The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-04
AMITY OF FRACES is URGED BY SPEAK
ERS AT WASHINGTON CONVENTION.
Meeting Addressed by Lead
ers Who Tell Of Need Of Har-
mcny Between White and
COlOred People.

Washington. D. c.. June 2-Pleas
for the white and Colored deegates
to the convention for amity between
the new spirit of racial understand
ing were made by speakers at the
session, held in the First Congrega-
tlonal Church, 10th and G. streets nor
west.
Representative Theodore E. Burton.
Charles Lee Cook of Louisville, KY,
and Louis G. Gregory were the speak
ers
The races must dwell in amlty in
this country because they live side
by side. said Mr. Burton. The CoIored
race should be recognized by wbite
men, not only because the Constitu-
tlon or the Unite States requires IL
out by the divine power of God.
Both races, he contained, must learn
to understand each other He told told
the delegates that If a crime was
committed by a Colored man his
people should help in bringing him
to justice. At the same time. he adj
ded. If a crime was committed and
the offender unknown, an a Colored
man happened to be around. people
should not jump to the conclusion
that Colored man committed it,
we are to take an important place
among the nations of the world" said
the senator but we must first put
our own house in order. One of the
most serious blots on our national
against the Colord man alone, but
against the white as well. j am ready
to do whatever can be done. by con-
stitutional amendment or otherwise,
TO remove this frightful blemish from
the nation"
Hope that the convention may be-
come the stepping stone to the final
achievement of human and universal
brotherhood was expressed by Charles
Lee Cook, a manufacturer Of Louis
vile, Ky. The world, he said, is
looking. and has always looked, to
TINS country for social justice,
There is a great work ahead. he
continued in bringing about racial un-
derstanding. All must face it and
help, to achieve it, and not bury their
heads 4Ii IN the sands Of optimism;
must do their part in this, reat work,
IA Isl Try 80 RindicatssShe divsneiy
4 appointed mission Of America. Break
/ every bond of Misunderstanding"
He told the delegates to 20 out
from the convention and spread the
new spirit, a stronger spirit of Chris
| tian gratitude.
I The white and Colored are one In
origin and one in destiny, for from
God we came and to Him we return"
| said Louis G.. Gregory. 1T is for us
10 consider in a way that it ma
trial how to increase inter-racial
harmony.
In times past the whites have rem
dered the Colored. looking at mat
ters in large way two great serv-
ices, he continued. First you fought
for our freedom. an act which result
/ ed in freedom not only here but in
| the freedom of the darker races
through contact with your western
| life, we are far removed from that
! primitive state in which our ances-
tors were brought to America, the
measure of our progress in educa-
! tion and civilized usages. When the
doors OF church and state. schools
and colleges, mills and factories were
! opened, we entered, and no one can
deny that your aid has been good
Investment. But to remove all fric-
tion that remains, it is our earnest
! hope that the whites will increase
their kindness toward the Colored and
! that the Colored win make such an
/ attitude easy by expressions of grati-
| tude and APPRECIATION This is wis
| dom. 1t is the divine and therefore
the effective way
Violin solo In Program.
Joseph Douglass, grandson of
| Frederick d. Douglass, the great ab-
olitionist. rendered a violin solo
! Albert Vail of Chicago presided.