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I Five Years Hence the Dream of James Buchanan Duke
I Willße Embodied in a $25,000,000 Plant at University
Laurence Stallings in New York World.
;;,*| The President of Duke University
Hied me to high hill and showed me
the kingdoms of the mind. AVith his
Haids he led me through a primeval
H forest of oak and hickory, over roll-
H-ing land serried by deep ravines.
Kointil we had come to the cnief
of a plateau rising some
H 450 feet above We halted
under a group of tall green pines.
Hiind stood in a natural cathedral |
H'varpeted in brown needles, tlanked
Hby a natural fringe of shrubs and
trees, of azalea nr.d sweet-
and redbud, of xlogwood and
One heard only the wind
■ and the small wood-sounds, ami the
H drum of a frightened quail.
Hr.-, v Here." said the President, "will
the chapel, with its tower bat
Hftn* party raised its head to a
Hpfty-foor. pine and strove to con-
jurc an image. "Gothic." some one
“Early Gothic." said tlie Preai-
“The Canterbury Cathedral is
about the period. AA'e have etteh
HKtfgbt and mass that, we will be
in detail than the Harkness
at Yale.”
The engineer and the architect
a great blue-print. “No use,"
Kl said. "Can't take it all in at once.
They rolled the map up
“No.” said the President, “no
Honan can take it all in now. lint live
hence, and it. will be reality.”
H'.‘A Mediaeval City Soon to Arise.
looked down the plateau inro a
Hptep ravine, which would be a curv
■i lake in 1930, a mile and a half
MPT curving water. A cascade would go
down from the cha]>el
Beyond the ravine lay
road, a narrow, deep
trace. aisled in forestry, along
once sloped the brown muskets
H# royal busbies of the Redcoats.
Htr king north to Y’orktowm and the J
finale of some rebelioua col-
The land lay still the same.
Hmne of the very trees for witnesses,
the tndentical wind-stirred sil-
Here too had lain Yankee
screening the ravagers of
while Sherman rode into
for Johnston's sword and
|Hp; shabby final of another struggle
igHSk* architect waved his magic
IHMud, and traced tho mediaeval city
SHibfcb flank tho mass of the
iflnli chapel, a city rising from a
IBwsteau of 4,000 acres, which will be
||l^H* r - and white and red in the
blossoms of azalea and dog
■pod »™i redbud, and polychromatic
Si* the hues of fall. I stood wonder
|fig|»hile the architect named the
BPeffi?® 0 " schools—education, law. re
-/IHHftt natural science, applied
BRA engineering, liberal arts,
MHIUP-until he had said biology.
■Rr;.W«t would want to know all
Be
about biology at Duke University.
“Can you give me some idea of its
equipment?” he studied a moment.
“Well.” said the architect finally,
“you know of the wonderful Baker
lab, at Cornell? Maybe it cost a bit
more than a cool million. This one
here,” pointed to a dense grove un
der the pines, "will stand at about
two cool millions, and maybe a lit
tle over.” He went on to show how
the various abbeys and schools would
mass in support of the chapel tower
—a prophetic grouping, I thought.
I wanted to contrast, to sqale the
size of the piant to be finished in
five years The engineer spoke.
“Princeton is the finest of our uni
versity plants,” he said. "Maybe it
represents $13,000,000. This One-
Duke—will represent tweroty-two
millions in the new plant at the end
of five years."
In telling the story of Duke Uni
versity, it is well to begin with the
. founder of the dynasty. Washington
Duke, its founder, walked home after
i Appomattox. He was forty-five; his
; wife was dead; his children were
many and hungry; he had SO cents.
Federal money; he owned 300 acres
of farm land. In 1881, AA’. Duke &
Sons introduced machinery for roll
, iug eigarets. Duke of Durham ap
, pea red, ten eigarets in a sliding bog.
. Duke's Mixture appeared. AA'ashing
ton Duke pased away in 1905. He
was the first Duke of Durham.
Benjamin Duke was the first-born.
James Buchanan Duke was the
■ second eon. They were two stalwart
, sons. Ben and Buck.
The second became the second
Duke of Durham. He left Durham
for New York, where the big money
i". He became something known as
the American Tobacco Company, and
he was true to the type of our old
imperials, whether in oil or steel or
rails or tobacco. He died the other
day, in life having been an industrial
prince and the typical benefactor of
the ugly manufacturing town.
A few years before the mighty
Buck Duke died, he conceived the
idea of giving his seventy or eighty
millions to the cause of education
and medication in the South, and to
tho ideal of glorifying his father’s
name. To the ideal of Glorifying the
American Whirl. Old Wash and
Buck forever.
The chief (Might in the wintry
years of the great Buck, second Duke
of Durham and Prince Imperial of
the Land of Nicotine, was a small
classical college of liberal predilec
tions, known as one of the six called
Trinity in this country. Let us con
sider its history a moment
In 1838 the Methodists founded a
small local school fas the quail lands
about High Point In 1842 it became
Union Academy, and in the new
dignity Mr. Feeder, B- A., might
bog the ploughboys over the con
jugation of the Greek aorist. After
successive incorporations, it became
Trinity College and the dower of the
Methodist Conference for North
Carolina. The war of secession over, ,
it limped along, struggling toward
the light. Citizens of Durham in the
days of the o’d Duke offered it a bet
ter home, awl in 1891 it came there
to lire and die.
Trinity waxed as a small, liberal
college, fending off fanatical rushes
by countryside dervishes of the faith.
The Dukes loved it. for it was sym
bol of the "lyf so short, the craft so
longe to lerne.” The elder Dukes had
been too )K>or to attend, some of the
younger ones too fashionable. New-1
]>ort and Tuxedo are itot the haunts
of Trinitarians. The Dukes gave it
three or four millions all told. To the
rival Baptists; or Presbyterians of
. AA’ake Forest or Davidson, this was
money, money, money. It could boast
Senators Simmons and Overman as
i sons who first gained inspiration and
i ideals of service there at Trinity. It
, was modern. up-to-date. It was
; tolerant and free. /
Then the great Duke Buck made
his offer: More money than Harvard,
and eailo it Duke. This came to pass
last spring its the doldrums of
sport. The basketball quintet had
• played its final game: there were
spring calls for baseball talen. The
forward who had dribbled down the
• floor to cries Trinity now stabbed
one in short left and doubled to
first as the bleachers rocked to
D-U-K-E.
To say that any of them cared is
absurd, unless to say that t*.iey were
i delighted- Athletic teams love benc
-1 factors. New shoes for fast back-
I field men (Lord, what a pair
• will mean to a Christian college back
• in midseason!), all kind of expensive
I protectors, swell hotels on trips,
! and laisse*. faire over «.bill»-of-fare
offering quail at $8 the platter.
D-U-K-E and the Life of Riley. Pass
■ the macaroons, big-boy, and tell 'at
migger to shine my suitcase too. Say,
i we got to quit having students on
i our club and get aome football play
> ere like the other universities.
Caieti For Catch.
Trinity, and now Duke, is the
property of the two Methodist Con
ferences sitting in North Carolina,
one in the east and one in the west.
’ It is controlled by trustees, two
thirds of whom are self-perpetuating.
The other third are named by the
Alumni Association The first two
thirds are ratified by the conferences. |
here ia the catch, if there la a catch,
in the hopes of complete freedom for
- Dake.
James Buchanan Duke waa tool
long used to having hia way, and he I
THE CONCORD DAILY TRtBUME
did not propose to subordinate his
great venture to any meeting of
Churchmen. His great bequest is held
by the Duke Endowment, which has
its separate trusteeship, and com-
I>osed of his friends and associates,
his foundation can check and co
ordinate the work of the university
trustees. If the fact that the uni
versity trustees are in majority sub
ject to the approval of the church is
a catch in the proceedings, then the
Duke Endowment contains a catch
to offset the) influence if ever
fanatical days appear. Money ean bo
withheld. Simple, Sane, Effective.
But lef us be fair to the Methodist
conferences. Trinity had no coer
cion. no troubles, no suggestion of
monkey legislation. The bret'aren have
not provided the money: they have
not raised a theological row. The
department of biology at old Trinity,
with its co-ordinate groups, was held
by a staff boasting Ph. D's. from AA’is
oonsin, Chicago, Michigan, Johns Hep
kins and Columbia. Back of faculty
honors appear such place names as
Lausanne, Munich, Berlin, Sorbonne.
etc. There is a diversification of cul
tures, of racial strains, of national
characteristics.
Duke University inherits from its
slnta mater a declaration of intellec
tual freedom which is unique in Amer
ican college annals. It was promul
gated in 1904. folllowing a terrib’e
faux ims by John Silencer Basset,
then of its faculty nnd now head of
the history department at Smith Col
lege. I)r. Bassett, at that early time,
expressed the belief publicly and cx
cathedra that Booker T. Waahington
was the greatest man produced iu
the South since the death of Gen.
Robert Edward Lee, of A'irginia.
There was a hell of racial fury fol
lowing this pronouncement, and ora
tory swept cyclone fashion through
the gathering places of the South.
There was instant demand for Dr
Bassett's head. The professor of
fered his resignation. The board of
trustees, admittedly of the belief that
Dr. Washington was not ap distin
guished, yet dec'ined to accept his res
ignation. Part of the declaration of
1304, which is the park of the Duke
University covenant, is worth the
quoting:
"We believe that society in the end
will find a surer bevefit by exercis
ing patience than it can secure by
yielding to its resentments. The search
for truth should be unhampered, and
intolerance and suppress'on are in
finitely worse than those of felly. . .
i It were better that Trinity should suf
fer than that it should enter upon a
policy of coercion and intolerance."
Liberty may sometimes lead to
I felly : yet It is better that some should
I be tolerated than that all should think
■ k , • - " vv.
and speak under the dendening influ
j i nee of repression.
I “A reasonable freedom of opinion
| is to a college the very breath of life;
| and any official throttling of itstench
| ers would destroy their influence, and
j place upon the college an enduring
stigma. . . . It Is the business of
the college to provide for young men
the mnterinl. the knowledge and the
training to form and defend their own
opinions. . . While it is idle to
deny that the free expression of wrong
opinions sometimes works bsnn, our
country' and our race stand for the
view that the evils of intolerance.
One of the trustees who slgqed this
document is now president of the pres
ent board of university trustees. He
is Joseph G. Brown, also president
of the Commercial National Bank of
Raleigh.
“If you want to know anything
about Duke." he said, “go to Dr. Few,
lhe president over there. I stand
by anything he does, and so will the
hoard.” I went first to S. AVade
Marr, retiring head of the Alumni
Asaociation. which names the final
third of the trustee personnel, and
a young man who paid the highest
personal income tax in the Raleigh
roater. "Os course, Mr. Brown won’t
let any one stampede him into intol
erant’ideas," he said. “His feet have
been on the ground since the day lie
was born. . . .The Tennesec evo
lution law. I imagine that be grins'
when he thinks of it; tha same as |
every one else in North Carolina 1
does. . . . But you ace Dr. Few.”
A Professor in the Harvard Tradi
tion.
Dr/-William Preston Few is a tall,
angular man with the beard of Lin
coln and a habit of silences, rare both
in a Southern highlander and in a
eo'lege president. He was Dean of
Trinity .when the trustees delivered'
their bill of rights, and he has been J
president for fifteen years. |le re-1
eeived an A. B. from the small South-1
ern college of AA’offord and then went!
to Harvard. There be fell under
the spell of Santayana, James. Childs,
Klttredge and the masters who made
Harvard great in the nineties. He
became a professor of English in the
Harvard tradition, with Emerson as
the founder god.
“We do not want anything ‘bigger
and better’," he said with a shrug.
“It was Mr. Duke's Idea that 2,000
undergradutes was the limit of a uni
versity's reach, even when w'e reach
t'lia peak of our income. Then a
thousand graduate students, and per
haps it thousand woman undergradu
ates in a co-ordinate college such aa
Harvard maintains in Radcliffe, would
finish our work. We art determined
not tcT have a big educational mill,
here ” p I
Dr. Few seemed In no hurry. “Fac
ulty?" he queried to a query. “We
have the nucleus of a faculty now.
When our various schools and depart
ments are founded, all we can do is
to ask the best men in the country
to come here.”
I wanted to gauge him. “Tour
idea of one of tho best men in the
country r I aaked. “Weil,” he Mid
after aome reflection, Td My that
would be a matter of purpose. If a
university wanted a great master of
law, Dean Pound, of Harvard, would
be my idea of greatness."
It was rather difficult to draw out
this university president, for he was
in an ideal position. lie ifkT not
want for more' money than Midas
dreamed of, he was under no whip to
outline a prospectus, or to shout of a
new vision. .Tames Buchanan Duke
having talked with him fifteen years
of this intangible thing, had left him
an El Dorado and his blessing. He
did not even want publicity.
Evidently . the great Duke Buck
was certain of his tviolco of a man;
nnd he had been certain through a
lifetife of gauging executives. Had
he so willed, the Duke might have
dropped his money twelve miles over
the woods into the lap of the Uni
versity of Jiorth Carolinat at Chapel
Hill, the first State university in the
New World, and the present cultural
center of the new South. "He did
not suggest calling the university by
Us name.” said Dr. Few. “I was
responsible for that inclusion in the
contract. There were six Trinity
colleges in America. We would have
changed anyway. I thought it right
that we changed to Duke.”
Distrusted Control by the State.
The original Duke endowment was
lb two parts. Firstly, about twenty
millions were set aside for the plant
. of Duke University, which Horace
j Trumbnur, of Philadelphia, was to
design architecturally as one unity
embracing all the colleges. The Olm
steads of Brookline were retained to
landscape the alte. The founder ex
pressed the determination to make the
university as perfect in detail as his
New Jersey estate.
He had planned to emphasize, it is
said, the colleges of natural science,
• of applied science, of law, of educa
| tion, of liberal aVts, of religion and
lof medicine. The endowment for
| maintenance was set at $40,000,000,
: with the added residue of his estate 1
at death. Os this original bequest,
twenty per cent, of its income was to
be poured back into the original found
until the amount reached $80,000,000. i
It is said that this amount, with the
residue, will be realised within ten
I years or less.
Os this final amount, Duke Uni
versity proper receives only one-third
income. The two-thirds are parceled
among a heterogenous medley of in-1
stltutions and purposes. Hospitals
for white and for negro patients,
schools for both races, county schemes,
retirement funds for broken down
preachers, for orphanages are liated.
But the greater amount of it is ap
plied to center upon a $6,000,000''
, hospital which will be part of the
j university medical center. Evident
ly the fame of Johns Hopkins, which
is of first-water brilliancy in the
South, bad influenced the founder's
vision here.
Unquestionably, bad he left his
money to- the State University his
plans would have matured more quick
ly. But he loved Trinity, and he dis
trusted State controlled institutions.
I haven’t a doubt that he knew Us
own mind, was rare in Us purpose,
chose the harder way because he' was
used to it since chilhood. There
isn’t much doubt, either, thnt a great
institution will rise upon that plateau,
one tolerant and filled with wisdom.
As for the time needed, you may write
your own guess, and remember that
Oxford was great within 200 years
after ts founding. Wo move much |
more quickly.
WAR HERO DOWN *AnD OUT.
Was Hero Six Years Ago and is
Now Peddling Bananas.
Atlanta, Ga., Dee. B.—Sightly
more than six years ago, Private
Walter J. Fillyaw, United States
Army shell-shocked nnd all but dead,
was telling with pride the officer of
Fort McPherson about the dis
tinguished service cross which he
wore.
Yesterday, found by a reported by
the Atlanta Constitution to be peti
dling bananas on the streets of At
lanta in order to ram support for
his wife, little daughter and baby
. son, the latter born Monday, his in
come was found notto exceed sls
a week.
Toe ease was edited to the atten
tion of the American Legion officials
here who are putting machinery in
motion to make things “break bet
ter” for him’ from now on.
“In addition to his $1 j a week, he
, made peddling bananas, Fillyaw re
i eeives S2O a month compensation
from the veterans bureau, he said.
He told legiom officials he had been
unable to obtain employment be
cause of his physical condition.
The certificate accompanying his
medal shown that it was awarded
for "extraordinary heroism” October
15, 1018, while serving os a private
in the medal corps of the Fourth In
fantry, A. E. F. A subsequent cita
tion told of hie “having been wound
_!ed and ordered to the rear but,.he
‘ i continued to administer to the other
! wounded under constant shell fire
until he was wouded a second time,
i when he . was evacuated despite bis
’ protest*.”
1 1 Fillyaw is a native of Fayette
-1 villa, N- C., and married Miss Sadie
' Cranford, of Union. S. C., if April.
1 ,1918 shortly before he went over
laeat.
•I
MAT TAKE A BHOT
AT THE UNION FIRST
1 Legislators Propose Questionnaire
For Fanners’ Louden,
i Brock Bark’ey in Charlotte Observer
i Raleigh, Dec. 7.—A questionnaire
for Dr. H. Q. Alexander and Presi
dent It- W. H. Stone, the domi
‘/ nating influence for the State Far
i mers’ union, is being talked by west
• ern legislators and ex-legislators as
a possible counter to the proposed
' quia of legislative candidates by the*
i union.
Former State Senator D. F. Giles*
i who was in town today with Hepre
i sentatirve W. W. Neal,' of McDowell,
told of the threat of some of the
westerners to aak Union ehiefli a
, feW questions on the ground that
i turn about la fair play. He thought
, Mr. Neal ought to be the man to
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1925
lead the insurgency, but Neal hasn't
(committed himself.
Farmer Stone has announced, fol
lowing up the resolves of the re
cent union meeting here, that his
questionnaire will be aimed at the
legislators, whose views he farmers
are particularly anxious to get. The
legislative quiz, if the movement enn
be organized, would be aimed at Mr.
Stone and Dr. Alexander. It would
ask them about their war records
and about other records as the lend
ers of the famers union. The balking
egislators would answer the umou
questionnaire and then call on the
uion chiefs to answer theirs'.
Some o( the western polrtieiars
are represented as feeling that Dr.
Alexander and Mr. Stone and the
farmers union, in its entire'y for
that matter, do not represent the
sentiment of the farmers of the state.
The union, they feel, has disintegrated
until it k but an organization of a
handful of farmers and is resolves
are uothing more than the work of
the two men. They do inot feel they
have a right to quiz them in the
name of the farmers. Mr. Giles be
-1 lieves the prospects for a rebellion
good. >
! UKRAINE HAUNTED
BY CHILD BEGGARS
One Hundred Thousand Starving
Waifs Roam Like Packs of Wolves
in Every Large City.
1 Kharkov, Russia, Rec. B.—One hun
dred thousand homeless children are
1 roaming in the Ukraine. Twenty
thousand of them are without shelter
or food of any kind except what they
| manage to pick up. The special gov
| eriiment commission organized for
[ their relief recommends a tax of 1 per
‘ cent, on every bottle of vodka. This,
the commission says, will! yield a mil
lion dollars for the waifs, who with
’ the onset of winter are facing starva
l ticn and death from exposure.
, The child vagrant problem is not
limited to the Ukraine, but extends
; throughout all the populous areas of
Russia. The problem is so vast that
it is almost beyond the resources o(
, the government, which has made
widespread appeals for private fuhds
’ with which to Hope with the situa
tion.
The officials of the American Near
East Relief operating in the Caucasus
1 have also been asked by the soviet
government to lend their assistance
i and advice in* rescuing these home
less children, “who like packs of little
• wolves haunt the streets of every
i large city.”
Ho—Then you like the idea of my
• coming out without a bat?
She—Well, it isn’t that, but I’d
i sooner see you without a bat than
L wearing the sort of hat you woiHd
’ wear if you wore a hat
, Doctor (examining life insurance
prospect)—po you talk In your
sleep?
Prospect—No, I talk in other peo
ple’s sleep.
Doctoi—■How come?
Prospect—Oh, I’m a college pro
few or.