Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 131, 2 June 1922 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1922.

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FRIENDS ARE GIVING NEGROES INSTRUCTION DESPITE HANDICAPS

"When teachers themselves have had but eight years of schooling and very often have gone to school to teachers that had finished but eight grades, education is in a precarious ptate," Wilbur Kamp. Earlham graduate of 1921, who for the last year has been teaching at Southland, the Friends' school for negroes in Arkansas, said Friday. "But that is just the condition in Arkansas, where the negroes 'when they do get a chance to go to school have to go to teachers that are teaching everything they know." Mr. Kamp, who was formerly a resident of Richmond, is in town for the Rarlham Jubilee, and is attending several local committee meetings. "Southland is doing a wonderful work," he said. "With more money and backing it could be another Tuskeegee, as there is not another school for negroes within the state of that description. The need of such a school is so great that every year the attendance has to be restricted. This year we had students from Arkansas, Mississippi, Txmisiana, Georgia. Tennessee and Oklahoma, besides one from the Island of Jamaica. "What education can do for the negro is illustrated by the effect on the graduates of Southland. Most of them have bought their own farms, are taking up diversified farming, and have real homes. Advancing Race "The sons and daughters of former students are taking another step In education by becoming doctor?, lawyers, teachers and dentists. They have th einterest of their race at heart, and are doing what they can to help its advance. "But Southland is only a drop in the hncket. Because of poor transportation conditions, the influence of the school is not as widespread as could be desired. Most of the farmers own runty stock, or at best only poor grades, and are expending all of their energies on cotton, instead of on a diversified crop. "Even the school, for all the good Hiat it has done, Is sadly handicapped by Its inability to instruct more than a limited number of students, or to demonstrate first-class methods of farming with some good stock. "The last year which I spent there has been one of real satisfaction, however, and Mrs. Kamp and I both enjoyed it immensely." Southland was originally operated under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, but is now under the direction of the Board of 'Home Missions of the Five Years' Meeting. The school was established by Indiana Friends just after the Civil war as a refugee school for liberated negroes.

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COnrl4HT 411 ar SOtKCf SCRVK.I . WASHINGTON. O C.

Uncle Sam Saves Rent By FREDERIC 4. HASKIN

ernment will still have the land as a site for permanent structures. Across the street' from some of these temporary offices is another Government problem. Here are two buildings, joined by passageways,

which together make the largest of-

still has $1,000 to its credit in the

bank. In three years it has saved the Gov

ernment more than half a million t

dollars in rents by moving bureaus out i

of renter! Viiiilrlino-a into Clnvernment

'aged about S3. 000.000. Thev have

fice buildine in the world. Thev are notes that tha Ionic and Doric columns and they arei

the Navy and Munitions Buildings. I sonnel is shrinking daily and it findo ! Phiningly white, but they are distinct-! Tl.ft . . i r-nn c . . -I . . itn kneinnnnll.. 1 TV,,r

mat tnere is room in the war kisxi" ""WKawme m npitj.iiinc. mr, Building fnr th emiro force of the I suggest, rather than imitate, Athens!

Alien Property Custodian. This official and his staff have been occupy ing a six storv anartment house at a

they were put up as temporary war, cost to the Government of $30,000 a! structures. They stand firmly enough year rent. The Commission arranged!

On (government owned ground, but, with the Bureau to move and credits vide at one time several hundred

the land is a part of Potomac Park, I itself with saving the country $30,000. 1 post office buildings for the country, and the city planning scheme calls for i Unless there is a sharp reaction I These bills had very little to do with the removal of the prosaic buildings from the present tendency toward ef-! economy. It was not uncommon for a

to develop the park. ficiency and economy there will be no J town of a few thousand souls, which j Congress can be persuaded to spend The buildings are modern in every more elaborate monumental effects in; was represented by a live Congress- money for a building program, even respect and are extremely solid for; department buildings. Sixteen foot (man, to win a $40,000 post office.'10 insure the safety of the national temporary construction. If they had : ceilings, fire-places, thick walls, and j Each Congressman voted for the ap-i records. been built across the street on tho i laboriously carved room decorations i propriation bill because it contained !

leased ground which the Government . such as are seen about the State War some item in which he was interested is now buying they would have stood and Navv Buildir.c. and other early and to disaDDrnvp of anv clause was

They contain 1,700,000 square feet of space, and some of the corridors are

1,500 feet long. These record-breaking office buildings are a bone of contention because

State, War and Navy Building. The new Navy and Munitions Buildings were run up in five and a half months. The State War and Navy Building cost $10,000,000 at a time when labor

was cheap. The new buildings aver-

and Old Europe.

It is probable that the day of the beautiful, be-columned marble post office is past. Since 1913 there has

Deen no public buildings bill to pro

izens of a town, and that from 'that noint of view it was a worth while investment. The European War put a stop to such argument and to the marble front post offices. A few post offices are still beins constructed from the provision of the 1913 bill, but no construction- work for the Government is being done in Washington. Nor is there much prospect of any new Government buildings for a year or more. The important Archives Building waits only for the word of Congress. Two recent fires in the Treasury have shown that the old buildings are not invulnerable, and that documents of great value stored in them are far from safe. But economy is rampant and it will doubtless be many months before

unchallenged and least 15 years to

stand for years as it is. The two buildings together cost more than $7, 000,000. They house several thousand workers who would have to be provided for somewhere if the biggest Government office unit were scrapped. Economy and the city beautiful idea are contesting over this situation, an. I economy has the advantage now. Its

cause is being advanced for the Gov

serviceable for at : Government edifices, are conspicuous

come. They mavjly absent from recent Government

construction. Time Was No Object An example oi the old style ponderousness which characterized the first Federal buildings is found in the granite pillars on the Treasury facades. These huge pillars were quarried in Maine and shipped to Washington on sailing vessels. It took 18 oxen

to ditch the whole measure. , Congress was criticized for this sort; of pork legislation. The most suc-j cessful post office getters retorted, that a Federal building of beauty and;

dignity was an inspiration to the cit-'i

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WASHINGTON, D. C, June 2. In the vigorous hunt for more ways of saving a dollar, Congress is keeping an eagle eye on the Governments housing bill. The Government clerk may work in a granite masterpiece of Greek architecture that suggests a large and lavish scale of administration', but the classic edifice is run on a strictly modern, save-the-pennies basis. The Government is the largest property owner in the United States. Besides the great department buildings in Washington, each costing several million dollars, it owns offices all over the country. These include l.L'50 post oflices, ranging in value from tho small town building worth only a fewthousand dollars to the Chicago post office which cost more than five million. Economy is now the watchword in the management of all this property Take the stucco buildings which sprang up to house the army of war stenographers and filing clerks in tho

Capital. About 40,000 war workers have departed and whole blocks of the tempos, as the war buildings were

called, have been struck like circus tents. But some are needed because Washington still has twice as many clerks as in pre -war days. The tempos near Potomac Park stand on leased land and the lease is about to expire. Furthermore. th owners want a higher rate of rent, and if the Government turns the property back to the owners, it must tear down its stucco buildings and even pay for the structures that stood on the land when it took possession. In this dilemma the Governmenr finds one satisfactory way out. It can buy the land for $1,500,000, about what three years' renl would cos. Congress is considering this obviously economical measure and approval is said to be certain. The temporary buildings are regarded as good for sevcval years, and after that the Gov-

tnem to the building. Time was no

obstacle in those days. Seventeen; years were spent in constructing the I

ernment by a Public Buildings Com-'and eight horses to carry each one of

mission at the Capitol. This Commis-

i slon has for its ultimate aim the re

moval of every Government office in Washington from rented building space. The Department of Agricul-

ture, which is housed in 26 different ! buildings, about half of which are

rented, is an example of the problems which confront the Commission. The Public Buildings Commission is

out to save the Government money, i and it points proudly to the fact that1 its economy begins at home. It hasj no crew of stenographers, clerks and i messengers. Three years ago when ; it started it was given an Initial appro- i priation of $10,000 by fc'ongress, and it j

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