The Washington times., 1921-10-26
HARD|NGDEF|NES.
VIEWS ON RACIAL
AIMS Of NATION
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stricted immigration has cut off the
supply OF common labor"
The President paid high tribute TO
the growth and resources OF the South
mdustrjally.
President Harding arrived here
shortly before . o'clock this morning
From the station, where he was met
by a reception committee and given a
tremendous ovation by a great crowd,
the President embarked on a day OF
activities as strenuous as any which
he underwent during. the campaign
Guns Boom Welcome.
Twenty-one guns doomed forth a
noiseful welcome TO Americas chief
executive as he stepped from the Pres
idential train.
ACCOMMODATING the President Were
Mrs. Harding. Senator Oscar Under
wood, of Alabama; Secretary OF War
Weeks, Secretary of the Interior Fall,
Secretary George b. Christian, Briga'
dier General Sawyer, the Presidents
physician; military aides, secret SER
vice operatives and newspaper men.
The flower of Alabama beauty
greeted the President and his party
upon their arrival. Sixty-seven girlss
representing the sixty-seven counties
of the State, We're drawn up as re-
ception committee.
To Give Three Speeches.
The Presidents program called for
three set speeches, the taking or a
college degree, laying the cornerstone
of a Masonic temple, brief visits To
various points of interest and shaking
hands with thousands Of people.
After his reception. the President
was driven to the Tutwiler Hotel, for
few minutes rest before taking his
place in civic parade which started
at 10 o'clock. The President moved
with the parade until 1t reached the
Southern Club, where he left the pro-
cession and took the reviewing stand.
The Presidents first speech took
place at noon in Capitol Park, his
second was scheduled for a luncheon
given in his honor at the hotel at l
o'clock, and a third address was book
ed for late in the afternoon at the
laying of the cornerstone for the
Masonic temple.
The text OF the Presidents first
speech, in part, follows:
Exhausted and affrighted by the
horrors OF the world war, the ma
tions are seeking means to prevent
repetition of such an experience.
They see the need for effective
reform in international relations.
ships and, along with this, for
many alterations and adaptations
Of domestic institutions which will
better fit them for the new time.
Our own country, though its
necessities are less onerous, its
difficulties not so grievous as
those of many others, has yet oc.
casion to consider wherein it
may equip itself for the new sort
of struggle that lies ahead. Con-
cerning one phase of this national
problem, j want to say few
words.
World War Effects.
IL the civil war marked the be.
ginnings of industrialism in
South which had previously been
almost entirely agricultural, the
world war brought us to full recog.
milton that the race problem is ma.
tional rather than merely sectional
There are no authentic statistics.
but it is common knowledge that
the world war was marked by a
great migration of the Colored
people to the North and West
They were attracted by the de-
mand for labor and the higher
wages offered. The slow move
ment had been in progress for
decades before, but it was vastly
accelerated because of the war,
and has continued at only slack
ened pace since. 1t has brought
the question of race closer to
North and West, and 1 believe II
has served to modify somewhat
the views of those sections on this
question. 1t has made the black
man and made the North realize
the difficulties of tho communitv
in which two great differing races
are brought to live side by side.
l should say that it has been
responsible for a larger charity on
both sides. a beginning Of better
understanding; and in the light of
that better understanding perhaps
we shall be able to consider this
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