The Gary American

Rosenwald Fund Aids
Rural Education

CHICAGO--(ANP)--During the past year the Julius Rosenwald fund spent $691,763 chiefly on rural education and Negro health, according to the annual report issued by Edwin R. Embree, president of the fund.

The most active program during the year was the improvement of rural education for both white and colored children in the Southern states.

"During the first two decades of its life," Mr. Embree said, "the fund concentrated on the building of schoolhouses for Negroes and helped to build 5,357 schools in 883 counties of 15 southern states at a total cost of $28,408,520 of which the fund contributed $4,366,519. Now the fund has turned its attention to what goes on inside these schoolhouses. The fund's chief efforts today are the building up of a few Southern teachers' colleges, the fund is interested not only in producing better teachers for rural schools but also in improving county supervision of schools, the production of better texts and other materials of instruction and increasing the salary scale of rural teachers."

In addition to the rural school program, the fund last year contributed $205,000 to health facilities for Negroes and $75,000 to the development of three important Negro universities--Fisk in Nashville, Dillard in New Orleans, and Atlanta. Last year the fund started a series of 50 annual fellowships of approximately $1,500 each to most promising Negro scholars and to most distinguished white students and leaders in the South.