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worthy of the trust put in them. But the white man himself must become more enlightened before an answer to this problem can be found. In the words of a remarkable negro, Booker Washington, who rose from being a slave to the position of a great teacher: "You cannot hold a man down in a ditch without stopping down there with him yourself."

D. P.