In the negro section of the city the streets are usually either badly paved or not paved at all. The sidewalks are either in bad repair or missing. The streets are badly lighted at night, garbage cans are not emptied regularly, and the scavenger service is poor. “There is a reason for these things,” say the landlords, the municipal authorities, and others who have dealings with the negro. The landlord says: “Negroes are destructive; they pull down, but they never improve property. A house rented to negroes will depreciate from 25 to 50 per cent in a year. If you put in plumbing they break it, they deface the walls, they tear off the shutters and the doors, they break and burn the fences. It is useless to give them good houses as they neither appreciate them nor take care of them.” The municipal authorities say that negroes make no effort to keep their surroundings clean and sanitary. They throw things into the street, choke the plumbing, drains, and sewers with old rags, trash, and dirt, and make no effort to help the authorities keep things in order; therefore it is useless to try to help them until they learn to help themselves. They say that there are exceptions to these statements, but that they are true so far as the great mass of the negroes is concerned. Reference is made to the subject here to draw attention to the fact that the leagues can do much to change these conditions, thereby bettering the condition of the race. If the things that are said about the negro by the landlords, the municipal authorities, and others are true, then it is necessary for the negro to change these conditions before there can be hope for much betterment. If they are not true, steps should be taken to convince the landlords, municipal authorities, and others that they are false. It is in this way that the leagues, though aimed at tuberculosis, may be the means of bettering the conditions along many lines. If the negro can demonstrate that he is not destructive, and that he can and does take care of the house in which he lives; if he will keep his surroundings neat and clean; if he shows that he is clean and sanitary in his practices, and that he feels his responsibility as a citizen by trying to keep up the sanitary conditions and the appearances of his home and his city, he will find that many of his troubles will disappear. If a landlord finds that his property is being cared for by his negro tenant, the yard, fences, etc., being kept in order, the rent promptly paid, and tenant is desirable, he will be only too glad to keep him, and to make such alterations in his house as he may desire. If it is demonstrated to the municipal authorities that the negro is as careful of his section of the city as the whites, his wants will receive consideration. The educated negroes succeed in getting surroundings that are far better than those of the average because they have learned to appreciate the above facts, and have put them into practice.