SR_DPI_DNE_Direc_Corr_B1F30_Reports_Misc_1915_025

March 5, 1915

To County Supervisors:

I have been planning for
sometime to write to you about the following
matters:

First. Moonlight schools for teaching
illiterate adults.

Second. About giving special attention
this spring toward urging your people to white-
wash their houses and school buildings. You
perhaps know the government recipe for making white-
wash that will last. This, I believe, is by using
about a quart of salt to five gallons of good white-
wash. By special effort on your part now I feel
sure that you may be able to get many people to
either white-wash or paint their homes. Also you
may be able to secure by contribution enough lime
to white-wash several school buildings and then get
several of the patrons to go out and put it on.
You might plan for a white-wash day, if you like,
in as many schools as possible and on that day plan
to white-wash and clean up the school buildings and
grounds.

Third, we are planning to send out letters
from this Department to County superintendents all
over the State, urging them to cooperate with the
colored people in observing Health Week, March 21st
to 27th. This week, as you perhaps know, has been
designated by the National Business League of Colored
People as Health Week. I hope you will cooperate
with your County Superintendent in having this widely
observed.

Relative to the moonlight schools now that
spring is coming, it will be a good plan to
encourage as many of your teachers as are willing
to do it to start night schools at their school-
houses. They might teach two or three nights in the
week and invite all the grown people in the community
who cannot read and write to attend this night school
so they may lean to read and write. If you are
interested in this and think you can get some night