SR_DPI_DNE_Direc_Corr_B1F30_Reports_Misc_1915_025
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SR_DPI_DNE_Direc_Corr_B1F30_Reports_Misc_1915_025March 5, 1915 To County Supervisors: I have been planning for First. Moonlight schools for teaching Second. About giving special attention Third, we are planning to send out letters Relative to the moonlight schools now that | SR_DPI_DNE_Direc_Corr_B1F30_Reports_Misc_1915_025March 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 many7 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 |