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PRESIDENT SEES HOPE OF RACE
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Mr.. Carnegie Much-TaTt's Reasons
Tor Hope OF solving Race Problem.
GID POINT COMFORT. Va, Nov. 20
President Taft. ex-Preeident Eliot ot
Harvard and Andrew Carnegie looked
upon the 400 students, negro and Indian,
at Hampton Institute to-day and found
them good. The tone OF every speaker
from the President to an Indian girl.
Lana Ludwig, who said that all her
people, the Oneida Indians OF Wisconsin
ever got from the Government was ~
cents apiece each year for services in the
! Revolutionary war, was hopeful and the
applause which greeted the President
and Mr. Carnegie was unstinted.
Hr. Taft left the Maytiower early and
came up to Hampton in company with
DR.. H. B. Frissell principal OF the school.
He reviewed the school cadets and in
spected the buildings OF the institution
and then was guest at a luncheon given
at DR.. FrisselI's house to the board OF
( trustees. At a special meeting d the
board before the luncheon President Taft
assumed his duties as a member OF the
board.
= The trustees present were: DR.. Curtis
James, New York; William j. Schiehelin.
New York; A. s. Frissell, New York;
George Foster Peabody, New York;
Bishop William n. Mcvickar. Providence;
w. w. Frazier. Philadelphia. the Rev.
James W. Cooper. New York; Or. Francis
@. Peabody. Cambridge; Lunsford l..
Lewis, Richmond.
Il was announced that Robert L.
Ogdenaof New York. member. had been
called north by the serious illness OF his
wife. Announcement was made also
that Clarence H. Kelsey. president oil the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company OF
New York. classmate Of the President
and valeSiictorian Of Yale rs, had been
elected to the board.
The gymnasium was packed to the doors
when the President took his seat at 2:s0
o'clock. The best singers OF all the 1,4Oo
cadets were banked on the right Of the
hall. On the right of Mr.. Taft was Mr..
Carnegie and on his left was DR.. Eliot.
/. Ex Gov. Montague OF Virginia was the
first speaker. He assured his hearers
that It was through such institutions
as Hampton that the white man and the
black man would be drawn together.
He saw them In the future drawing closer
TO each other.
The Oneida indian girl gave Mr.. Taft
his first good chance to laugh. but the
tears had come when the melodious
negro voices chanted religious songs.
when Lena Ludwig told about the a cents
her tribesmen get each year the Presl-
dent broke into long laugh. Major X X.
Morton, leader OF the singers, got the
second Presidential laugh when he said
that he'd been a negro forty-two years
and was not sorry for it;
DR.. Eliot looked into the past and then
-. H. Rs.Nw DAN aW.I ha 1Nm
that no race had grown great while IL
chose to live the nornad life. 1t was
through the turning to the pursuit OF
agriculture that a race made It's frst
education that it launched upon it's race
sNever halt said DR.. Eliot Never
despair. Learn something every day
and put it to work. Keep at it all your
Mfe. Work not three days week, but
five and half. That's enough.
Il went through your schools here to-
day and saw every one working. did
not see a person working in the spirit OF
s DONG Ss 'ts oes as
earnest and in love with his task
-It Is q pity that we cannot have more
Hamptons. We should have one in every
6tets.either supported by the Government
After DR.. Eliot stopped talking an
immense cheer started. followed by sing
ing OF annie Laurie
Mr.. Carnegie smiled and kept time
family with the music. When the choir
started Loeb Lomond." however, there
came just a suspicion OF moisture into his
eyes and Mr.. Carnegie said that the ground
on which Hampton had once been known
was Little Scotland" and declared that
IL search were made the bones could be
found. And" he said. they'll be the
bones OF a ScotohmAn.
Ladies and gentlemen" said the Laird.
you'll be wanted in the celestial choir.
. have never heard the airs of Scotland
= sung as you have sung them to-day"
President Taft was the last speaker.
z He said that usually he made composite
speech out OF what he had heard the men
! cay who preceded him. On this occasion
he couldn't do that because the things be
bad beard were so weighty he was amazed,
(, M yWhen,- said Mr.. Taft, I'VE see men on
the one side, il 1 may say SO. like Gov.
Montague. and on the other like Major
"a Motion, / think we can believe that what
is known in this country as the negro
Z problem is nearing its solution. do not
mean that it Is solved. IL may not be
solved in a decade, but when you take
the speech of Gov. Montague and that OF
Major Motion and put them together and
both Is being carried into the life OF this
country you can see that you do have q
solution of the race question"
The President said that 1t was such
institutions as Hampton that are to solve
the problem. He said that for the next
threetyear he intends to work to bring
the black and the white closer together.
Altar the speech the President hurried
TO Old Point Comfort and boarded the
Mayfower. She steamed out OF the
Roads at $50 O'Clock She is expected
to reach Washington early tomorrow.