The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-01-23
CAST DOWN YOUR BUCKET WHERE
YOU ARE
by A. w. HIGH

"Cast down your bbucket where you are-cast it
down in making friends in every way of the people
OF all races by whom you are surrounded" ;. so
said the immortal Booker T. Washington
And T. southern Negro, speaking to southern
Negroes, would offer the same advice
We are living in crucial war-torn world and it
will take good old common horse sense for us to
maintain present status of living conditions We
cannot expect to measure shoulders with a race of
people who have had at least 700 years of education
al advantage to only rs years of cultural advance
ment.
The Southern Negro and the southern white man
settle their differences on fundamental basis
which will lead to better understanding between both
races. Further the southern Negro and the south
ern white man understand each other and both
work together for the good of the south. Much Of
the misunderstanding has come about through the
agitation on the part of outsiders who are only try
ing to capitalize race to better or make their
political future secure
Talking about EQUALITY . we in the south
have been getting along togther WE'LL but my friends
| am Negro and please let me tell you that there
base never been in my life and there never will be
the day when will measure arms on equality with
a group o people when will not show the proper
respect for members of our own race Let us not
listen to outside agitators who tell that the South
ern white is enemy.
Suppose we consider few of the good things
that are coming to us here in Mississippi through
the friendly cooperation of the two races:
Soon there will be in the state Delinquent
home for Negro Youth and this home will be super
vised by Negro-a who was born in the red
ground comes from of the states outstanding
colleges This has been recommended to this
high job by the leading white an dcolored citizens
OF the state He is no other than Prof c. w. Will
l1ams, principal of theHolmeS Country Training
school at Durant and has been recognized 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
poole OF the state would place Negro in position
OF this type they believed him or the Negro race
as "a majority to be no more than mules and saw
ages! Don't you know that good white people APP
preclate good Negroes? Don't you know that daily
groups are interesting themselves in the welfare and
well-ebing off Negroes?
Dr. George Washington Carver lived in the south
and his friends among the Southern white men were
nestlmable This be proven by the fine tributes
paid him by the Atlanta Constitution and every 9TH
er white newspaper thruout the south.
Another instance where the white man here in
the south is trying to help is proven by the fact
that 800 bed hospital for Negroes in this state who
nave ID has been approved and the only reason this
hoSpltal 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 see their mistake
ana are trying to solve them, but we cannot get any
results by resorting to radical principles
30, let us as the greaSteSt minority group here in
the south, solve our problems with one another LET
us solve our problems with our good friends of the
other group-elt least down our bucket and edu
cate our people and will not be bothered with ont
side influences as well asagtators