The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-03-27
AMERICAN NEGRO
PRESS HELPFUL ESSAYS
Value of Health Program and Union
Pertinently Discussed.
National Health Week.

National Health Week.
The situations of National Health
make a public question Of deep con.
Germ for all the elements of the peo-
pie in our common land. Our Race
should have sincere interest in
this matter Lowest in the econo-
mic scale, smallest i'm social signili
cancc and weakest in physical pow
e., it becomes imperative that we
take advantage of any opportunity
which will enable us TO increase our
store of general knowledge and
thereby add strength and vision lo
the social efficiency of our kind.
National Health Week will soon
be with US Whatever program that
shall be provided for that occasion,
must be eagerly scanned in an effort
10 provide every facility for The
rcuplc at large TO gel a clear under
standing of health as it effects The
entire nation.
We are one tenth of the Nation
lr one tenth of the Nation is in Is
uorancc Of the laws that serve TO
maintain health, ii means that The
nation will finally succumb TO the
Ilvagcs Of peSlilcncc and disease.
Black or white has nothing 10 do
v.lh the matter except where Grim
inal intention aims to keep any Of
uic elements in ignorance of the
laws that provide The relations of
improved social conditions.
This is why the more intelligent
members of the Race should busy
II ymselvCs TO the end thai every
individual of the group shall be
idadc aware of the significance and
importance of The coming Health
Week. Health is our biggest asset
Without it, we must fade from the
race of Ihe earth. With health we
can survive to take a worthy place
among the strong people of the
earth. Remember Health Week and
Keep it Holy.
Progress and Unions.
Labor unionism has been one of
the Races "red flags" We have
ever been acutely alive to the un-
fairness of organized labor toward
us and ever alert to anlagoniZe and
rctalaic in the greater number Of
il stances where labor has clashed
with the forces of capital.
Ii is true that organized labor is
ia large measure, clearly responsible
for this unhappy situation. Organ
lied labor has been unfair TO the
Race. There are signs, however,
which point to a growing disposi-
ton to recognize that the unions
have been the great sufferers thru
heir inSiStcnCe to exclude our Race
from membership and the councils
of their organization.
There has been a gradual letting
down of the bars. The results have
been beneficial to all concerned.
Contact has brought broader un-
derSlanding TO both elements and
each begins TO see the industrial
and social value of the other. More
iGan that, each is beginning to
realize how indispensable it is
one to the other.
There need be no technical dis
cu,Sion of the economic aspects of
The questions. The larger matters
of social and economic relations are
more often decided by heart impul-
SIS. This is because mind belongs
to the few, heart to the many.
These facts do not take away, in
any particular, The fine though com
p&ralive value of what many are
pleased to term the scientific as
poets" of social and economic rela-
tons.
We are simply calling attention
II what we believe to be fundament-
al in determining what are the fac
tors that will bring to issue harmc-
riouS relations between hitherto
hostile groups of labor forces.
We heartily believe healthy social
progress will come to the Race and
the country in general when all con-
cerned come to see the true rcla-
tons which should be maintained
by all the elements of laborS.