FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Is it possible for an irresistible
force to meet an immovable body?
A. As a logical quibble it is pos
sible to conceive of an irresistible
force and of an immovable body, but
only as a logical conception. No such
force or body exists anywhere in na
ture. Both of these must be infinite
in quantity to be irresistible and im
movable. Anything less could be
overcome. Thus we reach the infer
ence as a logical conclusion that such
a combination is a physical impossi
bility.—Scientific American.
(13094) R. G. asks: If I suspend
a certain heavy object on a spring
scale exactly on the equator, the in
dicated weight will show the differ
ence between the force of attraction
and the centrifugal power of our
globe. The same scale with the same
object brought to one of the poles,
the attraction towards the center of
the earth—now not being counteract
ed by the centrifugal power which on
the polos is equal to zero—will cause
a stronger declination on the scale
A different weight ought to bo ob
tained also if the experiment, for rea
sons of convenience, is made between
two points not so far apart north and
south as those above mentioned.
A. You are quite right in your state
ment that a body, when weighed with
a spring balance, will weigh more at
the poles of the earth than at the
equator, because of the absence of
centrifugal force at the poles. This
force is 1/289 of the weight. It will
weigh more at the poles because it
is nearer the center of the earth at
the poles. At points intermediate
between the equator and the poles it
will weigh more than at the equator,
the weight increasing as the body is
carried away from the equator.—Sci
entific American.
EDITORIAL COMMENTS FROM
PRESS OF COUNTRY ON
DEATH OF WASHINGTON
MAN OF EXTRAORDINARY NA
TIVE TALENT.
(The New York Times.)
Dr. Washington was a man of ex
-traordinary native talent which, con
sidering the quality and extent of his
achievement and its relation to the
highest interests of the Republic,
may well be called genius. Taken in
connection with his character, the
loftiness and scope of his moral pur
poses, the complexity of his task, and
the obstacles he had to overcome, his
career is one of the most remarkable
that our history affords. It is doubt
ful if any American, within the forty
years of his active life, has rendered
to the nation service of greater or
more lasting value than his.
A GREAT LEADER.
(New York Evening Mail.)
America is poorer because of the
death of Booker T. Washington. He
was a great leader who saw funda
mentals clearly. By the work of his
hands and his own will and determi
nation he rose from the poverty and
ignorance that hemmed in his race.
He was one of the first Americans,
black or white, to recognize clearly
that civilization is built not upon cul
tural studies, but upon an economic
foundation. He held that each indi
vidual acquires his basic character
qualities and the fundamental virtues
that make him a useful member of
society through useful, purposeful
work with the hands.
THE SECRET OF HIS SUCCESS.
(New York Evening Post.)
In Hooker Washington the coun
try loses not only a leafier, but one
who was in his person a real triumph
of democracy.
If there was any secret of his suc
cess in overcoming the terrible ob
stacles which confronts every man of
color, it lay surely in his unfailing
optimism, his dogged determination
to let no obstacle daunt him, and to
be himself above insult or humilia- j
tion. lie was big enough to see early j
in life that the man who flouts an
other because of some difference in
natural attributes, injures himself,
and not the object of his venom. No
disappointment could discourage him;
if one benefactor dropped out he
found another for the place; if his
audiences were small and the returns
disappointing, why there was other
audiences to be found. And so he
speedily typified in his person all the
great work that Hampton and Tuske
gee and a host of other schools were
doing for his race, and proved be
yond dispute how that work of bring
ing light to those that would other
wise sit in darkness earns enormous
dividends not only for the blacks but
for the entire Republic. Thus thou
sands who heard him speak realized
for the first time what talents, %vhat
possibilities of individual usefulness,
ie latent among our colored fellow
citizens, and others found in his * up
From Slavery” a real tract for de
r.ocracy and for the brotherhood of
man.
NATIONALLY FAMOUS.
(The New York Press.)
Born the fatherless son of a slave
woman, Booker T. Washington be
came nationally famous and nation
ally respected. He was the guest of
one president, the host of another.
Washington was a master of arts by
virtue of a degree confered upon him
it Harvard, and a doctor of laws of
Dartmouth college. He was acknowl
edged the greatest educator the Ne
gro race ever produced. Possibly he
was the greatest man in all history
with Negro blood in his veins.
HE WAS A MAN.
(The Pittsburgh Leader.)
The death of Booker T. Washing
ton deprives his race of the sympa
thetic labors of a man who has done
more for his people than Abraham
Lincoln did when he set them free
from the shackles of bondage to the
Southern plantations.
Lincoln did no more, could do no
more, than apply the cutting file of
executive power to the chains that
bound them in bodily slavery to their
white masters. That was much, but
infinitely less than what Booker
Washington has done.
* * * * *
In time to come, when the merits
of Booker T. Washington’s lifetime
are gone over by the student of hu
man progress, it will be forgotten
that he was a black man, born in
slavery.
No one will think of whether he
was white or black. No one will care.
He will be held as one who loved
his fellow men far beyond the ordi
nary limits of fraternal warmth.
'
They will recognize one quality and
that will be enough, whether the sub
| ject have a black skin or white.
He was a man.
IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASURE IN
FLUENCE.
( Detroit (Mich.) Free Press.)
It is imposisble to measure the in
fluence Booker T. Washington exer
cised upon the progress of civiliza
tion during his lifetime. The ordi
nary standards by which we gauge
the results of an educator’s work do
not apply in his case, for the radiat
ing force of Tuskegee has been vast
ly more penetrating than that which
emanates from educational institu
tions generally. He made his impress
upon those who passed directly
through his hands, as all college
teachers do, and these alone must
have been a very large number since j
the attendance at the school in this j
one year is more than 1,600. But
every one of his graduates was a
missionary, sent out to disseminate
through the mass of the Negro peo
ple the leaven of uplifting culture in- ;
stilled into him or her by the founder
of the college, and in this light the
ultimate influence of the man upon
the world becomes one of the marvels
of our era.
For the advance of the Negro race
in the United States, it is to be borne
in mind, has been from the absolute ;
zero of slavery conditions—the slave i
being nothing and having nothing— '
to all that the race is and has today, i
It is not to be supposed, of course,
that the average level of the Afro
American people has been raised
through the long sweep of distance
which Booker Washington covered in
! his personal up-climb. He was a spec
tacular exception, even among all our
people. But the race level has gone
up to a marvelous extent from its
starting point, and for this aggregate
advance the educator now dead shou'd
be given a large degree of credit in
addition to what he deserves for his
I
individual development.
Estimated in gross, it may be that
the influence of this son of a slave
j woman and an unknown father has
been the greatest of all American
forces for progress in our generation.
The computation is beyond finite
minds. Only the Supreme Judge can ;
know the answer to the question. But
at least we mortals can bid farewell
to the departed man with deep re
spect and an acknowledgment of his i
to us unmeasurable value to our j
time.
“A PIONEER.”
(Raleigh News and Observer.)
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 14.—“Booker
T. Washington should be recognized
as a pioneer in leading his race into
paths along which it had the best
i opportunity of advancement. In em
: phasizing the value of industrial un
j dertakings to the Negro, he rendered
I a service to that race and to the
J white man.
“His work at Tuskegee has proved
of value to the South and to the na
| tion. lie has been a wise counsellor
of his people. His efforts have been
a source of uplift to the Negro,
whom he has emancipated from many
things which shackled. The career
of Booker T. Washington gives him
first place among his race in Amer
ica.”
“LABORED FOR REAL GOOD.”
(Little Rock, Ark., Gazette.)
Little Rock, Aark., Nov. 14 —
“Booker T. Washington commended
himself to the people of Arkansas be
cause he labored for the real good of
his race. He taught his people the
nobility of labor, and those who have
listened well have prospered in the
South, where the industrious Negro
never lacks work.”
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