Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1925, Page 20

DISTIGTIVE RAE OF NEGROESSEEN Savant Says Intermarriage { Has Virtually Stopped. May Grow Blacker. The American negro seems just on point of branching off into & , Dr. Melville J. Hersko- New York, now engaged in a c study of the students of Howard University, told the Anthro- pological Society of Washington, ¢ meeting in tl fonal Museum The term pplied to the black element in nerican poj ulation f a misnome the scientlst Actually, the race s a black-white-red hybrid. with African negroid strains predominat- ing, due to a peculiar twist in the working out of ition Not more than 20 per cent of black men in the United States, Dr. He skovits said, are of pure negro blood, and this is probably a very liberal | estimate. The mixture of white and Indian blood, however, came mostly before the Civil War. At the end of hat conflict the race was a very un- stable combination indeed. For the last 60 years, however, this mixing has stopped. There has been prac- tically no intermarriage. The blood | has had a chance to settle. This means that the negro now wlill pass to his children certain racial teris the probability of which, in any individual, can be fig- ured with something mathemat- feal certainty. Studies Cover Hundred: Dr. Herskovits based his ca tions on physical examination only of the Howard students du the past few weeks, but of hundreds of negro school children in Harlem, New York's great black belt, He chose these places because they represent a cross-section of the What this race stabilization actual- 1y means is this: The child of a white couple will ¥s be white, and of a Chinese couple always vellow, but up to the present there was no cer- | tainty whether the child of a negro | couple would be unmistakably black | or 0 white that it could be told from a white child only by careful ex- aminat but the time has come when h a child will always stick a rather defining shade of b probability of white or I ¢ introduced before the C »pping out in the baby has been ver Iy reduced. But this works both ways. The Amerigan negro of the future will always bear the mark of that white and red ancestry, and will remain aif- ferent man from his ancestor of Central Africa Likely to Remain Black. Tt is reasonably certain, Dr. Her- skovits said the tests indicated, t the American negro will remain black, perhaps blacker than the average of the race at present, and during his studies at Howard Un versity he has found why this the is somewhat ike | orpha 10, definitely in the white race. Only 10 per cent have white grandpar- ents. This indicates that the period | of racial crossing is over and that negroes are marrying negroes. Dr. Herskovits studied not only skin color, but 100 different fea- tures possible of transmission among the Harlem children. All lead to the me conclusion. The negro of toda is more fixed as a race than, for instance, some southern Itallan and other European groups studied In other words, the child is more likely to stick to a racial standard, More Powerful Than Whites. Comparing the colored boys of Harlem with an average group of white boys, hé found that the former averaged 5 pounds heavier and § or 6 centimeters taller. This indi- cates, since the rate Is becoming that the American negro of > future will be a somewhat more erful man physically than his white neighbor. There is only one other exa of a white and black combination tich has become stabilized in his- toric times into a distinct race, he ce in South Africa which from intermar ges many ago between Hottentots nd pioneers, which no longer take place. But the Amerlea negro of the future cannot be predicted on this model, because conditions were different and there was no red rmixture. 1 Ales ple Hrdlicka said that thropologists have just reached the point where they can study the American negro, since prejudice, both e and black, has hindered them way possible in the past All the white strain in negroes is not due to recognized white stri in the ancestry, it was indicated original slaves, captured in the can jungles, were as pure black as a ace could be when they arrived in America. But In the more advanced centers, they had an opportunity to and intermarry with other ne- from northern Africa, in whom ot white blood had st prehistoric time Carthaginians or Egyp- an- in eve The been tians. This had become fixed, intermarrfages took place lad its effect on the progeny of the pure black slaves—even when both par- ents were supposedly negvoes, and when Newsboy Now Lord Mayor. Opportunity for the poor boy exists in Europe s well s in the New World Mr. Percy Bower, the new lord mayor of Birmingham, England, | is a good example. He was left an | sold newspapers in London, and was later a blacksmith before his rise to powe nd position. Clean Cfld'_s Bowels “California Fig Syrup” is Dependable Laxative for Sick Children | His very THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, GERMAN COMMUNIST CANDIDATE OPPOSES LEAGUE AND DAWES PLAN Declares Former Is ‘““Larger of Two Capitalistic Gangs”’ and Insists Latter Is Unworkable Be- cause People “Cannot Bear Charges.” BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Radlo to The Star and the Chicago Daily News. BERLIN, March 19.—The writer has Thaelmann, erman presidential to foreign policy, s plan, economic healing and obtained one of five candidates, auestions the Daw political education. On Wednesday the talked for an hour who is the Commu is a real worker and reds. from chief brief answers concerning rnest with of his massive back and that of the closing of a as a stoker on transatlantic Later he was fest jobs around the and the shipyards. teamster, and in 1921 was from work because of his opinions. as loading Finally he ta Thaelmann has active part in Hamburg, and known through and unloading always labor gradually the victions, his ease of expression. collar when the bald, round head, strong-featured He correspondent Thaelmann, t candidate. a red among Born in Hamburg, he has lived most of his life through the strength his great, well shaped hands, whose grip is like door. was born in 1886, and he has worked iners. employed at the h port of Hamburg He became a dray excluded political | ing Then he did odd jobs, such | w trunks. was selected to the Reich: ¥ taken movements in became entire German labor world for the vigor of hi his undoubted sincerity wore no writer talked to him his good- face was a of action. “The Communist League of Nations, “For us it is merely two capitallstic gangs, four peace bells, gold and ornaments. venient, but it is not for us. He | pact, guard the treaty of Versallles. trea tory without population the consent of He | {nterests of the every country. all grab. real majority av- French understanding so the German masses, the closest ‘rench work an/ ticularly keenly, net thrown letariat walt until over the German con- and American political take a long time, and ! ferent. A Minute Movie On “MURCO” —would show the “Lifelong Paint” in many “roles’— for it is a “star” performer, being both beautiful and durable. For all outside work, “Murco” has no “double.” Made in our own labora- tory and guaranteed 1007 Pure. thick neck gave the impression he party absolutely opposes Germany's entrance into the sald Thaelmann. the larger of The Upper Silesia_and other cases have proved to us Germans that the league rings while the powers steal It is very con- “The same is true of the seeurity which is merely an artifice to This robs certain people of terri- We are the real League of Nations because we represent the We are opposed to 'We cannot approve of a German- long as France is governed by militarists and capitalistic brigands bent on enslay- but would lcome an opportunity for having sible relations with s and little peasants. ‘oncerning America, we feel par- because America the chief defender of the capitalistic pro- For good relations we must velopment has created class consclous workers, but we understand this will “Toward Russia our attitude is dif- When we control the German ate we shall form the closest union with Soviet Russla and work together for an exchange of cultural and economic products in an effort to hasten the coming of the world revolution.” “Can the Dawes plan be carried out?’ the writer asked. “Certainly not. The time will soo come when you Americans will that the money you have invested in Germany will be dificult to recoves simply because the German people cannot bear the charges. This Is|Wwi simple economy Our workers now labor 10 hours a Cay for starvation wages, yet France and England are able to undérsell us in the werld market. To pay reparations we must export. To export we must produce more cheaply This means longer hours and even lower wages. “These are conditions which even the patience of German workers will not tolerate, spacially when they have the sensation of working for Morgan and international slave deal ers. " Symptomatio is the recent rall- road strike by which the wor! won an increase of three pfennigs an hour. They will not long be satisfied With this. Then some occasion will come like the police massacre in Halle, where I was present. The German workers Wwill rise and the Dawes plan will be ended. It simply cannot work." 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Con- sequently, it is advantageous to be white, or as nearly whi possible Those negroes so fortunate as to be born with white skins have disap- peared in considerable numbers into the white race. But those who are not white enough to pass for white men still have some advantages of association which enable them to Se- cure wealth and culture more easily. Consequently they live on a berder line, associating neither with white nor real black to a great extent, but trying to form a sort of racial island. Of the 300 or more men examined at Howard, he said, per cent told him that their mothers were lighter than their fathers, and they repre- sent the trend of the race all over the Southeast. 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