Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-24
DOING SHARE OF WORK
Address Feature Of Reception to
Visiting Colored Physicians.
DIR. TINDALL ALSO A SPEAKER
Welcomes Guests in Behalf Of Conn
missioners-Smoke by Mu-So-
Lit Club Enjoyed.


Of Washington at Nineteenth Street Bap-
fist Church and an informal smoker by
the Mu-So-Lit Club at True Reformers'
Hall claimed the attention OF the men,
bers OF the National Medical Association
last night, and the visitors met several
thousand Washington people. A number
of delegates returning from the National
Negro Business League also were present.
Scott Bonds. the wealthy negro from
Arkansas. was prominent figure.
At the church. speeches. music and
a general reception was the order.
DIR. W. s. Lotion. chairman Of the local
committee, presided. DR.. William Tindall,
secretary Of the board OF Commissioners
for the District Of Columbia, delivered
an address Of welcome.
DR.. Tindall said that the convention had
q special interest to every one. as every
body Is liable TO get sick or injured or
the skill and wisdom of the physician,
dentist and pharmacist to get well, and
there could. therefore. be no doubt of
the sincerity of the greeting the delegates
were receiving
Afr stating that. in view Of the con-
tribution Of the country at large to the
support OF the District government the
members OF the convention had the same
interest in the welfare Of the National
Capital as its own citizens. he added that
the commissioners were accordingly the
official representatives Of the visitors as
well as of the people Of the District. and
that the welcome the Commissioners ex-
tended through him was, therefore, q well
come to their own, and although super
fiuous. was none the less hearty and
sincere.
Address by Judge Terrell.
DR.. NJ o. Dumas, for the local commit
tee. made an address Of welcome.
Judge Robert II. Terrell made the prin-
cipal address Of the evening. He said, in
part:
You could have selected no place more
appropriate for your meeting than this
federal reservations place that belongs
to you as well as to those OF US who dwell
within its limits. and q place whose tide
OF interest is national in its character
rather than local. Every day in the year
the states from which you come are rep
resented here by men and women who
have found employment In the service OF
the government OF our common country.
And when Congress is with US the great
things done by that august body mean az
much to you as they do to us who know
no other home hut this. In q sense, there
fore. when you are in the District OF CO.
lumbia you are on your own territory
There are many interesting things
about the city Of Washington, but none
more so than the fact that in proportion
to its size there dwell here more people
with negro blood in their veins than In
any other single community in the world.
You will find these people engaged in
every field Of commendable endeavor.
Successful in Professions.
"Colored men are here doing their
share Of the work as skilled and unskih-
ed laborers on the public thoroughfares.
You will find them more largely employed
in domestic service than any other peo-
pie. They perform all classes Of work.
from the highest to the humblest, in the
great executive departments Of the ma
tional government, as well as under our
municipal government. In the learned
professions they have made a commenda-
BILE success. because the coiored people
here, as elsewhere. are beginning to
realize more and more that their lives
and their souls and their business AFFAIRS
are as safe in the hands OF the colored
physician. the colored preacher and the
colored lawyer as In the hands Of white
men in the same professions.
I'm the business world. too, we have
made a beginning full OF promise. full OF
hope and full OF encouragement. But the
one thing above all others In which the
colored people Of this community take the
greatest pride. and justly 50. because IT
has been the source OF the greatest good
to them, is the part they play In the
public school system. Last year 1S,O6o
colored children were taught by $40 col
ored teachers; and for their services these
teachers received an aggregate salary Of
$3.50, 100. In addition to this We have
Howard University, with its 1900 stu
dents and q faculty in which colored men
play no Insignificant part. I know that
you share with us the satisfaction, pride
and interest we take In all OF these things
that are SO near and dear to our hearts"