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THE COLORED SCHOOL—LEBANON
MISS NETTIE HUGHES, Principal

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The K. N. E. A. Journal

Official Organ of the Kentucky Negro Educational Association
Vol. III chober-November, 1932 N0. 1

Published by the Kentucky Negro Educational Assaciation
Editorial Office at 1925 W. Madison Street
Louisville, Kentucky

Atwood S. Wilson, Executive Secretary, Louisville; Managing Editor,
D. H. Anderson, Paducah, President of K. N. E. A.

Board of Director!

J. L. Bean, Versailles W. S. Blantan, Frankfort
S. L. linker, Owensboro F. A. Taylor, Louisville

Published Bimonthly during the school year: October, December,
February and April
PRICE so CENTS PER YEAR on 15 cams PER copv
Membership in the K. N. E. A. (One Dollar) includes subscription to
the Journal
Rates for Advertising space mailed on request
present Circuletiun, 2, 000 copiey1932 K. N. E. A. Membership, 1,052

CONTENTS
Page

Officers for 1932453. . 2
Greetings 3
Editorial Comment . . .. 4
Proceedings of the 1932 Convention 7
Resolution Adapted at the 1932 Convention .12
Report of the Legislative Committee...“ .13

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Secretarys Financial Report. .. ............
Financial Repolt on x. N. E A. Track Meet and Pageant. ......lc
1932 K. N. E. A. Membership by Counties .. ...18
One Hundred Percent City Schools ....... .. .

The First, Last and Greatest of School Room problems.
Louisville Municipal College Reports Growth... . . . . ..
New President st Lincoln Institute of Kentucky
K. N. E A Kullings ..... . . .
1932 Rosenwald Day in Kentucley
School Libraries Reported by the State Library Commission.

K. N. E. A. Officers, April, 1932 to April, 1933

Baird oG Direekou

Padut-ah
.Frankiort
. .Versailles
.Lonisville
. . . . . .Owensbora

D. H. Anderson, Chairman Ex—Oﬂ’lcio. ..
w. s. Blanean, (Tenn Expires, 1934)
J. L. Been, (Term Expires, 1934)
F. A. Taylor, (Term Expires 1933).
s. L. Barker, (Term Expires, 1933).

General Ofﬁcer.

D. H. Anderson, President.
A. S. Wilson, Secretarys'l‘reasnrer. . . . .
{Mi-E L. V. Ranels, Assisfant Secretary.
W. J. Gallery, Historian. . . . . . . . . .. . ..

.Wincllesﬁer
. . . . .Little Rock

Vice-Prune“:

Mrs. Fannie H. White, First Vice-President.
G. H. Brown, Second Vice—President. . . . l .. .
R. B. Atwood, High School and College Department. .
Mrs. L. H. Smith, Elementary Education Department.
Miss R. L. Carpenter, Music Depaﬂment. . .
Mrs. Blanche Elliott, Pn'mary Department.
Mrs. T, L. Anderson, mural Education Department.
Whitney Young, Vocational Education Department.
R. D. Roman, Principals’ Conference.
H. A. Kean, Athletic Department. . . Frankfort
Miss A. M. Emanuel, Forei‘n Language Depi . . .Louisvl'lle
Mrs. M. L. Copeland, Jeannes Teachers’ Conference. . . . .Hopkinsvl'lle

. Lexington
Louisville
Frankfort
Lexingﬂm
Louisville

. Shelhyville

District Organizers

Miss M. s. Brown, First District. . . . . . .. ..Mayfield
w. o. Nuckols, Second District. Providence
H. E, Goodloe, Third District. Russellville
R. L. Bowery, Fourth District. ....Elizshethtown
Miss Hattie Daniel, Fifth Dist! .Louisville
H. R. Merry, Sixth District. ...Covington
J. L. Bean, Seventh District. . .Verssllles
J. w. Bate, Eighth District... .Dsnville
w. E. Newsome, Ninth District.. .Cynthiann
K. L. Walker, Tenth District. . ...Hazerd
W. L. Shobe, Eleventh District. .Middlesbarn

Greetings For 1932-1933

The officers and directors of
the Kentucky Negro Educational
Association extend greetings to
the fifteen hundred and fifty
teachers in Kentucky u: the open-
ing of the school year of 1932-
1933. We wish for you the largest
possible happiness in the coming
year‘s work.

Conditions have been trying this
past year. Many of us have been
disappointed in our income and
have been compelled to live on
greatly reduced (budgets. This
results in many instances in a
lowered morale and in a poorer
quality of Work. This is no time
to slump Good work builds
morale and we need morale today
more than we have ever needed it
before.

There are discouraging periods
in the history of nations and in
the history of Commonwealthsl
This is a lean period for those of
us who work in education. The
real test of an institution or of a
school system, after all, is not
how it goes into a. lean oeriod in
education but ‘how it comes out
of it. We can make the year
193271933 the lhest year in our
history if we set our hearts and
our minds to the task.

One of the outstanding projects
of the Kentucky Negro Eduw»
tional Association is the under-
taking of a five hundred dollar
payment to the Kentucky Educa-
tional Commission, which Com-

mission plans to survey the colored
schools of Kentucky as well as
the white. President Atwood
at Kentucky State Industrial Col-
lege is one of the leaders in this
project and he, alone with K. N.
E. A. officers, earnestly requests
'the teachers of Kentucky not to
fail to make this contribution pos-
sible.

The Kentucky Negro Edna:-
tional Association can meet this
obligation with no additional
burden to any teacher. The only
request is that each teacher he
sure to pay his annual dollar fee
to the K N. E. A., sending it
early in the school year in order
that the first payment on this
Lledge can be made. This will
also make it possible for the
K. N. E. A. to publish its regular
journals and prepare with assur-
z‘rlce for the meeting in Louis-
ville, April 19-22, 1933.

State Superintendent Richmond
‘ deeply interested in the prog-
ress of Negro education in Ken-
tucky and in the maintaining of
ligher standards for the colored
teachers of Kentucky. He has B
splendid attitude regarding our
state schools and is comparating
in every way to make these insti-
tutions of the highest type.

Let us unite with him in this
program of progress as far as
colored schools are concerned.
May we all work together to make
this school year the best in our
educational history.

Editorial Comments

OUR PROFESSION AND THE DEPRESSION

Teachers in service can do much to build up a sentiment for
the keeping of Wages on present levels during the depression includ-
ing teachem’ salaries Other Wages could come whack much quicker
than teachers salaries, hence, it imperative that everyone work
locally to that end. _

For a. long' time, we have fought to have better paid teachers
and for .the preparation required, teachers are not receiving really
the amount which should be allotted them. This sentiment should be
kept in the minds of school boards and those in charge of teachens’
salaries. It should also be pointed out that teachers contribute more
to the general welfare than probably most any other group of
workers. They not only make Extra contributions along the line
of community service but in financial ways. The tendency is to
have high standards of those who enter the teaching profession.
This means that those in service must Attend summer schools, do
extension work or take correspondence courses, all of which are
expensive.

Bear these facts in mind, and let us unite slclidly to maintain at
least the salaries we now have.

2 s u r; e s r: o s
OUR ‘932 MEMBERSHIP RECORD

Elsewhere in this Journal will be found the 1932 enrollment
record of the K. N. E. A. It may {be noted that there are now,
1550 teachers in the colored schools of Kentucky. You Will fumher
note that there is, at present, 1052 teachers enrolled in the K, N‘ E A.
This is just about two-thirds of the teachers in Kentucky. Thi: per
cent of enrollment is the lowest that the K. N. E. A. has had in the
last ten years. Such a falling off in membeiship may Ibe due to the
so0. L. Thomas, and
Curl Barbour) and the Plymouth

Singers; Bath organizations con-
sisted of trained singers of un-
[usual ability. This music program
was proclaimed by many to have
been the high light of the 1932
K. N. E. A. session. Certainly no
other K. N. E. A. Musicale has
surpassed it in quality. Robert
Hemingway was the accompanist
for Edward Matthews and Nannie
G. Board the directress of the
Plymouth Singers. »
Fiml Se ion .
Saturday. April 16, at 9:00
A. M., the final business session
of the K. N. E. A. was called to
order. Before going into business
proceedings Rev. J. Francis Wil-
son of Maceo, Ky., conducted I
brief memorial service for de«

ceased members. Those men—
tioned were Miss Virginia V.
Wood, Standford; Miss Mary C.

Henry, Herdinsburg; th5. Louise
W. Forline, Nicholasville; Mrs.
C. L. Timberlake, Mndisonville,
Miss Overta Mathis], Greenvil ,
Dr. Wm. H. Levell, Hopkinsville;
and Dr. C. H. Parrish, Louisville.
The service consisted of singing,
scripture reming and appropriate
eulogy. Mrs. Nina Pike led in the
singing for the occasion.

W. S. Blantun then introduced
a resolution concerning the re»
cently nppointed educational com<
mission. It was voted that the
resolution be adopted and the
K. N. E. A. send representatives
to the K. E. A. pledging co-opera-
tion and advising them that this
organization would pledge five
hundred dollars ($500.00) to aid
the commission in its work, same
to be paid by January, 1934. The
resolution including this appro-
priation was approved hy vote of
the association. R. B. Atwood

president of K. S. I. C. was also
the sponsor of this resolution.

Mrs. Hunter of Lexington made
a short talk on “Better Homes
and Better Health." The move
ment she sponsored was approved
by the K. N. E. A. and adopted
3’5 a. part of its program.

The K. N. E. A. then voted to
pay In affiliation fee to the Na~
tional Association of Teachers in
Colored Schools to meet in Monk
gomery, Alabama, July 54, 1932.
It was voted that individual mem~
mership fees he sent to W. H.
Fouse of Lexington who was a.
representative of Kentucky in the
N. A. T. C. S. 4

Reports were then made by dew
partments of the K. N. E. A. and
by \Mrs. Essie D. Mack, president
of the State Patent-Teacher As-
sociation. It was moved that
these reports be adopted. The
High School and College Depart-
ment reported a very profitable
smion and sponsored the finan~
eial donation for the Kentucky
Educational Commission. R. B.
Atwood, president of K. s. L 0.,
was elected chairman of the do-
partment and Mrs. M. v. main,
of Paducah, the secretary for
1932-1933.

The Elementary Education De-
partment reported a successful
state wide spelling contest, the
ﬁnals of Whid’l were conducted
on Friday morning, April 15. The
first prize of ten dollars was won
by Sallie Ransom of the 6-]! class
of the Lincoln School in Louis-
ville. Juanits. Brown of the
Bond-Washington School at Eliw
hethtown won the second prize of
five dollars. The third prize was
won by James Ashby of the Scott

School in Shelby County. with
ners of the next thirteen min.
were: (1) Foree Radiord, of
Christian County; (2) Catharina
Crockett, of Oldhm County;
(3) Bert Thomas. of Jefferson
County; (4) Bettie Isom of Gar-
rard County; (5) Hallie Williams,
of Hopkinsville; (a) Virginia
Bohannon, of Henry County;
(7) Anne L. Mitchell, of Muhlen-
berg; (B) Scott Spinner, of Spen-
cer County; (9) Eliza Taylor“)!
Bourbon County; (10) Addie B.

Lang, of Mason County; (11)
Mary D. Clay, of Woodt'ord
County; (12) Hazel Ford. or

Trigg County; and G. W. Ander-
son, of Owen County, ’lhese
prizes were donated by the Louise
Ville CourierJournal and Times.
The contest was directed by G. H.
Brown. of Louisville.

At this point Messrs. W. H.
Fouse and R. B. Atwood returned
from the K. E. A. to which they
had carried the resolution of the
K. N. E. A. They reported that the
matter would receive the attention
of the K. E. A. Director; and were
thanked by vote of the K. N. E.
A. for their interest in the matter.

A request was then presented
the secretary by a group of for-
eign language teachers asking that
a foreign language department
be incorporated in the program
of the K. N. E. A. This mam
was referred to the Board of DI-
rectors for approval.

A. S. Wilson, secretary of the
K. N. E A., then made a brief fi-
nancial report, bringing out the
fact that the K. N. E. A. had is-
sued its Journal and carried out
its program in spite of the loss of
its entire treasury in the closed

Mutual Standard Bank. The sec-
retary made special mention at an
obligation of the K. N. E. A. for
expenses due W. H. Fouls of
Lexington who attended the N. A.
'1“. C. S. It Petersburg, Va. in 1930
with expenses voted paid at the
1931 session of the K. N. E. A.
He promised to teeomlnend to the
directois immediate payment on
the obligation and as soon as pow-
sibie the entire obligaﬁon.

It we: then moved and seconded
that the K. N. E. A. endorse the
splendid work of Atwood S. Wil-
s‘on, the secretary-treasurer of the
K. N. E. A.

. Following remarks by President
D. H. Anderson the final session
w s. s adjourned. Following this,
the Board of Diz‘eotols met and
after reviewim the fin-non! reo-
ords of the association, voted to
accept the secretary's report
They also discussed other matters
relative to the interest Of the K.
N. E, A. and made tentative plan:
for 1932-33.

The K. N. E. A. closed its 56th
session with a pageant at the Lou-
isville Armory on Saturdoy night,
April 16, 1932. The pageant,
“Romantic George Washington,"
was one of the most spectacular
in the history of the K. N. E. A.
More than 1000 yupils of the
Louisville schools were on the pro-
gmm and several thousand people
were on hand to witness this cele
bration of the Bi»Centeunial of
George Washington. The Joseph
S. Cotter Walking Contest, track
events, and aesthetic demonstra-
tions by the Jackson Junior High
School of Louisville were also
features of the program. R. L.
Carpenter, director of music in

Louisville Colored Schools and
A. S. Wilson, secretary of the K.
N. E. A, assisted by others, mn-
sored this program. -
(Min) L. V. Bonds
Assistant Secretary

A. S. Wilson.
Secretary~Treusuter

D. H. Anderson,
President.

I KNOW SOMETHING GOOD
ABOUT YOU

Wouldn't this old world be better
It the folks we meet would say,
“I know something good about

youl”
And then treat us just that way?

Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy.
I! each himdclasp, warm and
true,
Carried with it this assurance,
“I know something good about
you!"

Wouldn’t life be lots more happy
If the good that’s in us all

Were the only things about us
That folk bothered to recall?

Wouldn’t life ibe lots more happy
If we praised the good we see?

For there’s such 3 lot of goodness
In the worst of you and me.

Wouldn’t it be nice to Practice
That fine way of thinking too;
You know something good about

use,
I know something good about
you?

Resolution Adopted At 1932 Session

WHERAS, there lua- hecn
created in the Commonwealth of
Kentucky 11 Commission known
I: the Kenoucky Eduoanoml Com-
mission and

WHEREAS, the duty of this
Commission is to direct a study
of public education in Kentucky
and report its findings to the Gov-
ernor and the General Assembly
of the Commonwealth at the
opening of its next regain Jeo-
sion, with recommendations of
such measures and such revision
of our school code as may be
found necessary for increasing
efficiency and equalizing the
benefits of public education
throughout the Commonwealth,
Ind,

WHEREAS, because of the
strained financial situation, the
(Jenna; ASSSAD‘L'IT/ made no ap
propziation for the prosecution
of this valuable Work, but the
Commission has been successful
in securing substantial donations
from the General Education Board
and the Kentucky Educational As-
sociation, Therefore, Be it re
solved,

THAT the Kentucky Negro Edit
national Association commend the
State Supe’rinﬁendent of Public
Instruction for his foresight and
good judgment in securing such
a Ccmmission, and

THAT the Kentucky Negro
Educational Association pledge
to the Commission full lumen

and ecu-operation of its organize-
tion,‘ and,

THAT the K. N. E. AA pledge
a donation of Five Hundred
($500.00) Dollars to he paid in
two equal installments rhetore
January, 1934, to he used us the
Kentucky Educational Commission
may direct in the promotion of
work to be done :by said Com-
mission.

COMMITWE:

R. B. Atwood, Frankfort,

W. H. Pause, Lexington

W. S. Blanton, Frankfort

D. H. Anderson, Paducah
(President)

A. S Wilson, Louisville,
(Secretary)

Filipinos, regardless of how
dark they may be, are to be A!-
lowed to attend white schools in
the State of North Carolina, ac-
cording to a ruling of Assistant
Attorney General A. A. F. Sea-
well. A case involving a Filipino
child, whose mother was white
and father Filipino, was referred
to him for legal advice, when the
mother of the child attempted to
send him to a white schooL

Mr. Seawell ruled that the ex-
clusion of persons from white
schools applied only to Race peo—
ple, and that he could find no law
to compel the child to attend a
Race school, and that the state was
bound to furnish education for
the child.

RAY AND HAWES AGENCY

HIGH CLASS REAL ESTATE FOR HOMES AND lNVESTMENT
GENERAL INSURANCE

601 W. Walnut Street

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Report of Legislative Committee

April 15, 1932
Mr. President and Fellow Teachers

of the K. N. E. A.:

The Legislative Committee of
1932 submits the following 12-
port: Our committee working in
connection with the legislative
committee of the K. E. A of
which Superintendent J. L. Faust,
of Owensboro, was chairman, pre-
sented to the legislature six ob-
jectives:

(a) To raise the standard of
certification

(1:) Taking away from the
one trustee the power of naming
the teacher in rural schools.

(d) A more permanent and
equitable appropriation for Negro
Stnte Schnuk.

(e) Free text books.

(I) An educational survey.

The solid front of Kentucky
educators of both associations in
advocating progressive school legis-
lation bore some fruit. House bill
electing county superintendents by
popular vote was passed This law
is considered by the educators as
reactionary but the qualification
of candidates for superintendents
attached to this bill makes some
amends for its reaction.

The minimum standard for en-

trance into the teaching profes-
sion was raised from 16 to 83
semester hours. Our state school
was struck Ilzy the hammer of
popular demand for economic re-
trenchment which hindered the
gating of an appropriation much
desired and unanimously fought
for by educators and officials of
the department of education.

We take courage and shall can-
tinue this zgitation until Ken-
tucky schools shall, legislatively
speaking, stand in the class we so
much desire.

Respectfully sulbmitted,
S. Li BARKER, Chairman,
Legislative Committee.

Education of youth in Soviet,
Russia takes queer turns, acording
to Elmer Rice, American play-
wright, recently returned from a
Visit to that county. Rice, in a
recent interview, relates that 1
simplified Vernon of "Uncle Tom‘s
Cabin” in Russian language is
pei'iediczlly produced at t h e
theater for young spectators in
Moscow as a pant of a course in
social history for young students.

The object of showing