of air coming to/the sur face from beneath the stream. These air bubbles are not vteible to the naked eye;hu* you see the disturbance ofthe surface of the water which this gas has Wmmm The real cause of the bubble! offijaoratd’i organic...,., which may have been deposited lb the stream from some sewer discharge, or, perhaps, from some limb or leaf of a tree. Gas seems to be «rerywfcsro& in the air, on the ground, in the water; and in greater abundance pa the pulpit, hi the newspapers They pipe it out Coming from there puts a scientific smell to it*. Its effect is not deadly and its odor Uf rather pleasant to the of our We like to vi*' Piped from Boston (the New England Textile Mills), or from the several cotton eirfhiTige*^ it is liberated, like the gas that sition in the river,, and it acts just like the scare-crow which the farmer pats up in the corn field to scare the crows away. The gas scares and convinces apf Ne^^jbusinessmen, and fefegro farmers, all through the wuth, like a haunted house that stlftds in a very dark place in a CrMufeljk graveyard, on a moon light night. Its effect is mar vetous. This; season the libera You know ally piant life must have gas W make it grow. (Without nitrogen gas plants will not grow). The black man-power of the Sohth, which Swings the hoe ahd chops the cotton, keeps the New Englandltextfie workers in good jobs; Clothes the nation, supplies to the surgeons and d*Ug stores of the nation band ages; helps to make? the trunks and suit cases of the traveler; ammunition used by our War and Navy Departments; cotto lene, which has -almost driven hog lard from:the kitchen; an off which is used as a nutritious substitute for olive oil, etc., etc. So that tne Negro down South, being engaged in the great in dustry, can better grow mid de velop in the South, and become properous because the South is his natural home. And he can not live and survive in a cold Northern climate. The North ern winters are too severe on us: we can not stand the cold. have read the book written by Mr. Matthew Henson, entitled “A Negro Explorer at The North Pole;” of course, you have seen in the “National Geographic Magazine,” for April, 1920, the artide by Donald McMillan. It tells about the time when Per ry and a lot of white gentlemen went to‘‘look up” the North Pole and in that memorable ex pedition was one 4one Negro, Matthew Henson, When they got as far up North as they cduld get, on shipboard, they hopped out on the ice and went on and on and on, with the '4& ■p* *#*• . Vi#' *m wtrlwhrxw?. \\. - «■&*« #»»V.A jf ft "'•*$ t *. - f*Pfiyp# ,«§**?-■*#«s5 ■ < ■ ■ „ ' '• ■ >5 ifiTup' iwwf ri| pj*iifr|S ~ ~|i"ir • i r 'pyj I* fe^9« Among the M. A. graduates at Harvard was Countee Cullen, the young Negro poet who last year won the Witter Byiiner* Poetry prize in a national com petition open to all college stud ents. J J 4 {WHOLESOME RAGE PRIDE i... needed. In the education of all races, room must be made for teaching its noble traditions, for foster ing its historic pride. The Negro child ought to know , very thor oughly the history of its race from 1619 to 1926. All that tile the part that Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, and a long list df others flayed in the initial hours of this country's life and devel opment 01 the South; how also in the perplexing days of the Civil War the Negro's loyalty and true illustrious manhood both to master and country stood out like a beacon, and will continue tp stand as long as men love the heroic and the good. The Negro child should be carefully taught how much progress the race has made in every sphere of human activity* and under what cir cumstances it has been members who have contributed so much to find the rastmtet that Sture has plAntpd in therace— ; genuine, warm religiousness, iis iovG pi music, isyery. memoer of our race ought to be made to feel from earliest childhood, as 1 y " luchcpncerped wei>e I some way of avoiding? to such * splendid set nd young women. Ouc ingtostem the tide tt deficit, frankly told re would have to wait time was ripe to> give dormitory. However, the need of a well normal school in the ite of Kentucky, they a laboratory and a li lt of which are now be* lied,: But this did not ive thi problem . of housing? a student body which is ix>> msin# by leaps and bounds, e needed a refectory as badly we iwedd a dormitory. We t ouif, w£ta together, went to b local people and told them mtta/great asset our plant was the Community, having spent 2,000'in the vicinity during e two and a half years it has is about $2,000. After the new dormitory is erected we hope to turn this cottage into a home for a man and wife who will teach with us, (and by the way the to leave J. C. S. U. next com mencement to take up work with us.) By the erection of this cottage we are enabled to care, for fifteen additional girls. Our teaching force this> year is of the highest type. Our aim is to have a school surpassed by none. Our list of teachers is as follows? Principal, H. W. McNair, J. C.‘ Smith University. Preceptress and Treasurer, Mrs. H. W. McNair, Brainerd Institute and Ingleside Semina i Department of Science, Math* ematics, History, Latin and Greek, Miss Hollie Winkfield, Chandler Normal and Kentucky Normal mild Industrial Institute. Bible and Biblical History# Rev. R. L. Hyde, Alabama Nor ! Department of Domestic Sci-. ence, Dressmaking, Grammar and Domestic Arts, Miss T. L* Kinchlow, Tennessee State Nor mla. Matron and ;iHome depart ment, Miss Lucy P. Caliman, 'orkei-s' conference meet with i in the near future. Mrs. McNair has just re When passing this way, breth ren ana sisters, don’t fail to stop. Our latchstrin* is more prominently on vJe outside than Bver; H.W.McNAIR. Fee Memorial Institute, Nicholasvffle, Ky. t CRISIS” PUBLISHES FIRST; ' ARTICLE IN SURVEY OF j NEGRO EDUjCJtfTION d New York, Aug. 20—The September Number of the Crisis magazine, published today, con tains the first article in the sur vey of Negro common schools undertaken in virtue of an ap propriation of $5,O0Q for this mrpose by the American Fund wl ia, shows that the average amount expended yearly on each white child in the. State is $4.59. Although Negro children form 43 per cent of the children of school age only nine per dent of the educational funds are spent on them and 91 per cent on the white children. The survey contains a history of education vs for Negroes in Georgia, a summary of school laws affecting colored children, and tabulations of attendance, expenditures, value of school property, libraries, etc. It is shown that there are 115 libraries for colored schools as against 1417 for white, and that the white libraries contained 269,128 books as against 12,188 books in the colored. Conditions as shown in 75 counties investigated by The Crisis, are typified by the follow ing: “Berrien County: The schools in 'this county for colored are taught mainly in old churches With no equipment other than a stove, benches and a few feet of home-made blackboard. “Ben Bill County: Cowokee, in; thin county, used as a school a dilapidated wooden building which was formerly a church. There is one room, one teacher and the school run? for four months. The enrollment is 35, the attendance good. The salary of the teacher is $25 a month, The schopl at Fitzgerald is held in a frame building which & in a very dangerous condition being nearly ready to fall. There are 7 rooms and 6 teachers. The terra kuine montfhs and the enroll mept is 400. The prmcipal’s & ary is *50 a month _and th< proving garbage. unsatisfactory, employed oAk*) ored waiters. To supply the re*: quired number a force . was brought in from neighboring, cities. . •: Kansas City, Mo.—Eodcarr^ ere and building laborers, whom ninety per >eentarecoi ored, have been idle during the, carpenters’ strike. The" local un» t ion to which these raea belong has one of the largest colored Pine Bluff, Arki^In the new!# Nash automobile body plant 40, Negroes went to work at un-,» skilled operations.«%md ■ v u > Los Angeles—The industrial problems of the city’s large Ner.; gro population attention dur Council oi So dered a ci^r and a survey of f living conditions Milwaukee—T1 cided movement from Chicago ai in the middle w« families aie ki entered the city from the State :q the month three ploying 326 Negi temporarily and., dutry cut down-: