The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-25
international Conference
On the Negro
Attended
Societies WHO D,.cu.o r.
Methods for Eevating The ~

letters from governmental officials.
especially in Europe, asking for soms
information that would put them in
to touch with the methods of educa-
len employed at Tuskegee, and it o.
CURED to us after receiving a numbo-
Of these communications. that it would
be perhaps a wise thing and a natural
development for us to ask these per-
sons representing Missionary Organs-
cations, representing Governments
that have to do with the darker races
Of the world, to come here and spend
few days first in observing the meth
DDS that we are trying to employ at
Tuskegee and then, in so far as it is
possible, to have a simple, informal
discussion based upon their observa-
lions to see to what extent the meth
DDS employed here can be applied %
the problems concerning the people
in the countries that are peopled by
the darker races. I do not mean that
we have anything at Tuskegee that
Is superior, or that this conference
is to be confined in any degree to a
discussion Of methods employed at
Tuskegee. incidentally, 1 hope that
you will look through our plant, go
through all the departments here and
If you find anything which will be of
value in the applying of better me-
ihod Of education to your own homes
why we shall count ourselves most
happy to have made a small contribu-
ton toward the uplift of the people
that you represent.
For a number of years, We have
had on our grounds a number of STU
dents from countries outside of the
United States. From year to year
We have from 100 to $50 students rep
rese.lting foreign countries and we are
anxious that these students be fitted
to go back to th9Yr homes and render
the highest-and- best-serxice and we
shall hope that, during the discussions
we shall listen to, we shall get much
valuable information ras to the actual
needs in the countries from which
these students come, so that they will
be trained to some definite point of
usefulness in the country which they
come from. We want the students
to go back home after they get their
education and we want them to prove
| OF service in their homes after they
get their education. I am perfectly
aware Of the fact, as I am sure many
Of you are, that with all of our faults
we damn the United States a good
| deal but as a rule when fellow once
gets into this country it is pretty hard
to get him out We hope most of you
will get out, but l notice a good many
young men and women come from At
rica and from South American coun-
tries, from Porto Rico and Cuba and
Jamaica anc .hey come into this coun-
| try, and when they first come, they
praise their own county pretty highly
nothing like it. They stay here one
month, then two months, thea yea,
| in studying at some institution and
the first7thing you know they have for
gotten their old country, and they
| never 60 back home any more. We
| do not want that to be true of the
| men and women we train at Tuskegee
and l am sure in helping us to give
these students that which will serve
them best and serve you best in the
communities from which they have
come, you can help us immensely dur
| ing these meetings.