The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-07-17
DR. MoroN's OWN STORY.
Booker T. washtngtOn's Successor IA
Remarkable Career.
(By Frank P. Chisholm.)

biography by DR.. Motion, IS moving
human document. 1t holds, grips auo
thrills one as il relates the eircumstan-
ees Of Robert Russo Notion s rise from
plantation boy step by step until h"
not only takes the place Of Booker 7
Washington as Principal Of Tuskegee
Institute, but becomes leader in many
movements for the uplift of his race.
Principal Motion traces his ancestry
back to an African Prince who while
selling eaptives to the slave traders
was himself captured and sold in Vir-
ginia. The story leads through plan
tatiOn days with their joys and sOrrows
to the authors own school days, early
manhood and later responsibilities.
The narrative comes down to the i'm
mediate present, giving DR.. Motion S
observations and ideas on the economic
situation in the south with intimate
glimpses of his life as Principal of
Tuskegee Institute.
The book Eliminates that period in
American history known as CATER the
war "a period difficult to make clear
to school boys and girls studying the
Civil War and one that is almost un-
imaginable TO any person who has not
Travelled through the South and fingered
long enough to observe for himself
plantation life with his mansion house,
cabins, fields and black laborers with
their manners and customs.
In an exceedingly unobtrusive way
the book reveals the man through his
wonderful aehievements-his kindly
spirit, warm sympathy, optimism, tact,
determination, patience, simplicity,
skill in surmounting difficulties, policy
of fair play, sympathy with universal
democracy and his keen sense of hui
NOR.
His success came gradually, without
blare of trumpets and in consequence
of no conspicuous acts. The memories
of thirty years of friendship and asso-
citation with Armstrong, the founder
Of Hampton, Frissell, Armstrong; sue
eessor and Booker T. Washington are
drawn upon again and again in the
course of the autobiography. The
and teachings Of these great |
men influenced and shaped the life of
heroic service given by the writer.
The letter of Col Roosevelt, Booker
friend, here published /
Tor the first time, is of intense inter
st. In short, terse sentences, Col.
Roosevelt leaves no doubt in the mind
# the reader that he believed that
Principal Motion was the man to sue
:eed Mr.. Washington. Significant also
S Mr.. Washington's own very high
opinion of Principal Motion, which is
iere quoted at length from Mr.. Wash
ngton's "My Larger Education"
The story is not in any sense con-
reversal. 1t is largely personal. In
hese days Of extreme radieafsm, it is
Welcome because it brings a message of
ope, optimism and social sanity and I
resents brilliant example of patient
eviction and common sense applied TO
finding n way out" of difficulties {
nd race prejudiees. The authors con-
lotions on the race problem, on their
lore hopeful and helpful side, are $
lainly suggested on many a page. He {
irows Illuminating sidelights upon the !
1nditions and problems of his race in 1
merica. He does this with a total I
EEK of hysteria and in the spirit of
Iman brotherhood and service. The
rinciples Of inter-raeial cooperation
nd conservation are the principles
hieh seemingly viii aetuate him in
IS work at Tuskegee. Toward all OPP
,rtunities denied his race, his atti- ]:
de is one of patience but Of untiring
existence. :
One Of the most interesting chapters
'als with Principal Notions trip TO
-anee during the war when President
ilson sent him there on a special
ission. The concluding chapter "FOr- :
ard Movements in the South" has to
with the more constructive aspects
race relations. In the twelve chap
rs, Principal Motion records sout of
'riea, - "on Virginia Plantation"
Through Reconstruction" "Doing
d Learning,'' GA Touch Of Real
fe," "Bnding Student Days"
Black, White and Red" "With
nth and South, . ''From Hampton to
skegee," "At Tuskegee," f'war
Invites" and forward Movements
the South.''
The volume carries convenient in
T. It is easy to read and is highly
orming and inspiring. Grinding a
" Out'S may be read and studied
h profit by every eOlored American
o desires to achieve and to be use
The autobiography is published
DoubIedav PAGE & Co New York