The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-04-15
CONDEMNED BY
TEXAS WOMEN
Committee Organized to Promote
Christian Principles IN Race
Relations

ing is the black spot on America
soul" that Eve have no security un
less the law protects u.s." and tina
law and order must be maintaine
at all costs" leading women from al
parts of Texas met in Dallas a fey
days ago and organized for the pur
pose of seeking a Christian solution
of the tangled problem of race rela
tons. Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames o
Georgetown was elected chairman
and Mrs. John s. Turner of Dalla
secretary. The membership of tn,
COMMITTEE embraces Representatives
lof the principal civic and religion.
organizations of the state. Mrs. Percy
w. Pennybacker being a notable hg
ure in the group.
A strong address was drafted and
given to the public, recognizing the
condition of the Negro in the south
as a community problem affecting
the welfare OF both races and demand
ing for its solution the application of
the principles of humanity and JUS
tice. An appeal was made for the
rights of every child to a reasonable
chance in life and for a single stand
ard of morality that will protect the
womanhood of all races.
The women's committee will func-
ton as a section of the Texas Com
mittee on Inter-Racial Cooperation.
the purpose of which is to organize
in every community where race re-
lations constitute a serious problem
group of the best people to study
local conditions and needs and deal
with them intelligently and in a Chris
tan spirit DR.. J. c. Hardy is chair
man of the State Committee It was
stated that in many communities the
plan had averted threatened trouble
and displaced acute situations by con-
6dence and good will
The Address Adopted by the Women
Follows in Full
I'VE, the members of the women's
section of the Texas State Commit
tee on Inter-Racial Cooperation. find
ourselves overwhelmed with the OPP
portunity and the corresponding -
sponsibility which we this day face
in sharing the task of bringing about
better conditions and relations in the
south between the white and Negro
races. We deplore the fact that
the relations for the past fifty years
have been such as to separate the two
races through a lack of understand
ing on the part of both. We know
that ignorance takes its toll in crime
and ineficiency, that disease and
death are no respecters OF persons,
but that they sweep across the boule-
wards from the places of squalor and
living. to the best kept and
most protected homes. We know also
that crime is not segregated and that
its results are felt alike by all classes.
I'VE are persuaded that our native
southland can never reach its high
est destiny while any part of its peo-
pie are ignorant, underfed and in
Therefore. together we must
meet our task and seek to bring in
a new day of better understanding.
To this end we call attention to some
of the underlying causes of present
day ills:
Prejudice
Recognizing the universal exist
ence of prejudice among people of
different races, and deploring its exist
ence and its consequent unjust re-
suits. we therefore are resolved that
the Negro should have hearing in
his own behalf, and further resolve
that we shall not be content simply
with being kindly disposed to the race.
but that our good will shall reach to
the effort to secure for its members
Justice in all things and opportunities
for living the best life. We desire
for the Negro, as for all men. per-
sonal and racial justice in private life
and in the courts of the land.
Womanhood
Realizing the great increase OF
nulattoes and knowing full well that
no race can rise above its woman
hood, we appeal for the protection of
he chastity of the Negro woman and
declare ourselves for the single stand
.rd of morality among this race as
we'll as among our own.
Childhood
Recognising the right of every
American child to be not only we'll
BORN. but to be given the opportunity
or developing his life to its fullest
we desire for the Negro
hid better homes, better schools and
,etter Christian training.
Lynehing
"Lynching is the black spot on
Americas soul So long as America
folds the record for its illegal taking
# life. so long as the headlines of
oreign papers carry in large letters
America burns another Negro just
o long will her shame be worldwide.
Ne have nc security unless the law
,rotects US. Mob violence knows no