Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1951-04-27
Booker I. Washington
Continued from page five)

medical science upholds this belief
Man is animal Like beasts in the forest, man can only
survive by his strength The survival of the fttest
attaining keeping spiritual mental and moral fitness
also achieving mastery of every phase of human en-
deavor and surrounding all difficulties.
We learn to do first things first. Too many of our
college graduates be president of the company before
learning the business Far many of feel that without
knowing anything about machinery should be getting ma
ehniss pay though hired to do porer work. We
doing porer work. begrudge the skilled mans fat pay
envelope cry against the employers hiring practices say
ing unfair he hates Negroes ETC. In cases we may
absolutely right but taking the whole the ma
jory 100000 empoyabe Negroes are unskiled i'll
prepared ready step in and demand job based upon
standard qualifications.
We read about Negroes holding important positions with
big companies But they pitully few that helr ac
compishmens make They the elite What they are
doing and they arrived their erstwhe prominence make
these all the clearer Their accomplishments spell out the
unreadness grips the major portion of Americas Negro
population
Why then should disspate becoud the real
issue down the smoke Of integraon when we
really should be getting back to fundamentals The answer
simple Before we can live work with Others must learn
live and work with ourselves Before we can demand
respect the other fellow must respect ourselves BE-
fore demand jobs from the other fellow we must pre-
pare ourselves fill these jobs and do them better than any
one else
We are not doing good Job living with each other Look
At the violence in Negro neghborood weekends This kill
ing manning and bucherng Saturday night must stop we
spend far much money hard liquor and don't kno"
how to drink Not only is this hadeaned cash wasted on
frivOy the majority OF Negro hq"o'
stores are owned by members of another race Is any wonder
that we cannot get the respect of others Would indignation
help this situation? .,.
love my race proud to be Negro Even II 1t were
nossbe TO change would rather be what am the darker
race o,nmber the other sure we have destiny
70 fulfill TO bring peace earth and goodwill toward all men,
start in that direction made nineteen hundred years
ago when the child Jesus born in manger IL was gwen
mnetus when the child Booker born in slave capm IN
Franklin County, Virginia ,,..
The world needs skilled workers The need Tor techncanS
n na the critical stage The of rejection among Negroes
for service in the army appalling not only Tor hea ea
CONS but for functional iteracy And they don't al come
r, tho south Washington D. c. recently rejected % per
cent of 500 Negroes The seems to be hat are
en- wildly enthusiastic about acquiring the artlca shoos
tho breeze and living up with the Jonese that they compey
ignore all free opportunities for advancement lhee ~ '
real tragedy ooo -, n,uoa ooronacent
and badly advised people make tremendous
hs nations ability to impose our democratic deaoey oh
tnnob alert and hungry communist opponent
Part Of this war will be fought with words but the man De
hind tho g,n would rather be that his ghtng equpe
hine made bv men who know how Let's acquire lot u
",,nJOyU HOW indignation will take care OF ltsel1,