Fear born of the knowledge that I
could not measure up to the standard
set by the character and ability of the
other speakers who have appearea
upon your programs from time to
time, and joy in the opportunity that
I might have to present to this bod
women a
that you might the better understand
the hopes, the aims and the ambi
tions of a people who have been er
roneously looked upon for the past
fifty years as the greatest problem
with which the American people have
had to contend.
The reason the Negro problem as
sumes such large proportions in this
country is because the white people
as a whole knowbut don't know
they knowso little about the Negro
Very few have an adequate compre-
ATTY. W. T. FRANCIS.
