tone. He must leap,
_instanter_, from primitive mode of locomotion to the steamboat, the
electric car and the automobile. Of course many will be lost in the
endeavor to sustain the stress and strain. Civilization is a saver of
life into life and death into death. Japan is the best living
illustration of the rapid acquisition of civilization. England can
utilize no process of art or invention that is not equally invaluable
to the oriental islanders. This has been accomplished by this young
and vigorous people mainly through the education of picked youth.
Herein lies the only salvation of the Negro race.

In the meantime the dual nature of the solution and its relative
importance to both races is clearly indicated by Voltaire, the great
French savant: "It is more meritorious and more difficult to wean men
from their prejudices than to civilize the barbarian."

FOURTH PAPER.

WILL THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO SOLVE THE RACE PROBLEM?

BY C. H. TURNER.

[Illustration: Prof. C. H. Turner]

PROF. CHARLES HENRY TURNER, M. S.

Charles Henry Turner was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, February
3, 1867. Both parents were of Negro descent. His mother was
a Kentucky girl and his father a Canadian. Both parents were
temperate and Christian in habits. Neither parent was
college-bred, yet Charles' father was a well-read man, a
keen thinker, and a master of debate. He had surrounded
himself with several hundred choice books and one of the
earliest ambitions of Charles was to learn to read these
books.

The only education of our subject was obtained in the
excellent public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the
Walnut Hills District School Charles passed to the Gaines
High School, from which he graduated valedictorian of his
class. From High School he passed to the University of
Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1891 with the B. S.
degree, and in 1892 with the M. S. degree.

When a youth in college, Charles hoped some day to be the
head of a technological or agricultural school for Negroes,
and much time and money was expended mastering those
essentials that the head of a school should know. That
youthful day dream has never been realized, but Charles has
been an active teacher for years. Even before graduation he
taught one year in the Governor Street School at Evansville,
Indiana, and occas