The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-19

were ever freed he must be prepared for 1t by first making himself industrially in- dependent. To this end she established near Memphis, iri 1925 the first training school for negroes in the world. Marquis LaFayette was one of It's trustees, and the plan was to teach a certain number of negroes until they were able to take care of themselves, free these, and chen teach others. The plan failed becaus the ngroes did not fall into the spirit of the thing and because 1t was badly managed. Miss Wright chartered a ship, took the colony to Porto Rico and freed them. Nearly fifty years after Miss Wrights g Nashoba school came the founding of Hampton, and in 1881 came Booker T. Washington to found Tuskegee and prove, as he stated, that his people needed not only book learning, but knowledge of how to live" He came to teach tho connec- ton between education and work, and on him and the men and women like him depends the future of his race. He be- gan with no land, no funds but the S20oO Allowed him by the Alabama legislature, oassistant and thirty pupils. Tuskegee now has 2000 acres of lana, S3 buildings, an average attendance of over 100 ar1 property valued at nearly 5000, 900. It is an enterprise officered entirely by ne- groes; it educates industrially and intel lectually; it inspires agriculture through  farmers meeting, and by publishing farmers paper. It is said that no grad uate from Tuskegee has ever been found in the criminal courts, and not only 10 per cent have proved failures in the work they have undertaken.
 It was in 1619 that the first twenty ne- groes were brought to Jamestown and sold as slaves, and only few years ago the German government employed Tus- kegee graduates to teach farming to the negroes in the settlements of West Af- rica. In the time between the coming of the first negroes and now, the twenty has grown to 100000 over 100000 of whom are engaged In gainful occupation. Fifty two per cent are in schools and to these the doors of all northern colleges, with the possible exception of Vassar and Girard, are open with the same privil- eges that are accorded white students.
 The Fifty eighth Congress provided for the educatio nof all children in Alaska, Eskimos, Indians and whites. Last year the government maintained there thirty five schools, supplies forty-one teachers and had over 20oO children enrolled American interest in Hawaiian education began in 1S19, when a band of New Eng land missionaries accompanied the Kings son home after he had served several years in the American navy mad began IeaCnl1lS lneTP. by 1924 zUUU peOple ldi learned to read and write and others were anxious to learn. The first girls boarding school was opened in 1S37, and the same year a manual training\school for boys. Since the creation of the territory of Hawaii the educational system has fol- lowed that of this country.
 In the Philippines over S00000 children are rapidly learning the American lan- guage and customs under the direction of fOO0 teachers four-ffthS of whom are nd- lives. Porto Rico, about half the size of New Jersay. had the rpeutation of hav- ing S3 per cent of her population unable to read This Is a difficulty, howeves, that the United States is helping her out grow. The American school teacher is playing most important part in the great work our government is doing n all the lands that have recently come under our flag.
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