The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-07
Annual Address at Bap-
fist University.
THE CLOSING DAY
Exercises at the College of Which Mr.
Dixon's Address Was The Centre.
Hundreds of Girls in White
Dresses, the Seniors in Caps
and Gowns.

Another Dixon! And with the same
known of mis- brothers, the Rev.
Thomas Dixon Jr., lawyer. preacher
and novelist, with record
of early tendencies towards the stage,
and Rev. A. c. Dixon, learned Bap-
fist minister and famous with fame
of his own making.
Most of the Dixons are generally IN
hot water and they seem TO ike the
temperature Their temperament
their brain, at once takes to that ele-
ment and creates it. The DiXons are
startlingly frank, wonderfully astute.
Never We're three such brothers Ana
whatever one may be inclined to say
about either of them from what he
has read in the papers, once under
the positive quality of their intellects,
the mind at least is charmed, eXhiil-
rated, made buoyant if it is not
soothed. As matter of fact there is
nothing soothing about Dixon. de
grabs you by the scruff of your inteiil-
gence and shouts listen. And no
matter much what Dixon says, IL
makes an impression which one can
not avoid.
This particular Dixon is the Rev.
Frank He is not much known mere,
although for some time he has been
i'm easy reach in Washington. he is
the youngest of the brothers and every
inch brother TO the other two. For
awhile he was "out West with a
charge. One day he preached SER
mon in which he figured out the an
ties of Solomon and David in quite the
Dixon way His ideas were original
and everybo talked about the ser
mon. Even the West, the land OF new
talk and daring-do, rose on its spurs
at the conception of what the Rev.
Frank Dixon thought of the old tesla
ment and its heroes. A Dixon cares
about as INCH about the Old Testa-
ment as he does about the higher, crit
icism, literary tenets or presidential
nominees The Rev. Frank remained
in the West long enough to tight the
battle he had aroused to a successful
conclusion and then he came East.
Yesterday he was at the Baptist
University speaking to the senior class
about socialism.
He has less use for socialism than
he has for Solomon. Socialism is a
danger i'm that it is unconscious envy.
1t aims to place an incubus on indl-
yiduaI effort 1t is the twin evil of
anarchy in that it wishes TO enervate
the effort of the citizen under gov
ernmental monopolies, whereas an
archy wants to put every man free
from governmental control. Each
seeks the same end in opposite ways;
n common dead level of effort render
ing human competition and singular
initiative either impossible or undeSir-
able. Socialism is the great fault
finder the merciless critic of ciyiliZa-
ton and of the advance of govern
ment. 1t takes particular facts and
magnifies them into universal condi-
tfons. 1t is like a man. seeing spots on
the sun. binding himself that he may
not get light from a speckled luminary.
That is Rev. Frank Dixon's idea of So
cialism.
To the exposition of these ideas he
brings a voice that is capable OF pro-
ducing a hundred and fifty words d
minute with the qualities of an orator.
a fund of dry humour, dependant
largely upon sharp and vivid contrasts.
Much as he is like his brother, Thomas