The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-07
FROM OTHER PENS
THE NEGRO,

Fortunately, there Is growing
number of white men who realize
that, as the Detroit News-Tribune
puts 1t. 1.-The negro is the hope of the
south" A wealthy North Carolina
manufacturer and landowner assures
us that he never has any trouble with
his negro laborers. because, he pro-
vides them with decent homes. ade-
uuate schools, regular and sufficient
pay, and takes a genuine interest in
their progress. Employing negroes
on farms and in mills. as he does. he
feels that his opinion is of value, and
declares without qualification that in
the negro the south has the best
possible labor, docile, tractable, WILL
ing. and easily led The failure of the
attempts to get foreigners into the
south in numbers is already reacting
in the negro's favor. eff there is no
escape from the negro as the chief
labor supply, why let us make the best
Of him. is what employers are say
ing They complain, of course, as
does the New Orleans Picayune. at the
number of worthless, idle negroes, but
that journal itself points out that
eyery winter brings into the south an
tramps who never do stroke of work
for their living. 1t would have the
legislature deal with these people by
statute; but the real way to make the
negro a good laborer is along the lines
laid down by Booker T. washington
and the North Carolina manufacturer
to learn to know him, his aspira-
lions, and his achievements, and to
encourage him to thrift and industry
by the same methods tnat have been
effective with mankind the world
over. 1t is in this spirit that the
Southern Educational asso citation.
composed of white teachers, recorded
a.. iAF 1oc CT in the lOlCatiOn
Of the negro along moral and indus
trial lines, even at the expense of the
white taxpayers.-New York Evening
Post.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS
At about the time that the recent
panic began Postmaster General Mey-
er pointed out that If we had pos
tai savings bank in this country, es-
tablished on such lines as he had pre-
yfously suggested, there would be lit
tie danger that private boarding
would take cash out of circulation at
times when 1t was most needed.
Since then the experience of Hol-
bank, has amply borne testimony to
land, with its government savings
the truth of what the postmaster gen.
eral said. Holland felt the effects of
the general worldwide depression to
such an extent that there were heavy
private savings institutions. These
banks did not have TO suspend pay
ments, and when the run exhausted
itself deposits began to return to
them.
But in the meantime the money that
had been Withdrawn did not go into
stockings, stoves, tin cans and the
other hiding places o. the hoarder.
but instead it went into the postal
savings bank. In the first twenty
days of November the excess of de-
posts over Withdrawals in that fnsti-
tuition was 1.156,659 forms. In the
corresponding days Of the five pre-
vtaus years the excess had ranged
from 132,525 forms to 370,0S9 forms.
Here, then, this year was an increase
of deposits more than three times as
great as in the best preceding year.
Postmaster General Meyers pro-
posa1 for a postal savings bank is
very carefully framed to prevent the
cash deposited from being withdrawn
from circulation. If enacted into law
it would add a = distinct element of
strength to our financial situation.
This congress should establish the in
stitution, the many merits of which
have long since been abundantly
proven.-Chicago Record-Herald.