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THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, MUNUAL, AUGUST 12, 1818
K. OF C. ACTIVITIES AT )
ENTERTAINMENTS AL)

UULUIHLU TLHUIILD

Last week was an exceptional busy

week at No. 1 building.Every

night
except Saturday evening there was some-

s um UI n

Becan

attend
ainme

thing going on. There were movies.

are b.
day marked an unasual fine vandeville capac

Sunday, Monday and Friday nights. Tues

Pledge Support and Infiuence to

show and a double headline proved
" ing

great attraction on Wednesday night.

Assist in Any Way They Can to

has

pos

Following several boxing bouts by the wh

Bring Victory Over Imperial

specialists’ company, the K. of C. and

German Government.

the S. W. B. held one of the finest en-

6.

tertainments that has ever been pre- 1

sented by two organizations at the camp.

(By Siias K. Floyd)

II was the frst time that the Jewish
Weifare Board and the Knights of Co-

The following resolutions, unant- lambus

joined hands in promoting enter-

tainments for the beys and its success

mously passed by the recent national

was so gratifying that General Secretary

convention of colored teachers in an-

Donahoe and Secretary Shiparte plan to
nual session at Harpers Ferry, Va., may repeat the work

District Supervisor Warren V. Hall, of

be of general interest, especially
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showing the attitude of the colored the southern division for the Knights of
teachers of the United States in these

Columbus War activities, spent several

stirring war-times. Secretary of the

Treasury, Hon. Wm. 6. MeAdoo, has said
that the teachers in these days and

times are the outposts of civilization;
and, therefore, a pronouncement from

days at the camp. He was much pleased
at the progress of the work and he had

an opportunity to witness the Vaudeville

show Tuesday night.

the teachers on national questions

Secretary Thomas Dewan, of No. 2

building, is spending a sew days at Ma-

should be of general interest. The res- con, Ga.

olutions follow:

A Call to Teachers and Parents.
We heartily endorse the annual ad

dress of the president of our association. and we especially commend tis
high spirit of patrictism and its plea

for increased facilities for universal ed-

The K. of C. secretaries will have their

picturetaken in
" Froup this week.

General Secreiary Bonanoe has been

ordered by headquarters to have the
photograph taken.

ucation. We join him in urging teach-

ers to remain at their posts and not

to be allured away from their patriotic
service in educating youths by attrae

tive salaries in other fields of labor.
That it is the sense of this body that

we urge upon parents everywhere to

keep their children in school, and that
they should not aliow the discouraging
effects of the draft nor the temporary
attraction of high wages. to lessen their
efforts in any way to educate their chil.

dren. And that, while this education
must include college training, it must

be largely industrial and highly prac-

tical.

Edication and the State.

Whereas between 40,000 and 50,000

educational program, and we arge the
teachers and school boards in every way
to make possible the Kindergarten in

elementary schools. And we also place
ourseives on record as approving and

desiring the development of the re-

markable musical instincts of the negro
children, and we plead, therefore, for

well-trained teacers of muste in our
public and private schools.
The Officers Training Camp.
Whereas the negro colieges and oth-

cer private institutions, through the

preparation of theirstudents and

through direct initiative, did so much
to make possible and successfal train-

camps for negro officers at Des
illiterate men were brought into the ing
Moines, lowe; be it resoived that we
army by the first call under the draft,
and whereas the later calls are revealing the same appalling conditions of

illiteracy, and since the great majority
of these unfortunate men are negroes

from the south; be it resolved that we
memorialize the several states to make

adequate provision for the education
of negro youths and thus more effecively destroy ignorance, which is the

arch enemy of democratic institutions

In this connection we urge all the states

commend the mespecially for the great
racial and patriotic service which they

have rendered, and we express the hope
that they may equally well continue to

keep themsives alive t the eneeds of the
negro and the nation in the fature.
Lessons Fro mthe War.

We arge our institutions of learn-

ing to keep a sharp lookent for the vai-

uable practical lessons that the war is
foreing upon the attention of educators
everywhere-especially the lessonsin

to follow the good example of West
training men and women speedily for
irginia in paying equal salaries to all
eachers for the same grade of work.
We urse the teachers of negro youths

practical industrial efficiency as well

as along lines of patritism and philan.

to train them carefully and thoroughly thropy.
n their civic duties and responsibili

ies, and to encourage them in the fall

and proper exercise of their civic rights
and privileges
Winning the War.

Resolved that this association pledges

in addition to the above the resolu

tion carried the sunal thanks of the
association to Storer college, the West

Virginia State Teachers' association and

the citizens of Harper's Ferry for hospitality extended the convention; and to

itself to give it support and infinence Hon. P. P. Claxton, United States comto the government and to assist in any missioner of education, to Mr. Lewis A.
Carriss and Mr. J. A. Sargent, both of
way it can in winning the war for de
mocracy. We commend most heartily the federal vocational education bureau,
the president of the United States for Dr. George E. Haynes, from the labor
the outspoken position
Bureeau. Captain Arthar Spingarn from
has taken
regarding lynching, and
he public health and to
1. Arthur
we assure
O. Craig from the food
istration
him of our profound int
and sincers
prayers in his efforts

move theis

department, for their pre

helpful contributions to
scourge from the natic
the meeting. Prol. R. N
oes.
Playgrounds for
the accomplished young
This association endieres the great

value of playgrounds for negro children,

nd their
ecess of

iel Dett.

absician and

composer, of Hampton Institute, was

and feels that an appeal should be made formally thanked for his able direction
through the proper representatives to of the music during the sessions of the

the National Playground association for

direction as to the means of establish.

ment and operating playgrounds for

colored children We also endorse the

great value of the Kindergarten in any

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ernment did not extend to the vari
ous local soviets. These were the loos

est sort of little organizations subject
to every kind of local influenge which
might be brought to bear on them.
Very

often these influences were pro-Gefman.
German, Austrian or Magyar prisoners
who had perfect freedom throughout Si.

beria and of course were concentrated
along the main rail line either were

convention.

The chief officers of the association

are Smith D. Atkins, president of the
North Carolina StateNormal school.

Wiuston-Salem, N. C., president; Dr.

Byrd Prillerman, president of the State
colored college of West Virginis. Insti-

ve. W. Va., first vice president; excccu-

tive secretary Silas X. Floyd. Augusta.
Ga.; assistant secretary, Maggie A
Nance, Baton Rouge,La.; Registrar,

Principal C. C. Wilkinson, of the Hun-

bar High school, Washington City: Ida
C. Plummer, Washington, D. C., assist-

ant registrar; and Prof. W. H. A. How.

ard, commandant of the State colored
college of Florida, Tallahassee, Fla.