The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
DR. CHANCELLOR'S GREAT
SPEECH


tors, teachers and scholars present last
Saturday morning at Howard Univer-
sity to listen to DR.. William Z. Chan
cellor, superintendent of the Public
Schools. At ten o'clock DR.. William
P. Thirkield, the president of the uni
versity, introduced Mr.. Chancellor, and
he spoke at length upon the public
school system of the District of Co
lumbia and of the work that is upper
most in the mind of the superintendent
for future development He said, in
part
When / came to Washington on
that fatal thirteenth day OF the month,
little did | know of what was TO fol-
low. AT times before l had been in
the capital city, but those times l had
come to study | knew nothing OF the
real Washington and | never dreamed
that it existed as it does In Congress
there are men today who do not know
aught of Washington but that brief
space between the Capitol and the White
House and lying on Pennsylvania ave
nue.. People come here to study and
they go away without knowing any
thing of the real Washington
There is no man in the world who
can read of all writings and under
stand them with any certainty. No
man can interpret the meanings of all
the words of the sentences. We might
take the word suffrage, and the person
who has not shared in it can tell but
| little of its real meaning. He may value
it as promised land into which he
may wish to enter, but he does not re-
alize what it really IS We are not
teaching history in our eighth grades
as men understand it, but as boys and
girls of fourteen years of age may
hope to understand it best
Shorthand of Thought
Words are the shorthand OF thought
the American people.
and we must have some training. You
have all heard of color blindness, and
you have seen how railroad employees
and others are called upon from time
to time to distinguish between colors.
Some people are marvels in the detec-
ton of sound and can tell the differ
! ence between 4 and A sharp in music
the moment they are struck upon the
! instrument Mothers know the differ
{ ence IN the sound of the voices of their
| children and can detect in a moment
which one is calling
You see the trained men Of the
world getting news, and they should
\ be so trained at all times 10 get truth.
/ from the world, and not falsehOod- l
] do not believe there are efficient people
/ in the world who are unwilling to make
a record Some people are unwilling,
after hearing a word, TO keep It's mean
| ing in mind. and some teachers say, /.
want to forget the sChoo1rocm as soon
as / leave It each day:
In my estimation it will be profit
/ able to me to think over all than / have
/ said TO YOU tins moruIng and reflect
upon it. This gives life an added inn
petus. Tor without accuracy of memory
one is always swimming in The air.
! There seems to be no continuity III the
affairs Of the school system, and there
Is no one in control who knows what
was going on five years ago Many OF
our school teachers object to keeping
records OF the children under their care
If / should be asked what a school
teacher should do during the day that
would help the child most in the work
my answer would be, that thorough
record should be kept.
PrzuHege aud Opportunity.
Il want 10 refer to the plan OF op-
portunity. A man nowadays hardly
knows what he is going 10 do. When
! arise, | may read the papers and |
may not. Ne may plan our days, or
i we NAV not, but We should spend at
& least FIVE minutes each day making
plans The happenings of one day may
be fatal to a nan.
Take, for instance, the work OF D--
Nicholas Murray Butter, of Columbia
University. New York Every matter
thst comes before him during the day
is cleaned up before his Office Is closed,
for the evening. When the work is
done. It is done, and the average day
! he lives is what he plans. Every twen-
tv-four hours with AIS is an investment
and II may have profitable memory
or may have one that is not profitable.
IN closing l want to speak of mo
tives. purposes and ideals. We speak
al times of mems motives and the
causes that lead up to the formation,
tives When we find ourselves at the end
Our fellows at times infer our mo-
tves have been summed up by someone
we are surprised more than once. III
you hear someone yelling liar, scOun-
drel etc Won can be pretty certain