Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-22
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success in business means, and how
that vision may be fully. If painfully.
realized.
The leagues real work. however. Is
carried on silently and efficiently
through its executive officers who help
to organize local business leagues:
keep alive the existing leagues. 500 IN
number; administer the necessary
tonic for those leagues that seem
ready to faint away; offer helpful sug-
gestions to merchants for reaching
available Negro customers and for Sc
curing better business methods, and
keep. through the press, the best in.
terests of the Negro in business before
the American public. ....& a.. "
Doctor Washington summed UP the
progress of Negroes in business and
indicated that hundreds OF thousands
of opportunities in business await Ne
groes who are ready to grasp and cap,
italize them. That the Negro in busi-
ness must pay the price OF success
Doctor Washington frankly admits.
That the South is clearly the field for
the Negro to make his greatest gains
is evident from the testimony Of Ne
groes from the North and the South,
as well as from such Southerners as
the Rev. DR.. John E. White OF Atlanta,
Ca. and Dr. James Hardy billiard Of
Charlottesville. Va, president of the
Jeanes fund and director of the Slater
fund
That Negroes in business. especially
the women. are going ahead with
tremendous stride and are meeting
with the cooperation of the best white
people everywhere should prove en-
couraging even to those who are IN
clined to be pessinistic over segrega-
ton legislation. lynching and other
handicaps.-William Anthony Aery, in
Chicago Daily News.
There live in Birmingham today
many families of Negroes who have
been our family friends always, and as
we go to their homes we find pictures
of the old white folks" hung conspicu-
ously on their walls, writes Mrs. J.
Reid in the Birmingham tAla.) Age
Herald. These remind US that the
true type of Negro stands by his white
friends today, and the whites value
that respect and that friendship as
token of justice one to the other.
Wherever we can help each other we
are only creating better world. and
that is what progress is working for
today. 49,.
The Negro Is striving to make his
share of it better like the rest of US.
Their homes have peculiar adyan-
tage. and they are availing themselves
of the privilege. AS they serve in the
homes OF the white people they catch
the phase OF life that teaches home
making; they have the opportunity to
study home arrangement. housekeep-
ing economy and good cooking. and
the ambitious class is taking these
lessons home with them, and are max.
ing themselves more comfortable,
more clearly and more healthy, thus
better citizens. The Negro teachers
are preparing for better service
among the parents and children OF
their race.
Booker T. Washington. the leader
of the race, is ever on the alert to
give opportunity, and in SO doing Is
conserving the interest of both races.
The entire plant of Pennsylvania
asphalt block manufacturing concern
is mounted on freight cars 80 that it
can be taken wherever there is work
for it to do.
Unrequited love is one brand of
heart failure. But it's never fatal.
thOughtfully to the EOOr old NegrO'S