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Devoted to the Religious, the Educational, and the Industrial Development of the Colored Race
Official Organ for the Schools and Churches of North-east Georgia
Vol. V.
New Jersey Colored
Teachers seek Equal Pay
(Lincoln News Service)
Jersey City Mar. 4, 1924, - According
to a resolution recently parsed by the
Organization of teachers o f Colpred
< hildreri of the State of New Jersey,
colored teachers in Sdem, Cape May,
Cumberland, and Monmonth Counties
are receiving lower salaries than the
white teachers. The resolution claims
that colored teachers in these four coun
ties are in many cases receiving from
to S2OO.- less anually than the
white teachers, ad it st des that should
this salary preference continue the mo
rale of the teaching force will break
‘down and inflit t an irreparab’e injury
on sciiool children who stand i 1 need of
tutelage. This same resolution says.
“A lower salary schedule must inevita
bly attract an inferior grade of teacher
to the co’ored school, preventing the
colored j-chool from maintaining an effl
cien stadaid; many of New Jersey’s
school children are in this manner de
nied equal educaiional opportune s'
and the spirit of the States Consli ution
is violated.
YOUNG AND ILL-TRAINED
TEACHERS DiSCU'S£D
(Lincoln News Service)
New York, Mar- 5, 1924, Of| interest
to the 35,500 colored school teachers,
and of deep concern to the pare: ts of
the nearly 4,000,000 colored sclrool child
ren is the recent stateim nt m de by
Professor William C. Bagley, Professor
of Education at Columbia University,
who said sa'id: “The weaknessess of the
the American public school have been
referred to again and again; but these
weaknesses have not often been traced
to their souraec. Generally speaking,
Cbc Utbcnf
ATHENS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1924
the soul and center of every school is
the teach*r. The chief weakness of
American eduzation lies in the tempor
ary and transient character of our teach
ing popnlation. Nearly one-half of the
70,000 teachers who do t he work of our
elementary and high schools are young
girls from Isto 25 years old. They are
only in mature most of them are quite
without training for their very respon
sible duties. The great problem of
American education, as I see it, is to
correct this condition— to provide for
evey American classroom a trained and
competent teacher.” .nvestigation
shows th <t in our group there 12,211 fe
male and 718 male teichers under the
ag- of 25 years and of this number
2,774 female and 140 male teachers are
under 20 yt ars of age. ,
Colored Boy “Speed
Artist” wins Reming
ton Typewriter
Washington, March 5, —Cortez Pe
ters, a graduate of the D partment of
Bu iuess Practice of Dunbar High
S drool, has been aw ar ltd a brand
new No 12 Remington typewriter for
accuracy and spaed in an officially-con
ducted test. Young Peters wrote 67
uords a minute fromau unf miliar copy
for 15 minutes without enor K causing
the Remington Educational Director to
say: “The paper of Cortez Peters is one
of the best ever’ received by the Com
pany in ten years.” The young* phenom’
has just been appointed as typist-clerk
to one of the important committees in
Congress.
CLARKE COUNTY FARMERS
IN SAVANNAH MtET
Messrs. D. A. Starks, W. F. Kenney,
George Kenney, and J. H. Deadwyler
attended a farmers* gathering at the
Georgia State Industrial College, Sav
annah, Georgia two weeks ago. The
demonstration agents and teachers o
home economics spared no pains in giv
ihg those who attended the meetings
the benefit of their rich experience and
knowledge of the most improved meth
ods of farming and of the economy o*
the home. Mr. W. F. Kenney, of Clarke
County, delivered a splendid address on
“8011-weevil control.” His addresstvaiC .
so impressive that he has been asked to
speak again this week at the Fort Val
ley (Ga ) meeting.
2d. District S. S. Con
vention
Athens, Ga. : W. W. Lumpkin,
Chairman
To the Superintendents es the 2d.
District, Greetings:
The chairman will appear at the
Sunday School written below on
the date cccuring after their
name.
Friendship March 9
New Shiloh - 16
Mt. Pleasant - 23 w
Ebenezer, (West Broad) - 80
W.W. LUMPKlN,.Chairman
NEWTOWN SCHOOL BUILDING
COMPLETED
The Newton School, which has been
housed in rented quart* rs from the time
of its organization until last week, has
moved into its new heme. The new
building is an imposing structure
on Athens A vended;* with a fairly good,
equipment to take care ol the children
who attend it. We men and “near
men” who are patrons of this school and
who live under its influence should
thank the school board for doing this
much for us unsolicited except by the
prayers and entreaties of a few sincere
HELP
IT
CROW
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