The broad ax., 1926-12-11
ALABAMA WOMEN HOLD IN
TERRAcIAL STATE MEETING
Face Unpleasant Facts and Plan for
Improvement Of Conditions

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tional provisions for the colored chill
dren of Alabama, better public health
facilities, and the provision by the
State Of an institution for the care
Of delinquent Negro girls, the wom-
ems section Of the Alabama State
Committee on Interracial Cooperation
held its annual meeting here yester-
day, with an attendance of fifty rep
resentative women from over the
State. The meeting was presided over
BY Mrs. Peyton A. Eubank, of Biz
mingham, and elected the following Of
ficers for the ensuing year: Chair
men, Mrs. ]. H. Mccoy, president Of
Athens College, and Mrs. R. R. Motion,
of Tuskegee Institute; vice-chairmen,
Mrs. P. A. Eubank and Mrs. A. M.
Brown, president State Federation of
Colored Women's Clubs; secretaries,
Mrs. J. H. Crawford and Mrs. r. B.
Hudson. A legislative committee was
appointed to promote the plan for a
school for delinquent girls.
The facts about education, health,
and other conditions were brought out
in a number Of addresses, and were
discussed at length. Resolutions were
adopted, calling attention to the fact
that the amount expended for the edu-
cation of white children in Alabama
is 5000 per child as against $3.7Z for
the colored child; that one teacher is
provided for every A white children
Of school age, and one for every l02
Negro children; that the amounts ex-
pended for buildings and equipment
are more than six times as much for
the white child as for the colored, and
other provisions in proportion. The
committee declared its belief that the
fair-minded people of Alabama would
not approve of these conditions were
they conversant with the facts" and
declared their purpose to give the in
formation to the public, to interview
county superintendents and boards OF
education in the interest of a more
equitable distribution of school funds,
and to endeavor to secure Rosenwald
schools, .Teanes teachers, and the en-
forcement Of the compulsory educa-
ton law.
The resolutions pointed out the fact
that ''there are at all times in the South
100000 or more Negroes who are un-
able to work as a result Of disease,
most of it preventable, constituting
both a grave public peril and vast
economic loss" and pledged the group
to seek in every way to improve health
conditions by striving for "better elm
ical service, more adequate hospital
facilities, and additional public health
nurses"
The full text of the resolutions
adopted follows:
WHEREAS, we learn with regret
the following facts as to the distribu-
ton Of educational funds and facili-
-. :. Af.t,,,,a ra,,,air.
TO every "A white children of
school age ............ teacher
To every 1O2 Negro children Of
school age ....... teacher
Average school term for white
children .................. 40 Gays
Average school term for Negro
children .................ll2 days
Current expenses per white
child ..-...........9 1S'o+
Current expenses per Negro
child ...................... s72
Capital outlay per year per
white child .............. AS
Capital outlay per year per
Negro child ................ .ol
Property values per white child 55.SS
Property values per Negro child o.2l
Number of white high school
teachers .............. 2,oo2
Number of Negro high school
teachers ................-. ~
Average salary per year for
white teachers .............. 5000
Average salary per year for
Negro teachers ............ $500
"AND WHEREAS. we believe the
fair-minded people of Alabama would
not approve of these conditions, were
they conversant with the facts,
"BE 1T RESOLVED: That we,
the Woman's State Interracial Com
mission, give this information to the
public through the daily and weekly
papers; that we see county superin-
tendents and boards of education in an
effort to obtain more just and equit-
able distribution Of public school
funds: that we endeavor also to secure
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