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[[First Page]] The National Religious Training School "I cordially commend the school's interest and needs to all who believe in the Negro race and in our obligation to help promote its intellectual, moral and religious uplift." - Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, New York City IT IS MORE THAN A MERE SCHOOL IT IS A COMMUNITY OF SERVICE AND UPLIFT Its influence is destined to be felt in all sections of the country in improved Negro community life wherever our trained workers locate. Settlement workers, missionaries for home and foreign mission fields, Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. secretaries and district nurses receive a comprehensive grasp of their studies under a Wellesley graduate and experienced co-workers and actual every-day practice through the school's SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. We aim also to create a better qualified ministry. Industrial training, advanced literary branches, business school. Thirty-two acres; ten modern buildings ; healthful location. We can accommodate a few more earnest, ambitious students. Communities requiring social workers should write us. For catalog and detailed information address: PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD Nation Religious Training School Durham, N.C. The school has no endowment fund and must raise a yearly maintenance fund of $15,000 for running expenses. Won't you help us this year? The Cheyney Training School for Teachers Cheyney, Pennsylvania Under the management of the Society of Friends. Beautifully located, healthful, well appointed and within easy reach of a great variety of educational institutions, public and private, extending from West Chester to Philadelphia; representing a wide range of educational problems and practice. This school offers to young colored men and women who have a reasonable secondary school preparation, and who earnestly desire to become teachers., carefully graded courses in academic work, domestic science, domestic art, manual crafts and agriculture. For teachers of experience and intending teachers it offers also a six weeks' summer-school course, extending from July 1 to August 12. Tuition is free. Board, lodging, heat, light and laundry privileges are offered for nine months for $100. The charge for the same during summer-school course is $15. Write for particulars to LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL, Principal Mention The Crisis [[Second Page]] THE CRISIS A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES Published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City Conducted by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois Augustus Granville Dill, Business Manager Contents Copyrighted, 1914, by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Contents for September, 1914 Pictures Cover. Original drawing. By John Henry Adams. COLORES INTERNES AND NURSES, GENERAL CITY HOSPITAL, KANSAS CITY, MO 231 Articles King Cotton and The Negro. A Poem. By Jasper Ross 235 Nation League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes 243 Hope Deferred. A Story. By Mrs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar 238 Don Francisco. By Clarence Bixby. 242 Departments ALONG THE COLOR LINE 215 MEN OF THE MONTH 221 OPINION 224 EDITORIAL 232 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 236 A BOOK AND A PLAY 246 THE BURDEN 248 TEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR A YEAR Foreign subscriptions twenty-five cents extra RENEWALS: When a subscription blank is attached to this page a renewal of your subscription is desired. The date of the expiration of your subscription will be found on the wrapper. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The address of a subscriber can be changed as often as desired. In ordering a change of address, both the old and the new address must be given. Two weeks' notice is required. MANUSCRIPTS and drawings relating to colored people are desired. They must be accompanied by return postage. If found unavailable they will be returned Entered as Second-class Matter in the Post Office at New York, N.Y.
