New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15
NO NEGRO INFER|0R|TY
Scientist at Conference Says
Both Races Are Equal.
COLUMBIA MANS ADDRESS
Speakers Think Education Can
Do More than All Else
> for Negro.

Professor Afre-t Bushnell Hart who
fstelv made trip through the South
rt.dvius economic conditions. spoke last
evening at the National Negro Conference
The general impression IS SAID Pro-
sessor Hart that the negro IS advancing
Education is the great panacea- 6ouca-
ton cannot do everything Il has not done
everything here IN New York ana TX mas
rot done everything in the South But il
can Gene nearer doing something than any
thing else For, by Il will be brought out
IN the boy or the girl who has anything to
bring OUT their best qualities"
Another sneaker was Professor Francis
poss. OF Columbia University, VINO talked
re said. not so Inuch from the practcad
sfde as from the scientific While the negro
snd the white were largely divergent n
appearance. Professor Boas contenoeo that
biology did not prove either race inferior
Or superior 10 the other. For instance.
Re said. 1t has been said that the negro's
hrsiu is OF small weight. but fl is known
that the relation between brain weight ello
ability is very remote
II speaking OF the mulstto, Professor
foss said 1hat the prevalent impression
was that he had inherited ali the evil char
s-1erixtics of both races and the good
Qualities OF neither. but that # had never
been proved that fnts-7nixtUre of strains
impaired q race To illustrate this he took
the EXAMPLE Of the donesticated animals,
-one OF which. he said. had descended from
single strain
Mrs Mary Church Terrell, % Washing
ron. MADE sn address in which she criti-
cfsed the different sorts OF 1ustoe given
negro women and white women IN the
South, End declared that Il the negro had
he ballot il would rs weapon rhst would
-rorsc- Ihe women OF his -sos. Mrs. Ter
ren ves plain spoken regarding the in
--o-snry c. certain negro women in tbs
South. and laid the fact directly st the door
# the rhits uen OF that section
Yet n spits &C tbs fatetll heritage CT
slavery" Ms Terrell said. in spite OF
re sasres sn6 pitfalls lst6 70 enrrap them,
statistics compiled By men who would not
Szlsity n favor OF any race show that i'm
morality among the negro women Of the
Tinted States IS not SO great es among
women similarly situated II 81 least FIVE
foreign lands"
Oswald c. Willard u-esi6ed ~ the meet
f-g
Discussion g tbs afternoon session was
devoted 70 public education .n the South, as
affected BY 6isfre-chiseu1ent- Statistics
receiving onIy mezgre share OF the educe-
tiona opportunities afforded But there was
note Of optimism tn the addresses. and.
IS Professor Kelly Miller said, Light is in
sight Pesstu1isrn never Tighted E wrong,
and faith IS the key
william Il Maxwell, superintendent OF
re public schools OF New York. presided.
7 take f. that Il is one element OF e world
movement that we are discussing to-day
r. said, and that one element is the educa-
ton Of those whose intellectual training has
uu-fI recently been largely or altogether
neglected. L is problem that is not en-
VlreIy Southern-3t IS forcing itself upon
-very progressive community-for the train
ias O rhe halt The MANNED, the blind, the
deat. tie dumb the defective in some shape
~ another We have always with US"
Tbs Rsv. Horace Bumstead, former
president o. Atlanta University, and Pro
tessor y. z 3. Du Bois spoke, giving
figures - show the small proportion OF
rez-p e5-cz-tou n the South Professor
Dr. BIS traced the effects Of disfrsnchise-
us- - "a public school system and gave
the fo-cE1-g as his conclusions: % There
S. 6ts---z-s-ton against the negro schools,
Es ooz-z-=5 Nth white schools c9 There
Sc g E--z-p- 70 decrease the efficiency OF
H7E-- -----S- - me AoI " --o A-iO'c-iic-it
suc-x - -1cs schools IS made impossible
I'D @----z-ls among negroes. 80 Dis
frsnc1iss-s-- rss led 70 peculiar cases of
discrnt1z-,-1 among the whites, based
largely upo1 property.
Professor Kelly Miller said: NO man
Who treaties the atmosphere OF democracy
vii ever % satisfied with an inferior
status Southern educators are coming 20
regard education & science applicable to
those whose pedagogical needs demand II
A. Ia morning session the committee OF
ore hundred was chosen, and il was decided
--st copies Of the proceedings Of the former
conferences should be distributed