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Show New Light on Race Problem Writer in (he World's Work Claims the Outlook For the Negro Is by No Means Disheartening Good Work j Done by Real Leaders ot the Negro, In most of the discussion of the race problem little Is said of the negro's own point of view. He is the chief figure of It all. He is at once the innocent cause of it and the chief factor in its solution. progress. The' negro conferences that are held at Tuskegee show year after year growth of character and of economic eco-nomic efficiency among large masses of them; and the reports of the Negro Business Men's lenima anrl ! There has not been time enough nor work enough nor money enough nor opportunity for the great masses of them to be built up to responsible citizenship, but the leaders of the race the real leaders show a steady growth in thrift, in responsibility and good citizenship. A Btudy of the result of the work done at ar of the great schools where they are properly trained will give the most despondent man high hope. In fact, the record of the best men and women who have gone out from Hampton and Tuskegee and other such training places make one of the most remarkable chapters in human other such bodies tell of remarkable progress. The negro's children, too, will be wiser than he is; and, after all, this whole problem is not one that we who are now living shall see the end of. If we pass it to-the next generation genera-tion in a better shape than we found ittbat is all we can hope to do. And no man who knows southern life can for a moment doubt that it is now in very much better shape than it was twenty years ago. So much better bet-ter is it that the aspects it now presents pre-sents are not discouraging to those who know what has been done. From the World's Work. |