The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-05-07
(By VIM. Anthony Aerx.l

(By VIM. Anthony Aery)
Hampton. Va. April 2S-Negro pro-
gress and inter-racial cooperation
have always been the detectives of
late DR.. Booker T. Washington, who
founded Tusllegee Institute in 1881
has gone throughout the world. Today
any important event at Tuskegee
the United States a distinguished
compay of white and colored leaers
who are keenly alive to the need of
training Negro youth for all round
| leadership in the work of promoting
racial good will between white and
Colored citizens. The recent fifth an
nual observance of Founders Day at
rule. The principal speaker was the
Rev. DR.. NJ. Ashby Jones. well known
pastor of the Ponce de Leon Avenue
Baptist Church of Atlanta and fear
less member of the Commission on In
ter-racial Cooperation. DIR. Jones
ably presented DR.. Washington's fun
damental ideas of education and right
living. He, spoke fearlessly in favor
of giving Colored citizens everywhere
an opportunity to develop their latent
capacities; He spoke with prophetic
Jones' Founders Day address follow:
Because Booker Washington has
lived and achieved, anything is posi-
BILE for the Negro race. Booker, Wash
button to the freedom of the. Negro
race than even Abraham Lincoln.
| Booker Washington so lived that he
absolutely reversed the verdict OF a
| removed a supreme barrier from the
progress of this race.
Armstrong; Call.
General Armstrong. who founded
Hampton Institute and was in apos-
tolic succession to Mark Hopkins.
said to Booker Washington. Come,
you can play mans part in the
world and Booker Washington stood
up, a man among men. AS the re-
suit of General Armstrong; call, there
no freaiish expression of egotism-
a man who did not pose before his
people as an exception-a man who
became an apostle of his people
Booker Washington. with radiant
revelation of new freedom. rushed
| back to a most ignorant and a most
/ hopeless people and said: I have found
life for everybody. Come, come,
Booker Washington translated his
soul and his compelling compassion of
an apostolic heart into Tuskegee. To-
day, you and | are reaping the fruits
of his splendid martyrdom.
There was never a note of espair
| in his voice, and yet no man knew
quite so well as Booker Washington
theob stacles and cruelties which
|
| fused, however. to place the emphasis
upon the wrongs of his people. He be-
lieved his people could win freedom,
and therefore, he emphasized the
countless opportunities of his people.
He never pointed downward. He al
ways pointed upward and spoke with
radiant smile.
| he said, to be Negro is no bar
rier to any accomplishment He so
lived that he stands out against the
past and says to us today. To be a
Negro is to be a Booker Washington.
and to be a Booker Washington is to
demand that the world give defini-
ton of manhood which is supremacy
above race"
DR.. Jones described in some detail
two types of leaders which are found
among white and Colored people. He
declared that there are men who
have no faith in the Negro and who
point only to the Ignorance of race
| and to the crimes of the idle and the
debauched, These men find only the
! failure of a race and are trying to
| ton OF Negro" On the other hand,
| There are black men who are search
ing for every single injustice. are
| looking for every dark cloud, and
are pouring bitterness into their tel-
low mems souls"
Washington Had Faith.
''The Booker Washington type of
| leader" declared DR.. Jones, has his
ewes clear and clean and his vision
| unclouded. He sees all the wrongs
| and does not fear to tell them. He
sees the obstacles in the path OF his
races progress, and does not pause
before them. He believes in the white
race and in the black race He also
| sees what they may become. The man
who tries to lead men with infidelity
| in his heart is paralyzing in his in
| fluence. The spirit of Booker Wash
ington is throb and aglow today
Let us send to the North and the
| West, the South and the East, this
| message: Come see Tuskegee, the
heightened shadow of Booker Wash
Booker Washington's name that white
and black people of the South and
of the Nation shall hear glad news
and the gospel of his life"
DR.. Jones told graphically the story
of Booker We shington's progress from
| being a ragged boy in the coal mines
of West Virginia to his call by Cen
eral Armstrong of Hampton for SER
vice as the founder and principal of
Tuskegee Institute. He declared that
miration, persu AIDED his reason, and
won his affections. He added THE
supreme contribution of DR.. Washing
ton to his race and to America was
with which he made new definition
of Negro in terms of supreme ac-
complishment and worthy to be COM
pared with any leaders in the world"
Promise of Better Days.
Many Northern and Southern friends
| of Tuskegee attended the opening ex-
cises at the Children's House. which
Is Tuskegee's elementary school. AZ
ter an inspection of the bright faced,
clean, well dressed boys and girls who
had assembled on the parade ground
near the school. the guests assembled
indoors and listened to the boys and
| girls, who lad enjoyed the unsusual
opportunity of good school instruction,
recount the details of DR.. Washing
| toms life from the time that he work
| ed in a salt mine to the day of his
death, when he was mourned by
thoughtful people throughout the
world.