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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1941

Serves As Model
For Whole World

TUSKEGEE

INSTITUT

F,

signed
Today the school is worth close

its guest registers., te $5,000,000 in buildings and equip
Ala.~Volumes have heen

written abcut Tuskegee Institute, but half has not been told
about this school, founded in the heart of the Black Belt by

Booker T. Washington sixty year~s ago. For Tuskegee is not |
omy a uniaue school. it is an American institution,

More than a school for~ the

practical trades and prefessions, it
has served as a model for euca
tors of Many races and as a basis!.for a number of present-day gov
ernment projects and private agencies. It has also been used as a
nattern for educational institutions
on four continents.

Its widespreaa

methods

Last

vear

alone,

ONE OF THE MOST popular courses which
has been added to the Tuskégee curriculum during
preparation.

ry

IN. THIS CHILDREN~S cooperative store, the
youngsters of the community take charge of all

UAE OF THE eaweet trade courees to be

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added is radio repair. These students are busy

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influence

Dr.

irzining of colored youth in the! THOUSANDS VISIT CAMPUS

is at
tested by the thousands. of visitors
who come annually from all parts
of the world to study the aims and
initiated by
the famous Booker T. Washington. f
7.009 visitors!

its founder,

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ment, owns 3,550 acres of land, and
expends an annual budg~t of close

to $1,000,000. The. student enroll- }

ment, hovering around 2,000 annually, is one of the largest in the
world among Negro colleges: and
its faculty, consisting of some 260

members is now and ~has always}
~been composed exclusively of Ne
groes.

Booker T. Washington, only a
few years removed from slavery
-when he began his career at. Tuskegee, set out to give his people
the sort of training he felt would
be most suitable for their existence
and growth, mindful of the difficult state in which they found
themselves~thrown without prep~1ation wholly upon their resources,
In his own words, he wanted t
teach them ~to put brains and skill

Pa'terson~s administration is the commercial

dietetics coufse. Hére students get practice in food ~

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phases of
tion.

the store's cperation under adult direc
_ge~ting two receiving sets back into working order.

FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, NOE SR TACRIOAN

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AN ABLE ADMINISTRATOR,
Frederick Douglass Patterson, Tuskegee~s third president,
is pictured here as he spoke over
a nationwide radio ~hookup recently. Dr. Pa~tterson is credited
with having brought Tuskegee
back to its fundamental purposes.

in~o the common occupations _ of}
hie~ be

AHEAD OF TIME

Today, in the midst of the national cry for men skil'-< ~in these
occupations, it is belatedly realived that ~Booker T.~ was fifty
years ahead of his time in pointing the way to what President
Roosevelt has recently characterized as ~the more apundant life.~

Tt is also to the credit of the
late Dr. Robert Russa Moton, who
sveceeded Dr. Washington and to
Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson
thet they caught the far-seeing
vision that was Dr. Washington~s
and carried the. pioneering idea of
industrial education that is Tuskegee~s ever. forward.

Tuskegee today is a little city in
itrelf, with all of the conveniences
ef one. Livine on scnool property
are some f~10 ->-sidents, and the
aumber is incr 3 @, The institute
nae its awn ba: ur der federal con:
trol, whose +- at. -resources. as of
March 31, 194) ~a $250,310. Several years ags, this~ figure ~was
twice as higli.

HAS OWN POST OFFICE.
It has its own United Staies post
office, whica, in 1920, wa's rated second class, eight yéars before the post
office in the town of Tuskegee was
<9 rated. In order. to recéive this
ciassification U. S. post offices must
do 2 $12.000 annual business in
stamp. sales alone.

Tuskegee Institute Post~ office
Goes a~ $100,000 postal saving business annually and offers an international money order ~ service.
For three months in succession in
earjy, 1649 it sold- the highest
amount cf savings bonds among
vost offices ef its class in the whole
state of Alabama, and it is now
coing @ normal business in defense
bonds. The ocffice serves the
mediate campus, the village
Greenwood, where many of - the
faculty members rent and own
homes. and some residents of Tuskégee town.

A signal honor came to the post
office last year when the federal
fovernment issued a stamp honoring the founder. Sale of the stamp
was iauncthed here by Postmaster
Genera]. James A. Farley and $23,836 worth of them was sold here
on the first day.

CHAMBLISS BUILT HOTEL
the

imof

Not = alone FES chon conceit cians a at Bese itt es ~a RPS of }

DR. JOHN

w. CHENAULT, inf arkattionllty ger: Tuskegee Is More Than A School.)
n All-American Institution,

philanthrophy of white <~apitalists,
Tuskegee can boast of significant
gifts from its 5wn people. The late
William Chambliss, a cotton farmer, gave to the school before his
death money to build a hotel. It
cos: $44,491 and stands in The
Biock, serving as an apartment
heuse for employes, while its first
flocr is used for shops. At his death
Mr. Chambliss, alsg bequeathed
$98,502 for the children~s housé
which serves as the elementary
school building, and a large tract
of iand..

In the same spirit, the school~s
own Dr. Carver has recently given

more than $32,000, practically his
life~s savings, to the schoo] of
maintenance. of the agricultural
research foundation, which he now
heads, and has added the several
Monetary awards he has received
in recent months from outstanding
national organizations. The 6000
alumni and 50,000 former students
rally to their alma
mater~s pleas for help, as well as
volunteer contributions from time
to time.

Although encouraging Tuskegee
in many ways, the state of Alahama has not been as liberal as
would be expected ir the face of
the goodwill and more tangible
assets that the institute has
-trought to. its inhabitants. Only
last year the state raised its annual appropriation te $#5.C0C. a
meagre sum for the school~s mililon dollar budget. However, it did
dip into its jeans for $15,059 more

| ts construct a building for the vo
cational suidanca program in ~the
state.

STARTED MANY NATIONAL
MOVEMENTS

Exclusive of present-day, national interracia] conference. the
national health week, the National
Negro Business league, and ~other
significant movements, which can
trace their origin: to Tuskegee, the
seed was sown here for the modern
Rosenwald rural schools, of whica
there are now more than 5.000 in
the south existing as properties of
the states. And the Jeanes fund
for rural education also sprung
from its influence.

In 1908 at the call of the founder, Mcnroe N, Work went tg Tusr
kegee to set up a department of
record and research, which ~ has
hecome the most important clearing house for information on. the
status of the Negro in. the: United
States, if not in per world. ane
come here.fr a the
country and He~ fo pe itinlands and
the federal government leans
heavily on this office for information pertaining to colored peole.
~ The Negro Year Book, an accepted
uthority on the annuals of the
Auierieas Negro, was launched by
Dr. Work in 1912; with each subsequent edition being compiled ~ and
edited by him and printed by the
institute~s press. For his development of the bureau and itis recent
exkaustive ~Bibliography of the
Negro in Africa and America~, Dr.
Work was honored with the Harmon award in education in 1928.
Ralph N.. Davis, who now heads
the department of records and research, has supervised a number of
students for the federal government
in the past few years and is now
wt ~king om two books: one a study
nf vocational education in Negro
life.; the other, on the Negro newspaper in the United States.

A valuable aid in reséarch also is
Turkegee~s librarv of 52,000 bound
velumes- and 2,000 pamphlets and
periodicals.

SPLASH INSURANCE

Covering a fowl up to 15 inches
in diameter, a transparent shield to
vrevent food spattering has been
invented to be fitted over the shaft.
~of an electric mixer.

ane at

surgeon,

~who heads the Tuskegee Infantile Paralysis unit, is shown examin
ing an aviation student. The 99th Pursuit Squadron, an all-Negro,; oe tee ee ee

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PERERA RE SES

THESE AVIATION cadets s~and in front of, friends at a cost of $25,000.

the Washingten monument erected by alumni and

These eitle are putting finishing touches On. two
_ dresses.

DESIGNING AND tailoring of garments is one

of the mest popular courses at Tuskegee Institute.

et ae

PRINTING CRAFTSMEN are being develop--| the ann and moderrly iquipped Tuskegee printing

ed here in this photograph of students at work in

DR. GEORGE W. CARVER is bs phinared, been Ke, chai! wich M'enht'S