The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-15
TALKS To GIRLS
ALSO THE BOYS
Hon. St. Clair McKeIway
Editor Brooklyn Eagle
BRIGHT WITH HUMOR
The Young Women OF the Baptist
University For Wonien and the
Cadets of the A. and VI. Col
Icge Applaud the Distin-
guisied Speaker.
guishcd Speaker

SAl-iicu SITdhti.
Delightful to all who heard We're
two short addresses made yesterday
by Hon. ST. Clair McKelway, editor ~
the BROOKLYN Eagle, p during the
morning spoke to the students at the
Baptist University for Women. and IN
the afternoon 10 owe four 1undred
cadets at the A. and VI. College.
DR.. McKelway has a rich vein Of
huraor and this runs as a thread OF
gold through his talks. In the midst
Of . talk full Of wisdom and sound
advice, the will come d bright flash
Of it. and his audience will be laugh
ing one minute, while the next II VIII
be absorbing the best Of advice from
the foremost of American journalists
and orators. Dignified in appearance,
a very bishop indeed in looks, yet MS
eye sees the humorous bits of life,
and he takes his audiences into his
4 confidence and shares his h~applnesses
with than.
Or. McKelway spoke at the Baptist
University for Women at 1870 and in
/ addition to the students there were
present many visitors, who heard q
short talk hat WAS full Of interest In
! the afternoon at two o'clock he ad-
dressed the young men at the A. ana
M. College. his address being recelN-
ed with great applause. In his visit
to the two institutions DR.. McKelWay
was accom- panied by Hon. J. Y
Joyner. State superintendent OF PUBIC
Instructions; DIR. George T. WINSTON
president of the A. and NJ College.
and Mr.. J%osephus Daniels. editor OF
The News and Observer. These were
with him on the rostrun at n BaD-
fist University, where he spoke nfst
yesterday morning Yesterday aiter-
noon he left for Chapel Hill. where he
delivers the annual University address
TODAY to the students of the state Uni
yersity. His addresses here were brlef
and were made in response to earnest
~requests after he reached the city on
Thursday evening.
At Baptists University for Women.
Prof. L. D. Watson in a few we'll
chosen words expressed the pleasure
that was felt in having present Dr.
McKelWay, and asked Mr.. ~JoSephus
Daniels to present him to the au-
dience. AS Mr.. Daniels came Onward
he was greeted with much applause.
Introduction by Mr.. Daniels.
Mr.. Daniels began his introduction
by aging that in the early period Of
journalism that it was sufficient for a
man to have a handkerc chief full of
type and $100 for a press to set up
as an editor, and that in that day 1t
was truly a case of the survival of
the fttest. Said he: IN those days
when brains counted more than type
and machinery it took the man to
make the paper, types of these being
Horace Greeley in the Republic, n
E. J. Hale in North Carolina, men
whose personality and wisdom per-
meated every line they wrote. There
have been setbacks in progress in
this line, for in his day of Mergen-
thalers and fast presses it is too often
that the name of the editor is not
known, and that hence there is a loss
Of development to the editor and the
reading public. While this is largely
true in great cities, yet we nave with
US today Hon. St. Clair McKelWay,
who in his character, ability and
power as an editor pours himself into
his paper as he writes and makes
himself one with it. I have the honor
to introduce to you the distinguished
editor of the Brooklyn Eagle"
DIR. McKelWay was greeted with
great applause as he arose, and in
part addressed his deeply interested
audience as follows:
DR.. NcKeIway's Address.
My Friends: The president of a
Northern college whom I presented to
an audience once in the same exag-
egrated terms in which l have been
presented to you, said, I can take
care Of my ~traducers, but God save me
from my irtroducers.''
when MIR. Daniels was
not of me, but of a man l would like
to be, l vas reminded of DR.. John
sons reply to some one who wa dis
cissing an epitaph he had written.
and this was, 1t was not written I'M
der oath. / leave to posterity and the
judgment day the discount on it And
so | leave it to you, young adies if
the arithmetic is not too difficult to
discount at once what has been said
of me, and not leave it to posterity or
the judgment day. That will be a day
of considerable s~elhshness. for every
one will be looking out for himself.
If you say that this is rambling
and inconsecutive and not such a
talk as should pass between "A North
ern man and the students Of a South
ern institution, | Will say that YOU
are correct and true. But what could
you expect when a man at six o'clock
has set down at the ia BILE of hospita!-
ity. and has talked with his host and
eminent guests till half past ten has
then gone to bed and slept like a ton
til seven or eight, has risen. and fol-
lowing breakfast has been enter
tanned and then has come to speak
to you. Why YOU girls couldn't get
UP a composition in that way, for
you would not have had time to have
done your rejecting, writing, revising
and correcting. You can't do things
spontaneously or or the jump outside
of irritation"
What hopuened when the sedate
looking DR.. McKelWay said this can
be imagined. There was not q mo-
ment hesitation on the part of the
girls, but from all parts OF the audi
forum there came ripping, ~gurgling,
joyous girlish laughter, and with it
applause. The Ion the jump" idea
of a Irritation struck them as the
truth. 1t is a thing that takes quick
action and the u woaen seemed
to appreciate the truth of the bare
faced proposition. And then DR.. Me
Kelway went on.
When l have thus explained the
difficulties under which l have come
to you all l can do is to throw myself
on your f~orbearance.
A it appears to me Raleigh is a
city afiuent With churches, replete
with advanced schools, gorged with
colleges and overstocked with nor
mails. In passing about have seen
no signs or police, and while | have
visited law libraries [ have found no
magistrates, no symbols of rule or
~personages of authority. You seem
altogether given over to the acquisi-
ton of knowledge as tie Jews were to
the acquisition of property when they
moved out of Egypt towards Israel.