On the other hand, many negroes demand to be treated as men, while ignoring or perhaps not realizing the fact that, to be treated as a man, one must play a man's part.

As Booker Washington put the matter, many are more interested in getting recognition than in getting something to recognize.

Many are much more interested in their rights than in their duties.

To be sure the negro is not alone in this, for the same attitude is to be found in immigrants coming from the socially and politically backward states of Europe.

The ordinary negro, however, apparently does not think much of such problems of the future, though no white man is likely to know precisely what he does think.