The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-06-06
IN LARGE NUMBER ATTEND FL
NAL EXERCISES OF NORTH
'. CAROLINA SCHOOL ~~
Baccalaureate Sermon
Was an Inspiring Message Full OF
Optimism and Boys PLY Til ir
Trade for the Benefit of Visitors
for Half Hour While Plant is in
FuI Opsration. So. -..

Greensboro, N. c., June 3.-Tne fl
nails Of 'the North Carolina State A.
M. College for. the colored race, this
city, DR.. Jas. B, Dudley, president, at
tracted an unprecedented large num-
Der Of former graduates and visitors
to this city last week. The. events
beginning May rs through to the 3Oth
were the most interesting in the an
nails of this Well-known institution.
The years work of the college with
the glowing results attained through
its able president and efficient faculty
maintains it's reputation of being the
leading state agricultural and mechan-
ical college for Negroes.
The baccalaureate sermon delivered
by Rev. J. Clyde Turner, pastor of the
First Baptist church, white, this city,
was an inspiring message full of op-
ltimism.- His subject was "Life's Lit
tie Things"
Sunday evening at S:3J o'clock the
annual sermon of the Y. M. c.. A. was
delivered by Rev. E. l.. Madison.
Monday night the annual address
to the Agricultural Literary Society
was delivered by Hon. P. G. Walker,
of Gloucester county, Va
Public education in she South"
was the subject of his address. He
discussed the manner in which the
Negro can better his condition, and
at the same time become a wholesome
factor in the community. He ex-
claimed, !. that the most important
agency, IN educational problems, to be
employed Is the teacher. Continuing
he declared "these men and women
must be consecrated men and women
The--Negro must prepare himself to
become an important element in bus
mess" Revealing some of the edu-
cational exegencies Of today he said:
The need of industrial training in
the public school is no longer q ques-
ton. To change in the best possible
way the condition Of The Negro, he
must be given a practical knowledge
Of life. This can be only given
through a systematic training which
will make producers and altogether
consumers. That race which will pro-
duce through industrial skill the
worlds needs, becomes independent?
The speaker as he continued to cite
fact after fact became foreeful- and
held his audience with close attention.
Among the many strong utterances
he especially emphasized the need of
the Negro to cooperate with he school
authorities as the Negroes are doing
in Virginia by raising special contri-
buttons for the maintenance Of public
schools and increasing their efficieu-
cy among his race.
Il am not Of those who want to get
you away from here, but y want to
keep you here" said the Hon. A. l..
Brooks, the solicitor for this county,
in addressing the Mechanical Literary
Society Tuesday night on the subjec;:
THE Negroes Relations to the South
He said that the criminal element of
character Of thousands of respectable
Negroes in North Carolina. He spoke
Of the. excellent. work being done by
this college. He cited with emphasis
the excellent possibilities for the Ne
gro in this State and exclaimed that
if the Negro would use common sense
that within so years he would own
half of the real estate IN North Car
olina.
After the program for the evening
was rendered, hundreds Of people Wis
ited the various shops. The boys ac-
tually applied their trades for the
benefit Of the visitors during the half
hour the entire plant was in opera
ton.
Wednesday night an industrial
drama by Mrs. Jas. B. Dudley, was
a strong attraction. The drama
strongly revealed the Negroes progress
in such spheres as the institution
prepares the young men for life Of
service.
The Making Of Man." was the sub
ject of an inspiring address delivered
| by Dr. Kendric G. Babcock, specialist
in higher education, United States
Bureau Of Education, on the com
mencement day. His able presenta-