The first great need of the Negro is that the choice youth of the
race should assimilate the principles of culture and hand them down
to the masses below. This is the only gate-way through which a new
people may enter into modern civilization. Herein lies the history of
culture. The select minds of the backward race or nation must receive
the new cult and adapt it to the peculiar needs of their own people.
Japan looms up as the most progressive of the non-Aryan races. The
wonderful progress of these Oriental Yankees is due in a large measure
to their wise plan of procedure. They send their picked youth to the
great centers of western knowledge; but before this culture is applied
to their own needs it must first be sifted through the sieve of their
native comprehension. The graduates of the schools and colleges for the
Negro race are forming centers of civilizing influence in all parts of
the land, and we confidently, believe that these grains of leaven will
ultimately leaven the whole lump.