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"The fiampus iicsho" ELIIOR'S R£Jii>.RX3 Li.en of all races are not infrequently found meditating upon tneir past records. 'Ihey refer to them with a g'reat deal of i . pride as if life and progress vjere not continuous chaing pf af fairs. with every link bespeaking the presence of every prededing link; Man seems to forget that the presence of any phase of. • life s activity and achievement explains the past Just as readijy as a pupil's grammar school training 6au'-b’ei.reckoned from his work In high school^ and high s%*hool training from his work in college- Study . t.hi^- preseht and understi.nd the pasta Know the past and predict thefuture. , What then, has concerned the waning pi2ins of college brdd. Negroes and the jr-eceding generations, -iiverything indicates that fehey were chiefly concerned with the appreciation and assimila tion of the culture and refinement into which they were born. As a result they Vv-ere the founders of schools and a few minds here and thfcre have tov\?eryd' in into lit. ctual mastery. . -Business was fostered; bdt in small plains and to individual ends. Clubs and social auxiliaries for the promotion of heisLth and ethics sprang up. But there seem to have be\;n but little, done to create und prt-serve the Nc-groe's political and ' pragmatical forces in the course of affairs of tnis comrnon--v;oalth of Ours. rIoDody arousud tho mo.ssus to- tho r«alizatiou that our ^ov^^ra- m^nt is a govornm^nt by.tho consent of thu gov.^r.xcd. .fxs a result p_,pp.jts instot.d of huraan brings v«;ith d-mandxng iiii'lu^ncos. If wt arvj aiford'^d any portioii of duu public accommodation it is bv^vgi.usc oi sympt*thy and not b^-causc oi tnc wiiuct oi s.om^ invixici-* bit; forcc. -c-s a race wo do uot vot>^, and ^.s a raco wc can not protect our homes nor,d..mand c*ny other civilii^n rights. Likewise, business, Uii. ladispuasablc factor in the making of any raco has not become of sucn as to t^ssure our ixidependent forceS and guarantee.our preservation. No raco can become a cogent factor in the state of aii.airs until tiiat race has enterprises for the em- ploymczit of its m^^mOwrs.. ■‘•'here is uo .^^uara^tee agaiiist extinction of any p.^ople whosv, vital neeas are contingent upon the sympathy and mercy of a stroxi^er race. -it present wno sufters most irom unemployment? 'ho lives in the slums?, «noSw family dies for the need Oj. bettor care in ev^,ry maii^ier? It is the N^gro, ^»ho can tell for. Vi^hv t scie.ico will so redace the demand for. Ic^Dor that in the coursevof tiffi.. can only be fouiid for ev..ry ten work>-rs out of ^a hundred? »iih t v/ill that moan? it will mean unemployment for the four million or more Hegro^^s whose., employment is greatly de— ' creasing even at the presexit. ^ ' (iontlemen, We may evou' foster social Vi/elf^re work, vve may giVe multitudes of iicalth lectur-^s, v;e may attack immorality and bev/ail our cri.aiiiality aiid lament our hl.r^h d^ath rate--all of tnis is good and.V'.^ry good so far ^as the ever presence of an Ideal can efiect the trexid of allairs--D'ut tn^re c^.n be iio lurtxier apprecia ble cnangu of cjnditions until the i'fu.gro ^'Oes iuto uusiiioss ^nd establish enterprises for the consumption of nis people. He must ■ go into business and off-set the total f'ut;,:.re unemployment predict ed Dy science c,nd tho present trcxid of aiiairs and thereoy save th-^ 'race from th^ smould^,riiig distiaction of dire need. 2 . J| •
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