New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-26
Negro Educator
Tells His People
To Work and Save
DIR. Lewis b. Moore Writes
on Chow Colored People
Can Help in Solving Prob.
lens Issuing From War"

The National Security League is
preparing to send out many thousands
of pamphlets prepared by DR.. Lewis
b. Moore, dean of Teachers College
and professor OF psychology and edu-
cation in Howard University, entitled
How the Colored Race Can Help in
the Problems Issuing from the War
Or. Robert Men. McElroy, educa-
tional director of the National Security
League, says that the little book is so
admirably written and so practical in
its manifold suggestions that it should
be read by every one.
Or. Moore says there have been and
are four ways open to negroes for dis
tinctive service:
They conld lignt. as they have done,
gladly and with entire satisfaction to
their commanding officers.
They can work, as they are dong,
under new economic conditions which
the war brought upon US.
They can save the nations products
and thus become the creators of larger
wealth for their country.
They can learn by attending schools
or, If they are too old for that. help
others to learn.
Whole After-War Problem
Under these four general heads,
Fighting, Working, Saving and Learn
ing. DR.. Moore traverses the after-the-
war problem in a manner which the
National Security League believes
will be Of vast benefit to negroes both
North and South, and to every race, for
that matter, within the bounds OF the
republic. :; oaoa - tho WAKING q,
clothes" says DR.. Moore in discussing
saving the cotton crop. THE wool crop
is increasingly short. There is not
enough wool to cover shlverlng
world. The number of sheep is grow
ing less in the pastures, and the gov
eminent found it necessary during the
war to supply the soldiers IN some
sections with cotton uniforms Tor the
winter, reserving the woollen goods lot
the soldiers overseas.
at will become necessary, therefore,
for whole communities to Join together
and by organized extra effort save the
cotton crop. Many persons never before
accustomed to such work Will IND 1T
necessary, as a patriotic duty to join
in the saving of the cotton crop.
Make 1t Pleasure
1T is we'll to make a pleasure of
necessity Canning clubs. sewing clubs
and knitting clubs have been converted
into social organizations OF great eco
nomic value. So community cotton
picking clubs may be organized as
social feature OF the community, as
we'll as a necessity, in every cotton
growing community. The leading spirits
Of the community must take interest in
saving the cotton crop. The clubs
should arrange for an exchange of
labor among the landholders or farm
ers. Plans should be made for the
meeting of the whole club at one GER
tain farmhouse and for all concentrat-
ing upon the work of that farm FOX
several hours that day.
Friendly rivalry may be instituted
by the offer of a prize for the best
picker of the best group Of pickers.
At the close of the effort, whether for
few hours or for whole day, there
should be the weighing of the cotton,
the announcement of the amount picked
by each person, and the awarding of
the prize with some little ceremony.
One hundred and fifty persons working
in this way with enthusiasm can pick
twenty-five bales of cotton in a day.
The Wisdom of Saving
eve must save money. Never before
have the negro people been as able to
make so much money. The negro has
been called into positions which he
never occupied before. He has been
given higher wages because of the
scarcity of labor The wiser workman
during these fat years was laying up a
cash reserve for the lean years which
may follow.
"But there are those who are toe
lavish in the expenditure Of money for
the purchase of unnecessary clothing
furniture, jewelry, articles of pleasure
and unnecessary trips on the railroad
There are some colored men in the
South who never owned a horse two
years ago who now own two automo-
bilcs-one for daily work and one fol
Sunday. One colored man recently pur-
chased two pianos for his home, on the
plea that he had two daughters ant
both of them might want to practice al
once and that would give him trouble