is worthy the
study of every colored youth in our land.

Professor Washington, in speaking of his experiences at
Hampton, says: "While at Hampton, I resolved, if God
permitted me to finish the course of study, I would enter
the far South, the black belt of the Gulf States, and give
my life in providing as best I could the same kind of chance
for self-help for the youth of my race that I found ready
for me when I went to Hampton, and so, in 1881, I left
Hampton and went to Tuskegee and started the Normal and
Industrial Institute."

Professor Washington is in great demand as a speaker in all
educational gatherings. For several consecutive years he has
addressed the National Educational Association, where from
ten to fifteen thousand of the cream of the educational
workers of the nation listen to his addresses with rapt
attention. Without question he is the great leader of his
race, and one of the great men of this age.

"Will Education Solve the Race Problem?" is the title of an
interesting article in the June number of The North American Review,
by Professor John Roach Straton, of Macon, Georgia. My own belief is
that education will finally solve the race problem. In giving some
reasons for this faith, I wish to express my appreciation of the
sincere and kindly spirit in which Professor Straton's article is
written. I grant that much that he emphasizes as to present conditions
is true. When we recall the past, these conditions could not be
expected to be otherwise; but I see no reason for discouragement or
loss of faith. When I speak of education as a solution for the race
problem, I do not mean education in the narrow sense, but education
which begins in the home and includes training in industry and in
habits of thrift, as well as mental, moral and religious discipline,
and the broader education which comes from contact with the public
sentiment of the community in which one lives. Nor do I confine myself
to the education of the Negro. Many persons in discussing the effect
that education will have in working out the Negro question, overlook
the helpful influence that will ultimately come through the broader
and more generous education of all the race elements of the South. As
all classes of whites in the South become more generally educated in
the broader sense, race prejudice will be tempered and they will
assist in lifting up t