The Colorado statesman., 1922-08-26
Prominent Georgia
Whites Indicted for
Lynching at Macon

"And last but not least, 1 wish to
recommend that the league establish
a series of scholarships that would
make it possible to select each year
men of our race and send them to one
of the standard schools of commerce,
or perhaps journalism, where they
would fit themselves to enter busi-
ness career with thorough knowl-
edge of the principles of trade and
commerce. The growth of business
among our own people is becoming
such that the need of this kind of
training. for our young people grows
more and more apparent. Ignorance
is at the present time a greater han
dicap to successful business among
Negroes than dishonesty; and there is
a. definite limit to expansion beyond
which it cannot go until we have a
body of trained assistants to carry it
forward.
'In all of this I mean to emphasize
this fact: that scientific methods in
business must supplant the present
hit-or-miss method. Very frequently
men of our race see some other man
succeed in Il given line of business
and decide to enter upon the same
line, with little or no knowledge of
the business, but at the same time ex-
pecting to succeed largely because the
other man has succeeded. With the
growing competition in business
throughout the country, it is becom-
ing almost impossible for a man to
make any success whatever without
thorough knowledge of the line he un-
dertakes to develop. Any man who
goes into business today without
some knowledge of the buying power
of his clients, of the distribution of
the population, of the character of his
patrons, is particularly fare-doomed
to failure. Definite and exact infor-
nation in many things is an essen
tial requirement of those who start
business today and hope to develop it
to success. The National Negro Bust
ness League was established for this
very purpose; to bring to those who
are in business and to those who are
hoping to enter business the benefit
of the knowledge and experience of
those who have already succeeded.
at is such possibilities as these
that constitute the basis for the work
of the National Negro Business
League, and more and more l am CON
vinced that there is real need and
a real demand for such an organiZa-
tion as we have in the Business
League. The Negro race needs the
inspiration and information which this
organization, with its well-organized
and affiliated bodies can give. 1t also
needs the unification of effort which
the National League represents, if we
are to achieve the economic upbuild-
ing which is essential to the continued
and permanent development of the
race along all lines. And we need at
the same time the combined help of
this organization with all of our other
organizations in their efforts to ad-
vance the race, cooperating at the
same time with that large and in
creasing group of white people both
North and South, who are working
unselfishly to see that every group of
every race, whatever its creed or
color have that unhampered opportu-
nifty for development which is assured
to everyone of its citizens by that ma
ton which declares itself conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the propo-
sition that all men are created
equal"