The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-08
WASHINGTON TELLS
NEGROES FARMING
IS HIS OCCUPATION
The Soil Knows No Color Line,
He Says, and viii Yield as
Much to the Black as to the
White.
Governor Mann. DR.. Mitchell
and Mrs. Munford Also
Speak. Purposes and Meth
DDS of Organization Ex-
planned at Meeting.

II find my race at It's best on the
farm. Teach your children and your
ri1dren's children to go back to the
soil and plant themselves there. for
the soil knows no color iine, and with
intelligent effort will yield the same
wealth to the black man that il does
to the white man.
There is IA golden opportunity In
the rural South for the negr1 who viii
work: If you don't take advantage OF
II some foreign race will be brought
here to supply the labor that the
Southern farmer must have"
Striking Features.
These words formed the most strik-
Ing declaration OF the address Of DIR.
Booker r Washington. president OF
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial insii~
fute. who has had more succs ssfui ex-
perience In the training Of men Of hts
race than any man IN the country, last
night AT a mass meeting ~ the Negro
Organization society AT the CITY audi
toriun.
The manifold purpose Of the or
Fanszation ts 30 cooperate the or
ganized forces among the race for the
hctterment Of church. home, school
and farm. The man who has had
the most experience in teaching his
race tn help themselves emphasized
the rural development and pointed out
the opportunities BEFORE them.
The audience composed Of repre-
sentative colt red people, with prob
ably three undred whites. packed
Il $3.50. y fs.4sAr-
nor william Hodges Mann pr. $. c,
Mitchell pTesideFl ~ the Medical
College If Virginia Dr.. II. n. F'ris-
sell. president OF Hampton institute,
ard Mrs II II. Muuford, president of
tho eso-operltsve Education assoelR.
ton. took 4 prominent part ia ths
fsnpe and inspiration for inc enco0r &.
agernent OF TIE movement,
Music II Csood.
Music for The occasion was fur
nished by the Selka Bats ~. Choral
society an organization composed of
about two tunorad voices selected
from the negro church cho.4S II Rich
mord. 1t rendered the Ansu Chorus
and several jubilee songs with fine
effect and exquisite harmony. 1t was
dne music
The best thing we car do for the
negro race" said Mrs Muuford, is
10 believe In them and help them 10
help themselves. and then get behind
that effort with our strength and
power
The negro organization. she declared.
could be made a clearing house for ne
rross need aiong every iine---sehoois,
churches, homes and streets~-but eacn
effort must take concrete form.
Mrs Munford's address made pro-
found impression on her audience The
negro otgaaisation is modelled after the
Cooperative Education association.
and as president OF the latter organiza-
ton she has already been lending her
efforts TO promote the work.
Governor Gives Advice.
The chief executive gave his audi
ence some interesting figures showing
the advancement the negro has made
in America and urged them not to be
satisfied with present accomplishments
TO dream and have visions was com
menaahle for possibilities could be de-
yeleped into realities
.RiEhteous. God fearing, God serving
homes" he said. ARE the fountain
heads OF civic righteousness. would
Law down my life for Virginia. but the
sacrifice would be. not for wealth, NOT
for wisdom. but that every home in
this Commonwealth might be pure
Christian home"
Mrs Maggie walker, president OF 81.
l.uke's bank. and the only negro wo-
man bank president in America. intro
ducee DR. Washington, who spoke Tor
half an hour in commentator OF inc
work Of the organization ana giving
Ms race some good advice. His adj
dress teerned with anecdote and human
interest stories which betrayed the
thorough knowledge the man has OF
The relation of the races in the South.
II had often been said. he asserted
that the Southern white man under
stands the negro better than ANYBODY
else He would add 10 that the negro
understands the Southern white man
hotter than ANYBODY else and knows
how to ret tina most out OF him. The
white man has double responsibility
he has not only his own salvation 10
work out. but he must set the example
fContinued on Second PaGe'}