Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-11-30
Dr.. Calls For
Training Of Police
In Race Relations

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basic problems of race relations
as an efficient means of avoiding
future conflicts was urged last
Friday by DIR. Will w. Alexander,
vice president of the julius Ros-
enwald Fund. He addressed lead
ers of social, educational and reli-
gious groups attending confer
ence on human relations.
The delegates met under the
auspices of the American Mission
airy Association, as part Of its
105th Anniversary. This session
was held in the Broadway Taber-
nacle, Broadway at Fifty-sixth
street, which was a cented of anti
slavery agitation century ago.
DR.. Alexander's proposal follow
ed his reference to the subject
under discussion as "a national
problem" involving many minor
ity groups. He made the further
recommendation that all organi-
cations engaged in the work should
pool their experiences in the inter-
est of progress. The actual train
ing Of police departments in large
cities of the Middle West and
California was the outgrowth of
interracial outbreaks in Detroit
during the war, he said.
DR.. George Haynes, director of
the department of race relations
in the Federal Council of churches,
said the program Of That fedora
ton has led to the development
of 'interracial clinics" in twenty
two cities throughout the United
States, where religious, social,
business and labor leaders Judy
the social ills of their commune
ties and agree on means of COM
batting them.
The church's part in the pro-
gram was stressed also by DR..
Galen Weaver, director Of the COM
mittee on church and race of the
Congregational Christian Church.
eS.
'The church, which is one Of the
most segregated Of our major in
stitutions, must become inclusive"
he asserted.
The views of the Southern Re-
gional Council, active in dealing
with interracial problems, were
stressed by Paul Williams, it's
president. Progress in the bet
terment of race relations is trying
to keep pace with progress in
other fields among the Southern
States, he said. He noted, espec-
tally, the survey recently conduct
ed by a council of leaders in Jack
sonville, Florida, the Kentucky
Committee on Negro Affairs and
the investigation of conditions in
Columbia, Tennessee.
Adrian Perry, assistant special
counsel Of the National Associa-
tic nfor the Advancement of Col
ored People, and julius Thomas,
director of industrial relations for
the National Urban League, out
lined some of the difficulties ex-
perienced in coping with current
problems in both the political and
industrial fields.
Margaret Halsey, author of the
current book, "Color Blind, was
the principal speaker at the even
ing session. She asserted that
millions of white Americans feel
conscience-striken about the treat
ment of Negroes" but don't know
what to do about it.
ct is always assumed" she
said, "that the chief thing needed
to improve race relations is, by
some sort Of magical brain sur
gerry, to make bigots tolerant. The
first point Of attack is to sup
ply people Of goodwill with tech
niques whereby they can get to
know Negroes with whom they
have interests in common"
DR.. Fred L. Brownlee, general
secretary of the American Mis-
sionary Association, said that
while the society had striven for
emancipation and education of Ne
groes during the last hundred
years, it must work for an lend
of all segregation and the inte-
grafton of all races into the COM
mon life Of the nation" during the
next century.
DR.. Benjamin F. Mays, vice.
president of the Federal Council
Of Churches of Christ in Ameri-