The Omaha guide., 1934-10-13
PROF. LOGAN
FORSEES STRUGGLE
over CONTROL OF
HAITIAN FINANCES
Atlanta, Ca, Oct Especial

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Next step IN the struggle Of Haiti
for self control will involve the man
agement of the government finances,
Rayford w. Logan, professor of his
tory at Atlanta University, who spent
his summer in the Haitian Republic,
declared in q talk this week at Moore
house College. Mr.. Logan was an
eye witness to the withdrawal Of the
United States Marines after a stay
of 9 years on the island. and had OPP
,ortunity to talk at length with Presi-
dent Stenic Vincent, regarding the
situation in Haiti
The coming struggle involves four
factors: the National City Company
of New York, mhich the government
of Haiti owes $11 900 900; the Bank Of
Haiti, which is now owned and control
led by the National City Company; the
President and PEG pleof Haiti, and.
finally. the United States Government,
which still maintains an American fl
nancial representative there in the per-
son Of Mr.. DeLarne, a resident Of Lou
siana.
1t is now proposed, Prof. Logan ex-
planned, that che United States relin-
| uish its financial control, and that this
control be placed in the hands of the
Bank of Haiti, which under the plan
would be sold by the National City
Company to the government Of Hal
ii. The bank under this plan would be
governed by a guard of six. two Hal
tians appointed by the President of
Haiti. two Americans selected by the
President from g panel of five persons
to be submitted by the National City
Company, and two to be selected by the
President from a panel submitted by
the foreign bondholders' protective
council.
Mr.. Logan contends that control by
the American government is less OBJ
ectionable than control by representa-
tives of private individuals. He be-
lieves with many other friends of Hal
tan the United States that they can
present these views to the American
State Department and get favorable
attention.
Mr.. Logan devoted his summer to
esearch in Haiti and the United States
on the subject of Haitian-American re-
lations in preparation for the writ
ing Of a dissertation on the subject,
which is to be offered as a require
ment for his Phi d, at Harvard Uni
versity.
GLOW do L account for the change"
he asked. Answering his own question,
he stated: "In 1926 the officers in
command of the island were largely
Southern white men. Today officers
are largely men who have come from
the Northern and Western States.
The Southern officers made the mis-
take of supposing the Haitians would
be as docile as the Southern Negro.
They forgot that Haiti had fought
for Is years to win their indepen-
dence. and through their own efforts
had brought forth the one republic in
the Western hemisphere where the
black man was to be Tree"
The two men who more than any
others brought conditions in Haiti to
the attention Of the outside world
were men whose names would be for
ever associatd with Atlanta Univer-
Esity-James Weldon Johnson, Of the
class of 1894, who through his arti-
cles in the Nation first reported on
oppression Of the Haitians under Anne
rican control, and Professor w. E. B.
Dubois, who by his writings in the
Crisis focused the attention of the
American Negroes and their friends
on the conditions in the island repub-
lie. Ia