Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-16
WlLSON ANXIOUS l TO HELP NEGRO President Outlines His Posi- ton on Question to South
 ern Educators.
DR. BROUGH REPORTS
University of Arkansas Faculty Mem. Der Declares Segregation Must Net Re Carried Too Far.
 Negroes Ambitious.

washington Dec. 15.--Outlining m ; attitude toward tne negro. Presiden, Wilson today told the university com mission on Southern race question:, made up of representatives Of II Southern colleges, that "our object is to know the needs of the negro and : sympathetically help him in every way possible for his good and our good"
 Dr. c. H. Brough, of the University of Arkansas, chairman of the com mission was organized to make a'' impartial study of the race question from the standpoint of the negro'a economic, hygienic, civil and moral bettermcnt. He said a. deep investi- gation of the subject was being made with the good of the negro always in mind.
 Southerners NegrO's Friends.
 q am very glad to express my sin cere interest in this work and sympa- thy with it." said the president in re- ply to pr. Trough. q think men like yourselves can be trusted to see this great question at every angle.
 "There is not any question it seems to me, in which more candor needs to be put or more thorough human gooc feeling than this. l know myself as a Southern man how sincerely the heart of the South desires sensible lines and everything that can be done in that direction is of the highest val ue. It is a matter of common under standing.
 '.There is charming story told about Charles Lamb. When conversa- ton in his little circle turned upon some men who were not present and Lamb who, you know. stuttered. said T hate that fellow His friend said: Charles, did not know you knew him. Lamb said: T don't. cant hate fellow know
 "I think that is a very profound human fact. You cannot hate man you know. And our object is to know the needs of the negro and sympa- thetically help him in every way that is possible for his good and for our good. can only bid you Godspeed m what is very necessary and srea' undertaking"
 At the opening session of the com- mission. President s. c. Mitchell r' Delaware college, declared the Euro rean war emphasized that there must be something more than racial ana national sentiment in solving the questions of humanity. "ln conclus- ion and not exclusion must be the policy pursued on all race questions he said
 Dr. ]. H. Dillard of the University of Virginia said he was sausfleu there was a growing sentiment among the white and negro leaders i'll the Sonth in favor of the education Of the latter race.
 s# Brough On SegregatiOn. s9 In his annual report, Dr. Broush reviewed the problems of the negro race in the South. He referred to segregation as a most live question' "the only cloud on the horizon at thls time.'
 ..Time, wisdom and patience will solve the question: he said. "segre- gation in the departments of public service, railway and street cars and even in cities may be exceedingly just but the idea of farm segregation as a meanS ~s giving the white man better cnance in agriculture and in dustrial competition with the negro seems a travesty upon Anglo-SaXtoA superiority and an injustice to the negro"
 The constructive work before th' commission he declared to be: "The specializing and rationalizing of the impulses of an inferior race by i'm posing upon them the importance oi preserving the racial integrity of both races, securing industrial education and attaining the goal of economic equality of opportunity.
 Dr. Brough expressed the opin'o' that there was too much zeal amon@ negroes for the externals of educa- tion and a growing dislike for do mestic service as means of liveli- hood. He made a special plea for higher standards among teachers and preachers of the race.