The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-04-10
THINK STRAIGHT AND BE TRUE
LEADERS, SAYS DANIEL
Secretary Daniels Expresses His
Faith in Colored People; Pre-
siden; Ferguson Believes
in the Square Deal for
All Men.

HAMPTON, Va, Apr. 3.--llonor-
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
Guided the meeting of the members |
of the Chinese Educational CommiS |
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
267lh Regiments and a brief address
in Ogden Hall to the Hampton In
| Sliiulc workers, students, and ViSi
( tcrS on THE Need and Value of
| Self-discipline."
"Thirk Straight, BE True Leaders
Secretary Daniels declared that
the Hampton School is the result 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 Saltfaction with the
military review held in his honor.
Addressing the students directly
he said: "AS YOU marched in review
So we'll and showed The benefit and
result Of excellent training, felt
that it would not only bear fruit
in making good soldiers, but it would
have reflex influence on making
men straight
"It was often said during the war
that if 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.
III "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
4 straight, work better, command bet
Ter 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
4 The Newport News Shipbuilling and
\ Dry Dock Company at Newpor'
u News and a Hampton trustee, spoke
a on "The Negro in Industry" He
stated that at the Newport New'
u shipyard $500 Colored men are nov
a employed.
A I'VE are proud of the fact" ht
VI sold, chat we are practically the
q only employers of Colored labor
n who work together successful,
N thousands of white and ColoreC
y rnen in the same institution wilhou
A any trouble, / feel that there is
" real, practical, definite, economic SO
. luton of the problem of the South
- which we are please to call lh
Colored problem, and in my judg
ment it will be solved largely b!
Southern men, white and black
working with the common purpos,
OF doing the right thing by eaci
other"
. Mr., Ferguson showed clearly tina
those who would teach must frs
learn. "ThoSe who would instil
} industry and thrift into the heart
i OF a people," he said, must frs
0, themselves be industrious and thrift
e Is, and those who would teach o
N bcdience must themselves first learl
K and practice obedience, Leader
= ship does not consist in saying g
N on but come on Whoever ha
p the biggest job becomes the creates
Of servant"