Show OF THE NEGRO RACE professor booker T washington bead of the colored industrial college at egee ala in an article in the declares that the colored twee after thirty years of freedom not exhibit encouraging marks of ro on the contrary he iks that there is retrogression from the days of slavery ephe cause of this he finds in the fact tha the e younger generation never of learning a trade before the if southern white man west lie e says a d a house or a bridge built he d a negro mechanic about the it if he wanted a suit of clothes or ga calr lr of shoes it was to the negro or shoemaker that he talked it wery ey large slave plantation in the 1 1 i was in a limited sense an indus school hool on these plantations there i scores of young colored men and 1 women who were constantly trained not only as common a but as carpenters blackm wheel wrights plasterers masons ons engineers bridge build kac dressmakers dress makers housekeepers is all the 10 on this changed education u aaion they now get in the la set apart for them does not ie them to engage in useful trades t the bad traits are left tree free to dej A smattering of latin and lc is of no earthly use to them ane professors observations are my correct and it is impossible to feel that they have a much wider cation than the negro race it amm be Ini infinitely tely better for young and women generally to receive a in the practical employments C anre then than instructions in arts and aw fences deares in which aich they for lack of talent can never become pro the great need of the age is a practical turn in the aduca htwa of the children |