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Entered as second-class matter January 29, 1914. at the post office at Institute. West Virginia. under the Act of March 3. 1879 Devoted to the Interests of The West Virginia Colored Institute ; AT~~~~:~OL§E~~~~t; 25 Cents the Scholastic Year : : : . . : 5 Cents Per Copy

_··m· Contents for February J 9J 5

1915 PAGE and Lasts Six Editorials. . . . . 4 ~ ~eeks Negro Education in West Virginia. 5 Back to the Farm . 9

TWO MAIN COURSES: Buy Seed Potatoes. . .10 Teachers' Review and Professional. EXPENSES LOW Our Exchanges...... 11 ; Special Program...... 12 Junior and Senior Academics give a Creditable Program .. 12

Student Notes. . . . .13

FOR FURTHER Around the Institute. .14 INFORMATION, WRITE HON. M. P. SHAWKEY,Charleston, W. Va. N. B. Communications for publication should be given or sent to or the Editor, or Managing Editor. All news will reach these columns through the Editors. PROF. BYRDPRILLERMAN, Institute, W. Va. EDITOR BYRD PRILLERMAN MANAGING EDITOR S. H. Guss BUSINESS MANAGER C. E. MITCHELL THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY • THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 5

and the postal requirements. ~ Govern yourselves accordingly. ~ ~~ E HAVEBEENGENTLYCRITICIZEDBYA FEWOF THE ALUMNI, 1.111~ for not having more items of interest of what the alumni \. I are doing. ~ We depend upon you, dear alumni, in a ~ great measure, for information. Anything you send of tEbttnrtal.a interest and worth will be given space. Be a critic, but be a construct- ive one. Our columns are open. (. "' HE MONTHLYHAS MADEAN HONESTENDEAVORTO CARRY r ~our school to the homes of all friends and graduates of the ~ ,I schoo.I. It ha~ tried to preach the doctrine of usefulness, N turn tEburattnu tn IIpllt lttrgtuta ~~ and imprr ss Its readers that the West Virginia Colored Address delivered before the association of colored teachers of the state Institute stood for ,the greatest good and highest efficiency of the by L. J. HANIFAN negro youth of West Virginia. ~ It has solicited articles of interest and (Continued From January) worth from the graduates of the school who are out in the, world I think it will be profitable to as illiterate. It is encouraging to doing something. It has tendered its services for the promotion of inquire for a few minutes as to look a little farther down the table any interest that promised benefit to the people that the school is what should be our aim in pro- and note that in 1900,33.6 pi r cent is designed to help, and has taken pride in extolling the merits of any viding educational advantages for were so classed. If you care to go laudable enterprise undertaken by the graduates of the school, and the negro youth. As a general back further you will discover that the negro citizenry of the State. ~ These things have been done proposition I would say that the each succeding census has shown a gratuitously. Until the postal laws demanded it. The Monthly' cost aim should be the same for the large decrease in negro illiteracy in you nothing; for the pittance asked for a year's subscription was never negro youth as for the youth of this state. Furthermore, we remitted, except in avery, very few instances. ~ As far as the man- any other race, namely, to give should all remember that a large agement knows, The Monthly has ever been acceptable, and has been him such training as will enable proportion of those classed as illit- emphatically demanded by many who have never sent a cent for him to have the greatest possible erates are among the older citi- subscription. ~ Now gentle reader, whoever you are, be fair With enjoyment of life that he is going zens, those who grew up before yourself. Dont practice the something for nothing school of philosophy. to spend as a useful, law-abiding, the schools had been provided, so ~ We want you to read THE MONTHLY. We want you to eagerly productive citizen. This is a prin- that the number of illiterates of wait for its coming to your homes. We want you to learn of what the ciple of education that knows school age would be greatly re- school is doing for Negro uplift, and we want you to become practical- neither race nor creed. The habit- duced. And it is interesting to lyenthused with the doctrine of public service that, we are-preaching: ual loafer, the social parasite, the note still further that 57.6 per cent ~ut we cannot continue to get in touch with you unless certain obliga- non-producer, be he white or black, of the negro population of West tions are complied with.~. We believe you are honest, but forgetful has no rightful place on this earth. Virginia were born outside of the of an honest obligation. We would deem it a reflection on the large How nearly then are we approach- state, many of them in southern body of ou~ alumni, were we to publish the names of those who have ing our aim? states where the educational ad- cleared their consciences by paying their subscription for THE MONTH- , The census of 1910 shows that vantages for the negro are not as LY. ~ Inserted in your paper, you will find a memo of your obligation, 20.3 per cent of the negroes ten good as in our own state. years of age and over were classed Closely related to illiteracy 1S 6 THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 7 school attendance. In 1913-14 All that is necessary is capable leads the total enumeration of negro ership by the teacher. The teach- education are reasonably capable white man, I believe, prefers to youth between the ages of 6 and er herself can decor-ate the walls of taking care of those who aspire work two or three days out of the 21 was 19,260. The total enroll- with a few inexpensive pictr i e- to some of the higher walks of week and then live up what he ment in the schools was 12,408, and see to it that the building is life we may say then that our im- has earned before going to work which was 64 per cent of the enu- kept clean and attractive. mediate problem here in West again. Doubtless, this is a habit meration. The average attend- My discussion would not be com- Virginia is that of providing every that he has formed by reason of ance was 8,555, which was 69 plete unless I say something of the negro boy and girl with a good his environment, or possibly it is per cent of the enrollment but only character of the education that elementary education. This edu- for lack of proper training in the 44 per cent of the enumeration. should be offered the negro cation should be as closely related schools. Anyway this easy going, I need not stop here to tell you children. Yet what I have to say to the life that he lives now and is happy-go-lucky way of living is that one of the most important could as well be said to the teachers expected to live as it can possibly not admired by anyone, and it is things that you can do is to in- of white children. When I say, for be. Something to look foward to a conducive to idleness and poverty. crease as rapidly as possible both example, that not all negro children few years in the future is the The negro man is too much in- the enrollment and the daily at- should be encouraged to go to col- providing of trade schools where clined to let his wife earn part of tendance. Perhaps the best way lege or to enter one of the learned these young Americans will have the living by keeping boarders, to convince boards of education professions my statement would an opportunity to learn to do well taking in washing, or serving as a that your school needs a new apply- equally well with reference their life work. If these proposed domestic in the home of his white house, a new blackboard, or better to white children. We are not all trades schools come to the negroes neighbor. Possibly this custom is equipment is by keeping all the made for the higher callings of life. before similar schools are provided a result of slavery times when the children in school. A school that nor does the world need all of us in for-the whites, then the negroes women had to work as hard as has an enumeration of 50, an en- that kind of service. On the other will be just that much ahead, for the men. But the sooner the ne- rollment of 20 and a daily at- hand, the world is always in great that is what we are all coming to, gro man abandons this practice tendance of 10 does not easily 'need of skilled workmen, whether sooner or later. I say this because and determines to be alone the persuade a board of education tnat they be white or some other color. I am firmly of the belief that the breadwinner of the family, the improvements are needed. What the world needs most to- first consideration for us all is to sooner will the negro man come in- A great many improvements can day is men, and women too, who be able to make a living, to stand to his own as a respectable and be made by the people themselves, know how to do something and to on our own feet. The world self-respecting husband. I have whether it be a colored school or do it well. You may take the want skilled service of whatsoever observed that the colored man who not. For example, any school can country over and you will find that sort. -If the negro can offer such is thrifty and who adopts higher b~ kept clean without any special very much of the world's work is service no one is going to employ a standards of life than the average aid from the board of education. being done by bunglers and half- bungler in his stead,-not for very of his fellows usually wins the The parents and children will have baked artisans. This situation re- long, at any rate. Through skilled respect of the white man. pleasure in coming together to sults in waste of energy and gross workmanship, therefore, the negro - I know a colored map living in clean up the school grounds, and inefficiency in every kind of ser- will take a long step forward. a small town who spent most of scrub the floors and wash the win- VIce. Again, I believe that the negro his life at hard work and who at dows, and paint or paper the walls. Granting that our facilities for youth should be taught thrift. about the age of 50 bought a home The negro more often than the on one of better streets of the city. 8 THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 9

He kept the lawn closely mown,. to a northern town and worked at cause each in his turn knew what Doctor Washingtou does things. set out shrubbery, had a large bed the trade he had learned as a slave. to do when other men did not. No He does them better than anyone of roses in the front yard, and a He was thrifty and saved some one concerned himself very much else can do them. For this reason good garden in the rear. His good money Pretty soon he opened a about the fact that Napoleon was we all admire and respect him. wife kept his house neat and clean. grocery store, which his wife and a poor peasant's son or that Lincoln Now you cannot all found and The parents and their daughter their SOIl and daughter managed was a rail-splitter out west. Your build up the greatest institute for dressed simply but very neatly. while he kept on making shoes. own great leader, Booker Washing- the negroes in the world. But The neighbors did not invite them After a time he was elected a del- ton, is an example of what I mean. each one can be a good teacher, a to their social functions, of course, gate to a state political conventon. You all know better than I how he skilled mechanic, a successful farm- but they all respceted them and It was in the days when money left his humble home over here at er, a good man or woman. they would favor them as readily played all too large a part in the .Malden, walked to Hampton Insti- as they would favor anybody else nomination of a candidate for gov- tute and literally showed the presi- In this connection I am reminded on the street. The white man, ernor. Soon after the delegation dent of the Institute that he could of a statement by Emerson: barring a few of the unreasoning arrived in the convention city some do one thing, simple as it was, "If a man can write a better ones, does not hate the negro as of his friends came to him and better than anyone else. And he book, preach a better sermon, or such, but he does hate the mean, asked that he go with them in has been showing what he can do make a better mouse-trap than his no-account' nigger" just as surely voting for a candidate for whom ever since. His skin is black but neighbor, though he builds his as the average negro hates "poor they had not been instructed. that does not bar him from the house in the woods the WOJ ld will white trash". Can you not instill The colored man said "no." He presence of the great of the earth. make a beaten path to his door." into the childern of your charge explained that the men who sent this principle of thrift and self-re him there had instructed him to spect, which is admired in any vote for a certain man and that he iBark to the 111arm people? was going to vote for him until he A Drama in Three Acts Furthermore, the negro needs to had further instructions from Presented by the Morrill Agricultural Club learn integrity. No one likes a de- them. A man like that is admired ceiver. Everyone admires the by everyone to-day, regardless of Quite a large crowd witnessed prove the superior qualities of man whom he can trust, whom he his color. Can you not plant in the presentation of Shumway's modern methods of farming over can depend upon to be as good as the hearts and lives of your chil- "Back to the Farm" the night of the old. his word. Race plays no part in dren seeds of integrity? They will February the fifth. J. H. Taylor as "Gus" provoked the consideration of a principle like grow, and make good citizens of Special efforts had been put forth much laughter by his droll actions, this. It is as eternal as the Rock your pupils. The world is looking to widely advertise the play, and and humorous dialogues. Mabel of Ages. It is a prominent princi- for men, men who know how, men the consequent interest manifested Sinkford made an ideal farmer's ple in the teaching of our Saviour who can do a thing best, and when was gratifying to the management. wife, and read her lines distinctly. when He walked among men upon it finds him there is little question The plot was simple, the dia- Mathew Ballard, as farmer Mer- the earth. A few years ago I knew about his color. It has always logues sprightly, and the action by rill, surprised his many acquaint- a colored man who had been a been so. Alexander, Caesar, Na- the student actors, pleasing. The ances by the skill with which he slave. After the civil war he came poleon and Lincoln were great be- motif of the play attempted to interpreted his lines. THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 11 10 THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY certification tag, while se.ed pota- Student, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Mattie Martin as Rose, the pro- table mention. toes are in sacks or other contain- The A. & M. College Register, gressive school ma'am, and Leon The interact periods were en- ers of a capacity not to exceed 180 Greensboro, N. C. The Pharos, Kincaid, young Merrill, the agri- livened by a number of spirited , pounds, and each container is W. Va. Wesleyan College, Buck- cultural college graduate, played vocal specialties rendered by the seperately certified. hannon, W. Va. The Parthenon, their parts commendably. Atkinson Hall Quartette, Huling Some dealers have been buying Marshal College, Huntington, W. The acting of Ida Morgan as Lewis, Edward Fulks, Austin table stock and selling it for seed. Va. The Picket, State Normal, Margerie, and Osborn Black as Crawford, and Jervis Woodley. These men are not violating any' Shepherdstown, W. Va. The W. Robert was the subject offavorahle The boys had to respond to re- law, but they are exposing their Va. Tablet, Deaf and Blind Insti- comment. peated calls. customers to the risk of the intro- tution, Romney, W. Va. The Estella Patterson as Hulda, Wil- The management of the Agricul- duction of a dangerous disease and Aurora, Knoxville College, Knox- liam Smith as farmer Allen, and tural club deserve much credit for a quarantine should the powdery ville, Tenn. The Morgan College A. B. Cunningham as lawyer, the success of the play. About scab be introduced. Bulletin, Princess Anne, Md. The drew favorable remarks. Every Forty-one Dollars was realized. The white seed certificate relates Zephyr, West Milford, W. Va. The member of the cast deserved credi- Following is the cast: only to freedom from powdery Educator, Charleston, W. Va. The Charles Merrill - a farmer ofthe old school...... Matthew Balla;d scab, but potatoes so certified are McDowell Times, Keystone, W. Va. Merton Merrill - his son Leon Kincaid The Sodalian, Wilberforce Univer- Mrs. Merrill, - the farmer's thrifty wife Mabel Sinkford likely to be of better quality and Rose Meade, - the school ma'am Mattie Martin less mixed than table-stock po- sity, Wilberforce, . The Col- Gus Anderson, - the hired man James Taylor tatoes. _ 1 he supply of certified lege Arms, A. & M. College, Talla- Reuben Allen, - a neighbor William Smith seed potatoes in Maine is ample, hassee, Florida. The Storer Rec- Mr. Ashley - a lawyer and real estate man Arthur Cunningham and the price this year is low, so ord, Storer College, Harper's Ferry, Robert Powell - a senior-in-law Usborne Black that there is no excuse for planting W. Va. The V. N. & 1. 1. Gazette, Margerie Langdon - a society debutante .Ida Morgan Hulda - the maid Estella Patterson table-stock potatoes. Ettrick, Va. The department also states that The late James A. Booker, class ors and found free from powdery the rigid inspection and other 1.Suy flIlhthtr ~rrll Jotator.a of 1903, is paid a compliment by scab, that they were grown on precautions thrown around certi- the General Education Board in In Certified Sacks Only farms free from, and have not in fied seed stock from quarantined districts make such stock as safe that he is taken as a typical Demon- The farmers of New Jersey, any way been exposed to this, as potatoes from noninfected areas, stration Agent. In the publication other Middle Atlantic States, and disease. and often better selected. of this Board, which has just come the Southern States are warned They have been warned against from the press, Mr. Booker's pic- by the department to see that the the use of table potatoes for ture is found on the page opposite seed potatoes they buy bear the planting purposes, as these, even (1~uriExrqangra 50, with this subscription: "A field white label of the Potato Inspection though they do not show the The following exchanges have of prize rye grown under the di- Service of this department. This disease, may have been exposed to appeared since our last issue: rection of colored Demonstration abel is placed on each container, powdery scab. Table potatoes are The Southern Workman, Hamp- Agent, James A. Booker, Mound and certifies that the potatoes have usually shipped from Maine in ton Institute, Va, The Tuskegee Bayou, Miss., 1910." been examined by Federal inspect- bulk and the car carries a blue ,--

THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 13 12 THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY ceremonies, and ushered the count of the reception of the news following program: of his father's death at Elkins in Chorus ·..•. Y. M. C. A. January. lIuutnr nub ~rutnr 1\rahrmtr.a Scripture Reading Turner Dixie Mr. Wm. Allen, of class of'18, Prayer Pres. Byrd Prillerrnan has withdrawn from school. We Give A Creditable Program Chorus Y. M. C. A. regret his departure very much, A very creditable program was and showed the great amount of Recitation ...... •• The Minority" A. B. Cunningham . because he was the main stay in rendered by the Senior and Junior . interest being shown in this Vocal Solo .i.:» A Horne beyond this Land" the center outer garden of tile Academic classes Saturday, Feb. 6, course. Huling Lewis nine.' . at regular joint meeting of the lit- A paper giving the outline of ••Thanatopsis ••...... Holley Wells William Spearman and Harry erary societies, under the direction the work being done in the Aca- Quartette /. "The Lost Chord" Saunders accidentally or otherwise, of Mr. E. Fulks of the former demic department and the very in- Leon Kincaid Austin Crawford Huling Lewis Jervis Woodley got into the back water up to class. teresting results was read by Miss Address Mr. E. A. Goines their knees. This program was the first of its Ola Calhoun. "Mizpah ••...... :...; ..Turner Dixie , The bQY~of Atkinson .Hall and kind to be given this year and re- Below is the program as ren- ~ite Hall, are rejoicing over the fleeted great credit upon the class dered. g,tu~1'nt Nntea president's recent order giving the Music Band students a chance to reduce any "A Sketch of the Academic Course ••...... Ola Calhoun Winter is about over; for the demerits received by virtue of "Life and Works of Virgil ••...... Alexander Staples boys have begun to limber up for future good behavior. Select Reading-"The Teachers of Mankind ••...... Jenora Strother Selection , Band the baseball season by tossing the The girls of Dawson Hall made "The Life and Work of Caesar Walter Watkins ball to each other on the campus, some mysterious moves on the e- Dec1amation--"The Fall of Wolsey ••...... Kathryn Chandler when the weather offers any venings of January 22, 23, which Song-"Good Night B-eloved••...... Senior and Junior Chorus chance at all. they' thot would get them into March : Band The regular exercises of the trouble: . but they were quite suc- "Bull Moose" Literary Society cessful in giving a surprise party t;prctai Jrogram tion of being the only one of its was postponed January 30, and for Mj~s Eubank, on the evening Of The Y. M. C. A. kind in the country. Dr. H. C Lyman, Superintendent of.Jap;123,1915., . The Young Men's Christian Mr. Goines was visiting his of the work among Negroes Of the 'Miss Eubank 'was met at the Association, presented a special daughter at the school, and was International Sunday School As- door by the girls with-cheers and sociation gave an. instructive talk. . program Sunday night Feb. 7, in prevailed upon to speak. hurrahs, after, which I,every one The-talk was one especially help- connection with the address of His address, from Ex. 40: 34, was seated and.the following pro- ~ecretary E. A. Goines, of the Col- was earnestly discussed, and a ful .to young men, and it was giarri ~is ~e~·d'e.r~d.. ored Y. M. C. A. of Bluefield. pleasing impression was left of greatly appreciated. Music Was Instrumental solo, Miss Etta. . 'It will be recalled, that this is one's obligation to the Masterfor a furnished for the occasion by the Henderson; Welcome address, Miss Schoolband, the .association maintained bv the full and earnest life of service. Lucile Dixie; Instrumental .solo, . The sympathy.of every boy was Miss-Henderson; Vocal solo,' Miss N. &(W. R. R. for its negro em- Mr Turner Dixie of the Senior extended to Basil Lewis, '18, on ac- Virginia Cobb; vocal solo Miss ployees'. It has the rare distinc- Academic Class, was master of 14 THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 15 Courtney Green. Music and games y. W. C. A. entertained the society, by all. After the program a very students, and teachers, by having by Dr. R. L. Jones, our physician. fifth inst. appetizing menu was served which Rev. H. F. Gow of Charleston to Mrs E. A. Goines of Bluefield, Mr. R. L. Brown, our engineer, was enjoyed by all. Closing re- address the society. the mother of Miss Helen Goines, left for Washington and Baltimore marks Miss Lou Wade. Rev. Gow's subject was" ". of the Normal Class of '16 was a the 9th inst. While in Baltimore Miss Eubank was presented of Never has the story been told so pleasant vistor to the school for a Mr. Brown will consult a specialist 8 chiffon scarf, as a rememrance interestingly. day of the first week of the month. of John Hopkins University. The by Miss Minnie L. Wilson before A silver offering was made for Mrs Goines expressed herself as many friends of Mr. Brown sin- the closing remarks. missionary purposes for which greatly pleased with conditions cerely hope that his visit may The 4th Sunday in January the Rev. Gow expressed his thanks. around the School. prove beneficial to him. Mrs. George W. Murray wife of Miss Margaret Goines, was the ex-Congressman Murray, was the guest of her sister Miss Helen 1\rnuub 1111'3JU!ilitul1' guest of Mrs. F. C. Carter our Goines, of West Hall for the first Miss Emma Meadows, and Mr. withdraw from school on account training teacher, the fourth and week of the month. and Mrs. Dewitte Meadows spent of poor health. Her classmates the Christmas vacation at the bed- regret her absence very much, and side of their sister Alice, who has hope for her early return. been dangerously ill since the 24th The program given January the . of December last. At this time, first, commemorative of the E- some hope for her recovery is mancipation Proclamation, was en- entertained. joyed by the student body. Mr. Phillip Johnson, a graduate A special program was given the of the Uniontown, Pa. high school, night of January 29, on behalf of is a recent addition to the student roster. the Belgian relief fund. A tidy sum was realized, which will be Miss Juanita Bradbury a Junior sent to the proper authorities. special in the Commercial depart- Walter Hodge, a member of the ment, has returned to her home in St Louis, Mo. Class of '18 was severely injured the morning of the 6th inst. Mr. Clarence Hill, a member of While passing beneath the south the Sophomore Normal Class was windows of Hazlewood Hall, he was called to his home in Mt Hope the struck by a small board that a jan- 6th inst. itor had carelessly thrown from ,I Miss Eunice Jones, of the 1915 one of the windows of the hall. Academic class, has been forced to He was carefully looked after The West Va. Colored lnstitule:Stude1d Press