The northwestern bulletin., 1923-07-28

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past twelve months. There are in
dications of the change In the type of
Negroes who are moving. The fami-
ly man, the thrifty farm tenant and
many of those with small accumula-
tions of property are now migrating
in larger proportions than formerly.
Through friends and relatives who
have gone North in previous years
they have learned that the venture
can be successfully made as to the
chances of finding work and habita-
tion and as to meeting the climatic
conditions. Now that the employing
interests of the South are suffering
from decreasing supply, of Negro la
Dor, they have suddenly discovered
that the colored man is a very valu-
able industrial asset. They are due
to discover further that they cannot
keep a race of human beings in
position of economic inferiority, shut
off from adequate intellectual and
moral development, and at the same
time get from 1t the best productive
service. With the Negro coming
North, 1t is good time to realize the
truth that the real solution of the
race question lies in giving the Negro
a chance to "live and develop"
There have been many of us who have
thought these stories of northward
migration were being exaggerated,
others of us who probably have CIV
en- no thought to the matter at all,
but when these big white dailys all
over the country, North and South,
are finding the situation serious
enough to devote editorial comments
of this nature to 1t, then it seems it's
time for us to sit up and take notice.
These people are steadily coming in
our midst. Quietly, with no fuss or
noise. they are taking their places
among us to become a part of our
future civic, industrial and spiritual
lives. Go to any public gathering OF
our people now and see how many
there are present whom you do not
know. What are we doing to meet
the changed conditions that inevita-
bly, must be the result. There is
where we will understand the benefit
of the Urban league, for it is the pur-
pose and work of this organization to
assist in the proper adjustment of
these strangers within our gates to
their new environments.
A most interesting news item is the
notice OF the recent appointment,
through the recommendation of Sec
retary of War Weeks of Captain
Moody Staten to be general of the
Army Of Liberia. Liberia may seem
small and inconsequentiai to us, but
she's country. recognized by and
maintaining diplomatic relations with
most of the recognized governments
of the world and her army may be
small one. but it is pretty safe as
oCitioh thdI buC ildH WIN
1t will receive every courtesy and
right which his rank entities him to
wherever he may go to represent the
country he Is serving, with the pos
sible exception of certain sections of
the United States. Our chief concern
should be in the hope that Captain
Staten may make good.
Well the election is over and Min
nesota has another Farmer-Labor
senator. Just how much the Negro
vote contributed towards his election
nobody knows. We didn't get very
much from the Republicans who have
passed out and can't fare much worse
at the hands of these new ones. May
be to win us along with the other
common" people they may take some
active interest in some legislation
that would guarantee us some Of our
constitutional rights. Any how we
are watchfully waiting.