The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-10-18
N, CAROLINA ATTEMPTS To
DANISH The AGITAT0R
lBr Associated Negro Pressl

(By Associated EfeSIO TISbSJ
Releigh. N. c., .-Thirty-eight Ne
gro leaders of North Carolina have
issued a statement declaring the Ne
groes "are making more money and
reaching a stage of prosperity never
before enjoyed" And that never
have they been so independent, nor
had better opportunities for con-
tented living.
At a conference week ago the
thirty-eight Negro leaders and two
white men. were present. as well as
some OF the most radical leaders,
many of whom have made protest
against North Carolina conditions
existing prior to Gov. Bickett's Ad-
ministration Their report, published
today, says:
"a large majority of the Negroes
have no troubles, and if the agita-
tors will only let them alone they
can secure fair opportunity to work
out their own destines." The labor
agitators who entices the Negro to
the North by recounting the iniquit-
les OF the South Is reprobated as one
of the disturbing forces in the Negroes
happiness. a
There never was a time when the
State was so ready to give adequate
educational advantages to the Ne
groes," the report says. There never
ev was time when the Negro had
more cause to hope. One town is
planning to spend 100000 for the
Negroes alone; another Is voting a
special bond issue in rural districts
where many buildings costing from
900 to $4,000 are going up. Well
trained supervisors are being en-
ployed to give better supervision to
rural schools.
with such prospects for improv-
ing our educational conditions, in
cediary, false charges and the contin-
ual harping on injustice Of the white
to the Negro are doing great harm,
and If the aghator really wishes to
help the Negroes should throw the
emphasis upon what the white man
is really doing for the Negro and
make a long story that would change
the whole thought about racial re-
lationship"
The conference thinks that while
the Negro does not get full justice
in the courts, it is a condition attri-
butable not to race but to conditions,
the absence of friends and power
The new Juvenile Court Law will
give the delinquent Negro salvation
from chain gangs and State prisons,
and the signers call on all Negroes
ITO resent the agitators who seek to
inflame them on account Of the
courts.
1t especially repudiates all those
who counsel force in the repulsion
Of wrong endured. and it declares
there are many yet. Those who
insist that force will in any way be
beneficial are the most dangerous
enemies to ALL" the statement de-
clares. 1t calls on ministers and
teachers to work out constructive
and hopeful programme. urges Negro
editors to devote more space to what
the Negro is doing, and asks the
white press to put less emphasis on
crimes of the Race.
The report condones all advocacy
Of social equality or intermarriages
between the races, saying: Any in
dividual or society in or out of the
State that advocates the informing
ling of the races on terms of social
equality and intermarriage of races
is doing great harm to the Negro,
for wherever this doctrine finds lodge
ment, it stirs race prejudice in the
South and threatens the well-being
Of both races"