The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-11-25
SYMPATHY, JUSTICE AND OP-
PORTUNITY ARE DUE
NEGRO CITIZENS
President Lowell of Harvard and
Other Leaders Speak at
Hampton Meeting

Boston, Mass.-T That the so-called
Negro problem" should be studied
as a unique opportunity, an adven-
ture, and a challenge to our democ-
racy and our Christianity, which we
should not fear. but for which rather
we should give thanks" was the opin-
ion expressed by DR.. James E. Gregg,
principal of Hampton Institute, in his
recent address, delivered in Old South
Church, OF which DIR. George A. Cor
don is the pastor, at a meeting which
was held under the auspices of the
Hampton Association of Massachu-
sets and was presided over by w.
Cameron Forbes.
President A. Lawrence Lowell of
Harvard University declared that SYM
pathy, justice and opportunity are due
members of the Negro race. Mrs.
Henry Lane Schmelz of Hampton,
Va, a prominent Southern white wo-
man who is chairman of the Woman's
Inter-Racial Committee of Virginia,
outlined the development and work of
the Commission on Inter-Racial Co.
operation throughout the South.
This adventure of enabling differ
ent races to live and work happily to-
gether bristles with difficulties" said
Doctor Gregg.
The curse of slavery, even more
hurtful to the white plantation own
ers and s1ave-breeders and slave-trad-
ers and merchants. in rum, molasses
and cotton, who pro6ted financially by
it than to the Negro slaves themselves,
has left us in the North as well as
in the South a tradition of thought
Hess injustice, certain callousness to
cruelty, that is amazing and shameful
THE fact that three score OF our
lcolored fellow-citizens are put to death
by mobs every year is the most ter
Tribe evidence of this brutal lawless-
mess. Let me hasten to say that law
llessness has repeatedly been exem-
lplihed in the North as well as in the
South, and that there are many white
men and women of the South who feel
the shame of lynching quite as keenly
as any people IN the North.
Then there is still in most of the
Southern States an inequality in edu-
cational privileges which cannot be. de-
Tended. One state superintendent Of
public instruction reports that in 1920
III the public expenditure for the edu-
cation of white children was 1926 per
lcapita and for colored children $i.S4
lper capita. Teachers are often under
lpaid. School terms are often pitifully
short. In every state in the South,
however, the set of the current. edu-
cationally is toward the improvement
of the Negro schools.
General Armstrong set out on this
adventure of faith, hope and love more
than fifty years ago when he estab-
ilished Hampton Institute as a school
in which young men and women
should be trained IN head, heart and
hand; in mind, conscience and will. for
unpretentious, unsel6sh, trustworthy
ieadership-to go out and do as he
lsaid, a quiet work that shall make the
land purer and better
President Lowell Pleads for Justice
President Lowell said: we owe
the Negro sympathy for the years of
suffering he has endured and for the
handicaps he has been placed under.
His aspirations, yes. even his hopes.
deserve our sympathy. II is only just
that If we are to be of any help IN