The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-10


Il for the southern poor whites
"will not down any more
than would Banquo's ghost. AS We
mentioned at the time of the recent
Educational conference in the South it
was fully admitted by both northern
and southern representatives taking
part therein that the civiliZa ton and
the safety of the South depenN ed on
the industrial and academic training of
both races. and the tentative steps for
a comprehensive educational scheme,
planned by public spirited northern
men of wealth. We're arranged. This
question in it's broad aspects will be
brought by the president of that con-
ference before this weeks southern in
dustrial congress in Philadelphia.
Industrial training for the poor
whites of the South is given chiefly. if
not indeed wholly, by schools sustained
by various religious bodies in the
North. OF these there are none to COM
pare with Hampton and Tuskcsee in
the extent of their work, nor with
some of the similar institutions for
colored people sustained by the
churches OF the North. Indeed the edu-
Gated classes of the southern people
seem to be only Just awakening to the
fact that the great ignorant mass of
their own race must have industrial
training, and that they are almost as
lamentably lacking in even primary
academic schooling.
ON the other hand, the educated
southerners and a good many north
erncrs have been insistcnt not only that
the negro needs industrial education,
but that he needs nothing more. be-
yond the simplest primary teaching. 1t
is but Just beginning to dawn on some
of these people that any industrial
training which is to be of value either
to the individual or the community in
wolves of necessity a good deal more
than that simplest primary teaching"
Not to instance alone Hampton and
Tuskegees graduates, let us look at the
general industrial exhibition given on
May 20 and 81 by the graduating class
and the undergraduates of ST. Pauls
school al Lawrcncevillo, Va, one of
those sustained by the Episcopal
church, and, so far as shown by the
reports of other schools, and by their
exhibits at the Atlanta and Nashville
expositions, it is Il fair example of
what many denominationally support
ed schools are teaching.
Here is the report; In the evening
tof commencement day. there was
general industrial exhibition in the
temporary pavilion, We may instance
the printing and book department.
Students and foreman appeared on the
stage, with their apparatus. The type
was set before the audience, the proof
taken. corrected, and type imposed, in
the presence of the audience. The same
life-like and real exhibition was made
of agriculture, harness making, shoe
making. brick laying. plastering, .and
garme mt making. Then an invitation
was extended to the audience to visit
the just completed residence of the
president, built by student labor and
electrically lighted with the first dy-
namo ever installed in LaWrenceyille.
At the continuation of the exhibition
on Friday evening steam and electrical
engineering Was practically illus
trated, Products from the architec-
tural, mechanical. and agricultural de-
partment and work from the sawmill
were shown, and an iron smithy, and