Evening star., 1915-06-22

women, in your constitutional rights
as American citizens You are not
going to accept meekly the place OF
subordination and inferiority which it
has assigned you in the republic. You
are going to hold UP your heads and
your ideals; not bow your necks to the
yokes which your oppressors are try
ing to fasten on you. You are going
to be strong in your young manhood
full spirit. in spite of this iniquitous
treatment. Yes. you are going for
ward, not backward: you are going
to rise, not fall the 1.-THE of a hair in
the scale of being, Of moral and in
dustrial worth and achievement in. a
country enriched by the toll and bloSd
Of our forefathers.
The world lies before you. VIII you
conquer it or will you. thus equipped.
let it conquer you? Finally. in this
with hostile race prejudice, We cannot
emphasize too strongly and too often
the supreme value of chara cter moral
rectitude. moral purity. We need all
of the health. virility of mind and
body which comes from clean, upright
and the bravest fight for victory of
which we are capable In all of the
essentials of good citizenship we have
to be better than the people about US.
Our men and women have got to live
purer. more upright lives than they
live. Our labor must he more honest,
more faithful. more thorough, more ef-
ficient than theirs if we mean to con-
quer for ourselves and children civic
liberty and the equality of law and in
RI 3oty fNl
us In this country, but which we have
got to get if we are ultimately to pre-
vail over that people and those preju-
dtces. to suffice as Industrial factors
and freemen in the struggle of ad-
verse forces to crush U.S. We must not
initiate, therefore, the vices of our en-
emies. but only their virtues
Must Copy Strong Points.
1T Is the strong points, not surely
the weak points, Of our adversary
which you and l have got to copy If
we are ever to overcome him. If we
find that there is a general lowering
of morals in the nation, in the com
munity In which we live. we must not
lower ours In consequence. but raise
them instead. II there is general
tendency on the part of labor to turn
out poor work, dishonest work, shabby
work, we must make our work more
ano more honest. thorough excellent.
mat 10 be as good workers as the
whites, either In the realm of mind or
or matter, we have got to be better:
and that to be as strong as our foes
we must be stronger, are indeed hard
savings, but. believe me, my young
friends. they are worthy of all accepta-
ton For they hold the secret and the
assurance OF our final success, not
hyst
wise, In our battle for bread, for life.
Tor liberty and for the pursuit of hap
plness In this country. These sayings
embody the highest wisdom which hui
man experience and philosophy have to
oner; they discover to US the great
possible. and by which 1t has been
achieved the world over. Acquit your
serves like men. like women. Let no
one desplse you on account of YOUR
work, on account of your character. ON
account OF your race and color"
Special Honors Announced.
scholarship awards and special honors
We're announced as follows:
From Armstrong Manual Training
School-To college of arts and sctances
Howard University, jeremiah Adams. ir
and Hugh Deli Brown; to teachers. col
lege, Howard University, Lawrence Hart
grove. Thomas Clifton Garnett. Anita
Eleanor Hyson and Tamar Mason; high
Graham. oe"
From NJ Street High school-To COL
Iese OF arts and sciences, Howard Uni
versify William Isiaah Barnes, Mabel
May Gibson and Ethel Shirley ParneII:
Sadie Turner Mossel Dorothy p Ji,i
Robinson and William Bernard Hail.
Pupils Receiving Diplomas.
Those who received diplomas were:
From Armstrong Manual Training
school-Thelma Wallace Adams, LII
liam Mae Armwood. Martha Amelia Ash.
Eunice Bates. Mary Frances Birch,
Rena Burnadetta Burrel1, Ruth Leanora
chapman, Helena Celeste Clarke, Ra-
chel Elizabeth Coleman. Gertrude Mae
Cornish, Anna Louise Cornish, Lucille
Elizabeth Crutchf1eld, Mary Dixon,
Rosa Grace Farrar. Maude Gladestine
GIBSON Emma Veronica Graham, Cor
Elsanora Clarence johnson, Mary
Louise johnson, Lillian Arnita Joy, Ia
mar Catherine Mason, Dorothy Mines,
Addie Marie Minter, Hattie Beatrice
Mitchell. Sadie Rena Moore, Elinor
Belle Newman. lola Norman, Florence
l.,
Carrie Louise Sewall, Jessie Beatrice
Spurlock. Wilhelmina Lillian Sydnor,
Ada Warf. Loretta Martha Whitby,
Ethel Helena Williams. Isabelle Mason,
Jeremiah Adams. jr.; George Lloyd AL
len. Booker T. Brent, Hugh Deli
Browne, Roger N Browne. Simeon
Cunningham, Melvin r. Davis. Charles
Augustine Duckette, Thomas Clifton
Garnett. Lawrence Hartgrove, Paul
Bernard Hill. Chester Arthur Porter.
Robert Oscar Powell. George Roscoe
Taylor, Jacob Walker. Frank Joseph
Webster and Melancthon Joseph Wise
man.
From NJ Street High school-Antoi-
nette Georgiana Bacon. Mary Eliza Ba-
con. Beatrice Rhoto Blackiston, Bertha
Louise Brane, Elsie Adele Brown. Lu-
ciIe Gilmore Brown, Beatrice Marie
Bundy. Inez Margaret Burke, Lottie
Irene Veronica Colbert. Naomi Cole
man. Sarah Jane Coleman, Lillian G.
NJ. Contee, Beatrice Grace Curry. Rach-
el Hannah Custis. Joberta Ida Des
Mukes, Dorothy Elizabeth Freeman,
Nellie Louise Freeman, Charlotte
George, Mabel May Gibson. Isabella
Virginia Hall. Mary Elizabeth Haw-
Katherine Irving. Emily Mae Kenney.
Leoneado Jeannette Kenney. Lucille
Isabel Lee. Susan Payne Lucas. Muriel
Aravita Milton, Lillian Estelle Mont,
Lydia Atwood Montgomery, Sadie Tan
ner Nossell. Elsie Louisa Newman,
Helena Portia Norman. Ethel Shirley
Parnell, Susan Harriette Pearson, Car
Eleanor Rivers, Dorothy P. II. Robin