The broad ax., 1921-02-12
NATIONAL COMMUNITY IMPROVE
MENF CAMPAIGN.

National Negro Business League Join
Hands With National Cleanup ant
Paint-Up'' Campaign Bureau to Ex
pand the idea Of Community Health
Observation-Disclosures VIII B,
Forwarded by National Headq
uarters.
Washington, ID. C.-Some years ago
the Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Negro Business League, Of which
the late Booker T. Washington was
then President, adopted a resolution
looking to the improvement of health
and living conditions among the col
ored people throughout the country
An effort which had been put under
way by DIR. Robert R. Motion, now
President of the League. but at that
time President of the Virginia Organi-
zation Society, looking to the obser-
vance of the National Negro Health
Week Campaigns was adopted as a ma
tional program and was vigorously
pushed under the direction of the
Executive Committee of the National
Negro Business League.
The interest of the National "Clean-
Up. and Paint-Up" Campaign Bureau
with headquarters at st. Louis, No.,
was enlisted. a number of silver cups
being given for several years by the
Bureau for communities making the
best health records. At the st. Louis
O9l9) meeting of the National Negro
Business League. the convention pro-
eeeded to adopt a resolution looking to
an expansion of the idea which had
been promoted by the League Organi-
zation during the preceding six or
seven years. The resolutions adopted
at st. Louis in 1919 and re-emphasized
at the meeting held in Philadelphia,
in August, 1920, follow:
We recommend that the League
Health Campaigns he not limited to a
week. as its title has indicated; hut
that instead the work he pushed with
continued zeal. and with the even more
complete cooperation Of the whole
League and all its friends, as the Ma
tional NEGRO Community Improve
metn Campaign, in order to wage
through national and local campaigns
an effective crusade not only in per-
sOnal education for health, but more
broadly for homes and surroundings
that shall be made safe against the raw
ages of disease, of fire and the weather
Perhaps an "Opening Week is de-
sirabic, but there should be constant
emphasis placed upon the real and con
tinuOus campaign. The League again |
expresses its deep appreciation Of the
letive cooperation extended it from
year to year by the National "Clean-
Tp and Paint-Up" Campaign Bureau.
It's initiative and experience and faeili-
les, and its generosity in giving silver
ups to the communities conducting the
'est community improvements cam
'aigns under the auspices of the
1eague, have been very helpful. We
IoPe that the foregoing recommends
ions will enable the Bureau to be Of
ven greater service. in the League s
organization of more and more of these
peal campaigns from year TO year.
Carrying out the thought and idea
f Negro Community Improvement
the Executive Committee
f the National Negro Business League
ecepted the offer of the NATIONAL
Clean-UP and Paint-UP" Campaign
bureau to provide a salary for a clerk
yer a period of months looking to
Widespread dissemination of the idea of
community Improvement Literature
nj campaign plans for community inn
rovempnt organizations will be for
-arded TO all interested if inquiries are
ddressed tn Emmett !. Scott. Seere-
lry' National Negro Business League
headquarters, 1916 18th street. y. w. {
Washington, D. c. The cooperation Of
interested in such com !
unity health programs viii be cor
ially welcomed.