The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-06

farming from whatever source ii can
be had. More emphasis should be
placed upon what is consumed at
home, upon diversified crops, and
upon land Improvement. There should
be an ever increasing interest in land
buying and farm extension. The ed
ucation of the children of farmers
should be so directed as to main
tain and deepen their interest in
FARM life.
Better Health for All.
1--WE implore the people to begin
to inform themselves on the question
of health, to free themselves of in
sanitary surroundings; to let as
much fresh air into their homes and
public meeting-places as possible; to
take account of their food as to what
1t is and how it is prepared; to get
enough sleep; and so to demean
themselves as to make the contin-
uance and spread of the social dis
eases impossible.
What Negroes Want.
What do the Colored people in
Virginia want? We want to make
it clear in the outset that we do
not want, as is generally thought by
white people, social equality. We
are perfectly pleased and satisfied
with our own society; with Colored
boys marrying Colored girls; with
the companionship of our own race
in our hones5 with the building up
of our own social institutions, such
as churches, schools, and the like
We are just as sensitive in the pres
sence of inappropriate social situa-
tons as ARE white people and are
just as averse to forcing ourselves
upon people who do not desire our
presence.
First: We want equal accomoda-
tons in public carriers. We now
pay first-class fares and are forced
to accept third class Accommodations
On the railroad and street cars the
quarters assigned to us are made
quate for the numbers and are poor
ly kept No provision is made on
the steam cars, for sleeping-car and
dining-car Accommodations. At only a
few of the railroad stations are pro-
visions made for feeding the ColOred
travelling public. The toilets at most
of the stations are badly and poorly
kept and on some of the trains there
is only one toilet for both men and
women.
Second: The Colored people want
justice in the proper distribution of
advantages in their living quarters
in both the city and country. Where
ever we live in large numbers gener.
ally the streets are not paved; the
section is not adequately lighted and
policed; sewerage is not provided;
and there is negligence and indif-
ference in the general improvements.
Third: We want equality of wages
in the economic life of the State. We
feel keenly the injustice of discrimi-
nation in pay for the same work
done. If a Colored bricklayer does
the same work just as satisfactorily
as a white man, he, in all justice,
deserves the same pay. This holds
true in domestic service in the trades
on the farm in the profession OF
teaching, and everywhere else There
is a glaring discrimination between
the pay for white and Colored tetach-
ers holding the same grade of GER
tificate. In all justice this should
be corrected.
Fourth: We want the same pro-
visions made for the education of our
children as are made for the white
children; that justice be done in the
distribution of the public-school
funds; that equal high school law
be made as binding upon Colored
children as upon white children; and
that the State provided opportunities
Of college training for Cnlnred youth -