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The Prairie View Standard - October 1931 - Vol. XVIII No. 1
Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College
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WHAT TO EXPECT OF GEORGE THE CHILDREN'S CHARTER
BY JAMES HARDY DILLARD For every child spiritual and moral training to help him to stand firm under the pressure of life. I mean after he has gone to school and maybe II For every child understanding and the to college. That is, what are we to expect that guarding of his personality as his most precious his education has done for him in the way of right. making him a competent man, able to stand on his own feet and face the world squarely with in Hi For every child a home and that love and telligence back of his eyes ? security which a home provides; and for that child who must receive fester care, the nearest We naturally think first of his earning a living substitute for his own home. for himself and perhaps for others. He may have studied some vocational subject. He may have _ IV For every child full preparation . for his had training for carpentry or medicine. If so, birth, his mother receiving prenatal, natal, and we expect him to be an exact and neat carpenter, postnatal care; and the establishment of such protective measures as will make child-bearing or a careful and resourceful doctor. Whatever safer. his calling, we expect the vocational or profes sional training he has enjoyed to make him skill V For-every child health protection from ful in his special line. birth through adolescence, including: periodical But we expect George to be a man as well as a health examinations and, where needed, care of carpenter or doctor. And to be a real man he specialists and hospital treatment; regular dent must be a man who can think out the problems al examination and care of the teeth; protective that will come to him, the problems that come to' and preventive measures against communicable diseases; the insuring of pure food, pure milk, every man. He must be able to think about his and pure water. actions in relation to his home, and to his com munity and country. If his education has been Vs- For every child from birth through ado genuine, such as require his putting his mind on lescence, promotion of health, including health his studies whatever they were, then his educa instruction, and a health program, wholesome tion will help him to play the man wherever he physical and mental recreation, with teachers may be or whatever he may do. It will help him and leaders adequately trained. to form right judgments about his home matters _ VII For every child a dwelling place safe, san as a son or brother or father, and about his public itary, and wholesome, with reasonable provisions duties as a voter and citizen, it will do this fcr privacy, free from conditions which tend to mainly because it will have trained him in the thwart his development; and a home environ way of being a man who can and will think: ment harmonious and enriching. The more we consider the matter of George's VIII For every child a school which is Safe education the more clearly we shall see that it is from hazards, sanitary, properly equipped, light this WILL TO THINK that makes the serious ed, and ventilated. For younger children nurs difference in his attitude toward life. It is this, ery schools and kindergartens . to supplement far more than his feelings and emotions, that will home care. guide him in the right way. Frames and feelings IX For every child a community which recog are wobbly and variable. They vary with what nizes • and plans for his needs, protects him we may have eaten or maybe with the way the against physical dangers, moral hazards, and dis wind is blowing. It is the process of thinking ease ; provides him" with safe and wholesome that brings convictions. And if , it is honest places for play and recreation; and makes pro thinking it will bring righteous convictions. vision for his cultural and social needs. Take, for example, the question of prejudices, X For every child an education which, whether personal, racial or national. Now preju through the discovery and development of his in dice implies pre-judging, that is, forming a judg dividual abilities, prepares him for life; and ment before thinking. We talk of taking snap through training and vocational guidance pre judgment. This is just what .the man who pares him for a living which will yield him the "thinks—or, in other words, the educated man— maximum of satisfaction. does not do. The man who thinks is bound to XI For every child such teaching and training Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 3
Continued from page 1 rather than a liability. Expenses of these servi will be little less, if any, than it was the past ces should be borne publicly where they cannot Prairie View College Enrolls Large Session; What to.Eexpcct of George Principal W. R. Banks Delivers Message year. be privately met. The faculty has been strengthened and the in XIV For every child who is in conflict with so stitution has changed from the quarter to the •see that the right and sensible way, whether be The doors of the five schools of Prairie View tween individuals or races or nations, is to judge ciety the right to be dealt with intelligently, as semester system. The new three-story arts society's charge, not society's outcast; with the State Normal and Industrial College swung wide arts and science building has been completed and each other fairly and then to speak of each other on their hinges Wednesday morning, September fairly, and to act toward each other fairly. All heme, the school, the church, the court and the was ready for the opening September 16. institution when needed, shaped to return him 16, to receive the Negro youth of the country in this depends upon having a conviction of justice, quest of a higher practical education. Mr. Edward L. Dabney, graduate of Hampton which makes us see that any other v/ay is silly whenever possible to the normal stream of life. Institute, has been elected dean of men, succeed and thoughtless, bringing only trouble in its XV For every child the right to grow up in a Registration was completed September 18 and ing Mr. Arthur P. Hayes. Mr. Dabney comes to wake. Eo it seems to me to come about that ed family with an adequate standard of living and class work began Monday morning, September the institution highly recommended. He has ucation in its highest sense is the cure for preju the security of a stable income as the surest safe 21. It was estimated by Registrar John B. Cade been received at the college with assurances of dices which play havoc between man and man, guard against social handicaps. that the enrollment for the session will exceed cooperation and support in the discharge of his races and races, nations and nations. . XVI For every child, protection against labor 1,000 students in the five schools. Applications duties. He will have superior charge of the ca In this connection the second groat command that stunts growth, either physical or mental, on file indicate that the enrollment will be con dets and will be instructor of military science and ment is often quoted. When we come to think that limits education, that deprives children of siderably increased January 25, the beginning of the second semester. tactics. about it, is not thought a more vital element in the right of comradeship, of play, and of joy. Coach Sam Taylor will still handle the Pan this great commandment than some of us have XVII For every rural child as satisfactory The students ,are enthusiastic and the strong est faculty in the life of the college has reported thers and will be ready for the bout at the State supposed? Is not the practice of honest think schooling and health services as for the city Fair in October. All of his men are expected ing the foundation of right judgment and good child, and an extension to rural families of social, ready for the year's work. back on the firing line, excepts the graduates, and will, which is the central idea of the word love in recreational, and cultural facilities. In a recent meeting of the entire faculty, Dr. the coach will no doubt build the best and most the New Testament? "Christian love," says W. R. Banks, A.M., principal and ambassador of ' dependable machine in all history. Dean Inge, "is not a maudlin sentiment, but the XVIII To supplement the home and the school in the training of youth, and to return to them education, outlined the work of the college for practical' recognition of a plain fact involving a the year, declared the high purposes of the insti Dr. E.B. Evans,"Little Giant," is still director claim." And Bishop Gore says: "The word those interests of which modern life tends to of athletics, and like the redoubtable Coach Tay cheat children, every stimulation and encourage tution annd discussed its relation to the civic, translated love in the New Testament expresses social and economic conditions facing the coun lor, he has unshaken faith in the Panther troup. net an emotion at all." The fact is that in the ment should be given to the extension and devel The football schedule for the Panthers is as opment of the voluntary youth organizations. try. Among other things Principal Banks said: right sense of the word we can, and are com "We are in better position to do better work this follows: October 3, Houston Junior College, Prai manded to, love people we do not like. XIX To make everywhere available these min year. Texas has done a great part. Nearly §3,- rie View; October 10, Langston University, Prai In saying all this do we seem to have got away imum protections of tin-, health and welfare of 000,000 has been invested in higher education. rie View; October 19, Wiley College, Dallas; Oc from George's work in school and college? We children, there should be a district, county,, or The Forty-second Legislature appropriated 812,- tober 24, Arkansas State, College Station; Octo have not. We have only got to the point of see community organization for health, education, 000 for graduate work, the first appropriation for ber 31, Alcorn College, Alcorn; November 11, ing how much we have a right to expect of and welfare, with full-time officials, coordinating this purpose for any Negro institution in the /Texas College, Prairie View; November 14, Bish George if his work in school and college has been with a state-wide program which will be .respon State. Our educational advantages have been op College, Marshall; November 26, Tuskegee In of the right sort. We have only got to the place sive to a nation-wide service of general informa enhanced in all directions." stitute, Tuskegee; December 5, Southern Univer where we may see that the purposes of Church tion, statistics, and scientific research. This sity, Baton Rouge; December 12, Samuel Hus should include: "But notwithstanding our educational advan ton, Austin; New Year's Day, Alabama State, and School meet and kiss each other in helping tages," the Principal said, "we are facing a situa Houston. George to lead the good life. (a) Trained, full-time public health officials, tion today which we have never seen before. So we take leave of George with great expecta with public health nurses, sanitary inspec Something has come upon us and found us almost tions, and with the hope that he will prove him tion, and laboratory workers. unprepared to grapple with it. 'King Cotton' is Waller County Institute self to be an educated man. That is to say, we (b) Available hospital beds. about to be dethroned; unemployment and crime expect him to be a man who thinks straight, and (c) Full-time public welfare service for the re- - are on the increase; and Negroes are losing jobs The institute for the Colored teachers of Waller into the arena of the world's progress to consider relief, aid. and guidance of children in spe which they have held since the Civil War." about questions and problems that every man cial need due to poverty, misfortune, or be county was. held in the Sam Schwarz Training that is a man is called to face and not to shirk. havior difficulties, and for the protection of As a partial solution for the present ills of de school, September 1, 2, at Hempstead. ' children • from abuse, neglect, exploitation, pression, Principal Banks urged strict economy In the organization, Prof. J. H. Richards was Continued from page 1 or moral hazard. in public and personal affairs. He believes the elected chairman, and Miss Watson was times offer a distinct challenge to Prairie View elected secretary. The Children's Charter For every child these rights, regardless of State College. In this connection he said, "If race, or color, or situation, wherever he may live Among those appearing on the institute pro the Negroes shall have an agricultural system in gram were as follows: invocation, Rev. J. E. as will prepare him for successful parenthood, under the protection of the American flag. Texas, it must come from Prairie View; improve homemaking, and the rights of citizenship; and, Beal; Welcome Address, Mrs. L. IT. Edward; Re ment in the home arts; a superior class of skilled sponse, Mrs. Mamie Thompson; Lecture, Mr. G. for parents, supplementary training to fit them laborers; and a better type of manhood and to deal wisely with the problems of parenthood. Our country has prospered, our government V/. Buchanan; Educative Seat Work, Mrs. Ora XII For every child education for safety and is secure. But that prosperity and that security womanhood depend largely upon us and the fa Hill; Lecture, Prof. J. Henry Alston; Some Phas flow from the school and the church. They are cilities for training and preparation we have es of High School Work, Miss Ora Lee Yancy; protection against accidents to • which modern here provided by the state." conditions subject him—-these to which he is the product of the mind and the soul. They are Library, Prof. O. J. Baker ; Professional Improve directly exposed and those which, through loss the result of the character of the American peo ment, Mrs. S. S. Kemp; Beautifying • School or maiming of his parents, affect him indirectly. ple.—Calvin Coolidge. Prairie View State College Begins Fifty-third Grounds, Mrs. L. L. Walker; Lecture on Care of XIII For every child who is blind, deaf, crip Regular Session Teeth, Dr. A. K. Smith, D.D.S.; School Fairs, pled, or otherwise physically handicapped, and Mrs. W. E. D. Freeman; Lecture, Prof. J. M. for the child who is mentally handicapped, such It is reported that automobiles in use in this Wednesday morning September 16, the doors Alexander; Primary Work, Mrs. IT. L. Swan. measures as will early discover and diagnose his country have increased since 1915 1,000,000 a of Prairie View State Normal and Industrial Col The institute was well attended. About all handicap, provide care and treatment, and so year. It is said that 28,000,000 are now in oper lege opened to receive the Negro youths of the Colored teachers of Waller county were present. train him that he may become an asset to society ation. country. Notwithstanding the depression, Prin Each phase of the program elicited interesting cipal W. R. Banks, estimates that the enrollment discussions and enthusiasm. 5 4 Secretary Kdward Completes Higher Course in The Prairie View Standard desires. Too much time and money have been Chairman Schuhmacher Brings Engineers to wasted, expended on luxuries and follies not ab Prairie View Journalism Entered as second-class matter March 2, 1911, at solutely essential to the well being and happiness. the pcstoffice at Prairie View Texas, under the act of Indeed luxuries have their place, but not so The raw Arts and Science building and other On recently completing a higher course in March 3, 1879. much so with the poor and the dependent, who buildin ., at the college were inspected here re journalism from the University of Kansas, Na Published monthly by Prairie vi