The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-08-16
RECONSTRUCTION
PROGRAM FOR
THE NEGRO
EDUCATION PLUS EFFORTS TO
RETAIN GROUND GAINED
DURING THE WAR
(By Eugene Kinckle Jones).


Educational Secretary, National Ur-
ban League Education is the great
/ all7inclusive need; education for
young and old in schools. elementary,
secondary, collegiate and technical
according to the natural inclina-
in the ability and desire to cooper
ate for race and community improve
ments.
The first part of reconstruction
program for the Negro should in
clude efforts to retain the ground
that has been gained during the war,
which has given him larger out
look on life. This includes the train
ing in discipline and business sense
gained through military channels
especially as commissioned and nom
commissioned officers; his retention
in industry where he has made good;
the establishment Of amusement CEN
ters in and near the large cities both
In North and South as established
by the War Camp Community Ser
vice, the Y. w. G. A., and the Y. M.
c. A.; the continuation and extern
sion of federal and state employment
service and public health work.
A reconstruction program for the
Negro in addition to the work of con-
solidation of positions gained must
also include forward steps:
/. All welfare organizations
should adopt the spirit of the reso-
luton passed in New York in Novem-
Der, 1918, by representatives, of one
hundred of the most prominent ma
tional welfare organizations. THAT
every program for rehabilitation and
for national and community recon-
struction shall adequately and con-
sciously include provision for our
Negro fellow-citizens and for their
cooperation therein"
2. Negro ministers should be
trained in social service to the END
that the churches may lead-not only
in religious NATTER but in all social
matters as well and offer to the COM
munity for social service the con-
stant use Of their numerous buildings.
A more humane and practical
program for the reduction Of delin-
quency especially among ADULTS
should be adopted, with preventive
measure. Where punishment is nee
essary 1t should be curative rather
than revengeful. This is especially
needed in southern communities and
is also serious problem in the North
where probation and parole system
for Coloretd people are inadequatet.
4. Efforts should be made to in
struct Negroes who migrate to cities
in efficiency in industry so that
they may compete favorably with
experienced white workers. This is
as important as the work of open
ing up new lines OF employment to
them, and assuring them opportunity
soa advancement There should be
opportunity for training in industrial
plants for the unskllled WORKER and
continuation classes for these ca
pable and desirous of advancement.
5. In the new industrial order
which will bring organized labor
into co-partnership with capital. the
NCgrc workingman must be included.
The new order" in America o1nnot
endure unless this one-seventh of
Americas labor supply is invited
to participate in labor's victory.
The Negro must be taught the prin-
ciples of labor organization and in
.vited. into fraternal relations with
his white fellow workman.
6. The government should add to
its entire veneral disease caripaign
4 health education service to the
end that infant morality and pulpo-
nary diseases may be reduced. This
purposes i the establishment in all
communities, of wholesome and ac-
.cessibie recreation facilities.
T.. Everywhere an effort should be
made to secure wider publicity for
the achievements of Negroes
published father than the present
almost universal custom of circula-
tion of information only of their dis
creditable acts.