Evening star., 1914-12-16
University Commission Meets
at G. w. U. Department of
Arts and Sciences.
Will SON DECLARES HIS
SYMPATHY WITH AIMS
Miseegenation Opposed and Eco
nomic Emancipation Advocated.
Rapid Advance of Negro.

Equal opportunities in an economic
sense. but no misce genation. was the
sentiment of the university commission
on southern race questions. as voiced
in the annual report of DR.. C. H
Brough. the chairman of that body.
this afternoon at the department of
irtS and sciences of George Washing
ION University.
The south feels that race Integra-
ION and solidarity in social sense are
bsolutely necessary to promote the
est interests of both races" he said.
While willing to concede equality of
,.pportunity in an economic sense. she
iS unalterably opposed to mlsceSend-
ton OF the races, and views with gem
uine alarm the increase in the nuIn"er
al mulattos from 1.1S2 O60. OF 15-2 per
cent, in 1890 10 2,o50,6S6, or -0.9 per cent,
in 1910.
The fundamental incompatibilities Of
racial temperament and tradition
which operate to make the great ma
jority of actual unions between the two
groups unhappy and the fact that
many of those who do enter upon these
unions belong 10 the criminal or anti
social elements of both groups. would
seem to indicate the condemnation OF
such unions by the better elements of
both races as a substantial basis"
RAPID Advance Oh NSSTO.
The south rejoices with the north
that the negro has made commendable
and rapid progress along economic.
hygienic, educational, religious and
civic lines within the semi-centennial
of his freedom, and that the problem
of race adjustment is becoming less
acute and easier of solution by the
wise and conservat tive leadership of
MEN of both races
That the negro has made rapid
strides toward the goal of economic
emancipation is conclusively proven by
the latest census statistics. In 1863
there We're 3,960.o00 slaves in the south
Their value was approximately $4,000
c0o, 900. or about $500 each. At the
present time 2.10S.7S6 negroes are en-
gagged in gainful occupations in the
south alone and 5.192,535 negroes are
engaged in gainful occupations
throughout the United States as a
whole.
A bulletin of the thirteenth census
reveals the startling fact that while
the native white classes constituted a
smaller per cent of the persons en-
gagged in gainful occupations in 1917
than it did in the year 1900. the negroes
constituted larger per cent The eco
nomic value of the negroes is ap-
proximately S2,5O0 each, and their total
value as an asset of the south is esti-
mated to be S1O,o0O,OOV,uUV-
Choosing Wise Leaders.
President S. c. Mitchell of Delaware
College sounded an optimistic note, not
only for the negro race, but for hu-
one of the most important changes in
the last few years had been that the
people were beginning to choose as
their leaders men with trained IN
jeilectS-
1T used to be that the only qualifi-
cations for office was the ability tc
tell obscene stories he said, but this
is no longer true"
he urged all to keep in mind constant
" the need of reconciling nationality
and humanity" One of the mistakes
If the past. which he believes is now
being corrected. was the effort to
-emedy economic and social problems
py political remedies. he said
Rear Admiral Charles K. Stockton,
president OF George Washington Uni
versity, welcomed the commission. DR..
James II. billiard, director of the Sla-
ter fund. and Dean w. c. Ruediger of
the teachers college, George Washing
ION University. spoke briefly.
This afternoon Dr. Philander P.
Claxton, United States commissioner of
education, and DIR. Thomas Jesse Jones,
also of the bureau OF education, are To
speak. Executive sessions are to be
held this evening ana tomorrow morn
ing
Officers were elected as follows:
President. ]. b. Forgan; vice president
L. L. Rue; executive committee, Mr..
Forgan, Mr.. Rue, j. Z. Morgan, Daniel
- Wing and W. S. Rowe.
President Wilson's Stand.
Outlining his attitude toward the
negro. President Wilson today told
the university commission on southern
race questions that our object is to
know the needs of the negro and SYM
pathetically help him in every way thai
IS possible for his good and our good
DIR. c. II. Brough of the University OF
Arkansas. chairman of the commission
told the President the commission was
organized to make an impartial study
Of the race question from the stand
point OF the negroes economic, hygienic
civic and moral betterment. He said
that very deep investigation of the
subject was being made with the good
OF the negro always in mind.
Il am very glad TO express my sin
sere interest III this work and sym
pathy with it, said the President, in
reply to DR.. Brough.
Il think that men like yourselves can
ne trusted to see this great question a,
very angle. There isn't any question
Z seems to me. INTO which more cstndor
needs to be put or more thor ough
human good feeling, than this ] know
myself. as Il southern man, how sin
cerely the heart of the south desires
The good of the negro and the advance
lnent Of his race on all sound and sens
iole lines. and everything that can be
lone in that direction is of the highest
value. 1t is a matter OF common un-
Outstanding.