Show new light on race problem writer in the worlds work claims the outlook for the negro Is by no means disheartening good work done by real leaders of 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 there has not been time enough nor work enough nor money enough nor opportunity tor 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 study of the result of the work done at any of the great schools where they are properly prop propel eily ly 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 progress pro giess the negro conferences that are held at tuskegee Tusk cgee show year after year growth of character and of eco effi efficiency clency among large masses of them and the reports 0 of the negro business men s league and other such bodies tell of remarkable progress the negro negros 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 it if we pass it to the next genera tion in a better shape than we found it that 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 aas as years ago so much bet ter Is it that the aspects it now pre are not discouraging to those who know what has been done from the world worlds s work |