Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-14
Mr.. Calloway,-in Charge of Its Prep
aration, Talks.
REASONS WHY IT SHOULD Be MADE
Institutions in the Country That
VIII Make Display.
WASHINGT ON'S INTEREST

Mr.. Thos. ]. Galloway. special agent
negro education, who has charge of the
negro exhibit at the Paris exposition, has
opened an office at Cars F street northwest,
where his correspondence is so great that
he keeps two stenographers constantly at
work. There is great need of more as
sistants. but he says that the funds at the
disposal Of the exhibit are limited that
he is even handicapped in his own salary,
In speaking of the exhibit that he will take
10 the exposition Mr.. Galloway said:
Reasons for the Exhibit.
There are three strong reasons for ne
gro exhibit at the Paris exposition nSxt
year. The first reason Is a general one and
is found In the peculiar attitude In which
Europe is now situated. The 'Fashoda In
cident' and the present Boer war are only
the outcrOpp.ngs Of tremendous Euro
peon invasion of Africa. This dark eonti-
nent' is no longer dark. the most gigan-
tic efforts Of capital are being directed to-
ward opening up the continent for the over
plus population of Europe.
THE millions of native Africans in the
continent, who must in some way be as
simulated into the body polite, will more
and more force upon the statesmen of
Europe and Africa the-oame negro prob
lem which this country has struggled with
for three centuries. Whatever faults may
be charged to the people of the United
States, the people of African descent in
possessors Of vast educational privileges
and owners of perhaps half billion dol
lars worth OF property. They are engaged
IN every industry and pursuit common to
white Americans. and universally accred-
tied with rapid progress. America can,
therefore. furnish Europe with such evil
dences of the negroes value as a laborer.
a producer and a citizen that the statecraft
of the old world will be wiser In the shap-
ing Of its African policies.
Evidences of Progress
"a second reason for the exhibit lies In
the fact that much criticism Of the United
States is INDUCED IN abroad the ground
that this country has assumed to annex
new territory largely populated with dark
races. when, II is charged, this nation pro-
scribes in every possible way the ten MIL
lions of such people in its own borders
This exhibit can show other nations the
other side TO the story and can furnish evil
denceS Of marvellous progress of the colored
people as an offset to the charges of pro-
sCriptiOD. While the United States must
plead guilty to horrible lynchings OCCASION
ally and many forms of prejudice. can
more than balance these faults with the
rapid development in education and indus
try of ten millions of ex-slaves who in the
space Of thirty-five years have produced
an item of thirty thousand teachers, to say
nothing Of a hundred other occupations re-
quiring training.
The right Of the colored people 20 have
occasional opportunities to show IN dis
furnishes the third reason for such an ex-
hibit. The average American citizen never
stops to consider that practically every
cotton fabric he wears Is a product of ne
gro labor far as the raw material is
concerned. So scattered IS the negro and
20 varied his industry that 1t Is only by
such exhibits that the negro can prove his
value to the body polite. Many southern
white people who have lived all their lives
in regions thickly populated with negroes,
were amazed at the negro exhibits at At
have opened up several factories for negro
labor, and have crystallzed Il strong SEN
timent in many parts favoring him as an
operative.
Work in Thirty Days.
LESS than thirty days ago I was ap-
pointed by Commissioner General Peck to
prepare negro exhibit. An exceedingly
limited space was set aside in the govern
ment exhibit in sociology for this feature
The space seems ridiculously small, and
Yet. in view Of the fact that the govern
Inent has less than thousand square feet
In this building. 1t was a liberal provision
for which Director Rogers sacrificed other
features. The building In which this ex-
hibit Is to be held will be used for con-
crosses. and hence is the most favored spot
in the exposition group.
since have been appointed / have
Travelled about twenty-five hundred miles,
and have definitely arranged for very cred
liable exhibits from several educational in
situations, such as Howard University, in
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n'ieIita illHeis!lS, IN Ie3rgla; Mr. BOOK
a1absr n1 III. lhs,i!rte, IN
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a special phase of the eduCa tional work
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developed there to such an extent as to at
tract WIDE attention This institution will
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mis- civ is now engaged in nrenarinp ms
pictorial feature.
From Atlanta University in Georgia |
arranged for an exhibit in sociology to
cover thirty-one display cards - by ~
inches or Il total display area of 49, &
square feet A class of colored students
under Prof Dubois A coIored graduate of
Harvard College will disp|ay in artistic
colorfug such sociological statistics as
,spr, T,o-rIa-for st ,arioIIs ,,e-;aas r.Ia
live increase OF the two races distribntion
of negroes e1ucation and uIireracv manner