witness the exodus.

A letter published in the Montgomery _Advertiser_[161] truly says:

And the negro will not come back once he leaves the South.

The World War is bringing many changes and a chance for the
negro to enter broader fields. With the "tempting bait"
of higher wages, shorter hours, better schools and better
treatment, all the preachments of the so-called race leaders
will fall on deaf ears.

It is probable that the "well informed negro," who told the
Birmingham editor that it was good schools that were drawing
the negro, could have given other and more potent reasons had
he been so minded. He could have told how deep down in the
negro's heart he has no love for proscription, segregation,
lynchings, the petty persecutions and cruelties against him,
nor for the arresting of "fifty niggers for what three of 'em
done," even if it takes all of this to uphold the scheme of
civilization.

From Savannah alone, three thousand negroes went, from sixteen
year old boys to men of sixty years. There must be something
radically wrong when aged negroes are willing to make the
change. There is greater unrest among negroes than those in
high places are aware.

Let the _Advertiser_ speak out in the same masterful way, with
the same punch and pep for a square deal for the negro, that
it does for democracy and the right for local self-government.

What was the attitude of the northern whites toward the migration?
Although the North had been accustomed to the adding of a million
foreigners annually to her population, these newcomers were white
people and as such did not occasion the comment or create just the
problems which a large influx of negroes created. The migration of the
negro attracted a great deal of public attention. A wide and extended
discussion of the movement was carried on through the press. The
attitude which the white people assumed toward the migrants was
expressed in this discussion.

The _New Republic_ of New York City[162] pointed out that the movement
gave the negro a chance and that he, the South and the nation, would
in the end, all be gainers.

When Austria found the Serbian reply inadmissible, the
American negro, who had never heard of Count Berchtold, and
did not care whether Bosnia belonged to Austria or Siam, got
his "chance." It was not the sort of chance that came to the
ma