The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-02-11
TEXAS FEDERATION OF COLOR
ED WONIENS DRIVE.

The Texas Federation Of Colored
Women's clubs has on q drive in the
interest of a Home for Delinquent
Girls.
Each Federated Club is asked to
contribute at least $4,000 in this
campaign. This money is to be
sent to Mrs. A. E. S. Johnson, cor
Sec, Prairie View, Texas, by Feb.
u, 1922.
This is a movement which should
appeal to the heart and pocket book
of every Negro woman in the State
of Texas. The girls of our race have
a harder time to keep from fall
ing than do girls OF any other race.
She is not only the target of the
men of her own race, from preacher
and teacher on down to the vilest
street waif, but the vultures and
degraded of other races who are
so anxious to keep their own wom-
en- pure are continually after her.
And the better educated, the more
cultured, the more refined our girls
the greater the temptations they
have to meet and overcome. An
other thing that initiates against
our girls going straight Is the So
called double standard of morality
for men and women. Let a girl go
wrong, and she is an outcast. But
the young man who wronged her Is
welcomed in the homes of other
girls by fathers and mothers who
should know better. The girl is
Stunned and spurned by every one,
but the boy continues in school,
graduates at the head of his class,
perhaps, and then maybe goes off
to college-a very estimable young
man. When ever girl goes astray,
il is usually her own sex that has
the least sympathy for her. 1t Is
said of some animals that 1.-The fe-
male of the species is more deadly
than the male" This is too true of
us in our consideration of a fallen
sister. But we should bear In
mind the fact that not all OF us
have had mothers who continually
drilled into our ears and hearts
the precept TO treat all men as
gentlemen but watch them as grand
rascals." And even where we have
had that blessed privilege not all
of us have had the strength OF mind
and the moral stamina to follow the
precept. Whenever we learn OF
sister stumbling and falling let us
not become a carping critic but In
a sprint of becoming reverence ana
humility let us breathe a prayer
for her, realizing all the while that,
except for the grace OF God' II
could have been us.
In this campaign that is now on
for a Home for Delinquent Girls, let
every club do its utmost and let
every woman give TO the limit OF
her ability. 1t may be your daugh-
ter or my daughter that will need
its sheltering folds. 1t may be your
sister or mine-who knows? And
If only one girl who has started on
the downward path can be reclaimed
and saved who can measure the
value of her salvation in dollars
and cents to her family to her home
to her race? In raising money for
this cause in contributing from our
own purses, let us feel that we are
investing in the salvation OF our
daughters ard sisters, for that is III
deed what we are doing. Let us show
to the world if need be, that the
Negro women of Texas are alive to
the angers that infest us on every
side; that God willingly, we are
going to stay straight ourselves
that we are going to do all we can
to keep our sister from falling;
but If perchance she should fall,
instead of trampling her further in
the mud, we are going to lend her
helping hand. and, true to our
motto. we are going to Lift as We
Climb"