Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
NOTED MEN PRAISE
cOLORED EDUCATOR
Seth Low and Secretary DAN
ieIs Address Booker Wash
ington Memorial Meeting.
$4,000, 900 FUND ASKED
AS TRIBUTE OF NEGROES
New Yorker Says Former Principal
= of Tuskegee Performed Great
Service to Mankind.

Service to Mankind.
aien prominent in the affairs of
this country paid tribute to the
memory of the late DIR. Booker T.
Washington. founder and principal OF
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. at A
memorial meeting held at metropolitan
A. NJ. E. Church yesterday. Two of the
principal speakers were Seth Low.
former mayor of New York city and
chairman of the board of trustees of
the institute, and Secretary Josephus
Daniels of the Navy Department.
At the end of his address Mr. Low
announced that it is planned to raise
a memorial fund of 100000. to which
it was hoped the negroes of the United
States would contribute not less than
so5o.0O0. BY the fund it is planned to
insure the financial future of the insti-
tute and also to erect suitable me-
mortal to the deceased educator.
The Spirit of Service"
Mr. Low said, in part:
The noblest and most valuable part
of Tuskegee Institute is what DR..
Washington used to call the Tusksgee
spirit, and that means nothing more
nor less than the spirit of service
which the principal illustrated during
all of his splendid life-e~en to the very
last day of his career. Those young
men and young women who go away
from Tuskegee with various trainings
and after having learned some useful
trade by the time they have finished
their course have caught and have
had drilled into them that magnificent
spirit of service, and they go out. into
the world not merely to carr their own
living. but they go out from that in
stitution charged with the feeling that
they have got to make some definite
gift. some definite contribution in the
service and uplift of their race, and in
whatever communities they go they lift
the moral and industrial tone and the
standard of efficiency of the little COM
munities in which they live"
Speaking of the fact that members
OF the board of trustees of the insti-
tute frequently travelled a thousand
or more miles to attend the meetings
of the board, Mr.. Low said:
Booker Washington has made US
feel that in serving Tuskegee 1nsti-
tute We are not simply serving the
negro race. we are not simply serving
the American people or any one coun-
try in particular, but he has made us
feel that we are serving mankind. That
was the spirit with which Booker T.
Washington was able to Undue other
men-and that was the spirit which
guided him during all of his illus
trious career"
Speech of Secretary Daniels.
Secretary Daniels said:
II had known Booker Washington for
twenty and more years. and 1 think
that one of your speakers this after
noon has given US the secret of his
wonderful influence when he tells US
he was the interpreter between the
races and taught them to know and be-
1ieve in each other. And when that
lesson shall be permeated through the
minds of both races the race problem
will no longer trouble US. live in
a community in which there are two
large schools for the education Of your
race and my home is just a stones
throw from the institution supported
by the Baptist Church-indeed. I am
tas they say) their highest neighbor-
and with the. hundreds of students
there it is a testimony to your race
TO say that they help maintain a splen-
did community by their. conduct and by
their services: when they go to their
homes they are not only blessing to
their homes. but to their state"
Judge Robert II. Terrell of the Mu-
nicipal Court. of the District of Column
bia. Prof. Kelly Miller. dean of the Col
iege of Arts and Sciences of Howard
University: former Commissioner of the
District Henry B. F. Mcfarland, Mrs.
r. F. Jones. representing the local
alumni of Tuskegee Institute: DR.. Ste
phen Morrell Newman, president of
Howard University, OF which DR.. Wash
inSton was a trustee; Miss Mamie II.
burroughs. principal of the National
Training school for Women and Girls,
at LINCOLN Heights, D. c., spoke in turn
nj hA
character, work and marvellous achieve
uents of the great American the peo-
pie had come to honor.
Booker T. Washington Day"
The report of the committee on reso-
buttons read by Ferdinand D. Lee,
chairman, was enthusiastically adopted.
The report comprised preamble set
ting forth the good that had been ac-
compHshed by the activities of Dr.
Washington and Endorsed, with. other
things. the idea of establishing a
Booker T. Washington day." to be OBJ
served annually by the colored people
OF the country, and urging the prompt
raising of the memorial fund of $780,
200 for the support of the work at
Tuskegee Institute. The committee was
made UP Of Mr.. Lee. DR.. w. H. Davis,
W. III. Scott, 7. ]. Galloway, DR. E. G.
Evans. DIR. A. NJ. Curtis. E. l.. Scott and
Prof Kelly Miller.
Secretary r. w. Thompson read a
number of letters from prominent per-
sons throughout the country who had
been invited to be present but sent mes
sages of regret that they were prevent
ed by other engagements from accept
ing the invitation. Among those re-
GREETING their enforced absence. but
sending tributes of praise. were: Former
Presidents William Howard Taft and
Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary w. G.
McAdoo of the Treasury. Andrew Car
negie, Supreme Court Justices Charles
Z T. Hughes and o. W. Holmes, w. b
Wilson, Secretary of Labor and u. F.
Houston. Secretary of Agriculture. Sen
ators w. g. Harding. James Hamilton
Lewis and Boies Penrose. Representa-
tives Cannon, Dyer. Moores, Madden
Mckinley and Campbell. Commissioned
of Education r. p. Claxton and Former
Representative James z. Watson. Fran.
els G. Peabody, w. ]. Bryan, Rabb
Abram Simon, vMaj r. r. Notion. EN-
nett J. Scott and Warren Logan O
Tuskcgee Institute, Ala. 4. c. Brand
enburg, president of the Washington
Board of Trade. aad many others o.
like prominence
Hymn to DR.. Washington.
Music was furnished by the choir o.
Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church of hftl
voices. led by Prof. Charles H. Wesley
: OF Howard University, with Prot VIII
liam BRA xton at the organ One of thu