THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN was founded by Samuel Chapman Armstrong in 1872, and is a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of undeveloped races.

It contains reports from Negro and Indian populations, with pictures of reservation and plantation life, as well as information concerning Hampton graduates and ex-students who since 1868 have taught more than 250,000 children in the South and West. It also provides a forum for the discussion of ethnological, sociological, and educational problems in all parts of the world.

CONTRIBUTIONS: The editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed in contributed articles. Their aim is simply to place before their readers articles by men and women of ability without regard to the opinions held.

TERMS: One Dollar a year in advance; ten cents a copy

CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Persons making a change of address should send the old as well as the new address to

THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN, Hampton, Virginia.

Entered as second-class matter August 13, 1908, in the Post Office at Hampton, Virginia, under the Act of July 16, 1894.

A complete list will be sent on application. One dozen will be sent free to Southern teachers and superintendents. To all others the price is fifty cents per dozen.

Address: Publication Office, The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia

Census Population Returns

The census returns for 1910 in regard to the Negro have been eagerly expected by those who are interested in his future, because they seemed likely to answer certain important questions. It is claimed by some students of the Negro problem that the race is dying out, that disease is making such inroads that it will be only a few years before the Negro will entirely disappear. Others feel that if the Negro could stand the Middle Passage, slavery, and, harder than either, the exodus from slavery under most trying circumstances, with practically no provision by the General Government for education or homes: if he was able to live through the trying days of reconstruction, and could exist during the first forty or fifty years after the war, when he had everything to learn and to acquire; if the strain on mind and body during those years was not too great for him to stand, there is every reason to believe, not only that he will survive but that he will even rise to a condition of competency.

The bulletin just issued by the Census Bureau in regard to the white and Negro population is certainly encouraging. It shows that the population of continental United States, exclusive of Alaska,