Evening star., 1925-09-06
ASSERTS NEGRO PROBLEM
NOW is NATIONAL ISSUE
Julius Rosenwald, Founder of Colored
School Fund, Sees Race as Factor
i'm Industrial Life.

industrialists have come to look to
the negro for the labor supply in their
factories and workshops. For some of
these tasks men and women who have
had training at Hampton and Tuske-
gee are we'll fitted.
These industrialists are now care
fully selecting their negro workers.
Some have made special efforts to EN-
ploy only married men and then to
provide such housing and working
conditions as will keep them satisfied.
One large iron foundry, which pursued
this policy, reported that the turn
over among it's negro workers was
only 10 per cent.
Apparently the settling of the negro
in the north is permanent. Many of
the factors that brought him North
operate to keep him there.
There is good ground for believing
that the migration of the negro will
have Il beneficial effect on the Nation.
1t will be a good thing for the South.
because the colored population will be
more evenly distributed over the en-
tire country and will lessen the South
ern fear, real or alleged. of race domi-
nation, and will thus remove an out
standing factor that has hampered
that sections development.
Southern White Man Quoted.
In this connection it might be well
to quote the authority of Southern
white man, President Jacobs OF Ogle-
thorpe University, Atlanta, Ga, who
has declared:
THE very finest effect of this exc
dus of negro laborers is it's political
effect. AS long as there is a negro
problem in America the South is in
political slavery, unable to vote her
mind about matters of national and
international Importance. When the
time comes that the negro problem is
no longer sectional problem, but, in
so far as 1t is a problem at all, a ma
tional problem, then, indeed, will the
Southern country be free.
And it should be added that, from
the political standpoint of the negro
also, the change will be most highly
advantageous. 1t is difficult for a
white man to realize how it feels to
be a problem and the negro will
never be satisfied, nor will the tension
between the races be over, until he
ceases to be one
The negro's rise in the scale of oc-
cupations has given him a greater
purchasing power and a higher stand
ard of living. To his credit it should
be said that, for the most part, he
tries sincerely to live up to his op-
portunities in the North. He is usual
ly a law-abiding citizen. buys his own
home when possible and gives his
children the best schooling his income
will permit.
Regarded as Hopeful Sign.
One of the most hopeful signs for
the future of the negro in the North
is that the opportunities there are at
tracing young colored men and wom-
en- trained in such schools as Hamp-
ton and Tuskegee. These two schools,
and others of their type, not only give
a thorough training in mechanical oc-
cupations, but their whole system of
education tends to turn out young
men and women who will be com
munity teachers and leaders.
Those trained in what has become
known as the Hampton -Tuskegee'
method strive to bring about co-opera-
ton between the white and colored
races and to reduce interracial fri
ton. Leaders of this type are bound
to have a salutary influence on the
negro communities everywhere.