The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-28

so much as a learner as doer and creator"
 In nearly every State there are pri- l vate industrial schools that are doing good work. Professor Baldwin speaks particularly of the work at Tuskegee and Hampton, as having given him l many helpful suggestions. Of the work at TuskeRee. Booker Washing ton says: T don't believe 1t is right to teach people everything in heaven and earth and keep from them the knowledge of. the means by which they earn their. living. When we said we were going to put up our own buildings there were objections, and it was murmufed that such a course could not be pursued with success. out we kept on teaching everything in connection with the construction of the building. Ire students had the ex- pertence of making the structures and we had the structures also. Out of our industries we have taught our people dignity and ChristianizlnR power of laboring with the hands. We must put dignity and skill into all forms of labor and teach the negro to do things as we'll as they ean be done. We are trying at the same time to lift labor up out of drudgery."
 In addition to the private schools. the business schools, which for profit have undertaken to train pupils in simpler mathematical book -keepfnR. stenography, and the like, have been a great help to many for a long time. Many of the Young Mems Christian Associations have established such schools in their sch eme. Tn New York City some companies, of financlers. merchants. real estate men and manu- facturers, have set up schools or lec- ture courses for the special training of competent assistants. Some of the great manufacturing or construction companies, like the Westinghouse Electric Company and the Baldwin Lo- comotive Works, have set up schools of their own. They have prepared sch ool rooms, employed efficient teach CTS. and laid out very considerable courses of work in order to train men for their own service
 The reformatories in the North have introduced industrial training with marked success. Churches and mis- sions have established several trades schooI. Coniderable work is being done by the social settlements A no- table example is Hull House in Chi cago. where they not only train young people in various arts, but as far as possible the immigrants under their Jurisdiction are taught better and more modern methods of performing their labor.
 But all this Is totally inadequate to meet the growing and imperative de- mand for more skilled labor, with out the aid of a systematic course of instruction in the public schools
 Tn only two States. Massachusetts and Wisconsin, have the government taken the matter up to the extent of enacting laws providing for the estab- lishment of trades schools. These laws are recent and there have not yet been any schools organized in Massachusetts, though several are un- der consideration. In Milwaukee, Wis, there has been established an in- dustrial school which has become, ac- cording to law, part of the school sys- tenn. supported by a half-mill tax. which yields more than si0O ,00O fin Milwaukee. These are pioneer efforts along the line of public industrial ed- ucation. and 1t is hoped they will open the way for others.