The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-07-08
MORDECAI JOHNSON, GRADUATE In
DIVINITY SAYS THAT AMERICAN NE
GROES STILL TRUST in GOD And HOPE
FOR BETTER DAYS.

fered widespread disintegration."
The speaker then reviewed the
growth of the hope of his people that
the great war would work change
for the better in their situation. AT its
close. however. he said. this hope was
suddenly dashed. He cited the adj
vice given by southern papers TO Ne
groes to find the place they had be-
fore, the war and to stay in II.
Collective Attacks.
He reviewed "the great corrective
attacks on Negro life anc property in
Washington. Chicago. Omaha, Elaine
and Tulsa" the boldness of lynchers,
the vain appeals to the President and
TO. the houses of Congress, and, fin
| ally, the reorganization and rapid
growth OF the 1Iu Klux Khan. Then,
he said, came the breaking down of
the sin.ple faith; multitudes took
weapons and made bloody resistance to
violence.
The Negroes faith in the righteous
purpose of the federal government has
sagged, he declared; all the Colored
| people In every section of the United
States believe that there is something
wrong and not Accidentally wrong,
at the very heart of the government
Some of the young Negroes are giving
up the Christian religion. thinking
that their fathers were fools to have
believed it so long.
One group has given up trust in
God, in democracy and the present
form of government. Another and
larger group believes in religion, in
the principles of democracy, but not in
the white mans democracy This
group has held congresses with rep
resentatives Of the entire Negro world,
he said to lay foundations for a
black empire, a black religion and
black culture: It has organized the
provisional republic Of Africa set GO
ing number of economic enterprises
and seeks to bind Negroes together
with newspaper edited in two Lam
guages,
The larger masses of Colored people,
he said, do not belong to these more
radical movements: they retain be-
lief in the Christian God, they love
their country and hope to work out
their salvation within its bounds. They
are, however completely disillusioued,
\ he said, and are today sending up a
J cry of pain and petition such as Is
heard from the citizens OF no other
civilized nation of the world. The Me-
gro people of America ask, he said,
for the breath of liberty. of public
equality and public responsibility, and
/ 1t must not be denied them.
! Before the awarding of the degrees
the university choir sang Chadwick s
'PraeStat Hoe Nobis' in fine tone and
] rhythm. President Lowell followed his
science graduates into the fellowship
of educated mem" asserting that the
masters had made noble progress in
learning" and welcoming the doctors
into the 'sancient and universal COM
pany of scholars" But to The mas
! ters of business administration he
stated that they were equipped to
ENTER upon one of the Oldest of the
arts and the latest of professions
The recipients of honor degrees
were all warmly applauded by the
great academic audience, but the most
enthusiastic demonstration was reserv-
| ed for Senator Underwood and At
torney- General Allen, when they were
acclaimed Doctors OF Law.
The singing of Bach's now Let
Every Tongue Adore Thee" and the
benediction closed the commencement
exercises