The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-10
DO NOT HATE RAGE
Wallace Battle Says It Is Ignor- ance and Dirt, Not Color,
 That Divide.
EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO
Believes If These Bad Features Are Eliminated Prejudice Against
 Negro Win Cease.

Wallace A. Battle president of the Okolona CMiss) industrial college for colored young men and women, spoke before the New Haven union of the Kings Daughters at the Trinity NJ E, church yesterday afternoon at i5o. This was the last of several speeches in New Haven by the head Of the Okolona Industrial school, and the Kings Daughters, consisting of 3s circles, gave Mir. Battle a most cordial and cnthusl- astic welcome,
 He said in part:
 "rhe rare privilege to address the representatives of the first women of the first city of Connecticut is a priv liege that shall ever inspire me to even larger activities in the work 10 which the whole country is now about to turn its attention in earnest,
 When the chapter which is so con- spicuously omitted Is written upon the work of American women the historian Twill probably close 1t with the most Iunselfsh work Of alt work of the | New England women to bring up the rear of American civilization There lare many of these and you are a part Iof them; and we as a race want you 10 know while you live that we with J gI attitude upon our feeble lips are rs- l ing up to call you blessed
 i r., ynIt ,f ba tV1f Ns l ficulties to bulld an Industrial school in ! the black belt. in spite of the poverty stricken condition of my race to help. and in spite of the destruction Of three of our best buildings two years a2o by storm and fire. the total property val nation Is today at s6i 900. and there are BOG students and II industries taught i by IS teachers
 Mir Carnege's contribution of ss s50t for the new buildings is on condition that no debt shall he left, 600 young lmen and women are anxlously await ing the opening of school, which can. mot be done until the comparatively small sum of s5500 has heen raised fo, the equipment of the new buildings"
 The speaker hero describfd conditions in the rural districts of the state, and continued:
 'I contend that the other races dc not hate the negro. but. on the con trary have a deep sympathy and loy' for him Many people are mlstakint the sign for tho thing The real thInf that other races are running from ant InhiectInr to In the masses of mv race ls not the negro himself, but ignorance dirt and poverty Change these anC even bad men will not object 10 tht presence of the negro The only pro
 hlem is the removal of these thre, things all the rest of the problem ha
 been well solved by an old colored lad, in Knetucky
 At Okoona we are teaching on
 young men and women that it is jus
 as honorable to he first class hous servant, farmer ar brIcklayer as to b, a cheap politician, or to hold somt minor federal office for a season
 Under Governor Noel there s ai Increasingly kindly feeling between th races in Mississippi and if you wi help the whites there who are overbu-
 dened with the peculiar educations problem of the south. you will contri
 butc largely toward making more glorl ous our united country which we al
 love SO we'll"
 President Battle was introduced h. his friend and former classmate a 5 Berea college Edwin F. Embree as
 sistant editor Yale Alumni Weekly