The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29
aaa lS+N VAMUUS Fl They Find in the South the Ad- vantages and None of the
 Drawbacks of Europe. Lively Competition Upon the Arrival of Each Cargo of Immigrants to se-
 cure the Service of These People.

J. A. Mcknight in New York Times.
 The negro in his natural state Is a nomad, and the first notable result of his emancipation is complete reversion to the nomadic habit. This habit Is not conducive to steady work or con- tinuous attention to business. and as the average negro lacks these charac- teristics. he is being rapidly suppiant- ed in many callings which seemed to be his own by right of inheritance
 A negro bootblack Is now rarely seen in the, South. except in a negro barber's shop. The regular stands. set up and managed just as they are in New York. are conducted by Ital- ians and Greeks. and the proprietors make money. In little while you see them buying property and branching out in other business. Restaurants and lunch counters. fruit and confectionery stands and stores. the growing of gar den truck. and the handling of all sorts of perishable food supplies are practically controlled now in many of the Southern cities by the Levantines, who are hocking to the South In swarms. -ht.
 The secret of their advent Is not far to seek: They have found out within the last few years that the Ameriaen South offers to the immigrant from Southern Europe all of the advantages and none of the drawbacks of their own countries. They are sober. ener- getic and hardly people who see at glance where a public service is re- quired. and set about performing 1t efficiently and at reasonable price. They supply initiative and continuity in about the proportion in which the negro lacks these qualities. They are good. at any calling they take hold of. and quickly enter into the spirit Of the community in which they locate.
 As waReworkers these people are rapidly taking the place of negroes on the sugar. cotton and rice planta- tions and in some of the iron furnace es and manufacturing plants. They will work steadily for six days week. and the higher their wages are the more persistent they become in putting in fun time in order to save up their earnings for investment The negro Iaborer. on the other hand. works on the opposite theory. If he can live a week on what he can earn in, three days. why should he work four?
 There are still large numbers or good and faithful colored people. both men and women, in all the Southern States, but their number Is diminish ing so rapidly that in many of the larger cities efforts are now on foot to obtain white help in the homes. and in many other avocations which the blacks might have held without compe- titien had they been so minded
 With $225, 100000 of capital invea- ted in cotton mills. not one of the mills has negroes as operatives. They were found to lack attention. and to cause much loss by their carelessness. manufacturer of cast iron pipe at Bir- mingham. Ala. hired several negroes who had been trained in the foundry
 VIZ -V. A. NI.A were good workers. but quickly drop ped out because they have decided to become doctors or preachers.
 Birmingham. with its suburbs. now has a population of nearly 100000 and is growing by leaps and bounds. 4 large number of steady workmen is nAAdAd there at the present time by