The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-04-03
THINK STRAIGHT AND BE TRUE
LEADERS, SAYS DANIEL
Secretary Daniels Expresses His
Faith in Colored People; Pre-
sident Ferguson Believes
in the Square Deal for
All Men.

HAMPTON, Va, Apr. 3.-Honor-
able Josephus Daniels, Secretary Of
the Navy, recently paid flying
visit to Hampton Institute, follow
ing the launching of the MARY
land" which will be Americas
finest lreadnaught. His program in
cluded the meeting of the members
of the Chinese Educational Commits
sion, who were studying Hampton
Institute; the reviewing of the
Schools battalion of cadets, includ
ing the Reserve Officers Training
Corps unit; the hearing of several
plantation melodies of the Old South
led by Paige |. Lancaster, late of the
267th Regiment; and brief address
in Ogden Hall to the Hampton In
stitute workers, students, and visi-
tors on "The Need and Value of
Sclf-discipline."
"Think Straight, Be True Leaders
Secretary Daniels declared that
the Hampton School is the resul! of
General Armstrong; dream and Wis
ion; for. after the War between the
States, it was Armstrong who saw
what might come out of the great
/ human tragedy. He expressed his
complete confidence in the loyalty
| of the Colorcd people to American
| ideals and his satitfaction with the
military review held in his honor.
Addressing the students directly
he Said "As you marched in review
/ ehnx,,oI hnnnHf onI
result of excellent training, | felt
that it would not only bear fruit
in making good soldiers, but it would
| have a reflex influence on making
men straight.
at was often said during The war
that if a man would shoot straight
| he must live straight. We preach
ed that doctrine in the Navy and IN
The Army and we found, as the
months went by, that the man who
was self-restrained, kept his pas
sions in subject to his will, and had
a clean body, made the best soldier
"Now We have come into an era
OF peace. The same need is before
us; that young Americans, above all
else, should keep their bodies clean
upright in life, clean and straight
not only that in emergency they
must shoot straight, but in this COM
plex life before us they can think
| straight, work better, command bet
icr pay, and, going. out of schools
like Hampton, be true leaders of a
race coming out of ignorance into
a better day"
"Do the Right Thing"
| Homer l.. Ferguson, president OF
the Newport News Shipbuilling anc
Dry Dock Company at Newpor
News and Hampton trustee, SPOKE
on "The Negro in Industry" HI
stated that at the Newport New
+ shipyard $500 Colored men are nov
employed.
I'VE are proud of the fact" h
soid, that we are practically tn
only employers of Colored labo
Who work together successful
thousands of white and Colore
rnen in the same institution withou
any trouble, feel that there is
! real, practical, definite, economic sc
( luton of the problem of the Soutl
| which we are please to call tn
(; Colored problem, and in my JUDI
: ment it will be solved largely b
Southern men, white and blacl
t working with the common 'purpo'
i of doing The right thing by eaC
i other,."
e Mr.. Ferguson showed clearly tn;
d; those who would teach must fir
c learn. "Those who would insti
!; industry and thrift into the hear
h of a people," he said, "must fir
o themselves be industrious and thri
ty, and those who would teach {
e bcdience must themselves first lear
n and practice obedience. Leader
d ship does not consist in saying 6
= on but come on Whoever hi
# the biggest job becomes the create
e servant"