Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-11-25 | Page 16 | Negro Leader Confers Here

NEGRO LEADER CONFERS HERE Trying to help America's largest minority group solve Its main problem prob-lem of preparing Itself for participation partici-pation In the democratic system, R. O'Hara Lanier of Washington, D. C, national youth administration administra-tion assistant director in charge of negro affairs, Saturday conferred with Wilford G. Frischknecht, state administrator. "It Is up to the negro leadership to make a strong middle class, one from which the culture of our race can come so that we shall be respected, re-spected, not only as Individuals, but as a race with an ability to do things," Mr. Lanier said Friday on his arrival from Denver. The 39-year-old negro leader said his purpose was to confer with state N Y A administrators on problems confronting them. "It is not our purpose to ask for special privileges," he said. "We are about 10 per cent of the population, popu-lation, sometimes referred to by ourselves as the forgotten 10. We number 12,000,000 persons. The privileges of democratic institutions institu-tions should reach to all groups." He left early Saturday for San Francisco.