The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1907, Page 1

l [ at Bacon called “the relative value of WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1907. - Thitkield's Speech MEANING AND MISSION OF EDUCATION. gural Address of Wilbur Patterson rkield, D.D., LL.D., as President Howard University, Washington, C., Rankin Memorial Chapel, 2.30 Friday, November 15, 1907. _ occasion, the fortieth anniver- { an institution with the location, relations and ideals of Howard suggests the theme, the ng and Mission of Education. It ting that we consider (1) the aims eals in modern education, and (2) lace and mission of Howard Uni- in the higher life of a race. as Herbert Spencer who, about time of the founding of this untver- tartled the educational world wit™ “What knowledge is of The answer, involving question, worth?” vledges,” has od the Face of Modern Education given true place to the mod- s, history, economics, sociol- sophy, literature, and physical long side of Latin, Greek and itics, which once held exclusive it has broken the tradition that n is for an aristocracy; has jucation free and democratic; education ot for luxury, but fe; not the class dis- but equipment for service. Ed- en, makes its appeal not to ct alone, but to the entire rounded personality, with fore- ght, widesight, is the suprem® badge of t knowledge, of most We answer, the knowledge that wrought most effectively into the of life; ennoble and gthen character ; equip for his place and part in the real k of the world. We plead, then, for Education That Can Be Translated Into cultured then, is that will that will Action, through higher living and larger efficienc powers, makes education that will make better citi give better homes and children; education that will improve physical being; that will arm st intellectual crazes,political frauds ocial follies; that will give sanity, moral well n, progress, power. short, the aim in higher education develop men—wise, sane, conscien- fearless; of clean character and als; men of keen ok and broad sympathies; in- nt, yet considerate; aggressive, perception, tolerant courageous, yet gentle— a passion righteousness, bearers of truth, consecrated to hese Principles and Ideals to e Education of a Race | ds and claims of the Negro} education as will draw forth man to his best is grounded The demands of mod- social characterized ranity logy are for “a con- ess that shall be three-fold conviction of the mutual essential s of men, of influ- of men, and of the value and sa- means sons of God and that no ness of the pers This all men should be their fellow-men; is left without witness of the di- in mental and moral capacity; that ar » bound up together that edu- n must be for all; and that the per” y of every man is sacred. s is the teaching of the Son of values hers of Every man has in him 1 market price. This is The Democratic Ideal, cracy bears living witness to the f the downmost man. There American history numberless ex- f the fo t the common stored up in him uncommon r highest life and service of coln, Grant, Douglass are on- ious examples the meaning of equality—not acity is the equal | er man; or that there is ing as equality of gifts and that “Liberty ed on natural dif- application | that, in a it is a tr requality t and rath capacity It is Has Right to Equality of | Opportunity right with every other unfoldment of all the nd possibilities that are storéd | nat there are diversities of | freedom ; that Ii Desplaced in} that in civil life| spirit of rief man, not be a spirit of repres- ‘oad and generous recog- | that is in him, so far as| | whole man, so that he takes in, appro- broad educational opportunity is a help| to this end. A liberal education is thus far more} than a training in mental strength and | acuteness. It is the broadening of the priates and finds power to use the best that has been thought and done—all knowledge for his own good and that of others. Stich an education makes for breadth of view, sanity, the scientific spirit, power of initiative, and Avil, moral and economic efficiency. Any other some of education is rot- ten at the core, Any broad educational program will find place for practical scientific and industrial training; will recognize, with President Elliott, the mental and moral as well as the practical value of train- ing in handicraft; will teach men not to get out of work, but to get more out of their work; that is, equip them for power and progress in labor. Besides its direct contribution to the comfort and uplift of the home and to efficiency in farm and shop, industrial training teaches accuracy, patience, forethought, skill. And this is education. While Efficient, Industrial Training Alone Is Not Sufficient for the rounded and complete life of any people. It is essential that all men be trained to make a living. It is im- | perative that men also be trained to make a life. In this age of overmaster- ing material tendencies, there is call for teaching that shall emphasize the prin- ciple that a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth. If the Negro race is to come to real freedom and true spiritual power and progress; if it is ever to find its place in the Kingdom—which is not mere meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and} joy, in holiness of spirit. { Education Involves Obligation that their election is not to privilege alone or to mere place and power above men, but rather to service and sacrifice for downmost Higher Training for Professions. In this spirit should the mission of Howard University to the higher educa- tion of a race be conceived and carried out. To such institutions is committed the preparations of the teachers, preach- ers, physicians, lawyers, and moral lead-« ers of a people who, called not to be ministered unto, but to minister, may give their lives a ransom for many. The College of Arts and Sciences in the Capital of the Nation, with the libraries, museums, and the scientific and other facilities ministering to culture and to scholarship, furnishes the finest center / or the educatign as a basis for largest life and the highest pro- fessional training of the leaders of a race who number over ten million na- tive-born American citizens Within the next decades they are to shape the methods and determine the of young people in training for life Without trained teachers this segrega- The nor- mal schools available for colored teach- ers are few and often inadequate. There- fore the imperative call for a thorough- ly equipped College for Teachers here at the center of the nation that shall at small cost give the most approved and effective modern training to the hers of a people, For forty years strong, brave men— man. broadest tion means inferior schools. men with courage equal to their lofty ideals for a race, have builded their thought and life into the professional schools of Howard University. Their graduates are now constructive helpers and healers of their fellow-men. These schools were so crowded. The call for trained men was never so urg- never ent. The School of Medicine 1868, has sent forth 1,071 trained grad- uates. The high standard and efficien- cy of this school are acknowledged by the profession. The united terms of service of nine of the senior faculty who are still teaching is over two hundred and sixty years. Their work has affect- ed the physical well being of multitudes in the nation. The courses of study and methods of instruction are abreast of the lat cientific standards. The completion of the Freedmen’s Hospital, for which the University has ceded to the government a valuable park of eleven acres, gives clinical facilities unsurpassed. This is the only large hospital with modern appliances that is open, in a broad way, to the colored physician or student. Northern colleges do not now give him the welcome once cordially extended, While there is one medical student to every three thousand white people, there is but one to every fourteen thousand colored people. Yet the thorough equipment of the colored physician was never so vitally import- opened in ant as now. Continued on Page .4. AN ACTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE! PHYSICIAN — A HIGH OFF CIAL IN MANY ORGANIZA- TIONS. A Promising and Progressive -Man. Charles Herbert Marshall, M.D., the subject of this sketch, was born of slave parents, May 15, 1862, at Amissville, Va" Attended the public schools in the win-| ter, working in summer, until 1822,when he entered the Norma! Department of Wayland Seminary, Washington, D. C, graduating in 11885; then attended the academic department until 1887, and then Howard University Medica] Col lege, sessions 19 to 22, 1886-90, and graduated M. D, in 1890, since which time he has practiced medicine in the city of Washington; residence, 2710 P street northwest. He was married June 22, 1892, to Miss Alice S. V. Jones, of Washington, who, however, lived only a few months thereafter. He married again, October 23, 1896, to Miss Paul- ine L, Jennings, also of Washington. Dr. Marshall is president of the Med- ical Alumni Association of HowardUni- Yy; state vice president of the Na-) DR. CHARLrs 4. ONE OF WASHINGTON’S M Renister Vernon GREAT RECEPTION TG THE BLACK ROSSIUS — HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY — DR. SHEP- PARD’S OVATION. The Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury, spoke in the large auditorium of the Baptist Church at Durham, N. C., on the even- ing of November 26th, 1907, to a crowd- ed house. The meeting was presided over by Dr. James E. Sheppard, one of the secre- taries of the International SundaySchoo’ Union, who is doing special work among the colored people, who introdced Reg- ister Vernon, followed by a tremendous 2 a When the Register arose to speak ie Was greeted with great applause, which Gpxitinued throughout the address. His subject was “The Negro in America.” Among other things, he said: “All true Americans regard with ex- treme satisfaction the preachments and efforts for an era of good feeling on the SS munity. The sum total of the progress of his locality will be hindered or helped by his individual status. So then, the pro- tection of the laws, the opportunity to thrive should be guaranteed him on the one hand and should be accepted by him on the other. This interdependence of the white man and the Negro must be acknowledged by all who see the right and strive for the same. “I am always optimistic with regard to the final outcome of this question. The patience, industry, fidelity, hopeful- ness and splendid endeavor of the Ne- gro through long generations are an earnest of the indestructibility which al- ways counts in the lives of nations. “These qualities have always made for me the splendid triumph of the Ameri- can white man, and I believe the better natures of a people who have thus suc- ceeded will be appealed to successfully by weaker people traveling the same! pathway. It is because of this that I have faith beyond the discouragements | placed before us by any who doubt the final success of the Negro. “Those who advocate that the Negro should not be educated indirectly speak for more jails, more repressive laws, and more crimes. “To educate out of the ignoble into the noble, from the lower to the higher, from narrowness to broader vision,fro™ badness to goodness is the supreme duty of all who see the light. Unbiased educators, statesmen and publicists of the highest order are ev- erywhere arguing for an enlightened cit- izenship which will include the Negro. In a country such as ours, where bayo- nets do not control, where the ballot | is sovereign, where law is King, our Re- MARSHALL, OST EMINE tional Medical Association, and wet urer of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Washington; incorporator-and direc- tor of the Potomac Hospital and Dis- pensary, organized April, 1906, and at president medical director. He is identified with and active in all movements for the advancement of his race. He is prominent in religious, char- itable and fraternal institutions; trus- tee of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church; one of the first subscribers to the Colored Young Men’s Christian As- sociation building fund for the District of Columbia; president of the West Washington Odd Fellows’ ’Hall Associ- ition, and I may add that it was throug! Dr. Marshall that the arrangement was made to purchase the valuable residence with nearly an acre of ground of the late General Augur, U. S. A., as a per- manent home for the West Washington Odd Fellows. He is also treasurer of the Young Men’s Protective League, one of the largest and most influential fraternal in- stitutions in the Nation's Capital. On November sth, 1907, a ‘Free Daily Dispensary” was opened by the Nine- teenth Street Church, largely through the instrumentality of Drs.Mar- shall, James T. Walker, James C. Dow- ling, Charles A. Sewell and others; of} which Dr.Charles H. Marshall was made Baptist chief of the staff. He has a lucrative practice and he is the owner of large and very valuable real estate in the District and in Vir- ginia. A very conservative estimate of his present worth is forty thousand dol- lars. Owing to the doctor’s extreme modes- ty he is averse to an interview touching nis private and personal affairs mly through my long and close ac-| quaintance with him that I am able to} part of the leaders of the North and the} leaders of the South. “The coming together of the hitherto discordant elements in our body politic can but meet the approval of the patri- otic citizens of the American Republic. “While thsi feeling of ,charity for all and malice toward none is ever increas- ing, we must all agree that it should be sufficiently inclusive to embrace the Ne- gro, and that it will never have accom- plished its full purpose until he, a nec- essary part of this republic, is the bene- ficiary of the same. ~at ch a spirit is necessary to the rehabilitation of the Southland, and the building up of the Northland as it re- lates to the American white man with his education, wealth and power—how much more imperative it is that the Ne- gro, the weaker race, should be foster- ed and encouraged in the same way. The weak look to the strong, the ig- norant look to the intelligent—look to them for aid, leadership, light and jus- tice. Justice unalloyed, justice full and free, is that which the Constitution guar” antees and that which will bring a bet- ter day to our country. “The evidences of progress around me, the prosperity of the Negro which I have observed in the South, all convinc® me that there is here a spirit of mutual helpfulness between the races. “This is gratifying and reassuring to! those of us who de: The re this better era. elimination of selfishness on the} part of both races should be sought af- ter. The economic phase of the ques- tion confused racial phase. “It may be difficult for some to always should not be with the realize that race prejudice should have | no part in business relations. Whereve’ | the Negro mawes himself competent and | worthy his color should not bar him} and it] from remunerative employment and pro-| t# tection of the laws in the performance of his tasks. The better element of the | Fublican form of government is protect- ed and secure when civic virtue of the highest order is in the ascendant, “It was an inspiring sight a few days ago to see Theodore Roosevelt, thePres- ident of the United States, Andrew Car- negie the philanthropist, James Bryce the diplomat, and James R. Garfield the statesman, lay aside pressing duties and weighty responsibilities, to participate in the fortieth anniversary exercises of one of the great institutions of learning where hundreds of Negro youth are be- ing educated. The encouragement, ad- vice and hopefulness propounded in the addresses of these men meant more for the race and fiation than we can here estimate. Their philanthropic, un- selfish act was but in line with the spirit of the age, which spirit is making for the amelioration of all untoward con- ditions and the betterment of all human- ity. Such acts exhibit a lofty purpose, the outgrowth of the idea that service to others is paramount, and that no man’s duty js complete unless it encom- passes his duty to his fellow men as the city of Washington lying north of well as to himself. “As a race we must put ourselves at ali times in harmony with this spirit. We shall be able to measure up to the same by making ourselves the highest types of manhood and womanhood. “If we lay well to heart these thought’ and demand of ourselves the best that is within us, we shall raise ourselves in the estimation of all the world and prove ourselves worthy of all the best men of America will finally secure for THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW When will Billie Chancellor return to Paterson, N. J. If it would not be cheaper to Chancello” to hand in his. resignation. If the Superintendent can explain ho” it happened, If Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is ready to resign. If your friends cannot do you more good than your enemies. If it is not always best to stand by your friends. If colorphobia will be eliminated in the public schools. ed If Bob Terrell understands riddles. If he has caught on yet. What was meant by that meeting of High School teachers at 907 G street a few weeks ago. a If Roscoe Conkling Bruce is red@y to testify and tell who told him to write that letter. If there are any vacancies at Tuske- gee. The Fish University Jubilee Singers White House during y here, and President Roosevelt self as being “de-lighted” They appear cir si expiessed I with their tuneful folk melodies. zive to the public this information Of! white race should and do look with fa-| £@V€ several very successful concerts so valuable a citiz Charles F. M. Browne. called to see few days ago. I su ident is convinced t* y man to elim- Senator Foraker esident a the Pr Senator is not an eas vor and satisfaction upon the efforts of | He in} nd should receive their pro-| any ills which may be vis- | because of his race, Fee will more industrious: e a factor for the com-| mercial and industrial uplift of his com. | sturdy progressive Negro. ing secure strive to bec at the various churches, under the gen- of Mr. A. R. Ware direction of Mrs. F. D. Lee and James L. Neill. The delegation that called to see the President day to thank him for the app nent of Attorney James A. Cobb ought to have waited awhile. "AN OPPORTUNITY. AN OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFE- TIME. For Every 5 Cents You Take Out $1.00 or More. Business reverses force me to part with some mining shares in a Gold Mine located in the famous gold mining camp of Cripple Creek, Colorado. I bought fifty thousand shares for an investment. Other interests which I must protect force me to relinquish them as I must have money at once. The shares are in one thousand lot certificates, hence I cannot sell less than one thousand j shares: As an investment where the mount risked is so small and the chances for large increase so good, this opportunity will be hard to beat. There are only fifty certificates. Fifty | People taking one each will absorb the lot; so, if you are interested, write im- mediately. I will be glad to give you full particulars as to location, prospects, what the showing is, how purchasers can keep informed regarding the devel- opments, etc. Stock will be sent to purchasers through the express compa- nies with the privilege of examining the shares before paying a cent. I want to name a price which will sell these shares at once, therefore I will sell for five cents per share or ($50) fifty dollars per thousand shares, Think of it, a chance to become inde- pendent for the price of a cigar, a soda water, or chewing gum. If you have not got the money to spare, don’t buy these shares; but on the other hand if you can afford to wait for the mine to be developed, then get some of these shares at once, for I firmly believe that within two years these shares wil! be easily sold at a price much higher than the one I am making. The camp is be- ing developed on a very large scale, and the results must and will benefit every mining property in the locality. To you who read this: This may be your fortune knocking at your door, so give it proper consideration. Be quick about it for someone is going to buy these shares and make money on them. Better take one thousand shares for the wife and each one of the chil- dren. That is why so many people are independent today, because their fore- parents bought cheap stock which grew and blessed the giver and the recipient These shares are non-assessable; they won't eat anything ;there are no taxes to pay on them. You buy them once and { they are yours until you sell them, TheY may prove better than life insurance, + with a cost comparatively nothing. « Wirte for particulars immediately. Good opportunities. Move swiftly.Grasp them while they are within your reach. Address, Frank C. Fane, New York City. |997 Grant avenue, PROF ARCHITECTURE.” “School Architecture” was the of a scholarly and interesting paper by Mr. W. W. Cook at the regular meet- ing of the Education Club Saturday eve- ning at the Conservatory of Music. The speaker very cleverly presented the sci- entific side of the question, and showed how the modern schoo] should be con- structed to insure health, safe in case of fire, and convenient in handling a large number of students. Many edu- cators from abroad were present a9 guests of the club, among them being Dr. W. D. Crum, Charleston, S. C.; Rev. G. Frazire Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y.; President Thomas E. Miller, of the State Colored College, Orangeburg, S. C.; President N. B. Young, Florida State College Tallahassee Fla.; Profes- sor Heber Wharton Baltimore; Prof. I: Waring, Baltimore, and oth- ers. Prof. Kelly Miller, presicent of the Education Club, occupied the chair. ubject UNITED REPUBLICANS. The United Republicans of the District of Columbia, representing the twenty- two Republican district clubs, have ar- ranged for the following meeting :Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Dis- tricts, United Republican Clubs, at 819 Nineteenth street northwest, Monday, December 2; Mr. Jesse Foster will pre- side. Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth United Republican Clubs, at the Cadet Armory, December 3. Elev- enth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Dis- tricts, nUited Republican Clubs, at Gali- leean Fisherman Hall, December 4 Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second Districts, United Repub- lican Clubs. This meeting will be an- nounced later on. The members of the Executive Com- mittee will be announced next week. READ THE BEE.