The St. Paul echo., 1927-04-09

Significant papers and outstanC
phases of the conference subject, I
GRAM IN THE LIGHT OF SOCIAL
Problems of Race Reported.
Discussion for the first day CEN
tered around Social Service Needs
in the North" Surveys of the prob
lens faced by the Negroes in various
cities were reported, among them be-
ing the Detroit Survey by John G.
Dancy, Director of the Detroit Urban
League, and the Minneapolis Survey
by Elmer A. Carter, Executive Secre-
tary of the st. Paul Urban League.
Others also who entered into this dis
cussion were J. Harvey Kerns, Ex-
ecutive Secretary, Milwaukee Urban
League; B. T. Johnson, Executive
Secretary of the Canton Urban
League; John T. Clark, Executive
Secretary for colored work in Akron,
Ohio.
The Second day was devoted to
dicussion of social service needs on
the Pacific Coast and in the South.
The speakers were T. Arnold Hill,
Director of the Department of Indus
trial Relations of the National Urban
Leagues; Charles S. Johnson, .Direc-
tor of the Department of Research
and Investigations of the National
Urban League; A. G. Thayer, Execu-
tive Secretary, Atlanta Urban League,
r. Maurice Moss, Executive Secretary
of the Baltimore Urban League.
Jesse O. Thomas, Southern Field Sec
retary of the National Urban League,
presented the various needs existing
in other sections of the country.
The evening meeting on Wednes-
day was devoted to a discussion of
"Race Relations" the speakers be-
ing Howard R. Knight, General Sec
retary of the National Conference of
Social Work; John Hope, President
of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ca,
John w. Davis, President of the West
Virginia Collegiate Institute, Insti-
tute, w. Va, and Bolton Smith,
Chairman of Interracial Activities of
the Boy Scouts of America.
Papers Read.
Particular interest was devoted to
discussion on 1.-THE Negro Family"
from the point of view of Health,
Case Work and Migration. Elwood
Street, Director of the Community
Fund of st. Louis, presided at this
meeting. The following persons read
papers on various phases of the prob
lem - Mrs. Gladys Carrion Gray,
. Supt., Biddle District of the Provi-
dent Association, st. Louis, Mo-, Miss
Ethel E. McGhee, Englewood, N. j.,
Mrs. B. E. Mays, Tampa, Fla, and
R. j. Ely, Executive Secretary of the
Brooklyn Urban League.
Several interesting speeches were
made by persons not directly affiliat-
ed with the Urban League. Among
them were Professor Ellsworth Faris
of the University of Chicago; Judge
Albert George of the Municipal
Court, Chicago; DR.. Frank N. Bruno,
Washington University; Harry X.
Craft, of the Pine Street Y. M. C. A.
st. Louis, A. Philip Randolph, Gen.
eral Organizer of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters and Editor of
The Messenger Magazine and Pro-
fessor ]. R. E. Lee, President of the
A. & M. College, Tallahassee, Fla.
Of particular interest were the
sessions on Friday which were devot-
ed to a discussion of Industry. The
Urban League has long been devoted
to the effort for improving the indus
trial conditions among egroes
throughout the country. On Friday
morning, the session was devoted to
discussion on the technique of in
creasing the opportunities for colored
workers. Samuel A. Allen, Executive
Secretary of the Boston Urban
League, Mrs. R. c. Lasson of Hart
ford, Conn.,, D. S. Yarbrough of the
Brooklyn Urban League; William R.
Corners of the Cleveland organiza-
ton, ]. M. Raglund of the Louisville
Urban League, discussed this subject
from the several points of view out
lined in the program.
Many friends of the League were
present at these sessions and con-
tributed to the discussions. The peo-
pies Finance Corporation and COM
mittee of prominent women served as
hosts to the conference.