The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-02-19

this moment, In adjusting contacts be-
tween Americans and Japanese. Con
slider the very difficult situation In
Jewish people are In close contact
with racial elements. The Jewish
problem In America Is today sharper
than ID ever was before The strug-
gle between English and Irish is In
part a race struggle"
Mr. Esker said that the world had
reached a great turning point in the
history OF the human race; that It is
now so small that people have been
brought into close contact and
neither Chinese walls nor old bar
Aother nations. IAN the races of the
earth are beginning TO elbow one
another In a crowded world" said he.
There There are Just two attitudes or
in the opinion OF Mr. Baker, and
people fall into two groups in dealing
with them.
zone NJ these groups has for It's
rontral IDEA that these Immensely an
ficult ard unavoidable problems Of
contact can be settled bv force: or one
might call II the military idea
In great war. sometimes bv mohs
Sometimes that force is exercised
sometimes by secret organizations for
terrorism, sometimes by ostracism
Their method is based uDon the sim
nile and primitive loeic OF the savage:
that II Won do not like the man with
whom YOU come In contact YOU are
to walk over him or break his head
The actual Ku Klux organization may
be confined to one kind or class Of
people: but the Ku Klux spirit is
without color lines. or national lines
or class lines. And when one group
sets out TO settle immense and diff
ouit problems by breakiD< heads. IL
stimulates the same spirit In other
groups whose heads are In danger OF
being broken"
The other group. said Mr. Baker.
lens comparatively.
Or. Cadman called attention to the
Negro's remarkable progress in a
short period Of time In education. the
law and in the business field as we'll
as on the field Of arms.
~ believe" he said, that the blood
which was shed from under the black
skin for the protection OF the flag Is
as any shed from under the white
skin.
All OF One BIopd.
God made OF one blood all nations
here Of his own choice and had he
been left In his native berltat we
should not have had the white mans
crime Of inhmmanity nor would we
not here with a whine for charity,
but with a plea for right
DR.. Cadman cited figures TO show
the Negroes great progress in recent
$4,000 fouRht in the late war. one
regiment-the 15th-carrying the
State colors. and in that regiment
Lieut.. Pratt of this church was an
officer Four hundred Negroes had
been decorated for bravery and the
doctor added: "Colored men don't get
decorated for bravery unless they
have earned It." He closed with a
plea for wise leadership at this time.
Professor Kelly Miller, dean of tho
Junior College of Howard University
Colored man. delivered an address.
in which he called attention to the
steady growth IN the Negro popula-
ton OF the Northern cities and said
that increase in population would de-
veIop n political consciousness among
the Negroes which would result In
sending Negro lawmakers to the state
Legislature and probably Negro
Congressman from New York, Chica-
go and Philadelphia in the next sig
vrnre
County Judge George w. Martin
presided and Or. Henry H. Proctor,
pastor OF the Nazarene Congregation
al Church, who was described by Dr.
Cadman as the "Beecher of his race"
opened the meeting with prayer.
julius Cobb Bledsoe, Negro BARI
tone. sang along other selections the
prologue from ''Pagliaeci" in Italian
About $4,000 was raised for the
work of the Urban Leogue and Lin
coin Settlement James II. Post giving
$500 and Mr.. Mrs. Thomas L. Leem-
ing $500, while Mr.. and Mrs. George
hoffman contributed 500.
Resolutions of regret for the death
of Alfred Il, White. who was a mem
Der of the Urban League, were read
by DR.. Cadman in which these words
were used:
Negro ana white have alike album
dant cause to revere his name, and to
en- nrtt 20
to share his personal friendship was
given a superlative example of the
possibilities of the joy of living the
abundant life"