The monitor., 1928-02-17

AT the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Urban league held in the rooms
of the National Urban league on the
tenth floor of No. II, Madison ave-
nue., New York City, on Wednesday
afternoon, February 8th, report of
the years achievements was rendered
by the executive secretary, Eugene
Knickle Jones, a summary of which
follows:
"We have established two new Ur-
ban leagues in large cities-Buffalo,
New York; and Omaha, Nebraska.
This makes AZ now Practically
every large industrial center where
Negroes are living in numbers has an
Urban league which with it's board of
white and eolored members represent
ing the leading persons of under
standing in the community is attack
ing the living and working problems
of Negroes and the many complica-
tions arising from race contacts. Pre-
liminary steps for Urban leagues have
been taken in Grand Rapids, Mich; in
Pensacola and st. Petersburg, Fla
in New Orleans, La; in Albany and
Syracuse, N. Y, and Atlantic City,
N. J.
much progress has been made in
the creation of better understanding
of the problems of race relations
through the publication each month
of the Opportunity magazine and
through addresses by the staff mem
bers at leading educational institu-
tions such as Columbia university,
Ohio State university, Vassar college
and many Of the leading Negro col
leges. Radio addresses over stations
in New York, Boston and Milwaukee,
actresses before church groups, XII
wants and Rotary clubs, chambers of
commerce, such outstanding forums
as the Old South Forum, Boston, and
women's clubs, settlement houses, the
National Conference of Social Work
and other state social work confer
ences, social workers clubs and coun-
ellis of social work make up an inn
posing list of more than one hundred.
81 was reelected at the National
Conference of Social Work held in Des
Moines last May to a second three
year term as a member of the ex-
ecutive committee of that organiza-
tion-five persons being elected from
slate of fourteen. This conference
consists of more than 5000 delegates
with less than forty of them colored.
Several other members of our staff
were elected to division committees.
"The annual Urban league confer
ence was held in st. Louis with rep
resentatives from forty cities. Here
board members and staff workers dis
cussed the subject of readjustment of
social programs in the light of re-
search. You see, we are now basing
all of our field activities on careful,
scientific study of the causes of So
cial maladjustment We are aiming
at a dispassionate, objective approach
to our common problem.
Following reports on the Unequal
ity of the treatment of Negro Mis-
sissippi flood sufferers $50 per cent
of the tota), we appealed to Presi-
dent Coolidge and the American Red
Cross and were successful in having
appointed by Mr.. Herbert Hoover, a
special Negro advisory committee
with DIR. Robert Russa Motion, prin-
cipal of Tuskegee institute, as chair
man, and Mr.. Jesse o. Thomas, south
ern field secretary of the league, and
myself, on the committee. The re-
suits of this commissions activities
are seen in much fairer and equable
treatment of the Negro group in the
flood area.
"The league has been helpful in
the establishment of special work for
the colored boys in New York by the
Boy Scouts of America, one of our
last years Fellows at the New York
School of Social Work-George w.
Goodman-being appointed Harlem
Scout executive. Here / should men
ton the fact that the other two Eel
lows of the Urban league last year
ara noun daan of women af West Vir-
ginia Collegiate institute and execu-
tive secretary of the Canton, Ohio,
Urban league, respectively.
"a survey of the Negro popula-
ton of Fort Wayne, Ind, was made
by Mr.. Charles S. Johnson, director
of the leagues department of re-
search and Investigations. Other