The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-09
COUNC|LL TALKS
TO NEGRO PUPILS
Strong Speech by Negro Edu-
Gator to Graduates.
PRAISE FOR JUDGE FEAGlN
Says the Judge Is Doing Great Work
In Reforming Youthful Criminals
Large Audience Hear Speech.
at s.. Marks.
PRAISE FOR JUDGE FEAGIN

The address delivered last night be-
fore the graduating class of st. Marx
Industrial school for negroes by Prof.
w TT couneill. president of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college for negroes,
was regarded as truly worthy of this
leader Of his race. 1t was full or good
advice to the young. special stress being
laid upon truth and honesty as the fun
damental things in the development OF
the manhood and womanhood of the boys
and girls.
During his remarks the speaker paid
high compliment to Judge N. B. Feagin,
of the Birmingham criminal court In
urging the equal necessity of goodness Oh
heart with bright intellects the speaker
said:
your Judge Feagin, who stops the ca
reer of the young criminal who is trying
to cut and shoot his way into the prison
and down to hell, is worth to the COM
munity more than a thousand politicians
or ministers who fail to save the youth
of the land. Hold up the arms of Judge
Feagin and multiply him a thousand fold
over this broad land
The event last night was the first an
nual commencement of the industrial
school and the session has been very
successful. The audience to hear Pro-
lessor Council was very large and at
tentive. !
The speaker among other things said:
sOut of my small fund of information,
I make bold to say something which
think will contribute to the success of.
these boys and girls
"Our schools are to take firm stand
in the PRONUNCIATION and introduction into
the practical life of the race, those things
which are fundamental in the develop
ment of manhood in our boys and girls.
Truth and honesty lie at the very foun-
dalton of racial growth. Every boy and
girl must be taught that without truth as
a foundation of character, there can be
no racial success. Every position in life,
however humble, or however high, must
rest upon truth; and this high regard for
truth must be inculcated in the boys
and girls at the very beginning and kept
up through the entire school life. The
boy or the girl, who Is untruthful, or
who would deceive, can not have any last
ing success. Truth maintained at the cost
of life itself, Is not too dear II we can
get this into our boys and girls, the very
gates of hell will not prevail against
them
1.-THE Spartan boy. who withstood the
gnawing of the fox at his vitals, is not
to be compared to the honest negro boy,
whose face beams with the cpns we of
truthfulness in his character
"The teacher, who labors f y to
cay to inculcate these virtues is Of far
greater Importance to the public than the
President of the republic himself, If that
President neglects the possession and in
culcation of these virtues, which alone
must make great and save the Ameri-
can people.
Lying and deception about the most
trivial things are crimes to be spurned
and Stunned. Virtue and integrity will
be recognized and will bring forth fruit
whether wrapped in white or a black
skin. And the boy or girl, led on by the
teacher who gives to the country the
broadcast heart culture, will be upheld by
the best people in the land.
Industry goes hand In hand with truth.
An idle mind is the DEVILS work shop,
idle hands and legs are his TOOLS In
dustry put into the character of the
youth of our land, manifests itself in
superior citizenship Of the land; and that
government is safe, only when it is gov
erned by such citizenship.
''All labor is honorable. The cook and
the washerwoman who serve, may be-
far above the dignitaries whom they
serve The humble laborer who swings
the pick-axe and shovel, and pillow and
hoe, may have heart far above his