The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-07
APPEAL TO STUDENTS
TO STUDY NEGRO PROB
LEM OF THE SOUTH
OFEN LETTER Is ISSUED BY UNI
VERSlTY COMMISSION ON SOU
THERN RACE oUESTioN,oFFER-
ING SUGGESTIONS.


University Commission on Southern
Race Questions has just issued an
open letter TO the college men Of the
South
The commission is composed of rep
resentatives of the faculties of eleven
Southern States institutions of learn
ing, and has been in existence, meet
ing annually or oftener, for about five
years.
It's aim is to do what it can to as
sist in the adjustment on sound
basis, of race relationships in the
South, particularly at this time, when
from many points of view, there is
danger of mal-adjustment and misun-
derstanding.
with Southern students endeavoring
to induce them to study the so-called
race problem" with sympathetic in
terest and without prejudice.
The membership OF the commission
is as follows:
Professor j. j. Doster, professor of
education and dean of the School of
chairman.
Professor James D. Hoskins, dean
OF The University of Tennessee.
Dr. Josiah Morse, professor Of psy-
chcIogy and philosophy, University
of South Carolina.
DR.. William o. Scroggs, professor
of economics and sociology, Louis
lana State University.
Professor William S. Sutton, dean
Of the School of Education, Univer-
sity of Texas.
p Dr. w. L. Kennon, professor of
physics, University of Mississippi
Professor E C. Branson, professor
of rural economics and sociology,
University of North Carolina.
DR.. James M. Farr, professor of
English, University of Florida.
DR.. d. Y. Thomas, professor of his
tory, University of Arkansas. s9f
| pr. R. P. Brooks, professor Of his
tqRy, University of Georgia
! IColonel W. M. Han1ey, professor of
economics. and political science, Vir-
! ginia Military Institute, secretary
DIR. James H. billiard, president OF
Jeanes Fund.- and director of the Sla-
ter Fundter Fund, is The founder of
the commission and is member OF
| its advisory Commit; ee.. - --'--.-- X - -
.. .. Open Letter to Students .
The open etter to Southern college
students, which is being sent 10 prac-
is as follows:
ION Two previous occasions the Uni
versity Commission On Southern
@&ce Questions addressed open let
,ers to the college men of tho South
setting forth briefly he results OF
their studies and conferences on top
cs Of Importance to both races The
first Of these dealt with the lynching
evil, and after pointing out the in
herent injustice of il and its mem
ace to the established Institutions OF
society, emphasized the fact thai hui
man actions are like boomerangs, at
fecting those who act, as much as; If
not more than, those who arc acted
II &c hoDar,nsf,,r
recognized that the white race in
many subtle ways has suffered more
irom lynchirg and its consequences
than has the black.
"The second letter dealt with the
education Of the negro, and stressed
he need Of larger supper, better
teachers, longer terms and more EIDE
1uate facilities, again on the ground
CT the inherent justice of the pro
pcsal, and the fact that in doing for
others We do even more for ourselves.
"in the present letter the commits
sion wishes to address the college
men on what it considers the most
immediate pressing problem of the
South, and one Of the most import
ant for the nation, namely, negro i'm
gre ion. The present migratio Of
he negro is not an anomalous phen-
nAGcn in human affairs. The econ
mic and social laws hat affect the
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