Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-27
Conference On
Business Ends
Al Atlanta u.
Survey On Negro
Business To Be Put
Into Printed Form
By RUBYE WEAVER

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
Converting in the EXhloltlon
loom of the Atlanta University
library, college executives. Urban
eague officials and business men
md women met Friday and Satur-
}ay. october 1921, in two-day
ession for the Conference on Ne
gro Business and Business Educa-
ion in Negro colleges. Twenty col
teges were represented, three Or-
san Leagues and twelve cities.
The study was directed by DR..
Joseph A. Pierce of Atlanta Uni
1ersity, conducted over a period OF
a months and vas financed py a
grant of $4,000 from the General
education Board. In the opening
-emarks DR.. Rufus A. Clement gave
ne historical background that
3rcmpted the study and outlined
BRIEFLY the work of the committee
for the past Is months. He extend
ed greetings both for the Unlver-
,ity and the Urban Leagues and
9fered thanks to all persons who
served in any capacity. "The pur-
1ose of the Conference" ne said,
is to evaluate, revise and reorgan-
ze the survey ST. that IT, can be
7ut into printed form"
OBJECTIVES GIVEN
A statement or the detectives OF
ne Conference was given by F. 0.
Nichols, of the National Urban
L.eague. Detectives included: con-
inued improvements in business
FOR colleges, centralized location OF
,olleges, development and expan-
ION of short commercial courses,
Improvement in conference an q
urveys, greater business in state
EDUCATIONAL programs, utilization OF
,urrent literature ESPECIALLY in the
'etail field establishment Of per-
odicals regarding business, de-
yelopment of trade associations
techniques, programs and improve
ments, closer association with local
Chambers of Commerce, more re-
search toward practical ends, trade
relationships with other countries,
improvements in commercial edu-
cation, expansion of insurance OPP
portunities and the expansion Of
and improvement of the content OF
subject matter in colleges.
OUNJEE GIVES ADDRESS
An illuminating address was de-
;ivered by Roscoe Dunjee, presi-
dent of the National Negro Bust
ness League and editor of the Black
Dispatch. 1--WE have organized Ia
Dor, we now need to organize the
vast wealth in the hands OF the
Negroes" he declared. He advo-
Gated building Negro business on
structure world-w e in scope,
established on mter-racial rela-
tionships.
I'm the so years since Emanci-
patton one-third CT all Negroes are
still segregated in two fields out
side the benefits of the social
security and. wage and hour laws
ne warned. He also advocated the
need for adequate preparation so
that employers would not find it
too costly.
Filled with rich personal expert
ence in the field of business he
oointed out the beginning of the
rise of business education in Prairie
View College in 1899. Inspired by
statement m a d e by Mrs. Mary
Branch he took up the challenge
and announced that business could
be expanded and improved through
colleges. Through bitter, expensive
experience he, had discovered the
necessity of having trained work.
erS.
Mr.. Dunjee endorsed the expos
ing of the whole business field to
youth, substantiating his statement
on the continuous growth Of pub
lie spending" He also advocated
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