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 GIVE JIM HIS CHANCE 
 
 BY LEIGH RICHMOND MINER 
 
 Deah Lawd, so thankfu’ —I’se liftin’ prayer— 
 My boy Jim’s safe back from ovah thaih. 
 
 An’ I’se dat gratefu’ Jim done his pa’t, 
 f’se gwine give yo’ praise from dis oP hea’t. 
 
 Dat look uv glory what goin’ made 
 I craves to ax, Lawd, don’ let it fade 
 
 Outen Jim’s eyes—seem Iak he’s a been 
 ’Long de paf we-all jes’ missed o’ see’n’; 
 
 Lawd, keep dat vision cl’ar ’fo’ his eyes, 
 
 Les’ Jim slip hack whaih darkness lies 
 
 So heavy dat nary one can see 
 In Jim de man what he’s meant to be. 
 
 Dey sez dat Jim done right sma’t in France 
 But hyeah, Lawd, I ax, give Jim his chance. 
 
 domtesij of “ The Outlook.” 
 
COOKING LESSON FOR EXTENSION WORKERS 
 
 E FFICIENCY and service are the fundamental prin¬ 
 ciples of the great educational work for the Negro 
 and Indian started by General Samuel Chapman Armstrong 
 in 1868 on the shore of Hampton Roads near Old Point 
 Comfort. 
 
 Hampton Institute has sent out over 10,000 graduates 
 and ex-students with a knowledge of agriculture, trades, 
 business, and the principles of teaching, which has enabled 
 them to support themselves and become leaders in their 
 communities. 
 
 The farm-demonstration movement, employing last 
 year 24 farm-demonstration agents responsible for 24 
 counties of Virginia, originated at Hampton and more 
 than half of these agents received training there. 
 
 There were, in 1918, out of a total of 57 workers, 39 
 Hampton-trained Negro women acting in the rural dis¬ 
 tricts of Virginia as county supervising teachers of garden¬ 
 ing, canning, and other branches of home economics. 
 
THE HOME OF AN INDIAN GRADUATE IN SOUTH DAKOTA 
 Built by himself from plans drawn while at Hampton 
 
 H AMPTON first received Indians in 1878. It was the 
 first industrial school to open its doors to Indians, 
 and has therefore had a wide influence in the education 
 of the race. The number of students has never been large, 
 but there are now between eight and nine hundred living 
 graduates and ex-students, scattered from Canada to the 
 Mexican border, from the Atlantic to the Pacific 
 
 The men are working in various professions and 
 trades, are mostly farming or stockraising. Many of the 
 women are nurses and teachers; but by far the greater 
 number are in homes of their own. Those in school now 
 have been brave enough to work for their education and 
 are fitting themselves for lives of usefulness among their 
 people. 
 
Hampton Institute is an undenominational school, 
 controlled by a board of seventeen trustees. The school 
 property includes about 1100 acres of land and 140 build¬ 
 ings, many of which have been built by the students. 
 
 The number of students is 1737, of whom 440 are col¬ 
 ored children in the Whittier Training School, and 447 
 teachers in the Summer School. The 850 boarding pupils 
 provide their own board and clothing, partly in cash and 
 partly in labor at the school. But the great majority of 
 students cannot pay their tuition, which is one hundred 
 dollars per pupil. 
 
 Many Sunday schools, associations, and friends of the 
 two races are interested to give these scholarships, and 
 larger and smaller sums year by year, according to their 
 ability, and thus assist Hampton in raising the amount 
 needed for current expenses in addition to its regular in¬ 
 come. A full scholarship may be endowed for $2500. 
 
 To take its proper place in the work of racial re-ad- 
 justment, Hampton must raise this year from private sub¬ 
 scriptions:— 
 
 Toward Retirement Fund 
 
 15 
 
 gifts 
 
 of $1000 
 
 $15,000 
 
 For extension work in Va. 
 
 30 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 500 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers’ salaries 
 
 60 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 250 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers’ salaries 
 
 150 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 100 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers’ salaries 
 
 200 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 75 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers’ salaries 
 
 300 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 50 
 
 15,000 
 
 For upkeep on buildings 
 
 600 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 25 
 
 15,000 
 
 For general expenses 
 
 1500 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 10 
 
 15,000 
 
 For general expenses 
 
 3000 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 5 
 
 15,000 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 $135,000 
 
 Any amount you may care to contribute will be gratefully received by 
 James E. Gregg, Principal, or F. K. Rogers, Treasurer, Hampton, Va.