The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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WHAT OUR VISITORS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
°V!?*InB *""®hers from over the nation sh«>uld be interested in the fig-
ures that the Black Dispatch gives for their information, relating to the Ne-
0ro rural schools of Oklahoma. Wie have 552 rural schools in Oklahoma, in
which the average daily attendance is 15,306. The average term in the Ne-
gro schools system in Oklahoma is six and two-thirds months and the yearly
amount of money paid in salaries to the instructors is $314,815.12. We have
S"! wit5 1st fl™.de certificates' W hold 2nd grade certificates, while
123 hold 3rd grade certificates.
Okfuskee, the county in which the city of Boley is located, leads the state
in the matter of enrolled students, having 2777, and an average daily attend-
ance of 1521. Wagoner county follows with 2000 enrolled pupils, but it daily
attendance is almost cut In half, and being 1010, Muskogee county follows
with an enrollment of 1923. Its daily average, however, is about half of the
enro led number. Dewey county has the distinction of enrolling the fewest
pupils of any county in the state, having one school with 7 pupils.
oo,?!arJ" Oklahoma 250 children completed the 8th grade. 17,693 of
the 28,395 children of school age were in or below the 3rd grade. The aver-
age monthly salary of the teacher was $68.12.
There are 40 white separate schools with 43 teachers. 29 of these teachers
hold only 3rd grade certificates; 7 hold 2nd grade and 7 hold 1st grade cer-
tificates. There were 1,340 scholastics with an average daily atendance of
u-i'j The.ave'"a0le len9th °f school term was 7 months. 796 of the 1,340
children of school age were in or below the 3rd grade. The average salary
of the teachers was $73.47 per month.
either very IGNORANT or he has the
wrong intentions. No lady or gentle-
men ever passes the reception room
of any home without the invitation of
the host or hostess and in their com-
pany. How many thousands and ten
thousands of girls whould be pure to-
day if we did not have so many care-
less fathers and mothers who have no
rules by which to safeguard their
daughters from the serpent. When a
man of this type gets ready to mar-
ry he tries to get his wife out of the
community's strictest home.
The careless home allows its chil-
dren to go out in any companionship,
to carnivals, shows, night picnics. I
sometimes wonder that we have any
J"-tUG' -s" completely are all the bar-
riers that guarded you and me in child
hood broken down today. Then no
one who was respectable remained
dL "th"! ^P1unic' The underworld
Jf.'hat,and underworld because
J t ? geT is takinS "s toll of vir-
for vnunir , 1ieve in amusement
nn P?°P, ' but not ones carried
on in the dark and unsupervised.
We send the children out to these
•te 7sithn£un^allie Ann &££
> THE CARPBT HER-
No race has ever risen that has not moment toev arHv« v °f t,hem the
learned how to safeguard the home, unt" "he is PU,r, dauehter,
The scriptures read: "And one shall YOUR eye a?f^h «fVS( Ullu6 under
chase a thousand and two shall put man who is tr^n* ! The youns
ten thousand to flight." Speaking of ^ MEANS WFI f InT' her> IF
such people as we must learn to be in Sinn in ' ^U1 have no ob"
America. We need have no terror of E °ygroun to 7th ber in the
our enemies if we are building homes. her iniSo from affairs- If
i * .- --- - a' 'ntentions are pure SHE WILL
THE CARELESS HOME
By Drusilla Dunjee Houston .
President Oklahoma Training School
IT IS JUST A BUSINESS PROPOSITION
fn£«anf0Ti? Cltyt m"s\fal1 in line with Prof- Youngblood and the educational
forces of the state, that we may make doubly sure the success of the Nation-
al Teachers Association. If you will remember, Oklahoma City has not had
much share in the entertainment of national bodies, as have other towns
*he ®tat®- We d° 2°} lay claim t0 the size and magnitude of Oklahoma
City. Muskogee and Boley have hitherto taken off the honors of this score,
mlmiti. ! because ,of the ability of the Citizens of these smaller com-
munities to uite and really put an entertainment program over, which has
commended them to the nationally organized bodies.
Most of the men who form one group are interlocked with other groups.
If we put this entertainment program over as it should be, these men will no
away and extol the praises of our city to the heads of other organizations,
- ?no frSIJ. l«ll 9 them t0 0Ur City at an ear|y date- The Protus accrue-
Ing from such a movement are incalculable. Right now we need a bank
^n ;nnry,rdS St°Ie and„many 0ther mercantl'le houses too numerous to
mention. Into our city would come the class of men who are able to do these
great things. Plenty of Negroes over the country are casting about looking
for a piace to invest their money. If we can impress them right, they will
come here. There is also the immediate advantage that comes to our busi-
ness men already here. The National Baptist Convention boosted tne com
drink sales in one Muskogee store to $600.00 per day. It did not last but a
week, but it was a mighty juicy income while it lasted. So on throuah the
Street'financial °Uary<bUSmeSS activities, these meetings will mean much in a
THE CONVICT SHIP
(The Barquentine "Success")
By William Pickens
(By the Associated Negro Press)
The "ocean hell," member of the
18th century British "Felon Fleet,"—
the old teak-wood floating prison—
with its airless dungeons, its branding
irons, its wire-wrapped and lead- tip-
ped cat-o'-nine-tails, its punishment
balls of iron, its straight jackets,
manacles and spiked collars,—its "cof-
fin bath," where the poor convict,
whose flesh had been made raw by
the nine-tailed whip, was bathed in
salty water for further torture—and
all the other forms of cruelty which
the genius and the devil-minds of the wuo nave visited the shin
age could contrice-this ship, one cen- of these is fr^ the lv/rnnr^f v
S and a Td °1(!' "es in New York Sinia and another is from the Ive
harbor, an eloquent testimony to the 1 . . . tne S°ver-
possible beast in man.
ture on this ship. In our childhood
we have seen tne "convict boss" on
the public roads of Arkansas swing-
ing a great strap with brass tacks
driven into it, and beating the bare
and prostrate backs of the black priso-
ners with all the might of all his muc-
cles—and we have see them treat a
white prisoner in the same way
We are shocked when we look at
the old ship "Success," and we know
that the investigator of 2000 A D will
be shocked when he looks at us.
Captain D. H. Smith owns this old
relic and has been sailing it all over
the seven seas again as a lesson to
mankind and an argument for prison
reform, and we are most interested in
reading the "testimonials" that have
been written to Captain Smith by
those who have visited the ship. One
n T thfleo i n A 1
In the day when England deported
her criminals and her unfortunate vic-
tims of the barbarous law, this ship
was one of the hellish fleet that car-
ried them to Australia and Tasmania,
under conditions so terrible that some-
times more than half the human cargo
would be dead when it arrived.
This ship Is a lesson.
Most of us look at it and shudder
and fail to get the lesson, because we
simply use the sight as an excuse
for thinking ourselves "so much better
in our day." This is false. We are
not must better. That generation of
Englishment who in 1790 set afloat
these hells of the seven seas, also
thnnM c y • ^ere "better"—better
than the Spanish Inquisition and bet-
ter than Nero, we can hear them say
now °ur Pe°Ple look upon this hor-
rible sh p of one hundred years ago
a""? ®ay: much better we are!"
and then they congratulate themselves
~ „ r .;—Liu in iuw guver-
noi of Louisiana—and, bless our soul
both of them are merely congratulat-
ing themselves on how much better
T®,..ar« now -while both Lopisiana
and Virginia have a Jim Crow Car sys-
tem, which is one of the most exquis-
ite contrivances of torture ever set
up in the history of the world. Thru
Louisiana they would require a black
man traveling three or four nights all
TO SITyTTp0nvEu,oaS° t0 Char,eston
™ S!T,UP, 0X HIS BACK BONE for
the whole time and distance—and this
they require by both law and public
is tha"; I 0n,e imP°rtant difference
is, that those fellows who were re-
?hUir®q t0 sle,?p in straight jackets on
the Success were legally condemned
of crimes and misdemeanors while the
Louisiana-Virginia torture is directed
against men, women, children and ba-
bies, thousands and millions of them
who have never committed any of-
fense against any law. And we have
seen some of the prisons of that sec-
t'on. where men drag a ball and chain
I read the other day of the death IN
HIS BED of one of the old Kansas
abolitionists, who had been shot at
scores of times upon the streets in
broad daylight, during the time of the
Border Wars; but they could not hit
nim.
This man bore a charmed life, such
life as you and I must possess to
thread our way through the perils,
that lie between us and safety in this
land. We are a peculiar people unto
bod and we must concern ourselves
more about the life He wants us to
live and the things he wants us to
guard against. One of the greatest
menaces to American growth of char-
acter is the CARELESS HOME I
want to talk to you about it as the
greatest thing in the way of the Ne-
gro to keep us from the building up
of a great and unconquerable race.
in the careless home boys and girls
go easily t° ruin. We look at thefn -n
childhood and can read in their little
faces every promise of greatness but
by our inexperience, this promise
fades away. These things are pos-
sible because the average parent to-
day has no real supervisoion over the
home Parents must have a clear idea
^ ? ■ "ec,essary to child rearing and
be faithful to the duty of carrying out
what is right and best for the home.
or th-l PaSS ?nd take a glance at one
of these careless homes.
You always find men hanging
around about the premises. The par-
™Jro ™porch ENJOYING
1HEMSELVES. This is the age seek-
AMTV J°YhIENT and 11 an(1 WMOR-
g°, and in hand- These par-
f'S ^P^e no track whatever
J ™1' s°in& on WITHIN the
home. Any man in the crowd may
f t up and pass in for a drink of wa-
ter to flirt with the girls or S.
ca'eless.parents give no heed.
"Wh they will both join in saying:
. y has God put this on me?"
A home should have RULES that
no one can run over. There is t v!
of man (SNAKE) who w,n un over
ruin hPrmr I8*" in her own home to
rum her daughters and every true wn-
man should determine that it shall on-
ly b« °, RR HER DEAD BODY
Mother when a man says to you
to ffnt a,',e the girls?" and gets up
THERP Tm, ST0P HIM RIGHT
Say, leading him to the par-
WhPn hSeated' 1 wU1 ca" the girls.
. hen he wants water, say
lr0n #k#\ 11Tk _ *
IT
HAVE NO OBJECTIONS. If you have
thpn I" \g"orance life's snares,
then you had better be strong.
Many of us are sitting in the amen
corner Sunday night but we do not
know where Mary is. At nine-thirtv
she comes straggling in with some
wUft° has ru'ned other girls.
Will he do anything different for her'
VVe are foolishly allowing our girls to
have company too early. For the lux-
uries that we may have in the home
we crowd our daughters too early to
mamage find the nation is filling up
with broken down, unwilling young
wives who would give anything to be
belong ^ m0tUer Where they
No girl at sixteen is wise enough to
fnedPfr> °f th® man dete™l-
med to -destroy her. No girl should
be made to feel that she must have
beauxs. The girl who would put these
ideas too early in her mind should be
barred from our homes. Real fathers
and mothers make a daughter feel
that she is welcome in the home as
long as her life is pure. An eminent
alV«thp"-reCe£tly Stated at a nati°n-
gathenng that no woman should
tTflve if T lWen,ty-°ne' better twen-
lifi Cai'e f0r her heaIth and
The careless home encourages
Bettepnth°r aDd gCtS chicken results.
Bettei that we were keeping our chil-
dren s nunds upon childhood's inter-
that awi1l f lbiUe th8m the PrinciPles
that will take womanhood out from
u.n(le'' the feet of men. Our girls
should be taught to honor TRUE
on^H000- There eyes^Should be
opened in pure ways to the meaning
of marriage and motherhood. When
we have fulfilled this duty girls are
not hard to rule. I have had letted
from most of my girls this summer:
I wish I were there. I would feel
safer there, means to me that girls
do appreciate safeguarding.
yf8arS ag0 as every mother
™ „d°' t0 tram my girls to help me
and in turn I spend much thought and
MFWTtJ °nA 1NN0CE N T AMUSE-
As a consequence my girls
vfi'n'fh !Ve t0 so to shows and
vain things. Up to twenty years old
they are GIRLS. At the end of the
holidays they come trooping up the
rifnj Wlt5 the cry- "HOME AGAIN."
Children have not changed, it is that
we are changed. My sweet girls here
J MADAM JESSIE CARTER
WONDKRPUk HAIR QROWE8
NO M«r*—DANDRUFF,
No rioro— FALLING HAIR.
No More— ITCHING SCALP.
No Moro—TETTER.
No Moro—ECZEMA.
eivoo * «lth to tho Soal| ; Pro-
motoo Growth of Long Fluffy
HAIR.
UEB Marfam Jooalo Cat-tor's
Wonderful Oils.
-PRICEE—
BROWING OIL BOo
PRESSING OIL BOo
TEMPLE OIL No
AGENTE WANTED
EroIom So Etamp for Reply to
^ Ltttin.
Aucl 18 new
Ji2 inches long
2761 Glenarm St., Denver, Col.
""dam Jessie Carter
THE MELROSE
For the Best
SERVICE IN THE CITY AND STATE
TW!"'y-'°"r C"'' Cl ". N«wly Decorated R..m.
A HOTEL OF QUALITY AND SERVICE
For the Weary Colored Travelor
MRS. A. L. SMITH, Prop.
Great Western Temple, No 20 nf«
Nnhl6nt fgyPtian Arabic order' of J
the"fet°Frld.ev MyltiC- Shrine^ ™e?sI
All ne Jh ' y n'8ht m each mor,th-|
^e,h„at7aroive''y important bus-|
T. S. Smith, 32nd, Illustrious Poten-3
tate I
A. L. McKay, 32nd, Illustrious Re-J
corder
PHONE MAPLE 5380
en he wants water, say with an' will t eU" My sweet girls here
on face, "lie seated, I WILL BRINr . "er' happier more intelli-
r TO YOU." BRING f„ent ^'yes than the girl who is flirt-
The man who wants to break these sick "of mf rried at sixteen,
Ss^S('eCent ^ Sata?wean!yeighteen aDd
Kansas Industrial and
Educational Institute
East Side Fish Market
every day. Phone your orders aftei? business hourstoWafs'ei P°U"d
317 E. 1st street S" S> R,LEY' Pr0P-
Oklahoma City
anH Z Vi Kt .u themselves " 7h" , tmen "rag a ball and chain
and stop right there. And they miss t(hey 1fbor on a "rock pile" at al-
a,l to® good that this voice and vision useless work nnri —
Of the past might do them The horn
sense attitude for us is this* "Rnit
WE MUST BE NOW THAN WE
THINK WE ARE!" just as we S
see now that those Englishmen were
much more brutal than they ever
dreamed themselves to. Such a
thought as this would not lead to self
flattery and self-congratulation, but to
self-examination and perhaps to
change and progress.
INVITES YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO ENTER A
SCHOOL WHER WORK, PLAY AND BOOKS ARE
CONSIDERED A PART OF ONES EDUCATION
The Following Courses Are Offered:
agriculture
Livestock
Poultry
MECHANIC ARTS
Carpentry
Auto Mechanics
Tailoring
Printing
HOME ECONOMICS
Cooking
most useless work, and where they
wear spiked gyve3 on thejr ]egs ^
they sleep or toil. And besides^ Vir-
ginia and Louisiana are parts of a
section of the world where human be-
ings uncondemned of crime, bay be
[ops . 8 e,' beg'nning with their
fnp tko 1 e the enjoyment "last"
i « . torf,Irers. In Mississippi.
which is hard by Louisiana, they hung'
a man to a tree, alive, and DUiit a gooa i
lowpr^h^w' an(1, then they had fun, | dreamed about it, planned it and play-
firo f°r..a ttle while into the j |t- He was a human being, this John
Sewing
Laundering
4. ACADEMIC & TEACHER
TRAINING
5- MUSIC
6. NURSE TRAINING
7. PHYSICAL CULTURE &
MILITARY TRAINING
COLLEGE COURSES
For Further Information write—
O. R. BRIDCEFORTH ToP.ka, Kaps.
Utj uc=j uecj Ut^j |
And to come right down to the ac- f0r„? little while into the I He was a human being," this John I If* fAssoc'ated Ne9ro Pr«s)
tual facts, we are no so different to- him and rnui i-ng him Up' ,owering price,and he turned human-devil—iand ! c- Ju'y 8.—Presi-
day. All the cruelty that was prac-1 an? schorchii m _^°°king his feet Came t0° near t0 his victims cove„ «i h h- made a preat d's-
ticed on this ship to "break the spirit' allv "J a Ilttle and eradu- j 'ls they worked in a quarry, thirty-two ' S-d'scovered that a Re-
of the convicts and unfortunates is J this ™ Lll J' ut ot him'' And ' s,ew him with their picks ! ^n l s,rati011 ^nnot build
nrarti^H 13 1. 8 waa done, not century before last, and shovels and other implements— strong, going, sympathetic, func-
| tor which many of them were execu-1 !1?,n,ng organization by the use of
: men can de- ted. But they drew the atiention of '*V ®r pem«crats. "A house divid-
v as thpv Ho. the British Parlianiprit ea a£ainst itself cannot
of the convicts and unfortunates, to thS was dole nof^nt"1 01
practiced today in our own land. There j but last year1' century
's °"e injPortant difference: in that We must face the truth
day it was done under the sanction of — *—
lav ** *
mal
camps ..
duplicate
testified
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
0?&ad0BRTSc1St- J°h"
You are requested, Brethren, to get vour Grand l
w. S. Webber Yours fraternally,
Grand Master _ CAESAR
Grand Secretary
East 2nd Street Music Company
Th« Only Music House Owned and Controlled ly Colored People
In the Southwest
We carry a full line of music, piano rolls, Victrola records of
all kinds. We specialize in the best ballads, Blues and Comics
Hear Mamie Smith on the famous "Okeh" records, we have
them. 'me of "Black Swan" records; they are great. Hear
the voice of the leading Colored singers in your home.
Dealers in Grafanolas, pianos and all classes of musical instru-
ments, placed in your home on reduced terms and prices. Don't
fail to get the latest song hit "DREAM ON TO ETERNITY"
words by Willie Miller, music by Neal Williams. tTERNITY'
Sheet music, 35 cents per copy or four copies for $1.00; mail
orders given prompt attention. Write for terms
Mail address. 308 East 2nd St Oklahoma Ci.,, Oklahoma
ministration, must "scat."
.somoI1SeqUrtM' rbCue are going ,0 be the i'ron^^constUuency^has Called
some good old fashioned Republican consternation in many quarters hlrl
citizens soon sitting in the revolving I Naturally there^Tre many 's™nlo?,'
chairs at the U. S. Mahogany desks, who need have no ?ear of stand,"-
directing the affairs of the nation in up and be,nS counted. Their outstand
a sympathetic vain, and in a manner records and devotion to human
that will help the Administration to rig^ts> sPeak for themselves. But it
get somewhere. j ta .for Jhe purpose of smoking the.
The announcement by the Associa- „„^n,'"d those wro receive \e-
ted Xegro Press that there are some the idea of equal grasp
Republican Senators who are not in that it is h: 2i ■ justice,
sympathy with the Adminltration1 about. ghl> ,mP°rtant to know
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