The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-07-05
CANDOR BETWEEN THE RACES.

II the movement in Hyde Park and
Kenwood for a better understanding
between THE white and Colored races
is based on an honest desire for the
Improvement of the conditions of
both we believe there is chance
for Colored.
Malice and envy and jealousy and
revenge must not enter into the ne
gotiations. In at least one instance
we have noted the use Of the word
undesirable; it is false note.
The Colored people are firmly estab-
lished in the United States, and, of
course, in Chicago. They were not
undesirable" when we needed thou
sands of them to carry on war in
dustries here; not undesirable"
when they eagerly donned the khaki
and went away to war; and they
are not undesirable" because they
obey the instructive desire for home.
1t is not to be denied that racial
characteristics prevail among the
white people to the extent that they
are most content when living among
those of their own race; but the
same is true of the Colored people.
They want their own homes, their
own locality, their own institutions;
this because of the Colored race is
to find salvation, as its brightest
minds testify, it must alone work 1t
out.
We believe the Colored people are
agreed that what they most want
is the right to comfortable living
conditions. We believe they have no
thought of intruding, maliciusly, into
districts far removed from the CEN
tiers of their race. We believe the
thoughtful Colored people grant to
the whites the same ideas of technical
segregation.
II the south side situation is in
vestigated it will, we believe. be
found that the Colored people have
not endeavored to penetrate pro-
miscuously over the whole area, but
that their penetration into districts
heretofore occupied entirely by the
whites has been the result of an
emphatic need for homes, a logical
expansion of a once small residence
section Of the Colored people.
We are apt to overlook the fact
that $4,000 Colored people have come
to Chicago in the last few years and
that they could not possibly be hous-
ed in the limited province heretofore
comfortably occupied by the first
corners. They must have room. Lit
tie by little the borders of the Colored
community have expanded. 1t was
inevitable.
But it seems just as unacceptable
that the races do not want to live
together. We believe this is as true
of one as the other, to a certain
extent. At least we see that Colored
people do strive for community life
by trying to segregate as much
as possible; thus also the whites.
We have said before that friction
between the races does not grow
out of the attitude of the thought
full of the races. but Of the reckless
and intolerant. These mischievous
persons are most apt to he found
on the borderland between the two
ltAdSpcIdLiuS celCu OluCL anu luSitluS
to riot, Wherefore, it follows thai
no reasonable settlement is COINS
to be achieved by them, but rather
by the rational beings who must b.
considerate of the freetings ant
WORKINGS of the impatient of eacl
others races and who must apply
sound logic to the adjustment.
The principles of the adjustment
II seems, cannot fail to lie thus
lines of demarkation to be adopted
out of consideration for the needs
and comforts of both races; willing
ness to cooperate in all essential!
of community betterment; and com
plete eagerness to confer on all sub
jects without recourse to bitterness
In other words, the white peopl,
; cannot adjudicate the matter to sui
themselves; nor can the Colored PEG
: pie Clash will surely follow. TIL,
settlement must come in a meetin,
,, of the minds, so that the Colored PEG
pie viii not think themselves wropgl,
used but will have the assuranc,
that whatever. clinical understand
ings are adopted are with their ap
proval and for their best interests.
Property rights are inviolate: hu
! just as much for the Colored as tn,
! white. Adjustment must be reache:
by honest methods; cards ell on tn,
! table.
Chicago Tribune.