The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-02-01

luSheSeG Institute, AldDdInd, Jan,
2S.-The second days session of the
Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference
was devoted to a discussion of Prob
lens Connected With the Demobiliz-
alton of Negro Soldiers" The prin-
cipal address before this session of
the Conference was delivered by DR..
Emmett j. Scott, Secretary of Tuske-
gee Normal and Industrial Institute,
who has been serving in Washington,
D. c., since the outbreak of the war,
as Special Assistant to the Secretary
of War advising in matters affecting
the interests of colored soldiers and
colored Americans generally. The
Tuskegee Negro Conference, the fame
of which is now nationwide, was in
augurated by the late Booker T. Wash
ington and meets annually at the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitute, Tuskegee, Alabama. The
conference has always sought to en-
courage Negro farmers and the Negro
people of the South generally in for
ward looking directions. The same
policy Of helping colored farmers in
practical ways and of seeking to ce-
ment friendly relations between the
two races in the South has been and
is being consistently carried out by
DIR. Robert r. Motion, the present Prin-
cipal of the Institute.
In discussing the subject, The Ne
gro and the South After the War"
DR.. Scott took a broad view of the
situation and sought to allay and to
dissipate the spirit of unrest and ap-
prehension which seems to obtain in
the South with reference to the re-
turn to this section of discharged Ne
gro soldiers. Incidentally he revealed
the plan and policy of the War De-
partment to gradually demobilize the
thousands of Negroes in the Army as
rapidly as suitable civilian employ
ment can be found for them. Extracts
from his address follow:
"The Negro and the South After the
War;"
Peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war" and the fact that
hundreds of thousands if not millions
of soldiers must soon be discharged
from military service and thus be
changed from a military to a civilian
status, presents a problem requiring
the best thought for its proper hand
ling and solution, and indeed makes
the problem of Peace equally if not
more complex than the problem OF
War At one time during the war
German propagandists would have us
believe that the American Negro had
neither the inclination nor the ability
to efficiently fight under the Stars
and Stripes to fully perform his share
of civilian work and military service
SO essential in the support of ouI
countrys program at home and over
seas, but the ready response of Ne
gro draftees to the Selective Service
call, the splendid record made by
nearly 100000 Negro soldiers in
camps and cantonments at home as
we'll as in the war zone and on bloody
battle fields of France, together will
/ the whole souled support and numer
Gus patriotic activities of Negro Amer
leans generally, showed how false anC
unfounded was that thought.
Negro Loyalty Proved.
In this connection, it is both In
teresting and encouraging 20 note tn
testimony by Mr.. A. Bruce Bielaski
Chief of the Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice, and by Captain
George B. Lester of the Army Intell
gence Service, before the Unite
States Senate Committee, which
investigating the activities of Germa
propagandists in this country. In rt
ferring to the efforts that were n
peatedly made to discourage loyalt