The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-27
INDUsTRIAL TRAINING.

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The Fisk University at Nashville, one Of
the foremost institutions at the South for
the education OF the negro, is just now
adding gymnasumto its other buildings,
which 1t is expected the pupils will fin.
ish and furnish ms result OF their own
handiwork. A mechanical laboratory
which Is to occupy the basement of this
gymnasium building is TO DO supplied with
dozen or more carpenters benches, and
class Of students will be selected to learn
that trade, lay the floor and complete the
interior fittings Of all the rooms in the
building. They are also expected TO
put up all the machinery that
may be necessary, the purpose being
to establish an industrial school
OF the highest order OF excellence. In nd.
dition TO this, the University should organ
lie class for the training Of women as
house servants, cooks, laundrcsscs and
nurses. No where in the world is there
such necessity and demand for intelligent
house servants aud good cooks as in the
South. Every one that offers can find
place aud recommending wages, such as
the Same class cannot hope TO earn at the
North or West. One OF the greatest curses
that aillicis most Of the Southern towns
aud cities is the gangs OF negro men and
women offering iorwofk about which they
know nothing, and do not seem to be will.
ing TO learn. They cannot retain places any
length OF time, ihoy are so utterly incom-
pctcni, aud many Of them will not. The
consequence Is they become loalcrs or
worse aud finally end in becoming petty
thieves TO land at last among the criminals
that OH our penitcntiarcs. Technical cdu-
cation is what the negro most needs. II
will make him useful and desirable as a
farm hand, u house servant or mechanic.
The Fisk University in adding a carpenter
aud machine shop TO its means Of cduca.
ton has taken q step in the right direction
aud one that ought 10 Do followed by oycry
negro college and school in the South that
has not engaged In industrial training.
The H. Moyue Institute Of this city, under
Prof Steele, has been trying this matter
Of industrial training Tor the past four or
Eve years anl with most cncour-
aging results. Tho Clanin Uni
vorsiiy ut Orlngcbure, $. G., has
also done a desirable work ia this
direction. There the Industrial School rs
made scll-sustaining rs is the case nj
the Allen University established at Co.
lumhia, in ihc Same State, In 1850, Tor the
special purpose OF aiding in the develop
mcni Of the highest typoo Of Christian man
hood, to prove the ncgro's ability to inau-
frumic and manage large interest TO train
him not only for the pulpit the bar. the
sickmom and schoolroom, but for agri.
culiup, mechanics and arts. 10 educate In
the fullest sense OF that comprehensive
word. This is the way, aud the only true
way, TO help ihc negro TO improve aud
make himself mOrc useful and ut the same
time intelligent enough 30 realize the
hopclcssness u mere politics i1r him and
10 zee that ihe politicians merely max,
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selfrspeciing citizon. The solution +,
What o. called the negro problem lies
industrial ciacsiion sud the irccIom
ihs negro nom assiilmcnt by political az
,a''on and agiiaiors, especially from bcir
made a ret Of by the Federal Adminisir
ton.