Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-22
EN- ROUTE TO FLORIDA
Sid. Trip To Tusksges Institute.
ny JAMES rAtLk,l

TUsKEGEE
Is on a pretty high elevation. Our
engine broke down on the way and
DELAYED us awhile waiting for anoth-
er. We ~traversed some fairly good
farm country going up there. We
say up, 1t is really East but North
ward some.
Citizen negroes and a large number
OF the male students in khaki uni
forms lined the embankment when
our tram made the final stop, rs it
comes to a stand where there is quite
a rise on che side on which passen-
gers Alighs. The remarkably polite
Legroes who were along with u
party as pilots quickly had the crowd
give way so our party could climb
up aid PISS through and commence
the walk at nee to the school
grounds passing along the street
NhcIt 10 lOCdbCu d uuuupCt W WV
buildings which go with the school
property among which was a fine
stone Y. NJ. G. A.. a post Office and
bank, a fine library donated bv Car
ncgle and other imposing stone or
brick buildings. In fact practically
all the buildings 10Y are of brick or
stone and most OF them have been
built by the college students them
selves IN their industrial work. One
large building erected during the
war to supplant n burned possibly
by lncendiarists we r told, was
not built that way as labor was
scarce and numbers OF the students
away, being used in army work in a
number of ways account their indus
trial training.
In the particular group in which
the writer happens to be walking we
have as our guide a large heavy-set
elderly darkey whom we quickly per-
ceive from the language used and in
formative way in which he tells of
the buildings is one of authority
among them, though we can say that
his demeanor was humble. 1t proved
to be their principal, or the negro
from Virginia who succeeded Booker
Z. Washington when the latter died.
They call Linn Major Motion and also
DR.. Motion. The readers likely re-.
call his selection as successor to
i Washington and that he is a pretty
well full blood negro, while Wash
iugton was half-whlte. Motion was
educated IN a similar but older in
stitution for colored people to this,
IN Virginia and served there as an
educator before being brought to
this field of labor. He. is "a negro Of
pronounced gifts intellectually, con-
versing fluently in good language
and speaking from the stand-which
he does later on in our entertain
mentAwith d degree of dignity and
ease which bespeaks his native gifts
along oratorical lines as well as the
marked degree of literary training
to which he has achieved. Occasion
ally we see such a n of his race,
while they are rare. Here we see
several of them who are picked minds
from different parts of the country,
| for the special work which they
serve on the faculty of this great in
stitution for their
Our party was conducted to an O..
pen arena or campus grounds situat-
ed between the main administration
building and the mess-hall dormitory
building. These buildings are both
of that substantial character of sew
eraI stories to grace most any college
grounds. Here we were seated on
the grassy lawn in chairs provided
for our comfort while the brass band
played aud the male students drilled.
The band was an all negro band and
played with notes and creditably
too. 1t was a large band and they
have a good band-stand on the cam
pus at a commanding pace. While
the band was playing quite a pro
gram OF music, different members OF
the party managed to with
members of the faculty and student
body. The girls were lined up anC
In their uniforms also of white waists
and blue skirts. Some of then
looked right intelligent while other: