The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-15
B. 7. WASHINGTON
IS HUM0R|ST
Famous Educator Drives Home His
Points With Clever Little Story
in the Negro Dialect.

DR. Booker T. Washington closed
his day OF lecturing In Detroit, Thurs
day, by giving an address 10 the peo-
pie OF his own race In Bethel A. NJ.
K. church. Hastings and Napoleon
SITS, In the evening. The church was
crowded 70 the limit with people
standing In the aisles. The speaker
urged the Negroes TO get away from
the Idea that they are down-troddel
race and bound TO have 10 live by
mental toll He declared that this Is
the real Negro problem.
Teaching OF the idea that independ-
ent work liz possible and worth while,
by education and Industrial training.
was the cure that he recommended.
Too many Negro children hear so
much about the race question that
they get the notion that there is no
chance for them to rise. This is 4
mistake. Others have risen the
Negro can rise"
The Negroes in the audience were
urged To retain steady places OF
abode and To build up bank accounts.
He told them that they can best help
the Negro in the South by showing
progress In the North To compete
with other forms OF labor, the Negro
must give up gambling and other
things that keep him up at night, DR..
Washington said
DR.. Washington was entertained IN
the home OF Bishop c. s. Smith. He
left Detroit. Thursday night.
AS teller OF stories in Negro
dialect there is certainly cl,ss 10 DR..
al ,...1p, tn.1
during his visit TO Detroit, Thursday
Two colored women met in tho
road Said one:
Sis Liza whah's you gwin?
Why Sis Cah'line, Sc done been
whah 'se gwine. said the other.
That's the trouble with the older
races. Theyse done been whah
they'se gwine.'
I'VE have farmers Institutes at
Tuskegee every year. One old far
mer used To get up every time he got
"A chance and say, 'se done glad to
say dat ma neighbuhhood's prosperin.'
Mo an mo- of my Neighbour own dey
own pigs asked him why he al
ways spoke about the pigs.
Mist Washington. he said, /
thank Gawd whenevuh anuthah of ma
Neighbours gets his own pigs cause
finds dat de mo OF dem owns dere
own pigs. de sounah can sleep
And | have found, with the old
farmer. that you cant make good
Christian ont of q hungry man"
AT another farmers institute. An
old farmer was telling us how he had
cultivated his farm and improved It's
soil until he was getting ii bolls OF
cotton TO a stalk where he used 20
yet only four. He told us how he had
improved IL from year TO year. one
Of the others got NJ and asked him
some questions aud then asked him
his name
Well, sun said the old Negro
When used to live in little one
room cabin an was always in debt
at de sto' an didn't have nuthin. dey
used ter call me Ole Jim Hill But
row dat ise got house with TO rooms,
painted inside an out an don't owe
nobody but got money in de bank, dey
calls me Mistuh James Hill
He had learned how to win the re-
spect of the world
when the Tuskegee industrial
school was started. we had just one
little room Then | needed more room
and got an old hen-house TO make an
edition. | asked an old Negro TO
help me clean it out. He seemed
very reluctant ana held back, scratch
ing his head Finally he said
4 reckun, Mistuh Washington. you
amt ve'y familyuh with these hyeah
customs in this neighbuhhood Nobody