The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

Grace Campbell is her name, and
Al the criminal courts building she
is known as one of the most success
tul probation officers. She is the first
and only one of her race. and she
has attracted great deal of attention
by her work in the Tombs.
Miss Campbell is doing fine work
here, and there isn't any one who
won't respond to her sympathy. She
is an ideal disciplinarian.
This is Probation officer ID. Z
Kimball's tribute to her feminine CO.
worker.
When / saw Miss Campbell at the
National League for the Protection
Of Colored Women she explained how
she had been drawn to the work
through her interest in kindergarten
teaching in Chicago and Washington.
Like her father and mother, Miss
Campbell was a graduate of the
Howard university. at Washington.
Her father is minister and was
born in British West Indies. Her
mother was a Washington woman.
Miss Campbell has large, soft, brown
eyes and a quantity of black hair. 1t
is her eyes that make the most elo
quent appeal, although her soft, well
modulated voice is almost as per-
suasive.
do you think there is any differ
ence i'm the attitude of the colored
girl and the white girl. when you ap-
peal to them to reform?" | inquired
NO" she replied, Il think human
nature is the same, no matter what
the color of the skin. | consider that
mental deficiency is one of the great.
est causes of crime in all races. 1
believe that there ought to be schools
for the mentally deficient, where the
nature of the defect might be studied,
as well as the possibility of edu-
eating the delinquents in some work
that would appeal to them and thus
make useful citizens of them, instead
OF treating them as criminals and
exposing them to further temptation
in institutions.
The most stubborn cases, l find,
respond to sympathy and the proper
kind of discipline Investigation
shows that the colored girl is very
often a victim of an employment
agent who has lured her from her
southern home with promises of
plenty of work. The girl, flattered
by these assurances, leaves her home
with little or no money. few clothes
and absolutely destitute of expert
ence. She reaches the big city penni-
less, and has no place to go. OF
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southern colored woman is just the
same for the southern white woman
who hopes to obtain employment
here.
But where there is protection for
the white girl there is not so much
FOR the negro The National League
for the Protection of Colored Women
first of all tries to prevent the col
ored woman from coming north, but
then If she has made the mistake and
arrives here we try to find a place
for her as soon as we possibly can.
My work at the docks puts me in
touch with many of these girls, for l
am not at the court the whole day.
\'I know that the temptations of
these innocent colored girls from
rural districts are great. The lost
address TO a friend or a decent lodg.
ing house is one source of a girls
downfall. She must be properly shell
tered the first night she arrives in
the city, or perhaps an agent, seek
ing girls for purposes of which the
victims are ignorant, come into pos
session of them and then follows the
life of misery and disgrace.
THE girls who find their way to
the night courts are often the victims
of these spurious employment agents
If they can only be reached in time
a few words will put them on the
right road. We find proper lodgings
for them and legitimate work is sup
piled by the league, which has asso-
Citations in Philadelphia, New York,
Memphis and Baltimore. The same
good work is done In these other
cities.
THE majority of people forget that
the colored race is not naturally
vicious or shiftless, but that lack of
proper training and the fact that they
have been so long oppressed initiates
against their development Viola
Justin in New York Daily Mail.
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