The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
ALL ARE HUMAN
BY VIOLA JUSTIN

BY VIOLA JUSTIN
From The Evening Mail. New York,
July IS.
Grace Campbell is her name, and
at the Criminal Court building she
IS known as one of the most success
ful probation officers. She is the first
and only one of her race, and she
has attracted a great deal OF atten-
ton by her work in the Tombs.
Miss Campbell is doing fine work
here. and there isn't anyone who Will
not respond to her sympathy. She
is an ideal disciplinarian.
This is Probation Officer D. +.
KimbalPs tribute to his feminine CO.
worker:
When 1 saw Miss Campbell at the
National League for the Protection
of Colored Women she explained how
she had been drawn to the work thru
her interest in kindergarten teaching
in Chicago and Washington.
Like her father and mother, Miss
Campbell was a graduate of theHow-
ard University, at Washington. Her
father is a minister and was born III
British West Indies. Her mother
was a Washington woman. Miss
Campbell has large, soft, brown eyes
and quantity of black hair. 1t Is
her eyes that make the most eloquent
appeal, although her soft, well-modu-
lated voice is almost as persuasive
DO you think there is any differ,
ence in the attitude of the coloreC
girl and the white girl when you ap
peal to them to refOrm?" | inquired
Human Nature Hike IN Al
No" she replied. Il think hu
man nature is the same, no matte
what the color of the skin. l con
slider that mental deficiency is one 0
the greatest causes of crime in a
races. | believe that there ought t
be schools for the mentally deficient
where the nature of the defect NIGH
be studied, as we'll as the poSsibillt
of educating the delinquents IN som
work that would appeal to them an
thus make useful citizens of them, II
stead of treating them as criminal
and exposing them to further temps
alton in institutions,
The most stubborn cases, l fnC
respond to sympathy and the props
kind of discipline Investigatio
shows that the colored girl is yer
often a victim of an employmer
agent who has lured her from he
Southern home with promises
plenty of work. The girl, fiattere
by these assurances, leaves her hon
with little or no money, few clothe
and absolutely destitute OF expeT
ence. She reaches the big city PEI
niless, and has no place to go. {
course the lure of the North Il
Southern colored woman is just Il
same for the Southern white WON;
who hopes to obtain employme
here
The Leagues Protecting Hand.
But where there is protection
the white girl there is not so mu
for the Negro. The National Leag
for the Protection of Colored Wol
en- first of all tries to prevent the c.
ored woman from coming North,
then if she has made mistake a
arrived here we try to hnd a pla
for her as soon as we possibly c;
Ny work at the docks puts me
touch with many of these girls, fol
am not at the court the whole d
I know that the temptations
these innocent colored girls from {
rural districts are great. The /
address to a friend or a decent Loo
ing house is one source of a gil
downfall. She must be properly sh
tered the first night she arrives
the city, or perhaps an agent, SCI
ing girls for purposes of which
victims are ignorant, come into p
session of them and then follows