The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-28
LEADING NEGRO
EDUCATOR HERE
Presidents Of a. & M. Colleges
Begin Fourth Annual, Con-
vcntion Here.
NEGROES WILL NOT LEAVE
Expect to Make This Country.
Their Home-Rapidly Ac-
curing Property.
NEGROES WILL NOT LEAVE

TO inspire tho negro youth to highc,
| life. and make them better citizens, by
training their hearts, heads and hands
and at the same time make them law.
abiding citizens is tho work set out Il
be accomplished by the Presidents OF
Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges fol
Negroes who are now holding their
Fourth annual session in this city, and
will close tomorrow night.
Tho organization was brought into life
State Normal College for Negroes, at
Savannah Ga. He Is one of the foremost
negro educators in America, as well as
q prominent negro citizen. He served rs
Paymaster in the United States Army
during the spanlsh-Amerlca war, and
Immediately after the close of the war
returned TO his school work. He has held
the position OF President OF the Associa-
ton since its organization, and in 1t much
good Is being accomplished.
Tho organization is composed Of some
OF the most conservative negroes In Amer
icn, those who arc training the young
negroes along practical lines.
Opening of Session.
The opening session was held yesterday
morning at the Union University. ReV.
l'. H. Jones, OF the University, made the
opening prayer, and an address or wei
come was delivered by Dr. G. r. HoVey,
the president.
Professor y. r. Lewis, OF Hampton In
stitute, discussed the course of study Tor
A. &, NJ. Colleges for negro Eoutn. fils
address was practical and contained goou
advice. He wanted more attention paid 10
the teaching Of agriculture to the negroes
in the future, and that more OF them &c
induced to take up tho study
DR.. Warning declared that all negro boys
should not aspire to be doctors. lawyers
preachers. teachers and the IKE put
many OF them should remain on the 1arnl,
for the farmer was the most independent
OF all men. Perhaps the constant COINS
to the city by the negro youth MAD peei,
snlT draw back to the race, and ne urseu
that the young men be Induced TO l','est
Their money in farms and cultivate the'''
Presidents Address.
,rhe feature of the morning session was
thc annual address delivered by Major
Richard r. Wright. He said IN pay:
..Wa have met here to discus the pan
Of American education 30 as 70 discover
IL POSSIBLE, how we may be able 10 90
our duty in striving to TT me coloreo
people to take an Interest ana Fay u
nart in tho great moral and economic
Of this country. 10 teacn
men merely 10 earn their daily bread,
"a give them Just enough skill and
,-now,edge to earn living, Is neccs-
sa'ry and laudable underta kinG, tut this
clone is not sufficient for the man OF tho
twentieth century. He must be Taught
to be a good father, n good nelshpor
and q good citizen. His character must
he SO developed and inspired as to lead
lin to take lively interest N the great
for the betterment OF man
kind. In other words, the negro must
lie taught that he is a part Of humanity
and that nothing that Is human is alien
TO him. lie can neither segregate htn1-
self nor be Segregated from the great
y ord Interests OF mon. The world has
grown TOO small for this. Some one
has remarked that the safeness and
rapidly Of communication have made the
whole world into q single community
whose solidarity 'of interests Will ere
long break down every Chinese wall,
whether that wall he erected by race
prejudice or religious prejudice. Wrong
whether inflicted upon the Jews In RUS
sia or the colored people in America.
will arouse Indignation in tho hearts of
Ol GNeIy IdCe tdi0 SNSly
where. Pluck and skill will be recog-
nized and awarded a front seat at the
council of the nations, whether the foe
man be yellow Jap or white eau
casian But the problem OF tho TWEEN
tieth century is to do away with war
among nations and Injustice and oppres-
sion among neighbors. An American en-
tEuslast speakig Of the peace of Ports
mouth, consumnlated through tho un-
firing efforts Of that greatest of the
worlds pacificators, President Theodore
Roosevelt, eXclaims: 80 that on the
same day by the same nation, one war
was brought TO n speedy and timely
end and practical plan for perpetuatlng
peace on a foundation OF Justice was pre-
to all the nations" This twentieth
century attempt to adjust the mutual
relations OF all the various peoples that
inhablt the globe. If carried out on the
foundation Of jutsice, must include the
weak, as well as the strong peoples OF
the world. In tho political, economic
and social life of the world every ma
ton, collectively and individually, has
rights and duties. The negro with his
ten million IN the United States, his
twenty millions In the Americas and his
$50 millions In Africa, is part of the
citizenzy of the world, and has his rights
and duties. When we recognize tho fact
that we represent not only one-tenth OF
the population In the United States, but
one tenth of the worlds peoples. we must
be impressed with the craven
and tremendous responsibility OF our
task, How can the world, how can
a america, how can the United States truly
meet the responsibility of the adjust
ment of the mutual relations OF the In
haDitants of the globe, with every tenth
man, though he be black man, indifferent
10 the mora and social movements OF his
times?
l3road-Minded Educators.
"An intelligent and enlightened system
Of education must have reference to these
questions and the situation that con-
fronts us. The crisis demands that every
negro teacher be not only moral and
Intellectual reformer, but national
Eroad-mnded educators
must educate their students, their eople,
not Only TO take care of themselves, but
to look beyond their immediate race or
color. their immediate State or ma
ton, and to cultivate Il systematic
a nd henful interest In n commou hlI-