The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-29

rial exercises held at Washington for
Booker T. Washington. late head of
Tuskegee institute, was r. r. Motion
of Tuskegee and success to Doctor
Washington. The exercises were held
in connection with the annual conven-
ton of the colored teachers associa-
ton of the state.
Other speakers at the meeting who
paid high tribute to the late head of
Tuskegee institute were two of the
states most prominent citizens, w. w.
Campbell, a banker of Tuskegee, and
former president Of the Baptist state
convention, and II. o. Murfee, presi-
dent of Marion institute.
Mr.. Campbell told of his acquaint.
ance with Booker Washington and his
work for a quarter of a century and
spoke OF the high regard in which he
was held by the white people of
Tuskegee and Macon county.
Mr.. Murfee paid a tribute to Booker
Washington as a leader of his race
and an educator and told of the SPLEEN
did work he had done TO elevate the
Negroes of the South. Mr.. Murfee
stated that the late head of Tuskegee
was held in the highest regard by
educators throughout the nation and
that he had done much to bring about
a better feeling between the races.
A large number of prominent white
men and women attended the meeting,
a large number of seats having been
reserved for them. The address of
Principal-elect Motion was the first de-
liYered in this state since he was
chosen as the successor to Booker
Washington, and he created a most
favorable impression.
Booker 7. Washington's educational
program was not merely local, it was
national, worldwide in scope he said.
Industry, thrift, morality, decent
homes, clean bodies and minds, better
methods of farming-a kind of educa-
ton which made a universal appeal
was his. 1t vas an education that
helped farmers to do better farming,
the carpenter to do better carpenter.
ing, and the cook to do better cooking.
He believed hat education in the
broadcast sense should teach a farmer
how to get more out of an acre by better
methods; that a carpenter was receiv-
ing useful and very necessary instruc-
tion when taught how to build a bet
ter and more beautiful home at less
cost; and to instruct those who cook
how to keep a cleaner kitchen and pre-
pare a more appetizing meal at less
expense was, in his opinion, an educa-
ton of the most essential sort.
Booker T. Washington was most
persistent in his efforts that educa-
or teacher, should be linked in a def
mite, tangible way to life, and the life
of the lowly man and woman in par.
ticular-for he wanted to see each
man and each live to do better
in his daily vocation. This idea he
worked out and put into practice in
such a remarkable and convincing
way as to command the respect and
admiration of the entire world.
The colored schools of Alabama, as
a rule, have been wise enough to fol-
low Doctor Washington's course, and
as a result the white people of the
state are growing more interested in
Negro schools. If the white man sees
that Negro education makes a more
industrious community, if he sees bet
ter results on his farm, in his kitchen,
better behavior on the streets, in the
life and conduct OF the colored people
of the community generally, he will
not only believe in and unreservedly ap-
prove of Negro education, but he Will