Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-25
PROMINENT EDUCATORS
At HAMPTON NORMAL.
Addresses are Delivered al
Thanksgiving Services in
Institute Chapel.
(BY w. A. AERY).


instruction in North Carolina since
1902. and DR.. William Knox Tate
Charleston, s. c., stste superinten
dent of the public schools OF Soutf
Carolina, spoke at the Thanksgiving
services held yesterday morning II
the Hampton Institute Memorial
church.
DR.. Joyner and DIR. Tate, along with
the other ten members 81 the study
tour party of the Association Of
Southern State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, visited the Nor
NAL School buildings and classes from
eight o'clock until eleven. Then they
inspected the school battalion, which
had assembled rapidly to the strains
of Dixie" north and east of the Me
mortal church.
After the singing OF several planta-
ton songs, including Steal Away
Home" and Swing Low, Sweet Cha
riot" and a brief devotional service.
DR. II. B. Frissell introduced DIR. Joy.
ner. who spoke in part as follows &C
the Hampton school audience:
your song has touched the electric
chord of memory, which carries me
back to the old plantation. We who
come from the various Southern
states realize the problems which you
are working out. They form a part
of the common problem OF the South
land which the educational depart
ments OF the Southern States must
face and solve We have come seek
ing light from a source Of greater
light SO as to be able to shed light
in dark places among the negroes.
"How seldom we stop in the mad
rush Of this busy world to be thank
full for what we have. Blessings
come to us so fast that We accept
them as a mere matter of course and
straightway forget them. II is well
for US to remember on this Thanks
giving Day some of the myriad bless
ings which have been sent to us--air,
food, raiment, sunshine, singing
birds. Dlossoming flowers, and health.
All that we have, all that We are
whence come all our blessings?
"You should be profoundly thank
full for this institution. which was
planted by great-souled man TO help
all men. We should thank God for
Hampton Institute, for all its work
in the past, and for all its work in
the present.
Here you are carrying on educa
ton which gets its roots into human
lives, into the needs of tho land, the
time, the people. No growth in edu>
cation can come unless~ the roots are
planted deep in the homes of the peo-
pie. Your roots go down into the life
of the negro of the South.
Hampton teaches negroes TO do
things to improve life and conditions
today.
at is great to know Il is great
to do. 1t is still. greater to be. The
purpose of RAmptonSis to help you
to know all, to do all, and to be all
that God would have you. We must
look to you to come back and help
US raise your race TO a higher level
of efficiency and service.
Lincoln helped to bring the negro
the boon of physical emancipation,
but Lincoln never set the negro free
No power under heaven car set a
man free. He muse set himself free.
Emancipation. elevation, education
these are all important. Through
education come emancipation and
elevation. Seek education for eman.
cipation and elevation
1T have been glad to see you eman-
cipating your hands. There are even
now too many cnslaved hands-white
and black The hand which Is un-
touches by skill is nothing more than
q monkeys paw In power. The band
that is trained. skilled. and intelli-
gently used, Is transformed into
something very valuable
81 am glad to see that you are be
ing trained for agriculture. ] believe
that the safest and happiest home
for the negro is on the farm. There
he viii be freezer from temptation
and from destructive competition
hone you are making farmer and no.
agricuiturists. believe that you
are
The people Of the South are 20
ing TO Judge negro education not by
what is said about u. not by What is
written ABOUT ". OIt Dy tue ttie ahtu
work OF individual negroes wro have
been given the opportunity OF secur'
ing az education What individuaE
do and are viii count. II education
places = bar ebctveen the individual
and his race. n love Is not present
he can not lead. Go out into WIDER
stronger. happier life Above all. 20
cut to a life q service Go -Out "a
love. lead and mt your people"
Then Major r r Motion led the
congregation IN the sinKing Of we
Are Climbing Jacobs iedcer
I DIT. Tate pointedDous clearly that i
the negroes Of the Southland could
fairly grasp The meaning Of the dig
nifty Of their service IN cuitivstins
corn and cotton and IN doing much~tc
ciothe and feed the world. they would