The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-11-30

in that institution" For two years
Prof. Robinson has been working in
where he is now the active
secretary of the Negro Civic Welfare
Committee of the Council of Social
Agencies, and it is said that his study
of conditions in that city will serve
as his Phi. ID. thesis at Yale as well
as basis for constructive work in
Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Union
published a few weeks ago an arti-
Gle ON the work OF the Negro Civic
Welfare Committee, which is repro
duCed and which shows the work in
which Prof. Robinson is engaged
The Negro Civic Welfare Com
mittee was appointed five months ago
10y the Council of Social Agencies in
order that the civic and social inter
ests of the colored people of Cincin-
natl might be better Safeguarded and
promoted 1t is composed Of nineteen
cOlored, and fifteen white members,
who have been working quietly, but
sincerely and effectively, toward this
end. The bad conditions which con-
front the Negro are not exclusively
his own problems, either in cause or
effect, but community problems, and
the best agencies of the community
should be called upon to solve them.
Poverty, disease, unemployment, de,
tendency and crime know no color
| line, and those who would deal with
these problems effectively must show
the same impartiality.
The n. c. w. c. is not trying to
solve these problems single handed,
| but is calling upon every agency and
| individual in the city to cooperate
with it in the work that it is doing
1t has the cooperation of the church.
the press, the city government, the
| Juvenile Court and host of social
| and civic agencies. During the
| brief period of its existence it has be
come a veritable clearing house for
| questions of Negro welfare in the city
and many questions of deep concern
| have been brought before it.
There are a few cities which have
! similar organizations, but none, per
| haps, has an organization so general
! ly recognized and with which so many
| agencies are willing to cooperate
| Surely this is the beginning of new
era in the welfare of the coloret
people OF Cincinnati.
Such an organization must rest
upon broad principles. The N. c
| w. G. believes in the doctrine thai
all men are created free and equal
and that now, as never before, it is
| time to make that freedom a reality;
! that It must not he a freedom con
ferred by others, but a freedom
secured by ourselves, for they who
would be free themselves mus
strike the blow" at poverty at crime
/ at disease, at prejudice. In the at
/ tainment of these ends personal and
lactional ambitions and inteTests mus
give way to the interests OF the great
/ people, the great country and the
great cause which we are serving
Above all, before we can solve prob
lens we must first study and under
stan1 them.
Much time has already been spent
in studying these problems and that
study will continue for several
months.
Fellow are mentioned a few prac-
teal things that this organization has
done First; Last summer it found
sanitary homes for a large number of
families who had come from the
South and who were being forced TO
live in homes that were dangerous to
their health. When it found out that
there We're not enough houses obtain
able by colOred people, it appealed to
three hundred real estate dealers and
showed them that Colored people were
as reliable and as desirable tenants
as any one else; in this way were Sc
! cured one hundred and one flats that
had never before been rented to col
ored people. In this it had the co
| operatiOn of the Better Housing
/ League Second: 1t has helped tC
| keen one factory in the city that EN-
ploys colored women and which was
/ about to close it's doors against them
This piece of work was done by ap
healing both to the management ant
to the employees, and the Coloret
Women's Civic League co-operated il