The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 24

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935 THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER Cotutructivw Ferle Independent EIGHT Washington And Associates Success Of School Is Due In Part To Cooperation, Friendship Of Neighbors Jennie B. Moton Directs Activities Of Women's Industries Department A school can prosper only tn propor- xkm to toe peace and goocwJi that exist between the school and her ne-gnoora. These are not the exact words of President Robert R. Moton. but dunr-g the 1 year of his administration he ha left no stone unturned to carry out the spirit of that Quotation.

Ho small pan of the success or Tus kegee Institute and Us development has been due to the fine spirit of cooperation existing between the Institute and lu neighbors, the village of Greenwood on the west, C. 8. Veterans Facility on the north and the Town of Tuskegee oa the east. This relaUonshiD with the Town of Tuskegee is as old as the Institute itself. beginning wiih that letter written in mi by George W.

Campbeu and Um Adams, two citizens of the town, to the principal of Hampton Institute asking for a teacher to take charge of a school for Negroes in Macon County. Through the years this spirit of neign. bor lines which deepened with the Increased activities and broadened inter est of both corporations, any project that Is close to the heart of the presi dent of Tuskegee Institute, either touch ing the school directly or a particular benefit to the colored people of the county, has had the heartiest support of the Msyor, City Council, Board of Education and other civic organizations among the white cltisens of Tuskegee. Among the warm friends of the Insti tute appear the names of many of the town's most prominent families the Edwards, Johnston, Hare, Braswell, Lewis, Poweli Riley, Burke, Fort, Campbell. Thompson and Adams.

Whether the project be scraping the roads in the village of Greenwood, lengthening the term of the county school, entertaining distinguished friend from the North, or taking over thousands of acre of land for subsis tence homesteads, or self-telp cooperatives, Tuskegee Institute is always sure of the cooperation of the governing bodies in the town. The town celebrated last year the 100th anniversary of its founding. It holds a high place in. the history of Alabama, being the original home of Huntingdon College, 'now in Montgom 1 1 mi The above photograph, made at the 25th anniversary celebration in 10, show Booker T. Washington and associates as follows: Left to right, first raw.

President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University; Andrew Carnegie; Principal Booker T. Washington; Robert C. OirJen; George McAneny. Second row, left to right, Principal H.

B. Fris-selL of Hampton Institute; the Rev. Lymaa Abbott. J. G.

Phelps-Stokes. AM UP i Jennie B. Moton. "Je of the rear inp president, who direct the Department of Women's Eutinei at Tuskegee ImUtuBe, if ia the president of A-abama Elate Federation of Colored Women's Club. Dorothy Hull (the build Uif in which vocational activities lor hgh school girls are conducted at the Institute) hu for many years been ft ecrseentration point far many Statewide atevtues relating to the education, health and general welfare of Nefro wo men and children.

Officiate trora the State Department of Education, the Red Croat, the Tu bercutoefe Association and other similar agencies in the Bute hare used toe faciiities of Dorothy Hall and Margaret Washington Hall for conferences, or for the dissemination of specialized information or service for Negroes. Ai consequence, when the various Emergency and Recovery measures began to take form. Jennie Moton was in position to render conspicuous service among the colored women of Alabama. A tew of the significant activities at Dorothy Hall include: Mattress-Malting Tuskegee Institute is reputed to be the first agency in the State to undertake mattress-making as a CWA project The experiment among Negro women proved to be so helpful that It attracted the attention of Bute Relief authorities who in turn made it a protect for women of both races in Ala-bma. Other CWA project Included the riaking of road signs and garment making for families on relief.

Tuberculosis Work With the cooperation of Health officials of the State a- the county, there has been erected in front of Dorothy Hall a model portable 'cabin for tubercular patients. Tuskegee Takes Part in National Recovery Move The South, like other sections of the etuntry, felt the oppression of the unsettled conditions which began in 1929. Many Alabama schools were closed and t'eir teachers unpaid; depleted bank re-nerves severely crippled the farmers and made it almost impossible' for plantation owners to "furnish" their tenants; farm purchasers were demoralized by the the specter of foreclosure; trade and commerce in farm products were stagnant and both farm and city dwellers all over the south were in a state of almost hopeless despair. One of the first evidences of Tuske-gee's place in the program of recovery ru a visit from Henry C. Wallace, who had just been selected to serve as the Secretary of Agriculture.

Secretary Wallace sought Tuskegee' views on some ol the Southern farmers' problem and fie remedial steps necessary to meet them. A few examples of Tuskegee, leadership and cooperation in national affairs are typical: Homestead Subsistence Units Following a series of conferences with Washington officials. Dr. Moton was asked to release a member of the Tuskegee Agricultural faculty to do special field work in developing homestead subsistence units among Negroes. Rural Rehabilitation As the unemployed of Alabama are being shifted from relief rolls to rehabilitation on Federal aided farms, the Tuskegee Institute ha released from it Agricultural extension staff of experienced workera Tuske-gte graduate to direct the work of 2t additional Negro field representatives for the Rural Rehabilitation work.

The President of Tuskegee Institute is a member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Rural Rehabilitation Corporation which directs the rural reconstruction program for the entire State. A Rehabilitation Project Located about three mile from Tuskegee, the mmunlty known as East Alabama Lumber Company gave employment to several hundred Negroes until the mill had exhausted the timber in that immediate territory. This project include over half a hundred hornet now occu-p'ed by the unemployed Negro mill vorkers along with the abandoned mill, general store and other building, state relief officials have recommended that this project be reclaimed and Tuskegee Institute has been asked to take complete supervision. Federal funds are now available, with which to begin mattress and broom making, an overall factory, a brickyard and many other similar or related activities. Sub-Marginal Lands Following the Intercession of Tuskegee Institute officials, a land-use demonstration project involving the transfer of 686 Negro farm families from 42,000 acres of sub-marginal lands in Macon County, Alabama, to a 30,000 acre area hi another section of the county.

The cost of the purchased land is approximately Along with the appropriation for the purchase of the land, an additional appropriation was made to employ a Negro project-manager with a staff of 17 assistants to direct the activities of the demonstration. Headquarters are maintained at Tuskegee Institute. Other Activities include a conference at Tuskegee of some 80 Negro community leaders who came for special in struction in recreational programs and other related plans to guide the leisure time of the unemployed in the rural sections. Reference should also be made to the Tuskegee Department of Religious Work which organised Negro rural min isters and, through them, kept the "back-woods" folk informed of Federal relief and emergency measures intended for their benefit. Social Social Workers Conference At the suggestion of State authorities, a conference of Negro social worker! enured in relief work, was held at Tuskegee institute.

Thirty-three J3) active workers were assembled from all pans ct the Bute. Thad Holt, director of the Alabama Relief Administration, opened toe conference. County Work At the invitation of Mayor Q. Edwards, of the town of Tatkegee, Jennie Moton selected two Tuskegee graduates who served, along with three white investigators, in relief for the unemployed Negroes of Macon County. The Tuskegee I-jtitute Health Center has continued these Investigations among Negroes.

Nursery Schools Early in the development of New Deal relief measures, it was observed that the Utile children tioee of pre-school age were being sorely neglected. Nursery schools were as a solution which would al-s offer work to unemployed teachers of-Alabama. Members of the Alabama State Board of Education, familiar with the Tuskegee Institute Nursery School, approached with the suggestion of sending women hre to be given some special instruction in Nursery School methods, plans were effected. Four young women came aid after an intensive course of instruction were sent to Jefferson and Cham-tiers Counties, to conduct nursery schools. So successful was the Initial course offered during the past Summer that Tuskegee Institute was selected as the institution to train all negro women to be placed in nursery schools in Ala- buna.

To Start School Vesta Lowe, B. 8, Hone Economics, of British Guiana, will start a school for native girls in her own coon try following gradnatioa from Tusker Institute. College Degrees Candidates for Bachelor of Science Degree: School of Agriculture Adam, Henry Campbell, Oeorge Cox, Nathaniel Ellison, Cozy Faine, Levant Holloway, Clarence Hughes, Paul, Jones, Willy O- Kidney, James McKlndra, Clayton, Miles, El-vin Sanchlous, William, Thomas, Abraham Whlttaker, James Wil liams, Nathan Walcott, Carolyn A. School of Business Bailey, Thelma, Campfleld, Emma, Clarke, Annie Cobb. Sadye Washington, Calvin, Harmon, Chauncey, Jackson, Leola Miller, Emanuel, Moton, R.

Rabb, Louis Robinson, Eugene Seabrooks, Frank Simmons, Bolsle, William, Angle Lou. School of Heme Economics Austin, Lueretta BUllngsley, Al-cenia. Cropper, Annie C-. Dick, Thelma Harris, Emily White, Mary heard, Rosa Herman, Longenlous, Huff, Alma Kyzer, Abigail Lowe, Vesta McClaskey, Bobble Peo pies, Bertha Lee, Price, Ford Wal lace, Edna West; Amena Wilson, Rosa E. School of Education Arnold, Harry, Barker, Harold Ba ker.

Mosley Barnes, Zora Lee, Cam bridge. Vernal, Carson, Amanda, Col lins, Lawsona, Daniels, Preston, Har faux, William, Jackson, Franklin, James, Carlton Johnson, Law ton C. Jones, Frank MuDuffle, Reginald, Page, Henry 3., Pipes, William, Rankin, Addle Smith, Robert Taylor, Oradell, Waterford, Oeorge Williams, Joseph Woods, Letitla Woods, Wlnfred Young, Wilson C. School of Industrial Arts Brown, James Chagols, Vivian Falls, William Fucles, Oswald Green, John Thompson, Smith, iliu, Joseph Holley, John John son, MurrelL Jones, Peter Milan, Horace Petty, Thomas Rivers, James Rosser, The Ira Simmons, Kermlt Thomas, James Todd, faui. Diploma Nurse Tralnlnr School Dixon, Mable Ruth, Hanson, Winslow L-, Hlggs, Grace Lee, Emma Wal lace, Rowena Wilkerson, Girtha Lithium chloride, which looks and tastes like ordinary salt, chemically dries the air which passes through it ana thus air-conaitions a room.

Best Wishes for Continued Success to TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE Its Student Body and Faculty. ery. The school, at that time it wa to- cased in Tuskegee, wa caied the Woman College and wa presided over fcy President John Maury, the fataer of Mrs. B. Cobb, who cocunue to live in the town.

Tuskegee as also the home of the artist, Brtdgeman. known throughout the world for hi c.harmirif paintings. Greenwood, the community immediately joining Tuskcfso Instlun on the west Is the realisation of on of the dream of Booker T. Washington. What Federal funds.

Government agencies, and new deals from Urn to time have attempted to do in the way of promoting Negro communitiea, has been aceom- pushed by the teachers and employes of the Institute and the Veterans' Hospital in the manner suggested and began by the founder of Tuskegee Institute. Greenwood is a community of approximately 17a and home and scarcely a month passe that doe not witness the addition of one new residence. These home, including the value of land, modern convenience, and furnishings, represent an average investment of so that on the whole the community may be aald to be an investment far above the 00.000 mark. The street have been laid out for a number of year and arc called after the members of the executive council of Tuskegee Institute. Washington Avenue, Adams Street, Scott Street, and Logan Street are prominent in the Tillage.

The people who make up this community are salaried people working either at the Institute or at the Veterans' Hospital. They are industrious, homelike, full of civic pride, anxious to rear their children in a manner equal to the best the country offers. The children cf this community attend the beautiful and modemly equipped Chambliss Children House, the gift of William E. Chambliss, a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. From a business point of view, the residents of Greenwood represent an asset with trade possibilities hard to be excelled by any community of like size.

It is an unincorporated town with a population approximating 1,500. There is a "mayor," the office held at the present time by Capt. A. J. Neely, registrar of the Institute, and the Town Council.

Ala. Ala. Wfacfimm Members of the Tuskegee Executive Council shown above are, left to right, the Ser. H. B.

Richardson, chaplain; Monroe N. Work, head' of Records and Research Department; G. W. Johnston, business agent; William L. Dawson, mnsie director; George L.

Washington, mechanical Industrie director; Lucius Patterson, steward; Alfonso Henningburr, high school principal; Alvin J. Neely, registrar, dean of men; W. T. Shehee, custodian buildings; Dr. E.

H. Dibble, medical director; Edmund H. Barks, eomptroUer; A. L. Holsey, budget director; J.

J. Flood, council secretary. Front row, left to right, the Rev. John W. Whittaker, chaplain, retired; Dean Edna S.

Landers, Dr. W. T. B. Williams, college dean; H.

Carter, treasarer; Dr. F. D. Patterson, director Agriculture Department; President Moton, Charles Gibson, Sr, chief aceonntant, retired; Warren Logan, treasurer, retired; Dr. G.

Lake Imes, secretary; J. H. Fanner, registrar, retired; C. J. Calloway, rural school extension service director.

Fruitful years realizes that great institutions flourish in the shadow of great men. And it wishes' to record at this time its genuine admiration for President Moton, his work, and his school. What he has accomplished is a monument not only to education but also to himself. To Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson, who succeeds Dr.

Moton, Crane Co. extends its sincerest congratulations. He succeeds to a great and honorable tradition to a great place in educational his Crane in its 80th year, remembers well the day when Booker T. Washington laid the cornerstone of Tuskegee. It was a day that made an indelible mark in the history of education.

How splendidly those early hopes have been realized. Now another Tuskegee milestone is in view. President Robert R. Moton's nineteen years of active service come officially to a close-he who has so faithfully held high the torch kindled by Booker T. Washington.

As a supplier of physical equipment to nearly every educational institution in America, Crane Co. South American James Kidney, who received his B.S. in agriculture this year, will sail for his home in British Guiana, immediately after commencement. Moton's Farewell "Some friends, many friends, have told me that they were sorry I was leaving Tuskegee, and I am glad to have them feel that way. And I am sorry too.

If I ware thinking only in terms of Rob-ei R. Moton I should stay on as the Trustees and many friends kindly urged me to do. But my course was all clear in my mind. You know there are some large institutions which have sufefred and are still suffering because the heads nf those institutions stayed on too long for the good of the work. And to say that does not discredit the good work oi anybody; It is simply a plain statement of "I have no doubt that my action will be for the best interest of the school.

There is no cause for anxiety as to the future of this school. Tuskegee is permanent and it deserves to be permanent. It was built on a permanent foundation and it has grown steadily and substantially year by year under the hand of the Almighty. Now the cause is everything. Man is transient here today and gone tomorrow: but if a man iuves his work, if he loves the cause for he has worked he will properly and rationally step aside and thank Ood, at the same time using all of the effort and energy he has to see to it that the thing he loves, the thing to which he has devoted his life to which he has given the last full measure of devotion, if you please goes on and prospers and serves Ood as it was intended It should "Now that is a statement to my fam ily.

I love you all just as much and shall you all as much as possible wheth er here or elsewhere. I shall stand back Dr. Patterson and his staff and his tudents and friends to the utmost of my strength and ability, Ood helping me so do." The tooth of a fossil elephant, meas ured eight by 13 Inches and weighed 1 1 i tory with all the qualifications of success in his possession. To Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson: his most useful years now begin To Dr.

Robert R. Moton: his years of usefulness continue and Our Sincere Good Wishes for Continued Success to TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE CRANE GO. 2 S. Twentieth Street -300 Royal Street Birmingham, Mobile, Schloss Kahn Grocery Co. Montgomery, Alabama eight pounds..