The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute HAMPTON, VIRGINIA H. B. FRISSELL, Principal F. K. ROGERS, Treasurer H. B. TURNER, Chaplain What it is Object An undenominational industrial school founded in 1868 by Samuel Chapman Armstrong for Negro youth. Indians admitted in 1878. To train teachers and industrial leaders Equipment Land, 1200 acres; buildings, 135 Courses Academic, trade, agriculture, business, home economics Enrollment Negroes, 1285; Indians, 82; total, 1367 Results Needs Graduates, 1554; ex-students, over 6000 Outgrowths: Tuskegee, Calhoun, Mt. Meigs, and many $110,000 annually above regular income Any contribution, however small, will be gratefully received and may be sent to H. B. FRISSELL, Principal, or to F. K. ROGERS, Treasurer, Hampton, Virginia. FORM OF BEQUEST I give and devise to the trustees of The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, the sum of payable dollars, THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN was founded by Samuel Chapman Armstrong in 1872, and is a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of undeveloped races. Entered as second class matter in the post office at Hampton, Virginia. An illustrated book containing the following chapters descriptive of early days at Hampton Institute: "THE BABY ORCHESTRA " This popular picture on good paper 19′′ × 24", with wide margins, will be sent, carefully packed in mailing tube, to any address for TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Also "I KNOW I WOULD LIKE TO READ" On good paper with wide margins, for TEN CENTS. Both suitable for kindergartens or settlements. Address: Publication Office, The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia The Southern Workman VOL. XL JANUARY 1911 NO. 1 Educational Some years ago Dr. Alderman, of the University of Forces in Virginia Virginia, said that in the State of Virginia the centre of gravity had moved from the courthouse to the schoolhouse. The truth of this statement was verified by the recent educational meetings in Richmond, which have been without doubt the most important gatherings in the Old Dominion the present year. Not only were there meetings of the state superintendents, school trustees, supervisors, heads of high schools, and instructors in every grade of school work, but also of representatives of all kinds of work for the uplift of the people. There were men and women there who are working for progress in agriculture, and who are especially interested in the corn clubs, the canning clubs, good roads, reformatories, and the general improvement of rural life. The Co-operative Education Association, which for years has endeavored to promote every sort of movement for the uplift of the state, had its executive sessions and public gatherings at the same time. The law makers felt that it was essential they should be present, and they were to be found in Richmond from the beginning to the end of these educational conferences. Previous to the meetings of the county superintendents in Richmond, between seventy and eighty of them came to Hampton Institute with Honorable J. D. Eggleston, Jr., State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Many of this number are young men who have been recently appointed to their positions. It was a most earnest and hopeful body. Some of them said that they had had very little understanding of the meaning of the Hampton School, or of the practical work that it is accomplishing. At the open meetings held on the school grounds during their visit, Superintendent Eggleston not only expressed the hearty sympathy with the school which he has always shown, but he called upon the county superintendents to co-operate with Hampton in the endeavor to introduce more practical education into the public schools of the country districts of the state. Later in the week twelve of the Superintendents of Public Instruction in the Southern States included Hampton Institute in a tour which they were making for the purpose of acquainting themselves with the best methods used in the rural public schools and in the normal schools of the United States and Canada. Reference was made in the last number of the SOUTHERN WORKMAN, to the fund which has been started-to be known as the McVickar Fund-for the purpose of making possible just such visits. How much this sort of work may mean in the educational history of the South it is impossible to estimate. "The Law and the Indian" A recent number of the Atlantic Monthly contained a short story entitled, "The Law and the Indian," in which the author, Elliott Fowler, relates with grim humor the conflict with the law of one poor, old, well-meaning but misguided Indian. This Indian kills a game warden who has repeatedly interfered with the Indian's hunting and fishing out of season. The warden had interfered reluctantly, in the conscientious discharge of his duty, and only after many kindly warnings to the Indian. The Indian persists, not defiantly, but in the exercise of his inalienable right to procure necessary food. He knows that he is within his rights because in the treaty made with his tribe years before by the United States. Government the right to hunt and fish was reserved to the Indians for all time. In the trial the counsel for the defense presents to the court a copy of the treaty which, he maintains, was never abrogated and consequently still obtains, so far as the Indians of that particular tribe are concerned. The counsel for the prosecution maintains that it was abrogated long ago. The Indians may not have known exactly what happened to them, but that does not alter the facts. The treaty was made previous to the admission of the state to the Union. The state had then been admitted on an equal footing with the original states, and the act contained no reservation as to the rights of Indians under treaties. It had been held in two states that the admission of a state abrogated by implication the treaties with the Indians which granted them privileges inconsistent with the sovereignty of the state. Appeals made by the Indian's counsel to various individuals brings out the fact that no one seems exactly to understand the law, and each and all feel sorry for the poor Indian but are nevertheless agreed that the punishment must follow the crime. |