The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-09-03
DR.. SCARBOROUGH ON VISIT To
ENGLAND DISCUSSES PROBLEM
HAS VISITED CAMBRIDGE
AND WILL ATTEND PAN
AFRICAN CONFERENCE BE-
FORE GOING TO ECUMENI-
CAL CONFERENCE.

London. England Sept. 1.-"Force.
IN my view, never can advance the
cause of the Colored people," said
merIy president of Wilberforce Uni
yersity. Wilberforce. Ohio, to me last
DR.. Scarborough has come to Eng
land on several errands. He has just
returned to London from Cambridge,
where he attended a meeting OF the
International Classical Association and
impressive advocacy Of the classics
end of this month he will attend the
Pan-African Congress in Paris and
then will be at the Methodist ecu
menical conference in London. Sep
1--WE. like others" he continued.
have our radicals. We have those
who believe in force as as a method
Interracial, like international .ques-
tions, / think, must be settled, IL they
ever are really settled, not by vio-
lence, but by reason.
Advises Gradual Rise.
my advice to Colored people would
be to rise gradually but fnvincibly.
| would tell them to make such in
tellectual and moral progress and
other people cannot help liking them.
For my part, never expect any man.
black or white, to like me unless 4
make myself likable.
Il long as feelingly as does any
one for Justice and happiness for my
race. But l can see no hope in try
ing by physical means to advance
more rapidly than the cultural de-
we wish to hold. and we can hold
nothing unless we are marshalled and
morally strong. 1t is easy to destrop:
It is hard to construct and perpetuate.
I'm the principle of Africa for the
Africans l believe, but between most
principles and the practicability Of
apt to be great difference. I am
convinced that any progress toward
the realization of the ideal of Africa
for the Africans can be achleyed
weapons OF the mind and the soul
For us- there is much virtue in
good argument and in the silent but
in my Judgment, in any political agi::
tation predicted upon the threat of
war. Believing thus l naturally hope
that the ultra wing of our pan-Amer-
lean organization will not get the
upper hand in our council,
Educators Drop Bars.
There are right patches in the
dark sky of interracial contact. Ed
gether My black skin has not kept
me from warm friendship with my
white colleages in scholarship. Even
southern scholars in the United states
tell me how glad they are to have
During my visit to England and
Scotland I have not been insulted or
tons or Americans. 1t was the same
on the boat coming over. If certain
Americans treated me some what
aloofly, they were within their right
lust as I am within my right in
choosing my company
"Of course as the number Of my
people increase in any community or
situation, so the friction between
them and the whites increases. This
is a fact which both races must recog-
nize and upon which they must bring
their good sense to bear In the inter-
est of peace.
81 am all for peace. I see only dis
aster in strife. I would not have the
Negro movement called revolutionary.
for revolutionary agltations smack Of
war. My vision Is that my own race,
because of intrinsic merit. will become
ever more powerful and interesting
until the races now more fortunate
and stronger than we will elect to
meet us in comradeship and give us
justice"