Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-04-18

He gathered about him all the
money he could at Hampton, Vir-
ginia, and what did he do there :?
He started to teach the pupils in
his school everything that makes
good habits. If you want to form
the habit, you act, you do the thing
over and over again. He put his
boys to making benches, shoes,
saddles, to building brick walls,
with such marked degree of sue
cess that all the world has stopped
to see how he has done it. Recent
ly one board of directors has set
aside $4,000 to send men to study
this school and tell all the world
about it.
81 cannot close" Dr.. Mitchell
said, without telling you story
about young man working in the
Carolina mines. AS he was pick
ing away by the light of the
miners lantern on his cap, he
heard two men in the next corridor
talking of this school at Hampton.
The young fellow didn't know how
far Hampton was, but he blew out
the light in the lantern and said.
I'm going to that school," The
speaker related how Booker T.
Washington walked all the way to
Hampton, and by his presidency
earned his way through the school.
Several years ago." DR.. Mitchell
said, 81 was down at Tuskegee,
and stopped to speak to an old
colored man, sitting aside, ham,
mering away on piece of tin,
which he was fashioning into
wash boiler. didn't, at first, take
him for any one Of special import
ance, but learned after a moments
conversation that he had years ago
written the letter to General Arm
strong at Hampton asking him to
send a bright young man down
there to build school for them.
And he sent Booker T. Washington
who took lot of old land, utterly
worn out, nothing but rocks, and
developed it, until now it supports
great fiocks of sheep, horses; it
has Libraries, reading rooms, a
great church, and it's influence has
spread all over the world"
DR.. Mitchell spoke of an educa-
tlonal meeting which he attended
during the Easter holidays in the
South-a conference of the super
Vlslng teachers of the colored
schools, which represented 1876
counties. Miss Charlotte Slowe,
supervising principal of the color
ed schools of Cecil County, Mary
land, presided at Sundays meet
ng.
DR.. Wagner spoke of the rights
IF the child-his right to be we'll,
born, well nourished, and we'll
He urged parents to
start each child out with the habit
Of doing as well as it is possible
FOR him to do whatever he at
;empts; to teach him to always
crave the knowledge that he has
lone his best. First of ALL" he
said, you must live up to the best
n yourselves, before you have any
right as a citizen to demand of
'our children that they do their
BEST"
superintendent Cross emphasiz-
I'd the fact that good teachers
make good schools, and congrat-
1lated the Newark district upon
heir good judgment in continuing
heir teachers. lie explained the
lew law which places the min
mum salary for an experienced
eacher at $4,000 per month, and
explained that during next year,
before the new state appropriation
goes into effect, this condition may
'ause some schools to consider the
Of inexperienced
eachers. Don't do this" Dr..
Cross said. "You will find it poor
economy and lose out in the end"
Prizes of $3.50 and $500 offered
" the board to captains reporting
he largest collections were award
ID to Miss c. Middleton, and C.