Evening star., 1942-10-25
BY C. G. WOODSON.

Director and Founder of the
Association for the Study OF
Negro Life and History.
Distinguished men scientifically
trained will assemble in Washington
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to
discuss the Negro and his position
in the social order at the 9th
annual M ting of he h. at+cr
for the Study of Negro Life and
History. Departing from the stereo-
typed ways of handling the question
by snap judgment and traditional
methods, these scholars will as
semble here to apply science in
showing the proper way to under
stand human society.
In the Garnet-Patterson audi
torium at Vermont avenue and v
street NV. at pm. Friday, DR..
T. D. Stewart, curator of physical
anthropology Of the United States
National Museum, will deliver an
Introductory address on the impor-
tance of approaching human prob
lens through science.
DR.. Julian H. Lewis, professor of
pathology at the University of Chi
cago, will advance the same thought
with the topic of "The Biology of
the Negro" DR.. w. Montague Cobb,
professor of anatomy of the Howard
University School of Medicine, will
M ke Pc cticel application of
the same thought in discussing
the theme, Education in Human
Biology, an Essential to the War
and the Peace" The public is in
vited to attend these meetings.
Historians Luncheon
On Friday at pm, after a morn
ing business session, the Historians
Luncheon" will be held at the Phyllis
Wheatley Association. at 901 Rhode
Island avenue NV. These historians
will concentrate on the question of
the citizenship of the Negro. Dr.
Thomas I. Brown, head of the social
science division of Miner Teachers
College, will take up the question:
rs the Negro a Citizen or Subject
of the United States?" DR.. L. P.
Jackson, professor of history of Vir-
ginia State College, will answer the
question: Has the Negro Shown
Himself Qualified to Perform the
Functions of citizenship" Miss
Viola Higginbotham, instructor in
Negro history at Hampton Institute,
will deal with the question: What
Should the Negro Do to Become q
Full-Fledged Citizen?" q.
Next Sunday from 8 to 10 pm.
the College Alumnae Club of Wash
ington will receive the visitors at
los Seaton place NV. No formal
program will be held at this hour.
Authors Breakfast
Next Sunday at 10 am. at the
Phyllis Wheatley Association, 901
Rhode Island avenue NV, will take
place the Authors Breakfast" at
which Negro writers who have dis
tinguished themselves in 1912 will be
honored. Among these will be DR..
Eva B. Dykes fer her THE Negro in
Lngli-h Romantic Thought; DR..
John Z. W2si1ilcton for his "They
Knew L:rccln"; Dr. Luther P. Jack
son for his Nero Property Holding
in Virginia.; DR.. Lorenzo j. Greene
for his THE Negro in Colonial New
England and Mr.. J. Saunders Red
ding for his mo Day of Triumph" "
The program will assume the form
of panel when each author will
tell what led to his writings.
The last session of the conference
goes to the Shiloh Baptist Church
at Ninth and P streets NV, OF
which D. E. L. Harrison is pastor.
President Eugene A. Clark of Miner
Teachers College will preside. Mrs.
Dorothy Porter Of the Howard Uni
versity Library will read a paper on
David Ruggles, an Apostle of HUI
man Rights" DR.. Benjamin Quarles
of billiard University will deliver an
address on THE Meaning OF De-
mocracy to Frederick Douglass. -
Mrs Mary Mcleod Bethune of the
National Youth Administrator will
speak on "The Negro in the Ad-
vancement of Democracy"
Four History Prizes.
The exercises will close with the
award Of the four history prizes.
First prize of $10O for the best
article contributed to the Journal OF
Negro History during the year end
ing September 80. 1912.
Second prize of $50 for the next
best article
First prize of $50 for the best book
review contributed to the journal
Second prize of $25 for the next
best book review.
The Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History was organ
lied in Chicago, September 9, 1915
and incorporated under the laws OF
the District of Columbia October
of the same year. 1t brought out
the first number of The journal OF
Negro History, January l, 1916, and
since that date has published thi,
magazine quarterly. 1t originated the