The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-06-23

In Stirring Address Isaac Fisher TsIIs
What 10 Really Needed II Democracy
10 70 Live snd Spread lie 0ptrie
Throughout the World For the Coed
Of Mankind.
~ WILLIAM ANTHONY AERY.
Hampton, va. Hampton institute
has. just sent forth ninety-four yoca-
tionally trained graduates to carry the
message Of education for service to
colored, Indian and white people
throughout the nation. Principal 81. B.
Frissell, In presenting the diplomas
and certificates, in part said:
I'VE give you these diplomas rs .
very slight evidence Of the confidence
7 we have that in the days to come you
will be true to Hampton, true to your
country, true to your Cod .
DR.. Frissell referred to the schools
recent memorial service at the grave
Of General Armstrong, where all had
consecrated themselves anew to the
service Of their country.
"You have caught the vision Of the
kingdom which is to come" he said
1.-The better world which Christ has
made possible through you; and now,
today, you 60 forth to bear the great
message-the message of love to all
mankind Your eyes have seem the
glory Of the coming Of the Lord. You
have seen great nations turning from
the selfish rule of autocracy to tho
blessed and better rule Of democracy,
and you, too, are going to help this ma.
ton to understand what real democ-
racy means. You are going forth to
serve this great country" ~.
Isaac Fisher, university editor, Fisk
university, Nashville, Tenn, In his ad-
dress on 1.-THE Rebirth Of the World
After the War;" I'm part said: when
this cruel war is over the task before
mankind will be to rebuild the world
to rebuild its wasted cities and to re-
pair SO far as possible the staggering
economic loss which the great struggle
has entailed. This win not, however,
be of major importance by the side Of
the real task. The reconstruction to
which this world war points with i'm
perative hand is the rebuilding Of the
hearts and spirits Of men. When the
world takes up the new work, which it.
must do after the war, the new teach
ings of home and school and church
and press must be not dominion, not
power, not force, not arrogance, not
racial prescriptions, but the virtue and
conquering value of the humble and
contrite heart filled with love for all
and the meekness which shall inherit
the earth.
you can help make It easier for
democracy by seeking to come into the
possession Of common ideals--the high
est ideals of the nation, those ideals
which represent Christ. You can help
make it easy by learning the beautiful
things that have helped make civiliza-
ton grand and glorious through the
years and by making those ideals your
Own-nOt ideals OF colored people, not
ideals Of red men, not ideals Of white
men. but the ideals Of Christianity.
What are some Of those ideals? First
Of all there Is Righteousness. You can
make it easy by standing for the kind
Of service that makes the good Of all
the people the highest aim Of life.
IF this war is to prove anything Il
Is that men may not hereafter think In
terms Of race. White people cannot
think any more, after this great world
tragedy is over in terms Of the white
race. The black race cannot think any
more in terms Of their own little social
group. To everybody watching on the
far flung battle lines of Europe almost
all Of the artificial distinctions of caste
and race have been obliterated. The
lesson which burns itself into the con-
seriousness Of people is that men here
after shall live for the one common
good.
1--WE must insist that schools like
Hampton, where the Negro sees the
white people at their best and where
common meeting ground is established
for all the races, shall be maintained
for years and years to come.
II want Tuskegee to remain forever
as DR.. Washington built Unnamed
and conducted by colored men and wo.
men and a monument to their ability
and. genius; but want Hampton and
schools like 1t to endure as open gate.
ways to mutual understanding and mu.
tual help.
"See to 1t that schools of the Hamp-
ton type remain forever, where we can
get together and understand each other
in the only understanding that is going
to make peace possible throughout the
ength and breadth Of this land" s%
The student speakers included Ed
ward B. Robinson. Glasgow. KY, his
tory: John Fl. Hill, Yazoo City, Miss,
poem; Leotta F. Cotton, Mount Holly.
". j., will; Thomas j. Potter, Mil.
wood, Va. prophecy; Richard n. Bland.
Suffolk. Va, free speech; Blanche q.
Brown, Providence. r. l., salutatory;
Solomon A. Davis, Norfolk, Va. vale
lictory, Modern Progress"
A list of the class officers follows:
President, Joseph G. Parks, Lexington.
XIV. vice prpSif1ent Solomon Davis;