Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-12-17
SAYS THE SOUTH IS
FRIEND OF NEGRO
The Presidents Object Is To Know
His Needs and Help the COlored
Man, He Says.

Man, he Says
Washington, Dec 15.-Outlining his
attitude toward the negro, President
Wilson today told the University COM
mission on Southern Race Questions
made up Of representatives OF eleven
Southern colleges, that "our object is
TO know the needs of the negro and
sVmpathetically help him in every
way that is possible for his good and
our good"
DR.. C.. H. Brough, of the University
of Arkansas, chairman OF the commls-
sion, told the President the commls-
sion was organized to make an Impair
tial study of the race question from
the standpoint of the negroes econom-
ic. hygienic, civil and moral better
ment. He said deep investigation OF
the subject was being made with the
good of the negro always in mind.
'I am very glad to express my sin
cere interest in this work and SYM
pathy with it, said the President In
reply to DR.. Brough.
"I think that men like yourselves can
be trusted to see this great question
at every angle. There isn't any ques-
ton, it seems to me, into which more
candor needs to be put, or more thor
ough human good feeling than this.
know myself as Southern man how
sincerely the heart Of the South de-
sires the good of the negro and the
advancement of his race on all sound
and sensible lines, and everything that
ic of 10
highest value. 1t is matter of COM
mon understanding.
"There Is a charming story told
about Charles Lamb. The conversation
in his little circle turned upon some
men who we're not present, and Lamb
who you know, suffered, said, I hate
that fellow His friend said, Charles
1 didn't know you knew him. Lamb
said, 1 don't; IL can't hate fellow
Il know
"I think that is very profound hu-
man fact You cannot hate man you
know. And our object is to know the
needs of the negro and sympathetically
help him in every way that is possible
for his good and for our good. can
only bid you God speed in what is a
very necessary and great undretak-
ing"
President S. G. Mitchell, of Delaware
College, told the opening session of the
commissions conference that the Eu-
ropean war emphasized there must be
something more than radical and ma.
tional sentiment in solving the Ques-
tions of humanity.
Inclusion and not exclusion must
be the policy pursued on all race ques
tions," he said.
DR.. Jas. H. billiard, of the Universit!
OF Virginia, said he was satisfied there
was a growing sentiment among the
white and negro leaders in the Soutl
in favor of the education Of the negro
race.
In his annual report DR.. Brough re
viewed the problems of the race in tn
South. Under the Anna P. Jeame
Foundation, he reported 118 COUNTIES
in twelve States last year improves
their negro rural schools, while all tn
universities represented on the com
mission were offering courses on tn
race questions. DR.. Brough referre
to segregation as "a mooted question
which forced the only cloud on ia
horizon.
Thine, wisdom and patience viii
solve the question" he said, 'sand SO
cia1 solidarity is inexorable. Segre
CATION in the departments of publ
service, railway and street cars, an
even in cities may be exceedingly jus
but the idea of farm segregations as
means of giving the white man BET
ter chance in agricultural and indus
trial competition with the negro seem
a travesty upon Anglo-Saxon superior
ity and an injustice to the negro"
The constructive work before th
commission he declared to be:
"The socializing and rationalizng {
the impulses of an inferior race by in
posing upon them the Importance
preserving the racial integrity of boi
races, securing industrial educatio
and attaining the goal of econom
equality of opportunity
Dr. Brough believed there was tt
much zeal among negroes for the e.
terna1s of education and a grown
dislike for domestic service. He plea
ed for higher standards among teac
ers and preachers of the negro rae
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ure in one bottle of Pan-Cre-To tn;
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