The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-05
WASHINGTON TO
 SUCCEED MOTION AS C0MMANDANT
Will Be DSiscipainarian for 500 Boys at Tuskegee
 Institute

Hampton, Va. May 5.-when Ma jor Robert R. Moton is installed at | the end of the month as principal of | Tuskegee Institute to succeed the late 1 Booker T. Washington, the work | which he has done for so many years | as commandant of the 500 negro and 1 Indian boys at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute will fail to I Allen Wadsworth Washington, now | the associate commandant of cadets, | who is known as Capt" Washington 1 not only locally, but to the people of the country who are interested in Hampton and it's work. As boy Capt. Washington was an oysterman chose harness making for his trade. Since his graduation in 891 he has been associated with Major Moton in l the comman dant's office. Some years ago it used to be said that if Hampton had done no more than train Booker T. Washington it would have paid for itself many times over Recently the nation, especially the South, has been rejoicing that
 Major Moton, another distinguished s graduate of Hampton would soon
 take up Dr. Washington's heavy bur
 den at Tuskegee. To-day, the friends of Hampton and of negro education are pleased that another self-made, Hampto ton-trained man, Allen Wash 1ington, will become the conamandant 4 of cadets at Hampton, where he was graduated in 1ss1-a product of the
 pioneer work of Gen. Samuel Chap man Armstrong;
 Capt. Washington came to the
 Hampton School on the lower Penin- suIaf of Virginia from Gloucester l ICounty-a county which Is well | known on account of the large per I z Iafai7 Harms and their homes. negroes who are 1aw-abiding and thrifty, negroes | who have won the respect of the best
 white people because Qf their indus try and good character.
 He entered the Hampton Institute Night School and became what is call
 ed a work student that is he work 1 ed by day at manual labor and then went to school for two hours on five nights of the week. In 1899 he finish ed the harness-maker's trade and
 then spent two years in the Hampton I day school academic department
 After his graduation, sCapt Wash tington was employed by day in the harness-1n making shop, and by night
 he helped in the commandments de partment. During the next year he Ispents one-haIf of his day in the har-. lness shop and one-half in the com mandant's office. Little by little he Ibecame more active in the disciplin- 1 ary work and soon found his full
 stride in handling boys handling I them with sympathy and still with l f1rrnness.
 How does a coIored man handle his i own people? To answer this ques- l ltion, so far as Capt. Washington is Il concerned, is to say that here is a T man who is ready to explain to boys 1 why it. is necessary for them to obey certain rules; here is friend and | -l. I15e 7x xiT7Hi1 | cannot easily be hoodwinked; here Il is an administrative officer who is Iwifling to explain with calmness what is what and is then prepared to in sist that the boys must do their part
 to maintain the high standards which 1 have characterized Hampton Institute
 for nearly fifty years
 Capt. Washington is, indeed, a big brother to the 500 negro and Indian
 boys who are being trained at Hamp- lton for leadership in school-teaching, farming and mechanical industries
 He is friendly but emphatic in his ad-
 nlinistration of discipline. He is will ling to put the facts squarely to boys, Iand he expects them to do their best
 Even when he has to send away a boy
 occasionally, he gives the best. kind of advice and has in this way start led many boys on a higher path.
 His career is typical of thousands ! of negroes, swho,h during fifty years
 of freedom have emerged from a , livery simple life to take their places lil as leaders in complex civilization :. whether as a farmer. an oysterman, a i, harness-maker, a disciplinarian, or a l trusted officer in some negro organ1- , zation he has always retained his
 native simplicity of speech, his sheer ity and his spirit of racial good will I As an officer of the Hampton School
 Cant. Washington has taken part in E | f1a iaJ : inrs which have been held to create
 new interest in negro education He , has travelled far and wide, speaking < on behalf of Hampton and the ideas
 of education for which Hampton stands. He knows the South and the 7 conditions which his people face. He z was one of Dr. Washington's close
 friends and associates. He has-ta- } ken an active part in the Gonstruc-
 tive work of several negro organiza-
 tions which aim. to promote better health education and race relations.
 Major Moton's successor is treas
 urer of the Negro Organization So-
 ciety. of Virginia, which is carrying a to over 300,000 negroes the message = of s'better health, better schools, bet 3 ter farms, and better homes, and is l financial secretary of the Hampton Institute Alumni Association. He is o also president of the Sumner Literary
 Society, which is composed of coIored
 men and women who make a serious study of the best literature.
 f Capt. Washington has. received in-
 structions from some of the best off,
 cers in the United States army, who I have been stationed at Fort Monroe . He is thorough drillmaster and tac- ? ticfan He believes in his own race ]. as we'll as in white people. He q breaches the doctrine of success D through struggle to the 500 boys un- }, der his charge, w. A. A
 The Dutch steamer Dubhe, damag = ed by an explosion April 27, passed
 Gravesend, England, and will b'