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SMALL BUT NEWSY ■HaHnaHBMBSHaMai 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 No. 16