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JANUARY 10, 1934  THE DUNBAR NEWS  3

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of the children to make gardens and to practice sanitation not so imperative in the winter.  In the Navajo country alone there will be fifty or sixty new school centers, about fourteen of them including advanced training through eighteen or twenty years of age.  These schools must actually be built, and funds from the Public Works or Civil Works Administration are being supplied for the purpose.  Here they will attempt to teach the parents of the children and the children themselves better ways of living in their own homes, better ways of utilizing their water and soil, better ways of handling their sheep and goats, at the same time that they teach the three R's and encourage Indian arts and crafts, which until now we have been at such pains to destroy or vulgarize.  The closest possible cooperation will be maintained, through the children in many cases, between the school and the parents.  The school, indeed, will eventually be the social center of the community, and it will influence the Indians themselves without at the same time antagonizing, frightening, or exploiting them.

That this is a better way of "civilizing" them than our earlier methods seems obvious.  Inevitably, Indians must be exposed to white civilization, byt they will find it infinitely more helpful and friendly than heretofore, and they will, moreover, understand and be able to make use of it.  At the same time what is useful and beautiful in Indian culture – and there is much – will so far as possible be saved for them, or for us.  It was another Roosevelt who established the Bureau of American Ethnology to preserve what was left of aboriginal culture before it was lost to us forever.  President Roosevelt today has carried on an admirable family tradition by placing in charge of Indian affairs a man who has devoted his life to the Indians.
– Editorial, The Nation, Jan. 10


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the ways of whites, but Mrs. Peterkin goes farther than that and points to specific traits which the whites have taken over from the Negros.

"The reputation of Southern people for good manners is deeply indebted to the training received from Negro nurses and servants who helped to rear them," writes Mrs. Peterkin, who sees the white pride becoming involved in an effort to fulfill the expectations of loyal black friends.  And even economically the Negro is essentially making it possible for the whites "to live like lords on income is better suited to church mice."

"White Southerners with generations of contact with Negroes behind them show markedly the influence of Negro ways and ideas," writes Mrs. Peterkin.  "They are infected with the Negro wish to please, the wish to live with a minimum of labor and the willingness to discard ambition for contentment and enjoyment. ... The Negro love of sonorous words and fine sounding poetic language shoes plainly in the speech and representative literature of Southern white people."

Further points of similarity are the harangues of Southern orators, which remind one of the preaching of Southern revivalists;  finally, "the long, white robes of the Ku Klux Klan very curious resemblance to the robes worn by Negro candidates for baptism. ..."

My report is rambling, but I find so much in the book that is worth writing about, and I am glad that there is much more left for your to uncover.
– By Harry Hansen – N. Y. World-Telegram, Friday, December 15

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Universal Bible Sunday

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A section of an audience of 1,600 persons who attended the Harlem Inter-Church Celebration of Universal Bible Sunday.  This joint church meeting was held in the auditorium of the Abyssinian Baptist Church recently and was sponsored by the New York Bible Society.  Thirty-six of the churches in Harlem were represented.

Seated upon the rostrum, left to right, are the Rev. Shelton H. Bishop of St. Philip's P. E. Church, Dr. Millard L. Robinson, General Secretary of the Bible Society, D. E. Bynoe of the Plymouth Brethren, the Rev. George A. Taylor of the Epworth M. E. Church, the Rev. Paul E. West, Pastor of the Transfiguration Lutheran Church, John L. Bryan – Harlem Representative of the New York Bible Society, the Rev. John H. Johnson of St. Martin's P. E. Church, Dr. William L. Imes of St. James Presbyterian Church, who delivered the sermon, the subject of which was, "The Bible In a Day of Crisis."

In the course of Dr. Imes' address, he said, "If we really had a Bible civilization instead of a Pagan one, we should not be facing the horrible and revolting spectacles that are shaming us in America today."  He continued, "Lynching, liquor-traffic, racketeering, political graft, brazen crime unpunished, impurity, the breaking of homes asunder, the cruelty toward and neglect of children, the abandonment of youth to waywardness and folly," he said, "these only mention a part of the great flood of iniquity that is sweeping with violence over our fair land, because we have only a Bible civilization in name, and not in heart."

The Harlem office of the Bible Society is located at 477 West 145th Street, where the Bible is obtainable in seventy-nine languages free to the pool who are unable to purchase it, and at cost to others.

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The U. S. Office of Education has just issued Bulletin, 1933, No. 8, under the caption:  "A Background Study of Negro College Students," by Ambrose Caliver, Senior Specialist in the Education of Negroes for the U. S. Office of Education.

In 1931 Dr. Caliver's monograph entitled "A Personnel Study of Negro College Students" was issued by Teachers' College of Columbia University (Contribution of Education No. 484).  This study reported the results of an investigation begun at Fisk University in 1926 and continued until 1929.  The special problem consisted of the relation between certain background problems of Negro college students and their careers in college.  The subjects comprised 450 entering students of Fisk University during the years 1926, 1927 and 1928.

The present study is an extension of this smaller study.  It is essentially a problem in personnel research, and is a national survey of the social, economic, cultural, academic, and intellectual background of Negro college students.  Among the conclusions reached the following maybe cited:

Colleges need to make some effort to adjust requirements and offerings in terms of the background of students.

There is too much retardation of superior students.

The vocational needs of Negro students and not adequately cared for by high schools.

Negra colleges are not fully utilizing their best material.

Neither schools nor colleges are making the most of the masculine resources of the race.

These institutions lack definite educational and vocational guidance programs.

Negro students enter upon their college careers with a tremendous economic handicap.

The younger the Negro college freshman is, the more likely he is to have high scholastic aptitude.

The occupational status of parents has a significant relationship to the scholastic aptitude of students.

The education of Negro parents and of brothers and sisters is definitely associated with the scholastic aptitude of students.

The changes made by Negro students from school to school and from place to place are tremendous.

A large number of Negro students come from broken homes.

The Negro teaching profession is apparently being entered by many persons of low intelligence.

This bulletin maybe secured from the Superintendent of Documents in Washington D. C., at ten cents the copy.  It consists of 132 pages with many statistical tables and graphs.

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Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Woodyard of Newark, N. J., were the holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chappell Davis, 3D: 246 West 150th Street.

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Mrs. Braxton Jones, 3M: 2816 Eighth Avenue, entertained the members of the Ivy Art Club, Saturday, December 30th, at her home.

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Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Simmons, 3P: 2588 Seventh Avenue, entertain friends at bridge on New Year's Day.

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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Turner, 3D: 231 West 149th Street, entertained a number of friends at dinner on Christmas Day.

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Mr. and Mrs. Will Hairston entertained a group of their friends at a buffet dinner and luncheon during the holidays.

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Mr. and Mrs. James Ford, 4D: 2816 Eighth Avenue, entertained with their usual New Year's Eve party.  Quite a number from the Dunbar community were present.

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Mr. and Mrs. Leon Brown, 1F: 246 West 150th Street, had a number of guests dinner and later for bridge on New Year's Day.

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