Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

Ks9GNNE day last year man walked into the
AgS ~ study of DR.. FriSsell at Hampton 1nsti-
X4A tute and laid before him map. Radiat-
v9&MNSI ing from tiny star placed over the town
XGTG32 of Hampton were thousands of red lines,
NWS1A hundreds of them terminating in each
NtESNS of the Southern States scores reaching
&SHNSS, their slender threads into the great heart
of the West; others spanning the peaks
of the Rocky Mountains; again they carried their red
symbol into arid desert spaces; they made network
of the bleak New England Coast Not few out into
the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, marking their unseen
terminals in the Orient, Africa and Europe
Interested, but not understanding the principal of
Hampton Institute inquired its purpose
When he told that wherever line terminated
could be found direct result of his work for the better
ment of the human race irrespective of creed color,
the doctor took immediate possession of the map ex
acting promise that it would never be redrawn
at is neither kindness good taste to aid your fell
low man and then wound him by telling of it. was his
gentle reproof. mot |, but Hampton and the Hamp-
ton spirit are responsible for it. Works that good
speak for themselves. We mustn't draw maps of
them"
Therein hes possibly, the reason why the most re-
arkable school in the world guided by the brain and
heart of master builder of character whose sane calm
Judgment has brought to pass almost inconceivable
results, remains comparatively unknown Good works
stance their voice single, and reaches but few at
best. But if the @good works of Hampton Institute
were assembled in cathedral chorus their marvellous
chant would echo round the world.
Perhaps it would be nearly correct to say that
Hollis Burke Frisse and his school comparatively
unknown in America Scores of books and articles have
been written in almost every European tongue about
this first and greatest of all industrial Institutes, and
there are few nations that have not sent their experts
across seas to study Hampton methods
Yet in the United States, where through its agency
and direction millions upon millions OF dollars have been
spent and real laterday miracles wrought for the literal
material uplift of the white man. the Indian, and the
negro Ii tie has been written and less read.
TT has become recognized fact by the great majority of
thoughtful intelligent men, irrespective of Northern
or Southern BIRTH that the terrible problem
confronting the South rapidly being transformed into
merely economic question, capable to large degree
of being answered by the proper education of the negro
Wherever has been possible to train the negroes to do
their work competently and nsti into them knowl-
edge of the white mans moral standard there you will
find any sort of problem reduced to a minimum.
The foundation rock upon which this invaluable indus
trial and agricultural training has been built Hampton
Institute. There, under efficient corps of than
one hundred white instructors, negro youth of both
sexes are taught not alone to labor Skfully field and
shop in home and 1vorkroom, but to understand the
dignity of labor and the honor of service Criticism
implies knowledge; hence it practically impossible
to record adverse criticism the task to which Dr.
Frsse has devoted the last thirtythree of his
life None the less the almost unbelievable results at
tanned would tax creduty. they not borne out by
proofs that leave the investigator in amazed admiration
at the work accomplished
In fortyve years Hampton has sent out nearly nine
thousand graduates and undergraduates carry the
Hampton spirit" of labor and service into the world
and the carefully kept records prove that more than
eighty per cent have kept the faith. As illuminating
sideght upon the permanent character of the moral
training they received fact that not of these
nine thousand has ever been sent to penal institution
1t exceedingly doubtful if the alumni of any college
or university in the world show clean record
All over the South the thin red lines ran to Schools
great and small modelled after Hampton and directed by
teachers graduates whose training acquired at the