The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-29
roLp OF NEGRO DEvELoPMENr.
Prof. Frank P. chsolm of Tuskegee In
stitute Spoke Many Times in Barre,

| Prof. Frank p. Chisolm, assistant to
| Principal Booker r. Washington of Tusk.
! egee institute and instructor in mathe-
matics at that institute, spoke in four
different churches in Barre yesterday.
His address had to do with the work
and results obtained at the institute in
Alabama. which is accomplishing so
much to train the colored race for the
duties Of American citizenship, In the
morning Professor Chisolm addressed the
congregation at the Universalist church.
He then spoke before the Sunday school
at the Episcopal church. At 6 o'clock
last night he spoke briefly before the
Epworth league of the Methodist church.
AT the regular service of the Congrega-
tional church he spoke at length before
large and sympathetic audience.
In all his addresses this young Tuske
gee graduate related facts and figures
to show the astounding progress the
negro race has made in the so wears of
its freedom, For example. he told about
the 63 negro banks, 300 negro drug
stores and hundreds OF grocery stores,
millinery establishments and various in
dustral and commercial enterprises that
are owned and controlled by the negroes
of the South. In Georgia alone. he said,
the negroes own and pay taxes on at
least S30000000 worth OF property.
Starting % years ago in an old church.
with one teacher and 80 students, the
Tuskegee institute has gradually grown
from this modest beginning into a large
industrial plant OF l07 buildings, 3,l25
acres of land, 1913 Christian teachers and
LOO bright and promising students. Its
physical valuation is little more than
S2.000,000, and Professor Chisolm states
that there is not a single dollars worth
of mortgage on any of the schools prop
erty. This institution has sent into the
world 1900 men and women, who are
mainly in the South doing good work
as teachers and industrial workers. Pro-
-fessor Cisolm is himself a graduate of
Tuskegee and a fine type of the energet-
ic Christian negro that his alma mater
is sending out each year by the hun
dreds.
Professor Chisolm asserted that graft
flying as has been the progress. of the
negro, there vet remains much TO be
done before the negro can in any large
degree take his place as an intelligent.
productive American citizen. There are
nearly 100000 of colored boys and
girls of school age" to quote Professor
Chisolm. "who never see the inside of
sehoolhouse.' These conditions exist
mostly in the rural districts of the |
South" In the state of Alabama. "for |
example" there are 100000 negro chill
dren of school age. OF these 100000 |
attended school last year, while $4,000
never attended at all. So long as these
conditions remain in the South, just so
long will there continue to be lynehings. 1
race riots, lawlessness and crime Ig- I
noranee too often lies at the basis Of /
crime in the South, Education will 4
prove an antidote to many of our racial /
difficulties in the South"
The students at Goddard seminary
also had the pleasure of hearing Pro
fessor Chisolm speak at the close OF
his address at the Congregational church
He addressed them, depicting somewhat
in detail the daily activities of the stu
dent and teacher life at Tuskegee in
stitute.