The sanitary officers are more attentive.

The landowner is building better cabins for his tenants and is encouraging them to plant gardens and to raise poultry and pigs.

The labor contractor is providing better quarters, though conditions in many lumber and construction camps are still deplorable.

Observant lawyers and judges say that they see an increasing number of cases in which juries evidently decide points of doubt in favor of negro defendants, even where white men are concerned.
Socially minded citizens are forcing improvement of the disgraceful conditions which have often prevailed on chain gangs and in prisons.

Nor is this all.