The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13

will give the people of the district an idea at any rate of the real worth of the paper, and what my object was when returned to my home state. Having been a student of my race from my youth, and noting the masses of the juvenile members, there is tendency among them to be more vicious than their ancestors. The anayss is Conditions make men" Born in a home of degeneracy, sur rounded with the influence of vice and immortality, they enter life q can almost say educated crminals) delinquent and depraved; but there is hope, because of the plastic nature of their minds, and if taken while they are young they can be made industrious men and women, thereby become valuable assets to the state as law-abiding citizens. We are here in this great southland together. and here we are going to remain as long as the south will occupy It's geographical position; then the question comes to eacn member of the proud Anglo-Saxon race, "Is the superior race of the universe go ing to allow a weaker race to live among them and waste their lives in debauchery and crime, when 1t is in their power to make them industrious men and women?" say, as your humble servant. God forbid!'
 Today is the psychological moment, and If the great Anslo-Saxons of this southland turn a deaf ear to this ap- peal and close their eyes to the signs of the times and let the unalarmed and uDreached negro boys and girls continue to grow up in vice and crime, being edu- cated more and more in crime of every kind, the day will come when the south will again welter in it's own blood.
 The time is now to apply the needed remedy to this alarming situation, if we wish to eradicate this great sinister evil. that is on the eve of devouring the very life of society, and that remedy is noth- ing less than an industrial detention training institute," where the farthest negro boys and girls down life's path can be given an elementary education and a trade that will fit them as bread winner instead of desperadoes and ter TOTS to society. As l view the situation in all of it's phases, consider this the greatest opportunity the south has ever had to prove to the civilized world that
 it is the negro's best friend by loan ing to him s5O000 for 10 or 15 years at compound interest, that they might build the only institute south of the Ohio river to save degenerate. deln- quent and abandoned negro boys and girls.
 Birmingham has set the pace for the south in every other good work for. the uplift of fallen humanity, why not set the pace for the whole south in helping
 
 will be open to those negroes or degen- crate homes to whom the doors of every school and college is closed, because or tbeir depraved condition?
 Ignorance is the father of degeneracy and degeneracy an incubator of crime. As remarked at the outset that have rom my youth been a close student Of my race, and particularly the younger genera tion In 1900 I made it q point to visit i, Inc gaV V fer a truth that in all the thousands of young negroes that I saw incarcerated in the different state prisons I never found but one who had diploma, and he was serving life sentence for murder. But on the other hand I found that ignorance of the philosophy of life had led thou sands of young, robust negro men and women into the very depths of infamy and crime.
 The crimes were not committed be- cause they desired to do so. No. but 1t was because their minds had been scared with the red hot iron of degeneracy from their youths and by the time they reached the age of maturity they had no conception of that which was right, and they plunged into vice and crime as If they were going to some high class enter. tainment.
 These are the farthest down life's path. and these are the ones whom the doors of the different schools and colleges are closed against; and seemingly as they wander down lifes path their faces emaci- ated with the marks of degeneracy and no eye to pity and no strong arm to reach out and save them from life of shame. misery and death, in their behalf I. being touched with the feelings of their infirnity, come to the Christian Anglo | Saxons of this Southland. who have never turned the negro away in good cause, pleading for these negro youths, that you might help me in my struggles 10 roise $5O,OO0 to build an Industrial De-