NEGROES IN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 19559, 18 May 1927, Page 4

NEGROES IN AMERICA

FOUND TO BE DECREASING Basing his assumption on the fact that relatively the negro population has 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 nergo population of the 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 P. Kohler, a lawyer who for several years has been interested in immigration, asked Professor Hankins, who had spoken in favor of the national origins plan under the quota law, if the restriction of immigration had not resulted in such a lack of labor 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 said. “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 South there is a high death rate and an apparent loss'of fovuncfity among the negroes! “ Relatively, the negro has been on the decrease m population for twenty years. Between the years 1910 and 1920 the negro population increased only 650.000, while tho'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 bo decreasing absolutely, and I think that this will go on until as a separate population the negro will have ceased to be a' factor of importance.