Land of Canaan?

In Manhattan last week, Benjamin F. Hubert, colored president of the State Industrial College for Negroes (Savannah, Ga.), pleaded with unemployed Harlem Negroes to come back home. He pictured the South as a Land of Canaan. He assured Harlem that racial disagreement was a thing of the past in the South, told of eating with white folk in Atlanta hotels, speaking before the Legislature. Mourned he:

"It is supremely tragic to see strong men begging for nickels on the streets of this city when down in Georgia and South Carolina there is food going to waste. . . . The Negroes on the farms in the South are happy. There are no bread lines there. However, it appears that those who said goodbye to the farm and moved to the cities have fallen upon evil days. They need to be told of the opportunities that await them."

P: Heartening to Negroes was the news, three days prior, that the second of six Atlanta whites who killed a Negro youth last year had been found guilty. He was sentenced to jail for from two to three years. One of the murderer's accomplices had already received a 12-to-15-year sentence, rare for Georgia.

P: Meantime, however, at Inverness, Miss. occurred Lynching No. 2 for the year. One Steve Wiley was shot by a white woman when he tried to attack her. Wounded, the Negro was taken by a mob to a railroad trestle, hanged.

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