Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
COLORED PROGRESS
IS SEEN BY BARROW
Crowd Waits 3 Hours at
Overflow Meeting to
Listen to Lawyer.

The upward path of the colored race
in this country is through economic
and educational progress, Clarence
barrow, noted Chicago lawyer. SAID
last night in addressing two meetings
held under the auspices of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
rnent of Colored People.
The first meeting was, at the
Metropolitan African NJ. T.. Church
The overflow meeting, made neces-
sary for the hundreds turned away
from the first, was at the John Wes'
| ley Church, Fourteenth and Cor
| Coran streets.
The assemblies were in the nature
of anniversary meetings. All stand
| ing room was filled in both churches
and at the overflow meeting the
crowd waited patiently three hours
| for Mr.. Darrow to appear.
| Mr.. barrow denied that there is
! any fundamental racial inferiority in
| the various branches of the human
| family, holding that environment and
| not heredity is responsible FOR the
different economic and cultural stages.
No Differences i'm Races.
| God didn't make whites and blacks
as SUCH" Mr. barrow said. I'm the
course of 100 or 900 generations men
| spread out. Some went south, where
/ the heat was too strong for the white
men, and so they died off and only
| the dark men survived Some went
| north, where the dark men could not
| stand the cold, and so the Nordics
survived there. ! But analyZe them
and all chemists will tell you there is
| no difference.
1.-THE whitest man in America
IL, 60
will find he retains the tail of mon
key and the gills of fish The primi'
tive man has as much natural intel.
| ligence as anybody. Environment is
all he needs.
Sees Growing Opportunities.
"You have better education thar
you had 25 years ago, and are in bet
ter financial condition. Money is pow
| err education is power. Your oppor
tunities are growing slowly, but
surely. You have to ask yourselves
| whether you are not glad even FOL
| slavery AZ your colored ancestors haC
not been captured and enslaved II
| Africa you would be there now. lying
on the bank of some river playing
with crocodiles while your wife would
be feeding you on bananas.
''You had no monopoly in having
slaves. That was q little further back
than when yours were slaves, but that
makes no difference. It takes nature
long time to work her changes.
| was born in this country. l could have
gotten away If l had wanted to, but
/ spoke the language OF America anC
| liked her people here, SO / stayed
Some Of your ancestors came here
against their choice-captured In Afri
ca and carried in slave ships, on which
half died on the voyage. And so fol
300 years you were slaves, toiline
| without pay, with no chance and nj
| organization except the church.
"All your chances are in the future
I don't know how far in the future.
you went through the same history
as my ancestors did. You are now get
ting a better chance to live. Nature
| works slowly, and so you must do the
same. You are producing musicians
equal to any in the world. You are
having great success on the stage
You are producing novelists, lawyers
and doctors. You are winning. The
struggle will be long, but it will work
out ITSELF
John Russell Speaker.
Previous to the arrival of Mr.. Oar
row, the overflow meeting was ed
dressed by John Russell, New York
court reporter, who claims to have
been one of the two original founders
of the association. A similar meeting
at the Typographical Union Temple
was addressed by A. S. Pickett, secre
tary.
William Pickens, field secretary O.
the association addressed another
gathering of about SO people in the
Playhouse, 1914 N street last night or
sex and the Race Question"