The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-10-29
BY FLOYD j. CALVIN
(Only Column in the negro Press
listed by Editor 6sPubiisher)
DR.. Works Thesis

Dir. Works Thesis
It is encouraging to note in the
current Social Forces, an article by
DR.. Monroe n. Work on adjust
ment Of Race and Glass IN the
South, which outlines an approach
ing change in the economic life of
the South, out of which will come
better racial relations. The article
was presented at the Southern So-
Geological Society in Birmingham,
Ala, last April.
DR.. Work says: As the new
economy, agricultural : industrial s
commercial, comes more and more
iato the South, there will be greater
and greater conformity between the
economic order and the political and
moral orders. The evils surrounding
the production of cotton, both eco.
nomic and social, and growing out Of
ante-bellum folkways and mores,
will tend to be eliminated. There
will be new basis Of relationship
between landlord and tenant. This
new economy will provide situation
in which there will be not only eco
nomic cooperation, but also coopera--
tion between race and race, and be-
tween class and class, SO that the
interests of all the people will be
conserved.
DR.. Work explains the practical
side of his prophecy as follows: aAt
| the present time, agriculture has, in
the main, two fold emphasis: the
production Of food and clothing for
man, and foodstuffs for animals. In
this new economy there would be d
three fold emphasis IN agriculture
the two already mentioned and d
third, the growing of products for
use in industry. This new innova,-
| tion calls for: ID new uses Of old
| products as cotton in road building,
starches, oils, and other products
from the peanut and the sweet po-
tato; (R) the use of waste products
as okra stalks, cotton stalks, and
cotton linters, this latter now being
used in the making of insulation
| boards; (3) the use of products
| growing IN an. area but not being
used, as for example, the use 81
slash pine in the manufacturing Of
paper; a. the introduction of new
plants into an area, as for example
The introduction Of the soy bean ane
the tung tree into sections Of ths
/ South, the later for manufacturing
tung oil now largely used in industry
| and III the main imported. The for
mer in addition TO use as forage !:
also made into lacquer for painting
utomepises.
1T is estimated that the new in
dustrics which are arising as ths
| result Of the use of agriculture
products in industry, will give en-
| ployment not only to a greater par
of the surplus population of th,
South, but would divert thousands b
farmers now engaged in cotton grow
/ ing and other Improbable pursuit
to the more profitable growing 0.
poducts for industry. Among tn,
| new industries that are already de-
/ veloping as the result Of the CROWN,
| Of agricultural products for use i,
| industry are: paper mills, sweet po-
| tato starch mills, tung oil plants, ami
power alcohol plants"
/ Here is food for thought for TIL,
South and the Nation; for the plan
ners, for the industrialists, for til,
| agriculturalists, educators, and rae,
relationists.
N.N,I.A. Report
| One of the new rules adopted a
the last meeting Of tho Matiaaal Va,