AMERICAN NEGROES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN NEGROES.

GOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM,

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

NEW YORK, Sept. 23. The Rev. Kidwell, from Johannesberg, who has been touring Canada and the United States for the special pur pqse of studying the conditions of American negroes, sails for London by the Berengaria to-morrow. Interviewed by Reuter, he loudly praised the negro educational institu tions maintained in this country. They were being educated en masse, he said, and were becoming good citizens. “I’ve heard much about the so-called Marcus Garveyism, but the cry ‘ Africa for the Africans’ is a bubble that will soon be pricked,” he said. “Educated negroes ridicule the idea, and regard the leaders of the movement as misguided fanatics.” Discussing prohibition, Mr Kidwell declared that it was firmly established in the United States and that he regarded the present outburst of bootlegging and illicit drinking as merely a temporary evil that would eventually die out. He was much impressed by the sentiment of the American people towards Britain. He declared that the United States is more sympathetic towards the British Empire than threefourths of the people of South Africa.