Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
What Shall! They Do!

There is q young negro man acting
as porter in cotton room IN TINS
this city who has tn best university
education. His classical education
is fuller than that Of any person in
the building, and yet he can find
nothing better to do than such work
q, cornfiield hand might expect to
do. Out of his class Of perhaps thirty
all but two have dropped back into
Just such work as he is doing. Ii
remembered;that the north does rot
furnish even equal opportunities
with the south for the advancement
the negro into even the better me-
chanical or industrial persuits. The
suggestion forces itsels, therefore,
that perhaps there is good deal O.
higher education wasted. Il is hard
ly fair to listen to this sug
gestion for some years, by which time
it may have answered itself. Agen
tlemen comDetent to speak, says.
"The desire for university education
among the colored youths is rapidly
diminishing. The lack OF opporlu-
nifty after they leave college to use
what they have acquitted discou ages
them In the meanwhile wealthy
colored man OF atlanta is giving his
daughters the advantage of the best
art and classical schools in America.
They are already skilled in music,
and proficient III French and Ger
man.-Atlanta Constitution.
All of which appeals powerfully
and strongly to our people to enter
prises of their own, creating de-
mand for the service of a fair propo-
ton f the industrious and capable
youths who are every year leaving
the schools and colleges, after dill
gently acquiring an education.
Make employment for them
Open stores and patronize them 81
that their services will be needed Al
clerks and book keepers. Support
your papers so that they will bt
able to employ printers and writers
Let the mechanics increase thei
> business. become contractors ant
, offer inducements to our youths t.
learn the trades, by insuring then
employment at fair wages. Nor
l business energy idle hands to worl
and make times better and NOR
prosperous
While reaching out for diversified
4 employmeDts, let it be remembere
, that all work is honorable; all idle
ness discredita BILE. Education shoul
be such as teaches industry and lev
! :or work. Such as will prepare th
] youth to roll up his sleeves when b
goes out into the world and if he ca
not be clerk or school teacher
become by work and application wha
: lis better and more Independent,
: prosperous farmer mechanic. Whar
. there IS will there is a way. and tL
paa5Eae %ata gives Ii r. 1tts way We fbink vii
be found the remedy for the evil
a complained Of by Bishop Turner il
the following extract from letter t
The Atlanta Defiance:
"But after all it is grave an,
solemn question with me, what is t
r become of this great mass of educat
ed young people that we are yearl
turning out of onr Schools; in a f.,
years at the rate we are proceeding g
we will count scholarly yourg mel
. and ladies by the hundreds Of thons
ands and the qlas+ipl coafront
r r US, what will do with them? The
u can't all be teachers. but ve.y fes
: are coming into the ministry, ar,
still fewer are hoing into medicin
= and law aud none comparativel
speaking are trying to be ;irera,,
authors such as historians, poet )
philosophers etc. While it,appea. S
that the idea of education amons
our young people is absolute alien
alton from all kinds of work. Mos
of our young ladies Thick if they hay,
little edue,;i,n tlsy muss kpoA
nothing ahoat cooking
a meal of viciu,ls, saving Of
cutting out a dress or putting .
a patch upon their future husband:
pants.
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