Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-03-22

The birmingham Age-Herald deVot'
ed half column recently to review
Of Principal Booker T. Washington
latest book. my Larger Education"
The review was written by Prof.
Charles A. Brown of the Birmingham
high school, and OF this book Profess
sor Brown says:
my Larger Education" Of Booker
T. Washington's Is a continuation OF
his photographed narrative, up
From Slavery" which was published
some years ago, and, as he says. ia
written ITO complete the story of my
education which began in that book;
to answer the questions as to how l
worked out for myself the educational
methods which We are using at Tus-
kegee; and, finally, to illustrate, for
the benefit Of the members Of my own
race, some Of the ways In which a
people who are struggling upward may
turn disadvantages into opportunities;
how they may gain within themselves
something that will compensate them
for what they have been deprived of
from without"
The record shows that his education
has been very realistic and has pro-
crossed with his work as it has
brought him in contact with men
learned from human institutions, pol
itics, newspapers, and from education
al and social problems of various
kinds" A large part of the book is
devoted to what he has learned from
exceptional white men, and he CRATE
fully records his indebtedness to VIII.
liam H. Baldwin, Jr., Of Washington;
DR.. ]. L. M. Curry of Alabama, Mr..
John M. Parker of New Orleans, Col.
Henry Watterson Of Kentucky, ex-
President Roosevelt and others; to a
number Of exceptional negroes; to
high and low" he met in his travels
in Europe; to educational authorities
of Denmark, and to educational cam
paigns in the south.
The book is an interesting narrative
of the experiences of a man who real
lied that his first and fundamental
problem was "how to deal with public
opinion on the race question" Some
Of the members Of his own race want
ed to know why he proposed to teach
their children to work." These want
ed him to provide kind of education
that would enable their children to
live without working. Some Of the
white people of the south were op-
posed to any kind of educa ton for the
negro, while some Of the white people
of the north feared that the kind of
education he proposed would produce
merely "hewers Of wood and drawers
of water" and would not prepare the
negro to take his place in the commu-
nifty as man and citizen"
We were agreeable surprised at
Marlin, Tex, to see about Is negroes
working on brick buildings. They
have recently finished four brick build
ings. You don't find negro brickma-
sons erecting buildings for white folks
in all towns in dear old Dixie land
Texas Guide.
Ever since the trial and conviction
Of the McNamaras for dynamiting the
government has been perfecting a
drag-net for taking in others guilty Of
the same sort of crime.
That drag-net was cast and drawn
up last week
And it enmeshed fifty-four promi-
nent labor leaders charged with dyna
hitting buildings, and other structures
in all parts of the country.
No negroes were found or will be
found in drag-nets of that sort The
negroes are about the only class Of
people in this country who do not re-
sort to the use Of dynamite to right
their wrongs. In that respect the col
ored man stands in a class all by his
lonesome. Even the Jews are not
guiltless.
In glancing over one of their jour
nails recently we read of gang Of
East Side Jews in New York who for
Hand" organization, and have for
years been the terror Of all those who
have aroused their cupidity or resent
ment-Dallas Express.
Let me do my work each day, and if
the darkened hours of despair over
come me, may l not forget the
strength that comforted me in the
desolation Of other times. May still
remember the bright hours that found
me walking over the silent hills of my
childhood. or dreaming on the margin
of the quiet river, when light glowed
within me and promised my only God
to have courage amid the tempest
of changing years. Spare me from
bitterness and from the sharp passions
Of unguarded moments. May l not
forget that poverty and riches are of
the spirit Though the world know
me not, may my thoughts and actions
be such as shall keep me friendly
with myself Lift up my eyes from
the earth and lot me not forget the
uses of the stars. Forbid that should
Judge others, lest l condemn myself
Let me not follow the clamor of the
world, but walk calmly In my path
Give me few friends who will love
me for what l am, and keep ever
burning before my vagrant steps the,
kindly light of hope. And though age
and inflrmity overtake me, and come
not within sight OF the castle of my
dreams, teach me still to be thankful
for life and for times olden memories
that are good and sweet, and may the
evenings twilight find me gentle still.
Selected.
When a negro begins to get an edu-
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