The broad ax., 1912-08-10

The National Association Of COlOred
Women is helping along many lines in
the making Of substantial and happy
homes. Il ID carrying into practice the
idsa Of relating knowledge and expert
enee to the improvemeRt Of life in the
home, the school, the church, and the
community. Nothing that i Of inter
est or value to the Negro race Is cut
side Of the program Of activity that is
being worked out by the splendid
oolored women who bring to their task
Of raes and national uplift keen minds
and warm, Christian hearts
These questions were ably discussed
at the eighth bionnial convention, re-
Gently held at Hampton Institute.
Activities % thu n. A. o. W.
Special work along. the following
lines is carried on by the N. A C. W.:
Support Of rsformatories, old folks
homes, nurseries, working girls homes,
and social settlements; study Of civics,
needlecraft, art, IteratureSand domestic
science; and the development of social
uplift work. The national motto, Gift
ing as We Climb" has been worked
out with rare thoroughness fyy thou
sands Of Colored women.
Frankness, honesty, and seriousness
characterized the many discussions
dealing with the work Of Colored Wom-
en- engaged in the white plague cru
sade, child welfare work, the more eff
eient organization Of community work,
the problem Of dealing with delinquent
boys and girls, the promotion of the
Young Women's Christian Association
work, the proper care of infants, the
problems Of the adolescent period, the
twentieth-eentury woman, the segrega-
tion and housing of Negroes in cities
and towns, woman suffrage, and the re-
lation of White and Colored people
throughout the country.
No attempt was made to gloss over
the questions of lynching and kindred
evils, Jim Crow ears, the traffic in girls
and women, and the need of concerted
action on the part Of Colored people to
secure fairer treatment.
Resolutions.
The report of the committee on reso-
lutiOns, read by Mrs. Warren Logan,
Tuskegee, Alabama, protested against
the Jim Crow cars with their uncom-
Portable and inferior accommodations
as well as the friction which they
create; declared against race segrega-
tion which eompels good Colored people
to live in surroundings that are subject
to the vile influences of eommercialized
vice to which they are in no way a
party; urged the cooperation of white
and Colored people for the suppression
of the social evil and the punishment |
of those engaged in the traffic of girls |
and women; indorsed the work of the J
National League on Urban Conditions !
among Negroes, which aims to do con-
structive and preventive social work |
for improving the social and economic
conditions among Negroes in urban
eenters; deplored lynching and called
upon ministers and other public men
to enlist against mob violence; de-
elared in favor of full woman suffrage
and advocated the formation of politi-
cal study clubs to stir up men to great
er interest in matters concerning their
own welfare; recommended the intro
duetion Of agriculture in the public
schools, school gardens, corn and can
ming clubs, social and literary clubs in
rural communities; approved officially
the ehivalry shown by the men in the
80 Titanic" disaster.
Mrs Booker T. Washington was
chosen delegate to represent the n. A.
c. W. at the Emancipation Jubilee
which viii be held in Washington,
September 26, 1912.
The next biennial convention win be
held at WiIberforee University, Wilber-
force, Ohio.