The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 18

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Jackson, Miss. — Indications are that Pastor
George A. Schmidt, who is so energetically pushing
the work at the Piney Woods school, will soon have
two missions to take care of in Jackson, Miss., one
colored and the other white. But it is probable that
the white mission will soon get its own man. The
colored mission needs a portable chapel to prosper.
Many Piney Woods graduates live in Jackson, and
this fact holds out great hope for the success of our
colored mission in this city.

The Lutheran Hour and a New Colored Mis-
sion. — The Lutheran Radio Hour has also opened
the way for us into Pass Christian, Miss. At the
request of a number of persons, services have been
held at this place. The attendance at these services
has been most gratifying.

St. Paul’s, New Orleans. — The members began
to renovate their church for the fiftieth anniversary
of their congregation to be celebrated the end of
May. The exterior of the school is also to be
painted.

Baton Rouge, La. — The outlook at Baton
Rouge, the capital of Louisiana, is very promising,
and the Mission Board is seriously considering the
opening‘of work among the Negroes of this city.

Mansura, La. — Pastor Thompson’s health no
longer permits him to serve in school, and for this
reason the Board will try to give him a woman
teacher and possibly ask him to look after the new
work at Baton Rouge if work should be begun there.

East Selma, Ala. — The people of East Selma,
who till now had separate services, but were re-
garded as members of the college congregation, are
to form a congregation of their own. It is the gen-
eral opinion that this will be more pleasing to all
concerned and probably will mean a more rapid
growth of the East Selma charge.

Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C. — The
Mission Board has decided to carry out the resolu-
tion of the Synodical Conference to renovate the
main building of this institution thoroughly. It is
expected that the work will be begun this month
and be completed by the beginning of the next
school-year.

Southern Pines, N. C. — This is an old station,
but it has never had the whole-time services of
a missionary. It asks for such service, and the
Board has determined to station a whole-time man
at Southern Pines if at all possible.

‘New Bern, N. C. — The congregations of the
Eastern Field are putting forth strenuous efforts to
provide a portable chapel for this new station. It is

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hoped that the money gathered during Eastertide
will go far towards securing a much-needed building
for this mission-station.

High Point, N. C. — This station is making fine
progress, but is in need of a more favorably located
building. A good lot has been purchased, but the
funds for a new building are not at hand. The
missionary, Pastor Shufelt, despite the handicap, is
working with great enthusiasm; but we are think-
ing how much more success he might have if he
could invite the people to a chapel situated in a
location such as it should be in.

Detroit and Other Cities. —In Detroit our
brethren have already begun work among the large
colored population of that great industrial city.
The permanency of the work will probably soon be
decided. — Decatur and Peoria, Ill., hold out prom-
ising prospects for Colored Mission work. — Morgan
City, La., has also been spoken of as a promising
field. — The large colored population of Kansas
City, Mo., would probably also prove a fruitful field
of labor.

Negro Occupations. — The Nation brings the
following quotation from the book The Negro Wage
Earner by Lorenzo J. Green and Carter G. Wood-
son: “First, is the tendency of the Negroes to
constitute a greater percentage of all persons
gainfully occupied than of the total population ;
secondly, the tendency to maintain since 1890
a higher proportion of persons gainfully employed
within their group than any other large element of
the population; thirdly, the participation, rela-
tively, of a greater number of Negro females in
occupations than the females of any other group
in the population. Interwoven, however, through-
out all these tendencies, yet affecting and over-
shadowing them all, is a more significant move-
ment —a tremendous, irresistible, though irreg-
ular, march away from employment in agricultural
pursuits and domestic and personal service toward
manufacturing and mechanical pursuits and trade
and transportation. It was this latter tendency,
attaining its highest point between 1914 and 1920,
which decidedly changed the aspect of Negroes in
occupations, wrought a greater equilibration in
their employments, stamped them as efficient in-
dustrial workers, caused the transplanting of over
a million Negroes to the North, and thus greatly
altered the entire social structure of a large part of
the Negro population.” Incidentally let us say that
those who still so glibly speak of the “lazy Negro”
might do well to read this paragraph twice.