The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-01-12

rival the ambrosia that was served
at the table Of the gods upon Mount
Olympus. Too often fathers who Sc
lect good food have to bring it TO
cooks who do not know what in
gradients to put into it; and never
in their long years of experience put
an ounce of brain in all of their
cooking.
Do you know friends that bad
blood, made from good food poorly
prepared, or poor food well prepared
that is TO say prepared as well as
il can be-makes a bad disposition;
a bad disposition begets bad order;
a lad order brings about confusion
in the home? Did you ever stop to
think of the vast number Of boys
and girls who are away from home
tonight because of the confusion
| therein? Go to the dives and denS,
so to the houses of disrepute and
| lll-famed and look therein, and you
will hardly believe your own eyes.
Talk about reaching the unreached
| talk about going to pagan Asia, or
heather Africa to do missionary
work for the unfortunate of the
East we can find this at our very
doors. The slums Of the East are at
the Dago stands; Africa touches US
on all sides; and in the shops, in
the wash tub, in fields and almost in
! nf FL
fields already white unto harvest.
There is always need Of education
al development among Us that we
may have something ennobling and
olevating to think on, and talk about.
Have you noticed that the most of
our conversations are about the COM
mon flippancy of everyday gissip.
that our daily theme consists OF
distorted facts and misrepresenta
tions of our neighbors? You can
hardly go visiting but that ten thou
sand eyes are eager to magnify
some supposed fault and ten thou
sand slanderous tongues are ready
to catch some unfavorable whisper
detrimental to the virtuous charac
Ter of innocent beings. A frivolous
mind gave birth to a more frivlous
, thought. Give one something i'll
? Jlime to think on and he grows more
! lofty, more sublime If our yOuns
, people have read themselves full
, when they cone in contact one with
another instead of discussing love
| and lasses' they will talk about
/ things that make for true manhood
t and pure womanhOod; they will give
the wheel of progress another NOV,
, onward Instead of desitating OF
forms and fashions they will tall
f about Euclid, Homer, Newton anC
f L'Overture; instead Of following il
: the weatheribeaten paths of crime
they will seek the footprints Of tn
= lawly Nazarene and the man of Cali
f lee. Give me the man and the WON
: an, the race and the nation who fee(
upon high thoughts and who are no
passions slave and as Shakespeare
says | will wear them in my hearts
/ core. yes, in my heart of hearts.
When our minds have been devel
/ oped we can appreciate good litera
: ture. The trivial and the trihe vii
have no attraction for us. Coco
books will become cur companion
| and we shall hear the voices Of the
distant and the dead; we shall re
ceive the heritage Of all the age!
and noble thoughts will spring from
) our minds in full panopy as die
[ Athena from the head Of Jupiter al
| the stroke of Vulcan's hammer.
J We want to see men write the his
: tory of our achievements in the Revo
, iutionary, Mexican, Civil Spanish
, American wars; we want poets to te!
how our souls burst into song as We
| perform unrequited toll for two hun
dreI and fifty years. When our
fathers and mothers learn to tel
their prattling babes, while playing
upon their bouncing knees stories
: produced by Negro brain; when they
/ learn to tell them Of the black he
| roes at Fort Wagner Fort Pillow
And finally, we need intellectual
: ing them in their arms let their
. vesperal lullabies be the Negro bard
then and not till then, there will
spring up an ineXplicable race pride
that will make the blinded eyes OF
justice shed tears of pity.
And ntially we need intellectual
development because of the keenness
of competition the world over. Mind
and not muscle is doing the worlds
work today. One intelligent man
with the necessary machinery is do
ing more than fifty men used to do
No one wants the old-fashioned, rough
homemade article when he can get
a better and cheaper made one; and
since the ingenuity of man is con
irving a cheaper way of doing
things, our progenity will be stulti'
fed and out of demand when the big
business of the world calls for
operators.
The Peoples Defender.