| Show giving Roosevel ts ideas of self advancement new york aug 16 the following letter of roosevelt to secretary emmett J scott of the national negroes business league was rea at the meeting of the league in this city today oyster bay aug 12 1905 my dear mr scott I 1 wish all success to negroes business league it our organization Is absolutely out of politics and is stimulating activity among our people and working to increase their efficiency in the industrial world it is also doing far reaching work in the way 0 giving them a realizing sense of their responsibility as citizens and power to meet these responsibilities ties I 1 need hardly say that I 1 put moral betterment above physical betterment ter ment but it is absolutely impassible to do good work in promoting the spiritual improvement of any race unless there Is a foundation of material well being because foundation necessarily implies that the race has developed the root qualities of thrift energy and business sense it Is as true of a race as of an individual that while outsiders can help to a certain degree yet the real help must come in the shape ot self help the success of our organization and the development among our colored fellow citizens of the very qualities for which you stand will mean more for the solution of the race problem than any philanthropic ef forta merely from the outside could possibly do wishing you all success I 1 am sincerely yours signed THEODORE EVIDENCE OF MURDER san francisco calif aug 16 A man known as J C begat was found dead in his room on mission street in the room was found wine and carbolic acid the police are working on the theory that begat was murdered as his watch forty dollars in coin and a diamond ring are missing begat has been identified by mrs A robb as arthur powell who she said worked for her as a cook in denter colo she further says that hla home was in philadelphia |
