The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-09
BOOKER WASHINGTON.

Houston Post: one of the most Won
derful Institutions in the South is ,ba
Tuskegee Norman and Industrial in
stitute of Tuskegee Ala. of which
! Booker T. Washington is the principal
/ The nineteenth annual report is to-
| hand. 1t shows the growth and success
of the institution to be commensurate
with its deserts, which are indeed
! great.
! The white men of the South who
/ know the negro. as he is not known i'm
| the North. have long felt that the
money which has been expended i'm
| large amoutns by f~thern philanthro-
/ pists for his higher education has reen
money expended in vain.
/ What the negro needs. above every
/ thing else. is to be made into first q
good asricuturist and then. if the in
/ dividual negro has the capacity. into
skilled mechanic. Northern philan-
thropists have been too prone to at
tribute this view to Southern racial
prejudice. not realizing that it is neces-
sary to begin at the beginning and
that with an inferior race the lower
must precede the higher instruction.
Much harm has been done the negro by
universities established i'm the South
| by their Northern friends which have
overloaded the poor blacks with q
classical and scientific culture they
have been unable to assimilate, and,
without making them into scholars.
have spoiled good agricultural labOrers
and mechanics.
Booker T. Washington is a Southern
negro who has had the intellect to see
the problem from the point of view of
the Southern white man; and thus see
ing it i'm it's true light. has been able 10
take long steps toward its solution
He has gone to work on the right prin-
Ciple and, instead of turning out black
graduates of inferior scholarship. trains
his pupils in agriculture. mechanics
and household arts. while ! would
by no means limit his (the negro's) ed
ucation to these" he writes in his re-
port but would i'm all cases add acad-
emic and religious training, / do believe
we shall find it helpful for a number
of years to come, in our methods OF
education to give great attention 10
these fundamental occupations.
The institute is i'm q most flourishinG
condition. Dorothy hall, the new
trades building for girls. has. just been
completed. A training school building
and a hospital are in process of con-
struction; also a 10000 library building
given by Andrew Carnegie During the
year just past los students were en-
rolled. The endowment fund at the time
of the preceding report amounted to
$153, 1929. At the time of the present
report it has increased to $250,971.O2.
Toward their expenses the students
have paid during the past year, in la
Dor. S67.291.15. The total amount re-
ceiVed from all sources, for all pur-
poses, is $312. 529.0S The annual cost
of operating the institution in all its
departments is 100000.
There is no doubt that Booker t.
Washington is accomplishing a great
good for his race and for the South by
his excellent educational methods. If
all of the negroes in the South with the
qualities of leadership would eschew
politics. which breed trouble between
the races with no profit to the negro,
and devote themselves to a like uplift-
ing of their race, by the right sort of
technical education, the negro prob
lem would be entirely solved.