The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-25

, GUS generations. The method by which
each individual taps t'lis vast store
OF accumulated knowledge and culture
Is education and all the evidence point
to the fact that any race which has
an opportunity for education, can put
itself inc possession of this culture
and share in this civilization.
One of the interesting incidents of
the last days session was the presen-
tation of a series of resolutions to the
delegates from the Brithish West In
dies, by the teachers and students If
the Tuskegee Institute, WHO live on
! those islands In these resolutions
| they ask that the delegates use heir
influence o SECURE for the West Indies
school like Tuskegee Institute where
the masses Of the people will have m
opportunity to learn trades. They
also urge them to invite DR.. Booker
L. Washington to visit jamaica and
other West Indian Islands and give
the colored people there the benefit of
his advice and counsel.
From the reports made by the diff
efent delegates from Jamaica a.nd else
where, there seems to be a general
awakening on the subject Of industrial
education, and it Is believed that the
visit to America will have important
results
Declarations of the First mternat-
ionaI Conference On the Negro.
l. The members Of this Confer
ence representing widely different
parts of the world, and equally diff
erent interests and experiences and
points OF view with regard to the Me-
gro race and its problems, are pro-
foundry convinced that this meeting
which has brought them together for
discussion and consultation is both
| timely and important, and that the
movement here begun may be most
| beneficial and far-rcaching In it's eff
fects and the opportunities for COOP
Grafton which it opens up.
ii. The members of this confer
ence feel also that this school at Tus-
kegee, which is a great experimental
station in racial education and at the
same time 4 center Of Negro life, has
| been we'll chosen as 4 place Of meet
ing.
III. The Conference has been
strongly impressed with the great ad-
| VantageS that must result from the
coming together of such various in
| terests as here find representation,
racial, industrial, educational andre
lgious. The lmportncc Of meetings
otthis kind to the Negro reoDle in
the United States, Africa and re
West Indies is obvious; the interests
OF European governments having
colonies in tropical regions directly
concerned, and the questions here
discussed are not without Importance
in their effect upon the native races
| in all parts of the world
| ~. AS far as concerns education,
no point has received more unant-
nous support than the need to widen
the scope of education so that it may
touch life at as many points as pos
lsible, although the application of he
principle must differ with the different
conditions Of various localities.
| Y. Impressed with the value Of
the opportunities for discussion and
observation that this meeting has af~
forded, the conference recommends
that similar international meetings
be held biennially; arrangements
fir the plact Of meeting and the prep
aHation Of a detailed program to be
placed in. the hands Of committee
to be appointed at this Conference.
1.-The conference also recommends
that efforts be made to appoint local
committees or representatives for the
collection Of information along lines
to be suggested by this central COM
mittee.
j. R. Williams, Director Of Educa,
ton of jamaica
w. I. Thomas, Professor Of Socio-
fogy, University Of Chicago.
Maurice S. Evans, Representative
Of the British African Society, Lon
don, England
James Denton, Principal Of the
Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone,
Africa.
Isaiah B. Scott, Bishop of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, Monrovia
! Liberia
washington Harper, Representa-
tive from Barbados, B. w. /.
Robert e. Park, Former Secretary
Of the Congo Reform Association in