The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-01-23

acter of youth, on the future OF wo-
men teachers, and entered with zest
into the most brilliant social func-
tion the city of Atlanta has witness
ed in years.
University education for the lead
ers of the negro race, for their ply
sicians and professional men, and in
>dustrial and primary education for
the body of workers composing the
balance of the race was the note
struck by President Elect Taft in his
address to a big meeting of negroes
here.
with your efforts" said Judge
Taft, Ito uplift yourself, l have the
deepest sympathy. l say as the COM
ing president that I must stand as
the representative of all the Ameri-
can people. The president of the
United States can have no more
sacred functions than to speak words
of encouragement and hope to as
sist your efforts. Fate in the past
has not been kind to you and the
whole American people has the high
est obligation of trusteeship and
guardianship for your uplift.
81 say to the colored men and yye-
men of this country, that as the read
is likely to be in the future, it will
be a road onward if you abide by
your consciences and by ideals of
self-restraint and that you will 1T
tain condition you hardly dresm
of to-day"
Mr.. Taft said he would not dis
cuss race feeling or race prejudice.
Then he continued:
Every one of you know that no.
BILE and sympathetic men and women
in the South have been of the great
est aid to your development that
you will develop faster and
faster through the efforts made by
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Interesting among the things that
Mr.. Taft said in the day speeches
was his exhoIation to the young
men of the chronological schools not
to let their desires for big jobs over
balance their absolute honesty
"The greatest liars that l have
ever met are unprincipled experts, .
was his comment
In his four years as secretary of
war, Mr.. Taft said he had come in
direct contract with the best engi-
neers Of the world
After pleasant speech at the
state university which is the oldest
state university in the country, in
which the high ideals of student life
were pictured, Mr.. Taft said with the
greatest feeling.
Il love Yale as I loved my mother
He believes that the student who
ever stands first in his class and at
the same time goes away without
a profound love for the institution,
it's surrounding and atmosphere had |
missed one of the most beneficial |
elements of university life.
After expressing the belief. that |
ul6AOA pay Woulu eventually COuS |
10 women teachers, he continued:
"But whether happens, you may
always have the satisfaction of know
ing that there is no higher profession
known in which self secrifice is mani
'ested more clearly and none in
which more good can be done than
hat of the teacher. congratulate
you on beginning your life in that
vay and I hope you will continue it.
through life and not regard matri-
nony as necessary. | think that the
Iecret of most domectic infelicity Is
n the thought that young women
.hink that unless they are married,
heir lives are not 4 success. AS a
natter of fact, think the reverse
) exactly true, Look into your own
ives and your families. Take some
.unnt OF yours who never married.
What sweet, self sacrificing disin-
crested and lovely character she I
las grown to be-. seventy and eighty
ears of age and think what benef-
ence she shall spread over all the
amily circle in which she lives and
hen tell that she would have been
etter off If she had married. l do
ot believe it,"