Until machinery is set up which will yield objective results determining the question as to whether the Negro faces distinct and peculiar social problems which demand special educational objectives and procedures, there will be difference of opinion among educationists on this question. My own opinion is predicated on the assumption that the Negro's distinct social problems are not being served either in kind or degree by the type of education he is receiving at any level in his training. Whether we consider his situation in privileged Northern urban communities or in the most forlorn Southern rural districts we find his problems largely the same. Especially since the World War, there has developed a leveling tendency in the status of Negroes. Indications of a lessening hostility toward him on the part of thinking white people here and there in the South exist; and most certainly a very definite increase of prejudice against him has become evident all over the North. In other words, the Mason and Dixon line has either vanished entirely, or has moved much nearer Canada. Here and there, both North and South, some individual Negroes have made forward strides and have received recognition on merit. Since 1930 there has been an increase in the number of Negroes employed as professors in Northern colleges, as radio announcers, industrial chemists, biologists, architects, engineers, librarians, social workers and metallurgists; but this number is still so small as to be negligible. Some few businesses of banking and real estate still survive the depression. These individual cases show outstanding achievement in the face of great obstacles for the few chosen ones, but at the same time ground has surely been lost for the masses. In borderline cities increasing prejudice manifests itself in the treatment of Negroes in department stores, and on street-car and bus lines. In Northern cities in which mixed school systems are legal there is a fast developing tendency toward segregation. Certain jobs such as Pullman porter, dining car waiter, hotel waiter and elevator operator are traditional Negro jobs, but recently in many large hotels and on railroads many replacements have been made in these fields by Japanese and Phillipinos. All too often young Negroes are advised to seek work in these fields in which there is practically no hope for any advance. There has been a steady decrease in the number of barbers serving white men, of brakemen and engineers on railroads. Simplified methods of housework and the installation of household machines, along with race prejudice,