NEGROES IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 20

NEGROES IN AMERICA

FOUND TO BE DECREASING.

Basing his assumption on the fact that relatively the negro population lias been decreasing for twenty years in the United States, Professor Frank H. Hankins, of the Department of Sociology of Smith College, said recently that in time the negro population of tho United .States bids fair to,disappear, states the "New York Times."

. Professor Hankins made this prophecy at a luncheon at the Hotel Woodstock before members of the Conference on Immigration Policy during a discussion of the National Origins Clause of the present Immigration law. Max F. Kohler, a lawyer who for several years has been interested in .immigration, a:sked Professor Hankins, who had Bpokon in favour of the national origins plan under the quota law, if the restriction of immigration had not resulted in such a lack of labour' that the negro population was spreading in the North in a manner that increased the problem of the negro.

"The negro population in the Northern industrial centres and cities does not reproduce itself," Professor Hankins jßaid._ "As he comes in contact with hardier stocks and in the more strenuous life of the city and industrial community as compared to the smaller communities in the Sbuth there is a high death rate and an apparent loss of fecundity among the negroes. "Relatively, the negro has Been on the decrease in population for twenty yoaTs. - Between the .year's 1910 and 1920 the negro population increased only 650,000, while the rest of the population, leaving out immigration, increased at the rate of a million and a half a year. ■• .

"By 1935, according to. present indication, I believe the negro population of the United States will be decreasing absolutely, aud I think that this •will go on until as a separate population the negro will have ceased to be .5 fgctog o| Importetiee.^ ~" ~ "