The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-26
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Mr.. Rawley, now a business man OF
Washington, D.. c., is one of those
true born southern gentlemen who go
out of the way to befriend the colored
folk their families once owned and
lived Off-and not in a %patronizing. in
different way, but at the sacrifice of
considerable trouble, thought, business
energy and valuable time. Mr.. Rawley
recently made a midsummer journey to
Boston for the Sister Industrial and
Normal School for Colored People at
the Rawleys' native place, Winston
Salem, n. c. 1t seems there are a set
of enlightened business men and bank
ers in Winston-Salem who have got
together and planted, altogether, their
capital to the amount of S6JQOO in a
school which they consider next in i'm
portance to Tuskegee and Hampton.
The effects have been so immediate
and so permanent at once, that these
gentlemen see nothing of so much vital
concern to the development of the
South as the educating and raising I'm
moral worth of their black fellow citi-
zens. Mr.. Rawley, for instance (he
says his ancestors changed from Ra-
leigh to Rawley to avoid the charge of
sinful pride i'm their %aristocratic line
age), is me of those southerners Qike
the late lamented President Mitchell
of the Richmond college), who no long
er permit themselves to say 'niggers"
but compromise on a curious French
like word which sounds like "Negres,"
or "Nigras." He speaks with positive
enthusiasm of the Tenth cavalry troop
erS, and points to the fact that in every
national crisis colored men have been
the first to shed their blood and have
never raised a hand against the flag.
This sort of sentiment is more and
more representative of the better
classes-the eX-slave-Owning families
OF the South and the new business life,
such as MeSsrs. Rawley of Winston
Salem and Mr.. William A. Blair, vice
president and cashier of the PEOPLES
National bank of Winston-Salem rep
resent. The immediate matter in hand
is the raising of $4,000, which will Sc
cure an equal amount from the Old
North States treasury for this SPLEEN
did colored training school. Mr.. Raw
ley's visit to Boston on this business
proved to be ill-timed, on account of
the vacation season. But If readers of
this paragraph wish to keep in coun-
tenance this nobly representative
North Carolinian, whose state boasts
that 1t has not been disgraced by a
lynching in 20 years past, they may
send their ten-dollar checks to Cash
Ter Blair at his Winston-Salem bank.
1t really seems as though one of the
f~ar-reaching unlooked-fOr results of
the great war is going to be to better
Immensely the economic position of the
great colored element of this republic.
The cessation of immigration and the
unsatisfied demands for labor of all
kinds, Is resulting in a new and i'm
portant extension of their opportuni-
ties, into which the technical training
OF such schools as Hampden and Tus-
kegee and the Sister Industrial and
State Normal school of North Carolina.
exactly fit. The movement in this
state and city fathered by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, is progressing by leaps
n bounds; petitions to large employ
ers of help from their customers have
assured them that they would like to
see colored help in department stores
and offices. Large industries like our
WalwOrth Manufacturing company,
and the paper mills of Acton,
have been putting on colored labor in
their yards. Every conquest of old
prejudices like this makes the next