Evening star., 1925-03-27
$4,000 IS SOUGHT
FOR TWO SCHOOLS
Capitals Quota in $5,000,.
600 Campaign for Hamp-
ton and Tuskegee.

The drive in Washington to raise
100000 as the city's share of the
total of IS 900, 900 sought throughout
the country for the benefit of Hamp-
ton and Tuskegee institutions Will
begin next week, and indications are
that this amount will be forthcoming e.
The Washington drive is under the
direction of a committee of which
Frederic A. Delano is chairman, and
with the following residents of the
District:
Grosvenor Hyde Backus, Stanley
Carr and Joshua Evans, jr., vice chair
man; George w White, treasurer
Mrs. Grosvenor Hyde Backus, David
s.. Barry, Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Mrs
Whitman Cross, Mrs. Ernest II
Daniel. John Joy Edison. William
Phelps Emo, Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr.
Mrs. Henry w. Fitch. Right Rev
James T.. Freeman, Louis A. Frothfng-
ham. Mrs. Louis A. FrothinE CHAM, Ell
liot II. Goodwin, Gilbert Grosvenor
Charles Sumner Hamlin, Mrs. Charles
Sumner Hamlin. Herbert Hoover. Col
Archibald Hopkins, Mrs. Archibald
Hopkins, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe
Charles Cheney Hyde. Mrs. Henner
Jennings, Coleman Jennings, DR.. VIII
liam Matker Lewis, Mrs. Henry Bar
rett Learned, Newbold Noyes. Rev
Jason Noble Pierce, l. S. Rowe, DR.
George Otis Smith. Gen. Antor
Stephan, Rev. Anson Phelps Stok es
John II. Storer, DR.. Charles d. Wal
colt, Mrs. Charles D. Walcott and Rev
Charles Wood, d. d.
Hampton Founded in 1868.
Hampton Institute. near Old Poinr
Comfort, Va, founded in 1868 by Gen
Samuel Chapman Armstrong anC
Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1885,
by Booker T. Washington, a graduate
of Hampton, in the heart of Alabama
are two great Industrial schools fol
negroes.
Hampton is under the leadership o
the white race, and for the mos
part the teaching staff of about $50
under the direction of DR.. James +,
Gregg, principal, Is white. The en-
tire personnel of Tusk egee is mad,
up of negroes, under the direction o
DIR. Robert r. Motion, principal, witt
teaching staff somewhat larger thar
that of Hampton.
The all-year-round enrolment o
Hampton is over 2,200 students anc
Tuskegee has larger number
Through extension work training i.
given to thousands more.
Every student at Hampton and Tus
kegee works and by that means 1t i;
possible for them to pay in part, Il
not entirely. for their general ex-
penses. No tuition fee is charged
the students. but they pay at Hamp
ton SIS per month and at Tuskeget
81 per month toward board and lodg
ing.
Courses Are Practical.
Four-year vocational courses ar,
offered in carpentry, blacksmithing e
cabinetmaking steamfitting ant
plumbing, automobile mechanics
tailoring, brickla ying, building anC
other trades.
Agriculture is one of the most i'm
portant branches of instruction. Ir
addition to short courses for farmers
there are professional courses fol
training farm demonstration agents
Thorough business courses are Of
fered to train upright, straightfor
ward, capable negro men and womer
for positions of responsibility IL
business enterprises. which are repid
iy increasing among negroes.
All of the girls receive training il
home making, and professional
counsels are offered to prepare teach
ers for the rapidly improving public
schools in the South. When the regu
lar courses are suspended in the sum
mer months, over 49, 900 teachers from
all parts of the South come to thes,
institutions for twelve weeks of pro
fessional training.
Regional Conferences Held.
Throughout the year Hampton anc
Tuskegee are the centers of the re
gional and national conferences 70
negro farmers, ministers, doctors
teachers and builders.
These two institutions for negroe
have trained thousands of youn,
negro men and women in the method
adopted by Gen. Armstrong in tn
| foundation of Hampton Institute il
! 1868. Tens of thousands of colore,
persons have been reached by tn
work of the two schools. Where
ever the graduates have gone the,
have created areas of interracial un
| derstanding.
By their industry and their char
acter they have made themselves re
spected by the whites. and have beel
| accepted by their own people a
| leaders and teachers. The campaign
now in progress to raise a new $5.
600, 900 endowment fund is largel,
inspired by the belief that an in
| crease in the facilities of the tw,
schools will be a big step forwar,
| in the solution of the negro problem
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