Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-28

Booker T Washington and His Successors!
Late one afternoon, went into the chopeI at Piney
Woods School to light the gas lamps preparatory to the
md-week evening students prayer meeting Over in the
corner of the stage heard crying if her world
had come to on end 1t of those crys which
makes your blood stond still and wrecks you within
When | got near enough to see who it was, found
thot was Mr. Lawrence c. JONES' wife of the head of
Piney Woods School When | asked her why she cried
So she chockiney stated Booker T. Washington is dead
She sod it as some sort of world savior had to his
end
For several minutes could not do anything but stond
ts and try to reundestond the significance of Booker
Woshinqtons contribution to mankind. Since then have
seen no such evidence of affection except the posing
of FronkIn D. Roosevelt Most of whot l. up to that time,
knew about Booker T. Washington, what had read in
his "Up From Slavery" | went back and re-reod that
and his other writings and speeches.
found that Booker T. Washington had the rare
something coIed characteristic obty understand the
will discharge his responsibility to the limit to his race
and hi scount by spending and being spent and the ob
ity to give people light order that they might find their
way upwards
Booker T. Washington possessed the obity to sell
who he had give for the greatest good of those lowest
down and this given him place in the hearts of men,
When he died he placed his mantle upon the head OF
Dr. Robert R. Notion whom he had trained to carry high
the torch of Tuskegee Institute leovening force IN
the promuIqotion of goodwill understanding and mutual
cooperation
In Dr. Motion we found worthy guardian of the faith
that was Booker Washington We found more; we found
in Dr. Motion Of great character as exempfIed by
his actions the evening that the Ku ux Kon called
at his home on the campus of Tuskegee to threaten his
life if he did not sign memorandum to the President OF
the United States sgnfyng his endorsement OF the op
pointment of white head of the veterans facility
at Tuskegee.
we'll remember how thrilled was to read in the Me-
gro press of Dr. Motion this occasion telling the ku
Kux Khan thot he had been going about the country tell
ina whites and blacks that there fundamental de-
cency and sense of fomndedness in white men, even in
the Deep South which would force issue which would
prove to the world that all he had said about the best
white people being the best friend of colored people
lie: that if this could not be demonstrated this
ION he mioht as we'll die as he would have nothing to live
for
The report had it that of the Ku Kux Kan gang
sold to Dr. Notion II would give $4,000 if you were
white man." The statement sure wos in recognition
of the foct that this member of the XXX saw in Dr. Mo-
ton character tho which enabled him to prefer deoth
rother thon surrender whot he thought right in order to
save his very life
In all of this and much know about Dr.. Mo-
ton, have been quite obe to see why Dr. Washington
pIoced his mantle his head Dr. Motion fought good
fiqht and kept the foth because he of choroc
When Dr. Motion passed he placed his mantle upon the
head of Dr. D. Patterson 1t my feeling at the time
that because he of character, Dr. Motion had
the power recognize character in Others and that more
thon anything else moved him to Dr. Patterson
his successor.
have watched Tuskegee through the years that Dr.
Patterson hos been its head have seen both grow.