The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-10-28
DELIVERS TWO SPEECHES AT SCOT
fish CHURCHES MISSIONARY CON-
GRESS TELLS OF AMERICAN CONDI-
TIONS AND STATES HOPES OF RACE.

| lection, We often hear, also. the ex-
| preston that the Negro should stay
| in his place. 1t has been my observa-
ton that most of the race friction in
America Is due to the fact that toe
often white people do not stay In
their places. We have many cases on
record OF outbreaks between the races
in America that started in the Negro
section of the town. We never hear
OF such disturbances beginning in the
white section, think l can also
make the further observation that the
\ Negroes object to segregation because
] segregation carries with 1t the sug-
gestion that the race Is inferior and
unfit for association with decent peo-
pie Of any other race. In our country
where the separation of the races Is
practiced, the Negro always suffers
Sometimes an effort has been made to
make the public service equal for
both races, but those who have the
interest. or lack of sympathy, of per-
haps lack of appreciation of the nee
essity OF careful supervision, have al
lowed the accommodations to degener-
ate into places inferior and in most
| cases, absolutely unfit for human be-
ings of any race. In many cases. these
places are as menacing to the health
| and lives of the white race as they
are demoralizing, degrading, and mem
acing to the. health and lives of the
Colored people.
This statement was followed by a
brief but hearty tribute to the Ne
| gro women of America and a short
but definitely stated opinion that the
! Negro in America and Africa were
1 interdependent and that though it was
advisable that American Negroes re-
main in America, the interests of both
could be fostered by the efforts of
each.
Tells Relation of Races.
He concluded his morning address
with lengthy discussion of the re-
lation of the races saying in part:
Negroes in America have made a
record of which they are proud, but
that record has not been achieved
without the help of white men and
women. both North and South If
their stories could be heard today.
you would discover that. with rare
RECEPTIONS, those individuals within the
race who have made any creditable
progress toward their own advance
ment have invariably had among their
| friends and helpers one or more men,
bers or the other race who gave them
theiiaf. confidence. their support, their
counsel and encouragement in helping
them to success. Unfortunately, the
press has too often carried a great
, deal more of that which represents
friction between the races than of
that which goes on in the way of CO.
operation, and for every instance of
strife and hatred. there are tens and
hundreds of cases of good will and
cooperation. And just here it may
be we'll observed that upon careful
analysis II will be found that with
the exception of mobs and lynchings,
of which our country is growing in
creasingly more ashamed, the amount
of friction between the two races in
the United States Is not greater, IL it
is as great, as the amount of friction
to be found between individual MEM
bers within each race. 1t seems when
the trouble arises between members of
different races that public sentiment
attaches an Importance to the diff
Guilty out of all proportion to its real
significance. And as to the matter
of lynching and mob violence, there is
sentiment developing within the
United States. am glad to say, both
North and South that promises at an
early date, we hope. to bring 1t to an
end. Nobody Of any consequence in
America any longer has an apology
for lynching and the news papers Of
the South are today most outspoken
in their condemnation OF all forms
of mob violence. We have discovered
at last that most Of the difficulty
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