The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31

dwarfed by degeneracy, but there is yet hope through the medium of an Indus trial Training Institute" he can be made standard of life his labor could be made of far greater value to the south. With his assistance, fully developed and well directed, the wealth of the south would be immeasurably increased. No doubt mil lions of dollars have been spent in the south to educate the negro-one class. The moral, ambitious negro boy and girl has made good, and today they are trying to help their borther and sister who are down in tho gutter, but they are numeri- cally and financially weak and that places them in an awkward position, when on the other hand 60 per cent of their brothers and sisters are ploughing their way down the roads of vice, crime and immortality. There is no reliability or confidence to be placed in this class of negroes. As a laborer and producer of wealth he is essentially different from the white who works by his side. That is because Of his ignorance and atavic de- gereracy. He has little conception of duty or responsibility, and not the slight est feelings of interest or knship with his employer. He takes absolutely no in- terest in his labor as a rule, and will lay down the most important piece of work at the slightest provocation, when he knows dozens of others are dependent on him, even without giving his employer a moments notice.
 A contractor or any one engaged in large enterprises are on their wits end every night when they leave their work. as they can scarcely guess how many or his men will show up for work the next day, especially Monday morning. This same class will work long enough to get a decent suit of clothes, pair of tan shoes, a Stetson hat and a couple of dollars in his pocket and the boss and job can go to the mischief, as far as he is concerned.
 But tho sad part of it is, it does not stop with the negro mem The women arc just as bad. The cook, be she ever so well treated. and she who feeds soms lazy good for nothing buck while he walks tho streets in his patent leather shoes, will wait deliberately until the mistress is i'll or there is company in the home, then for the slightest thing mentionable she will become insulted, and that night when she gets off she will go home seem ingly just as pleased as basket of chips and never show up any moreno notice or warning at all given. For such actions there is a cause, and it is a fact the An glo-Saxons, even though they have been With, or the negro has been Wlti tHeIIi, for more than 300 years do not know the cause. It is bad to say but still 1t is true, this state of affairs will always exist unless the negro is developed to the standard of manhood and decent, intelli- gent womanhood that can conceive the cardinal principles of the true dignity cf industry.
 This is an old proverb, though I be- lieve a true one, You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.' Neither can you change the course of these old negroes, but there is the boy and the girl whose mind is still plastic-they can be molded into the highest quality of industrious manhood and intelligent domestic woman hood.
 The tide can be changed and as the founder and promoter of the Negro Ju- venile Protective society, with but one
 object in view. that is to build an 'In- dustrial Detention Training Institute" at Mt. Pinson, Jefferson county, Ala, the only one of it's kind in the south, como to the Anglo-Saxons of this district and the south, asking, Will you help me in
 my endeavor?
 F. COLFAX RAMEAU, B. D. 316h North 18th St., Room IA. General Superintendent Negro Juvenile Protcc-
 tive Society.