ss of the men and women the Institute
has produced and is producing. It must be a book free from ostentatious
pretension, breathing the atmosphere of the life of the earnest people
it describes. It must, of course, exhibit not only the achievements, but
also the ideals, the possibilities of the Tuskegee trained man and
woman. This, I feel, is adequately done in this volume.

Tuskegee and Its People possesses ideals in thought, morals, and
action--and they are lofty. In these respects the symposium will not
prove a disappointment. This instinct for the ideal, however, lies not
in idly sighing for it, but is born of an abiding belief that worth is
intrinsic, and that applied common sense, practical knowledge, constancy
of effort, and mechanical skill will make a place for the patient
striver far more secure than the artificial niche into which some one
may thrust him. The masses who are most helpfully reached by the
Tuskegee Institute are coming to realize that education in its truest
sense is no longer to be regarded as an emotional impulse, a fetish made
up of loosely joined information, to be worshiped for its mere
possession, but as a practical means to a definite end. They are being
taught that mind-training is the logical helpmeet of hand-training, and
that both, supplemented and sweetened by heart-training, make the
high-souled, useful, productive, patriotic, law-loving, public-spirited
citizen, of whom any nation might well be proud. The outcome of such
education will be that, instead of the downtrodden child of ignorance,
shiftlessness, and moral weakness, we shall generate the thoroughly
rounded man of prudence, foresight, responsibility, and financial
independence. He will cease to be the gullible victim of the sharper who
plays upon vanity, credulity, and superstition, and learn to value only
that which is real and substantial. It is of the highest importance to
the Negro, who must make his way amid disadvantages and embarrassments
of the severest character, that he be made aware of the vast difference
between working and being worked. In carrying this inspiring message and
impressing these fundamental truths, the new Tuskegee book renders a
splendid service.

Industrial training will be more potent for good to the race when its
relation to the other phases of essential education is more clearly
understood. There is afloat no end of discussion as to what is the
"proper kind of education for the Negro," and mu