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Show i QUESTION IS POOR WHITES f NOT NEGROES, IN SOUTH Southern College President Tells of Struggle of Moun-i Moun-i tainccrs to Obtain an Education. ; : - i CHICAGO. Oct. 29. "It is not a question ques-tion of whit shall we do with the negrro . ' in the South, but whathall we do with the white man? That is the problem." said President W. G. Frost of .Berea, i college, Berea, Ky., in a lecture before the Northern Illinois Teachers' association. associa-tion. President Frost depicted the condition of the poor uneducated white man" in the mountainous' districts of Kentucky. He told what struggles and sacrifices the mountaineers often undergo to get an education, and described the difficulties difficul-ties under which a teacher was forced to labor in that part ot the country. "The need of competent teachers in the South is great," said Mr. Frost. "Those best fitted to leach the elementary elemen-tary branches are the ones who can perform the most good. There is a scarcity of elementary teachers today because the average pedagogue aspires too high and will not be content to teach the rudiments of reading, writing-and writing-and arithmetic." |