The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-02-13
CAST DOWN YOUR BUCKET WHERE
YOU ARE
BY A. w. HIGH

Cast down your bucket where you are-cast it
down in making friends in every way of the people
OF all races by whom you are surrounded said
the immortal Booker T. Washington
And l. a southern Negro, speaking to southern Neg
roes would offer the advice
We are living in crucial war-torn world and it
will take good old horse sense for us to main
tam our present status of living conditions We cannot
expect to measure shoulders with race of people who
have had at least 700 years of educational advantage
to our only IS years of cultural advancement
The Southern Negro and the southern white man
can settle their differences fundamental basis which
VIII lead TO better understanding between both
Further, the southern Negro and the southern white
man can understand each other and both work together
Tor the good OF the south Much of the misunderstood
ing has come about through the agitation of the part of
outsiders who only trying capitalize our race
to better or make their political future secure.
. Talking about EQUALITY we in the south
have been getting along together WE'LL but my friends
| am Negro and please let me tell you that there
has never been in my life and there never will be the
day when we will measure arms on equality with
group OF people when will show the proper re-
spect for members of our own race Let us not listen
to outside agators who tell that the Southern white
man is enemy.
Suppose we consider few of the good things that
are coming to here in Mississippi through the friend
~ cooperation of the two races
Soon there will be in the state Delinquent home
for Negro Youth and this home will be supervised by
Negro-a man who born in the red hills of Miss
lsSlppl, man whose educational background comes
from one of the states outstanding colleges This man
has been recommended to this high job by the leading
white and colored citizens of the state He no other
than Prof. G. w. Williams principal of the Holmes
Country Training school Durant and has been recog
nlzed and so honored because of his ability to make
friends IN every way, manly way of the people of all
races who surround him. Do you think that the good
white people of the state would place Negro in DO
ston OF this type if they believed him or the Negro
race as majority to be than mules and saw
ages? Don't you know that good white people appre-
clate good Negroes Don't you know that daily groups
are interesting themselves in the welfare and wel-be
ing of Negroes?
DR.. George Washington Carver lived in the south
ana his friends among the Southern white men were
lnestmable This be proven by the fine tributes
paid him by the Atlanta Constitution and every other
white newspaper thruout the south
Another instance where the white man here in
the south trying to help proven by the fact that
3OO bed hospital for Negroes this state who have
IB has been approved and the only reason this hospt
al is not IN operation is simply because the state cannot
get the material with which to build it.
AS Southern Negro, speaking to southern Ne
groes, would like to say, Good white people admit
that the Negro had not got square deal in all in
stances here IN the south, but they their mistake
and are trying to solve Them but cannot get any
suits by resorting to radical principles.
So let the greatest minority group here in
the south, solve our problems with one another let
US solve our problems with good friends of the
other group-et cast down our bucket and educate
our people and we will not be bothered with outside
influences as well agitators
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