, and prominent whites have expressed a
willingness to duplicate every dollar negroes raise for rural school
improvements. A large planter in the Big Creek neighborhood has
raised, together with his tenants, $1,000 for schools and the
superintendent of schools has gone over the county urging planters to
give land for negro schools. Two other large planters, whose tenants
number into the hundreds, have made repairs on the schoolhouses
on their plantations. The Mississippi Council of Defense passed a
resolution calling upon the State to put a farm demonstrator and home
economics agent to work in rural communities to make living conditions
better in the effort to induce the people to stay.

This upheaval in the South, according to an investigator, will be
helpful to all.

The decrease in the black population in those communities
where the negroes outnumber the whites will remove the fear of
negro domination. Many of the expensive precautions which the
southern people have taken to keep the negroes down, much
of the terrorism incited to restrain the blacks from
self-assertion will no longer be considered necessary; for,
having the excess in numbers on their side, the whites will
finally rest assured that the negroes may be encouraged
without any apprehension that they may develop enough power to
subjugate or embarrass their former masters.

The negroes, too, are very much in demand in the South and the
intelligent whites will gladly give them larger opportunities
to attach them to that section, knowing that the blacks, once
conscious of their power to move freely throughout the country
wherever they may improve their condition, will never endure
hardships like those formerly inflicted upon the race. The
South is already learning that the negro is the most desirable
labor for that section, that the persecution of negroes not
only drives them out but makes the employment of labor such a
problem that the South will not be an attractive section
for capital. It will, therefore, be considered the duty of
business men to secure protection to the negroes lest their
ill treatment force them to migrate to the extent of bringing
about a stagnation of business.

The exodus has driven home the truth that the prosperity of
the South is at the mercy of the negro. Dependent on cheap
labor, which the bulldozing whites will not r