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...negroes in the United Sates, 7,000,000 live in country districts. The primary problem is therefore that of the negro peasant. This problem is made more acute by the fact that the negro farming population tends to segregate in rather sharply defined areas and thus loses the instruction and stimulus of contact with the more progressive white planter. Education is of great value in relieving this situation...
...certainly that on "Domesticated Animals." It is full of personal observation and I know of no book 'more sure to enlarge the mind of a thoughtful boy or girl. A later book, to be greatly prized, is one whose rather inadequate title is "The Neighbor", and whose chapter. "The Problem of the African", while liable to some criticism in detail--as is almost everything yet written on that difficult subject--yet lays down this manly conclusion, coming from a Kentuckian (p. 149) "A fair assessment of the situation leads to the conviction that morally he (the negro) is hopeful material...
...Elder opened the debate. We are to discuss, he said, the transportation problem of the second largest city of the world. The question is of vast importance not only because of the great size of New York City, but because of its peculiar physical character, which makes transportation a daily necessity for the majority of its population. In view of the importance of transportation, the service should be adequate, convenient, and modern. When we examine the existing conditions, however, we find that the service is very unsatisfactory...
...Hart then demanded of the affirmative that some urgent and overwhelming necessity for the change be shown in view of the enormity of the problem. He then outlined the purpose of the negative as being three-fold--to show that municipal ownership is unnecessary, must inevitably be unprofitable, and will be positively injurious to the city. Municipal ownership is unnecessary since what it claims to do can be better accomplished in another way. We admit that there are some evils in the street railway system in New York, but we maintain that those which can be removed...
...finally, we believe in municipal ownership because it offers the only wise solution of the rapid transit problem of the future. In a word the interests of the public are directly opposed to the ownership of a public utility by a private corporation and can never be satisfied short of municipal ownership...