Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-02-23
NEGRO INTERNATIONAL Con-
FERENCE BIG MEETING At
1uSKEGEE BEING PLANNED

Tuskegee, Ala.-The largest num-
Der of acceptances Of invitations to
be present in the International Con.
ference on the Negro, to be held at
Tuekegee Institute, April 18th, 18th
and 10Th, indicate that this is going
to be most successful gathering.
All the important missionary socie'
ties in the United States and many
societies in foreign countries will be
represented, such as the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions; Board of Foreign Missions
of the Presbyterian Church; the Bap-
tist Missionary society; the Central
Board of Missions Of the Reformed
Presbyterian church; the Seventh
Day Baptist Missionary society; the
Board of Home Missions of the Pres
byterian Church in U. S. A.; Wom-
ans Home Missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church; the
American Woman's Baptist Home
Mission society; the Board of For
eign Missions of the General Synod
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
of the u. s. A.; the Woman's Board
of Home Missions. Presbyterian
Church, U. S. A.. the Woman's Board
of Missions of the Interior; the Wom-
ans Board Of Missions of the Cana
dian Congregational Church; the Re-
gions Beyond Missionary Union with
headquarters in London. England, will
be represented by one Of its secre-
taries; the Svenska Missions for
bundets Exposition of Stockholm.
Sweden: the Evangelical Missionary
society of German East Africa, will
be represented by the president. Herr
E. " Johanssen, Bierlefeld. Ger
many.
The Venezuelan government will
have a representative at the confer
ence. jamaica Porto Rico, the Dan
ish West Indies and other West In
dian islands will be representa-. Mr..
Samuel D. Bawden, manager Of the
industrial experiment station. On
COLE Gunta district. Indiana. has sig
nifled his intention Of being present
Africa is going to be largely repre-
sented Among those who will dis.
cuss conditions on that continent are
DR.. Ernest Lyon, counsel general Of
the republic of Liberia to the United
States; Dr. Roland P. Falkner, chair
man of the late American commission
to Liberia: the Hon. F. E. R. John
son, secretary Of state, Monrovia, L.
IBERIA; the Hon. 8. G. Harmon, VICE
president of the republic of Liberia;
Rev. Isaiah Coda Sishuba, president
Ethiopian church. Queenstown, South
Africa: Rev. Henry Reid. secretary
of the Ethiopian church. Johannes
burg. South Africa: Mr.. William c.
Terrill, superintendent Inhambane
district, Methodist Episcopal church,
Portuguese East Africa; Mr.. o. H.
Scouten, missionary, Lumbwa Indus
trial Mission, Lumbwa, British East
Africa, and Mr.. W. H. Plant, Kings
ton, Jamaica, head master Of the
Titchfield school,
Other persons who will present pa
pers to the conference are: Rev.
Mark G. Hayford. native Mprker
from the gold coast Of Africa, whose
subject will be: Educational Cond,-
tions on the Gold Coast Of Africa"
DR.. w. w. Shepherd, Twenty Years
With the Bakuba and Baluba and
Zap-po-Zap Cannibals in Central Az
rica;" Mr. E. D. Morel, London. Eng.
land, editor Of the African Mail and
secretary Of the Congo Reform asso-
citation; the Rt. Rev. l. Olnwole. La.
COS, Southern Nigeria. West Africa,
1.-THE Missionary and Trader in Rela.
ton to the Native:" the Rt. Rev. w.
Edmund Smyth, bishop of Lebombo,
southeast Africa. "The Delights Of
Real Heathenism."
In addition to all the above, the In.
ternational Conference has provoked
wide discussion throughout the coun.
try and promises to be Of incalculable
service in helping forward the cause
Of the native in Africa and the man
of African descent wherever he may
be found
Under the circumstances and pri.
vations the negro has undergone he
hoc dana ovoood}p0lv wall " 4.