Evening star., 1946-12-06

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segregation be abolished in the
District was made today in the
report of a citizens committee
on a District-Wide social survey
sponsored by the Council OF So
cial Agencies and financed by the
Community Chest.
Specifically, the report urged that
school children be permitted to at
tend educational institutions in the
areas in which they live without re-
gard to race and that segregation OF
the teaching force be abolished.
Other recommendations in the
voluminous report dealt with and
condemned segregation in practic-
ally every phase of community life.
They covered such broad problems
as health, housing, education, en-
ployment and recreation. The SUR
vey estimated that % per cent OF
the Districts population is colored
Miller Heads Committee.
Chairman of the committee which
made the report, was Neville Miller
Washington lawyer. who formerly
was mayor of Louisville, KY, and
president of the National Associa-
ton of Broadcasters.
Serving with him were Rufus
Poole, chairman of the Group Re-
lations Committee of the Council OF
Social Agencies; Alan Barth, Mrs
jolly Baer, Francis j. Brown, P. M.
Clifford, DR.. Donald Du Shane, Vir-
ginia Durr, DR.. E. Franklin Frazier,
Mrs. Leslie Glenn, Lawrence Gisch-
ner, Ann Gordon, E. B. Henderson,
Gilbert E. Hyatt, DR.. Joseph l..
johnson, Wilbur La Roe, Mrs. Mar
jorie Lawson, Mrs. William Stuart
Nelson, Mrs. Helen NJ Provinse,
Miss Connie Ruppeldt, Mrs. Michael
w. Strauss, Mrs. William Wells and
Robert c. Wilson
Ex officio members of the COM
mittee were Mrs. w. A. Roberts,
former secretary of theS Council of
Social Agencies, and Mrs. Cath
crime Norton, present secretary.
DR.. Joseph H. Douglass. colored,
executive secretary of the Washing
ton Urban League, was technician
for the committee and, with the aid
of a large staff of professional men
and women, made the exhaustive
study on which the report was
based. DR.. Douglass holds a Phi. D.
degree from Harvard.
recommendations on Health.
The recommendations included in
the report dealing with health were:
That racial segregation in health
facilities be abolished; that Negro
and medical students be
granted equal opportunity to prac-
tice and study; that Negro nurses
be given equal opportunity to serve
in institutions; and that colored pa
tientS be given equal treatment with
others in all hospitals and clinics.
In the field of housing, the
recommendations were that legisla-
tion be enacted in Congress to pro-
hibit restrictive covenants in the
District since they not only are un-
Democratic in their imposition OF
segregation of racial and other
groups, but also tend to perpetuate
slums and blighted areas.
In the report on employment. the
survey recommended that the Fed
eral and District governments in
sure their policy of employing per-
sons in public positions at the full
level of their qualifications, prep
aration and merit without respect to
race.
Recreation Facilities.
The report also urged that addi-
tiona1 public recreation facilities be
provided and that segregation in
public recreational facilities be
abolished.
In the attempt to cope with racial
problems here, it was recommended
that an official permanent inter-
racial committee be appointed by
;he President to study continuously
conditions in the community as
they relate to racial matters and
facilitate appropriate action
Our study has revealed a sys-
tematic pattern of gross denial and
deprivation of the Negro population
of the District of Columbia" the
report says.
I'VE do not believe that healthy
and mutually helpful relation be-
tween races can develop from
pattern no less degrading on those
who impose it than to those who
suffer under it. Where there is in
justice, friendship and cooperation
cannot grow.
Principles Are Fiouted.
I'VE take the view, however, that
where essential principles are at
stake, idealism and realism are in
distinguishable. There can be no
realistic progress when essential
are fouted. In point of
fact, no real or substantial barriers
rfond in tho Iuov of tho ropnndiac