The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-07-21
Racial
Progress
ALONG MANY LINES rs REPORT
ED AT THE HAMPTON CON-
FERENCE SURVEY,
Preachers Urged
AS Are Also Teachers, to Improve
Their Own Qualities Of Leadership
/ and to Insist OH Cooperation.

OF the nOurteenth annual meeting of
the Hampton. Negro conference, held
at Hampton Institute, yesterday and
| today, shows that it's object was not
mainly that Of laying undue stress
upon money7making schemes, land
getting and holding, and mere ma
terial or economic prosperity. It's
OBJECT was to give to raee-Work ers
and the friends of Negro advance
ment, through selfcontrol, service,
and industry, the benefit Of the ex-
peT1ences Of those who have made
homes, schools, and communities bet
ter and more attractive.
DR.. Hollis B. Frissell, the principal
OF Hampton Institute, opened the
conference by calling upon the Neg
70 leaders to get together and solve
their common problems.
Jackson Davis, the new Virginia
State supervisor of colored schools,
Richmond, Va, outlined the work in
industrial education which Virginia
has been carrying on in ten counties,
and said that the school authorities
were planning to Introduce industrial
education next year in to the schools
of Charles City, Halifax, Chesterfield,
Cumberland, and Goochland Coun-
ties. He added that the work had
commanded interest and respect
among the masses, and had had an
important effect upon the improve
ment OF the young people and that
the results were beginning to appear
IN better and more attractive homes
He urged the Negro teachers to go
back to their communities prepared
to make the best use of what they
had at hand, and advised his hearers
to: remove the two dominating him
ORANGES to progress in the South
idle land idle men.
j. H. Hinford, executive secretary
Of the Cooperative Education Associa-
t1on Of Virginia, told the delegates
to teach their people how to make a
living, how to break down indiffer-
ence towards school improvement
and the extension of the school term,
how to make the school the center of
community interests, and how to
make rural life attractive to young
people. He urged. the introduction
among Negroes of cooperative COM
mercial associations, similar to those
in successful operation In Ireland and
Denmark.
Usefulness of Newspapers.
The relation Of the Negro news
paper to race progress was discussed
by Ocea Taylor, editor of the Wash
ington American, and T. Thomas
Fortune, for thirty years editor of
the New York Age, and at present
associate editor of the Philadelphia
Tribune. Mr.. Taylor pointed out
clearly that the Negro papers had
kept alive the spirit of loyalty and
union among the colored people
themselves, emphasized the progress
and achievements of the race, and
promoted the work of religious and
fraternaI organizations. '~- --~-~------.
DR.. William R. Ward Of the Mutual
Benefit Life Insurance Company, of
Newark, N. j., read @ paper on the
development of life insurance, in
which he laid special emphasis upon
the necessity and value of a medical
examination and selection of insur-
| ance risks. William s. Dodd and
Harris Barrett, both of the business
department Of Hampton Institute, and
William p. Burrell, one of the off,
GERS Of the True Reformers, a power
full Negro fraternI organization
spoke on the importance of improv-
ing life-and-fraternal insurance or
CARNATIONS. He said that Of the two
hundred Negro fratermal organiza-
tions Of the South thirty-scven were
to be found in Virginia. The mem
bersbip Of the Virginia associations
last year was three million the in
come four million dollars, and there
were out standing contracts Of one
hundred million dollars.
DR.. Masten, head Of the Charities
| Organization Of Richmond, urged
the formation Of Childrens Home
Society, similar to one now operated
for the whites of Virginia, and de,
clared that there are at present sixty
Negro children in Virginia aims
lhouses, and ninety-eight Negro chill
Idren in Virginia jalls. He showed