The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28

noted social science professor makes some very excellent and timely points. He says;
 'Ill the first place, negroes need to get themselves together for team work Ra- eial integrity and cooperation should Do the first and foremost plank of their platform today. The time demands that they should sink their personal differ enees and rivalries in churches, lodges. clubs, and other organizations and puF together to make the most of this strate- gic opportunity. Colored men and women who now have, chances for better work and higher wages need to feel that thelr punctuality, their regularity, their ln- tegrity and their efficiency have the praise and cooperation of every man and woman in the community and in the nation. They need to pull together to demonstrate that they can be as efficient as the times demand.
 NEED OF COOPERATION
 ''Second, the white and colored peopie need to respond to every chance to CO., operate in every community in the many things that are now demanding the at
 tention of every able-bodied person the conservation of food, the raising or Red Cross funds, the registration Of men and women for whatever service they cal render our nation in this great war
 
 bonds. the help in the entertainment o1 soldiers, and relief of their families; the cleaning LID, the sanitary conditions ana the cleaning out of the vice condltlons of our cities near the army camps. III these and any other ways that open up the two races should lose no opportunity to cooperate in all the good efforts hsine made In many communities the white people are offering colored people a share in this work of par preparation and of improving the health, the working and neighborhood conditions. Let them respond in such a full and efficient man ner as to meet the offer more than nal way. =. aThird. Negroes need especially a. this time to seek leaders sane ano true. They need men with ideals and ideas men who will neither lose their heads. their tempers or their con sciences in the fact of disappointments and difficulties. They require men whom the lust of 1ucre does not kill men whom the spells of office cannot buy-men who have honor-men who will not lie' They need men who will not betray the trust placed in them and hand over their interests or their cause to reach some personal ambi tion or gain some personal profit ORGANIZATION Fourth. They need to organize them selves into societies and leagues to make the three items just mentioned above race and community plans of action. They cannot afford to leave these all important things to the casual desire and effort of individual men and women. If they are to act to- gether they must have some machinery through which to act. If they are to Ico-operate with the white people they need some machinery through which to act. If they are to choose strong lead CTS and give those leaders the support they need. they must have organized methods of picking those leaders and placing in their hands the authority to act for them.
 And the time has come to act, to act wisely, to act promptly, to act with decision and with vision-to act so as to make every man their friend and to make themselves able to do their part of the worlds work"