The Carlisle independent., 1919-10-09
WISE ACTION BY NEGROES

Thirty-eight leading negro educators ~of North Carolina are reported to have announced a definite platform upon which thenegroes ill that state may stand in peace with the white race and m line with the aspirations of their own race. The platform it is said, condemns all advocacy of social equality or inter- marriage between the races and opposes any appeal to force as a cure for inius- tiee of either race against the other
 This is a highly sensible attitude to be taken by members of the negro race 1t is encouraging to find educated ne groes of the south alert to evil tenden- .Scies that threaten the safety and we'll being of their own race and the civilized progress of considerable portion of the white race. As the report of the educa- tors states the individual or oreaniza- tioa that advocates the intermingling of the races on terms of social equality and intermarriage of races is doing great harm harm to the negro, and endanger- ang the security of both races.
 Advocates of social equality and inter- marriage have come chiefly from the white race, and upon this race a great deal of responsibility must rest in the preseht unsettled and deplorable condf- tions. Advocates of these dangerous doctrines have been actuated by the de sire for personal gain, in selling ne <gro property in white" district, for example, and by a feelingof irrespon- ssibility in their social relations. But their doctrinesand acts have been social dynamite.
 The biggest factor in the solution" <of the race problem in America, accord dng to practically all reliable and serious minded students of the question is se- sgregation. Booker T. Washington real azed this fact and in all his educational work and wide preaching among his peo- ple he taught them to work out their own salvation by doing what they were prepared to do, and cou1d be prepared to do. Ehe worthy negro citizen he felt, need not worryabout social equality.
 At Tuskegee, Hampton Institute and many other of the really servieeable negro educational institutions of the south and a few of the north, these views of the question are proPagated.
 Some of the most prosperous negro Of the south are tentorially adjacent to, but otherwise distinctly separate from, white communities. Furthermore, in recent years there has been a decided drift of the southern negro Population toward gulf and South Atlantic coast sections, so that ill time a considerable portion of the black race may be as thoroughly segregated as the Indian race now is
 Tn other sections of the country, the contact of the races in very recent years has been altogether different. The large influx of negroes to northern cities has taxed housing facilities to the limit and little beyond the limit. The resulting conditions have produced sItuationfavorable to race riots.
 There viii nave to be considerable re- adjustment with the ideas of Booker T.. Washington and very likely some of his students among the North Carolina educators firmly in mind. The process will be longand trying and there will be need of cool heads all around Inci- dentally there will be need of more ed ucational institutions, north and south, with the policy and practice of Thske- gee mstitute.-Kansas City Star.
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