Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-17

keep your labor ginOrant. Your Negro
schools are disgrace. as your own educators
will tell you. and it is not the colOred men
alone who suffer. but the whole country.
Inefficient work. spoiled material, badly cul-
tivatcd fields cost all Of us something. [ will
not ask you to rely on my Words but you
cannot disregard those Of the Southern Uni
vplsitv Race Commission. from whose report
| quote:
''The inadequate provision for the educa-
ton of the Negro is more than an injustice
to him: it is an injury to the white man. The
South cannot realize it's destiny if one-thrd
Of it's population is undeveloped and inef-
ficicnt or our common welfare we must
strive to cure disease wherever we find it,
strengthen whatever is weak, and develop all
that is ,ndeveloped The initial steps for
increasing the efficiency and usefulness Of
the Negro race must necessarily be taken in
the schooroom."
Or as the Report by the Bureau Of Edu-
cation in the Department Of the Interior puts
"The economic future Of the South de-
ponds upon the adequate training of the
black as well as the white workmen of that
scction The fertile soil the magnificent for
cSts. the extensive mineral resources and the
embarrassed waterfalls are awaiting the
trained mind and the skilled hand of both
the white man and the black man.
This is not the argument of fantical
aboitionist to a slave owner. 1t is mere
common sense stated by practical business
man to other practical business men. Do
you not that it is so? Let me again turn
to Atlanta for confirmation and quote from
the great speech Of Booker Washington dur
ing your Exposition:
"Cast down your bucket where you are,
Cast it down among the eight millions of Ne
groes whose habits you know, whose fidelity
and love you have tested in days when to
have proved treacherous meant the ruin of
your tiresdes. Cast down your bucket among
these people who have, without strikes and
labor wars, titled your fields, cleared your
forests. builded your railroads and cities,
and brought forth treasures from the bowels
OF the earth, and hel ped make possible this
magnificent representation Of the progress Of
the SOuth'
the future, as in the past, that you and your
families will be surrounded by the most
patient, faithful law-abding and unresentfu1
people that the world has seem
Monroe n Work, the statistician of Tus-
kegee has made this statement:
1T is probable that the South is losing
each year, because of bad health conditions
among its Negro population, more than
S30oOoO,0OO It is also probable that by
improving health conditions among it's Ne
gro population one-half of this great loss
could be saved'
This suggests another danger Disease is
no respector Of persons. Tt is absolutely
just and knows no race color. The dis
eases which are devastating Europe may at
any moment cross the ocean as did the Span
lsh Influenza. When the citizens of any
place tolerate within their borders dirty,
squalid districts, badly drained and badly
kept. they are preparing to receive disease
with open arms. 1t is not many years ago
that yellow fever desolated New Orleans and
Memphis and shotgun quarantines were
maintained against the infected regions No
shotgun quarantine will keep disease from
crossing streets and spreading from district
to district in any town. Only recall how the
yellow fever and the influenza spread within
your memory, how typhus spread in Serbia
few years ago, how the plaques of history
devastated continents, and ask yourselves