Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-22

tellects Is we must say Small at thi.
time. It. may have increased some
and to all such If they can connect
with either this or some other schoo.
ding similar work they will get
training which will enabl,, them to
rise to something better as their
race needs leaders and artisans etc.
and in some ways they can serve the
white race better. Possibly ia others
the training might bring them into
conflict with skilled white labor il
they sought to compete Herewith.
We were very much surprised to
see these Negro students drilling
with guns, Regular army rifles.
We stamp our disapproval of that.
Learning such a large body of Ne.
groes, army training, is liable to be-
get trouble in time. We hope it
will not. That the training in other
lines which the school seems TO give
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will Offset any tendencies along
wrongful directions ir the minds of
the colored students as they go out
over the Southland conscious of this
knowledge Of military eyolutions and
conscious of their power where
trained and organized in the use of
the gun and handling man in a body.
This military training comes from
federal government student army
course appropriations ike the Miss.
A. & N. College. They seemed to
exhibit a spirit . keeping n
their places which @ studied
as our party went among them.
But there was "a silence about them
which we were unable to interpret.
They were courteous though and act
ed as guides IN an inoffensive way TO
a dyed-in-ths-wool S%outherner such as
the writer is. Then the lectures
which they are given teaching them
to ut into Southern conditions 10 a
spirit OF acceptance of things as they
stand along the lines of no social and
political equality is good and the stu
dents class records spoke well for
them as reported in our hearing
Their principal spoke very feelirgly
of the necessity of having the heart
right to be able to take the Tuskegee
training in righs way as That was
paramount aud the training of the
mind and hand secondary but that
all went together. To this we
heartily agreed in our own mind.
rhe school is built round a deep
hollow over which they have a large
concrete bridge at n place. The
buildings + grouped about on the
levels which encompass this depres
Sion all round except where the val
ley makes off under the bridge.
They have shops and stables and
gardens and farms and technical
buildings for training in other
branches of vocational learning.
These latter show many phases OF
work which are taught the girls,
such as sewing, cooking, canning etc.
The farm stretches away for IA great
distance and covers about 1900 acres.
They raise much of the stuff con
sumed iE the school. Then they have
cattle, horses, chickens, turkeys,
duck, geese, etc. with sawmill, har-
ness shop, tailor shop, printing
plant, canning establishment and fine
laundry.
They gave us a light lunch after
showing us where the food was
served to the students in their large
mess. hall. There. the students under
lead of several h~usky-voiced fellows
gave US their college yells and wei.
coming "all rights in vocal sounds
which swelIed to an immense tide Of
choruses. Going through then into
the kitchen we saw where the food
was prepared on large army cook
stoves and pots much as we hao
seen 1t at Camp Shelby for the sol
dlers and in the hospitals there.