NEGROES IN AMERICA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 24 May 1927, Page 5

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 negro population of the United States bids fair to disappear, states the New York Times. Professor Hankins made this prophecy at la luncheon at the Hotel Woodstock before members of the Conference on Immigration Policy, during a discussion of the National Origin® Clause of the present immigration law. Max F. Kohler, a lawyer who for several years had been interested in immigration, asked Professor Hankins, who had spoken in favour of the national origins plan under the. quota law, if the- restriction of immigration had not resulted in such la 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 centre® and cities does not reproduce itself,” Professor Hankin said. “A® he come® in- contact with hardier stock® and in the more strenuous -life of the city and -industrial community a® compared to the smaller communities in the .South, there is a high death rate .anil am apparent loss of fecundity among the negroes. “Relatively, the negro ha.s been on the decrease in population for 20 years. Between the years- 191.0 and 1920 the negro- population -increased only 6.50,000 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 the present indication, I believe the negro population of the United States will be decreasing -absolutely, and I think this will go- on until a® -a separate population tihe negro will have ceased to be a factor of importance.’’