The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-04
Observations
Proper Training
For Servants TO
be Provided
By HELEN EsSARI
BY HELEN EssARI

Can't help Il. Have TO harp on
an eyer-present tneme-the domes'
tic servant problem.
This time / take the subject up
with nine loud cheers. For there
is definite indication that intelli-
Eence is being turned on the hither-
20 battling enigma. A group OF
Atlanta negroes is about 10 open
training center for COOKS. maids,
laundresses, buffers, yard men ana
other leading figures In a happy
home.
"Our people want a fair days pay
for a fun days work Mrs, Ruby
blackburn speaking. we have
been often half paid. II is true, But
we've been half trained OF not
trained at all. We want 10 train
our people so that higher wages
can be earned, not demanded
Mrs. Blackburn. an employe OF
the Atlanta Board OF Education
and a maid herself for II years, is
a leading organizer OF the group OF
200 Atlanta negroes planning the
l2-story training center.
A far-sighted person Is Mrs.
Blackburn. hope some OF the
thousands OF women, voluntary
workers for the most part. TO whom
the war gave duration enthusiasm
for public service, will help Mrs,
Blackburn with the enterprise. Now
that peace is here most OF these
women will have time on their
hands and not much 10 do with
the excess minutes.
This Is a heaven-sent opportunity
also for clubwomen TO show they
are practical as well as theoretical.
What's the point, anyhow. OF being
clubwoman II by so doing you
only tase a dash OF cultural passe-
menterie 10 the grim business OF
living.
Actually this piece OF clear think
ing by the southern negro women
puts the white woman in an en-
barrassing place. Will we reeog-
nize the wisdom OF the Atlanta
group and see in It sincere at
tempt OF negroes TO educate their
own, to feel pride In a Job well
done? Or will we grow vague
and then once again race conscious
and thus fail TO appreciate an indie
pendence that will react TO our
own comfort and satisfaction?
THE GOOD SHIP QUEEN ELI
ZABETH will carry not only dis
tinguished American citizens, II
will carry, likewise. distinguished
American citizenesses across the
cold and rolling Atlantic on its
voyage 20 London and the UNO
meeting on January 10.
Mrs. James F. Byrnes will go
abroad TO meet her husband, the
Secretary OF State, in England.
Byrnes is now back from Moscow
and the nipping struggle with
Messrs. Molotov and BeYin. Mrs.
Connally will accompany her hus-
band, the foreign relations chair
man OF the Senate and a United
States delegate to the conference.
Mrs. Connally Is one OF the most
attractive wives" in public life.
But then so Is Mrs. James c.
Dunn. And Mrs. Dunn Is accom-
panying her husband, special ad
wiser to the conference and assist
ant Secretary OF State when he is
in Washington.
Mary Dunn is vivacious. And
wise behind her graciousness. I've
already mentioned many times the
pleasant qualifications OF Mrs. Van
denberg, also London bound In
good-wifely style.
Altogether a very satisfactory
cortege OF charming and clever
ladies TO help represent, unofficial
~, the American cause at the con-
ference. And. OF course, there is
Mrs. Roosevelt with the chance OF
her chancetul lifetime as q dele
gate in her own right.