The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-30
THE OGDEN PARTY
 VISITS TUSKEGEE
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Now, if you are worth anything at all. you will form here great determination to multiply good communities of the ne gro race. Tuskegee will give you heart and hope, because 1t shows what can be done in a single generation.
 The good community always rests upon two principles: individualism, co-opera- tion. A good brick building cannot be made out of bad bricks. Bear your own burdens-bear the burdens of others. Work out your own salvation-be your brothers keeper. Learn to be independ- ent, in order to benefit by the splendid results of the inter-dependence-the co-op- eration of sfficient men and women
 You cannot hope to go out and dupli- cate Tuskegee Institute. But you can make your school-log cabin though 1t may be at first-the central point in new and better neighborhood life. Pitts burg boys and girls now have the mag nificent Carnegie Library and Institute upon which their and our generous friend has spent millions-wisely and usefully But remember 1t was not the great Car negie Library and Institute of Pittsburg that made Andrew Carnegie himself. but Colonel Andersons few shelffuls of books Most of your pupils-those of you who will (and who ought to) teach the chll- dren of your race-can never hope to come here and use this splendid library. So you must be the Colonel AndeFsunsef your neighborhood.
 I greatly hope 1t may be made FessfAia. to have this library do double service, first, it's immediate work here; second, a far wider work through the traveiing H. brary system. l hope that in due time every Tuskegce graduate or pupil who goes out to teach, may have at his dis posal a we'll chosen little school and nefghborhood library. sent out from this center and replenished with new books from time to time.
 Always think of Tuskegee as commit nity, a life. rather than a school. Go on yourself. working and learning, bettering your own lot and helping others, trying to breathe the Tuskegee spirit into what ever neighborhood you enter.
 Now, just word or two about books and reading. Somebody has said that the chief business of each generation is to pass on to the next one the stock of wisdom 1t has received from its nrede- cessors. The best vehicle of such trans mission. apart from that which belongs to what we call heredity and is bound up in the life of families. is the hook. When your ancestors were unlettered and unciv- ilized in Africa. and mine were living in tribal savagery. working their way as nomads out of Asia and across Europe. there were other races who possessed fixed and permanent dwellings, were cul- tivated in many practical arts as well as in fine arts and letters: and had high and comrleA civilization. The library keeps for us a knowledge of their times, ~nd much of their literature.
 Do not be Respondent about Nour race >nd its condition. Do not accert the the
  only working hypothesis. Mere race as sertion or bumptiousness will not advance you a single inch. Adopt the view that yours Is a young race. requiring disclp- line and experience. Take your chances as they lie; call them good enough SNey are in fact the best your race ever v d. and improve them as well as you can.
 Use the library. but do not expect to get your motive power from it. None of us can read or understand all of the books. Be honest in vour serious read ing-take what will really help you in your work and your life. As for voIr less serious reading be happy in it. Read the things you like only provided you feel that the after effects are wholesome and that you have better hopes and feelnes.
 am going to end these remarks v-ith a few sentences of advice that Mir. Car negie himself once gave to lot of young men: First, somethinr that he said about success in work. and then something about reading:
 First-About success: "Herc Is tho prime condition of sucCesS. inc great so- cret-concen'rat Vo,r- crcrgv- thought and capital exclusively upon tNn fTsj1"sT in which won arc ru~nc"d 'evt0'- N'- gun in one lirr resolve tN '"ht t oH- on that Hn" "a lead in it: adon' "r'~ Improvement have thA> hest mafhir"r'' and know tho. "'oSt about it. Tn" "nn- 1erns which fail are those which have