The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1916-04-22
GOOD ADVICE OF
ABLE EDUCATOR
Major Motion Delivers Address
TO Alabama Teachers.
POINTS way TO SUCCESS.

Successor Of Dr.. Washington at Tus.
kesee Is Principal Speaker at An
nuaI Meeting Of the State Teachers
Association Hold In Birmingham.
Let Us Follow Washington, He Says.
Major Robert r. Motion Of Hampton
institute, who is the principal elect of
Tuskegee institute and successor to
DR.. Booker T. Washington, made his
first big Alabama address before the
Colored State Teachers association,
which met in Birmingham the early
part Of April Some 500 white people,
including Governor Charles Henderson.
were present
In his address Major Motion in part
said:
Booker T. Washington's educational
program was not merely local, but 1t
was national, worldwide in scope-in-
dustry, thrift, morality, decent homes,
| clean bodies and minds, better meth
DDS Of farming-a kind Of education
which made a universal appeal was his.
| It was an education that helped farm
| ers to do better farming, the carpenter
to do better carpentering and the cook
to do better cooking.
He believed that education in the
broadest sense should teach farmer
how to get more out Of an acre by bet
ter methods; that carpenter was re-
ceiving useful and very necessary In
struction when taught how to build
better and more beautiful house at less
cost, and that to instruct those who.
cook how to keep q cleaner Kitchen
and prepare a more appetizing meal at
less expense was. in his opinion, an
education Of the most essential sort.
You, no doubt, have often heard
him say that a handsome mule or
horse well groomed was fine to look at,
but that a hungry, struggling commun-
ity would soon tire Of looking at him
unless hitched to q pillow, cart or wag-
on, or unless it was doing something
that would help humanity. And, my
friends, just so it is with education.
Wearing fine clothes and presenting
an attractive appearance does not
mean anything to struggling and
hungry community, unless you set to
work to perform some service for your
fellow men.
Booker T. Washington was most
persistent in his efforts that education,
whether farmer, preacher or teacher,
should be linked in a definite way to
life, and the life Of the lowly man and
woman In particular, for he wanted to
see each man and each woman live
and do better in his daily vocation.
This idea he worked out and put into
practice in such q remarkable and con-
vincing way as to command the re-
spect and admiration Of the entire
world.
The colored people Of Alabama, as
rule, have been wise enough to fol
, low DR.. Washington's course, and as
,, a result the white people Of the state
+ are growing more interested in the
. 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
approve of Negro education, but he
will find some way to assist in giving
for better schools.
White people can usually find way
for anything they think is really worth
while, but they must be convinced thai
: It is 80 worth while. and nobody can Dc
= that better than the Negro teacher
y and no one demonstrated this more
conclusively, more effectively or more
beautifully than the man In whose
y memory we are gathered tonight.
We as teachers must first Of all liv'
clean, honest, Industrious. unselfsf
/ lives. We are now living in an ert
when we are expected to practice wha
we preach. Let us take a firm stant
for morality and set our faces lk'
flint against the loafing, worthless ele
ment in any race. Let us follow DR.
Washington in teaching the member
q Of our race the necessity Of decent Iiv
y. ing and the beauty and dignity OF la
st Dor, for indeed we have more to fea
a, from the lazy, shiftless, ignorant Grim
q inal than from any race prejudice II
Alabama. And let us remember tina
in the solution Of the race problem
large measure depends upon us. ant
education will be one Of our mos
forceful and helpful mediums TO
Is good.
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