The Twin City star., 1916-09-30
B. 7. WASHINGTON
AS RACE LEADER
Woods Hutchinson, N. O., on
Worth Of Late Educator.
TUSKEGEE HIS MEMORIAL,

Eminent Physician Writes lnterestin.
Story About the Founder of Grea
Southern Industrial School - Posi-
biIities Of the CoIorsd People Ar
Ably Presented.
In a recent issue of the New Yorl
American DR.. Woods Hutchinson con
tributes an article on the late Or
Booker T. Washington. in which he In
part says:
This is not all ungrateful world,
after all. Within a few months of
bis death comes the gratifying re
port that the memorial fund to the
great founder of Tuskegee has already
reached $25O.OOO. His greatest me-
mortal. Of course. is and will ever be
Tuskegee itself and the spirit Of self
reliance upon which 1t is founded.
He had the clear sightedness to see
and this was his great Transforming
vision for the salvation Of his race
that any man. white or black. who
could stand firmly and fatty upon
mother earth and win from the ele-
ments by his own brain and muscle,
illumined by science. a place and liv-
Ing need not worry much about recOg-
milton by any other race or class.
Next to his shrewd and dogged in
sistence in the training Of its students
that they must stand upon their own
feet. depend upon their own biceps and
brains for success and Forget for the
present everything else came an equal
ly keen and helpful recognition of the
wide field of development and progress
which lay before them within their
own race. regardless entirely Of the
white.
Eleven million sOuls--a nation with
In a natiOn-certainly furnish a wide
enough field for development for enter
prise and adventure-a population and
a territory as great as Switzerland. as
Holland. as Belgium. as Canada or
Australia. The Negro merchant who
can draw all the trade OF two thirds
or even half Of his own people within
his county or tributary district has a
good business and the makings of a
fortune.
A Negro banker who can secure the
accounts Of all the forehanded farmers
ind tradesmen and intelligent artisans
and labOrers of his own race has q
good business ready to bis hand. Ev.
cry county town with 1900 or more
colored population to draw from will
furnish good living for q Negro doc
tor. lawyer. three or four ministers and
4 dozen teachers.
A Negro dairy. Negro creamery.
cheese factory. an associat ton Of
Negro fruit growers. can find ready
market and good trade among their
own people In the county. state or
1eighboring states. Why do they need
% concern themselves with what their
white neighbors think about the color
inc?
The extent to which this new spirit
II self respect and independence and
'acial pride has already spread. not
merely from Tuskegee. but q hundred
'ther lesser centers as well. Is one of
he most cheering and encouraging
'igns Of the times 70 the student Of
conditions as they actually
'xist In the south today.
The spirit of the more intelligent and
houghtful and successful Negroes
md there are tens OF thousands Of
no longer one Of bitterness
gainst their white neighbors or Of We 4
cement assertion Of their equality in
very respect. but one Of friendly CON-
'etitiOn. Of quiet and increasing self |
aspect and mutual respect and Of firm
to win their own way.
ght their own battles. regardless OF
acial rivalries.
They have the future before them.
nd they are willing to wait and let
be next hundred or two hundred or |
hree hundred years decide the ques.
lon Of what their real racial worth |
nd possibilities are.
Thanks to Tuskegee and the wide |
pread feeling which II both leads and |
ypifies. the race problem In the south
J making much more genuine and en-
Ouraging progress toward solution
han IL usually supposed. One ~ the
lings that really proved Booker
Washington great was his ability to
.cO"nize the difficult truth that there
no real conflict between the best and
lost vital interests of the Negro and
le white people.