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ek let ae oie tates acted erative ane santa Ma ere once, and our President should not fear so’ to move, to do away with the effects of race prejudice upon colored Americans. Race prejudice cannot be taken out of people unfortunately by surgical operation, although it is an evil and foreign growth. Children do not have it until they catch it from older people. I have frequent proof of this, the most recent being through the 12-year-old son of an American friend newly returned from China. ’ This white child goes to public school in a New Jersey town. When a class picnic was to be held it was found that the place chosen excluded colored people. To his deep indignation the boy found that his teachers, instead of changing the place, accepted the exclusion and managed by “tactful ways” to see that no colored children came to the picnic. The white boy was shocked to the soul at this injustice in his own land to which he had long looked with love and pride while he was growing up in China. His hurt was personal, too, because his own best friend happened to be a fine colored boy. “I won't go if Henry can’t go,” was his right decision. Adolescents Little Prejudiced Nor do adolescents have race prejudice in anything like the degree that older people have. Recently in Texas there were a champion white football team and a champion colored team at high schools in the same city. Of course their managers and coaches would not schedule them to play each other. But the white team went out one morning by secret arrangement and played the colored team. They said to their coach when they returned: “We just wanted to 19 ‘ 5 2 b a %