Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-05-10
INSTALLMENT NO. 1.

INsTALLMENT NO. 1.
distributed by Preston News.)
Three thousand miles, through 10
great States in thirty days. I went,
/ saw. I tell. And what have l TO
tell? There are impressions, COM
parsons, opinions, facts, and inspir-
ations. The trip was taken in the
interest of the Youth Movement OF
our sleeping race.
In these ten States, richer than
the other thirty-eight of these United
States, I visited great Negro instr
buttons of learning like Fisk and
Meharry and mixed with an army
of 1000 students at the imposing
universities of Illinois and Michigan.
In the thirteen cities where stops
were made I met the former Regis
ter of the U. S. Treasury, Hon.
C. Napier; the most eminent path
ologist of the race, DR.. w. S. Qu1n-
land. of Harvard and Meharry; l
talked with Anthony Overton, pres
ident of the only Negro Natlonal
Bank in America; and with Robert
S. Abbott, editor of the Chicago
Defender. spent a day with a
noted Negro physician, who is
member of the city club of CleVe-
land, a man of wealth, OF dashing
courage and who has kept secret his
MANY distinctions, among which is a
seventeen-year membership In the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science.
In addition there were fifteen
other striking personalities. what
impression did they make upon me!
In a forthcoming article this ques-
ton will be answered.
These personalities, indeed, Will
be strikingly dissimilar. But, per-
haps, no greater contrast did l lind
anywhere than in my native South.
An absence of five years, ante-dating
the effects of the blighting migration
enables one to easier size up the
remarkable changes in the sick
South which has been forced to
vomit such large portion of Negro
labor, which it has, hitherto, like a
Boa Constructor, mercilessly eaten
u
this question, however, which has
not been prominently mentioned.
That aspect of this great problem
will be discussed in an installment-
HAS the Negro Property Owner
Been Crippled in the South?"
SOUGHT FACTS ABOUT RACE.
In my zeal to forecast the nature
of some of the story of this exper-
fence, am wandering from the
mission which took me from the
Carnegie steel Mills Of Pennsylvania.
I left Western Pennsylvania not on
a lazy hunt for singular, big, curious
experiences to be told in egotistic
and pedantic Language, nor to graf
ify what men are prone and ever
ready to call the Unsuitable vanities.
Nashville, Tenn, Athenian city Of
the South, where a National Negro
Youth Conference was called under
the auspices of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Negro Students, marked
the end of a ten-inch ticket I pro-
cured in Pittsburgh. The A. F. OF
N. S. believes in our youth and is
now urging economic cooperation,
which, we believe, can best be had
by encouraging and making 1t pos
sible for the youth Of the race to
prepare for business.
was quite fortunate when /
stopped at Louisville, KY, and at
tended meeting of business men In
that city. There were present at
this meeting newspaper editors,
ministers, inter-racial workers, law
yers, bankers, and insurance COM
pany officials At these meetings.
Louisville business men thresh out
matter of vital interest to their
business and are working to tie their
joint interests into an unseparable
knot.
BUSINESS NEEDS TRAIN YOUTH.
Business men and editors through
out the country took a favorable
attitude to our program of lining up
our youth for the economic freedom
of the race. This twas especially
true at Louisville, st. Louis, Nash
vile and Chicago. In our schools
and colleges the majority of our
youth are either influenced or are
preparing to enter the professional
fields. Banks, newspapers, and in
surance companies register the COM
mon need and call for trained bus
mess minds Anyone familiar with
the advertisements of our leading
insurance companies, despite the fact
these are the most successful of
real" business among us, is GER
tainly acquainted with the constant
broadcasting for trained men.
At this writing many of our bus
mess men are touring the South in
the interest Of gaining definite
knowledge of conditions in the
country which affect their business
es. This is a laudable step. But,
from my study of conditions, and no
pretense is made that that study
was all sufficient, I am strengthened
in the conclusion that a larger, far
larger per cent. of the most cour-
ageous and thoughtful blood of the
race must be induced to prepare for
business.
A. OF N. 8. TO GIVE
SCHOLARSHIP.