Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-29
EN- ROUTE TO FLORIDA
Side. Trip To TDskegee Institute cOntd.
ny JAMES FAULK.

represented in the fine array OF
buildings and equipment which this
school exhibits. They have close to
two thousand students besides a fa-
Guilty reaching all told possibly to
close to two hundred with their fam
lies also to BE- footed up as they hive
nearby in specially provided quart
ers. We visite the
GRAVE or BooKER 7 WASHINGTON
who is buried on the grounds near
one of the buildings with a good
large stone marker there surrounded
with beautiful flower beds. They
all praise him and speak Of him in
tones OF highest respect aud graft
tude. His wife and a daughter were
there and talked with some members
OF our party. She has charge of the
girls industrial training department
At the program given that night at
their large auditorium where in ad
dition to our party the whole student
body male and female were present,
and a iarge choir, they sang us some
plantation melodies and IN that pc
culiar pleasing musical notes which
only the Negro race can produce
Principal Motion spoke of this
Said only the negroes could sing so
and rightly SO because the Lord
made their throats for it. One Of
their trustees, who is o white man,
aud lives 10 the town Of Tuskegee,
which is a village OF white, p ople
older than the school, spoke ana said
it for the Credit of the school that
during all the years il had located
there that there had never been any
trouble between the ace despite the
large crowds that assembled on big
day occasions. That everything
went on as smooth as we had seen it
shat day, owing to the good and eff
fective training which the school
produced in Its student body. Thai
was his statement and he said he was
a southern born and bred and had
lived there and seer the truth Of
what he spoke.
its too big a subject to report
!. what we saw at Tuskegee destitute
and endeavor to underwriting com
ments showing tho impressions it
made on our MUD, in Il and The
same article or this one of a series
of uaye' articles. So we shall have
to pass on to other points uf our
Journey leaving Tuskegee for the
present with the possible idea of re
fcrring to il again in some other
ways. but let Us add that what we
have written that has been criticism
is meant in a kindly spirit and we
appreciate fully the worthy efforts
which are being put forth there to
better the conditions of many of the
. Colored people in the South and
+ hope to see as much good fruit as
possible result from such untiring
/. labors and we wish well those stu
] dents who have gone there or are
t there now from this sec,ion. May
they ever reflect those good teach
: ings which will make the name OF
t the Tuskegee school ever sound good
r to the ears of the right thinking
: white people of our southland.
After a little delay at Montgom-
cry we secured assignment for sell
? and wife in the special train which
left about midnight and next morn
ling brought US to
= PENSACOLA
t where we we're met at the depot
with waiting autos by the welcom
i ing committee Of that hospitabll
. port city and given quite a ride
: through it and on its outskirts, igo
ing to the eminence to the real
where Andrew Jackson put up for
' titications. We also saw fortified.
tions which marked the period o
; time when the city vas in its early
days under Spanish, French and Eur
: glish control. After a fine break