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Show SOCIAL WORKER LAUDS INDIANS CHICAGO, Dec, 30. (U.P.) Southern culture owes a great debt to the Negro ; the cultured southern homo with its lcasurely aristocratic character and charm, was made possible pos-sible by the presence of the Negro, 'according to Alexander Golden-weiser Golden-weiser of the New School of Social Research. He spoke here today before be-fore the American Statistical association asso-ciation on the contributions of various var-ious races to American cultural development. de-velopment. "Whatever the southerner may say about the Negro's moral qualities," quali-ties," Dr. Goldenwciser declared, "he' has passed practical judgement on him in the past by permitting Negroes to educate his children. "Like other bad institutions, the institution of slavery, with the amiable, dignified master and the happy serfs living In mutual love, produced one of the finost form of living known to men." Dr. Goldenwelser,, also paid a tribute to the American Indian : "Among the many 'foreigners' to whom Americans owe a deep debt for cultural contributions, a race standing high in the list is the American Indian a race to whom the earliest Americans were themselves them-selves 'foreigners'." He continued : ('American anthropologists anthrop-ologists have led the world in recent years in unearthing the truth about prehistoric man. The reason for this leadership is that we live in the most remarkable laboratory for such study, the ancient home of the American Indian. "The American Indian also gave us corn and he was the. inspiration of the most romantic tales of American Amer-ican folk lore and poetry,' the' hero of stirring romances and poems by Cooper, Bret'Harte, Longfellow and other American writers." |