Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-01-19
STINSOh'S WORK
PRAISED BY LEE
THE FORMER ATLANTA MINISTER
WRITES OF GOOD WORK OF
INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE.

t INDUS HIAl lN0tJIOIe'
Atlanta, Car d. Stinson, princi.
| pal OF the Atlanta Normal and Indus
trial Institute. training scohol for
| negroes, has received q letter OF hign
commentator from DR.. James w.
Lee, the well-known Methodist minis
ter. who was located for several years
In Atlanta.
DR.. Lee says that he has been de-
lighted to know that Stinson Is NAB
ing success Of the work, and praises
the fair and outspoken" position
which he has taken In regard to the
race problem.
In view Of his sensible views along
these lines. says Dr. Lee, he Is not
surprised that Atlanta citizens have
been ready to cooperate in the es-
tablishing Of the training school.
Just What Negro Needs.
The education which the institute
offers is Just what the negroes need
says DR.. Lee, the Importance OF In.
dustrial education being emphasized.
Such education not only teaches the
negro to think, but 1t goes further
and shows him how to relate what he
learns to practical living.
DR.. Lees letter continues as fol-
lows:
THE disposition to look upon indus
trial training as not being quite up to
the style of our mental faculties Is
delusion II ones mental faculties
are not trained to give out through
the hand as much learning as he
takes in through the head, then his
place Is In the clouds and not down
in the midst OF the hard, workaday al
fairs of this earth. Ever since the war
the poor negro has been deluded and
misled and victimized by foolish lead
ers.
1T is generally understood that the
sanest and wisest leader the God OF
history has ever raised up to show the
negroes out of the wilderness OF ig-
norance and superstition and impo-
tence is Booker T. Washington. You
are fashioning your institution, In
some degree, after the type OF his.
BY teaching Industrial education, in
GLIDING domestic science and all
other forms of activity which call in
to play the use of the hand, you are
preparing the way to give employ
ment to thousands of the negro girls
and women In the large southern
cities, and In so far as you show them
how to employ their hands in useful
work, you are giving them the means
Of building up pure and honest
home life
You are showing the negro, too,
the importance OF cultivating the
friendship of the white people at his
door with whom he is In daily asso-
citation, and In so far as the white peo-
pie are aiding you thus to train the
negroes OF the state, they are opening
the way for their own we'll being
while advancing, at the same time.
the well-be1ng of the negroes.
White People Must Share.
THE time has come for the rich
white people of the south to share
largely in the support and oversight
OF the negroes institutions that send
out teachers. preachers. and workers
that are to shape the thought and
conduct Of the negro citizens. Those
who have insight and intelligence
among the white people in the south
know very well that they cannot get
along without the contributions which
the negro makes to the commercial
well-being OF the country, and as the
two races are necessarily put into as
ISOLATION with one another in the prac-
ttcal affairs of every day life, 1t be-
comes of the utmost Importance that
the white people see to 1t that the ne
groes have every advantage that
looks to the cultivation OF their prac-
teal activities along such lines as
make OF them good citizens.
Il am glad to learn that such men
as Mr.. Clark Howell, Captain English.
Mr.. s. M. Inman, Mr.. J. A. McCord.
Mr.. w, Woods White. Mr.. w. O..
Foote, Mr.. s. A. Johnson, Mr.. H. s.
Jackson, Mr. A. v. GUIDE and others
are actively sustaining you in the
great work you are trying to do. At
lanta ia the greatest city in the south
and destined to grow with the passing
years. and there is no center in all
Dixie where such school as you are
trying to establish will do so much
good. trust such friends as have
money and insight and leadership will
be constantly added to the list OF
those who are willing to help you.
Every dollar invested in your insti-
tuition will come back to the people
and back to the general prosperity OF
the country. multiplied a. thousand
fold