Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-07
VALUABLE WORKS
 OF NEGRO PROFESSOR
Principal Isaac Fisher of Arkansas Negro State College. Prepares Valuable Work on "The Industrial Aptitude and Efficiency oi the Principal Natlonalitics of the World'-of Special Interest to Em- ploycrs oi LabOrers.

WorId'-of Special Interest to Em-
 pioycrs oi LabOrcrs.
 There is being prepared by Princi- ! pal Isaac Fisher, of the State Branch i Normal College for negroes in this city, q series of monographs on one 1 branch of economics, which promise I to be of more than passing interest to employers of laborers all over the country, and especially in the South where agricultural and manufaetur- | ing interests are demanding a broad l CT knowledge of the efficiency of cer- tain nationalities in given branches ef industry.
 Some time ago Prof. Fisher began i collecting statistics of the occupations of the principal countries of the world, These figures he has gather ed from the most authorative private and official sources to be found; and he has succeeded in bringing toge gether a voluminous amount of infor- nation from which he is now preparing a set or articles which he will call The Industrial Aptitude and Efflcien cy of the Principal Nationalities in the World" The papers will sho" for which each nationality has special aptness the one thing which a given people do better than they do any thing else, and better than any other people do the same work. In addi- tion to this, the dominant character istics of each nationality (nationality must not be confounded with race l. which affect the working efficiency Of the people will be stated; and almost all information which an employer would like 10 have when he seeks the best labor for given industry, will be embraced in these papers.
 One feature of the work which will greatly enhance the value of the studies will be the unusually large nnmber of charts which will accom- Danv the papers The diagrams rep resent to the eye, at once, the con- clusions reached in the essays: and the charts relieve the statistics upon which they are based from the pro- ffigures. The mechanical execution of these diagrams is especially good, and indicates a more fSan ordinary knowledge of cartography, as we'll as a familiarity with statistical methods, on the part of Prof Fisher, for most of the drawings are original.
 Not least in importance, in con nection with the studies, Is the fact that some white friends of the negro teacher In this city, connected with prominent business interests ill Ar kansas, becoming Interested In the progress which Fisher was making with the investigation. provided all oi his expenses to Washington, D. C" so that he might further verify and extend his work in the Library ol Congress- Accordingly. Fisher spent all of his Christmas holidays in the national capital, pursuing the ind'- cated line of study.
 He will not seek to prove the sup eriority or inferlorlty of any races, Tn the "Foreword" to his subject. Fisher says: "The recorded eXperi- ences and conclusions of employers of laborers, and of sociologists and economists, touching the efficiency of different groups of industrial work CTS lie buried in numerous volumes in different parts of the world; and are available to the student of means and culture. but out of the reach of humber inquirers. In the selection of statistics of occupation. there hAs been no attempt to uphold any theories as to the ordained occupa- 'tions of men; nor to show that cer- tain industrial tasks cannot be per formed by given races; for the sta tistics of occupations for all coun- tries would show that there are few industries into which all nationali' ties have not gone in greater or less CT numbers; neither Is 1t the writ CTS purpose to pronounce final judg- ment upon particular people, as a re- suit of race characteristics brought out in these studies. Indeed, great CT measure of authority has NeeN sought to be given this work by get ting down facts and conclusions, aqd Al. =. .., .a..... 41., ..,., Inr fh., h F.