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DR. MORSE LECTURES AT Y. M. C. A. MEETING (CONTINUEI FROM PAGE ONE.) not going to wilfully take ad vantage of or to injure any of my fellow beings!" There are 12,000,000 human beings in our midst, more removed than any other race of men, and it is up to us to find out how we shall live with them to their benefit and ours. The problem is vital ly connected with the present war, "which is a war to the fin ish between the old idea, "holier and better than thou,' and democracy, 'I am thy b)rother'; and if democracy wins all people will have right to determine themselves and no race or class will injure an other." The era introduced by the great war is superior to the past era, and in the future all events will be reckoned as taking place before or after the great war. The era is here, said Dr. Morse, when all men will live in peace, and when "all peoples of the earth are going to live together in this country in brotherly love for coopera tion." There are five more lectures to be delivered by Dr. Morse. The lecturs will be given at the regular hour for the Y. M. C. A. meeting, and all those who desire to come may, but all are requested to enroll so that they may be conducted on a class basis. The tevt book to be used by is Dr. W. D. Weather ford's "Negro Life in the South." Dr. Morse will take those who can and desire to go, on tours around the city, visiting negro churches, the negro school, Benedict college, the reformatory, the negroe's homes, places where conditions are had and also to the homes of some of those of the better class, and to their places of business. The trip will be made in the afternoon, at times suitable to the class, and if possible automobiles will be sec uired. Prof. Morse's Second Lecture. Dr. Morse deClivered last Wednesday night in Flinn Hall the second of the series of lec-, fures on the race problem to be given. A large and interested audience was present to hear the speaker. Dr. Morse repeatedI what he said in his first lecture, that this war is a fight to the finish' between (democracy and autoc racy, brotherhood and other hood, of sevien nnd the ida of profit. These forces are powerful because they are re ligious forces. For ages this conflict has been festering, it has been opened many times but has at last come to a head and should be cured for all time. If we are democrats or Chris tians, said the speaker, and be lieve in the universal applica tions of democracy and Chris tianity, we should realize that they- can be applied to the ne gro. "We cannot be a real democrat or Christian and come to any other conclusion than this." There are many who say there is no race prob lem and try to brush it aside. No people can be handled in definitely by those with that idea. "We cannot brush it aside." Dr. Morse expressed the be lief that injustice and wrong cannot win out in the end, but the price will have to be paid with compound interest for wrong or injustice done. Some crooks think they can get away with it when they disobey the laws of the universe, but they or their descendants will have to pay. Those who brought in slaves and those who bought them thought they were get ting away with it, but "every cent of profit and more was burnt up during the Civil War," besides the lives lost and the hardships of recon struction. The universal law of life, that "everything living thing is capable of development," ap plies to the negro, said Dr. Morse. He has already been wonderfully developed and there is much hope for him. "But what is the use of im proving the negro" he asked. If we don't want to do it from a democratic standpoint, there is a selfish reason. By improv ing the negro we can help our selves and better our own con dition. "We cannot do good or harm to anybody without do ing ourselves more good or harm. It will pay us on the lowest basis possible, hand somely, in dollars and cents, and health, to encourage the negro to be a sgood a human being as lies within him to be come." St. Matthews, at field day ex ercises, on Apr-il 5. President W. S. Currell spoke at Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va., on Tuesday, March 19. Dr. Cur rell spoke 1)0th before the stu (dent body and the Y. M. C. A. Prof. Rector will deliver the commencement address at the Plum Branch school on May 10. THE STATE BOOK STORE IS NEAREST TO YOU Carolina men are invited to drop in here for Pens, Pencils, Ink, Rul ers, Examination Pads, or,anything in Stationery. We carryA stock of Fountain Pens and featdre the two best lines made. 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