Show THE COLOR LINE J ONE OF OP THE REMARKABLE con contributions coi col 1 to the discussion of oC the th negro n sro problem in America is The Th Color Line a book by Professor ProCessor Wil Wit Witham William WilHam Ham liam Benjamin Smith The author is isone s sone one of oC the faculty In a southern col college collEge college lege and has made the subject an un ex e x study along scientific lines His tibet most startling conclusion ion backed V b y almost conclusive he data is that the t IO color question will Aill solve sole itself utti I by bj the Ule decrease of the negro race to insignificant numbers He presents facts which show that the influences of or modern modem civilized life Ufe on the thc negro ne ro when h is free from re restraint restraint inevitably overpower him just justas jUl t as they do the Indian because e he is ilS ph incapable Ie of withstanding their effect ot I Naturally Z Professor Smith docs does not expect this extinction to materialize I soon or suddenly since sines statistics cs show shown H n hea heavy y increase e in ill the negro ue Io population lation in the United States and the th birth rate rale la Is h large but those tho who have seen the tile cok re I people leolie I lle to the th evils lIs and Influences S of or life in the cities dUes are sie inclined to concur in the conclusion that eventually the white race wilt will fU supplant su the negro n ro in the the I south couth son lb This Is III more mere probable pr because h the introduction o manufactures 1 lit In the southern n states huts ia brought a con concentration concentration on of the laboring population in the manufacturing communities end ami surrounded thorn with conditions that mean a heavy heuY mortality at best The negro dots doe dO A not n t lUte like cold and aver nver aversion er erslon slon sion to ventilation in work oP or ot sleeping rooms fa is a u proverb It nat naturally naturally follow folio that pulmonary disease i K e finds linde him hint an easy EUY victim and 1 the death rate rille from such causes es is S con COlt constantly increasing It hi ia unlikely the race rare will wilt die out noticeably within the century ceo tun but un an unless unless less a II radical ra cal change 1 It In effected in the I natural the puo peo they Ute must ultimately succumb Ho to the law 1 of o the tho survival of or the fittest |