Show VA A A RACE CONGRESS It is proposed to hold a congress In London in July Hill 1911 for the pur purpose pose 1050 of discussing from front a scientific s and nud practical point of view the race question Jt Jl is to he be a Universal Race Itaco Congress anti and especial atten allen attention tion will be given g en to the questions that thal have haYe arisen front from the relations I that hut now exist between Asiatic peo pea peoples pIes ples and the rest resl of or tho world Ques Questions Questions Questions I of vital interest to the tho Chinese Japanese the East In rans Turks Persians etc will bo ho discussed in the Ule light of or modern knowledge A congress cn re s of that thal kind ought to aid in the tho removal of ninny many prejudices dices that thal now exist There was a alime time lime when every eer nation looked upon its neighbors across the border line lineas linen lineas as n barbarians harbar ans and had all kinds of or fun at their expense This stupidity has been very err largely largel removed as time the I means of international communication 1 hao havo facilitated Intercourse between neighbors National prejudices have hao vanished But racial prejudices still exist eist An AH enormous lot of nonsense has lla lia been said and written about thy Insuperable I barriers that separate races laces A race congress ought io to help belp us ms to obtain a more true conception of or those barriers if the questions arc are taken up imp in i a scientific spirit and the tho promotion of truth is the time only object in view Those who have hn e traveled Ira a it great deal and anti made observations are prepared to admit that thaL the differ once between races is not nol nearly no so 0 wide ride as many imagine At Al the tho London race raco congress next year lear political al Issues will be lie excluded The IO American negro and the Indian will be discussed under tinder the tho bend head of Tho The Modern rn Conscience in Relation to Racial Questions Sir Harry II Johnston the distinguished writer and au l traveler is chairman of the executive committee and anti other prominent men menaN menara are ara associated associated in the tho work woric of organization News |