The Glenwood post., 1923-08-09
Uncle Ted'S Bed Time Stories
Current Events for the Children
and Grown-ups, Too
MORE DOCTORS AND DENTISTS
FOR THE CoLoRED CITIZENS

"Why shouldn't you let her play in
our yard?n said Jack, as Ruth was
telling him about making the little
colored girl from down the road go
home. "She can't help it if her skin
isn't as white as yours, and it ism t
her fault she is living here anyways
cause Uncle Ted said SO a long time ago.
He said if the white people hadn t
brought the colored people to this
country as slaves they wouldn't be
here. Abraham Lincoln freed them,
and they've got as much right to live
as You have.''
81 guess you're right, jack said
Ruth. 81 hadn't thought of it that
way
"Glad to have you kiddies think
that out for yourselves" said Uncle
Ted, who had been on the other side
of the big chair where the kiddies
coudn' see him.
'Tell US story about the colored
boys and girls,'' said Jack.
81 told you a story once about the
big new school and hospital down at
Tuskegee for the colored veterans of
the great war, but 1 would like to
tell you few interesting facts about
them and what Secretary of the In
terror Work said not long ago. In
1868 the colored people who had been
freed owned 5000 houses, worked l5,-
600 farms and 1000 places of business,
and had saved $4,000. In 1913 they
owned $4,000 houses, operated 937,-
600 farms and 10000 places of bust
ness, and had accumulated $70,000,000.
Today the figures are just as astound-
ing. The colored citizens of the United
States number more than $4,000, 900.
For this reason alone you can see how
important it is that people give a
little thought to the subject.
Many years of experience has
shown that eolored people, if given the
opportunity for training, study and
HN'NAFAif tGAAA OuA 10 Dt very uSGIul
citizens. With the rapid increase in
the population of their race in the
United States they must have schools,
doctors, nurses, lawyers and all man
ner of professions and businesses to
take care of them. Probably the most
concern should be shown regarding the
sad lack of doctors and dentists. Sec
retary Of The Interior Work, in re
cent statement, mentioned this fact
and added that the worst Of it was
that most people seemed to take No
interest in the subject when the need
was pointed out to them.
"With one exception, Howard uni
versity at Washington, D. c., is til,
only colored educational institution il
the country with a medical seboo
equipped to graduate colored pbvsi
eians, dentists and pharmac SITS. Freed
man S hospital, under the direction OF
Secretary Work, has a regular sehoo
for training colored nurses. In speak
ing of the matter, Secretary Worl
said.
" The result is, there is a de-
plorabIe lack of members of the
medical and dental professions.
including trained nurses, among
the colored people. Out of the
present population of the United
States totaling approximately 1O6.-
100000, nearly 100000 are col
ored, There is a white physician
to every 553 persons Of the white
race, There is one colored phy.
sieian to every 3,194 colored per
sons. This means that the mum
Der of white physicians is *
times greater than the total COL
ored physicians The reason for
this is not the disinclination of
eolored youth to study medicine
and adopt It as n profess on. but
IN the lack of medical schools
maintained exclusively for their
education as doctors and sur.
geons'
"secretary Work also showed that
the condition regarding dentists is
even worse, There IS a white dentist
for every 900 white people in the
United States, but there is only one