February, 19 ii 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
135 
WILL YOU 
GIVE $5 
TO HELP 
SOLVE THE 
RACE 
PROBLEM 
Main Building, Slater Industrial School, Winston-Salem, 
N. C., which is helping to solve the race problem. 
A Class in Cooking at the Slater School. The girls are 
trained in all branches of household science and the boys 
in dairying, carpentry, blacksmithing and like occupations. 
I T IS becoming more widely understood each day that the only solution of the race problem is the education and Christianizing of the colored people. This is 
not a local matter for the South; it is a National question. Several schools have done magnificent work along these lines, notably Hampton, Tuskegee and 
the Slater Industrial and State Normal School at Winston-Salem, N. C. 
A citizen of Winston-Salem recently gave the trustees of this latter school $5,000, provided they would raise an equal amount for a hospital where colored girls 
could be educated as trained nurses—one of the many branches of the School's work. The necessary additional amount was raised and with $10,000 the school has 
built a hospital worth almost double this amount by reason of the assistance of students and friends of the school in the manual labor. 
State officials, seeing the excellent work that was being done, have offered the school $12,000, provided the trustees again raise an equal amount. Although they 
have used every effort and have striven in every way to meet the offer of the State, it seems impossible for the immediate neighbors of the School to raise this sum. 
With $24,000 cash it would be possible to increase the plant to a value of at least $48,000, as the colored people will do the manual labor free. 
EVERY DOLLAR GIVEN NOW MEANS $4 TO THE SCHOOL 
The School’s present enrollment is 430, under the direction of ten teachers, all well trained colored men and women. There are four departments; The 
Practice School, for the work of the Normal School students; the State Normal Department, training teachers for the rural schools of the State; the Academic 
Department, for post-graduate work; and the Industrial Department. In the latter the boys are trained in dairying, carpentry, blacksmithing, gardening, shoemaking, 
painting and other like occupations. The girls are trained in sewing, cooking, laundry work, household science and other useful lines. 
Here is a small part of a report made by the Examiners of the State Institutions regarding the Slater School: 
"The service which they [the trustees] have rendered in providing an answer to the most aggravating question of our day—negro education — and in meeting 
the objections of those who oppose the expenditure of money collected from the whites for the education of the colored; is beyond estimate. 
“Their efforts have been to study the conditions which would surround their students after graduation; knowing that they must return to humble homes, they 
have educated them in the use of such implements as they would find there. No money was spent in the purchase of costly apparatus, none in high salaries to teach 
negroes ‘science,’ falsely so-called; but that real science of how to make honest citizens they have taught most successfully and at a very moderate expense.” 
W. P. WOOD, J .P. JETER, T. W. PATTON, Examiners. 
IS NOT THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE TO YOU? 
Your aid at this time will have a four-fold value. Will you send $5 (which will mean $20 to the School), now to William A. Blair, Vice-President of The 
People’s National Bank, Winston-Salem, N. C., the treasurer of the School; or to McBride, Winston & Co., 449 Fourth Ave., New York, the publishers of this 
magazine, who will forward the money to the School. 
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