Advocate_1913-12-20

azarene. --- miRchief does not end there. the faults of the few. Society, abomination, ann Jt polutes the &aid upon that subject the better. ear of 1914, let us resolve to lay aside bigotry d together, united in the indissoluble bonds of ourself, for Jove is the only remedy that will making clear one "Four continent a new nation, conce1 oaitlon that all men are creat civil war, testing whether th 10 dedicated, can long endure. that war. We have come to resting place for those who h live. It i1 altogether fitting a "But in a larger sense we cannot hallow, this ground. struggled here have consecrat detract. The world will littl here, but it can never forget rather, to be dedicated here fought here have thus here dedicated to the honored dead we tak gave the last full · that thesea--'ne~ --~al shall 'people, for t' ~ Mrs. Wm. A. Glass, one of Portland'so lty was demonstrated when she won th fir voting contest last month. A store free from race discrimination Wm. F. Woodward I I / ~;~- a picture of Portland's oldest druggists, Woodard, Clarke & Company, and a picture of tblir P:•W with dej,!rk,'' Alder Street at West Park, the largest retail drug store in the United States-Un 1 · have fiUed~ents which will care for every Jossible physical disability. ".iney filled last month, 5 endeavored"~ 1,~oq-1,.~00 si~e the firm befral b1;1sines~ in 1865.. Its proprietors are men of high i l -..-.ni.&r\..a...hJgh standard m tYie1r business affairs. WHAT I AM TRYIN~ 10 ·no By Dr. Booker T. Washington, in the "World's Work" Magazine, New York City, November, 1913-Ex– plains the Tuskegee Idea-Writes of Racial Relationships in the South. Dr. Booker T. ·washington, prlnci· pal of the Tuskegee Institute, writes a special article, "What I Am Trying to Do," for the November issue of "" World's V.'ork, New York City; a series 'ox l'>'.e articles under this title have been published t.n... the World's Work during the past twelve– month!1. The contrlbu tors to the series so - - E ba~e represented every phase of business and educational lite-cap– tains of Industry and leaders of one w - .,._ ..._ activity. -~~•hQr in '"' ""' field of The World's Work ls quite the most representative business magazine published in this country and surveys the whole field of prog– ress from one end of the earth to the other. In the particular article here re– ferred to, Dr. Washington summar– izes his life work at Tuskegee Insti– tue, explaining In detail just what he has been trying to do in helping to bring about the present progress of the Negro people in the United States. The whole scheme of what has come to be known as the "Tusk– egee Idea," is exemplified and ex– plained so that one can get a pretty good idea of the work being accomp– lished through Tuskegee Institute. Wiu, particular reference to the matter ot "acial relationships In the South, Dr. \v'-l!hington writes: "Another ~ing that I have tried to do h must be changed. I am get the white people to see that sending ignorant Negroes to jail and penitentiaries, putting them in the chain gang, hanging and lynching them does not civilize, but on the contrary, though It brutalizes the Negro, it at the same time blunts and dulls the conscience of the white man. "I want the white people to see that it is unfair to expect a black man who goes to school only three months in the year to produce as much on the farm as a white man who has been In school eight or nine months in the year; that It is un– just to le the Negro remain ignorant, with nothing between him and the temptation to fill his body with whisky and cocaine and then to ex– pect him, in his ignorance, to be able to know the law and be able to exercise that degree of selfcon– trol which shall enable him to keep it. t .!'~ ' '' "«-~..-. thing that i am rymg to get the people of the whole country to reaJiz.e is that the edu– ~ , t e Nei,..,. Residence of Oswald West, sidered not as a ru\rshould be con- but as a matter of ~~h " 1 -!: .. ~f== like any other business, should be thoroughly studied, organized, and systematized. The money that has already been spent by states, insti– tutions and individuals, would have Mr. George Morrow, a farmer of Littig, Texas, Mrs. Beatrice Cannady. done vastly more good if there had been, years ago, more thorough or– ganlzation and co-operation between the different isolated and etached members of the Negro school sys– tem In the South~rn states. "I am trying to get the white peo– ple to realize that since no color line ls drawn in the punishment for crime, no color line should be drawn in the preparation of life, in the kind of education, in other words, that makes for useful clean living. I am trying to get the white people to see that in hundreds of counties in the South it is costing more to nish Colored people for crime than it would cost to educate them. I a trying to get all to see that ignor· ance, poverty and weakness invite and encourage the stronger race to act unjustly toward the weak, and that so long as this condition re– mains, the young of the Mr. Joseph Wisdom, land's substantial pioneer ciliz who ls popular in church cir.cie holds a lucrative Government tlon. South will --ha'l'e-~~tu:.:~ ;f".nu=*'-t:::--;;::=:;::;~==---:-~·- -----:-~-~ - ~~ tlMI blltUe •