opportunity of nationaldimensions, to
prove their fitness to run, unaided by
whites, an important bureau of the
Department." Just why this benefi
cent undertaking was dropped as soon
as it appeared that an Indian and not
a colored man was to head the divi
sion has not appeared if it had all
the merit claimed for it, the colored
people should not have been deprived
of thB opportunity of collectively dem-
all familiar with the Government's
operations.
Careful inquiry by a representative
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, and
by newspaper men of the standing of
Washington correspondents of the
New York Evening Post and Boston
Advertiser, has developed the fact
that segregation of colored employees
exists and is increasing, especially in
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, in the Post-Office Department, and
in the office of the Auditor for the
Post-Office, which is a part of the
Treasury Department, and that it has
begun in the Washington city post
office. As yet, segregation has not
been introduced in the Treasury
Building, where there are two
hunJ
dred and seventy colored employees
in the corridors and offices together
with white clerks. It is defended by
Mr. McAdoo as "an effort to remove
causes of complaint and friction where
white women have been forced unnec
essarily to sjtt JBLP desks, with colored
men." But there is no statement that
there have been many such complaints
or that they were heard of under pre
vious Administrations. Nor is it ex
plained why colored clerks are taken
out of rooms in which their sole com
panions are white men, or why, if
there should be. segregation because
of the women, the Government does
not segregate all its women clerks.
