The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-06-01

6HAEHM SoiiqltlOIS, IOr | am sure
iva TfiS relations existing between the
white and colored races In Durham
are better than what I have observed
elsewhere In America. To help your
race forward and to improve these
good relations between the two races
Is an opportunity for which this in
stltut1on ought to be most grateful"
Tne final event Of the first annual
commencement was 1920 a. m., last
Thursday. The colored business men
closed their offices and other indus
tries and even the bank closed for the
event, which gave the city among
Negroes an inspiring holiday ASPECT
The large audience was thrilled by
the scholarly address of Justice Wen
dell Phillips Stafford. associate justice
supreme court District Of Columbia,
who In his subject 1.-THE Gaspel of
Foet'y gave the large audience one
or the most intellectual and practical
addresses ever heard. in this city.
mere are two ways OF Judging q
people. One is by the great men and
women 1T produces. The other is by
race. But the two alway go togeth-
er. A great race produces great rep
resentatives; and great representa-
tives raise and lead forward the peo-
pie from which they sprang. Think
or the greatest man Of the ancient
ume, the mighty iawgiver~ of Israel
Moses was the true child of his race
ncnUp1
ing ms people out Of the land of
bondage into land Of liberty and
light. Or take the black race and
thlnk of Toussaint L'Overture. A
slave on San Domingo plantation
VINO became chieftan, ruler, a
statesman. and finally a martyr for
his people. His fate stirred the pulse
or Wordsworth, who wrote of him:
'lhere is not breathing Of the COM
mon wind that will forget thee" We
might come nearer home, to our own
day, and not lack for example. This
School was born Of the realization of
THIS deep truth, that every race must
nave its leaders. 1t is not enough to
provide fort the average man. You
uonal man. You must encourage
leadership. You must see that those
WHO by nature and ambition are CAL
culated to lead shall be, by education
ana discipline, fitted to lead wisely.
every race will have its leaders. The
back race will have its own We
cannot prevent it; bnt we can, see to,
/
I'VE can see to it that they shall be
filled with true ideals of service. The
time has gone by when you could put
the human mind into dungeon The
instruct for something better is un-
conquerabie. Men will have light.
Ihey Will have their share in the
fruits of the worlds progress. No
dead weight of opposition can ever
Keep down the mighty influence of
growth. OF all the follies that ever
TOOK possession Of the human mind
the supreme folly is to suppose that
you can keep a man ignorant if he
wants to learn. The question is, what
snail he learn? Shall it be vice and
crime and rebellion against society
Niiu i'", vi oildil IL De tIutn ana VIZ
the and loyalty to God and to the
state? That is the question:" said
Judge Stafford when touching upon
the Negro question. ..
The prizes were presented by Hon.
n. Is. Broughton, Of Raleigh. In de-
livering the address president J. e.
shepard. in part exclaimed: "Value
character; value time; be faithful and
loyal to every trust; be true to your
self. Finally, SOW everywhere the
seeds of truth, love and contentment;
try to scatter sunshine; make friends
or the people among whom you live,
ooth white and black, and show to
them that this institution exemplifies
IN the conduct Of it's students and
graduates love to country, love to our
own Southland-for the Southland is
our home and its people our friends
love Tor right, truth and Justice; that
our graduates and students honor
work, and that it is their pleasure as
we'll as duty to try and lift up the
man down"
During the week addresses were
made by Mr.. Joseph Gamson, assis-
tant secretary Y. NJ. G.. A.. Fall River.
Mass; Prof. R. b. McRary and Mr..
w. G. Chase.